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VOLUME 44, NUMBER 18 MAY 3, 2017 ONE DOLLAR In Albany NEK not Neighbors Farce opens at Haskell immune leery of from ticks gravel pit by Brad Usatch by Elizabeth Trail This week’s weather notwithstanding, summer is on its ALBANY — Father and son way, and with it, another year of Christian and Clark Katzenbach are tick vigilance for people and their hoping to earn a living from a vein of pets. gravel on their 203-acre property on Lyme disease, the most Grigg Road. Christian Katzenbach prevalent pathogen spread by ticks, has spent most of his life as a logger, used to be a fringe issue for a and it’s time for a change, he said. handful of unlucky souls in southern And 18-year-old Clark just bought a New England and maybe southern truck and is keen to go into business Vermont counties. But in the past with his dad. ten or so years, ticks have spread That puts them at odds with north, and biologists and doctors their neighbors, some who fear for warn that no place in Vermont is their own livelihoods, and others safe from the parasites and the host who worry about living near a of diseases they are able to gravel pit — about the noise, the transmit. traffic, the dust, or just the look of Based on information on the the thing. Department of Health website, up Albany has no zoning, until about the year 2000, Vermont Selectman Chris Jacobs said at an averaged roughly ten to 20 Act 250 hearing held at the Albany confirmed cases of Lyme disease per Community School in April to year. That number grew steadily to consider the Katzenbachs’ reach 50 by 2004, 105 by 2008, and Merelli (Phil Gosselin) is aroused and alarmed by the seductive wiles of Diana application for a permit to open a 330 by 2010. In 2013, the state (Rhonda Lucas), an ambitious soprano in QNEK’s performance of Lend Me a three-acre gravel pit on the land Tenor, which is the opening show of QNEK’s final season. For a story and more recorded 675 cases of Lyme disease, (Continued on page thirty-two.) photos, please see page eighteen. Photo by Joseph Gresser (Continued on page twenty-four.)

In Barton Dave’s Rubbish is back in Barton by Elizabeth Trail Solid Waste Management District at done everything we asked.” Giroux’ right to operate after finding a hearing on April 3. Selectman Jim Greenwood that he had failed to comply with BARTON — Dave’s Rubbish is Mr. Giroux appealed the attended the meeting by town rules about required back on track to pick up trash in the decision on April 17, the day the speakerphone. recordkeeping for trash services. town of Barton. ban was to take effect. On Monday “I talked to the SWIP The decision was to take effect Over the past two weeks, owner night, he and his wife, Marcie, came administrator and they’ve done in two weeks to give Barton Dave Giroux has turned in all of the to the select board meeting to hear everything they were supposed to,” residents time to make new paperwork the select board had the decision. he said. arrangements to get their trash been asking for since last fall. “You guys got the numbers to SWIP is the solid waste picked up. The board voted to revoke his us,” Chair Bob Croteau said. “You implementation plan. (Continued on page twenty-one.) right to pick up trash in the Barton guys did good. You seem to have The select board revoked Mr. Community sounds off on Trump’s first 100 days Editor’s note: Our staff their support, give the new President “If I talk about him, I end up mad. people are fighting back. I think it’s interviewed people throughout the benefit of the doubt. Not Or depressed. Luckily, he isn’t going to make us stronger in the Orleans County over the past week surprisingly, Democrats are less really getting all that much done. end. about their views on President generous. We heard some He mostly just talks about what he’s “I’m taking bets on him Trump’s first 100 days in office. unexpected, and unexpectedly going to do. Or rather, Tweets. resigning before the end of his term For the most part, Republicans, thoughtful, views on the new “I mean really, what do people because, first, he really didn’t want while not always unconditional in President’s early days in office. who voted for him think? He wants to be president and didn’t get how to take away health care that we hard it was going to be, and two, the John Wilson, president of the finally got. And his tax reform is heat will get too hot for him on Newport City Council: “He’s doing cutting the corporate tax rate? taxes and Russia as long as pretty well considering that half the Sorry, but people got conned by a pressure stays on. Or he’ll get country doesn’t support him. This con artist. And we all have to live impeached. country is so polarized.” with it. (Continued on page sixteen.) Charlotte Bernarde, Newport: “I guess what I focus on is that Page Two the Chronicle, May 3, 2017 the Chronicle Brighton school receives grant INDEX Brighton Elementary recently received a The Northeast Kingdom Fund is a permanent Births...... 7B $1,000 grant from the Vermont Community philanthropic resource dedicated to supporting Crossword Puzzle...... 15 Foundation’s Northeast Kingdom Fund. The the people and communities of Caledonia, Essex, Kids’ Corner ...... 20B grant will help further Brighton’s mission of and Orleans Counties. Its grants are decided by Kingdom Calendar ...... 12B-17B promoting lifelong learning and an appreciation a committee of local residents, providing Letters to the Editor ...... 4-7 for diversity by giving students cultural exposure philanthropy for the Kingdom, by the Kingdom. Obituaries...... 3B-5B and opportunity. This spring, Brighton students For more information about Brighton toured the Orozco murals at Dartmouth College, Elementary School, please visit the website: Ruminations...... 2B attended a matinee at the Flynn Theater, and http://bes.ncsuvt.org/, or call at 723-4373. Sudoku Puzzle ...... 6 tasted Thai food for the first time. The Vermont Community Foundation is a Advertising Sections Brighton’s principal, Denise Russell said, family of hundreds of funds and foundations Auctions & Real Estate ...... 26, 7B-9B “This grant from Vermont Community Foundation established by Vermonters to serve their Auto ...... 33-35 is so appreciated, as it supports opportunities for charitable goals. It provides the advice, Building Trades ...... 10B-11B curious young students to step outside their daily investment vehicles, and back-office expertise to Classified Ads...... 18B-19B experience in rural Vermont to experience the make giving easy and effective. Visit Gardening...... 22-23 sights and tastes of unknown cultures. These are www.vermontcf.org or call (802) 388-3355 for Hair...... 32 the moments when imaginations are cultivated more information. — submitted by Thea Storz. Jobs ...... 28-29 and dreams are born.” Pets...... 27 Restaurants & Entertainment...... 13B-15B

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In Barton Work underway for summer bridge replacements by Elizabeth Trail from June 12 to June 26 while the old bridge is being taken out and BARTON — Anyone who has the new one put in. During that driven through Barton lately has time, traffic will have to detour probably had to stop and wait for a along Park Street. go-ahead from one of the half-dozen The smaller bridge on Glover flagmen stationed along roads on Street, originally built in 1919, will the south end of town. be torn out and replaced in July, Backhoes and bulldozers are at also by J.P. Sicard. work along the riverbank near That’s the project that’s where Roaring Brook Road comes responsible for the trucks and out onto Route 16. And there are drilling rig blocking one lane of big trucks and a drilling rig in the traffic last week. middle of Glover Street a few blocks “The tall drilling rig is pre- from downtown. drilling holes to set the steel piles in It’s all leading up to replacing that will support the new bridge the bridges on those two roads this abutments,” Mr. Bonneau said.

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summer, said Doug Bonneau, He expects that there will be a project manager at the Vermont lull in the construction work after Agency of Transportation (VTrans). that part of the project is finished. According to a VTrans fact sheet “There may be a period of time about the bridge on Roaring Brook after the piles get driven that there Road, “The bridge deck and will not be much work going on superstructure are in poor condition until the road closure date,” he said. and the bridge is hydraulically Between July 5 and August 2, substandard. Additionally, the anyone driving in and out of the existing bridge railing is not south end of town will have to structurally adequate for modern detour along the Roaring Brook design standards.” Road to Park Street and Elm Street. In June, a 68-foot long precast The bridge on Glover Street is in concrete bridge — 20 feet longer a little bit better shape outwardly. than the one that’s there now — will The VTrans fact sheet for that be installed by J.P. Sicard project describes the deck as being Construction next to the existing in fair condition — but like the one and at a slightly different angle. Roaring Brook bridge, its main Right now, workers are putting structure and guardrail don’t meet One lane of Glover Street on the south end of Barton is closed as workmen from J.P. protective sheeting along the bank modern standards. Sicard construction prepare to put in a new and longer bridge. The road will be fully so they can dig without getting into The planned bridge will be the closed from July 2 to August 5. The bridge where Roaring Brook Road comes out the river, Mr. Bonneau said. same width as the old one but 42 onto Route 16 is also being replaced. Traffic on that bridge will be rerouted along He expects work near where feet long instead of 28 feet. Park Street from June 12 to June 26. Photo by Elizabeth Trail Roaring Brook Road comes into Traffic delays and one-lane Route 16 to be pretty much traffic are expected on both roads

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Just before tax day, my high school classes read an article by John W. Schoen for NBC news entitled: “Here’s where your federal income tax dollars go.” The chart from the article shows how our tax dollars are spent by the government to pay for various programs. We currently have a national budget where defense already makes up 20 percent of the pie chart. We only spend more on health care at 21 percent, and the defense budget outpaces both the science and education budget by a factor of ten. Only 2 percent goes to The start of the March for Science in Washington D.C. on April 22, 2017, Bill Nye the Science guy is in the center science and 2 percent to education. It is also with a red bow tie! Photo courtesy of Brian McCrae interesting to note that the U.S. spending on the military already outpaces the next nine countries paraphrased in the Declaration of Independence, have adequate resources to defend ourselves as combined! It is a shame we don’t put more into it is the government’s job to protect the life, well as the cause of democracy. President Wilson efforts that will actually help grow and develop liberty, and property (happiness) of the American proposed we do this one hundred years ago on the our own economy. people. This includes our future generations. We eve of our entrance in the first World War. A war As I tell my students, our history of taxation must educate them and do research that will not in which my grandfather William Sydney McCrae with representation goes all the way back to only make their lives better, but also create more was a veteran. After two world wars, the Earth Medieval England, and it has ever since been a job opportunities in this country. We must also has become a much more stable place but at the tradition that those who pay tax dollars have a save the Environmental Protection Agency and cost of millions of lives. As it says on the Korean right to say how they are spent. Also, as English protect the natural resources they will need to War Veteran’s memorial, “Freedom is not Free.” philosopher John Locke wrote, and our founding rely on. All of this will require an investment in We need to ignore the fear mongers who want to father Thomas Jefferson so eloquently science and research. waste money building walls, deporting millions of As a veteran of the United States Air Force, I productive immigrants, and pouring extra money can vouch for the strength of our military. We into an already more than adequate military, and put it toward more productive resources. There the Chronicle are certainly problems around the world that will © copyright, 2017 require our assistance, but we need to continue to work with groups like the United Nations and Vo lume 44, Number 18 May 3, 2017 Death notice NATO to help quell destructive forces in North Anna Rebecca Powers Korea and the Middle East. 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It is current growth rate of the world’s population. high enough to flood all of the world’s coastal in the interest of all of our everyday citizens who Investing billions in pipelines and fracking will cities by 2100. would be called upon to fight, to limit the carnage only contribute to the destruction of the So let’s listen to some of the most intelligent of war. Our President might do well to take a environment. Instead we should put that money members of our society, the scientists who walk around the mall to look at all the into developing technologies that will collect and marched in Washington D.C. and all around the monuments, understand the human toll of war, store energy using renewable sources. It just world on Earth Day this April. It is up to us and take some historical advice from the likes of makes sense economically. More money into citizens to speak up for how our tax dollars are Lincoln, Jefferson, FDR, George Mason, and research will develop jobs here in our country, not spent. Martin Luther King whose collective wisdom is just in other nations around the globe that are I am a patriot, and believe the United States inscribed there in stone. None of this nation’s already outpacing us. There is no such thing as has the collective resources to continue to lead great leaders there were fans of war. “clean coal” or safe nuclear power. Even if all the the world in terms of scientific innovation and With the largest economy in the world, the carbon emissions could be removed from coal new job creation. I do not need a tax cut of a few United States is poised to lead the world in burning power plants, you would be left with a hundred dollars, and the big banks and scientific innovation. Energy companies need to huge amount of toxic waste to store. The same is corporations certainly do not need to keep extra shift their focus from obsolete fossil fuels, which true of nuclear power which, even if it is made trillions tied up in a volatile unregulated market. harm the environment, to invest in renewable safe from accidents like those that occurred at That money can better serve us by investing in forms that will be able to produce and store Chernobyl and Fukushima, we would still have our future, as well as the future of our children, energy indefinitely without destroying the masses of dangerous radioactive waste to store for and their children. Let us put our money where environment. 250,000 years. Natural gas that is touted by the our minds are, and get to work. Communicate Global warming is real, which is a fact that current ads for Exxon-Mobil is also a fossil fuel your desires to your Congressmen and let’s invest has been proven by scientists who have been and contributes about half the amount of carbon in science. interpreting the data on it for over a century. as coal, so don’t be fooled by their advertising Brian McCrae Even if you believe global warming is a hoax, as that suggests it is “clean” by making the Newport does our President, coal and natural gas are a statement that it is “cutting” emissions. Half the

Applauding the state’s efforts to address “backwards immigration policies” Dear editor, and prohibits Vermont agencies Moving forward, we recognize policies, and we acknowledge those As the first half of this biennium from participating in the creation of that this probably won’t be the last who have not. draws to an end, we are writing to a registry of Muslims or other time in the next year and a half that As a bloc of voters from the applaud a majority of the Vermont groups based on personal you all will be required to come Northeast Kingdom, we are coming Legislature, Governor Phil Scott, information, our state has been together to stand up for what is together to tell each of you that we and Vermont Attorney General T.J. positioned on the right side of right, and when those times come, it expect the promotion of sensible and Donovan for quickly and efficiently history and our integrity has been will be imperative that you do so humane immigration policies in our addressing some of the backwards protected. decisively. state. Your decisions now and in immigration policies of the Trump In the growing political climate To our statewide officials and the future will not be forgotten. administration. that is marred by rigid ideology, it our representatives from the Sincerely, By creating a law that requires made us proud to see the bipartisan Northeast Kingdom — we thank Shane Rogers the Governor and attorney general effort from our Vermont officials to those, again, who have supported Northeast Kingdom Action to approve specific types of stand up and say, “this is not how sensible statewide immigration Newport immigration agreements between Vermont does things and we will not local police and federal authorities, be complicit.”

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Isn’t it something how all of the state’s Numerous police department and body shop transplants have moved up here, taken control of personnel I spoke with have no recollection of any a lot of Montpelier with a big desire to run accident resulting due to a repaired frame on any Vermont the way they want it? Yet they can’t vehicle. None. Period. Faulty brakes, yes, but figure out why it’s so damned expensive to live frame failure? No. Yet the state of Vermont here. refuses to accept any frame repair whatsoever. If the education system and its related union Hello. Did they ever stop to think about the hasn’t driven us into such a financial burden that thousands of brand new and/or used heavy duty it’s next to impossible for the blue collar worker truck frames that are either shortened or in Vermont to make ends meet, now the lengthened on a daily basis all over the state? Department of Transportation (DOT) wants to Did they ever realize that many, many torture us even more. And, wouldn’t you know, aftermarket parts companies offer exceptionally it’s all about money. No safety what-so-ever; well made frame repair kits for hundreds of money! vehicles on the roads today? Obviously not. It’s obvious now that some complete idiots in And just as importantly, have they ever had our state want a big monetary piece of the any concern for the thousands and thousands of inspection pie. And they are going to get it the us who own older vehicles? Often, nice appearing All horizontal rows of nine, all vertical communistic way — no discussion with the vehicles of not that many years old have some public; no chance to vote on it; to hell with the degree of rust on their frames. Especially in this columns of nine, and all the heavily poor people, just implement it. And they wonder state where there is a lot of salt used on the outlined boxes of nine squares must why people are leaving the state and why we highways in the winters we have. In most cases, contain all the numbers from one to nine. have to have the ridiculous number of assistance the people who own these vehicles have never programs. owned a new car and probably never will. Solution, tips and computer program at Hey, I’m the first to admit we need welfare Chances are they are young people or couples www.sudoku.com programs, etc. There are a lot of people out there trying to get their feet on the ground. Now, who truly need some assistance. But take a ride however, they cannot repair any spot on the The answer is on page 2B. around the back roads of Vermont with a social vehicle frame, thus they cannot get that vehicle worker and have them explain why some inspected. recipients have an ATV, two snow machines, and But wait — it gets worse! They can’t trade inspection division, make a change that will help two vehicles in the yard, and they come to the the vehicle because no dealer would be able to those in need; and make it before any hard- door with a beer in their hand and a cigarette resell it, no matter how outwardly good in working people get hurt. It’s the right thing to hanging out of their mouth. What is wrong with appearance it seems. As if it couldn’t get any do; and I don’t believe you who instituted this this picture? And 70 percent of the places you worse, get this: They cannot sell the vehicle to ridiculous rule are any smarter than all of those stop at will find the woman of the house someone else, either, knowing full well that the involved in New Hampshire, Maine, New York, expecting her third. Why? Well, I’m told by ride is uninspectable. Big trouble with the law and Massachusetts. those very people that that’s how they’ll get then. So now what can these people do? Excuse Hey, John Rodgers, you seem to be one of the enough support to live comfortably. Where am I my English, but the Vermont DOT inspection good guys in the State House, and one who can going with this? I’m just showing one more division just screwed them badly by creating a work with both parties on things. Possibly you example of how bad our state government is. So terrible financial hardship. There are also could bring this to Phil Scott’s attention and see if where does the DOT and their brainless new thousands of older citizens out there on fixed and he will add it to his clean up Shumlin’s disaster inspection system fit in? Stay with me! inadequate incomes that don’t need to get kicked list. Thankfully there is some cross party voting First of all, remember this, it’s all about in the face either. going on in the capitol nowadays. And there money. And let me tell you, if you think for one So, wake up Vermont DOT, our neighboring obviously should be. minute that the cost to have your car inspected states all allow vehicle frame repair as long as it’s The people of Vermont went to the polls and within just a few years doesn’t triple, then you done in a professional manner. Did you read that voted not only for Governor Scott but also what need help. Hey, it’s as simple as this: the state last sentence, commissioner? I said, our he stands for. Being a former car lover maybe I’ll has their hands in it. neighboring states all allow vehicle frame repair. send this off to him as well. Come to think of it, Something most of us would agree with: It’s Of course if we Vermonters ever talked the I’ll bet if he had been in office this whole only right that the inspection stations deserve to inspection division into rewriting their ridiculous inspection gouging fiasco would never make a reasonable portion of their living off of the regulations you know what’s scary? Need I have happened. repairs related to everyone’s annual vehicle remind you we are dealing with the state of Del Green inspection. I’m good with that. But then the Vermont now, they’d probably make it mandatory Derby state is now forcing these garages to purchase that only their state certified welders would be new inspection equipment to the tune of $1,500, allowed to make any repairs. Come on,

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I have spoke to the town manager and the selectmen are I do not agree with Brighton as an ATV witnessed the cove on Birch Street. I also have learning with this. They did give us a survey to destination to attract more visitors for economic seen the oil from the snowmobiles streaming respond to; they did have in mind everyone…. growth, and to open up roads to connect trails to down the road into the lake with snowmelt on If you have any responses, I’d like to hear access town services for everyone. warm-ups from the two-cycle engines. The them, or contact Island Pond Selectman Doug Economic opportunities exist in the town of erosion from ATV use is detrimental to the area Niles for input or output, or the town clerk’s Burke or Craftsbury, etc., and they are thriving and lake and sensitive mountain trails. Local office, P.O. Box 377, Brighton, Vermont 05846. without motorized sports. We live near East people who have not lived outside this area are Gwyn Worthington Burke and are getting their overflow of skiers, not understanding how unique this area is and Brighton mountain bikers from their Kingdom Trails, and how that brings people to this area. With Brighton State Park campers, Clyde River Canoe patience it will happen. If this ATV happens, it Trail, hunters, fishermen. will be for three seasons. Burke said they’re In plain English… Century 21 recently told me they never have counting on mountain biking more for economic an empty rental unit in Island Pond. An excuse growth, not skiing or snowboarding. Recently the Dear Chronicle, like economic growth being used for some quick bike was taken off of Ted’s store over their door. Regarding Steven Gold’s letter to the editor of money for a few multi-business entrepreneurs in That was a symbol, and represented a welcome to last week: Island Pond to sell more gasoline, rooms and food, non-motorized sport-minded people, especially at I’ll bet most do not know the meaning of “tax is not worth it. this time of year when the snowmobile season is expenditures.” I sure didn’t but looked it up and NorthWoods Stewardship Center in East over. found it is a term defined by the feds as Charleston has worked to prevent erosion and If ATVs bring economic growth, what’s next? allowances for special exclusion, exemption, or make trails for hikers and cross-country skiers, We have drug busts, drinking allowed on the deduction from gross income, lowering taxes for and connected Brousseau (sp) Mountain in town green on Friday nights, should we allow an individual. Most of us know them simply as Norton to our Bluff Mountain. We have Silvio O. ATVs on our roads? We have had a death from tax deductions. Steven makes it sound as though Conte and Wenlock preserve, which attracts other drinking this past winter, which broke our hearts. the state collects taxes and then gives away outdoor enthusiast sports such as bird watching, Please protect the people and the vulnerable dollars to high-income taxpayers. But they never people come from other states to see rare birds or children and youth. You do know they will be collected it in the first place. animals such as the spruce grouse. drunk and drive ATVs. This is dangerous and In plain English, what Steven wants is higher I also called the Burke town clerk’s office and unsafe. The police will not have access to the income residents to pay more in taxes to benefit asked if they had ATVs. She was appalled at the trails and the lawbreakers will get away with it. his favorite programs, however good they may be. Why doesn’t he just come out and say it? But remember, many of these deductions come off Saddened by the Chronicle’s lack of coverage federal returns, which drive state taxes and Vermonters have little say in that. So, if you To the editor, have offered to pay to have a picture and a small want to help Steven, lobby your representatives A few weeks ago 47 people from 12 churches write up, but I was told, no, this is a community to increase the state tax rates on the rich. got together, practiced for ten weeks and sang a event and the paper would print it. And they did, Problem solved. beautiful Easter cantata at The Barton United but just the article and no picture. Erik Lessing Church. Our church secretary sent in an Going back even further, I had two photos, for Morgan announcement to the Kingdom Calendar two the same kind of event, and they used just one, weeks prior, along with a small piece to be which left half of the singers out. printed in the paper the week before explaining I have been a supporter of this paper for 24 the cantata. The Kingdom Calendar was just years, buying one every week and as a business Dewees seeks seat on VEC board fine, but no article was printed. I realize space owner in Barton, placing ads every two weeks. Dear editor, can be an issue, but there were many articles that It just saddens me that our local paper and I am running for the Vermont Electric Co-op week that were not time sensitive. neighbor would treat us this way. (VEC) East Zone seat on the board of directors, This is not the first time the Chronicle has let Catherine McMaster because I believe VEC should: us down. In the past, with another cantata I Barton Consider commercial scale wind and solar projects in the VEC service territory only if they have the support of their host and neighboring A solution to a traffic problem? towns; provide reliable service to its members and Dear editor, to make and enforce parking changes, once keep electric rates as low and stable as possible; Today I write about a traffic problem that approved, the city has the authority to get signs and promote cost-effective energy efficiency. could wind up as an accident site. When you turn put up on Elm Street and then the police would I would appreciate your vote by May 5 when onto Elm Street from Sias Avenue in Newport, have the authority to enforce the parking change. voting ends for online and mailed ballots. Voting often cars are parked on both sides of Elm Street, This has nothing to do with Spates the Florist. It online is through SmartHub, or by visiting making it difficult to get through Elm Street. has to do with safety and driver courtesy. Also, www.directvote.net/VEC. You may call VEC at I believe I may have a solution to the the Newport Elementary School is very close to (802) 635-2331 for assistance. Members can also problem. Parking on only one side of Elm Street this intersection, and the children are walking vote in person at the annual meeting on May 6 at (preferably on the side opposite of Spates the through this intersection daily. I believe the Jay Peak Resort. Florist), as when you turn into Elm Street, you situation is prone for an accident and none of us My family has been a VEC member for 29 are on the side next to Spates. This would help to would want that to happen, would we? years. prevent turning cars from having to juggle Jacob Kokaly Sincerely, around parked cars to enter Elm Street. Newport Robert Dewees I believe the city of Newport has the authority Albany

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Newport City Council Plans for centennial celebration discussed by Joseph Gresser uncertainty about the Public Service Board’s Dolgin said. They will camp in different parts of eventual decision. the park and move into place for staged battles. NEWPORT — The city council has put off a Newport already has an agreement like that Ms. Dolgin said the heights of Prouty Beach decision on hiring a new developer for its website, proposed by Green Lantern in place. Great Bay will serve as a natural amphitheater, enabling and decided to wait until the Public Service Hydro sells power from its solar array to the city. spectators to have good view of the action. Board puts new net metering rules in place before Great Bay gives Newport a lower price than The re-enactors will wear historically considering an offer to buy solar power from the city would pay the co-op by handing back a accurate clothing and carry weapons of the Green Lantern Capital. portion of the difference between ordinary electric period, including cannons. Council members spent much of the rest of a rates and the higher price Vermont Electric Co- “Who doesn’t like cannons?” Ms. Dolgin asked. short meeting Monday night looking forward 14 operative has to pay for the solar power. She said the planning committee is not months to the celebration of Newport’s hundredth Council Member Denis Chenette said the finished with its work and would welcome new birthday. uncertainty about net metering rules will not members. City Manager Laura Dolgin asked the council affect the contract with Great Bay Hydro because In other business, the council had a short to put off a decision on the website because she it continues to be governed by the old regulations. discussion of its legal options in seeking damages has a meeting scheduled with a second developer Ms. Dolgin enthusiastically briefed the from the failure of Jay Peak’s EB-5 projects. on May 5. Council members had been looking at council on plans for the Newport centennial City resident Brian McNeal asked if there is a a proposal from a company that specializes in celebrations. A planning committee holds deadline to file suit in the case. Does the city municipal websites. monthly meetings, and an $82,000 contribution plan to sue for damages to the tax base? he asked. Members of the council had a few questions from the Pomerleau family has kicked its efforts Mr. Johnson said the receiver has been about details of the proposal from Avenet Web into high gear, she said. paying the taxes owed on property Jay Peak owns Solutions. The company was recommended by The celebration will run from Friday, June in town, including the former Spates Block and the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, and 29, 2018, through the Fourth of July, and will Bogner property. The city has not taken a already has designed sites for St. Albans and culminate with a fireworks display that City financial hit, he said. Rutland, said Mayor Paul Monette. Clerk and Treasurer James Johnson modestly Mr. Monette questioned Mr. McNeal’s The remaining questions concerned the cost of said would be bigger than the usual Independence suggestion that the demolition of the Spates Block long-term maintenance and ownership of data Day show. Mr. Johnson said there will be will have a negative effect on the Grand List. An posted to the site. Ms. Dolgin said the new fireworks in March, the city’s actual birthday. assessing company is in the process of reappraising developer approached her, and she wanted to see Steve Edgerley is in charge of the grand parade all the properties in Newport, he said, and the what that company has to offer before making her and is looking for businesses and organizations that results won’t be known until summer. final recommendation. wish to enter a float in the procession, as well as He said it is quite possible that the value of Green Lantern came to the city with an offer marching bands, Ms. Dolgin said. the Newport block will increase. Mr. Monette to sell power from its solar generation facility at a Mr. Chenette has promised to create a pointed out that the demolition crew removed cost below what Vermont Electric Cooperative commemorative stamp and coin to mark the lead and asbestos from the site and left it in good charges. Ms. Dolgin sent documents provided by anniversary and Mr. Monette has taken on the condition for future development. the company to the city’s lawyer. task of putting together a book celebrating Mr. Monette said Jay Peak also improved the She said the lawyer advised waiting before Newport’s history. Bogner property by putting in a stormwater entering into any such agreement until the Public Mr. Monette showed his prized copy of the 1968 drainage system and underground utility lines. Service Board finishes its revision of regulations publication marking the city’s fiftieth birthday and That work may also have raised the worth of the governing the net metering program. said it would be the model for his work. property, he said. That program allows individuals or So far, the committee has planned a water Ms. Dolgin told Mr. McNeal that lawsuits in companies that make power with renewable skiing display and a showing of Cars of the case have largely centered on recovering resources to sell that power to an electric utility Yesteryear. Ms. Dolgin said she has been working damages suffered by investors and others who at an above-market-rate price. on organizing a lumberjack competition, and the actually lost money in the case. She said Mr. Utilities are required to accept a certain city’s recreation department is considering a plan McNeal raised a valid question, but it doesn’t percentage of their power sales from net metering to create and bury a time capsule. appear that Newport has grounds to sue. customers. Some power companies have She was most excited about a group of Later in the meeting, several residents raised complained that customers who don’t sell costumed Revolutionary War re-enactors who questions about police enforcement of traffic electricity to them have to pay higher rates as a plan to bivouac around Prouty Beach and stage regulations, including those requiring motorists result of the program. battles on land and on water. to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, and Ms. Dolgin said the offering documents from Four groups will represent the British, the prohibiting cyclists from riding on sidewalks. Green Lantern were incomplete because of the French, Native Americans, and settlers, Ms. Ms. Dolgin said she would take up those questions with Police Chief Seth DiSanto.

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Thank you! Orleans Emergency Unit Squad Page Ten the Chronicle, May 3, 2017 Dailey library closing for expansion by Joseph Gresser The committee came up with a plan that would be less expensive and, according to DERBY — Patrons who show up at the Dailey librarian Maureen Badger, more suitable to the Memorial Library after Saturday will find the library’s needs. door locked. If they get there before May 7 and “Instead of a million dollar project we’re have a yen to catch up on some back reading, expecting this to cost between $500,000 and they may still be able to borrow up to 20 books $550,000,” Ms. Badger said. “We’re adding 1,600 and keep them until the end of September. square feet to the building, 800 to the top floor After ten years of waiting, the small library in and 800 to the bottom.” Derby Center is about to close for a few months The entire building will be renovated and while builders work to make it a little bigger. insulated. Posts on the ground floor will be On Tuesday former librarian Barb Whitehill removed and an I-beam put in their place to hold and other volunteers were packing books in up the second floor. boxes. Some will be shipped to the Derby “This building was built in 1957 for $10,000,” Community Church, which will host a smaller Ms. Provost said. “The front door is Greek version of the library until the building is finished revival, the rest is get it done.” this fall. The children’s collection is moving downstairs Recently published books, many children’s where it will be shelved in bookcases fitted with titles, audio books, and DVDs are headed to the casters. That way the large ground floor room library’s home away from home. Volunteers are can be easily configured for community events. boxing older books for storage, except those A lift and a new accessible bathroom on each borrowed under the 20 books for five months floor will bring the library into compliance with program. the Americans with Disabilities Act, Ms. Badger All will be returned to a renovated and said. expanded library in the autumn. Plans also call for a conference room In 2007 the library board and then-librarian downstairs. Each year AARP volunteers meet Barb Whitehill began planning an expansion for with local residents to help them with their taxes. the small frame building. The initial plan called Now those conversations can take place in a for more than doubling the size of the 28-by-36- private space, she said. foot building, but library supporters found it Ms. Badger said the conference room can also difficult to raise the needed cash. double as a classroom. The main entrance of the Dailey Memorial Library with Library Board President Ginette Provost said The adult collection will remain upstairs, but its familiar Greek revival columns will be retained, but the board created a “Plan B” committee last fall it will get new shelves and room for more books. the building’s new main entryway will be on the other with the help of Newport architect Mark Stewart. The new design also provides space for five side of the building. Photos by Joseph Gresser “Once we went to Plan B, everything has just computer stations, Ms. Badger said. fallen into place,” Ms. Provost said. “Some people The Dailey’s librarians are looking forward to (Continued on page eleven.) might have given up, but we persevered.” having an actual office, she said. At present they

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802-467-3500 the Chronicle, May 3, 2017 Page Fifteen Woman tops off detergent from another bottle (Continued from page fourteen.) the theft of $205 from a wallet left on a desk. three to six months and was ordered to pay $147 Patrolman Lancaster said video surveillance in surcharges for violating conditions of release. showed Ms. Sanville entering the office for 28 He was sentenced to six to 12 months, all Man allegedly gropes bar patron seconds then leaving. suspended, for the DUI judgment. Confronted with the video evidence, Ms. Fabian Prive, 56, of Newport is facing a felony Sanville said she would pay the money back. She Detergent top-off charge of lewd and lascivious conduct for was cited into court when she failed to repay any allegedly groping a bartender while she was of the money by the date she had agreed to. Honey Daniels, 37, of Derby, pled guilty to sitting in the bar off duty. one misdemeanor charge of retail theft in Patrolman Joshua Lillis said in his affidavit DUIs exchange for $147 in surcharges and the that he was called to the Eagles Club in Newport requirement that she complete a program with by a bar manager who showed him surveillance A Barton woman will pay a $500 fine and the reparative board. footage from three different angles of the $282 in surcharges for driving under the Newport Patrolman J. Lillis responded to the allegedly illegal contact. Patrolman Lillis said he influence in Barton on April 20, 2016. Family Dollar in Newport City on October 28, recognized Mr. Prive from prior law enforcement Rachel Duquette, 49, pled guilty to one 2015, at the request of a store manager. The contact. He said the video appeared to show Mr. misdemeanor charge of driving under the manager explained that Ms. Daniels, had taken Prive approach a seated individual and touch her influence and had a companion charge dismissed two detergent bottles off a shelf, used one to top on her mid-section, breast, and thigh as she tried by the state on April 26. According to court off the other, then paid for the full one. The to avoid contact by drawing her elbows in to her records, Ms. Duquette was stopped by Sergeant manager said that a typical new bottle of body. David Roos and was issued a citation after he detergent is about three-quarters full. Video The woman told Patrolman Lillis that she conducted a field sobriety test and a breath test. surveillance allegedly showed Ms. Daniels walk said, “What the hell are you doing?” when she A Coventry man will serve up to one year on off camera with two bottles and return with only first felt herself being touched. probation after he resolved a number of one. The manager said she later found the half- Mr. Prive pled innocent to the charge at his misdemeanor charges against him at a change of full bottle at the back of the store. arraignment on April 25. He was lodged at the plea hearing before Judge VanBenthuysen on Patrolman Lillis said that he called Ms. Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport April 26. Daniels, who initially told him that she always for lack of $5,000 bail. Damion Daniels, 20, pled guilty to one charge does that and does not consider it stealing. of driving under the influence and one charge of The detergent was valued at $7.69. Woman steals wallet at job interview violating the conditions of his release. As part of the agreement, the state dismissed a separate contact Brad Usatch at A Newport woman failed to put her best foot DUI charge and a charge of driving with a [email protected] forward when she was nabbed for taking a wallet suspended license. off a desk at a Newport business where she had On January 27, Newport Patrolman Nicholas arrived for a job interview. Rivers said he pulled Mr. Daniels over on Union She will serve one to three months on Street in Newport after he drove by while texting. Chronicle CROSSWORD probation and pay $147 in surcharges, for taking Further investigation revealed that he was money from a wallet at the Newport business. prohibited from driving any vehicle as a condition Donna Sanville, 45, pled guilty to of his release from a previous DUI charge. misdemeanor petty larceny and was sentenced to Newport Patrolman David Jacobs said in his one to three months on probation as part of an affidavit that he pulled Mr. Daniels over on East agreement that also requires her to reimburse the Main Street in Newport on March 18 after rightful owner of the cash, and pay $147 in estimating his speed at 55 miles per hour in a 25 surcharges. mile per hour zone. He said Mr. Daniels was Senior officer Royce Lancaster of the Newport arrested and charged with driving under the City Police said in his affidavit that he was called influence based on his performance on a field to Claire’s Cleaning on the Bluff Road on sobriety test. November 28, 2016, by an employee who reported Mr. Daniels received a suspended sentence of

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(Continued from page one.) President. When Obama was starting, because representing what we want and what’s best for us he was a black man, they were afraid to say and our children.” “What really worries me is the environment. anything because of discrimination. John Broe of Charleston: “It’s been He can do a lot of damage in four years. He’s “As far as I can see, Trump is trying to do interesting. I don’t even know. I’m not sure what already done a lot. what he promised. He’s finding out that some to think. I think some good, some bad. “And in the meantime we’re paying the Secret things can’t happen, but I have to say he’s been Sometimes I wish he’d be a little more quiet, not Service to guard him and his wife in separate trying. say what he’s thinking every second.” households and footing the bill for his golf trips to “He’s trying to give people a tax break but Linda Schneck of Barton: “I believe it’s been Mar-a-Lago almost every freakin’ weekend.” adding taxes to gas. That means people will pay 100 days of trying to destroy our democracy and Susan Sicard of Barton: “I am a fan of him. I less in taxes, but spend more on the road. That to do unethical things that seem to be against our think he’s done as well as he possibly could with may be a wash. Constitution. And so I do not think it’s a the people he has to work with. Like any other “Other than that, the media, for some reason successful hundred days. I think he should President, he can’t do more than what people or another, won’t let go.” actually be impeached and there are many, many allow him to do. I think the media has been John Selmer, Westfield: “I’m going to hold reasons for that. extremely horrible to him.” neutral on that. I see some good and some bad. I Charlie Bachelder of Brownington: He’s done Ms. Sicard said she approves of President stopped voting because I’ve never seen a as good as any other presidents so far, give or Trump’s stance on illegal immigration, and she politician, yet, stick to his promises. take. Time will tell. It’s only 100 days and it’s believes that he’s looking for fraud and waste in “Trump has tried, but he hasn’t gotten a lot of hard to get anything done in 100 days. You got entitlement programs such as welfare and Social cooperation from either side. That’s including his Democrats and Republicans doing the same. It’s Security. own party. back and forth. Give it two years and we’ll see “A lot of things need to be changed,” she said. “I still watch the news and read newspapers how he’s doing.” “Welfare, Social Security, where is the money and and hope.” Scott Wheeler of Derby: “It’s certainly been who’s getting it? I think a lot of people are taking Deb Smith, Westmore: “He’s a catalyst for an interesting ride. As I would do with any advantage. change. People are stepping up and paying presidential candidate, I give them the benefit of “I like the fact that he’s trying to get things attention and taking the reins back. the doubt. I hate to say this to the media, but I straightened out for our country, not letting all “I think there’s some complacency. do think the media in every form has got to knock the illegal aliens in. We need to take care of Sometimes, if individuals’ lives work for them, it off. They’ve got to focus more on doing their ourselves first. complacency sets in. jobs and stop being cheerleaders. It’s kind of sad “Leave him alone right now to do what he has “One person can’t save us; we all have to step that I have to listen to the BBC to find out what’s to do. I don’t care what he did in the past. up and get involved. It’s almost like Trump is really going on.” “I believe if the media would get their noses providing an opportunity for that. I feel like he’s Scott Jenness, Derby: “Make America great out of his business and stop criticizing him you’d a spiritual bridge to something on the other side again!” he exclaimed when asked for his see a different world.” we all have to get to. assessment of the first hundred days. Eugene Levine, who works in Newport and “I’m glad as a Vermonter I could vote for When asked what the slogan means to him, lives in Burke: “Trump laid out a plan to destroy Bernie, I couldn’t vote for Trump or Hillary.” Mr. Jenness said, “Closing borders.” the government, and people were prepared to let Anne Chiarello, Newport: “It’s been a terrible “We have to give him time. A hundred days him do that. He was like Samson ready to tear first hundred days. He distracted us with a group isn’t all that long. It’s going to take more than the temple down around him. of horrible things, so people didn’t know what to 100 days to straighten out eight years of horror.” “When he got to Washington he found he fight first. Immigration, foreign affairs, and the economy couldn’t do that. The institutions of government “I hate what he has done with immigrants; he are the things he thinks are most in need of wouldn’t allow him to do that by design. seems to forget we were all immigrants at one straightening out. “Every move he made put him in conflict with time. “The economy should be number one,” he the other institutions, because they were designed “He’s trying to take away our national said. “I should have said the economy first.” to do that. monuments and wants to build the Keystone Marie-Josse Jenness, describes herself as a “So what’s happened is that he’s fighting a pipeline. And there is the health care situation. French Quebecer married to an American. She’s series of battles without a plan for winning the he tried to take away the Affordable Care Act and lived in Derby for a year now. war. failed, then said he would leave it alone. Now “I come from a completely different “There are powerful institutions in conflict he’s trying again. background, so this is how it looks to me,” she with each other. All of them got powerful because “It’s horrible.” said. they served some interest. Much of what he Peter Badertscher of Irasburg: “Trump’s “Give it a chance. He’s pushing people in the wants to tear down grew up in the fertile soil of trying to do what he said he was going to do.” U.S. and you guys need it. It doesn’t mean it’s the New Deal. Elizabeth Harrington of Derby: “It’s pretty going to work, but you should at least give him a “Those institutions were designed to protect much what I expected. I am very saddened that chance. If you don’t, everyone voted for nothing.” the poor, the dispossessed, blacks, Hispanics, and our country chose to have Trump as our Jason Sicard, Barton: “You never know what migrant workers. He wants to dismantle President, and now we are feeling the effects of it. direction he’s headed in, and I’m not sure protection for those people and help the rich and He’s presenting as very disorganized. I don’t whether that’s good or bad, but the biggest thing powerful. want to offend anyone. But me, personally, as an is that people should respect the office. The “This is fine with people who benefitted from educated, American-born woman, I think it’s sad media and the people who didn’t win are so upset. the institutions but refuse to recognize that they that this is who we chose to lead our country. I It’s natural, I guess, but it comes across as were helped by them.” don’t think he represents the American people insulting. 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If you have more both bring good things to the table. about President Trump’s Cabinet “The other thing he’s done well people working, you create better I think that’s what our forefathers picks, many of whom seem to want is immigration.” jobs. And if the tax structure gets had in mind.” to disable the very agencies they He said he’s not sure about the better, if corporate income gets Tim Lahar, Barton: The country head, by hate speech, by policies President’s plan to build a wall better, employee wages get better.” that President Trump inherited is that are the opposite of what she between the U.S. and Mexico. “I’d “He’s brash, he’s rude. He embarrassing, Mr. Lahar said. “We’re believes in as a progressive rather see a virtual wall. I think we didn’t build that empire acting the supposed to live in the greatest Democrat. could use that money someplace else.” way he acted in the Primary. He country, and there are Third World “I think we’re in a pivotal place But on the other hand, made his empire because he’s countries that look better than we do.” in our democracy and that in order President Trump’s get tough on brilliant. Government is one of the big to ensure civil liberties, preserve the illegal immigration attitude has “You are not going to get 100 things that needs to be fixed, Mr. environment, and move forward as a been effective in itself and percent satisfaction out of anybody.” Lahar said. “It’s just one hand nation that values all citizens, washing the other. people need to get involved, “The people who criticize him especially through voting. The need to remember that somebody election of Donald Trump spurred Westfield community put him in there. 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DERBY LINE — QNEK, named for the self- anointed Queen of the Northeast Kingdom, Lynn Leimer, has held court at the Haskell Opera House for the past 25 years. In that unique jewel box, balanced on the U.S.-Canadian border, the theater company has put talented local performers on stage in dramas, musicals, and, most notably, comedies. It’s altogether fitting, therefore, that QNEK’s final season opens with a farce. Lend Me A Tenor is the perfect vehicle to show off QNEK’s polished ensemble work. With Jenny Dunne’s able direction, the cast meshes like parts in a perfectly tuned engine, designed to churn out laughs. As its title suggests, the show revolves around a night at the opera. The year is 1934, the place is Cleveland. World-renowned tenor Tito Merelli (played by Phil Gosselin) is scheduled to give a Max (Todd Cubit), still in his Otello costume, is overwhelmed by praise from Saunders (Michael Desjardins, left), performance of Verdi’s Otello. the bellhop (Ron St. John), Julia (Kim Gannon), and his unsuspecting sweetheart, Maggie (Andrea Webster, right.) Henry Saunders (Michael Desjardins), the Photos by Joseph Gresser opera company’s manager, is busy dealing with last minute emergencies, not the least of which is Maggie (Andrea Webster). She is smitten with with excuses. that Merelli has yet to arrive. Merelli, and tells Max she wants more excitement Finally, Merelli and his passionately jealous Max Garber (Todd Cubit) is Saunders’ out of life than he can provide. wife, Maria (Tiffany Quinn), show up, but the assistant. The two men anticipate a disaster, one Maggie is not the only one hoping to see great singer is in no hurry to get to the theater. that Max hopes to turn to his advantage. He tells Merelli. Julia (Kim Gannon), the head of the He complains of a stomachache and goes into the Saunders that he knows the role and offers to go Cleveland Opera Guild, and Diana (Rhonda bedroom of the hotel suite to rest. on in Merelli’s place. Lucas), the Cleveland diva who is to sing opposite This is a good time to note that the set Saunders mockingly turns his assistant down. Merelli, are also eager to meet the great tenor. reveals the sitting room and bedroom of the suite, Max has similar luck with the boss’ daughter, Saunders, frantic with worry, puts them off with only a door and a white stripe on the stage indicating where the wall would be. Merelli’s absence is a great disappointment to the hotel bellhop (Ron St. John), an opera fan on a mission to meet his hero. Merelli tells Saunders that there is no reason for him to attend the rehearsal. He has performed the part dozens of times, and even carries his own costume and wigs with him. In fact, he explains, he carries two costumes so nothing can go wrong. In a farce, that is a tell. If someone says nothing can go wrong, everything will go wrong. And always, the thing that’s guaranteed to prevent trouble will guarantee that the maximum amount of hilarious trouble will ensue. When Max and Saunders mistakenly decide that Merelli has died, they quickly hatch a plan to pass Max off as the superstar singer. They count on the Otello costume to be an effective disguise. Their plan would be brilliant if Merelli were, in fact, dead. But when the tenor rouses himself, puts on the other costume and heads to the opera house, all hell breaks loose. Almost the entire cast is made up of seasoned QNEK members, and each is well cast. Mr. Desjardins is a volcano that barely holds back its Merelli (Phil Gosselin) soothes his wife’s jealousy by promising a lovely holiday when his opera tour is over. Maria eruptions. is played by Tiffany Quinn. (Continued on page nineteen.)

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That long pants and long sleeves, and tight-fitting number was well above most other states, clothing to make it more difficult for ticks to find including Connecticut, which reported an a place to grab on. infection rate of 52.2 per 100,000. Most important, he said, is to regularly check Lyme disease is caused by the presence of the yourself and those you are with for the presence Borellia burgdorfia bacteria. Its symptoms vary, of ticks, especially after being in wooded or grassy but can include headache, fever, chills, muscle areas where ticks are likely to be abundant. pain, joint pain and fatigue. Symptoms can begin Mr. Tompkins said that, for Lyme disease, it within days of a tick bite or up to 30 days after A reader discovered this black legged tick (or deer tick) is pretty well established that a tick has to be infection, according to the Department of Health. on her Wheelock property on April 30. attached for a certain period of time in order for An infected tick bite is sometimes, but not Photo courtesy of Joseph Gresser the disease to be transmitted. People argue, he always, accompanied by a red bulls-eye rash. said, but in most cases that period is probably While the general trend has been rising for there is tremendous population variation on a around 24 to 36 hours. both the presence of ticks statewide and the small scale throughout Vermont. He also noted that contrary to what many illnesses they carry, no one can say for sure how He said the general perception remains true people think, they often won’t realize a tick is severe the season will be here in the Northeast that ticks are a bigger problem farther south. attached until they or someone else finds it. Kingdom this year. But, he said, even down by Bellows Falls and “So the point we emphasize is do tick checks Alan Giese is an associate professor of biology Bennington he will find areas of tick abundance, every day, and if you find one, pull it off as soon at Lyndon State College. He said that, in then a half mile away in a suitable area he just as possible,” Mr. Tompkins said. general, tick densities fluctuate from year to year won’t find the same number. Lyme is the most common tick borne disease, based on factors like the severity and length of When averaged over small scale variations, but other very serious infections can be spread winters, and the number of available hosts — Mr. Giese said, tick densities still remain higher through tick bites. Compared to the 490-plus deer, mice, and birds. farther south, and even in the southern Northeast Lyme disease cases on average over the last five “Unfortunately, my work doesn’t allow me to Kingdom versus northern Orleans and Essex years for which data is available, Mr. Tompkins be very predictive,” he said. counties. said the state saw 139 confirmed or suspected For the past four or five years, Mr. Giese and But he cautioned that there are local hotspots. cases of anaplasmosis in 2015, making it the his students have been surveying for ticks “Anywhere in the Northeast Kingdom where second most prevalent tick-borne ailment. directly at different sites across the state, it’s a little warmer and more moist than the areas Symptoms for anaplasmosis can include fever, tracking geographical differences, looking for around it, particularly where there is a thick chills, and muscle pain, but also cough, confusion, year-to-year trends, and testing for different layer of leaf litter from hardwoods, and ground and nausea, Mr. Tompkins said. It is not pathogens. vegetation is present, there are probably a lot of commonly associated with the bulls-eye rash of a What Mr. Giese’s research has shown is that ticks,” he said. Lyme disease infection. Symptoms can be vague and vary from person to person, so anyone who develops any symptoms, especially if they suspect 24 Years in ACCEPTING business! they were bitten by a tick, should seek immediate NEW Parker Conflict Resolution CUSTOMERS! mediation services medical attention. because peace of mind matters...... (Continued on page twenty-five.)

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(Continued from page twenty-four.) And while Mr. Dunklee would not discourage tick-zoonotic for a host of information on anyone from taking the recommended precautions infections carried by insects. Anaplasmosis can be treated with antibiotics, including tight-fitting clothing, he said the tick “If there’s anything brown that is not snow- but if not addressed quickly, Mr. Tompkins said that bit him had crawled up under his biking covered,” he said, “ticks may be present. If the illness can be severe, even fatal. shorts. there’s grass poking through the snow, ticks could Another tick-borne disease, Babesiosis, often “Fortunately we can do more for pets than we be on it.” will not show symptoms for one to four weeks can for people,” Mr. Dunklee said. He noted that we are right now in the midst after a bite. Some people never have any He said, typically, cats don’t have as much of of a part of the year when tick activity is greatest. symptoms at all. For others, it is characterized a problem with ticks because they groom A chart on the Department of Health website by many of the same conditions — fever, chills, themselves meticulously. shows that tick related emergency room visits muscle aches — as Lyme disease, but also and urgent care visits spike early in the spring, sometimes jaundice. decline briefly, then reach their annual peak in Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacterial infection late May and early June. Another significant sometimes characterized by relapsing fever, has spike occurs in October and November. also been reported in Vermont. “I was personally bitten Barton Veterinary Hospital recommends Stan Dunklee has been on the front lines of seeing dogs around this time of year to test for the Lyme disease fight in more ways than one. by a tick and 19 hours heartworm. That test that also picks up Lyme He is the office manager at the Barton Veterinary disease, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis — a Hospital — his wife, Judith Robitaille-Dunklee, is later I had Lyme disease spread by the lone star tick still found the vet — and he has also personally been disease.” mostly in southern Vermont. infected with Lyme disease. Mr. Dunklee said Mr. Dunklee also said that while the black people should, of course, take all the — Stan Dunklee legged tick is the most common source of recommended precautions with clothing and tick infections — recent studies have found that half checks, but his own experience is at odds with test positive for Lyme disease — any tick should some of the conventional wisdom. be considered a potential carrier of an infectious “I was personally bitten by a tick and 19 Mr. Dunklee said there is a vaccine for dogs disease. He cited research from the Midwest that hours later I had Lyme disease,” Mr. Dunklee that provides some protection. He warned that showed pathogens present in every tick except said. tick bites have a cumulative effect as far as Lyme the moose tick. He said he was out mountain biking in disease is concerned, and once an animal tests Mr. Dunklee said Lyme disease is still fairly Willoughby State Forest last summer when he positive, it’s usually positive for life. rare up here in the pets they see. They diagnosed picked up a tick — a tiny nymph — and by early He said topical medications are available for their first case about five years ago, he said, when the next morning had flu symptoms, shakes, and about $23 for a dose that lasts about a month and they tested a dog that was showing gait issues. tremors in his face. Mr. Dunklee said he had been both repels and kills ticks, as well as mosquitos As for humans, Mr. Dunklee’s advice was to careful to remove the tick properly by grabbing and fleas. He said there is also a relatively new, check yourself often and remove any ticks found the head parts and pulling outward rather than non-toxic three-month tablet for a little over 60 immediately. There is a special tool available, squeezing the body of the tick. Once infected, he dollars per dose. He said they have been using it but a pair of tweezers should often suffice to grab had himself treated by a physician immediately for about two years and find it to be highly the tick by the head. and has been free and clear ever since. effective. “If you’re outside, do a tick check every As far as when tick season starts and ends, night,” he said. “And if you see one tick bite, Mr. Dunklee recommends a cautious approach, don’t dismiss it.”

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WANTED: EXPERIENCED LANDSCAPER Vote on antlerless season coming up for full-time, seasonal job starting immediately. 40+ hours weekly. Send resumé to: Doug Spates, The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board voted weekend hunt. Youths took 885 antlerless deer 83 Third St., Newport, VT 05855 on the Fish and Wildlife Department’s proposal during the 2016 youth weekend hunt. for antlerless deer hunting for 2017 at its meeting The December 2 through 10 muzzleloader on April 26 in Montpelier. season would have 24,500 antlerless permits “We are recommending an increase in distributed in 18 of Vermont’s 21 Wildlife muzzleloader season antlerless deer permits this management Units (WMU), which is estimated to year to account for the increase in the deer result in 3,608 antlerless deer being taken. Asack & Son Tree Farm population following another mild winter in The Fish and Wildlife Department’s Asack & Son Tree Farm is hiring for spring seedling 2017,” said Nick Fortin, deer project leader for antlerless deer hunting proposal for 2017 and the harvest. Smoke-free environment, part time, full time. No experience needed, will train. the Fish and Wildlife Department. “Much of Fish and Wildlife Board’s recommended permits Vermont has experienced two consecutive very by each WMU are on Vermont Fish and Wildlife’s Starting pay for new employees is $11 per hour including bonus. For previous employees who mild winters. As a result, the recommendation is website (www.vtfishandwildlife.com). Public have successfully completed a work season with intended to stabilize or reduce deer densities in comments on the proposal may be e-mailed to us pay is $12 per hour including bonus. some parts of the state while allowing for [email protected] by May 23, To apply, call Bill, evenings from 6–8 p.m., at moderate population growth in other areas.” 2017. 754-6934. Please call first before you come. The department’s annual recommendation is The department held three deer hunting based on population estimates, biological data, public hearings earlier and will hold two more in winter severity data, and deer sighting rates May. The meetings will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 reported by hunters, as well as input from game p.m. on Thursday, May 11 at Randolph Union WANTED: wardens, foresters and the public. High School, 15 Forest Street, Randolph, and on “We expect the statewide deer population to Tuesday, May 16, at Burr and Burton Academy, Experienced carpenter with the be about 157,000 prior to the start of the 2017 57 Seminary Avenue, Manchester. minimum of 6 years experience, deer seasons,” said Mr. Fortin. The Fish and Wildlife Board will vote again references required. Hunting for antlerless deer is proposed at their May 24 board meeting on the antlerless Also looking for a laborer with minimum statewide for the October 7 through November 3 deer hunting proposal. Muzzleloader season of 2 years experience in the work field, and December 2 through 10 archery season. Last antlerless permit applications are scheduled to be year, hunters took 2,595 antlerless deer during available on the Fish and Wildlife Department’s references required. the archery season. website in early June. — from Vermont Fish and Will consider training the right candidate. 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Lawn Mowing, Weed Whacking, Cleaning, TAYLOR-MOORE Stacking Wood, Odd Jobs, etc. Maple Lane offers competitive wages with flexible AGENCY About 4 hours per week in the Barton Area. scheduling, and vast benefit programs with options of Call us for all your medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurances as well We are looking for a 7th or 8th grader in the Barton Area Insurance Needs as a generous time off program, employee funded retirement who would like a job through high school. and excellent staffing ratios. You must: TM Qualified applicants may contact: • Have a good work ethic and be willing to do the job every week. Has a job opening for a • Be trustworthy. @ Rhonda Smith 802-754-8575, • Have experience using a lawn tractor / weed whacker. PROPERTY & CASUALTY or apply in person to: • Have your parent(s) approval. INSURANCE AGENT. 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Help Wanted! Help wanted: LOWELL GRADED SCHOOL Lowell, VT part-time customer service representative Driver with a To begin the 2017-2018 school year Class A CDL. References needed. PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER – 40% Please contact John to collect deposits from customers, sign contracts, at 802-274-5320. Must have or be eligible for appropriate Vermont licensure. Position answer phones, copy and fax documents, and may be combined with other positions in the district. manage business e-mail account. 18 to 27 hours per week. Salary and Benefits: As per Teachers’ Negotiated Agreement. Mail resumé to: Newport Town Elementary School Submit letter of interest, resumé listing three references (or three LakeP.O. Region Box 517, Union Newport, High VT 05855. School current letters of reference), copies of transcripts, and a copy of Newport Center, VT appropriate Vermont license via: www.Schoolspring.com (preferred) or to: IMMEDIATE VACANCY NOTICE Lake Region Union High School is Lowell Graded School CLASSROOM PARAPROFESSIONAL NEEDED accepting applications for Attn.: Anita Gagner, Principal School session 52 Gelo Park Rd. 2017-2018 Lowell, VT 05847 The Newport Town School is in immediate need of a classroom paraprofessional. Candidates must meet the district’s requirements: Spanish Teacher Deadline: The application screening process will begin immediately minimum of 48 college credit or paraeducator certificate and French Teacher and continue until the position is filled. portfolio or successfully passing the Para Pro Test. Previous experience is preferred. Math Teacher Criminal Background and Child Abuse/Neglect Registry Checks are required. Submit letter of interest, resumé, list of 3 current references with .5 FTE English Teacher contact information, and copy of transcripts or Para Pro test scores to: Refer to: www.schoolspring.com Equal Opportunity Employer. Wendy Wood, Principal for applications and job details. Newport Town Elementary School P. O. Box 48 Newport Center, VT 05857 Submit letter of interest, resumé, certifications, and [email protected] three current letters of reference to: Andre Messier the Chronicle Application deadline: Screening will begin immediately and continue 317 Lake Region Road until suitable candidate is found. Orleans, VT 05860 Criminal Background Check and Child Abuse/Neglect Registry Help Wanted Check required. Background check is required We’re looking for a personable and creative E.O.E. marketing assistant to sell ads for new Equal Opportunity Employer. Open until filled. digital and print products, work with website, and develop new accounts. The position requires thinking out of the box, knowledge of website technology, and eagerness to meet HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR potential clients face-to-face. This is a part- FOOD SERVICE COORDINATOR time position with commission-based salary. Orleans Central Supervisory Union Orleans Central Supervisory Union Experience in sales or related area is a must Barton, Vermont Barton, Vermont for this position. The successful candidate will FTE: 0.50 - Starting Date: July 1, 2017. be a dynamic people person, a team player The Orleans Central Supervisory Union is seeking a half-time FTE: 0.50 - Starting Date: July 1, 2017. and original thinker able to enthusiastically Human Resources Coordinator. The ideal candidate will have The Orleans Central Supervisory Union is seeking a half-time Food Service experience in the human resources field, with evidence of Coordinator. The ideal candidate will have experience in the food promote, develop, and sell media products. training. For complete job description visit: service field, with evidence of certification or training in food service Please submit resumé and cover letter, which www.SchoolSpring.com. and nutrition. For complete job description visit: includes qualifications, experience and/or www.SchoolSpring.com, or contact the business office. A completed application packet will include: what you could bring to the position. E-mail • Cover letter indicating why the candidate is interested in [email protected] or send to the the position A completed application packet will include: Chronicle, P.O. Box 660, Barton, VT 05822, • Resumé • Cover letter indicating why the candidate is interested in the position • Three recent letters of recommendation • Resumé attn: Tracy. • Proof of high school/college completion • Three recent letters of recommendation • Proof of high school/college completion • A Criminal Record Check is required. • A Criminal Record Check is required. • Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States • Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States required required Contact Information: Contact Information Donald Van Nostrand, Superintendent Heather Wright, Business Manager 130 Kinsey Road 130 Kinsey Road Barton, Vermont 05822 Barton, Vermont 05822 G.W. Tatro Construction, Inc. Phone: (802) 525-1204 Phone: 802-525-1204 Fax: 802-525-1276 Fax: 802-525-1276 Jeffersonville, VT

Or complete application at: www.SchoolSpring at Job # 2784119. Or complete application at: www.SchoolSpring at Job # 2783308. Seeking a Water/Sewer/Storm water pipe layer. Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal Opportunity Employer. Must be able to lift 50 pounds, use shovels and other small equipment. Must have extensive knowledge of trench safety, dewatering methods, pipe materials, and be team oriented. First aid and OSHA experience also a plus. Overtime and some travel around the CHARLESTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL executive assistant to the Superintendent state may be required. TEMPORARY VACANCY OSSU Central Office 2017-2018 School Year Seeking general laborers. Must be able to lift 50 PARAEDUCATOR pounds, use shovels and other small equipment. Some experience in the construction business is preferred, 2016-2017 School Year but not needed. First aid and OSHA experience also a Charleston Elementary School is looking for a paraeducator, up to 7 plus. Overtime and some travel around the state may hours per day, school session for the remainder of the 2016-2017 This full-time administrative position provides a wide variety be required. Candidates must be willing to learn and of complex and confidential administrative and secretarial school year only. Previous experience preferred. For more motivated to work. information on our school, please visit our website at: support, i.e., interprets policy and administrative regulations https://sites.google.com/ncsuvt.org/ces/home. to officials and the public; analyzes requests and provides Seeking a construction superintendent. recommendations for action; communicates information on Responsibilities will include coordinating daily tasks behalf of the district and the governing board to staff, other Candidates must meet the district’s requirements: minimum of 48 with project manager, assisting with progress college credits, or paraeducator certificate and portfolio, or districts, and public agencies. successfully passing the para pro test. scheduling, supervise, and lead crews in a safe and Candidate must be knowledgeable with standard assistant efficient manner. Successful candidate will have a Either submit letter of interest, resumé listing 3 references (or 3 procedures and office management techniques; record strong knowledge of earthwork and site construction current letters of reference), and copies of transcripts, or complete a keeping and filing systems; Robert’s Rules of Order; standard as well as OSHA standards. Candidate must be detail NCSU application and submit to: office equipment and software applications; principles of internet research; and effective telephone techniques. and safety oriented. The ability to read plans and Jessica Applegate, Principal specifications, provide layout and shoot grades, are 255 Center School Road Associate’s degree preferred, as well as training and/or requirements of this position. This position may West Charleston, VT 05872 experience which demonstrates ability to perform the duties require some traveling. Wages will be decided based described within the job description, including satisfactory on experience. Other benefits would include a 401K Salary & Benefits: As per support staff policy. experience at the executive assistand level, preferably in a public education environment; coursework in business plan, profit sharing, paid holidays, earned time off, Deadline: The application screening process will begin immediately administration or a related field is desirable. annual performance bonuses, company vehicle and and continue until position is filled. health insurance after a probation period. For a complete job description, and to make application, go to: Criminal Record Background and Child Abuse/Neglect Registry www.SchoolSpring.com, job #2782110. We offer healthcare, 401K, profit sharing, and annual Checks are required. performance bonuses after a probation period. This position is expected to begin in mid-to-late May. Equal Opportunity Employer. Online applications available at www.gwtatro.com. Person offered employment will complete the Criminal Records process.

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Preschool and Kindergarten Registration Charleston Elementary School Hikers should avoid muddy trails Friday, May 5th, 2017 The Green Mountain Club, the Vermont State Parks website at: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. by appointment Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation vtstateparks.com/hiking.html#mudSeasonHiking. (FPR), and the Green Mountain National Forest “Please give the trails time to dry out for the Please call school for a 30 minute appointment, are teaming up to ask hikers to stay off trails summer hiking season,” says Dave Hardy, at (802) 895-2915. during mud season. director of trail programs for the Green Mountain Children entering Kindergarten must be 5 years Some trails, especially those at high Club. “Until the end of May, consider hiking on old on or before September 1, 2017. elevations, are closed at this time of year. Please south facing slopes and lower elevations where Please bring your child and their birth certificate, respect the signage indicating closed trails. the sun can dry out the trails sooner.” immunization record, and Social Security card. Snowmelt and rain will cause the trails to remain For information on mud season hiking, call wet, muddy, and prone to erosion. Hikers the Green Mountain Club’s Visitor Center at walking on saturated soils or on the sides of trails (802) 244-7037, or e-mail cause damage to surrounding vegetation, widen [email protected], or call the Vermont ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #7R1121-1 trails, and inhibit natural drainage of the hiking State Parks call center at (888) 409-7579, Monday 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6093 trails. through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. — from the “It can take hours for a volunteer or trail crew Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation. On March 22, 2017, Keone Maher [23 Pokorny Rd., to fix what takes just moments to damage by Higganum, CT 06441] and Jeffrey Poirier [PO Box 174, Barton, VT 05822] filed application #7R1121-1 for a project hiking on muddy trails,” says Jessica Savage, generally described re-opening and continued operation of an FPR’s recreation program manager. “In a way, existing inactive sand and gravel pit (phased, 5 acres) subject each footstep on a muddy trail makes extra work to all terms and conditions of permit #7R1121, including for people who are needed for other major projects COFEC to hold maximum annual extraction rate of 5,000 cubic yards per year, and permit expiration date extended to October 15, 2027. The on trails. We know the sunshine makes getting project is located 2671 Dry Pond Road (Vermont Route 16) in outside a priority, but saving your mountain annual preschool Glover, Vermont. No hearing will be held and a permit will be hikes until the trails are dried out will ensure a issued unless, on or May 18, 2017, a party notifies the District better, longer hiking season for all.” art show May 4 #7 Commission in writing at the address below of an issue requiring a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for Dry trails at lower elevations, dirt roads, and Barton Head Start will host its annual hearing on its own motion. Such hearing request must include recreation paths provide excellent opportunities preschool art show on Thursday, May 4, from a petition for party status. The application and proposed permit for spring outdoors activities. A weekly trail 5 to 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend. — may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web update with the latest conditions and a list of site (www.nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking “Act 250 Database” from Barton Head Start. and entering the project number #7R1121-1. For more alternative hikes will be posted on the Vermont information, contact Kirsten Sultan at the address or telephone number below. Dated at St Johnsbury, Vermont this 28th day of April, 2017.

Kirsten Sultan, P.E., Coordinator District #7 Environmental Commission STATE OF VERMONT PROBATE COURT DISTRICT OF ORLEANS, SS. DOCKET NO.: 272-8-16 Ospr 374 Emerson Falls Road, Suite 4 Town of Brownington IN RE: THE ESTATE OF: ANDREW J. MERCERI St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 LATE OF: ALBANY, VERMONT 802-751-0126 [email protected] NOTICE TO CREDITORS Green Up Day To the creditors of the estate of ANDREW J. MERCERI, late of th ALBANY, VERMONT. Saturday May 6 , 2017 We have been appointed personal representatives of the above • Green up bags will be distributed at the school named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must (1 bag/family), additional bags will be available at present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the publication of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE the Brownington Town Clerk’s office. presented to us at the address listed below with a copy filed with • We would like to see families pick up trash in the the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four (4) Pursuant to the Judgment Order and Decree of vicinity of their homes. month deadline. Foreclosure by Judicial Sale issued by the Vermont • Do not pick up needles or hazardous waste, report Superior Court, Orleans Unit on July 27, 2016, in the Dated: April 20, 2017 Signed case entitled John V. Donlon, Jr. and Sharon M. Donlon it to the Coordinator at the Town Garage. Kim Merceri v. Jeffrey A. Hill, Mary E. O’Rourke and Joy A. Hill • Bags can be dropped off at the Brownington Town 449 Garden St. Feeding Hills, MA 01030 Docket No. 60-3-16 Oscv; the following notice of sale Garage from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., or you can leave Dated: April 20, 2017 (413) 636-2805 is hereby given: them along the road for pickup. Eight Signed TIME AND PLACE OF PUBLIC SALE: The property tires/household will be accepted. Name of Publication: the Chronicle First Publication Date: April 26, 2017 Darrell Merceri described in said Judgment Order and Decree of 107 Coolidge Ave. • Children dropping off bags at the Brownington Second Publication Date: May 3, 2017 Ludlow, MA 01056 Foreclosure by Judicial Sale will be sold in its entirety Town Garage will receive a coupon for a free ice Address of Probate Court: (413) 378-3871 at Public Auction at 11:00 a.m., on May 18, 2017, at cream at Tim & Doug’s. Orleans County Probate Court the property located at 3090 Carter Road, in the Town 247 Main Street of Lowell, Vermont. Let’s make it a family affair!!!! Newport, VT 05855 REAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION:

Being a parcel of land said to contain 10.1 acres, together with a dwelling house and other improvements thereon, known and numbered as 3090 INVITATION TO BID Notice of Special Town Meeting Carter Road, in the Town of Lowell, Vermont; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed Fire Extinguisher/Fire Alarm Warning to Jeffrey A. Hill, Mary E. O’Rourke, and Joy A. Hill by Inspections & Services The legal voters of the Town of Brownington, Vermont, are the Warranty Deed of John V. Donlon, Jr. and Sharon This Request for Proposal (RFP) is for any or all of the hereby notified and warned to meet at the Brownington Central M. Donlon, dated September 29, 2011, and recorded School in Brownington Center in the Town of Brownington, in Book 58 at Page 270 of the Lowell Land Records. following school districts within the North Country Supervisory Union: Vermont, on Monday, May 15, 2017, at six o’clock in the to transact the following business, viz: TERMS: The highest bidder will be required to pay a evening Brighton Town school district deposit of $10,000.00 in certified funds, or by bank treasurer’s check at the time of the auction. The Town of Charleston school district 1. Shall the voters of the Town of Brownington reconsider the highest bidder will be further required to pay by Town of Coventry school district appropriation of $500.00 to assist the Pope Memorial certified funds or bank treasurer’s check, within seven Holland Town school district Frontier Animal Shelter with its commitments to rescuing, days of the date of the auction, an additional deposit Town of Lowell school district providing care to, and finding homes for unwanted pets, and to make the total deposit equal to 10% of the auction Town of Troy school district direct the Selectmen to assess a tax sufficient to meet the bid. The highest bidder will also be required to sign a For bid specifications, contact April Touchette, staff same? purchase and sale agreement at the time of the public accountant, at (802) 334-5847, ext. 2016. auction. North Country Supervisory Union 2. To act upon any nonbinding business that may legally come 121 Duchess Avenue, Suite A before said meeting. RIGHT TO REDEEM: The mortgagors Jeffrey A. Hill, Newport, VT 05855 Mary E. O’Rourke, and Joy A. Hill are entitled to 3. To Adjourn. redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by [email protected] paying the full amount due under the mortgage, Sealed bids to be sent to the school district Principal no later th including the costs and expenses of the sale. than the date and time indicated in the specifications for each Dated at Brownington, Vermont this 8 day of April, 2017. school district. Beverly White, Chairman Other terms to be announced at the sale. Inquiries Terry Curtis may be made with Candace L. Bussiere, Paralegal, of The Boards of School Directors reserve the right to accept Bill Falconer the Law Office of Charles D. Hickey, PLC. any proposal, which it deems most favorable to the interests Brownington Select Board Telephone 802-748-3919. of the school district and to reject any and all proposals or any portion of any proposal, submitted which, in its opinion, I hereby certify that the above warning was duly recorded in the Dated at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, this 31st day of is not in the best interest of the school district. The school March 2017. records of the Town of Brownington previous to the posting and district also reserves the right to waive any technicalities in publication thereof. the bid process not in the best interest of the district. /s/Charles D. Hickey, Esq. Attest: Valerie Faust Attorney for John and Sharon Donlon Brownington Town Clerk the Chronicle, May 3, 2017 Page Thirty-one Leave young wildlife Garrett Heath takes in the wild turkey on youth weekend Watching wildlife is enjoyable, Animals that act sick can carry especially when young animals rabies, parasites or other harmful appear in the spring. But it’s best diseases. Do not handle them. to keep your distance. Picking up Even though they do not show young wildlife can do more harm symptoms, healthy looking raccoons, than good, according to the Vermont foxes, skunks, and bats also may Fish and Wildlife Department. It’s also be carriers of the deadly rabies also against the law. virus. When people see young animals Many wildlife species will not alone, they often mistakenly assume feed or care for their young when the animals are helpless or lost, in people are close by. Obey signs that trouble or needing to be rescued. restrict access to wildlife nesting Bringing young wildlife into a areas, including hiking trails that human environment often results in may be temporarily closed. permanent separation from their Keep domestic pets indoors, mothers and a sad ending for the leashed or fenced in. Dogs and cats animal. kill many baby animals each year. Handling wildlife could also Avoid projects that remove pose a threat to the people involved. trees, shrubs and dead snags that Wild animals can transmit disease contain nests during the spring and and angry wildlife mothers can pose summer. significant dangers. For information about rabies Department scientists encourage and nuisance wildlife, call the wildlife watchers to respect the Vermont Rabies Hotline at 1-800- behavior of animals in the spring 4RABIES (800) 472-2437). and early summer, and to resist the If bitten or in contact with a urge to assist wildlife in ways that raccoon, fox, skunk, or bat, or a may be harmful. domestic animal that has been in Here are some helpful tips: contact with one of these species, Deer and moose nurse their call the Vermont Department of young at different times during the Health at (800) 640-4374. day, and often leave young alone for For the safety of all wildlife, long periods of time. These animals taking a wild animal into captivity are not lost. Their mother knows is illegal, even one you suspect is where they are and will return. sick, injured or has been Young birds on the ground may abandoned. To learn about injured have left their nest, but their or orphaned wildlife, go to parents will still feed them. Vermont’s Fish and Wildlife’s Young animals such as fox and website vtfishandwildlife.com, or raccoon will often follow their contact the Vermont Fish and parents. The family of a “wandering” Wildlife Department at (802) 828- Thirteen-year-old Garrett Heath of Westfield shot this turkey on North Hill in animal searching for food is usually 1000. — from Vermont Fish and Westfield, Sunday, on Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend. It weighed 20.8 pounds, had nearby but just out of sight to a Wildlife. an 8.5-inch beard, and one-inch spurs. Photo by Scott Dean person happening upon it.

WARNING Newport Parks ORLEANS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION Members of the Orleans Cemetery Association are hereby and Rec hosts warned to meet at the Orleans Village Office at 7 p.m., Preschool Screening Tuesday, May 9, 2017, to transact the following business: Albany, Barton, Brownington, 1. To hear and act upon reports of the officers and the sprint triathlon association. Glover, Irasburg, Orleans, Westmore 2 To elect trustees as required by law or by charter and by- Newport Parks and Recreation is hosting the laws of the association. fourth annual Sprint Triathlon in and around 3. To transact any other business that may legally be Lake Memphremagog on Saturday, June 24, at 9 brought before said meeting. a.m. starting at Prouty Beach in Newport. /s/ Peter T. Gage, President Athletes will begin with a half-mile swim, If you have a child who will be at least 3 on or /s/ Richard L. Pettengill, Secretary transition to a 13-mile bike ride, then finish with Screenings at the Albany site will be held on before September 1st, and you are interested in a a 3-mile run. Registrations for individuals and May 30, and COFEC’s will be May 31 & June 1. screening or enrolling your child in preschool, you relay teams are currently being accepted. Visit are invited to attend our annual screenning. NewportSprintTri.Weebly.com for more information and to register. — from Newport TOWN OF ALBANY Parks and Recreation. To make an appointment, please call Danielle, at NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COFEC at SUMMER525-6523. We LANDSCAPING look forward to seeing you! Notice is hereby given to the residents of the MAINTENANCE BIDS ACCEPTED Town of Albany, VT, that the Albany Select Board REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS will hold a public hearing at the Albany Town Hall on The City of Newport is seeking proposals Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 7 P.M. from qualified painters to paint the Gateway This hearing will be held for public review and Center in downtown Newport. Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc., is accepting comment on the proposed Albany Town Plan, Project information can be found at: writtenOFFICE bids for JANITORIAL summer landscaping SERVICES. for their pursuant to Title 24 VSA, Chapter 117. www.NewportRecreation.org. For more facility at 46 Lakemont Road, in Newport. The purpose of the proposed plan is to establish information, contact Jessica Booth, Parks & Also seeking bids for a coordinated comprehensive planning process to Recreation Director, at (802) 334-6345, or guide decisions made by the town. [email protected]. A facility Copies of the proposed plan may be obtained at walk-through is scheduled for 9 a.m. on For information, call Dottie at 334-5213. the Albany Town Clerk’s office, or electronically at: Wednesday, May 3. The deadline for Bids accepted until May 12, 2017. www.albanyvt.com. proposals is 4:30 p.m., May 12, 2017. Town of Albany Select Board Page Thirty-two the Chronicle, May 3, 2017 Family says it will build and maintain road (Continued from page one.) Mr. Valley and his brother-in-law Roger Pray 12 documents, ranging from the initial brought the maps to the Act 250 hearing. application to site plans, and it’s not over yet. that Christian Katzenbach has owned since 1994. The fact that the road doesn’t appear on a Adjoining landowners are entitled have their Rebecca Beidler and Jeffrey Ellis’ organic state highway department map suggests that it say in Act 250 approval process, too. vegetable farm lies right along the edge of what’s could have been thrown up by the select board at There’s a long list of environmental issues now a dead-end dirt road. some time in the past, Mr. Valley said. that the committee has to weigh — water quality, Chris Katzenbach’s plan is to reopen a long- “We need to look in the minutes,” Selectman wetlands, air quality and the like — and everyone unused segment of the road, and he’s agreed to Brian Goodridge said. “That’s something we need who wants to be part of the process has to spell build and maintain it. It’s the most efficient way to research.” out which categories their concerns fit under. to get gravel trucks down to Route 14, he says. For the past seven years, Ms. Beidler and Mr. “You have to tell us how you’d be affected,” Ms. Beidler and Mr. Ellis aren’t happy about Ellis have worked to turn their piece of sandy said Eugene Reid, chair of the District Seven having heavy gravel trucks rumbling past their ground at the base of Chamberlain Hill into a Environmental Commission. fields many times a day, kicking up dust and thriving organic farmstead called Peace of Earth On April 13, about 15 people, including the spreading diesel fumes. Farm. three Act 250 hearing officers, select board And they, along with some of their neighbors It’s taken a lot of work and a lot of compost, members, the Katzenbachs, and neighbors, on the two-tenths of a mile section of Class Three but thanks to greenhouses and intensive farming tramped through the woods from the proposed road at the base of the hill find it hard to believe techniques, the couple is making a living from the gravel pit site down to West Grigg Road. that the Katzenbachs will be able to build a road acre and a half community supported agriculture When the hearing got underway, Ms. Beidler that can take heavy truck traffic without washing venture. and Mr. Ellis weren’t the only ones less than keen out. A vehicle traveling along a mile of unpaved to have a gravel pit in their neighborhood. By old-timer David Valley’s account, the road kicks up 6.3 tons of dust and distributes it Katrin and Damien Mooney are worried about Grigg Road flooded out so badly around 1960 that along a corridor 1,000 feet wide, Ms. Beidler said. noise, dust and traffic, as well as the long-term the town put water bars across and quit The plan that Chris Katzenbach submitted plan for reclaiming the site after the gravel pit is maintaining the middle section. suggests that gravel trucks could make as many played out. And he said that when the road was opened as 20 round trips a day along the road. Ms. Valley has a handicapped daughter who again for logging in the 1970s, a flood washed it Mr. Ellis added that road dust includes is used to driving a motorized cart on the dead- out again, filling a yard at the bottom of the hill spilled fuel and oil, chloride, and particles from end road. with sand and drowning a pig. diesel exhaust. Her ex-husband, Mr. Valley, and her brother, “This land is all sand, the road is a large hill, Chris Katzenbach has been in the logging Mr. Pray, came to the meeting to testify on her so many times the road washed out, the water business for 25 years. behalf. washed sand on properties below,” Judy Valley “I’m ready to change professions,” he said. Mr. Valley also spoke about his concerns for wrote in a letter to the Act 250 commission. A gravel pit seems to him to be the next thing their 45-year old daughter. She said she’s lived on the road for 65 years. he can do to make a living on his land. “I’m worried about the kid,” he said. “She By all accounts, that stretch of road is a steep “I’d be mighty proud to work my own land, goes and sits in a little gazebo down by the road ura Insigovergrownh tracka that In hassi been swallowed up by and not have to go to work at Walmart,” he told every day when the weather is good.” Au thet swoodsA inu thera decadesig hsincets the town has re ections of the soul re ections of the soul Mr. Ellis after the close of the hearing. Mr. Pray said that Ms. Valley also operates maintained it. Clark Katzenbach dropped out of school when an “Airbnb” — an informal bed and breakfast It’s even disappeared from state maps. he was 16. He earned his commercial driver’s booked through the Internet — though Ms. Valley There’sa Ins ino sign of the middle section of Grigg license last fall, as soon as he turned 18. And didn’t mention that in her letter to the Act 250 ARoadur on a 1962ght Uniteds States Geological Survey re ections of the soul three weeks ago, he bought his own dump truck. commission. map used by the highway department. Nor can it The 14-cubic yard truck is older than he is, but And another neighbor, nonresident owner Ed be found on a similar map from 1980. it’s younger than his dad’s truck. Mateo, has sent letters and e-mails to the “This is something I’m excited about,” he said. commission about noise, traffic, dust, and having If the permit for the gravel pit doesn’t go to look at the gravel pit. • Aura Photos • Reiki • Chakra Balancing • Hypnosis/Past-Life Regression • Tarot Readings through, the young man expects he’ll find other None of the neighbors expected to have to • Course of Miracles Readings work to make the payments on his truck. deal with a gravel pit when they bought land in • Acu-point Color Therapy with Light & Crystals “But this is my dream,” he said. the Black River Farms subdivision years ago, he with Ramona Sliding Scale Fees • Orleans/Barton • 802-673-9471 Filing for Act 250 approval is a lengthy (Continued on page thirty-three.) $5 off an interactive aura session in May/June! process. So far Chris Katzenbach has submitted

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For example, the hours when trucks are allowed to go up and down the road could be cut back as a condition of granting a permit. And “jake brakes” could be forbidden to cut noise. But Ms. Beidler challenged Chris Katzenbach’s estimate on his application that it’s Clark Katzenbach sits in the cab of the 1987 dump truck he bought three weeks ago in hopes of making a living in half a mile to the nearest neighbor. the sand and gravel business. The 18-year-old got his commercial driver’s license last fall. “It’s half that,” she said. Photo by Elizabeth Trail And Mr. Mooney said that the estimate of how loud sound levels would be off the “We don’t really get to express our concerns neighbors,” she said. Katzenbachs’ property are too low. about the dramatic, permanent change of the The Act 250 process still has a ways to go “We live on the side of a mountain,” he said. character of our neighborhood to the Act 250 before it makes any decision about the gravel pit. “Sound echoes. And when you cut down trees, commission,” Ms. Beidler said later by e-mail. The Katzenbachs still have several permits to sound goes even farther.” “That doesn’t really pertain to them.” file. Several of the neighbors promised to send Mr. Mooney said he works nights and sleeps There’s another way out to Route 14 from the supporting documents about their concerns. days. proposed gravel pit site — up the Grigg Road to There’s a hearing on a possible wetland area. Another question was about the math Chamberlain Hill Road — that’s longer but And the select board needs to find out why the surrounding the gravel pit application. doesn’t involve rebuilding a road. road disappeared from state maps in the 1960s. The description of the project says the It would require driving loaded gravel trucks But in the meantime, there are signs that the application is for “Development and operation of a three-quarters of a mile uphill, Mr. Katzenbach two sides are reaching out in hopes of finding [roughly] 3-acre commercial sand and gravel pit said. And then it’s a much longer route, still on some middle ground. having a maximum annual extraction rate of unpaved town roads, to Route 14. After the hearing, Mr. Ellis approached Chris 30,000 cubic yards per year and total extraction But Ms. Beidler said that the downhill route Katzenbach and asked if they could talk. of 121,000 cubic yards over the 20-year operating also avoids having trucks drive past Mr. And a week or so after the meeting, Clark life.” Katzenbach’s house. Katzenbach said that he and his father invited At a rate of 30,000 cubic yards a year, the “This project will not impact the owner’s their neighbors to come and walk the land and amount requested on the permit application could home life while shouldering that burden on his look at ways to address their concerns. be dug out and hauled away in a bit over four years. There is more gravel on the site, Mr. Katzenbach said, but he was noncommittal about his future plans. “My son and I just want to make a living,” he said. The price of pulpwood is really low right now, Clark Katzenbach said later. And by his figures, gravel is bringing about $7 or $8 a cubic yard. Ms. Mooney wanted to know what the potential is for an application to expand the pit in a few years. The Katzenbachs would be free to apply for another permit in the future, Mr. Reid said. Some concerns that neighbors expressed, like possible overflow from the pit after a rain, or a major washout burying the fields down at Peace of Earth Farm, are hypothetical, he said. And a Rebecca Beidler and Jeffrey Ellis have spent the last seven years building up the sandy soil on their organic farm. haul road doesn’t have to meet town Class Three The couple worries that their roadside crops will be damaged by road dust and diesel fumes. They also fear the standards. damage that a washout of the road above their land could do to their fields. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Beidler But there is a unused gravel pit in the area that does overflow and run across Route 14 every year during snow melt, Ms. Beidler said. 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