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VOLUME 43, NUMBER 38 SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 ONE DOLLAR In Coventry A fuzzy friend at Lowell F.O.L.K Fest Annual reports off by $10-million “I believe there’s money missing. I don’t know how much.” by Elizabeth Trail

COVENTRY — The auditor hired to look at Coventry’s finances is recommending that the select board hire its own accountant to keep a second set of books, observe all transactions, and reconcile bank statements. He also recommends involving law enforcement and the bonding agent in the near future. “I believe there’s money missing,” said Jeff Graham, president of the accounting firm Graham & Graham. “I don’t know how much.” Mr. Graham is a certified public accountant (CPA). He’s also certified in financial forensics, the accounting specialty devoted to investigating Almost three-year-old Keegan Mackenzie was fascinated by an alpaca named Frazer at Lowell’s annual F.O.L.K. fraud. Festival on Saturday. F.O.L.K. stands for Friends of Lowell Kids. The annual event is more than a fun tradition Coventry’s annual reports for the past several for the community. It also raises money for everything from library books to playground equipment. Frazer and years may have under-represented the town’s his lookalike buddy Fireball belong to Dave and Sharon Robitille of Lowell. Ms. Robitille looks on while Keegan assets by as much as $10-million, Mr. Graham and Frazer get acquainted. For more photos, please see page seventeen. Photo by Elizabeth Trail (Continued on page twenty-three.) Potential Jay Peak buyer Women break accused of $3-million swindle the glass by Joseph Gresser Mr. Goldberg said the original offer was unusually vague, and didn’t fully specify what the JAY PEAK — When Michael Goldberg got a purchaser wanted to get for his money. In letter offering to buy Jay Peak for $93-million addition, the due diligence list, setting out the ceiling at CNB some aspects of it set off alarms. His suspicions kind of information about Jay Peak the potential by Elizabeth Trail proved to be justified when a quick search showed purchaser hoped to get before finalizing the deal, that the man who made the offer has been included a number of items that were not When Stephen Marsh retires as chief accused of a $3-million stock swindle. applicable to a ski area. executive officer of Community National Bank at Mr. Goldberg explained his concerns about The timeframe for completing the sale the end of the year, the bank’s president and chief the offer from Jean Joseph of Bellwether Business proposed by Mr. Joseph also appeared impossibly operating officer Kathryn Austin will step into his Group and his follow-up correspondence in a short, Mr. Goldberg said. shoes. report filed September 16 in U.S. District Court Ms. Austin will be the first woman CEO for (Continued on page twenty.) for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. Community National Bank, and at that point women will hold the top three executive spots at the bank. Terrie McQuillen is a senior vice- president and chief credit officer. And Louise License restoration program offers Bonvechio is senior vice-president and chief financial officer. a clean slate for DLS offenders Last year, Caroline Carpenter became by Brad Usatch president and CEO of the National Bank of Bureau and the Department of Motor Vehicles Middlebury, and the first woman to head a bank (DMV), the driver restoration program gives in Vermont. A bill signed into law this spring is giving people with civil license suspensions resulting A recent article in the online magazine certain drivers with license suspensions a chance from unpaid fines or traffic tickets for which American Banker says that when it comes to the to pay off their fines at a reduced rate and judgment was issued prior to July 1, 2012, the top office at the top 100 banks in the country, reinstate their driving privileges. opportunity to clear their record for $30 per only three are women. Administered by the Vermont Judicial ticket. The three-month window to take Nationwide, 79 percent of bank tellers are advantage of the program opened on September 1 women, the website payscale.com says. Branch and runs through November 30. Applications are managers, mortgage officers, and vice-presidents available at the Newport DMV office. are almost equally divided between the sexes. Applications are also available online at Commercial lending officers and bank presidents www.vermontjudiciary.org, and completed are over 80 percent male. (Continued on page twenty-five.) (Continued on page twenty-six.) Page Two the Chronicle, September 21, 2016 the Chronicle Ingalls likely to be new NCUHS officer INDEX by Joseph Gresser August when Newport City Police Chief Seth DiSanto abruptly informed the school that his Kingdom Calendar ...... 12B-17B NEWPORT — News of the appointment of department would no longer be able to supply an Letters to the Editor ...... 4-10 former Orleans County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle officer to be in the school every day. Obituaries...... 4B-6B Ingalls as North Country Union High School’s Even board members who initially opposed Perimeter...... 3B new school resource officer hit the streets before having a police officer at North Country were Property Transfers ...... 20B the school board actually hired him, said persuaded to change their minds by the success of Ruminations...... 2B Superintendent John Castle of the North Country Patrolmen Richard Wells and Royce Lancaster, Sports...... 28 Supervisory Union Tuesday. the first two officers Newport supplied. Sudoku Puzzle ...... 9 The board intended to consider whether to Chief DiSanto also spoke well of the program hire Mr. Ingalls at its regular meeting on and said having an officer in the school reduced Advertising Sections September 20. the number of disciplinary incidents at North Auctions & Real Estate ...... 8B-9B Once news that Orleans County Sheriff Kirk Country and greatly lowered the number of times Auto ...... 32-36 Martin had tapped Mr. Ingalls for the position got Newport police had to respond to problems there. Building Trades ...... 10B-11B out, that changed, Mr. Castle said. A state survey of health trends in Orleans Classified Ads...... 18B-19B “I planned to ask them to authorize me to County said drug dealing at the high school was Hair...... 28 enter into a contract with the Sheriff’s down in the past couple of years. A Department Jobs...... 30 department,” Mr. Castle said. “Now I may ask of Health employee speculated that decline could Pets...... 29 them to approve his hiring.” be attributed in part to the presence of an officer. Restaurants & Entertainment...... 13B-15B Mr. Ingalls worked as a deputy sheriff for Patrolman Lancaster was a favorite of about six years before leaving in January to take students and staff. Many of them attempted to a job on the Irasburg road crew. persuade Chief DiSanto to reverse his decision. Mr. Castle said he didn’t know if Mr. Ingalls The chief said he favored having an officer in West Glover Church Spaghetti Dinner informed his employers that he planned to leave the school, but he decided to remove Patrolman his job, and was therefore reluctant to comment Sunday, September 25, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lancaster to maintain full staffing for his In the Fellowship Hall. Homemade spaghetti sauce on his hiring. department. He said he believes it’s important to & meatballs, sausage, garden salad, garlic bread, He said Mr. Ingalls was interviewed for his have two officers on duty for all shifts. new position by “the triad,” the administrative apple crisp. $10 Eat in or take out available. He promised to help with the transition to a team made up of Bob Davis, Anita Mayhew, and new officer. Mr. Castle said Patrolman Lancaster Jessica Puckett, that is running the school in the has agreed to give whatever time he can manage absence of a single principal. Mr. Castle said Mr. to help Deputy Ingalls learn the ropes at the www.shattuckmotors.com Our 34th year in business! Ingalls impressed the administrators. school. 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Editorial Let’s keep this debate civil and factual The debate about the virtue, or lack, of wind One reader complained about nuisance bears change. We should, no question, but how power has now been going on in the Northeast in Lowell, convinced they’d been driven out of effective is Vermont’s renewable energy policy, Kingdom for years. First there was the Sheffield their habitat by the wind towers. really? The renewable energy credits for many of wind project where the debate goes back to 2005. But one of the bigger problems with nuisance these projects have been sold out of state, Not likely that too many people in Orleans bears is in Island Pond, where there are no wind meaning that dirty energy elsewhere is allowed to County paid attention to that. turbines. continue. And then there was the Lowell wind The Therrien family, who neighbored the Government always likes to say that it did development, where some people paid attention Sheffield wind development, say noise from wind something about something. That doesn’t mean it because it was either in their town, or the turbines drove them nuts and made them sick. actually did anything useful. turbines were visible from their towns. Lowell Studies indicate that noise from wind turbines Does Vermont’s renewable energy policy heavily voted in favor of that project, but the does not make people sick. make sense? Does it accomplish anything that opposition was loud. There are conflicting realities here. A study really matters? Is it a token? And then a project was proposed for Brighton does not necessarily incorporate the experience of We certainly don’t know what is in Governor and surrounding towns. That was voted down, one family. Bears become a nuisance for a Peter Shumlin’s head since about the only time and the developers withdrew in the face of stiff variety of reasons. One person might have he’s made an appearance in the Northeast resistance. trouble selling a home because of nearby wind Kingdom, or even acknowledged its existence, is But probably the people of Irasburg and towers, while another does not. One person when he’s ribbon-cutting for EB-5 Holland didn’t follow that controversy, or Morgan, might find wind turbines an unsightly horror; projects. That’s gone well. which fears a wind project that hasn’t yet another might find them attractive, or simply This week, toward the goal of trying to materialized. benign. provide information that is factual, rather than Plans for commercial wind and solar projects From personal experience, that’s true. emotional or speculative, we have invited both are news, so we report on them. But the Families who viewed property for sale across the Vermont’s major anti-wind organization and the arguments are the same in every case, and road from this writer had varied reactions to the pro-wind organization to lay out their positions. they’re often backed up less by fact than by fear. very visible Sheffield wind towers. Some were We have asked them to be calm and avoid We’ve attended meetings where misinformation averse; some embraced them. rhetoric and vitriol. They appear on following has been widespread, and we’ve covered stories But this much is certainly true. Wind pages. where both pro- and anti-wind people have been developments have torn the area apart, The debate about commercial wind in the vitriolic. generating divisiveness between neighbors who Northeast Kingdom, in Vermont, is a legitimate Frankly, we’re sure that many readers are as previously got along, or at least had no gripe with one, but it should be based on fact rather than weary of the debate, of the same old dialogue — each other. fear, speculation, or hyperbole. And we do urge just in a different town — as we are. One of our main problems is that the state that it be civil and neighbors remember that they But it remains an important debate. still has not come up with an intelligent siting are neighbors. Years from now, wind towers may It’s difficult to say right now if wind has process. We understand the thinking is that, or may not be on ridgelines, and they may or may depressed property values. Looking at property given a choice, no town will host a wind or big not help thwart — or cause — climatic transactions over the past year, what we’ve seen solar development, so don’t give towns much of a catastrophe, but your neighbors are your is that not much is selling, and what is selling is say, or everything will be vetoed. neighbors. This is Vermont, where people of all often selling for less than its town appraised That appears to be true. And one can argue stripes have figured out how to get along and be value, wind turbines or not. that we must do our part to counteract climate neighborly. Let’s not forget that. — T.S.

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Opinion The case for commercial wind in Vermont by Kyle Martel model for energy generation is shifting from one wind, traditional energy sources like coal and oil where power generation is centralized in the form do have drastic health impacts. Coal mining can There has been quite a bit of talk recently of large coal or nuclear plants to one that relies lead to chronic health disorders. Black lung about wind power and the role it should play in on distributed resources like wind and solar. disease was responsible for the deaths of Vermont’s energy future. A healthy public This change is occurring because people recognize approximately 10,000 former miners between discourse is beneficial when it comes to any public that burning fossil fuels is responsible for causing 1990 and 2000. The extraction and combustion of policy debate, and it is critical the debate remain the single greatest challenge of our time: climate fossil fuels has a significant impact on human grounded in facts and science. Facts matter, and change. health, and that comes with a steep price tag. A the fact is that wind power is critical to our fight It is critical for us to reduce our dependence 2013 study by the EPA found that the price tag against climate change and our state’s commitment on the dirty fossil fuels that are causing our for health-related externalities associated with to reach 90 percent renewable by 2050. climate to change. We owe it to future fossil fuel powered electric generation is between In Vermont, wind power produces enough generations to do what we can to reduce our $360- and $886-billion annually. energy to power 46,200 homes (that number will dependence on these traditional sources of energy All energy sources will have some impact on rise to 59,200 once Deerfield Wind is operational) and to shift to an energy system that is our natural environment. Fossil fuels have and significantly reduces the region’s dependence sustainable. caused irreversible damage to our environment. on dirty and increasingly expensive fossil fuels. This shift is also occurring because fossil fuels By comparison, wind power plays a critical role in And unlike volatile fossil fuel prices, a long-term are finite resources and will continue to become reducing air pollution and protecting clean water. contract with a wind project offers a fixed price more expensive to extract. The cost of renewable In some Vermont wind farm locations, water for electricity. When the wind is blowing in resources like wind power has come down quality measurements have even demonstrated Vermont it’s generating power, which helps keep significantly over time. The Department of improved water quality conditions. our electric rates lower than every state in New Energy reports the cost of wind energy has In terms of property values, numerous studies England with the exception of Maine. declined more than 90 percent since the early have shown that wind power does not affect Additionally, wind projects bring significant 1980s. The beauty of wind is that the fuel is free, property values long-term. An analysis released economic benefit to host communities. Vermont’s allowing electric utilities to lock in known in 2013 by the Lawrence Berkeley National existing wind projects contributed more than electricity rates for 20- to 30-year contracts at a Laboratory analyzed more than 50,000 home $1.26-million to host communities and an competitive rate. sales near 67 wind facilities across nine U.S. additional $963,243 to the Vermont Education Unfortunately, the conversation about wind states and did not uncover any impacts to nearby Fund. in Vermont too often ignores these facts as wind home property values. One of the best local Our energy system is changing. Not just here opponents instead rely on inaccurate and false examples of this is in Milton, which hosts the in Vermont but also throughout New England, statements on health, water quality and property Georgia Mountain wind project. Property values the United States and the rest of the world. The values. in this town are among the fastest rising in A 2012 study by the Massachusetts Chittenden County, and this year’s median sale Department of Environmental Protection and price saw a 7.3 percent increase over 2015. Public Health found that “there is no evidence for Sadly, Vermont is already seeing the impact a set of health effects, from exposure to wind of climate change. Warmer temperatures are Death notices turbines that could be characterized as Wind changing our seasons, our forests and our Turbine Syndrome.” Another study completed by economy. Wind energy is not the only solution to Ivy Yvonne Dabiri Sinclair Health Canada also concluded “no evidence was solving this crisis but it must be part of the found to support a link between exposure to wind solution. Wind energy is critical in our effort to Ivy Yvonne Dabiri Sinclair died at her turbine noise and any of the self-reported reduce our dependence on foreign fossil fuels home in Westmore in August of 2016. illnesses and chronic conditions.” Similar peer- while helping turn the tide of climate change. reviewed studies conducted in Australia and the Richard Tokunboh Paul Dabiri United Kingdom have come to the same Wind Works Vermont is a coalition of conclusion. In fact, the Australian Medical individuals and businesses committed to Richard Tokunboh Paul Dabiri died at his Association has written, “there is no accepted supporting wind power in Vermont. The majority home in Westmore in August of 2016. physiological mechanism where sub-audible of Vermonters support clean energy and we are infrasound could cause health effects.” working to ensure their voices are heard. The When it comes to health impacts from energy future of our energy system and our planet is at sources, the science is also clear that, unlike stake.

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Opinion The case against commercial wind in Vermont by Mark Whitworth Vermont’s per capita carbon emissions are third third for reported violations. Upon visiting a lowest in the country — about one thirteenth of Georgia Mountain turbine neighbor’s home, The more Vermonters learn about industrial Wyoming’s. A 10 percent reduction in Wyoming’s Vermont Senator Brian Campion found the sound wind turbines, the more their opposition grows. emissions would be easier, less expensive, and made by the turbines as too loud. Vermont has no This is illustrated perfectly by the experience of have more impact on global emissions than a 10 limits on low frequency noise or infrasound. NVDA (the Northeastern Vermont Development percent reduction here. Yet wind developers are Vermont’s wind operators brag that noise Association). telling us that “we must all do our part,” and “our complaints have dropped off. The turbines have NVDA is the regional planning commission for part” involves sacrificing Vermont’s mountains. not gotten quieter — the neighbors don’t bother to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. In 2005 its Does wind create hundreds of jobs for complain anymore because the complaint regional energy plan said, “As a statement of Vermonters? No. Not even if you count the processes are cumbersome and neither the wind policy, NVDA supports the construction of wind Burlington lawyers, Montpelier lobbyists, and companies nor the state ever take meaningful towers… Wind towers should be seen as beneficial government bureaucrats who work for the wind corrective action. to the region.” companies. Do wind turbines lower property values? The Just ten years later, after the Sheffield and Building a wind project provides some listers in Barton and Georgia think so: Barton Lowell turbines had begun operation, NVDA’s temporary local employment, but the good jobs go lowered the assessed values of homes that have a board of directors accepted a study committee’s to specialists who travel across the country, from view of the Sheffield turbines and Georgia lowered finding that the benefits of wind were dubious and project to project. assessments for homes that are affected by noise did not outweigh the substantial negatives. The Remember the guy who tipped his truck over from Georgia Mountain. board, made up of the Kingdom’s legislative, while driving a piece of a wind tower from Island Does wind reduce our use of fossil fuels? No. business, and civic leaders, unanimously approved Pond to Lowell? He was a specialist from Texas. Wind is intermittent and requires a backup; in a statement that concluded, “It is the position of Remember the crane operator who rescued him? New England natural gas is used as the backup. the NVDA that no further development of He was a specialist from Massachusetts. Millie, Continued wind development will extend our industrial wind energy complexes should take the waitress who served them lunch? She is from commitment to gas-fired electricity generation place in the Northeast Kingdom.” Vermont. She said they were lousy tippers. You well into the future. What have informed Vermonters learned want to bet that Millie is counted among Governor Won’t we need wind to power our electric  about industrial wind turbines since 2005? Shumlin’s “thousands of clean energy workers?” vehicles? No. How many electric vehicles  do you Are turbines combating climate change? No. As the turbines age and breakdowns become see on Vermont roads? They are not yet suitable Even the architects of Governor Shumlin’s wind more frequent, Vermonters will see more frequent for use here. The turbines   at Sheffield and Lowell energy policies have acknowledged that the policies visits from these out-of-state specialists. will be headed for the scrap heap before electric will have no effect on climate change. In fact, wind Do wind turbines affect the health of neighbors? cars and pickup trucks are in widespread use in development is degrading our natural defenses The Vermont Department of Health acknowledges Vermont. Far less destructive options than wind against the impacts of climate change by that turbines make noise, noise can disturb sleep, will be available then. fragmenting wildlife habitat (thereby inhibiting and disturbed sleep can cause depression as well as Don’t we need more wind to meet our climate adaptation and accelerating extinctions) and cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal statutory energy goals? No. We can meet our  paving our ridgelines (increasing the vulnerability of problems. But, the Department of Health has been renewable energy goals with hydro and well-sited  our communities, farms, businesses, and roads to unable to connect the dots between turbine solar. And don’t forget, the turbines we have now flooding from severe weather events). operations and the sick neighbors around each of aren’t even contributing to our goals — Vermont  Do turbines reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Vermont’s three Big Wind facilities. wind RECs are being sold so that Massachusetts  According to Green Mountain Power, the Lowell Turbines produce three types of noise that can and Connecticut can meet their goals. turbines avoid 74,000 tons of CO2 emissions over annoy neighbors, disturb their sleep, and make Are wind developers altruists who are fighting the course of a year. Does that sound like a lot? them sick: audible noise, low frequency noise (low to save the planet? No. They are proposing It’s not — it’s the amount of carbon that New York rumbling that is felt as well as heard), and destructive projects that Vermont  towns don’t       City traffic produces in less than half a day. And infrasound (that can affect people who are prone want and Vermont’s utilities don’t need.    for that, Peter Shumlin allowed GMP to pave a to motion sickness). Mark Whitworth is president of Energize mountain and fragment an irreplaceable forest Are turbines noisy? Absolutely. The Public Vermont, a statewide nonprofit that says it (burning untold amounts of fossil fuels in the Service Department has found that two of promotes sensible energy policies for Vermont. Mr.  process). Vermont’s big wind facilities have exceeded Whitworth also serves on the Newark Planning According to the Department of Energy, audible noise limits. They are investigating the Commission, the board of the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund, and NVDA’s executive committee. He was a member of NVDA’s Wind Study Committee.

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Opinion Ask the candidates the really tough questions by John McClaughry Would you support or oppose this proposal? out the 2.3 cents/kwhr federal production tax All payer health care financing: Following credit, thus making new wind towers in Vermont Election season is upon us, and many the abandonment of taxpayer-financed single- economically unfeasible? incumbent legislators are hoping to slide through payer health care in 2014, the current Transportation: Would you support or oppose to re-election on the basis of party support, name administration set out to create an alternative initiating and joining a multistate agreement to recognition, and their winning personalities. The called “All Payer.” The Green Mountain Care cap the use of gasoline and diesel fuels in first-time candidates build their campaigns Board would collect all available health insurance transportation, to reduce carbon dioxide around their record of civic performance plus a and program moneys, including Medicare emissions and thus combat climate change? recitation of some of things that they’ll promote payments, and turn them over to one large School consolidation: Do you support or — or even fight for — once elected. provider-run Accountable Care Organization. oppose the combination of incentives and These typically include more and better jobs, The ACO would, in turn, provide all “appropriate penalties contained in Act 46 of 2015, designed to “an economy that works for everyone,” universal care” to a defined population, sharing in any push consolidation of school districts into larger health care, holding down rising taxes, better savings that it might be able to produce. Would multi-town unified sistricts? education at lower cost, stamping out “carbon you support this plan, or oppose it? School choice: Would you support or oppose pollution,” and the like. Renewable energy: Governor Shumlin’s protecting parental choice in education where What candidates of all persuasions should Comprehensive Energy Plan decrees that students now have it, and its extension to welcome, but often don’t, are informed, pointed Vermont must get 90 percent of its total energy additional districts and students? questions from voters that make them take from renewable sources by 2050. This would Free college: Would you support or oppose positions on current issues. Here are a baker’s require more weatherization, energy efficiency, having the state pay for two years of post- dozen you might want to pose to those seeking reducing fossil fuel use (gasoline, diesel, heating secondary education in Vermont colleges for all your vote. oil, natural gas, propane), and subsidies to qualified Vermont high school graduates, Government spending: Over the past five sharply increase electricity from wind towers and regardless of family income? years the state’s General Fund spending, not solar PV farms. Do you support the “90 percent Passenger rail: Would you support or oppose counting federal funds, has grown at around two by 2050” mandate? state investment to subsidize passenger rail and half times the rate of inflation, even though Carbon tax: The “Energy Independent service from Rutland to Burlington? population is scarcely growing at all. Vermont” coalition is working to enact a “carbon Gun control: Would you support or oppose Will you vote against budgets that increase pollution tax” on gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, requiring federal background checks not only for state General Fund spending growth more than natural gas, and propane to drive down the use of purchases of firearms from licensed dealers, as at the rate of inflation plus population growth, those fuels by increasing their prices to present, but also for all private transfers of currently around two percent? consumers. The carbon tax revenue is projected firearms, including gifts, swaps, and transfers Taxes: Will you vote for or against any to be $500-million in 2028, 90 percent of which among family members? proposal to increase the income, sales and use, the sponsors promise would be used to reduce the These are the kind of pointed questions that and rooms and meals tax rates? sales tax rate by one percentage point, and give you, the voter, have a right to ask your Health care: “Dr. Dynasaur 2.0” is a proposal tax credits and rebates to various eligible candidates. You have a right to expect meaningful to be introduced into the 2017 Legislature. It consumers. Do you support or oppose enacting answers. Don’t let them off the hook. would provide “free” (taxpayer-financed) health the carbon tax? care to everyone up to age 26, regardless of their Big wind: Would you support or oppose a John McClaughry is vice president of the means. state tax on new large wind turbines, canceling Ethan Allen Institute (www.ethanallen.org).

Senator John Rodgers has stood up to powerful lobbyists for wind To the editor: lobbyists who are contributing like Connecticut to continue to burn this issue and to understand the As a lifelong Republican and as hundreds of thousands of dollars “dirty” fuel using Vermont’s dire consequences of industrial wind the Vermont Republicans’ 1994 over the years, to his own party. Renewable Energy Credits. developments. We need sensible candidate for Governor, I am Some lobbyists, like the Vermont The industrial wind lobby in renewable energy on a Vermont writing to urge every Republican to Public Interest Research Group Montpelier has been able to exercise scale — residential and agricultural. vote for a Democrat in this coming (VPIRG), have cloaked themselves extraordinary control over state We don’t need to rip up our election. as environmentalists when the government, from the Governor’s ridgelines for energy that costs 20 Senator John Rodgers, reality of their policies has been to office down. The damage to both cents a kilowatt hour and actually representing Essex and Orleans destroy the Vermont landscape, our environment and our economy is does harm to our environment. And counties, has done a heroic job as destroy wildlife habitat, contribute immeasurable. And Senator please help us return John Rodgers our Senator. He has shown great to devastating erosion on our Rodgers has been one of the few to to the Vermont Senate. courage in standing up to some of mountainsides, and actually worsen bring wisdom and courage to the David F. Kelley the most powerful and influential Vermont’s and New England’s table. Greensboro lobbyists in Montpelier, including carbon footprint by helping states Please take the time to study SERVING ORLEANS COUNTY FOR OVER 45 YEARS! Fall Bulbs Are In... LOCAL food, lovingly Open every Saturday & Along with MUMS! grown, and STONEBRAKER FAMILYAMILY fresh from Wednesday our vendors’ until farms to your Oct. 15th. 25% OFF family’s table! CHIROPRACTIC Rain or Shine. PUMPKINS & C 562 Main Street, Derby, VT At 246 Causeway across from Waterfront Plaza between 766-5065 or 766-4700 the North Country Chamber of Commerce building CORNSTALKS & the I-91 access road in Newport (exit 27.) and ACCEPTING The Season is Marching On! Perennials, NEW PATIENTS! WE HAVE: Trees & SPECIALIZING IN: • CORN • Tomatoes • Winter Squash Shrubs • Muscle & Joint Pain • Back & Neck Pain • Pumpkins • Gourds • New Potatoes • Work & Auto Injuries • Sports Related Injuries • Cucumbers • Beans • Zucchini•Lettuce Garlic • Shoulder, Arm & Leg Pain • Carpal Tunnel •Onions • Beets • & more! • Headaches, Migraines and more...

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(802) 334-5021 • Fax: (802) 334-7728 • Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8-5:30, Sat. 8-3 & Sun. 9-1. the Chronicle, September 21, 2016 Page Nine Letters to the editor The difference between a charitable donation and a charitable service To the editor, creative ways to rejuvenate the functions once building simply because it’s always been there — it In her September 14 story addressing the served by churches. is the difference between asking for a charitable decline of local churches in Vermont (“Struggling Evangelism means “of or according to the donation, versus providing a charitable service. to find new uses for old churches”), Tena Starr teaching of the Gospel.” The teaching of the Gospel John Klar surveyed a number of area churches that have is that we are all sinners; that Christ died to Irasburg tried to keep these beautiful historic buildings reconcile us to God; that there is everlasting life Pastor of First Congregational Church of preserved. I wish to encourage all of our through the loving grace of a forgiving God; that we Westfield communities to examine how we can revitalize not should help others who are disadvantaged or just these properties, but the traditions and oppressed. This is a message of hope, not a ritual. It interdependence they once reflected. is an ancient message, though recently maligned. In A church is not a building, but a group of these “chaotic” times, all of us (not just the young) people helping one another and celebrating their need more mutual support and nurturing — this is community, with gratitude to their Creator. In the function of church. What is drawing people to considering how to revive these old buildings, I the “evangelical movement” is a fatigue with the propose we focus on faith — the force that built false promises of consumption and entertainment, them and which can also restore them. and a desire to return to some of those more Pastor Joan Vincent is quoted in this article, wholesome and fulfilling “rituals” like community suggesting that the decline of the West Glover suppers, barn-raisings, mutual prayer, childcare, Church was related to its rejection of the United and, yes, pie baking. The power of such communal Church of Christ’s “open and affirming” policy. support is not in ritual, but in community. But the United Church in Barton did not reject Our modern rituals involve commuting to that policy, and it is struggling. The First work, watching TV every evening, texting, Congregational Church of Westfield was a UCC Facebook, or the like — we have become a nation affiliate — before it closed for ten years. The of alienated individuals with personal rituals. But Coventry church mentioned had an openly gay these alienating habits grow stale, and people pastor, and is now being gifted to the town, and seeking greater meaning in life have always permanently removed from Christian worship. sought either the spiritual, the company of others, I don’t believe the failure of our churches is so or both. In church — true church — we find both. easily ascribed to youthful tolerance versus The only path by which our community churches archaic rigidity. may be enduringly restored is by nurturing these Pastor Vincent states that young people are age-old spiritual desires with a meaningful and not likely to attend church “…unless they get passionate intensity. Then people are served in their caught up in the evangelical movement…. Some daily struggles together. This is a more successful people who are growing up in this chaotic world avenue than trying merely to maintain an empty are turning to ritual. They find some comfort in All horizontal rows of nine, all vertical that.” I wish to clarify what evangelism is, in the columns of nine, and all the heavily hope it will lead more people to think about NCES Parents Club has improved outlined boxes of nine squares must checks and balances contain all the numbers from one to nine. Bucknam will help make Vermont the To the editor: The news about mismanagement of funds Solution, tips and computer program at best it can be from last year’s fund-raising is a surprise to all of www.sudoku.com To the editor, us involved in the parents club. We understand I first met Deb Bucknam in her professional that the funds have been repaid. The answer is on page 2B. capacity as an attorney. I soon learned of a We have changed leadership and instituted refreshing difference between Deb and other improved checks and balances to prevent its professionals in her line of business. She is warm recurrence. We hope to work with Newport City and truly wants to help the citizens of Vermont. Elementary School (NCES) teachers and She will stand up for what is right and will administrators to direct funds in the future. We always give us 100 percent in her efforts to plan to have improved transparency and welcome protect Vermonters from those who would harm involvement or input from any parents or NCES us. Individuals versus corporate interests will staff as our organization goes forward. Happy receive no difference in her attention to stand on Sincerely, behalf of each of us and make Vermont the best it Lesley Rae Larsen can be for all of us. on behalf of the Parents Club Please stand with us on election day and vote Birthday Deborah Bucknam, Esquire, for Vermont’s to the following people! Attorney General. Jennie Dion Special Thanks from Jeremy Taylor, Glover, Sept. 19 Irasburg Tree Corners Family Campground! Allison Greenwood, Troy, Sept. 20 Lincoln Todd, Canton, NY, Sept. 20 On Labor Day 2016, the campers of Tree Corners Julia Baker, Newport Center, Sept. 21 Family Campground in Irasburg raised $6,743 for the Michelle Cote, Manchester, NH, Sept. 22 100th Birthday Card Shower Make-A-Wish Foundation of Vermont. This was the 5th Phoebe Barker, Sept. 22 for Ruth Annual Labor Day fundraiser for Make-A-Wish. We Tena Starr, Glover, Sept. 23 could not have accomplished this large donation without Pete Matten, Barton, Sept. 24 Whitcomb the time and effort of our campers, who helped with this Pauline Dagesse, Newport, Sept. 24 event, and gave great donations of items for the Jim Trottier, Wheelock, Sept. 24 auction, and the many businesses that also donated to October 7th Bonnie Dwyer, Orleans, Sept. 24 our auction. This was such a wonderful event that we Send cards to: Randy Smith, Irasburg, Sept. 26 Woodridge will be doing it again next Labor Day! A child will have their Wish come true because you all care! Thank you Maurice Ingalls, Irasburg, Sept. 27 Rehab/Nursing Home to: Fred’s Energy of Vermont, Morrisville; EyeCare of Helen Kahlstrom, Sept. 27 P.O. Box 550 Vermont, Essex Junction; J. B. 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Page Ten the Chronicle, September 21, 2016 Letters to the editor Sims is a proven leader and job creator Dear editor, has distinguished herself and deserves the votes As representative, Katherine will work We are fortunate to have two excellent of the folks who live there. tirelessly to continue to implement innovative candidates running for a single seat in the I first became familiar with Katherine’s solutions to our area’s biggest challenges: Vermont House of Representatives from Lowell, tireless work ethic in 2009 when Green Mountain supporting our schools while controlling property Jay, Westfield, a portion of Troy, and Eden, but Farm-To-School became part of the culture at the taxes, pressing for transparency and Katherine Sims stands out as the candidate who junior high school where I taught in Derby. That communication with our officials, reaching our program, which Katherine Sims established in renewable energy goals in ways that respect and 2007, now employs 13 full-time staff working benefit our communities, and enhancing economic through 27 schools throughout the Northeast security, affordable healthcare and a livable Chronicle Kingdom to provide nutrition and agriculture wage. Katherine is a proven leader, a job creator, education to over 5,000 students each year; the and a community builder who will fight for office hours associated regional food hub has fostered over $1- creative solutions in Montpelier, not simply We are open for business: million in sales for local farmers. report back about what others have done there. Katherine sits on the board of directors for I heartily encourage readers of the Chronicle Monday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Vermont Council on Rural Development and who reside in Lowell, Jay, Westfield, Eden, and Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Vermont Land Trust, and just last March the portion of Troy west of East Hill Road, to vote Wednesday, closed. was identified by Farm Credit Fresh Perspectives on Tuesday, November 8, for Katherine Sims for Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. as one of 100 leaders in the nation who are Vermont House. Come by our office located on Water Street in changing rural communities and agriculture for Sincerely, Barton or phone us at (802) 525-3531. the better. (She is the only honoree residing in Christopher Sellers Vermont.) North Troy

Irasburg Planning Commission to Looking for “heart” and “smart” in this year’s candidates Dear editor, big hearts and smarts — not in my hold open house September 29 I’m thinking “heart” and “smart” district but whom I highly for the upcoming state elections. recommend to other district voters The Irasburg Planning section. Among other subjects, These qualities are going to be — are Sam Young, Ron Holland, Commission will hold a series of planning commissioners hope critical in the coming year with so and Katherine Sims. We are evening open houses designed to citizens will weigh in on the need many leadership changes in the fortunate these people are give citizens an opportunity to for, and potential location of, a park administration and legislature. committed to public service and participate in the development of and ride lot in Irasburg. Copies of I feel fortunate to be able to vote willing to represent us. Please vote the community’s first-ever town the plan’s current draft to re-elect Senator John Rodgers in them in! plan. The informal open house will transportation section will be my voting district, and to elect T.J. Nancy Engels take place on Thursday, September available. Donovan as Attorney General. East Charleston 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Irasburg’s Planning commission members Other candidates with outstanding Leach Public Library. welcome input on any and all areas “We welcome citizens to drop in of town planning. for as short or as long a time as they Future Thursday evening open choose,” said planning commission houses will focus on a range of clerk Judith Jackson. “We recognize planning topics from economic Cheese and apple tasting at the that many people don’t have the development to land use. time to commit to a full planning “We aim to involve as many Old Stone House September 25 commission meeting, but we hope Irasburg citizens as we can in the The Old Stone House Museum free. Also, there is no charge for they can stop by to chat for ten or planning process,” said planning will hold its annual cheese and anyone bringing an apple pie for the 15 minutes. We plan to keep things commission Chair Michael Sanville. apple tasting on Sunday, September contest, with ingredients, or an informal, and we’ll be serving coffee “We want to make it easy for 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors heirloom vegetable for the exhibit, and refreshments.” everyone to get involved and express can sample and purchase a variety with its story. A self-guided tour of The first open house will focus their views.” — from the Irasburg of cheese and apples, as well as the first floor of the museum and on the town plan’s transportation Planning Commission. maple products, honey, spirits, the barns is included with bread, condiments, and other locally admission. produced products. Visitors can help press fresh The event will be held in and cider, and enjoy the sweet nectar of around the Samuel Read Hall the season. There will be an apple House, the big gold house on the chomp contest for the kids. Josh corner. Lunch will be served inside Karp will once again bring a huge by the Brownington Ladies Aid. variety of apples, which will be cut Admission is $8, but those nine up on plates for tasting. – from the and under, or 90 and over, get in for Old Stone House Museum EQUIPMENT RENTALS, SALES & SERVICE • Construction Equipment & Supplies • Lawn & Garden • Landscaping • Rototillers • Log Splitters • Pumps • Generators • Power Washers • Mixers • Concrete • Excavation • Chairs • Tables • Tents • Air 5025U.S.Rt.5,DerbyRd.,Newport,VT05855•(802)334-8011•TollFree1-800-339-8011

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Basic Spanish for customer service or fewer than 4,000 hours of LNA experience, 2,000 hours or personal travel needs. Tuesdays, October 11–November one year must be in a long-term care nursing facility. 15, 6–8 p.m. Instructor: Susan Birge. will include an 8 a.m. Mass, a potluck Please contact our office for more information, 334-5469 x3309. American Sign Language dinner, music, and memories. $300 (30 hours) plus text, $80. Designed for adults, OSHA Training – Online educators, families, or anyone interested in beginning Only $25. Access OSHA 10 for General Industry, communication with the deaf community. Wednesdays, Construction Industry, Agriculture, and Healthcare from October 5–December 14 (no class November 23) 5–8 p.m. the convenience of home. By partnering with CareerSafe, Instructor: Kathryn Sloan. history are actively solicited. 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Students can now register ONLINE and pay with a credit card! well known in the community improve his optical skills For more information or to register, visit Newport Optical Visit our Green Mountain Eye Care 124 East Main St., Newport, VT two 530 Washington Hwy., Morrisville, VT nc3.ncsuvt.org or call 802-334-5469 (ext. 3309) 802-334-2772 locations! 802-888-3089 visionsource-francispinard.com visionsource-greenmountaineyecare.com Full course schedule online at: nc3.ncsuvt.org Up to 50% tuition assistance available for some courses. Page Twelve the Chronicle, September 21, 2016 A tribute to Leland Kinsey Belonging for Leland Kinsey May 2, 1950 – September 14, 2016

Leland Kinsey and I loved to fish for brook trout in the Northeast Kingdom. Not just trout. And not just anywhere. Brook trout in the Kingdom. I suppose that there are good, trouty brooks in Orleans, Essex, and Caledonia counties that Lee and I never discovered. Not many, though. At least once a week during fishing season, for nearly half a century, Lee and I would strike out early in the morning and follow a brook miles up through cedar bogs, upland meadows, hardwoods and softwoods, to its source at an icy spring high on some Kingdom mountain. Lee was a poet’s poet. By that I mean that he did not care one bit about renown. He cared about results, about writing powerful and beautiful poems, often about the Kingdom, where he was born and raised and lived all his adult life. Vermont State Poet Sydney Lea said it best. Leland’s poetry “chronicles the profoundest Vermont anyone might possibly know.” It’s hard to tell for sure, but my guess is that Leland Kinsey of Barton sugaring. This photo by Chris Braithwaite was Mr. Kinsey’s choice for the cover of his several dozen of Lee’s poems, or major sections of most recent book. them, were inspired by those fishing treks we made to the wildest and most remote corners of Not to mention the wildlife we encountered, road, Lee caught a 16-inch two-pounder. That was the Kingdom. In his sixth collection — perhaps the goshawks and pileated woodpeckers, the the closest either of us had come until last fall. my favorite — The Immigrant’s Contract, he twenty varieties of warblers and scores of woods It was late October, after most of the leaves recounts the life and times of a French Canadian flowers — Lee knew them all by name – the great were down, and raining lightly. The only color who, as a small boy, comes to the Kingdom with glacial boulders brought down from the Far North along the stream we were fishing — never mind his folks in a horse-drawn wagon containing all 10,000 years ago, every species of tree that grows what stream or exactly where — was the rusty their worldly possessions. Over the next 70-some in northern Vermont. Along with family history yellow of the tamarack trees. At the time, Lee years he worked as a horse trader, logger, timber and local work — farming, blacksmithing, was in between grueling treatments at cruiser, whiskey runner, log driver on the lumbering, sugaring, cedar-oil distilling, welding Dartmouth-Hitchcock, but still very strong. Still Vermont tributaries of the upper Connecticut — the natural world that we immersed ourselves as good in the woods as any man in the Kingdom. River, dairy farmer, dam builder — the list goes in on our quests for brook trout was a constantly I couldn’t see him but somehow I always knew on. On our fishing excursions we explored many recurring theme of Lee’s poems. about where he was on a trout brook we were of the places Lee brought to life in The Early on in our fishing partnership, Lee and I fishing. He knew where I was, too. From Immigrant’s Contract. The Upper Jay Branch, made a deal. If either of us ever caught a 20-inch upstream, around a bend, maybe a hundred yards where Lee’s Quebecois jack-of-all-trades helped brook trout, the other would have it mounted for away, I heard him say, not loudly, “Good one.” build the first road over Jay Peak. The Upper him. We both figured this was a safe That’s all he said but if you knew Lee, that was Black Branch of the Nulhegan in the wilderness arrangement. One June afternoon on a swampy (Continued on page thirteen.) northeast of Island Pond. brook in the Victory Bog, miles from the nearest

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MAC Center for the Arts highlights local authors The MAC Center for the Arts is hosting a in Rhode Island into a family of writers, artists, Noah’s Song, and A Bed of Leaves. Newport is for Booklovers event, on September and scholars. She spent most of her childhood “I was blessed when Jon Gailmor and Pete 24. Five of the eight authors that belong to MAC moving between her grandmother’s home in Sutherland, two legendary Vermont master will be reading from their original works. Award- Peace Dale, Rhode Island, and living in New York musicians, took a number of my poems in Up the winning authors Lynda Graham-Barber, Tanya City. Creek Without a Saddle and set them into song Sousa, Patty Oliver-Smith, Jerry Johnson and After 36 years of teaching college and high for a beautiful CD album to accompany the book,” Catherine Holm will share the spotlight as school literature and writing courses, Ms. Oliver- said Mr. Johnson. follows: Smith retired to complete the biographical The three additional authors featured at MAC At 11 a.m. Ms. Holm will read from Voice memoir Martha’s Mandalas based on her are internationally renowned photo journalist and Lessons. Her writing ranges from literary fiction grandmother’s life as an artist who struggled author Diana Henry, whose works include Women to cat-themed memoir and fantasy fiction. She is with mental illness. She lives with her husband, on the Move and her new release, Through the a freelance writer, life coach, and yoga instructor two cats, one dog, and six chickens in Albany. Photographer’s Eyes; works carried posthumously and loves gardening, outdoor recreation, and the At 2 p.m., Lynda Graham-Barber will read by John Stevens such as Woodshed Wisdom, More thrill of new experiences and new places. She from her children’s book SAY, BOO. Ms. Woodshed Wisdom, and Memorable Fish and lives in Norton. Graham-Barber lived for over two decades in New Fishermen; and Phyllis Joy Hammond’s Traveling At 11:15, Tanya Sousa will read from The York City, where she worked as a freelance with Flowers (from Newfoundland to Alaska), Starling God. Ms. Sousa writes books, short magazine writer, children’s book editor, and Through the Eyes of Children (traveling with the stories, essays, and articles that promote writing teacher. The author of 14 books, 12 for Artist), and Iceland (a Second Visit…a Necessity). empathy. Her most recent novel, The Starling children, Ms. Graham-Barber lives in the The MAC Center for the Arts is located at 158 God, made the shortlist for the national Green Northeast Kingdom with her artist-husband, Main Street in Newport. This event is free and Earth Book Awards. Ms. Sousa was raised, and David, and their rescue dog, Biscuit. open to the public. For more information, call still lives, in the Northeast Kingdom. At 2:15, Jerry Johnson will be showing a DVD 334-1966 or visit www.maccenterforthearts.com. At 11:30, Patty Oliver-Smith will read from of the children’s book Noah’s Song. Mr. Johnson — from the MAC Center for the Arts. Martha’s Mandalas. Ms. Oliver-Smith was born is the author of Up the Creek Without a Saddle,

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In June, voters in six of the seven towns position on whether to push ahead on a district “We need to do more education.” making up the supervisory union turned down merger. Barton was the only one of the seven “Last time we were building the airplane OCSU’s merger proposal. All of the school towns in the Orleans Central Supervisory Union while it was going down the runway,” Ms. Leroux districts have to agree to the merger. to vote in favor of the merger in June. said. At last Thursday night’s OCSU board Act 46 offered a lot of carrots and sticks to In other business, Albany board member Neil meeting, held at Lake Region right after the encourage local school districts to merge into Urie asked for a board policy on online fund- individual school board meetings, spokesmen for single larger districts. raising. most of the member boards expressed support for Districts that agreed to merge before July 1, “We’ve used it at Albany a few times last creating a new Act 46 Study Committee and 2016, were given merger grants to replace the year, and it worked very well for us,” he said. starting over. existing small school grants, along with a one- A concern arose when a teacher at another No formal vote was held at the meeting time transition grant of around $150,000. OCSU school raised money on the Go Fund Me because the other two school boards in the Property owners in districts that merged by website for a class project, and then needed to put supervisory union hadn’t yet met to decide where that date could also get five years of breaks on in a Social Security number to collect the they stand. their homestead taxes, starting at ten cents for donations, Superintendent Donald Van Nostrand “We discussed it, and we think we’d like to every hundred dollars of assessed value, and said. move ahead and convene a new study committee,” dropping every year by two cents. Neither the teacher nor staff members at the said Amy Leroux, speaking on behalf of the Districts that agree to merge before July 1 of supervisory union were comfortable using their Irasburg School Board. Ms. Leroux is also chair 2017 will get the merger support grants but not own Social Security numbers to collect the funds. of the OCSU board. the transition grant. Property owners in those As a result of the questions that came up Adam Trevits of Albany said that board would districts could get four years of breaks on their when trying to solve the problem, schools in the also like to see a new study committee. homestead taxes, starting at eight cents for every supervisory union are being asked not to use This time, the school boards plan to start by hundred dollars of assessed valued. online fund-raising. finding out what community members really Districts or supervisory unions that are “I’m hoping we can get a policy rather than want. approved as “acceptable alternate structures” are putting it on ice,” Mr. Urie said. “I’d love to see a “We talked about getting more community eligible for tax breaks and some of the grants. timeline.” involvement, not just the board,” said Glover Neighboring Orleans Southwest Supervisory “The concern is an individual raising money School Board Chair Leah Rodgers. Union recently won approval under that on behalf of the school rather than the school Tammy Lalime, chair of the Orleans provision. itself raising the money,” Ms. Leroux said. Elementary School Board said the idea is to get a At a meeting held a few days after the June “We want to protect the public and we want survey out by November. consolidation vote, the OCSU Executive to protect employees from possible accusations of “We need to bring more people into the Committee mostly blamed the defeat of the embezzlement,” Mr. Van Nostrand said. conversation, said Kimico Perry, an Irasburg merger proposal on low voter turnout. Mr. Trevits proposed that schools should use board member. “We had a very small turnout,” Ms. Leroux a site called Donors Choose, which is specifically “It might behoove us to hold small public said at the time. “That’s not an indicator that designed for schools and classrooms. forums at the beginning,” Ms. Leroux said. people felt very strongly.” “I think we should choose a tool based on its “We’d want to start with a survey and maybe The Northeast Kingdom was not the only due diligence,” he said. “They’ve already done all a community meeting,” Mr. Trevits said. region that faced a vote on an Act 46 merger of that for us.” All of the school boards plan to send out proposal in June. Three other areas of the state Mr. Van Nostrand will see whether the surveys and hold community meetings. voted on similar proposals. Vermont School Board Association has a policy If all of the boards agree to reconvene the The results were mixed. that could help OCSU set its own guidelines. study committee, it would use information Voters in Chittenden South and Washington The OCSU board also heard presentations gathered from surveys and community meetings West said yes to forming bigger districts while in about the fifth-grade math curriculum and about to shape a new merger proposal. Franklin Northeast, all districts voted no. three approaches to shaping student behavior and “The sooner we can set some dates, the “June is not a good time for this kind of building community in the schools. better,” Ms. Leroux said. election,” Ms. Leroux said at the time. The Lake Region board continued to plan for She hopes that towns will be ready to hold There is a lot of money at stake, she said its October retreat. The program will focus on another vote on Town Meeting Day in March. many times in the weeks leading up to the vote. finding ways to measure how the drug and heroin At the Lake Region meeting earlier in the The proposal that the study committee epidemic is affecting the schools. evening, the board barely discussed the merger presented to the state Agency of Education in “There certainly seems to be one in the question. April said that half a million dollars a year in community,” Mr. Van Nostrand said. “How much “They’re going to talk about this at the small school grants would be lost without the there is in the schools, we don’t know.” carousel meeting,” board Chair Dave Blodgett merger. contact Elizabeth Trail at said. A series of presentations that the committee [email protected]

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NVDA Annual Meeting Decades old decisions affect today’s economy by Joseph Gresser good in themselves, none of the three offers much be put into practice, he told NVDA opportunity for increased productivity even with representatives that achieving any one of them LYNDON — Vermont may have taken the increased investment. would begin to put a cycle in motion. wrong track in the 1970s and 1980s with serious Mr. Lewis pointed to choices made in what he The result would be movement in other policy consequences for today’s economic prospects. called the policy marketplace. A slide areas and a general improvement in Vermont’s That was the message offered at the represented the marketplace as a triangle with a economy. Northeastern Vermont Development Association’s policy preference at each angle. Once in motion the “cycle of prosperity” is (NVDA) annual meeting at Lyndon State College The three preferences, as he presented them, self-reinforcing, Mr. Lewis said. on September 15. were social justice, the environmental movement, “Everyone has to put his shoulder to the The man delivering that assessment was and economic development. Vermonters decided wheel to move this carousel around,” he said. Jeffrey Lewis, who has been collecting data with to favor the first two goals, the first of which Failure to do so, he said would produce a Jennifer Stromsten for the Vermont Futures leads to fairness, the second to environmental “vicious cycle of economic challenge. Project. protection, and placed little stress on economic “This is real,” Mr. Lewis warned. “I’m sure The Futures Project is a venture of the development, Mr. Lewis said. you know towns where this is happening. Vermont Chamber Foundation, which was As part of their study of Vermont’s economy, Businesses close and the workforce follows out of established in January “with a goal of Mr. Lewis said he and Ms. Stromsten spoke with the area.” articulating a shared vision for a healthy employers to judge the actual employment He paused after delivering that statement Vermont,” according to its website. situation in the state. The unemployment rate is and resumed by saying, “I mean to come and The Chamber Foundation is a nonprofit lower than in much of the rest of the country. cheer you up tonight.” founded by the state Chamber of Commerce. The Researches also found that many employers have To that end he listed areas of the state where Futures Project was created to “come up with a a hard time finding the type of workers they people are working together to improve the vision of the future and sell it,” Mr. Lewis need. regional economy. explained. And they said there are positions that could He said his part of Vermont, Windham “The economy needs a voice and vision,” he lead to a big improvement in their business if a County, has been working to better its economy added. “We don’t expect to be the only voice in worker with the proper qualifications were for the past decade. town, just one voice in the conversation. That’s available. “The good news is it’s working. There is an how choices get made.” Mr. Lewis gave the example of a Chinese- excitement that wasn’t there ten years ago,” Mr. While both he and Ms. Stromsten were speaking financial officer for a company seeking Lewis said. present, only Mr. Lewis spoke at the meeting. to do more in the global export market. Similarly, people in Rutland and the Mad “We have an agreement,” he explained. “She He estimated that the state needs an influx of River Valley are working toward the goals does all the thinking, I do all the talking.” about 10,000 people a year over the next 15 years outlined in the talk, Mr. Lewis said. Mr. Lewis began with a long view of in order for businesses to fill all the jobs that are If other regions start working toward the Vermont’s population trends. Between 1830 and being vacated by retiring workers, as well as new goals set out in the Futures Project study, he 1950 the state saw slow, if any, growth in its jobs that require skills not easily found in the said, they will see increased levels of economic population. That changed beginning in the mid- current workforce. capacity. State Police will begin to align 1960s and between that time and the 1990s the Should those workers show up in the state, themselves more with regional needs, too, he population increased dramtically, rising from they will face an immediate problem — Vermont’s predicted. around 400,000 people to more than 600,000. acute housing shortage. In Chittenden County, The audience had few questions at the end of That jump in the number of people moving Mr. Lewis said, the vacancy rate is about 1 Mr. Lewis presentation. into the state led Vermonters to make policy percent, and rents are similar to those people pay One person noted that, although everyone choices intended to control growth, Mr. Lewis in Boston. At the same time, wages are well sees a need for workforce housing, there is no said. below those paid in metropolitan areas. state program to help build such units. Those choices were based on a shared desire Working from that sort of data, the Futures Mr. Lewis agreed that such projects are to make sure Vermont did not become New Project created a list of goals it believes Vermont difficult. Jersey, he said. should try to meet. “In Windham County every housing project “New Jersey isn’t so bad,” Mr. Lewis added, In the category of economic activity, the has gone bankrupt at least once before noting that some of the more rural areas of the recommendation is to increase productivity by 7 completion,” he said. state away from major population centers are percent to raise Vermont from thirty-third in the Another person noted the absence of any quite nice. More seriously, he pointed out that nation to twenty-fifth. That, Mr. Lewis noted is discussion of state tax policy in Mr. Lewis’ Vermont would need to have 15 million people still not that great a place to be. presentation. living in the state to equal New Jersey’s The state should try to increase innovation by “Right now what we’re concerned about is the population density. helping mid-sized businesses grow by 4 percent a input side,” he replied. “If we don’t have the The growth control policies worked, Mr. Lewis year. input most of what we’re doing is irrelevant. If said, and Vermont’s population increase has Increasing the state’s workforce by 10,000 we spend time on taxes, we won’t spend time on slowed to about 1 percent a year. That means the people a year, and building 5,000 new housing increasing the economy.” population of the state is aging, workers are units annually, is another of the group’s Mr. Lewis also criticized state efforts to retiring, and there is no one coming in to take recommendations. provide high speed Internet service to all corners their place, he added. Another goal is to increase household income of the state. At the same time productivity is not by 4.5 percent, which would put it in tenth place, “Vermont made the choice to give everybody increasing. Mr. Lewis defined productivity as the nationally. bad broadband service,” he said. He suggested amount that a person can produce in a set Finally, the report suggests that returning the state would have seen a better return on its amount of time. When manufacturers invest in the growth in grand lists around the state to the investment if it had created hubs around the new machinery, productivity rises and with that pre-recession level of 4.5 percent annually would state where entrepreneurs could hook on to multi- wages rise as well. enable municipalities to keep up with needed gigabit lines while providing “okay service” to Vermont has made choices that favor health infrastructure maintenance and improvements. homes. care, education, and tourism as its main economic While Mr. Lewis offered no specific activities, Mr. Lewis said. While they may be suggestions as to how his recommendations might

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Brownington Select Board Another Brownington road foreman quits by Elizabeth Trail faster, so it will save the town money in the end, with tax collection. Mr. Curtis said. The board signed paperwork for three grant BROWNINGTON — Brownington Road The select board voted to buy 3,000 yards of closures. One is to help with the expenses of Foreman Mickey Allard quit abruptly on Monday. sand from Bob Butterfield at $4 a yard, the lower drawing up a hazard mitigation plan. Another is The Brownington Select Board called a special of two local bids. for the road and culvert inventory. And a third meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the town garage Most of the town’s existing stockpile of sand is grant is for surveying and drilling on the Center to accept Mr. Allard’s letter of resignation. unusable because of clay. Road. The town has until the end of 2018 to Mr. Allard gave no reason for quitting, Select The town will need to coordinate the sand complete the latter two projects. Board Chair Paul Raybold said. hauling schedule with the ditch digging to be sure The board is also moving forward on getting a The select board opened their regular that town trucks are available. grant from Efficiency Vermont to put in energy Wednesday night meeting on September 14 with “We need to get started hauling sand now,” efficient streetlights. a seven-minute emergency executive session to Mr. Curtis said. The Secretary of State has sent letters to talk about the performance of an employee. It will take about ten days to haul that much towns laying out the procedure for checking out No action was taken because the employee in sand. contractors and suppliers. question wasn’t there. The select board needs to write up a personal “Any time we hire a contractor we have to be “It will be brought up at another meeting protective equipment policy. sure they don’t have any suspensions or when the gentleman is present,” Chair Paul “We have to be sure that we have policies in debarments,” Mr. Curtis said. Raybold said. place for what people wear for different jobs — State and federal suspension and debarment There was no road foreman’s report because welding, washing trucks, weed eating,” Mr. Curtis lists are available online. Mr. Allard didn’t come to that meeting. said. The board voted to buy Windows 10 and have Mr. Allard was hired last winter after a long If the select board wants to keep track of the it installed on the office computers. search for a new road foreman to replace Leonard time that the road crew spends on equipment Ms. Faust reported at an earlier meeting that Messier, who resigned in the fall. maintenance, the town needs to add new payroll she isn’t able to run new software on the outdated At a select board meeting at the end of classifications, Town Clerk Valerie Faust said. operating system the town is using. August, Mr. Allard and Selectman Terry Curtis Assistant Town Clerk Jeanette Poirier’s hours They also voted to pay $99 a year for a exchanged sharp words over Mr. Allard’s pay rate will be reduced to seven hours a week for the next business subscription to Office 365, which can be and his refusal to operate the grader. month. The amount budgeted to pay her for 2016 installed on up to five computers. That solves a Mr. Allard complained that the new road crew has almost been reached. second problem for the Town Clerk — opening e- member hired earlier in August was being paid Ms. Poirier worked extra hours during the mail attachments created by newer versions of the same amount that he was. weeks following the resignation of Town Clerk some of the Microsoft office programs. “I don’t think it’s right that a new hire gets Cheryl Galipeau. She will be asked to work 14 contact Elizabeth Trail at paid the same as I do, when I’m the foreman,” hours a week for two weeks in October to help [email protected] Mr. Allard said. “We’re paying him for his experience,” select board member Bev White told Mr. Allard at that meeting. “He has over 8,000 hours on a grader.” Mr. Allard was hired as road foreman without knowing how to operate a grader. And he has Paying it forward in Orleans refused to learn. “Get up on the grader and we’ll talk about a pay raise,” Mr. Curtis said. “If I mess up the road, the town will have to fix it.” “We’ll deal with that,” Mr. Curtis said in August. “Just get up on that grader.” That was just a bit over two weeks before Mr; Allard’s abrupt resignation. At the September 14 meeting, the select board got encouraging news about getting its gravel crushed. In about a week, one of Clark Jeffers’ gravel crushers should be free to come to Brownington. That’s earlier than the worst-case scenario date in November that the select board had been bracing itself for, but far later than anyone would have liked. Several select board meetings in May were canceled because they were improperly warned, and by the time the town caught up on its business, Mr. Jeffers was already booked through the summer. “We’re in this fix because of our own indecision,” select board member Terry Curtis said. “We’re going to have a timeline in place to be sure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.” In the meantime, the select board is looking at options for additional ditching. Both of the A few years ago, Donna Tatum and her husband were planning to build a hospice at their home in Orleans. But a contractors they are considering would charge health issue has put that plan out of reach. So Ms. Tatum (right) has donated $1,018 she raised for her nonprofit $95 an hour — $10 more per hour than the town to the Orleans Senior Meals Center. She’s shown here presenting the check to Irene Lanoue, president and paid during the summer for a few days of treasurer of the meal site. Ms. Lanoue will use the money to pay taxes and bills. Ms. Tatum plans to donate another $1,000 to a needy family in Orleans. “If an act of kindness comes your way, pay it forward,” she said. “That’s what ditching. But the contractors being considered community is all about.” Photo by Elizabeth Trail this time have bigger machines that can ditch

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Mr. Demers appeared on the scene, allegedly misdemeanors were: Mr. Tanguay was cited in Derby Line on shirtless, blood dripping from his left hand and Desiree Tardy, 19, of North Troy to domestic September 7, 2015, after being detained at the cursing in the middle of the road. assault on September 18 in North Troy; Derby Line Port of Entry for being “heavily According to the affidavit, a woman Jessica Ortiz, 35, of Orleans to careless or intoxicated,” according to an affidavit from complained that Mr. Demers had slammed a door negligent operation, reckless endangerment and Deputy Sheriff James LeClair. on her, injuring her arm and causing her to fall excessive speed on August 9 in Derby; After the state amended a DUI charge down down. When police sought to question the Devin Pratt, 27, of Newport to DUI on to careless and negligent operation, Jeremy defendant, he allegedly resisted and had to be September 4 in Newport; and Buckland, 22, of Derby changed his plea to guilty. physically restrained, according to the affidavit. Desmond Durivage, 48, of North Troy to The court accepted the recommendation of a plea The charge was brought as a felony owing to violating conditions of release and resisting arrest agreement and handed out a suspended sentence a prior domestic assault conviction within the last on August 10 in Newport. of 30 to 90 days. ten years, according to court records. contact Paul Lefebvre at Trooper Munson cited Mr. Buckland on [email protected] January 31 after his car slid off the Fontaine Road in Charleston. The trooper became suspicious that alcohol may have been a contributing factor for the accident when she watched the defendant accelerate and spin the truck’s tires while being towed, according to the affidavit.

Drug dealer snagged in police sting

For three felony convictions of selling or delivering heroin during the summer of 2015, Anthony Tanner, 33, of Galion, Ohio, was given a split sentence of 18 to 60 months to serve. Mr. Tanner, who was arraigned in Orleans County Superior Court in February, changed his plea to guilty, striking an agreement with the state’s Attorney General’s office. As stated in the terms of the plea agreement, the state would not object to transferring Mr. Tanner back to Ohio to serve his time. According to the affidavit, Mr. Tanner was caught during an investigation by the Vermont Drug Task Force into the distribution of heroin in Orleans County. After identifying Mr. Tanner as a dealer, police set a trap for him on July 23, 2015, using “a cooperating individual” (CI). Fitted with a transmitting device, the CI bought ten bags of heroin from the defendant in Newport, according to the affidavit by Detective Trooper Cassandra Herbes. A second sale on July 29 between the same players occurred in the same place. A third and final heroin sale between the CI and Mr. Tanner occurred again in Newport on August 18, 2015, according to court records. For his conviction on burglary of an occupied dwelling, Michael Newton, 28, of Newport will serve one to nine years. Mr. Newton changed his plea to guilty on the charge that on August 11, 2015, he stole a 400 computer Play Station game from a tenant who lived below him in a Newport apartment building. Newport Patrolman David Jacobs said he followed leads and traced the game’s whereabouts until he located it in the hands of another individual. According to the officer’s affidavit, the man said he had bought the Play Station for $50 from Mr. Newton.

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Brandon Hislop, 18, of Greensboro Bend pled innocent to a felony charge of unlawful mischief — damage exceeding $1,000. Hardwick Police Detective Kevin Lehoe said in his affidavit that police were called to a Greensboro residence on August 2 to remove an unruly resident. Police say they were told that Mr. Hislop had trashed a woman’s bedroom with a baseball bat and threatened to shoot everyone in the house. Michael Demers, 42, of Holland pled innocent to both a felony charge of domestic assault and accompanying misdemeanors of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. After his arraignment he was taken into custody for lack of bail. Trooper Daniel Lynch said in his affidavit that while responding to a domestic complaint on Page Twenty the Chronicle, September 21, 2016 Prospective buyer never visited the property (Continued from page one.) Department of Financial Regulation (DFR), Mr. Rather than the $100-million he said it would He said he conducted a Google search and Quiros and former Jay Peak President Bill fetch, the SEC said the ski area is worth $42- looked through online court records to see what Stenger mishandled about $200-million of the million and is saddled with $60-million in debt. he could find out about Mr. Joseph. He $350-million raised to build hotels, Judge Gayles decided to grant Mr. Quiros’ discovered that Mr. Joseph has been charged with condominiums, resort amenities and a biomedical request, but insisted that money from the defrauding a Brazilian company that paid him facility. According to civil charges filed in federal mortgage be placed in an escrow account held by money expecting that he would help secure a $30- and state court, the men moved money from Mr. Goldberg. million loan to build a resort in that country. project to project in violation of contracts signed He authorized the receiver to pay out $15,000 The charges against Mr. Joseph were filed in by them and their investors. a month to take care of Mr. Quiros’ living the same court as those against Mr. Quiros. Mr. Stenger reached a settlement with the expenses (Mr. Quiros had originally asked for a The offer came to public notice when lawyers SEC earlier this month. He admitted no monthly payment of $100,000) and said money for Ariel Quiros used it to argue in favor of wrongdoing, but agreed to accept whatever from the condo can be used, with the judge’s releasing money to pay $640,521 for legal work penalty Judge Gayles decides is warranted. permission, to pay legal bills. done on Mr. Quioros’ behalf in May and June. Unlike Mr. Stenger, Mr. Quiros has been When Mr. Goldberg and the SEC’s lawyers His lawyers said it showed their client’s assets charged with taking more than $50-million in objected to paying the $640,000 legal bill, Mr. are enough to handle a possible federal judgment investor cash for his own use. He denies the Quiros’ lawyers said they were attempting to against him, even if large amounts are spent on government’s charges. circumvent the judge’s order. his defense and asked why the offer to buy Jay When charges were first filed against Mr. It was in that context that Mr. Quiros’ Peak had not been brought to the court for Quiros Judge Gayles ordered all his assets frozen lawyers revealed the $93-million offer from approval. and placed under Mr. Goldberg’s control. Bellwether Asset Management, arguing that it U.S. District Court Judge Darrin Gayles Mr. Quiros objected, saying that the order left confirmed their estimate of the resort’s value. appointed Mr. Goldberg to oversee businesses him unable to pay his ordinary living expenses The offer shows that “there are more than owned by Mr. Quiros after the federal Securities and the cost of his defense. He asked for enough assets available to satisfy any judgment and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged him permission to sell or mortgage a New York City against Mr. Quiros, and thus there is no logical with securities fraud in April. As receiver for Jay condominium he owns and use the proceeds to reason why he should not be able to access his Peak, Burke Mountain, and Mr. Quiros’ other pay his bills. own assets to defend himself, the lawyers told businesses, Mr. Goldberg is required to manage Mr. Goldberg and SEC lawyers objected to Judge Gayles. the businesses for the benefit of the foreign that proposal, saying Mr. Quiros paid for the They questioned the receiver’s decision not to investors, who the government says were condo with $3.8-million he took from investors. tell Judge Gayles about the offer, saying, “it defrauded. Furthermore, they said, the value of Mr. Quiros’ seriously undercuts the Receiver’s argument that Mr. Goldberg has said he intends to put Jay assets was insufficient to cover his mounting legal ‘the receivership estate is in a precarious Peak and Burke Mountain resorts up for sale expenses while still repaying the investors he financial position.’” sometime next year. Mr. Joseph’s offer was allegedly cheated. In his report, Mr. Goldberg pointed out that unsolicited. Mr. Quiros argued that he would only have to Mr. Quiros never mentioned that the prospective About 700 investors put $500,000 apiece into repay $50-million if the case were to go against buyer “never visited the property, never seven business ventures organized and run by him, and said Jay Peak alone was worth far more conducted any due diligence and did not hire a Mr. Quiros’ companies. They hoped to gain than that. lawyer prior to blindly submitting its original permanent residence in the U.S. through the EB- The SEC disagreed, saying Mr. Quiros might letter of intent.” 5 visa program, by investing in job-creating be on the hook for as much as $176-million. The He said that, had Mr. Quiros done the businesses. government also disputed Mr. Quiros’ assessment slightest amount of due diligence himself, he According to the SEC and Vermont’s of Jay Peak’s worth. (Continued on page twenty-one.)

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Mr. Goldberg said he first learned about the was intended to buy that Mr. Goldberg said was For instance, the letter proposed that Mr. offer to buy Jay Peak on July 12 when Mr. “completely nonsensical.” Goldberg pay off investors in the Tram Haus Quiros’ lawyers forwarded a letter of intent from The list included specific rooms in Jay Peak’s Lodge with $14-million of the money, put $22- Bellwether Business Group, a company related to buildings, such as the “Valhalla board room,” million toward finishing the Stateside project, Bellwether Asset Management. The letter came which Mr. Goldberg likened to attempting to buy and spend $40-million to complete AnC Bio, the with a “due diligence list” setting out the kind of “Courtroom 11-1 in the Federal Courthouse, biomedical facility that was supposed to be information the prospective buyer wanted before without buying the entire building.” financed with EB-5 money. proceeding with the sale. Another asset was listed as “Disney Pixar toy The new offer even included the former The receiver, who says he has sold hundreds story.” Spates Block on Newport’s Main Street, which of millions of dollars of real estate and business never had an EB-5 project associated with it. over the course of his career, said he noticed Bellwether said it would build the hotel and retail significant flaws in the offering letter. center Mr. Stenger and Mr. Quiros had proposed. In the first place, he said, the letter is unclear The list included specific After paying $76-million to settle accounts about whether the company wanted to buy Jay with victims of Mr. Quiros’ alleged fraud, Peak’s assets or the stock of companies owned by rooms in Jay Peak’s investors would only see a $17-million payment. Mr. Quiros. buildings, such as the In addition, he said, the purchaser proposed to Mr. Goldberg said the first paragraph of the buy all of Mr. Quiros’ assets for the same $93- letter of intent says Bellwether wants to buy “Valhalla board room,” million earlier offered for Jay Peak alone. Jay’s assets, while the second paragraph says Mr. Goldberg said the offer to buy Mr. Quiros’ Bellwether Business Group wants to buy “one which Mr. Goldberg likened assets came with no plan to satisfy the claims of hundred percent (100%) of the shares of Q to attempting to buy EB-5 investors other than those who bought into Resorts, Inc., and Jay Peak Incorporated.” the Tram Haus Lodge. The only plan the letter The receiver says no first-year lawyer would “Courtroom 11-1 in the put forward to compensate investors was a vague make the mistake of buying stock in companies Federal Courthouse, without suggestion that money from selling stock in AnC that are “defendants in an SEC receivership, Bio and turning Jay Peak and Burke Mountain potentially subjecting their client to hundreds of buying the entire building.” into vacation clubs, might pay them back in three millions of dollars in claims.” to five years. In addition, he said, the original letter did not Another asset was listed as The plan only “exposed the current victims of specify what assets it intended to buy, nor did the “Disney Pixar toy story.” Quiros’ fraud to be re-victimized in the future,” due diligence list make any sense when applied to Mr. Goldberg wrote. a ski area. Mr. Goldberg said Bellwether asked When Mr. Goldberg looked up Mr. Joseph’s for information about “warranty claims,” plant record he found that a Brazilian company, qualifications, and “product and services under Once again Bellwether sought to buy stock in Kolmat Do Brasil, Ltda., allegedly had been development,” none of which having anything to companies that carried with them hundreds of persuaded by an associate of Mr. Joseph that he do with running a resort. millions of dollars in potential liabilities. Mr. could get them a $30-million loan. Despite his reservations about the offer, Mr. Goldberg said he decided the offer was not One of the conditions of the loan was that the Goldberg said he was willing to explore the legitimate and resolved to waste no more time on it. Brazilians invest $3-million in another of Mr. potential purchase, and wrote to Mr. Quiros’ If Bellwether wants to buy Jay Peak, it can Joseph’s companies, called GSA. In addition, the lawyer, pointing out the problems in the offer and make an offer when the resort is formally put on Brazilians were to pay a refundable $70,000 fee to due diligence list. the market early in 2017, he said. a trust account held by the law office of Henry W. On July 13, Mr. Goldberg spoke by phone On August 24, Bellwether sent another letter Johnson for services related to the transaction. with Mr. Joseph and asked him to clarify exactly of intent to the receiver, this one seeking to buy The agreement said that if Mr. Joseph was what assets he intended to buy. The receiver “all the assets held in the receivership.” not able to arrange the loan, all the money would urged Mr. Joseph to hire a lawyer to help with In the new offer, Bellwether said it would be returned to the Brazilians. According to their the transaction. invest $203-million in the businesses owned by (Continued on page twenty-two.) Around July 27 Mr. Joseph visited Jay Peak. Mr. Quiros. 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Anyone who does will have to put Stenger said. up a building that conforms to the city’s form- While Mr. Stenger and Mr. Quiros did raise based zoning code. money for the biomedical project, called AnC Bio, That requires buildings to have off-street plans for the hotel never advanced far enough for parking behind, or underneath, the structure. BUYING the pair to begin soliciting investments for the Buildings must be at least three stories high, project. with retail space on the street level, offices or USED The Spates Block buildings, which provided other commercial space on the second floor, and GUNS. low cost housing for many Newport residents, housing units above that. 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Mr. Graham also said there are around 200 board legal justification to hire their own That has never been done, the audit found. property tax payments from 2015 stamped as accountant or bookkeeper to keep a second set of Ms. Diaz’ record-keeping on property tax paid that can’t be tied to deposits. eyes on the money flowing through the town payments is so bad that Mr. Graham said he is According to the audit firm’s summary of its clerk’s office. planning to take an unusual step. findings, a $45,000 adjustment had to be made to “Won’t that be expensive?” asked resident On Friday his firm will mail out forms called get the books to balance at the end of the 2015 Sherry Bradley. “confirmation requests” to all of the Coventry fiscal year. “It won’t cost as much as we may have lost, property owners whose tax payments can’t be tied And those are just a few of the problems that Mr. Morley said. “Or as much as we’re spending to deposits. Coventry’s audit is turning up. on this audit.” Taxpayers will be asked to show receipts, tax The auditors have asked Town Clerk, In addition to the cash that is unaccounted stubs, or bank statements to prove that they paid Treasurer, and Delinquent Tax Collector Cynthia for, the ongoing audit is finding check deposits their taxes. Diaz many times for documents and answers to that were made as much as five months late, even Then the accountants will try again to find questions and concerns, Mr. Graham said. though Community National Bank gave the town out where the money went. “When you’ve asked four, five, six times and a scanner that can deposit checks electronically “There are over 100 accounts that you have haven’t gotten anything, you realize you aren’t without having to drive them to the bank. marked as paid that have no deposits going to get it,” he said. Checks written before the end of the fiscal referenced?” select board member Scott Morley Mr. Graham’s recommendation that the select year were sometimes not deposited until the next asked. board hire its own bookkeeper was discussed at fiscal year, according to Graham & Graham. The “It’s more like 235,” Mr. Graham said. “But the select board meeting on September 12, but audit says there were checks written in April that we expect those numbers to drop.” was tabled due to resistance from Ms. Diaz, board didn’t get to the bank until October. Two hundred thirty-five missing tax Chair Mike Marcotte said. And a check from Casella for over $200,000 payments represents almost 40 percent of the 546 The select board plans to take formal action was held for more than 90 days, the auditor properties in Coventry. at its next meeting on September 26. The board found. A company called Core Logic has a list of 40 is meeting weekly until the questions raised by Other problems listed in the auditor’s (Continued on page twenty-four.) the audit are resolved. summary to date included: On-time tax Under state law the select board can’t reduce payments were held until after the due date. the town clerk’s responsibilities or remove her Late payment penalties, where due, were charged from office, Mr. Graham said. erratically. And the lines on the “paid” stamp on In fact, the select board can’t even dictate tax bills that are supposed to be filled in with NEKCA Parent Child Center how the town clerk keeps the books or maintains dates, check numbers, and amounts, are blank. 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However, they can narrow He said some taxpayers who qualified for the books, toys, etc. responsibilities down to only the duties set forth state prebate overpaid their taxes and didn’t get a Help us make room for our by law, he said. refund. fall and winter inventory! The select board already exercised those Ms. Diaz paid her own taxes late during the two years covered by the audit and did not charge Hours: Monday and Tuesday closed, rights recently when it hired Amanda Carlson as Wednesday through Friday 9-3. select board clerk, engaged Ms. Carlson to do the herself any penalty, Mr. Graham found. And even though the town clerk and 55 SeyMour lane, neWporT town website, and transferred responsibility for 802-673-3447

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Mr. Hunt, who has since died, remained Tuesday so the names can be taken off the list. The town clerk may have used some money to actively involved as an investment advisor, That should cut the number down to just below cover town operating expenses, such as paying presenting reports to the board every six months. 200. workers as independent contractors, in itself an The Massachusetts investment company put “If a tax bill is marked paid and there’s no improper procedure, he said. the town’s money into annuities. Annuities have check or deposit, that’s missing money,” Mr. “Any cash not in the vault may have been a high rate of return, but they aren’t considered Graham said. used for town purposes without your knowledge as safe as some other types of investments, Mr. When state auditor Tom Salmon sent out or consent,” Mr. Graham told the select board. Graham said. similar notices to 66 random Coventry property The board is supposed to sign a warrant for And they aren’t actually an allowed type of owners four years ago, only 24 of the recipients every payment made out of town funds. There investment for municipalities in Vermont, in part responded. Two of the bills turned out to be are no warrants explaining how the cash may because they aren’t safe enough, and in part wrong. Three of the tax payments were have been spent. because they require designating an individual as deposited, but not until many weeks after they “But the amount of money in the vault the beneficiary in the event of the death of the were paid. And three payments were apparently suggests that something else is happening,” Mr. holder, Mr. Graham said. never deposited, according to a document called a Graham said. “The money may have been used Although the town of Coventry is named as situation report that Mr. Salmon sent to the for less than honorable purposes.” the owner of the annuities, the documentation for select board in 2012. The NEMRC software the town bought one of the annuities says that it was issued to a This time, Mr. Graham plans to target tax includes a module for recording cash transactions. person, and the other says that it was issued to a payments that are already red-flagged. And he’ll The software has never been opened, Mr. Graham nonprofit. follow up on every confirmation request. If he said. “The town of Coventry is neither,” Mr. doesn’t get responses to the notices, he’ll enlist Among Mr. Graham’s recommendations was Graham said. the help of the select board. the purchase of a cash receipt printer that would Ms. Diaz and Mr. Marcotte are listed as “Tom Salmon didn’t follow up,” Mr. Graham keep a tally of all cash taken in. The receipts beneficiaries. There is no suggestion that either said. “We’ll follow up.” would be sequentially numbered. could benefit from being listed as beneficiaries, He hopes to have the information he needs to “What about simple cash?” Ms. Bradley but it isn’t the way things should be done, Mr. finish the tax payment part of the audit in about asked. “A person comes in, asks to rent one of the Graham told the select board. three weeks, he said. rooms in the building, hands over cash, and “I just want to confirm that this was done in At the end of his work, Mr. Graham expects doesn’t ask for a receipt.” an open meeting on the recommendation of the to be able to show the select board a chart “You can’t do anything about that,” Mr. investment firms,” Ms. Diaz said. showing tax bills, payments, penalties, and Saunders said. “Except to let people in town “That is correct,” Mr. Graham said. deposits. know that they need to get receipts. For the The annuities lost between $900,000 and $1- He said he’s frustrated with the lack of town’s sake if not for themselves.” million between December 2014 and September cooperation and transparency he’s received from Mr. Graham also noted that recent annual 2015, Mr. Graham said Tuesday. Ms. Diaz. reports have been both inaccurate and Some of that amount has rebounded since Again and again he’s asked for information incomplete. then, he said. But it may not ever be entirely that he hasn’t received, he said. “The Town of Coventry owns in excess of $13- regained. “Many of these requests were for common million of assets with little or no obligations He advised the board to immediately hire an documentation kept in the normal course of against those assets,” the summary says. “The investment advisor group authorized to work with business,” the Graham & Graham summary says. taxpayers of the town were not notified of the Vermont municipalities. That firm should look at “When should we call in law enforcement?” correct financial position.” the propriety of the current investment portfolio Mr. Marcotte asked. The town has about $10-million in and change the types of investments the town has “Once I give you the draft of the audit,” Mr. investments and $3-million in assets like trucks, its money in. Graham replied. buildings, and land, Mr. Graham said on “These are public funds,” Mr. Graham said. “Roughly the same time as the bonding Tuesday. And ultimately the select board is responsible. agent,” Mr. Morley said. According to Graham & Graham, most However, the select board’s options are “The elephant in the room is that no cash has physical assets were listed in the town report, limited when it comes to Ms. Diaz. She is an been recorded or accounted for in years,” Mr. other than a category called town infrastructure. elected official, answerable to the voters, not to Graham said. “But she was very selective about the the select board. Ernie Saunders of the New England investment assets she reported,” Mr. Graham The only way a select board can hire and fire Municipal Resource Center (NEMRC) went said. “She picked and chose what she put into a town clerk is to have a charter change, Mr. through the records of ten similar Vermont towns the annual reports.” Morley said. That requires approval at Town and calculated that towns take in an average of a Mr. Graham recommends that several years Meeting and then approval of the Legislature. little over 1 percent of their revenues in cash. worth of annual reports be redone so that town “But we need to be careful about making an “We know from discussions that there were voters have an accurate understanding of the emotional decision,” he said. “There is a reason several tax payments made in cash that were not town’s financial situation. that a town clerk is supposed to work for the part of any deposit,” Mr. Graham said. Changes also need to be made in Coventry’s people, not the select board.” When Mr. Graham asked to count the money investment portfolio, he said. Short of a charter change, the options are for in the town clerk’s cash drawer in the vault at a A number of years ago, the town engaged the town to vote a zero salary for the position and select board meeting a few weeks ago, he found Newport tax preparer Don Hunt as an advisor to have the select board hire and pay someone else $280. help invest the money the town gets from Casella to duplicate the town clerk’s financial functions, In 2013, Mr. Salmon’s audit found no records for the landfill, Mr. Graham said during a or to elect someone else as town clerk. of cash deposits for several years. He found telephone call on Tuesday. contact Elizabeth Trail at between $12,000 to $14,000 in cash in the vault. Mr. Hunt connected the town with an [email protected]

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The law does, however, provide that the bureau does not have information on the cash burdensome. even those suspensions not eligible for reduced value of unpaid fines either by county or “We talked about a scaled fee on traffic fines can take advantage of a repayment schedule statewide. infractions, but the idea didn’t go far,” said Ms. capped at $30 per ticket, per month, with an Ms. Strong acknowledged that the state could Strong. overall cap of $100 per month regardless of the potentially be giving up some revenue, but said She said fines will be reviewed to determine if number of violations. she thinks giving people a pathway back to some are too high. One other solution might be to The provision, Act 147, also directs that driving with a valid license is more important. encourage law enforcement to identify situations suspensions dating back prior to July of 1990 will Vince Illuzzi is a former state senator. He where paying a ticket might be a hardship, and be terminated without any reinstatement fee, as said that, even as the current State’s Attorney for having them provide information to help drivers long as the suspension arose from conduct that is Essex County, he supports the program. set up a payment plan. currently classified as a civil traffic violation. “For the most part, in the Northeast Kingdom “We talked about equity but couldn’t come up The law builds on previous driver restoration [driving while your license is suspended] is a with a solution,” Mr. Viens said. “There’s 150 days that were spearheaded by Chittenden situation that results from economic standing,” people in the House and 30 in the Senate, and County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan, but were Mr. Illuzzi said. “When you’ve got no money, and consensus is hard. Some people say [the not available statewide. Local representatives there’s no public transportation available, most restoration program] is totally unfair to people Gary Viens and Vicki Strong both sit on the abide by the law, but some can’t.” who do pay their ticket.” House Judiciary Committee and said they took an Mr. Illuzzi explained that even when a license Mr. Viens said he didn’t see it that way. active role in shepherding the legislation through is suspended for a civil violation, for instance an “People get stopped for an old inspection the process to become law. unpaid fine for failure to provide proof of sticker and then the next day on their way to “The Northeast Kingdom didn’t have that insurance, if a motorist is cited five times driving work at Ethan Allen they get a cracked one-day program, and I had a few constituents with that civil suspension, it becomes a criminal windshield,” he said. “They only have one form of that spoke to me about it,” Ms. Strong said. suspension. That can result in jail time or a transportation, day in, day out, week in, week “Once they lose their license it’s hard to get to sentence on a county work crew, but Mr. Illuzzi out. People in this area can’t afford to fix a work, their life is in disarray, and they feel like said that would often be the type of case for windshield and then pay a $100 ticket on top of they’re breaking the law.” which a court diversion program would be that. Three or four tickets and the next thing you Ms. Strong said that the biggest problem with appropriate. know you’ve got your license suspended, but you a suspended license is that the original ticket can People should not be on the road without still have to go to work to pay for everything.” be for a fairly minor infraction, but the fines are insurance, and those who are a danger to the “pretty high,” and they only increase when drivers unable to pay are issued additional tickets for civil suspensions based on those unpaid Tabletop gaming in Newport October 1 tickets. “It starts getting into bigger fines, and the Green Mountain Tabletop Gaming (GMG) and donations at the door, and half of raffle ticket number can be surprising,” Ms. Strong said. Newport Parks and Recreation presents Fall-oha, sales benefit Newport Parks and Recreation. “Had T.J. Donovan not done what he did, we 12 hours of tabletop gaming on Saturday, October There is no admission charge for Fall-oha, probably wouldn’t have taken it up in the first 1, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Municipal although donations are greatly appreciated. A place,” said Mr. Viens. “I didn’t see why folks in Building on Main Street in Newport. donation of $5 per person is suggested but not Northeast Kingdom counties shouldn’t have the GMG promotes non-electronic tabletop games, necessary to attend this game day. same access to fair play as folks in Chittenden which include board games, roleplaying games, There will also be a raffle for several prizes. County. Here in the NEK, people need a car to miniatures, and card games. At each of their Every person attending gets one free ticket. They get to work and support their family.” quarterly events, participants bring along favorite can purchase additional tickets. According to Chauncey Liese, chief of driver games to play, or they can just show up and play. Newport Parks and Recreation will also be improvements for the DMV, there are 44,612 In addition to open game play, Small Town selling concessions. people statewide with suspended licenses who are Hobbies will host Star Wars X-wing Miniatures Small Town Hobbies will be vending on site to eligible for the restoration program. That’s one in demos and a Magic the Gathering booster provide tabletop purchases. Contact them to 14 Vermonters. tournament beginning at 1 p.m. If there is make requests for a specific game. Mr. Viens said there are currently about enough local interest in Magic the Gathering, All ages are welcome. Stay for a while or stay 80,000 total suspensions when including citations they will begin hosting regular MTG events at the for the whole day. 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Community National Bank is turning those numbers on their heads. Out of 16 vice-presidents and assistant vice- presidents at CNB, 12 are women, said Vice- President for Human Resources Kimico Perry. Five out of six mortgage officers and three of the commercial loan officers are women. And a number of the bank’s branches are staffed entirely by women. Among them are Island Pond, Derby Line, Newport, Barton, Troy, Enosburg, and Morrisville. Banking as an industry employs an increasing number of women, Ms. Perry said. She noticed at a recent banking conference that the majority of the people there were female. But still, there are those statistics that say that the higher the office, the fewer women there are going to be. Mr. Marsh doesn’t see anything remarkable about the bank’s female lineup. “There really is no story,” he said. “We have a lot of talented employees, a lot of whom just happen to be women. And we promote people The Barton office of Community National Bank is one of many CNB branches staffed entirely by women. From left without regard to gender. to right are Barton branch manager Lori Wells, Sarah Stevens, Heather Hodge, Jessica Fontaine, Amber Bernier, “We always said we’d take the best people, and Cecile Gaboriault. Even in an industry that employs a lot of women, Community National Bank has an and we have. We are gender blind. That’s unusually high percentage of women and women in leadership positions. And the bank is about to have a female worked well for us.” chief executive officer. Kathryn Austin will replace Stephen Marsh when he retires at the end of the year. That will Mr. Marsh said he has a great admiration for make Ms. Austin one of the first female bank CEOs in Vermont. Photo by Elizabeth Trail working women. They juggle children, pets, and household duties before they even get to work in Richard White, and Alan Wing helped create the The culture at CNB supports individual the morning, and then go home to cook dinner company culture that supports women — and all career development, she said. and manage their households again in the employees — to advance their careers within the A lot of women come into the bank as tellers. evening. bank, Ms. McQuillen said. That job is predominantly female, possibly “All the credit in the world goes to these three “There was really never any distinction made because the entry level wages run from about $9 ladies,” he said of Ms. Austin, Ms. McQuillen and between men and women,” she said. “I never felt to $14 an hour, according to payscale.com. Ms. Bonvechio. “We just happen to have three as though there was a glass ceiling to break.” But Ms. Austin focuses on the opportunities very bright and gifted managers.” Ms. Austin has another take on the gender that tellers have to advance if they choose. But he added that he also has talented men distribution in banking. “We’re trying to get over the perception that on his staff. One reason that so few men are entering tellers are a low paid job,” she said. “There are “There’s Tim Bronson, for example,” he said. banking these days may be precisely because so more demands today, and less management.” Mr. Bronson is a senior vice-president and many women are in the field, she said. And starting as a teller isn’t the only door senior lender at the bank. “It’s not as attractive for a young man to want into banking. “But we’re not talking about him because he’s to come in and work where there are so many “There are a number of different ways to male,” Mr. Marsh said. women. We need to do a better job of attracting enter banking,” Ms. Austin said. “I don’t know that the number of women was men.” The attitude at Community National Bank intentional,” Ms. Austin said. “There have been a Whether it’s a male-dominated industry has always been “let’s give folks a chance,” she lot of women in banking, a high percentage attracting more women, or a female-dominated said. “That has to come down from the board and overall. I didn’t know it was unique to here.” industry attracting more men, it’s important to the CEO. We have a culture around training our Hope Colburn, who works in the Newport have a lot of different points of view in any folks in house. We have classes, training and branch, is a commercial lender and vice- business, she said. mentoring.” president. “I believe we benefit from having a diverse There’s also a more formalized educational Nationwide, only about one in five commercial population.” arm of the banking industry, offering classes lenders are female. Among the factors that Ms. Austin thinks regionally and online. “I never looked at it that way,” Ms. Colburn might contribute to the success of women in That system operates outside of the said. “We have so many women here, I didn’t banking might be that it offers a lot of traditional college system, making it possible for think it was anything unusual.” opportunities for advancement from within. someone to advance in banking while working, “We’re pretty proud of the number of women “The industry lends itself to on-the-job without incurring a mound of student loans, Ms. we have,” Ms. Bonvechio said. “A lot of that has training,” she said. Austin said. to do with our predecessors and mentors laying Mentorships are important in banking, she Although Ms. Bonvechio has a degree in the groundwork for us.” said. And banks offer educational opportunities to accounting from Champlain College, she agrees Along with Mr. Marsh, Rosemary Rowe, their employees. (Continued on page twenty-seven.)

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Savings Bank, she took a banking class taught by Ms. Wells can often be seen working the teller Mr. White and Mr. Marsh, both CNB executives. that banking is an industry where people can line in Barton where she has a chance to greet Her class performance caught their attention, and succeed without a college background. customers firsthand. she was offered a job. “CNB in particular is very generous with “There’s something really special about the “I jumped ship in 1993,” she said. training,” she said. “We’ve put a lot of resources Barton community,” she said. In 1994, she became the bank’s first into our programs.” Although being in the back room handling compliance officer, in charge of being sure that it After a very short time, new employees can deposits was too quiet and too far away from was meeting all state and federal rules. start taking advantage of training opportunities, people for Ms. Wells, she knows others who thrive Although she has an associate’s degree in she said. on it. Some people work with loans, anything business, most of her additional education has Several of the women interviewed at from mortgage lending to commercial lending. been through the Northeast School of Banking, Community National Bank attributed the success Others get interested in finance — balancing the where she was highest in her class, and at a of women there to a corporate culture that has bank’s own books and looking out for its graduate school of banking in Colorado. been gender blind when it comes to opportunities profitability. The classes in Colorado ran for two weeks in and promotions, and supports women when they “There are opportunities for just about July, two years in a row. But in between, there need to make accommodations for family anything you get interested in doing,” she said. were major projects to complete on her own each responsibilities. Banking is a second career for Ms. Bonvechio. quarter. Lori Wells is the branch manager in Barton. She spent a number of years in accounting and Another part of her education has been being At various times when her growing family finance in the private sector before she took some allowed to serve on outside boards and advisory needed her, Ms. Wells has left the bank. “I’ve time off. committees. been back three times,” she said. “I know several She just finished a three-year term on a women who’ve done that.” national mortgage advisory council. And she’s In many careers, setting a job aside in favor serving on the board of the National Risk of family would be the end of being taken Management Association, which requires her to seriously on a career track, but not at CNB. “There really is no story. travel six times a year to conferences and board “They were very supportive,” Ms. Wells said. meetings. “Family comes first here.” We have a lot of talented “I got to travel and meet people from all over,” “I think one thing that’s very much a part of she said. “It’s quite a commitment from the bank CNB is that we support a healthy work life employees, a lot of whom to allow their staff members to do that kind of balance,” Ms. Bonvechio said. “We’re very family just happen to be thing.” oriented. “I started at the bottom and worked my way “It can be very challenging to balance work . women ” up,” Ms. Colburn said. and family,” she said. “When a young mother She never went to college. Ms. Colburn started comes back to work, we want her to succeed at as a teller and file clerk at the Barton office in both parenting and in her career.” 1983 when she was a junior in high school. She “Families are number one here,” Ms. When she decided to go to work again, the job worked her way up to the position of office McQuillen said, “whether that means taking some she found was at a bank. supervisor, and then went into mortgage lending time away when children are small, or getting the “It was part-time, so that was the perfect re- on the way to becoming a commercial lender. support you need if you keep working. entry into the working world,” she said. Along the way she took classes offered Ms. McQuillen worked full-time while “Banking was all new to me. I was interested in through CNB, and went to a banking school in finishing an associate’s degree at Community the lending process.” Texas. College of Vermont and raising her family. So she took some training in lending. “We have a lot of local people here at the “I always got the support I needed here,” she Commercial lending is a male-dominated bank,” she said. “It makes sense for the bank to said. field, she said, but there are three female promote from within. We know the area, we “I never took time off to raise my family,” Ms. commercial lenders at CNB. know the people, we have a sense of what they McQuillen said. “So I didn’t have the experience “I was very grateful to be given a chance,” Ms. need.” of leaving and coming back, but knowing that you Bonvechio said. “There have never been those The three women in the top executive can do that can be very important for women.” biases here.” positions at Community National Bank were all Ms. Wells took a teller training class while Ms. Austin went to Champlain College, where born and raised in the area, too. living with her sister in California after high she took a secretarial course in hopes of becoming “I think that all of them were looking for jobs school. an administrative assistant. that would keep them in the Kingdom,” Mr. When she came back to Vermont, she started “I didn’t have any particular aspiration for Marsh said. working as a teller at Passumpsic Bank. She banking,” she said. “People don’t come out of “I’m happy to be in this community where I moved to Community National Bank in 1985. school saying, “I want to be a banker.” want to live and to have found such a good job Banking offers a number of career paths, she Then she took a summer job as a teller. and a good career,” Ms. Austin said. said. People tend to find jobs that work for their “It just happened as I was coming to work “I think it’s important that people here, personalities. every day and enjoying what I was doing,” she especially young people, can see that it’s possible Although she dabbled in mortgage lending and said. to stay in this community and have a real career spent some time in the back office working in Ms. McQuillen has been in banking for 33 here.” deposit services, Ms. Wells ultimately chose a path years — 23 of them at CNB. contact Elizabeth Trail at that took her to Newport as an office supervisor When she was still working for Lyndonville [email protected] and then back to Barton as the office manager.

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STATE OF VERMONT Rain garden protects local waters SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION ORLEANS UNIT DOCKET NO. 281-10-15 Oscv

NORTHCOUNTRY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, v. LISA BREWSTER, a/k/a LISA J. BREWSTER, and OCCUPANTS residing at 149 Kingdom Road, Albany, Vermont, Defendant.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in the certain Mortgage given by Lisa Brewster, dated January 14, 2013 and recorded on January 23, 2013 in Book 61 at Pages 402-405 of the Town of Albany Land Records, which mortgage NorthCountry Federal Credit Union is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, will be sold to the highest bidder at Public Auction at 149 Kingdom Road, Albany, Vermont at 1:45 P.M. on the 11th day of October, 2016, all and singular the premises described in said Mortgage, subject to any unpaid taxes and municipal assessments. The land and premises shall be sold in AS IS condition. The property is known as 149 Kingdom Road, Albany, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Lisa J. Brewster and Robert Brewster (now deceased) by Warranty Deed of Gene A. Wells and Michael Wells dated December 21, 2000 and recorded in Volume 45 on Pages 245-259 of the Town of Albany Land Records and more particularly described therein as follows: Being a 10.1± acre lot as depicted on a survey map entitled “Portion of The Property of Gene & Michael Wells In the Town of Albany, Vermont, Surveyed by Frederick H. Reed, Date: November 2000 and of Record in the Albany Map Records as #124 (now known as Slide 91, Map #173). Said lands and premises are described as follows: Beginning at a point marked by an iron pin which is the assumed right of way of Town Highway #12 in the Town of Albany and also known as the Kingdom Road so called and 24.75 feet, more or less, from its centerline and also 230 feet, more or less, from This rain garden installed by the NorthWoods watershed crew at Burke Mountain includes native perennial plants the intersection of Town Highway #1 in the Town of Albany also and will help protect local waterways by collecting storm water from impervious surfaces. known as the Creek Road so called and said Town Highway #12; thence turning southeasterly along the Town Highway #12 right of Photo courtesy of the NorthWoods Stewardship Center way 689 feet, more or less, to an iron pin which is in the assumed right of way of Town Highway #12 and 24.75 feet, more or less, from its centerline; thence turning and running N 49 degrees 24 This summer, a youth conservation crew from habitats. minutes E 595.8 feet, more or less, along the property line of the NorthWoods Stewardship Center completed This season, 77 youth, ages 15 to 20, Christopher and Linda Royer to an iron pin; thence turning and running N 34 degrees, 21 minutes E, 164.8 feet, more or less, several watershed improvement projects in the participated in the NorthWoods Conservation along the property line of Christopher and Linda Royer to an iron Passumpsic River Basin thanks to an Ecosystem Corps, completing over 19,000 hours of pin: thence turning and running N 23 degrees 56 minutes E 110.4 Restoration Program (ERP) grant from the conservation service work. The program provides feet, more or less, along the property line of Christopher and Vermont Department of Environmental paid employment, training, and environmental Linda Royer to an iron pin which also locates the corner of land owned by Gene A. Wells and Michael Wells; thence turning and Conservation (DEC). The crew cooperated with education to local youth during a six-week running N 74 degrees, 49 minutes W 571.1 feet, more or less, local towns, nonprofits, and businesses to reduce summer work season. Projects include a variety of along property owned by Gene A. Wells and Michael Wells to an storm water erosion, improve water quality, and river, wildlife, and trail management projects. iron pin; thence turning and running N 43 degrees, 12 minutes W enhance river access on the Passumpsic. Ecosystem restoration grants are made 100.0 feet, more or less, along the property owned by Gene A. Wells and Michael Wells to an iron pin which also locates the The NorthWoods Conservation Corps Burke available to support ongoing efforts to reduce corner of land owned by Ernest, Eric and Geraldine Rundgren; crew completed over 1,000 hours of watershed- surface water pollution from phosphorus and thence turning and running S 51 degrees 55 minutes W 450.1 feet, based training and service work, including sediment. Funded projects typically involve more or less, along the property line of said Rundgrens to the improvements to two river access points in efforts to improve stream stability, protect point of beginning. Lyndon, numerous roadside runoff projects in against flood hazards, improve in-stream and Also included in this sale are the mobile homes currently situated on the property, one of which is referenced in a Vermont Uniform Burke and Newark, and the installation of a riparian habitat, lessen the effects of storm water Mobile Home Bill of Sale for a 1973 Key 12’x60’ brown Mobile storm water rain garden at Burke Mountain runoff, protect and restore riparian wetlands, re- Home dated February 23, 2001 and recorded in Volume 45 at Resort. establish lake shoreline native vegetation, and Page 372 of the Town of Albany Land Records. The Burke Mountain rain garden was enhance the environmental and economic Said property is commonly known as 149 Kingdom Road, Albany, particularly successful, according to NorthWoods sustainability of agricultural lands. For more Vermont. Trail Director Luke O’Brien. about ERP grants, visit www.anr.state.vt.us/dec. Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned instruments, the “The garden creates a colorful flower bed at For more about NorthWoods, please visit records thereof and the references therein contained, all in further aid of this description. Burke that looks beautiful and has the added www.northwoodscenter.org. — from the Terms of sale: The purchaser at the sale shall pay cash or benefit of capturing storm water from rooftops so NorthWoods Stewardship Center. certified funds (or a combination thereof) in full at the time of the that it doesn’t erode and pollute local streams,” sale, OR $10,000 down (non-refundable) at the time of sale and said Mr. O’Brien. the remainder within ten (10) days of the Vermont Superior Storm water runoff is a major contributor to Court’s, Orleans Unit, Civil Division, execution of the Order Confirming Sale. soil erosion, sedimentation, and water pollution. INVITATION TO BID The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total Low Impact Development (LID) structures, such time not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and as rain gardens, collect and store storm water JAY/ WESTFIELD JOINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL without publication or service of a new Notice of Sale, by from roofs, parking areas, and other impervious announcement of the new sale date to those present at each LAWN CARE SERVICES surfaces before it reaches nearby waterways. LID adjournment or by posting notice of the adjournment in a 3 year proposal 2017 – 2019 growing seasons conspicuous place at the location of the sale. structures help to reduce water speed and capture The sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax sediment that impairs water quality and aquatic For a copy of bid specifications, contact: titles, municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said Kristy Ellis, Principal, Jay/Westfield Joint Elementary School at: Mortgage above-described and any lien that has not been 988-4042, or foreclosed. Theresa Wilkens, Business Administrative Assistant, The record owner is entitled to redeem the premises at any time NCSU, at 334-5847, ext. 2012, prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the or e-mail: [email protected]. Judgment Order, Decree of Foreclosure, Shortened Redemption Period and Order of Public Sale dated and filed on April 11, 2016, Bid should be submitted no later than including the costs and expenses of sale. 3 p.m. on Tuesday November 8, 2016 to: NOTICE Kristy Ellis, Principal Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Ward & Jay/Westfield Joint Elementary School Babb, 3069 Williston Road, South Burlington, Vermont 05403; The Barton Inc. School District education tax 257 Revoir Flats Road (802) 863-0307. bills were mailed on September 16, 2016. If Jay, Vermont 05859 Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 1st day of September, you did not receive your bill, please contact (802) 988-4042 2016. WARD & BABB the Treasurer at 802-525-6274. These are due The Jay/Westfield Board of School Directors reserves the right to Attorneys for NorthCountry Federal Credit Union by 4 p.m. on November 18, 2016. After that accept any proposal which it deems most favorable to the interests of the school district, and to reject any and all proposals, or any By: s/Cynthia R. Amrhein date they will be considered delinquent and portion of any proposal submitted, which, in its opinion, is not in the Cynthia R. Amrhein, Esq. will be turned over to the delinquent tax best interest of the school district. The school district also reserves 3069 Williston Road South Burlington, VT 05403 collector. POSTMARKS DO NOT COUNT. the right to waive any technicalities in the bid process not in the best interest of the district. Tel. No.: (802) 863-0307 Page Thirty-two the Chronicle, September 21, 2016

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Wayde 802- Tyler 334-6428 C&D • Cars NEW & Starter Shop • Trucks REBUILT • Tractors UNITS 536 Highland Avenue, Newport, VT 05855 • Interstate Auto Section AVAILABLE. Starters, Generators & Alternators Repaired Batteries Guaranteed Call James at Where you deal with the owners! Credit Approval BRIGHTON GARAGE, INC. 334-3004 Island Pond, VT • 723-4455 • 800-750-2425 with the following: Route 105 www.brightongarage.com • Mon.–Sat. 8–5, Sun. 8–3 Pay stub from the last 30 days or an SSI SSD award letter, proof Newport, VT of residency (electric, cable, or HOURS: 2016 JEEP PATRIOT - 4X4, wagon, Sport, 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., cruise, CD maroon ...... $19,995. cell phone bill preferred), Mon.-Fri. 9-5, and driver’s license and 2013 CHEVY MALIBU LS - 4 dr., sedan, 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., cruise, CD, white ...... $13,995. Sat. 9-1. Closed Sun. insurance information. 2013 CHEVY CRUZE 1LT - 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., cruise, CD, back-up cameras, remote start, gray, 18K . .$13,995. CARS, TRUCKS, SUVs & VANS! 2013 CHEVY EQUINOX LS - 4 dr., wagon, AWD, 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., cruise, CD, silver ...... $17,995. 2011 FORD RANGER SPORT - ext. cab, 4X4 pickup, 6 cyl., CD, auto., p. win./lks., cruise ...... $13,995. 2010 JEEP WRANGLER 2009 FORD RANGER 2010 GMC SIERRA SLE Z71 - crew cab, 4X4, 4 dr., 5.3 V8, p. win./lks., cruise, CD, towing, bedliner ...... $22,995. 2010 CHEVY COBALT LS - 2 dr., 4 cyl., auto., spoiler, CD, blue ...... $5,595. 2010 CHEVY HHR - 4 dr., wagon, 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., cruise, CD ...... $7,995. 2009 HYUNDAI SONOTA GLS - 4 dr., sedan, 4 cyl., p. win./lks., cruise, blue, 60K miles ...... $8,995. 2009 CHEVY COBALT LT - 4 cyl., maroon, 4 dr., auto., p. win./lks...... $6,495. 2008 CHEVY COBALT LT - 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., spoiler, silver ...... $6,095. 2007 BUICK LACROSS CXL - 4 dr., sedan, 6 cyl., auto., air, cruise, p. win./lks., CD, leather, 59K ...... $8,995. 2007 CHEVY EQUINOX LT - 4X4, wagon, 6 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., cruise, leather seats, CD, black ...... $7,995. Blue with gray cloth interior, 6 spd. manual, Gray with gray cloth interior, 5 spd. manual, 2007 KIA RIO - 4 dr. sedan, 5 spd., air, CD, black ...... $5,995 3.8L V8, 61,406 miles. Stk. #C730. 4.0L V6, 65,810 miles. Stk. #T187. 2007 CHEVY EQUINOX LS - 4X4 wagon, 6 cyl., auto., air, cruise, CD, 79K ...... $8,995. 2006 PONTIAC G6 - 4 dr., sedan, auto., air, CD, sunroof, spoiler ...... $6,395. Find us on Facebook! 2006 CHEVY MALIBU - 4 cyl., 4 dr. sedan, auto., p. win./lks., cruise, CD ...... $4,195. FULL SERVICE REPAIR FACILITY 2006 JEEP LIBERTY - 4X4, 6 cyl., auto., air, CD, cruise, p. win./lks., alum. rims, 94K miles ...... $8,095. • 4-wheel alignments 2005 HYUNDAI ACCENT - 4 dr., auto., 4 cyl...... $4,195. • Oil changes 2005 CHEVY AVEO - 4 cyl., 5 spd., 35K, one owner ...... $4,995. INSPECTION • Major overhauls INSPECTION 2005 BUICK LACROSSE - 4 dr., sedan, CXL, FWD, leather, p. win./lks., cruise, CD, auto., air, FL car ...... $6,995. #10 • Tires for sale 2004 CHEVY CAVALIER - 4 dr., 4 cyl., auto., p. win./lks., 78K ...... $3,595. • Mount & balance #12 2003 VOLVO S60 - 4 dr., sedan, 5 spd., leather, sunroof, silver ...... $4,995. DUE NEXT DUE NEXT • Shocks, struts, brakes 2003 CHEVY MALIBU LS - 4 dr. sedan, sunroof, air, CD, 6 cyl., p. win./lks...... $4,595. “You name it, we do it.” 2003 SATURN ION - 4 dr., auto., 4 cyl...... $3,595. SERVICE PHONE: 334-1812 2003 CHEVY MONTE CARLO - 6 cyl., cruise, CD, p. win./lks...... $2,995. 2002 CHEVY S10 X-CAB - 4X4, pickup, 6 cyl., auto., toolbox, back-up camera, towing ...... $6,995. [email protected] • www.royersautosales.net 2002 PONTIAC SUNFIRE - 2 dr., 4 cyl., auto., sunroof, spoiler, yellow ...... $2,995. Page Thirty-four the Chronicle, September 21, 2016

Greensboro Garage is back in Greensboro under new ownership –Joann LaCasse Main Street, TTLLEE HOURS: UU RR MON.–FRI. 5 AM–6 PM, Barton BB SAT. 5 AM–2 PM, NOW (Next to Lake CLOSED SUNDAY. OPEN! House Saloon) FAMILY AUTO 525-1255 Tires! SPECIAL:M WASH & VACUU $ YOU WON’T Starting at 24.95 BELIEVE OUR CALL FOR DETAILS. AUTO REPAIRS • CAR RENTALS We offer the same honest, loyal, and reliable service with the same dedicated staff: Dean, Derrick, George, Eric, Julie, and Gail. Imported cars are not foreign to us! Butler’s 802-533-7007 • www.greensborogarage.com LOW 103 Breezy Avenue • Greensboro, Vermont 05841 GAS PRICES! Monday–Friday, 8–5 • Closed Saturday & Sunday. (And we even pump it for you!)

What’s even crazier Butler Family Auto than our low gas prices? How about our Carl’s Equipment, Inc. LOW Want LESS HEATING than 100 gallons? ! US D ED CARS & TRUCKS BOUGHT & SOL NO PROBLEM! MANY VARIETIES TO CHOOSE FROM! Delivering heating oil, gasoline, kerosene, on Full-service Automotive Needs: OIL & off road diesel. Bulk deliveries welcome! PRICES! VT Fuel Assistance Dealer. • Brakes • Engine Repair Vermont For sales, call “Buzz” Inspection Offering prebuy prices! We install skid tanks, pumps, etc. • Tires • Diagnosis #10 Due. (802) 525-3662 • Exhaust • Struts/Shocks • AUTO REPAIR • SMALL ENGINES • TIRES & PARTS carlsequipmentinc.com WE DO ALL MINOR & MAJOR AUTO REPAIRS! 704 Main Street, P.O. Box 294, Barton, VT 05822 ALL OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED! Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wed., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. FINAL TWO WEEKS! CA$H-4-CLUNKERS ENDS 9/30/16. MANAGER’S SPECIAL: 2012 MERCEDES BENZ E350 $ AWD, ONLY 39K, 3.5L 399 24-VALVE V-6, AUTO. PER MONTH! STOCK #5651A. Tax & registration extra. Low rate to qualified buyers. CA$H-4-CLUNKERS $$3,7503,7750 AANYNY

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We make deals the other guys won’t! THE BIG MOVE

ForIS September, October ON! & November, we need to clear out our used inventory for the BIG MOVE to our brand-new dealership in Hyde Park. NO REASONABLE OFFERS WILL BE REFUSED!

BRING IN THISfor a COUPON CASH FOR JUNKERS!Guaranteed minimum trade allowance on any $ $ used vehicle in stock! Don’t worry, if your vehicle with the purchase or lease100 of any vehicle on GAS CARDour lot! , is worth more, you’ll get more! See dealer for details. Must present coupon. 3000 One trade per transaction. Not valid on previously quoted deals. 2015 2011 2016 BUICK CHEVY BMW X3

ENCLAVE 1500 4X4 X Drive 28I, AWD, Reg. cab, with 7.5’ Fisher AWD, loaded, certified $ $ $ $ black on black, loaded! $ $ Sale price 40,995 – your trade 3,000 = plow, ladder rack. Work Sale price 25,995 – your trade 3,000 = Sale price 43,995 – your trade 3,000 = preowned. #20556A. #9911. truck, 31K.#1053A $ $ $ $ $ $ 575 /mo. 37,995 348 /mo. 22,995 620 /mo. 40,995 for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! 2013 2016 2011 CHEVY BUICK CHEVY CAMARO REGAL 2500 4X4 Crew cab, with 8.5’ 2SS, manual, black on Sale price $29,995 – your trade $3,000 = AWD, silver, leather, Sale price $28,995 – your trade $3,000 = Sale price $33,995 – your trade $3,000 = roof, loaded! #9904. Fisher plow, work truck. black, loaded! #1283A. #731B. $ $ $ $ $ $ 399 /mo. 26,995 392 /mo. 25,995 468 /mo. 30,995 for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! 2015 2014 2009 CHEVY CHEVY NISSAN CAMARO CRUZE CUBE Convertible, loaded! Sale price $27,995 – your trade $3,000 = DIESEL! Sale price $21,995 – your trade $3,000 = 4 dr. wagon, auto., 1.8L 4 Sale price $13,995 – your trade $3,000 = #9890. Loaded. #9875. cyl., 85,473 miles. #9526B. $ $ $ $ $ $ 377 /mo. 24,995 287 /mo. 18,995 213 /mo. 10,995 for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! for 75 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! for 60 months* ...or even less if your trade is worth more! *All payments based on approved credit at 3.9%.Tax, title, registration and doc fees due at signing. Prices expire 9/30/16. See dealer for complete details. Check out McMahon’s IMPORT CORNER... Always a great selection of late model Subarus, Hondas, and Toyotas! 888-4942 Sales Hours: Mon.–Fri. 8 AM–6 PM, Sat. 8 AM–4 PM 1-800-640-4942 Located on the corner of Routes 15 & 100 in Morrisville, VT Pictures are for design purposes only View our inventory online at www.mcmahonchevrolet.com and may not reflect actual vehicle.