Historic pic Back in Action Community An artist will paint the portrait of MUHS girls’ hockey and other Middlebury College recognizes the college’s first Black grad for the teams open the delayed winter four locals with its Citizen’s Statehouse. See Arts + Leisure. season. See Sports, Page 1B. Awards. See Page 11A.

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT Vol. 75 No. 7 Middlebury, Vermont  Thursday, February 18, 2021  40 Pages $1.50 Area restaurants still struggling, but they’re surviving Thanks to state and federal grants By ANDY restaurants are open KIRKALDY, JOHN “So much of fewer hours each week FLOWERS and Vermont’s than they were a year CHRISTOPHER economy ago, some have gone ROSS is based into hibernation and ADDISON on social likely some will not COUNTY — In this open again. Those that season of COVID-19, gathering in are keeping the lights many businesses have recreational on feel lucky to do so. been hamstrung by environments. They credit support social distancing, fear That’s what from government of people they don’t makes this so programs, community know and, for many, support and regular less disposable income. damaging for patrons. Restaurants depend everybody.” “We are so on drawing together — Matt Birong, appreciative for diverse groups of Three Squares the support we’ve people, sometimes in Café received,” said Holmes big groups, for shared Jacobs, co-owner of food prepared by Two Brothers Tavern strangers, often at indoor venues. in Middlebury. “We would not And they charge money that some be open now, but for our loyal people just don’t have right now. customers.” As a result restaurants have been Nationwide, 110,000 restaurants LIKE MANY RESTAURANTS operating in the COVID-19 pandemic, Cubbers in Bristol has had to limit its services to takeout, which requires among the types of businesses are closed with a little more than fewer staff and staff hours. Still, with the help of federal and state relief grants, the cherished downtown eatery — like many in Addison County — has been able to cut fewer employees than it otherwise would have. hardest hit. half of former owners saying they Photo courtesy of Cubbers Most Addison County (See Restaurants, Page 15A) Five vie for two MAUSD seats VTrans: Train By CHRISTOPHER ROSS That there is been hotly debated, depot must go BRISTOL — In recent years increased interest Five Bristol especially in Lincoln the town of Bristol has not always in the school board residents have and Starksboro, two By CHRISTOPHER ROSS been able to find enough candidates should come as no thrown their hats of the three towns NEW HAVEN — If all goes well to run for the Mount Abraham surprise to anyone in the ring for the that stand to lose their this year, and COVID-19 doesn’t Unified School District board. who’s been following elementary schools. slow things down even more, two school board Amtrak passenger train service could Not so this year. public discussions in seats that are After initially Five Bristol residents have the district these past planning to make a be extended from Rutland through thrown their hats in the ring for the few months. up for election decision about Reen’s Addison County to Burlington by the two school board seats that are up In December on Town Meeting plan in January, the end of this year, according to state for election on Town Meeting Day, MAUSD Day, March 2. board elected to transportation official Trini Brassard. March 2. Superintendent continue discussing it Once the service is up and Erin Jipner is challenging Patrick Reen unveiled until August. running, trains between Rutland incumbent Kevin Hanson for a a proposal to address declining MAUSD operates schools in and Burlington will make stops in three-year seat, while Pamela enrollment and rising costs by Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Middlebury and Ferrisburgh. Jennings and Bill Mount are consolidating elementary schools Haven and Starksboro. As the They will not, however, be challenging Krista Siringo for a and merging with the Vergennes- largest town in the school district, stopping in New Haven, where the two-year seat. area school district. The plan has (See MAUSD seats, Page 13A) fate of a 19th-century train depot hangs in the balance. The building, which is located on the east side of Route 7, at the junction of Route 17, is owned by Monkton native makes her mark the Vermont Department of Historic Preservation and used by tenant Dennise Casey’s aim was true in field hockey – and politics Roundtree Construction for offices. The land it sits on is owned by Editors note: This is the latest in a series catching As a sophomore Political Science major at the (See Depot, Page 13A) up with student athletes from area high schools. University of Vermont she volunteered for Gov. By ANDY KIRKALDY James Douglas’s first campaign for governor. She SOUTH BURLINGTON — Over the years being became a statewide field director. the youngest in a group has not held back Starksboro By 2006, the year Casey turned 26, she was native Dennise Casey. Douglas’s campaign manager, communications As a 13-year-old freshman at Mount Abraham director and deputy chief of staff. Union High School Casey started at midfield for the Casey, now 39, said that rapid rise was not part Eagle field hockey team. After her second year at of a master plan: She just did her jobs to the best of Mount Abe she was chosen as a Junior Olympian and her ability and kept her eyes open. By the way played in a national tournament in North Carolina. (See Casey, Page 14A) Teamwork DOG TRAINER EMMA Best smiles while holding the paws of We saw a faint glimmer of light her business partner Franklin, an Australian Shepherd. Best, owner of Mountain Ridge Dog Pack in Salisbury, credits Franklin at the end of this long COVID for helping her to truly understand the world of a dog. See the tunnel this week when we heard that the Marquis Theater in full story on Page 2A. Photo by Brooke Rubright downtown Middlebury will begin renting out its main theater — the one with the couches — for private parties beginning College eyes safety Thursday, Feb. 18. It’s only (See By the way, Page 15A) as students return By CHRISTOPHER ROSS students will go straight to the Index MIDDLEBURY — After a Virtue Field House to be tested three-month hiatus, Middlebury for COVID-19, then head to their Obituaries...... 6A-7A College students will return to dorms for a mandatory room Classifieds...... 9B-10B campus this Sunday and Monday, quarantine while they await the Service Directory...... 7B-8B Feb. 21 and 22, to begin the spring results. A week later they will Entertainment...... Arts + Leisure 2021 semester. undergo a second round of testing. Community Calendar...... 5B Because the pandemic is still “Given the higher prevalence of Arts Calendar...... Arts + Leisure very much with us, all incoming the virus worldwide, we expect that Sports...... 1B-3B students were required to undergo some students will test positive for DENNISE CASEY, AN all-star field hockey midfielder at Mount Abraham Union High School, follows a two-week pre-arrival quarantine, COVID-19 on arrival, and we are her shot on goal. The 1999 Mount Abe graduate, who later played key roles in Gov. Jim Douglas’s and their first couple of weeks on prepared to offer support,” wrote administration, also played in a Junior Olympic tournament. campus will be carefully managed. Dean of Students Derek Doucet Photo courtesy Dennise Casey When they get to Middlebury (See Students, Page 12A) PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 Middlebury eyes antiracist work Inclusion (DEI) Workgroup, a three- the national spotlight last year, with Hiking and dogs Town could ink person panel the selectboard formed the police killings of George Floyd consultant deal last month to evaluate potential in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor Twin passions prompt Salisbury consultants to help the town address in Louisville, among other cases. By JOHN FLOWERS local impacts of racism. The Middlebury DEI group — resident to launch dog-training camp MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury has — particularly which includes selectboard members By BROOKE RUBRIGHT bodies around her. Amazingly, Middlebury selectboard later this during the past year — borne Dan Brown, Lindsey Fuentes- SALISBURY — The snow they waited attentively for her month will consider inking a $32,000 witness to disturbing examples of George and Farhad Khan — has was lightly falling as Emma Best direction of what would happen pact with a consulting duo who would racist graffiti and white supremacist spent the past five weeks searching drove from one house to the next next. help municipal and police officials posters, and the theft of Black Lives for potential consulting groups picking up her clients for the day, “I’ve always loved animals, and identify and address systemic racism Mater signs from residents’ yards. qualified to help on racial justice, her windshield coated in a fog of they have always been a really within the town, and engage with the Last summer, a Black man bias and diversity issues. They breath. big part of my life,” said Best, a community on issues of racial justice, named Bashiru Abdulaziz voiced learned there aren’t many individuals The five dogs riding in the back 22-year-old Salisbury native and public safety and law enforcement. concern about his treatment by or companies in Vermont who are of her 2005 Honda CRV were 2016 graduate of Middlebury The proposed contract is with Middlebury police after a local girl qualified to do this work, but believe panting eagerly, ready to start their Union High School, as she Tabitha Moore Consulting LLC had erroneously reported that he was they’ve found a winner in Moore and day together. As Best opened the buckled a bag of treats around her and Lisa Ryan. Moore is the former detaining a woman at gunpoint at the Ryan. car door, her Australian Shepherd, waist. head of the Rutland Chapter of Middlebury recreational field near “The three of us feel very strongly Franklin, hopped out first. An ardent animal lover and the NAACP, and Ryan is program Mary Hogan School. Abdulaziz, a they are absolutely the right people Best called each of the remaining outdoor enthusiast, Best founded manager for the Rutland County caregiver, had in fact been assisting for this job,” Fuentes-George told dogs — Oakley, Daisy, Bailey Mountain Ridge Dog Pack in Community Justice Center at BROC his special needs client while holding her colleagues at a recent selectboard EMMA BEST and Holland — and directed November 2020. The Salisbury Community Action. a phone. Abdulaziz had initially been meeting. AND FRANKLIN them into a semi-circle of furry Moore and Ryan are being ordered by officers to “raise his Middlebury DEI interviewed (See Dog pack, Page 3A) recommended to the board by hands.” several of Moore’s and Ryan’s past Middlebury’s Diversity, Equity and Racial justice issues were also in (See Middlebury, Page 3A) Middlebury aims to cut CO2 by 80% By JOHN FLOWERS towns offices, recreation facility) reduction within eight years. But the MIDDLEBURY — The manufacture 244 tons. committee recalibrated its proposal Middlebury selectboard has set The committee recommended the based on recent visits with municipal a goal of transitioning to greener selectboard take a multi-pronged staff and the town’s infrastructure municipal operations in a manner approach to meet its carbon committee. that would allow the town to reduce reduction goal, including converting “Each time we come (to visit you) its carbon emissions output by 80% all building heat to cold-climate our proposal is better, because you (compared to fiscal year 2019 levels) electric heat pumps; transitioning send us back with good questions,” by the year 2030. all cars, pickups and SUVs to Hopkins said. The board on Jan. 28 unanimously electric vehicles; and making no new Officials acknowledged the next supported the 2030 carbon-reduction investments in fossil-fuel burning several years could bring new goal as part of a resolution that equipment or vehicles. technology that could affect the also calls upon the town’s Energy It’s a strategy that assumes Green “80% by 2030” goal. Committee to create an annual CO2 Mountain Power will succeed in “We’ll have to think on our feet (carbon dioxide) progress report at making its electricity portfolio and make changes as they come, the end of each calendar year. carbon-free by 2025. It includes based on what’s available,” Fuentes- “I think it gives us a hard exploring conversion to a heat pump George said. target, something to aim for,” system in the police headquarters, Selectman Nick Artim supported said selectboard member Lindsey installation of a 20% biodiesel the resolution, but urged caution in Fuentes-George, the panel’s delegate storage tank, and moving forward choosing the ways to reach the 80% to the Energy Committee. “It also with estimates of methane production carbon-reduction goal. gives us a way to measure our by the anaerobic digester at the “A lot of people have great progress.” municipal wastewater treatment enthusiasm for cold-climate heat Middlebury Energy Committee plant. pumps, and I see places where they members have estimated that town “We will not make progress in work really well, but I’ve seen places operations currently generate 920 reducing CO2 emissions without where they don’t,” Artim said. “So tons of carbon dioxide emissions deliberate action,” reads a statement I think we have to leave that to the each year. Specifically, the group by the Middlebury Energy professionals who really understand estimates the town’s fleet of gas- Committee. this technology … It’s the same thing powered vehicles generates 153 Energy Committee member with vehicles going all-electric; one tons, its diesel-powered vehicles Richard Hopkins noted his panel of the things we have to be cautious create 146 tons, the electricity it has made three carbon-reduction of is even electric vehicles aren’t the uses is responsible for 377 tons, presentations to the selectboard cleanest things in the world, when and the heating fuels it burns for during the past year. The panel’s it comes to the manufacturing of HOW MUCH municipal building (including police, initial pitch was for 80% carbon them.” Career Center budget reduces spending TIME DO YOU By JOHN FLOWERS of 126 full-time-equivalent students, need in various market segments MIDDLEBURY — Voters in 17 according to Peterson. for businesses and industries. It Addison County towns on March The COVID pandemic has also provides the taxpayers a very 2 will weigh in on a 2021-2022 probably cost the center an affordable investment for future SPEND IN THE spending plan of $3,829,301 for the additional 14 FTE students this economic development as well as Patricia Hannaford Career Center year, Peterson calculated. training for young people to either (PHCC). The proposal represents a Career center leaders have enter the workforce directly, or KITCHEN? 0.92% decrease ($35,450) from the proposed to apply $28,500 of a continue their education.” current year’s budget. $100,000 FY2020 fund balance to In other recent PHCC news: Let us help you make the most of it! Career Center Superintendent offset some of the tax impact of the • The group of students has Dana Peterson said $1,886,142 of new $3.8 million budget proposal. landed a contract to build a “tiny the budget proposal would need to Plans call for $27,500 of that fund house” for a New York company. be raised by taxes assessed to folks balance to be applied to a future The home — which when in the Addison Central, Addison budget; $24,000 to be allocated to completed will be 8-feet-by-28-feet Northwest and Mount Abraham the center’s building, equipment — will be occupied by a buyer in Unified school districts. This would and reserve fund; and $20,000 for Ludlow, according to Peterson. The translate into a fiscal year 2022 the center’s health reserve account. home will be built on a trailer to tuition rate of $23,827 per full-time- The FY2022 PHCC budget make it easier to haul away once it’s equivalent student, representing a includes a net increase of $55,000 done. 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All gave positive The $32,000 fee would cover me, would be an ultimate irony — in reports for the duo, according to the consultants’ services, but they an attempt to identify and eliminate Fuentes-George. suggested additional financial outlay bias, we are charged with being “They tick four big boxes for by the town for such things as stipends biased.” us,” Fuentes-George said. “They for Black, indigenous and people of Other selectboard members have the educational background color (BIPOC) participants, the cost disagreed with Artim’s take, we’re looking for. They have of translation of written materials, however, including Heather Seeley. professional experience, including and other potential accommodations “I think you are very off-base,” with police departments — and our during the community engagement Seeley told Artim. “I think you’re own police department — which portion of the program. comparing engineering and was huge for us. They also have Selectboard members at their infrastructure bidding to something municipal experience. And they have Feb. 9 meeting were unanimous that cannot easily be bid on.” experienced this subject personally in their support for the need Khan reiterated the DEI … which is unfortunate, but it’s an and quality of the Moore/Ryan workgroup’s finding that there’s a important piece.” proposal, though Selectman Nick paucity of racial justice firms in the Under terms of the proposed Artim said he believed the town state. EMMA BEST, OWNER of Mountain Ridge Dog Pack, lines up with some of her Sunday pack members contract, Moore and Ryan’s services should have solicited bids from “Wet couldn’ find any other viable — Daisy, left, Franklin, Holland and Oakley — during a session at her Salisbury home earlier this month. to the town will include: firms interested in providing organization that could provide these Photo by Brooke Rubright • Providing up to 15 hours of the DEI service. He specifically services,” Khan said. coaching support to Middlebury referenced the town’s purchasing Selectboard Chairman Brian police and municipal leaders. This policy, which stipulates, among Carpenter asked the DEI workgroup Dog pack time could be used to organize other things, that “all purchases of to bring a final Moore/Ryan contract logistics, consult on specific DEI $3,000 or more shall be subject to a proposal for potential ratification at (Continued from Page 2A) has been helped along by a lot of stay. Then, one by one, the name concerns that have arisen in the bid process.” the board’s next meeting. business picks up customers’ furry people. of each dog is called, resulting in community or with personnel, But the policy also allows And it appears the pact has ample best friend for a day filled with “I’ve been super fortunate a poof of snow as they launch from develop feedback for the community the selectboard to waive the bid support. engagement, freedom and growth. to have people lend me a hand the rock and barrel toward their and similar tasks required to facilitate process if it determines “there is “I support the direction and the Best, a certified dog pack trainer, throughout the whole process of leader. this process. only one best possible source for a work your committee has done,” specializes in pack walking, re-call starting this business... Whether After two hours of training and • Surveying Middlebury police, proposed purchase.” interim selectboard member Laura training, and building each pup’s it’s taking photos, helping build play, Best returns to her car, trailed municipal leaders and staff about “Sole source limits are intended Asermily said. “I’m impressed confidence throughout their time my website and logo, providing by panting dogs with pink tongues racial equity knowledge, goals and to protect the town, the board, its we continue to sustain the (DEI) at camp. Since founding Mountain business advice, referring clients, hanging from their mouths. The topics they want or need to learn. management and the potential conversation. It’s been very Ridge Dog Pack, her weekends helping set up my camp car, etc. I pack loads back into the car and • Using “restorative circle” contractor from charges of bias, consistent and sustained, and I’m have been filled with really appreciate the Best reverses her earlier journey, processes to review themes from nepotism or unfair practices,” Artim pleased with our direction right wet noses, wagging support I’ve gained returning each furry friend to their community engagement sessions, told his colleagues. “If we proceed now.” tails and drool-filled “I found myself from my friends, home. data from a community survey, with this contract as it is, as a sole “I’m ready to say ‘yes’; let’s do licks. Best hosts puppy wanting to help family, community and “After camp, Emma provides and consensus agreement with the source, we’re potentially opening it and move forward,” Seeley said. camp on Saturday other people clients,” Best said. me with feedback and videos broader community. Participants ourselves to a situation where “Let’s not waste any more time. I’m mornings followed by with their dogs With Mountain on what she experienced with would give their reactions and another individual or firm that has good to go.” individual meetings. Ridge Dog Pack up Dexter and how to continue his thoughts and develop priorities expertise and track record in the Artim stressed, “I have no Sundays are dedicated and being able improvement throughout the week. to share the and running, Best on DEI issues. Restorative circles subject to say, ‘Because it wasn’t disagreement on the topic; we have to adult dog camp. accepts clients on a She has helped mold him into a are discussions that emphasize advertised, and because it exceeded to do everything we can to eliminate “Dog training has knowledge I’ve limited basis. She seeks more confident puppy and has relationship and community Middlebury’s policy, the town of bias.” become a rabbit hole gathered along pups that are off-leash provided us with great objectives for me,” Best said. my journey.” reliable, share resources to work towards,” Danyow says as “The more I learn, the testimony to progress made in short — Emma Best well, and are overall more courses I want friendly with other periods of time. to sign-up for and dogs. If a dog doesn’t “While our dog Bailey is at WANTED attend. I’m the kid that always has meet those prerequisites, she will camp, it allows my wife and I time questions. I want to know how to work with them one-on-one in an to run errands and clean up the INDEPENDENT WRITER/PUBLISHER: Winter Clearance help, how to do better, and what to attempt to prepare them for camp. house without worrying about the offer in my own camp. 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She focused primarily first client at 8 a.m. An hour later, All While Supplies Last, on obedience and “E-collar” clients in the car, she returns to her Cannot be combined with training, attending private sessions Salisbury home. Once all of the any other sale or offer, with her mentor, Rhonda Bilodeau in-stock items only. dogs are showing signs of calmness, Sale Ends 2/28/21 of Vermont Dog Pack in Burlington. she opens the car door and releases A group class titled “Creating them one at a time. The dogs sit, MIDDLEBURY AGWAY Calmness,” a course centered awaiting treats, and the signal that 388 Exchange Street Open around behavior modification and they can be released to run and play 7 days the emotional states of a dog, soon on the miles of trails behind Best’s 388-4937 followed. Best was building her home. Mon. - Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-5, Sun. 9-4 toolkit for dog training. Camp always starts with FROM PASSION TO ACTION playtime, allowing the dogs to get www.MiddleburyAgway.com Not seeing any dog camp their initial energy out and frolic providers in Addison County, Best with their friends. Five minutes had her first inklings of a business later, Best has all of the dogs back ADDY WEBSITE plan. “If you look in Burlington under her command. Making their addisonindependent.com there are tons,” she said. “I started way down the snowy path, the group to think about how I could offer practices pack-walking, a technique a much-needed service that where the group of dogs walks this county was missing while behind Best in a line, ensuring she combining two of my passions: is the pack-leader. This technique is hiking and dogs.” repeated throughout the day. Three years, two degrees As the pack approaches an open in business management and field, Best once again releases the accounting from Castleton dogs for exploration and play. Here University, and a pandemic she works on re-call and name later, Best returned to Bilodeau’s recognition for each pup, a huge classroom. This time to take a benefit of camp instruction. As course called “My Dog Camp,” Best calls the name of each dog, a six-week tutorial focused on they return to her side, once again everything one would need to know forming a semi-circle around her. while running a certified program. Their reward is a yummy treat. “She always has a question and This exercise is referred to as I think that says a lot about how stationing. Best diligently watches interested she is in making sure each dog during this exercise to she is running a really good dog ensure they are giving one another camp,” Bilodeau said. “I see some enough space and respecting each people who are running a dog another. If a dog reaches for a treat camp through my course, but they belonging to someone else, they are are never on the calls or engaged. disciplined with a squirt of vinegar- Emma is always super engaged in water, signifying they need to wait the group and supports others with their turn. any questions they have.” The pack continues through the Best felt she got a lot out of the field, making their way to another Bilodeau’s classes. trail. This time Best engages with “The course really helped me the dogs by having them build feel confident in the skills and their confidence. A nearby rock is knowledge I had to train dogs,” the perfect teaching tool. Each pup Best said, adding that it also helped climbs up on the rock and carefully her understand the “process of perches in the sitting position. setting up my very own business.” Best backs away from the group, And that process, she added, frequently reminding the dogs to PAGE 4A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 ADDISON INDEPENDENT Letters Editorial to the Editor Views on a newsy week Points of view So much happens in a week’s time, it can make a weekly commentary seem out of touch, but in the interest of reflecting on the vital issues of the from Ripton times, here’s a wrap on issues from local to national. Two notes from the side of the SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION SPARKS BOARD RACES mountain in Ripton: Today’s Addison Independent features stories on more local school • The cross-country skiing is board and selectboard races throughout the county. Interestingly, the better than I ever remember up school board races have multiple candidates competing for single seats here. The regular installments of and have attracted highly engaged candidates with thoughtful ideas. The snow, and the cold temperatures, issue sparking the heightened interest is consolidation. Each district has have let Barney Hodges, Mike slightly different rules to abide by, depending on their district charters Hussey and their team at Rikert, and board make-up, but they all are facing the same basic considerations: and Andy McIntosh and his fellow shrinking student enrollments equating to shrinking state funds which volunteers on the backcountry eventually lead to higher property taxes and reduced school capacity. trails, produce tracks that are just The challenge is to provide a quality academic experience in light of sublime. Please come up and share those odds. Some candidates suggest the only way that can be done is to them close some elementary schools to consolidate students in larger groups. • Ripton residents voted by This follows the economic principle of scale, at least in the business a wide margin to try and run world: the larger an enterprise is, the more economically it can operate. their own elementary school, An opposing view, held by some school board candidates, is that while and I think many of us would be the economics is difficult, existing infrastructure is in place and efficient grateful if our friends down in the economies can be achieved in small operations as well, sometimes with valley would let us give it a try. superior results. It seems to me you could think We encourage readers to study the comments from the various school about it one of two ways. One, it board candidates, ponder the situation in your school district and pursue could be an interesting experiment additional information via candidate websites to reach an informed that would provide everyone with choice. These are critical times for our schools, and decisions made in more data about how education this coming year or two will set the district’s educational framework for might proceed in this state. Or, decades to come. two, they’re kind of nutty up there Other issues, naturally, come into play as well and candidates have in Ripton, and we’re better off been asked a wide variety of questions in interviews we have published. without them. Either one works! For candidate stories not found in this issue, those stories are accessible Bill McKibben to all at www.addisonindependent.com. We also draw your attention Ripton tos today’ letter to the editor forum in which dozens of area residents express reasons why they are supporting various candidates. The letters cover seven pages out of our 16-page front section. Reading them all provides a good sense of community concerns and aspirations. Full survey tells

MIDDLEBURY SEEKS TO CUT CO2 BY 80 % different story The town of Middlebury sets a good model by not only setting a firm While I’m pleased that the very goal by which to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, but also a process sensitive and critical decision to monitor its progress. The selectboard’s goal is to reduce municipal on what to do about the Mount operations by 80 % by the year 2030. The action also directed the town’s Abraham Unifies School District Energy Committee to create an annual C02 progress report at the end of facilities has been delayed until each year to keep the town on track. August, I do wish that the full It’s a laudable action and sets a good example for others to follow. But Sidewalk size percentages had been provided the town could also help its 8,000 residents reduce their carbon footprint THE TOWN OF Middlebury’s sidewalk snow plow is busy on Buttolph Drive Tuesday morning in the little inset about the as well. Easy goals to achieve would be adding more EV charges for after the overnight storm dumped a little white stuff on Addison County. The depth of the snowfall school survey in the Addison electric cars, more and safer bike lanes and encouragement of e-bike use, was underwhelming compared to what was forecast. Independent’s Jan. 28 story. and being certain building codes incorporate up-to-date energy saving Independent photo/Steve James As a Monkton resident who measures. With those, and other town-wide measures in place, individuals is fully opposed to closing our can make steady progress as well with an even greater town-wide impact. school or any other school in the district, and does not support HANG IN THERE, AREA RESTAURANTS Pandemic offers global perspective “repurposing” schools, I feel that Ins today’ Independent, we feature a story on how county restaurants the wording pits towns against Lately, I have been binge watching travel videos on Every new place I go I can picture a life for myself. I see are faring, and what they’ve done to survive during the pandemic. Three each other: Lincoln and Starksboro YouTube. They are a little escape. I just click from place an old abandoned mansion for sale in Phnom Penh and reporters spent the past few weeks interviewing these restaurateurs, hearing residents, the towns that will to place, ogling the architecture and the natural scenery, imagine restoring it and filling the garden with native their fears as well as continuing hope and optimism. Heartwarming and be the most impacted by these drooling over street food, feasting my eyes on outdoor plants; a school in Japan and I imagine a life teaching interesting, these stories represent all those small businesses that have changes, must take away from markets, and marveling in a sense of otherness. there with an apartment and a scooter to drive around struggled throughout the pandemic with diminished sales but with the this article that the rest of us don’t I have always wanted to travel — a feeling that I the city; a rural village in Ghana and I imagine a life tenacity to prevail. support them. I’m guessing that need to go and explore somewhere new. Feeding this pulling water out of a well and cooking over charcoal the numbers, if presented, would need is always a question of having time and money, fires. Endless directions my life could go and it seems COVID VACCINATION ROLLOUT show that quite a few residents of but never before have I been as impossible to just pick one. It must be noted that Vermont’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine Bristol, Monkton and New Haven stuck as I have been during the In addition to videos giving me appears to be going well. There are hiccups to be sure, but for the most are against the closing of schools pandemic. Never before have tantalizing glimpses and Instagram- part the process is understandable and orderly, and the vast majority of Ways of in other towns and want to support there been actual travel restrictions worthy shots of other places, I have Vermonters have been quick to sign up when given the opportunity. their neighboring towns. keeping me from picking up and been voraciously reading travel Critics can always nitpick, but the Scott administration makes a good Deb Mager Rickner flying to anywhere in the globe. Seeing books. In one, the author ponders case for its approach and is carrying it out well. As importantly, because Monkton I think this has led to my recent the idea of travel as a catalyst for the approach is clear and actions have been transparent, the public has By Claire Editor’s note: Although we gluttony of travel programs, which learning about your own home. confidence in the process — optimistic that the pandemic’s deadly threat Corkins had limited space to describe the I sometimes watch until my eyes A fresh perspective on your life is nearing an end and life can return to what we all will consider a new results of the MAUSD facilities glaze with sleep. I look down to find after being away and experiencing normal by mid-summer. survey, the Independent should several hours have passed while I have been vicariously something completely different and other, is perhaps What a relief it is to have hope so near at hand. have provided a link to the full globetrotting through camel festivals in Pushkar, sunken the best way to learn about yourself and your home. I survey on the MAUSD website. Roman ruins in Turkey, and mosques in Uzbekistan. wonder if all my travel to other places is what has led to TRUMP’S ACQUITAL CONTRADICTS GOP’S FINDINGS You can see the raw data, the Wanderlust — that is the feeling. The word has my love of home. Perhaps it is travel itself that created No doubt ex-president Trump will stand out in the nation’s history summary results and the school Germanic roots. Wandern means “to wander,” and lust this quandary of mine. If so, the global perspective, books. As the only president impeached twice, and in his second board presentation on the survey means “desire.” Combined these words express the experience, and education travel has provided have impeachment the only president who received a significant majority results online here: tinyurl.com/ need to travel — not to a particular destination or with been worth it. By traveling somewhere different we can of votes to impeach, 57-43 with seven Republicans joining all 50 MAUSDfacilitiesSURVEY. purpose, but simply the need to move, or rather, to not reassess our lives and perhaps that glimpse of our own Democrats, he will be firmly ensconced as the most traitorous president stay in the same place. lives from the outside allows us to see how our lives fit ins America’ history. My wanderlust has always been there, but tempered into the global collage. More telling that the vote to acquit Trump last Saturday was that Porter steps up by my love of Vermont and home. While I itch to go, I Meanwhile, I am stuck here in a pandemic winter. I most Republicans who sided with him did so because they maintained also love the idea of putting down self-sustaining roots, am trying to enjoy the season by taking advantage of the (despite overwhelming evidence) that it was unconstitutional to impeach against racism growing a garden, and raising chickens. Unfortunately, ice rink in town, better this year than I ever remember, by a president who no longer held office. That is, they did not argue he was Racism is a public health issue. these things seem mutually exclusive and so I have going snowshoeing and skiing, drinking endless cups of innocent of the Democrats’ charge against him: inciting insurrection of Black communities and other this dichotomy of desires that have yet to come to an tea, and reading so many books. Left to contemplate this his mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 and to try to stop the peaceful communities of color have higher agreement. Even when I travel, I am looking for home. transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden. (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A) rates of newborn death, childhood That Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, was illness, women dying in pregnancy ruthless in his criticism of Trump after the verdict — calling him and childbirth, and shorter lives “practically and morally responsible” for the violence on that day — with higher rates of severe was stark proof that even Republicans knew Trump was guilty, but were Painter prolongs pantry progress illness. Porter, as a healthcare too spineless to challenge Trump’s supporters. In the past few weeks, I’ve called all my friends and Work, however, can’t begin until we have a completed organization, has an imperative to In the end, it made sense to keep the impeachment hearings short and relatives to tell them the great news: “Mark is gonna pantry in which to store the current kitchen’s contents. address the racism and inequities to the point. The five-day trial allowed prosecutors to tell the story of redo our kitchen!” So Mark has, finally, risen to the occasion. built into our system. Trump’s two-month effort to overthrow the election and stay in power They all react the same way: with a long pause and a In two weekends, he’s installed the pocket door, As an organization, we believe by any means possible — and expose the “big lie” (that the election was stifled giggle, followed by “OK, sure. Congratulations.” finished up the last few drawers and milled out and put there is more we can do to be “stolen”) for all to see. Trump’s weak defense was fitting: His attorneys I’m pretty sure I can hear their eyes rolling. up the trim. Just like that, save for the painting of the intentionally inclusive and provided little substance, ignored constitutional scholars, and knew the That’s. fair They know that four cupboards, the pantry is done. equitable. We acknowledge that fix was in so why sully their reputations further. years ago, Mark began building But the painting, I’m afraid, is my we can do more to make sure all Disappointing as the verdict was expected, the trial, nonetheless, me my dream walk-in pantry from job. members of our community feel was a necessary step in exposing Trump’s big lie for the fraud it was, scratch. In that time, he’s worked Around I had it all planned. On a Saturday, welcome and have equal access and aptly framing Trump’s legacy: the Benedict Arnold of modern on it intermittently but never with I’d lay out the shelves, drawer fronts to our services. We are committed times, a conman and a scoundrel, and the worst president America has any enthusiasm. and doors on a drop cloth on the to ensuring all members of our ever witnessed. It’s not the end of Trump’s story, but it is a damning I’ve used the situation to my the kitchen table and paint them all in community feel seen, heard and exclamation mark. advantage. If Mark gets annoyed one go. supported. Angelo Lynn because I left the Christmas bend But I overlooked two issues. The Porter Medical Center, ornaments in the upstairs hall for By Jessie Raymond obvious is that it’s not a one-and- alongside our partner hospitals A D D I S O N C O U N T Y six weeks, I say, “Well, at least it done procedure. First you have to within the UVM Health Network, hasn’t been four years.” If he trips prime one side of each piece and has been working diligently for over a bag of returnable bottles in the kitchen, I say, then, once that’s dry, prime the other. Then you have more than a year to focus our INDEPENDENTPeriodicals Postage Paid at Middlebury, Vt. 05753 “I would have put them in the pantry. If we had one.” to paint each side — twice. 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(See Jessie, Page 5A) (See Letter, Page 5A) Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 5A Letters to the Editor The choice for a Union Debate between anti- and pro-Federalists offers insight 14th in a series should be a great public debate. that it was not the states, nor a Accidental cannabis ingestion by children an issue The Constitutional Convention As Hamilton wrote in the first Congress of the States, nor the During the segment of the effects of THC. While most of the I am not aware of any other completed its work on Sept. Federalist Paper, “It has been legislatures of the states, but the Feb. 9 selectboard meeting on children went home after a few adult consumable product, 17, 1787, by adopting the frequently remarked that it seems People of the United States who allowing cannabis retail sales in hours, some of them needed to potentially harmful to children, Constitution that it had drafted to have been reserved to the ordained and established the Middlebury, the possibility of be admitted to the ICU to receive that is marketed in quantity in a and sending the people of this country, Constitution through specially harmful impacts on children was breathing support. It should be form that is so enticing to them, document to the by their conduct elected conventions of the people discussed; but one aspect of that noted that calls to a Regional and I believe that poses a threat states for ratification. and example, to in each state. By this means, the issue did not come up. That is the Poison Center for cannabis to their health and safety. Any Article VII of the decide the important People, not the states, became impact on the health of very young exposure also increased sharply. regulation on this point apparently draft Constitution question, whether sovereign, and created the children from unintentionally The median age of the children can only happen at the state level. provided that it societies of men are Union, a new nation, which they consuming edible cannabis reported in these cases was 2 years My understanding is Middlebury should become really capable of endowed with a fundamental law products. old. cannot vote “yes” to allow a store operational upon establishing good to which they themselves by their Following the legalization of The edible forms of cannabis to operate in Middlebury, and ratification by nine government from own action became subject. cannabis sales in Colorado, the include an array of candies then prohibit them from selling of the 13 states. reflection and choice, It was at this point that the number of young children seen and baked goods — gummies, edibles. By our vote on the Town On June 21, 1788, or whether they are Federalists and Anti-Federalists in the ER of Children’s Hospital lollipops, cookies, chocolates Meeting Day ballot, we can only New Hampshire destined to depend divided. The Anti-Federalists Colorado, Aurora, for cannabis etc. — that are inherently very indicate whether we want a store became the ninth for their political objected that the states had exposure rose significantly. About attractive to children. While selling cannabis products located state to ratify it. The constitutions on declared their independence half of those cases involved steps can be taken to put them in in our town or not. I plan to vote remaining states The American accident and force.” in 1776, and by that act, they edible products. The median child resistant packaging, things “no” on the article in question and would follow suit. Political Tradition The question, had become sovereign; that by age of patients seen in the ER can still go wrong; and, based encourage other voters to do the Rhode Island was whether human ratifying the Constitution the was 2.4 years. The lower body on Colorado’s experience, they same. the last, on May 29, An essay by societies can govern states would relinquish their weight of young children makes probably will at some point here in James Tobin 1790. Victor Nuovo themselves by reason sovereignty. Federalists — and them especially vulnerable to the Vermont. East Middlebury In between these Middlebury College and judgment lest I mean, not members of the dates there occurred professor emeritus they become victims Federalist Party, but those who a great national of philosophy of chance and favored ratification — worried Displays of all types of flags promote disharmony debate. In New York necessity, has never that without Union, the American I’m fed up with all the flags. First, newly arrived in this is the faux-Colonial patriotism state, a series of 85 lost its relevance, and states, still sovereign, were more You can read the downfall of our region, I noticed the proud of the “Don’t Tread on Me” and essays in favor of ratification it seems especially relevant today. likely to fall into a Hobbesian republic in the proliferation of displays of the Confederate battle Betsy Ross flags. What exactly appeared in the press under Politics becomes a matter of state of war of all against all. competing banners dotting the flag as I drove around it’s farms are those supposed to stand for? the pseudonym of “Publius,” a chance and necessity, of unreason Leaders in some states of a more landscape, flown by Americans and fields. I wasn’t surprised to The freedom not to wear a mask Roman patriot and statesman, and folly, whenever this question adventurous spirit would seek to demonstrate their growing see that traitorous rag flying when in a pandemic? To openly carry Publius Valerius Poplicola (d. is ignored. It is the fundamental to aggrandize themselves at the distance from and, often contempt I lived in Florida, Georgia, or an assault rifle? What vision for 503BCE). They were collected question of politics, it is where expense of other states, to enlarge for, one another. Gone is any talk Kentucky, but here in the North? a better America do those flags and published in two volumes every new generation of citizens their territories. Or, there would of the common good. Now, we Didn’t my neighbors know that actually represent? as “The Federalist Papers.” must begin. It should be made the be an epidemic of Confederacies just want to express our self- over 5,000 Vermonters and over Regrettably, this nonsense is The authors were Alexander fundamental question of public competing for the unsettled land righteous indignation at those too ten times that many New Yorkers not limited to the political right. Hamilton (1755–1804), who education and studied along with to the west. America would be stupid, stubborn, or unenlightened died fighting the insurrectionists On the left it takes the form of wrote 51 of them; James Madison the Classics. like Europe before the European to share our view of the world or who carried that flag and ‘performative social justice.’ We (1751–1836), who wrote 29; and The names Federalism and Union. Union was the only John Jay (1745–1829), who wrote Anti-Federalism are misnomers. alternative. the grievances of our tribe. everything it stood for? Then there (See Zaccor letter, Page 7A) five. “The Federalist Papers” The term Federalism denotes From a long historical were not politically partisan. a decentralized form of perspective, it might seem that Hamilton, who served during the government, a league of states, Union was inevitable. But it did Revolution as Washington’s chief a Confederacy, a voluntary not seem so in 1787. Moreover, Jessie of staff, was one of the founders association. The authors of the the Constitution was not a perfect of the Federalist Party, and the “Federalist Papers” advocated instrument. It achieved union (Continued from Page 4A) appreciate doors.) random boards from his workshop first Secretary of the Treasury. just the opposite — a robust through compromise, especially on the outside. Seeing the linear I made the right choice. As the to pay me back for the four years of Madison, who would become the central government with a on the question of slavery, and the footage of storage that magically doors gradually go on, the pantry snark I’ve subjected him to. fourth President of the United strong executive, whereas nation paid dearly for the failure appears as he installs each painted is beginning to look downright These days, before work and States, did not join the Federalist Anti-Federalists were in favor to confront this gross injustice at shelf makes my heart flutter; it’s all classy. While I envisioned it after, and all weekend, I paint. I Party; he was one of the of Federalism. But for political the root of its political economy. I’ve ever wanted. as a functional place to stash haven’t changed out of my painting founders, with Thomas Jefferson, reasons, the authors of the And one should not overlook the But I have to ask myself why peanut butter and plastic storage clothes in weeks. Now and then, of the Democratic-Republican “Federalist Papers” held on to the fact that this great debate was I went with cabinets instead of containers, now I picture myself Mark wanders through the kitchen, Party, which is ancestor to the name. carried on by men only: another simple shelves that could have saying to dinner guests, “Please making a point of reaching across Democratic Party. Jay, also a Madison saw the distinction gross injustice that would not been painted in place. (I know excuse me while I run to the pantry me to measure a doorway or wall Federalist, served as the first clearly. In Federalist Paper No. begin to be rectified for more than why: I had a pantry like that when and retrieve the glass dome for the and subjecting me to a bit of his Chief Justice of the United States. 39, he distinguished two sorts a century. Nor must it be forgotten we were first married, and the roast pheasant.” own snark. What is noteworthy of all three of Union “a Confederacy of that the land that the states occupy open shelves combined with my At the moment, however, I fear “I can’t wait to get started on the is their relative youth: Hamilton sovereign states” and “a national was not theirs originally, but wherever-it-lands organizational the painting will never end. Every kitchen,” he says, looking around was 32; Madison, 35; and Jay, 42. government, which regards once belonged by right to Native style gave me fits. Having to look time I finish a set of doors and and sighing. “But it’s taking you “The Federalist Papers” the Union as a consolidation Americans. There is irony in the at the mess every day didn’t inspire shelves, Mark brings me more. I’m forever to finish the pantry.” defended ratification. But there of the states,” which is what preamble where it is said that the me to be tidy, but it did teach me to starting to think he’s just giving me were others who opposed the Constitutional Convention goal of the Constitution was to ratification, and they were proposed. As Lincoln said 87 establish justice. thoughtful and articulate. They, years later, the founders intended Postscript: The “Federalist” too, published essays, also to create “a new nation,” a Union, and “Anti-Federalist Papers” using as pseudonyms the names and he gave his life to preserve it. are available in affordable Ways of Seeing of Roman patriots, e.g. Brutus The same principle is expressed paperback editions. Michael and Cato. Both Federalists and in the Preamble. “WE THE Kammen’s “The Origin of (Continued from Page 4A) Ecology at College of the Atlantic houses, tiling bathrooms, building Anti-Federalists were well read PEOPLE of the United States, the American Constitution” internal struggle between wanting in Maine. After college she worked porches, and fixing old windows. in the ancient history: the Greek in order to form a more perfect provides a convenient selection to be here at home, and wanting to abroad teaching English as a She hikes, reads, plays ice hockey, and Roman Classics and classical union … do ordain and establish of documents and letters. It is be everywhere else. second language. She currently travels, and wishes she could wear political philosophy. this CONSTITUTION for the a good place to start. Visit your Claire Corkins grew up and works with her father in such flip flops all year round. It is not surprising that there United States of America.” Note local bookstore. lives in Bristol and studied Human various endeavors as painting

Letter Letters to the Editor can be found on Pages Worried About Your (Continued from Page 4A) been engaged in this work for that the life expectancy for Black 4A, 5A, 7A, 8A patients and communities we decades, and to continue to fly Americans is four years shorter 9A, 10A and 11A. serve. This will be embedded in the flag beyond February as than the expectancy for white Elderly Relative? all strategies and tactics and will an acknowledgement that this Americans.” ultimately be a part of who we are work must continue. We will We recognize that this work as an organization. Our dedication also create a permanent display is complex, challenging and to this task carries even greater in the vestibule that welcomes uncomfortable, but it also is urgency because we are a health members of our community to our essential work if we are to truly care institution. We acknowledge emergency department and other fulfill our community mission the persistent and appalling racial clinical areas. to improve the health of our disparities in health care outcomes, Why should Porter, as a health community. We encourage an and we know that stamping out care organization, take such a open dialogue regarding this systemic racism is not only the visible stand against racism? important work and welcome right thing to do; it’s also at the According to a Nov. 11, 2020, post your thoughts and suggestions as core of our mission to provide high on the blog of the Urban Institute, members of our community. quality, affordable, accessible care “Evidence shows racism is the Thomas R. Thompson, to our communities.” main determinant of disparities president and chief operating We are joining many in death and disease between officer, and Anna L Benvenuto, organizations throughout Vermont Black and white people. Further, chief medical officer Order your Spring Chicks and nationally in displaying the Black people ages 18 to 34 have Porter Medical Center “Black Lives Matter” Flag. The higher mortality rates for 8 of the Middlebury Now thru 2/28/21 flag signifies our commitment 10 leading causes of death. And and pickup before Easter to creating a just, equitable, and since 2014, research has shown empathetic world, and is a symbol in late March. of inclusion, especially for our Eldercare Counseling Available employees, patients and residents Download of color. The displaying of the Start your day an order By phone: 802-388-3983 BLM flag does not undermine or diminish the value of each person, at Otter Creek Bakery form here. rather it affirms the value of those Check out our breakfast menu By email: [email protected] people within our society who have historically suffered uniquely and grab lunch too! Submit your order in store, from systemic racism. Yet, it is via email, over the phone only one symbolic step; we also Now offering counter service acknowledge that we have so much and via fax. Please find the full menu more work to do to identify and on our webite at [email protected] address bias and inequity within OtterCreekBakery.com our organization so that we can MIDDLEBURY AGWAY truly fulfill our commitment to Call 802-388-3371 truly be inclusive and welcoming OR e-mail order inquiries to OtterCreekBakery.com 388 Exchange Street Open for all. [email protected] 7 days Our plan is to fly this flag in 388-4937 front of our hospital beginning OPEN MONDAY 7:30AM-2PM, TUES – SAT 7:30AM-4:30PM Mon. - Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-5, Sun. 9-4 this month to honor the history and lives of those who have 14 COLLEGE ST. | MIDDLEBURY, VT | 802-388-3371 www.MiddleburyAgway.com PAGE 6A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021

ADDISON Kristle Ann Wheeler-Humiston, 39, of Brandon COUNTY Obituaries BRANDON — On Feb. 6, anything — she was her whole 2021, we lost our beloved Kristle world. Ann Wheeler-Humiston, age In addition to her parents and Gerard A. Lavoie Sr., 85, of New Haven 39, due to a tragic accident in daughter, Ady, Kristle is also Salisbury. Heaven gained a true survived by her beloved sister, Jodi NEW HAVEN — Gerard A. they had Michelle. He had two (Frederick) Wanner of Laurel, angel. Wheeler of Waterbury; paternal Lavoie Sr. passed away on Feb. 10, special daughters, Laurie St. Cyr Mont.; Valeri (Nick Chamberland) Kristle was born in Middlebury grandmother, Joyce Wheeler; her 2021, at his home in New Haven. and Jen Brocho and her mom. Lavoie of Belleview, Fla.: and on Nov. 9, 1981, the daughter of aunt Pamela Quenneville (Todd Gerard was born on Oct. 24, Gerard was a farmer most of Michelle (Ronald) Gorton of Wesley and Cheryl (Quenneville) Ross); uncle Mark Quenneville 1935, to Anthony and Irene his life, then went into business New Haven, Vt. He also has Wheeler. She attended Neshobe (Jennifer), aunt Robin Harrison (Duford) Lavoie in Brockton, for himself hauling cattle. He 15 grandchildren and 25 great- Elementary and graduated from (Ed) all of Brandon; cousins Mass. also worked at the Big Barn grandchildren. Otter Valley Union High School. Craig Lonergan (Melanie); Tyler Gerard was raised in Shoreham, Furniture Store and the car wash Funeral service will be held She earned her degree in Early Quenneville (Stephanie); Shane Vt., where he graduated from in Vergennes, Vt. He enjoyed 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 15, Childhood Education from Quenneville (Emily) and Hillary Shoreham High School. He hunting, skeet shooting, fishing at Brown-McClay Funeral Home Plymouth State University in and Lindsay Harrison. She was excelled in baseball and basketball and bowling. Gerard taught several in Vergennes. A mask is required New Hampshire. predeceased by her grandparents, while in High School. He joined of his grandsons how to shoot and for services. Interment will be From an early age, Kristle had René and Lorraine Quenneville of the U.S. Army in 1954, where he load ammo. in North Ferrisburgh Cemetery the kindest heart and she loved Leicester, and Charles Wheeler. was a munitions personnel, and Gerard is preceded in death in the spring. In lieu of flowers, her family, friends and animals A private Mass of Christian was honorably discharged in 1957. by his wife, his parents, and his contributions may be made to dearly. In her early teen years, burial will be celebrated, at a Gerard married Leona (Martel) on sisters, Marguerite Dorsey and UVM Children’s Hospital, 111 she helped her mother babysit later date, at St. Mary’s Catholic January 23, 1957, in Johnsonville, Mary Lavoie. Colchester Ave., Main Campus, KRISTLE ANN her young cousins and her love Church in Brandon. The Rev. N.Y. They moved to Shoreham, He is survived by his brother East Pavilion, Level 4, Burlington, WHEELER-HUMISTON for children blossomed into her Maurice Moreau, pastor will be Vt., where they had four of their Leo Lavoie of Bethlehem, N.H.; VT 05401. To send online career as a preschool teacher. She the celebrant. Following the Mass five children: Gerard Jr., Teresa, his children Gerard A. Lavoie Jr. condolences to his family please worked for many years at Bristol family and friends will gather at Lisa and Valeri. They then moved of New Haven, Teresa (Stephan) visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes. softball in several area adult Family Center and most recently St. Mary’s Cemetery in Brandon to North Attleboro, Mass., where Fontneau of Attleboro, Mass., Lisa com.◊ leagues and tournaments usually at Champlain Valley Head Start alongside her sister Jodi. Most for a public graveside committal in Middlebury. of all, Kristle was an amazing service and burial, at a date and She made such an impact on so mother to her daughter Adyson. time to be announced. many children’s lives throughout They have a bond like no other Memorial gifts in lieu of Mary Louise West Shedd, 98, Salisbury native the years — as one mother wrote, and were inseparable. Their love flowers may be made in her memory for the benefit of her SCHENECTADY, N.Y. loved opera, was an avid reader, “she taught and loved all of her of horses was something they daughter, Adyson, to The Kristle — Mary Louise West Shedd, and was still walking trails into her students with her whole heart.” enjoyed together. Wheeler-Humiston Memorial 98, of Altamont, N.Y., died at 98th year. Kristle had the biggest heart. Kristle was a hardworking Fund, c/o Bar Harbor Bank, 2 the Schenectady Center for She is survived by her son Jerome She enjoyed being outside woman. In addition to being a Park St. Brandon, VT 05733. Rehabilitation and Nursing on Shedd and his wife Lindi Bortney and playing sports throughout preschool teacher, she worked Kristle’s family would like to Feb. 10, 2021. of Ripton, Vt.; her daughter Diane her lifetime. She excelled in at Kampersville Store and the express their sincere gratitude, She was born in Salisbury, Vt., Wozniak and her husband Frank basketball, softball and field Leicester Store so she could for the outpouring of love, on Feb. 10, 1923, the second child of Altamont, N.Y.; her brother hockey in high school and provide her precious daughter kindness and generosity shown to of Francis and Ruby (Nichols) Roger West and his wife Ruth went on to play field hockey with a perfect life of going on us during this difficult time. West. Mary was a graduate of of Clarendon, Vt.; grandchildren at Plymouth State University. many fun adventures, activities, Arrangements are under the Middlebury High School, and Adair Shedd of Port Chester, She was strong and determined pets and riding horses. Kristle direction of the Miller & Ketcham earned a certificate in Child Care N.Y.; Adrienne Farragher and and made many friendships loved her daughter more than Funeral Home in Brandon. ◊ Technology at St. Margaret’s her husband Adam of Rotterdam, throughout the years. She played Home in Albany, N.Y. During N.Y., Adam Wozniak and his wife World War II she served in the Stacie of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Cadet Nurse Corps. four great-grandchildren, and two After the war, Mary met great-great-grandchildren. She Eula Pedro, 90, former Addison County resident MARY LOUISE WEST SHEDD and married Robert Shedd in was predeceased by her husband recall a fond food memory Robert C. Shedd, and her brother UNDERHILL — Eula Pedro, Wallingford, Vt. After their two lifelong caregiver, died Feb. 10, (Portuguese sweet bread, various children were born, the family Mary was an amateur Paul West of Wallingford, Vt. cookies, green chicken wings ornithologist, a knitter, and a At her request there will be 2021 at her daughter’s home in moved to Guilderland, N.Y. They Underhill, Vt. She was 90 years for St. Patrick’s Day) and the bought a building lot in nearby volunteer weather observer. She no service. Memorial donations occasional culinary fail (her was a volunteer staff member of may be made to The Nature old. Voorheesville and built a home Eula was born in Bridport, recipe for Spam and noodles dies there, mostly with their own the Heldeberg Workshop at its Conservancy. ◊ with her.) While quiet, Eula was beginnings in Voorheesville. She Vt. She was the thirteenth of hands. fourteen children born to the a constant observer. She worked farming family of Charles and hard and with the understanding Eula Carpenter Huestis. She is that there was only one way to do predeceased by her parents, her the job: the right way. She had a twelve older siblings, and her high bar under which her children Michael Dean Ballard, 59, of Shoreham husband of forty years, Vernon could easily walk. Pedro. Eula is survived by her three SHOREHAM — Michael Shoreham; two brothers; Kevin As a girl, Eula’s dream was to tone-deaf daughters and their Dean Ballard, age 59, passed Ballard of Nashville, Tenn., and leave the farm. She joined the spouses; Sallie and Lawrence away Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at Gary Ballard of Shoreham; two Air Force intending to expand Volkert, Brenda and Bruce Wilder, Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Hanover, sisters, Julie Foote of Salisbury her horizons. Little did she know EULA PEDRO DeAnna and Dinh Pham; and by N.H. and Laurie Bishop of Ferrisburgh; that she would meet and marry her favorite son, Stephen Pedro. Michael was born in Proctor, Vt., and his former wife and mother her husband and future traveling caretaker her entire life. She She will be missed by her seven on April 26, 1961. He was the son of his children, Lorie Ballard companion. Together they had blended her love of family with grandchildren: Tamara Volkert, of T. Alvaro and Edith (Johnson) of Poultney. Two grandchildren four children. They raised them her love of music. Car rides with Sr. Mary Ignatius (Jessica), Fr. Ballard. He grew up in Shoreham, and several nieces, nephews and in California, Hawaii, Taiwan, the kids were memorable for Matthew, Eric, Amy, Ashley where he received his early cousins also survive him. He was Nebraska, Massachusetts, and singing, often her favorite country Wilder, and Mai Pham. She is education and graduated from predeceased by his father. Italy prior to settling in her home songs. Radio shows were created also survived by her youngest Middlebury Union High School, The graveside committal service state of Vermont. and recorded on a periodic Friday sister, Evie L’Heureux, and many class 1979. He began his working and burial will take place, at a later While her dream was to leave night, only to later be destroyed nieces and nephews. career at Gonyea Lumber Mill in date, in the family lot, at Lake View the farm, it was never to leave by her son’s solo off-key vocals. There will be no services at this Pittsford. He later established his Cemetery in Shoreham. Following her family. She was a dedicated Many who think of Eula will time.◊ own company, Michael Ballard the ceremony, a celebration of & Sons Logging. He worked as life will be held at his home in a woodsman logging various Shoreham. areas of Addison and Rutland Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers Counties. He supplied pulpwood MICHAEL DEAN BALLARD may be made, in his memory to; for Ft. Ticonderoga Paper Mill and Addison County Humane Society, Emily Ann Wideawake, 72, of Middlebury hauled pulp for Weston Pulpwood He is survived by two sons; 234 Boardman Street, Middlebury, MIDDLEBURY — Emily Ann well as several nieces, nephews, in Essex. He was forced to retire Jeremy Ballard of Woodbridge, VT 05753. Wideawake passed away at Porter cousins and very near and dear due to a disability in 2015. He Va., and Greg Ballard of Fair Arrangements are under the Medical Center Saturday, Feb. 6, friends Kit and John Quesnel. enjoyed fishing, square dancing, Haven, Vt.; his mother, Edith direction of the Miller & Ketcham 2021. She was born November 6, She was predeceased by her rock and roll music and working Dorothy Ballard of Shoreham; his Funeral Home in Brandon.◊ on his equipment. partner-in-life, Jane May Piper of 1948 to parents Cecil Wideawake parents, daughter Sara Pratt, and Mary Richards. brothers Richard Sargent and She was a hard worker who Robert Sargent, stepfather Rudolph loved her family and friends. Sargent and brother-in-law David After retiring from Middlebury Allen. Dean Hill Stanley, 82, of Shoreham College, she continued to work, Visiting hours will be held SHOREHAM — Dean Hill Exchange, but later drove a truck cousins also survive him, as well as most recently at Hannaford Career on Saturday, Feb. 20, from 2-4 Stanley, age 82, died Friday, Feb. for Agway. He retired from Agway his former wife and mother of his Center as an Administrative p.m. at the Sanderson-Ducharme 12, 2021, at his home in Shoreham. in 1998 following more than 42 children, Arlene (Doane) Stanley Assistant to the Director. Emily Funeral Home, located at 117 Dean was born in Barton, Vt., on years of service. He was a member of Shoreham. He was predeceased was a wonderful friend who will South Main Street, Middlebury. March 22, 1938. He was the son and past master of the Shoreham by a brother, Dennis Stanley. be missed by all who loved her. COVID restrictions apply. Masks of Rosco and Clara (Hill) Stanley. Masonic Lodge and currently Respecting his wishes there will Family and friends were always are required. He grew up in Shoreham, where he belonged to Morning Star Masonic not be a public funeral service. welcomed to join at her kitchen In lieu of flowers, contributions received his early education and Lodge. He was an avid hunter and Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers table for conversation and “puzzle can be made to HOPE at 282 graduated from Newton Academy fisherman. may be made, in his memory to a putting.” EMILY ANN WIDEAWAKE Boardman Street, Middlebury, She is survived by her children VT 05753. Arrangements class 1956. He is survived by two sons; charity of one’s choice. Wideawake (Judy), Rusty Sargent He was a truck driver most of his Kevin Dean Stanley and Scott Arrangements are under the Stacey Stone (Todd) and Corey are under the direction of the Pratt (Laurie); grandchildren (Paula), Connie Sargent, Carol Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral life. He also worked as a millhand William Stanley, both of Shoreham. direction of the Miller & Ketcham Allen, Christine Supernaw for Eastern States Farmers Several nieces, nephews and Funeral Home in Brandon.◊ Hillary, Justin and Blair Stone Home. Online condolences at and Devyn Pratt; siblings Gilbert (Roger), and Randall Sargent; as sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

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Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home 117 South Main St. Middlebury, VT 802-388-2311 sandersonfuneralservice.com Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 7A ADDISON COUNTY Obituaries Letters to the Editor John Pandiani, 75, of Bristol BRISTOL — Many a family and unconventional life skills such Small saving not enough to ignore Ripton’s wishes friend commented that “the world as how to start a fire, hot wire a The Addison Central School and Weybridge to save a little built and paid for just 27 years lost a very cool guy” when John car, avoid speed traps or question District Central Office recently money at the expense of Ripton’s ago that draws young families to Pandiani passed on Tuesday, Feb. authority. John loved nothing more created a document on the children. their town and ensures its future 2, 2021 at the age of 75. John was than cruising around in his 1961 financial impact of Ripton’s Is this what community is vitality. For Ripton residents, they an accomplished social scientist, TR3 convertible and took special withdrawal for the rest of the supposed to look like? Is this how believe the benefits of their local observing, thinking and writing delight in getting lost on back towns in ACSD. It was shared by we want to make a town in our community school outweigh the about everything, and he remained roads. school board members on Front community feel — that we care benefits ACSD is touting even if unpretentious throughout his This very special man will be Porch Forum and it confirmed that more about our own potential their taxes go up and we should entire life. missed by many close and extended “a potential Ripton withdrawal gains than respecting what they honor their decision. He was nationally recognized family and friends, neighbors and could result in a small savings in believe is best for their kids and Instead, ACSD seems to be for his research in the field of co-workers, and especially by his education spending per equalized town? Is having no adverse effect promoting to other towns that mental health. He was deeply longtime love, Jill Mackler; his pupil for the remaining towns in on our towns not enough reason to rather than being satisfied with curious and therefore a keen children, Kim Pandiani, Roxanne ACSD. Additionally, this scenario honor Ripton’s vote to withdraw? the small savings resulting from observer of the world, whether it Rotondaro, and John Pandiani; would recognize virtually zero I have heard the school ratifying Ripton’s withdrawal, was people watching on the street and grandchildren, Madison and discernable tax impact.” board tell Ripton that we will they should consider a larger or attending to the way leaves float JOHN PANDIANI Isabelle Gilley, Sophia Rotondaro, What struck me about the be “Stronger Together.” I have savings by forcing Ripton to stay down the brook. and Jonah Pandiani. Central Office’s document was watched the Central Office try in the district so ACSD can then John taught his children, and was a natural teacher. His children, Donations in memory of John can not that Ripton’s withdrawal to convince Ripton that their turn around and close Ripton’s many others, the value of hard grandchildren and nieces and be made to Project Independence would have virtually no impact students will gain more by staying school. I find it heartbreaking to work and the value of play, often nephews share fond memories of at Elderly Services Inc., P.O. Box on taxes in other towns, which in ACSD by having access to think about how this must make making work seem like play. He how he taught them some pretty 581, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊ was expected, but the fact that a full-time nurse, guidance Ripton feel. Just five years ago the Central Office chose to counselor and specialists, the ACSU school boards assured present two scenarios for readers’ single-grade classrooms, and us all that we would be better consideration: 1) what the tax more social opportunities. off under a unified district when Darwin’s theory central to biology, immune to bias implication would be of Ripton’s Despite these possible benefits, Act 46 passed. The new unified This letter is in response to interested in biology. relationships with troop members withdrawal and 2) what the tax Ripton overwhelmingly voted in school district was supposed to Emily Hoyler’s “Ways of Seeing” Regarding the specific to share food and grooming. implication would be if Ripton favor of withdrawal. They don’t represent all ACSD communities piece entitled “Darwinism losing example referred to by Hoyler, Social insects (ants, bees, termites) Elementary School is instead want their kids to potentially be — including Ripton. That same its significance” of the Feb. 4 the symbiotic mutualisms that develop amazing colonies in which closed. While both scenarios split between Mary Hogan and unified school district is now edition of the Addison Independent. occur between plant roots and labor and resources are shared. estimate potential savings for Salisbury. They don’t want their sharing a document suggesting Although the article brings up mycorrhizal fungi are indeed Do these examples of altruism taxpayers in all ACSD towns elementary students riding a bus that other towns may be even some important and thought- fascinating. There are entire suggest that Darwinian theory outside Ripton, the document up and down the mountain every better off by sacrificing Ripton. I provoking points, there were unexplored ecosystems within the is dead? No. In fact, detailed concludes that the savings would day. They don’t want to lose their hope we are better than this and some misleading and inaccurate soil under a forest, and Suzanne studies conducted by dedicated be greater for the remaining connection to their kids’ school that we honor Ripton’s desire to statements that I feel obliged to Simard’s research has shed light biologists have shown that every towns if Ripton’s withdrawal where they can easily go today withdraw by voting YES on Town correct as a professional biologist. upon the fascinating relationships one of these examples fits neatly is denied and their school is to volunteer, watch a student Meeting Day. The main point that I want to make among tree roots and their fungal within Darwin’s theory of natural instead closed, seemingly enticing presentation, or meet with a staff Jenny Phelps is that Charles Darwin’s theories partners. The interconnections selection. In some cases (e.g., taxpayers in Middlebury, Bridport, member. They don’t want to Weybridge of natural selection and biological between tree roots do indeed allow acorn woodpeckers and social Cornwall, Salisbury, Shoreham lose their small school that they evolution remain the foundation trees to take nutrients from one insects) individuals are altruistic of the entire field of biology. another. For example, a tree living specifically toward close relatives. Darwinian theory explains topics as in the shade can take nutrients This is known as “kin selection.” Thomas would help Middlebury build community diverse as: the patterning of species from a tree living in the sun that is By helping close relatives, an A couple of years ago, I posted to my query, from a variety of despite being fairly terrified. distributions across the globe in able to photosynthesize at a faster individual’s genes are passed a question on social media to people, and they were all a little Some time later, I received the response to climate change, why rate. But, this really should not be on indirectly by those relatives. the effect of, “How do you build different. After thinking things wonderful gift of being introduced invasive species are able to take considered altruism. One tree is In other cases (e.g., vampire community?” It was something I over, I realized what they all had in to Esther Thomas. She had arrived over new areas, why the human not making a selfless decision to bats and monkeys), individuals was pondering as I watched what common was that they all required in Middlebury with her two kids, brain is structured and functions give up resources to another tree. develop close social relationships seemed like the destruction of our action. Community isn’t something and despite being at a real turning as it does, and why bacteria have Instead, the interactions between with one another in a process democracy. I was slowly coming that just happens, it’s something point in her life (having just become resistant to antibiotics (to tree roots should more accurately called “reciprocal altruism.” to the realization that democracy we build, intentionally, together. separated from her spouse), she name a few examples). be viewed as a parasitism, with one By helping one another, each is fragile, that it must be nurtured, At that moment I realized I should was full of warmth and positive Hoyler recommends tree taking resources from another. individual increases their own and that we all need to be serious be doing more for our community, energy. I went home that day and contextualizing Darwin’s theories Hoyler does make the good point chances of passing on genes to in our role as its stewards. and I eventually threw my hat in told my husband “I think I made a historically, and it is a very good that competition should not be the next generation. Kin selection I received a number of responses the ring to run for selectboard, (See Fuentes-George, Page 8A) point that every scientist has biases thought of as the only interaction and reciprocal altruism were associated with their culture. between individuals (or species) undoubtedly instrumental in However, the scientific method that has shaped their evolution. shaping the evolution of human is based upon repeated testing of Cooperation and altruism are society. Zaccor letter conclusions by observation and important interactions even from Far from “losing its experimentation, which can bring an evolutionary context. There are significance,” Darwinian theory is (Continued from Page 5A) Day? Is there a flag for that? If flags spawn Thin Blue Line flags. us closer to objective truths. In many good examples of altruistic shedding light upon how altruism put up a flag, banner, or yard sign ‘Abortion Rights are Human This cannot end well. the case of evolutionary theory, it behavior occurring among animals. may have evolved in humans. to demonstrate how enlightened Rights’, why not a NARAL flag? As Anne Appelbaum noted now has the support of hundreds For example, vampire bats will Although it is important to we are in contrast to our We are going to need a taller flag recently in the Atlantic, we have of thousands of independent share a blood meal with another acknowledge bias in science, it is neighbors who are not up on the pole. no choice but coexistence, as scientific tests conducted in many hungry bat when they return to important to avoid falling into the most fashionable, sophisticated Despite the various motivations, neither side is going anywhere. different contexts over the past the roost for the night. Acorn trap of assuming that past theories “critical theories” on race, gender, commitments, and resentments If we are to stand up to the 162 years since Darwin published woodpeckers in the western U.S. should be abandoned due to past or what have you: Rainbow that prompt us to wave these illiberalism of both the white “On the Origin of Species.” hoard large stores of acorns that bias. banners to show our support for warring banners in each others’ supremacist right and the radical Darwin’s theories have withstood they share with other woodpeckers. Mark Spritzer gay rights; Black Lives Matter faces, they all have one thing in progressive left, we are going to repeated scrutiny and they Among many monkey species, Associate Professor of Biology (BLM) banners to demonstrate common: none of them stands have to re-embrace our national remain highly relevant to anyone individuals will develop close Middlebury College our solidarity with racial justice for all of us. As each faction motto, E Pluribus Unum: One protestors. I also expressed in America promotes its own from Many. This is not 1619 and support for racial justice and narrow worldview, our grip on it is not 1776: It is 21st-century Kramer would offer fresh ideas Vaccine delivery revulsion at police brutality this a common purpose as American America, and we have come a While I was never fully content the time came for a transition in past summer, but too many people citizens gets lost. Noted political long way together. We cannot with how the ACSD school board leadership, he jumped in head first ‘well-organized’ ignore the fact that the BLM scientist Frances Fukuyama, a have diversity, unless we also was conducting their Facilities after only one year interacting with I agree with John Pratt’s organization stands for a radical close observer of this phenomena, nurture unity. Likewise, we cannot Master Planning process, among FOCS. I became treasurer at the article about the well-organized social, cultural, and political notes that one important effect have unity in a pluralistic society other prior objectives (under same time he became co-chair, COVID vaccines given at the agenda that would be rejected by of left-wing identity politics without respecting diversity. Peter Conlon’s leadership), I have and in that time we have worked American Legion in Middlebury a strong majority of Americans. (now being taught openly in our Fortunately, we do have a flag been extremely concerned with collaboratively together with each on Feb. 4. Now a Black Lives Matter flag schools, as BLM’s “13 Principles” for that. It is the only one that my the sudden and narrow minded other and other FOCS officers, I was almost dreading what will fly “indefinitely” over one of frame the required curriculum on family and I have ever honored, way and accelerated pace in members, and school personnel on should have been a hopeful relief. our county’s high schools, with race and gender) is that it actively and the only one we ever will. I which the restarted process has many initiatives and activities. In What a wonderful surprise it a place of honor right below the encourages and energizes right- invite you to join me. been conducted over the last nine my view every action he takes as a turned out to be. Stars and Stripes. What next? wing identity politics. Critical Albert M. Zaccor, months during the pandemic member of our school community Thank you to all involved. Shouldn’t we add a Rainbow flag? Race and Gender theories fuel Colonel, U.S. Army-Retired. (under new leadership). The is meant to support the whole body, Pat Ullom With climate change looming, White Supremacy and Christian Bridport, VT. board’s efforts and information (See Ross letter, Page 9A) Orwell shouldn’t everyday be Earth Nationalism. Black Lives Matter that has come out about behind- the-scenes maneuvering and actions have increased my feeling that it is time to get some new Celebrating 91 years | 1930-2021 voices and energy on the board. It is in part for this reason that I FEBRUARY SNOW SALE ! put my full support behind Chris Kramer for the Cornwall seat on the ACSD school board. I have worked closely with him for nearly CLEGGS IMET three years as part of the Friend of W T Cornwall School (FOCS). 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Michael Jackman, 40 Years Experience 465-4688 CleggsMemorials.com Call Dave for an appointment brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com 2668 Route 7 • Leicester, VT 05733 • [email protected] PAGE 8A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 Ripton has many reasons to withdraw from ACSD In discussions with people in the and bring into our school the very between Salisbury and Middlebury Letters to the Editor Addison Central School District, best professional educators and further divides their community. I find, as an advocate of Ripton caregivers. • In a democracy, the right of withdrawal from ACSD, that • There is a democratic vision voters in Ripton and in all towns Well-run, regulated pot store would help downtown many people do not know why in which every Ripton citizen has to elect their own delegate(s) to Ripton voted to withdraw from a right to a voice and vote in the represent them on their school board On March 2, Middlebury not only fill a vacancy, but also suppliers who don’t check ID—all the District. Here is why I believe education of the town’s children. must be granted. residents will vote on whether generate significant foot traffic while bringing new jobs and new Ripton is seeking withdrawal: This vision is what we prefer • The residents of a town who or not to allow regulated to the downtown, bringing both local option tax revenues to our • It is best to have our own over the prospect of a town with decide to build their own school cannabis stores to open in town. locals and visitors into town who town school right here in our town no school, whose citizens have have the right to decide to close As downtown merchants and will patronize other businesses For more information, we invite where our young children can be no voice in the education of their that school. It should not be the property owners, we write to urge and help boost the sense of you to check out MiddYes.com. taught and cared for as an integral children, and whose vote within prerogative of another town or a all Middlebury residents to vote vibrancy that our town has been Abbey LaMay-West part of our community. That is the larger district is so small as to district school board to close that “Yes” on Question 3. lacking for many years. Alessandra & why we built and paid for our have no influence. school unless the town ratifies the Middlebury’s downtown has Allowing regulated sales Matthew Delia-Lobo town school. For 27 years after • Ripton parents have a right decision. lost numerous businesses over would reduce illegal sales of Amey Ryan our school was built in 1989, to convenient access to their • Ripton does not want to be the last few years. For remaining cannabis, as consumers would Becky Dayton we successfully educated our children’s educators and to the a burden to or have a negative businesses like ours, the vacant gravitate towards a safer shopping Ben Wells elementary children in Ripton, school in which their children impact on the other ACSD towns. storefronts pose a serious threat, experience. We’ve seen in other Bryan Phelps elected our own school board and learn. Sending our children to two Our effort to withdraw is because diminishing the sense of vibrancy states that introducing licensed Doug Nedde voted our own budget. This is the different schools in two different we value our school and do not that makes people want to visit, cannabis stores reduces local Lisa Phelps situation we wish to return to. towns will not afford Ripton want it closed. shop, and eat here. A well-run crime rates, raises local property Matt Bonner • In the Ripton community parents that right. Nor will that I do not pretend to speak for all and socially responsible regulated values, and reduces teen use Nancie Dunn we have the interests of our own situation benefit our students. the people of Ripton. But if you retail cannabis business will by driving away the existing children in mind and in heart, • Sending our young Ripton find these reasons rational and and believe that we know them children to schools where 20 or justified, I hope that you will vote Hooper seen as ‘caring, competent and committed’ better and understand their needs more is the standard for classroom to release Ripton from ACSD on more completely. We want to numbers will not be an advantage March 2. Please vote for Andy Hooper for committed to living and raising of the Montpelier City Council. provide our children with a for them, or for any ACSD students. Millard Cox Middlebury selectboard. Andy is a their four school-age children But most important, Andy is quality education in our school Also, splitting Ripton children Ripton caring, competent, and committed here. They have put enormous a happy, enormously likable, member of our community. He energy and love into renovating honest, and energetic Vermonter. cares about us, as evidenced by his their in-town Victorian home. He is the right person to help Thomas would bring intelligence, diversity to board service on the Ilsley Library Board Andy is professionally competent guide Middlebury into a bright, I am writing a letter in support young workers, college graduates, chose to move to Middlebury of Trustees, Addison County in business administration, applied prosperous future. (See his of Esther Thomas for the open and new families. We need to with her two young children. Regional Planning Commission, mathematics, and computer website: sites.google.com/view/ Middlebury selectboard seat. increase the school-age population She is energetic and has already Solid Waste District, and programming, all of which are hooper4middlebury) Esther is a brilliant, organized and of our community and state. demonstrated her commitment Communications Union District. central to his job as manager of John Freiden enthusiastic young woman who One approach to accomplish to Middlebury through her Andy and his wife Caitlin programming at Cabot/Agri-Mark. Middlebury would be an asset to our town. this is to have a diversity of involvement with the Middlebury Myers, who teaches economics In addition, Andy has eight Vermont continues to face experiences and knowledge in our Natural Foods Cooperative at Middlebury College, are years’ experience as a member population declines for young community leadership positions. Board and the Champlain Valley adults and families with school We should listen to the generation Unitarian Universalist Society. age children. We need to develop with school-age kids and take She is passionate about serving Kramer would push for ‘transparency’ in ACSD creative solutions to ensure that our heed of their suggestions. We can her community and working to As we approach this year’s name recognition. He was on significant reason to be invested. state is an attractive place to live pay more attention to the folks that make it a better place for all its Town and School Meetings, things the Cornwall School Board, the Chris is highly intelligent for both young native Vermonters choose to move here and bring a residents. will be very different, especially Steering Committee to form and would bring to the board a as well as younger transplants fresh perspective. More diversity Please join me in voting for for those used to attending the ACSD five years ago, and push for transparency and open from other regions. As the ongoing on our selectboard will help lead Esther Thomas for Middlebury in-person meetings for voting, or has subsequently continued discussion as they continue school consolidation discussion to new ideas and opportunities. selectboard. informational discussion. This on the board. He is also a state to tackle the many difficult illustrates, Vermont cannot This is why I feel that my vote Chris Hammond year, all meetings will be virtual. representative. When he began challenges that lie before them. continue down the path of losing for Esther is important. Esther Middlebury Conversations that happen quite in his school-related roles, his He has strong, creative vision. He literally at a distance also tend children were probably as young is not reluctant to share ideas and to feel more remote. Of course, as Chris Kramer’s are today. opinions, but is equally willing to Four-plus years of lies, Capitol assault bring tears the budgetary amounts represent Indeed, the vast majority of listen and to find compromise. I didn’t know if I should cry, still went along. Because of those was fair we probably would not real dollars, and the names on the people sitting on the ACSD board Some may say, “Why make yell, be angry, be sad. I did it lies the truth was often lost as too have had such a tragic raid on the ballots represent real people. The no longer have children in school, changes on the board when all but mainly I just cried. Cried many were convinced the truth capital. issues are also real. or especially in elementary school. things are so complex?” It is for our country, cried for our was the lie. Let us not forget that a lie heard One of the names on the ballot It’s important to have diverse this very complexity which calls people, and I cried for all those Our capitol was raided and over and over often becomes a is Chris Kramer, who is seeking board membership, but the people for bringing in new voices and people who supported the former lives lost because people believed truth and that can lead to a threat to be the Cornwall member on with the most direct interest in new vision. Chris Kramer has a President. I cried for them because Trump; that the election was a to our very democracy and weaken the ACSD board. (All district the actual educational experience positive energy that could prove they placed their trust in a person fraud and they needed to fight to it. I cry because in my eyes this towns vote for this position.) offered are bound to be people invaluable. Give him your vote that lied to them for four years and overturn the election. We are in a became for me a battle of truth The other person running for this whose children are young, whose March 2. convinced them that the lies were dangerous situation in our country over lies and the Republicans let seat is Peter Conlon. Peter has children will be in our schools for Laurie Cox the truth. And even worse were the when we have an impeachment the lies win. an advantage, purely through the next many years. They have a Ripton ones who knew it was all lies but that comes from four years of Trump was right. He could get lies and untruth that too many away with anything. He walked in Congress followed or were away carrying with him his hateful silent. Had Trump been willing lies that he can continue to poison to accept the loss of the election our country with. February after contesting it over and over in I am upset and I cry. courts and finding repeatedly that Frances Stone Pet Deals! there was no fraud and the election Orwell All Value Pack Dog Hooper has experience for board 36oz Greenies I am writing to the Addison time playing games with his $10 Off Independent to express my family. However, Andy’s care support for Andy Hooper as now extends beyond his family as Plus All other a member of the Middlebury he campaigns for the betterment Cat and Dog selectboard. I discovered Andy’s of the community. With previous Greenies eclectic demeanor soon after experience on the Montpelier City meeting him indirectly through council, Andy brings confidence, Dental Treats 25% off my friendship with his son Zeke. knowledge, and expertise to a My first interactions with Andy town facing new problems with were at Tinker and Smithy in unclear solutions. Whimzees downtown Middlebury, where he Eli Billings could often be found spending Middlebury 12.7oz Bags 25 % Off Fuentes-George letter 25% Off (Continued from Page 7A) of people. She has a vision for All Pe t new friend today.” our community, and the energy, From that moment I have intelligence, and purposefulness to Beds watched Esther build community, make it happen. All while supplies last. intentionally, together with all Esther’s voice is needed in Cannot be combined with any her old and new friends. It is our community. I hope you will other sale or offer. something that comes naturally join me on March 2 and vote Offer ends 2/28/21 to her. She is genuine and kind in Esther Thomas to the Middlebury her actions. She is a wonderful selectboard. MIDDLEBURY AGWAY listener, and has an amazing Lindsey Fuentes-George 388 Exchange Street Open ability to connect with all sorts East Middlebury 388-4937 7 days Mon. - Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-5, Sun. 9-4 Letters to the Editor can be found www.MiddleburyAgway.com on Pages 4A, 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A and 11A.

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At this critical time in ACSD moving 6th grade to MUMS, through volumes of paperwork, Middlebury by way of Montpelier Addison Solid Waste and now I have not yet had the pleasure history, it is essential to elect or the adjustment to the IB while offering valuable insight, is several years ago. He was a Maple Broadband. Not to mention to meet Esther Thomas, but I do people like Chris Kramer to serve curriculum when your children remarkable. consistent patron when I was his efforts in Montpelier prior to feel lucky that we live in an area on the school board. His current are not involved. Chris currently Although I know Chris through managing a restaurant in town, moving to our community. Andy is where we have so many qualified role as an elementary parent, has elementary age children his support for Cornwall, he has often coming in with his kids or passionate about the revitalization and energetic members of the active engagement, creative whose education will be directly been an active voice for other to steal away on a lunch or dinner of downtown Middlebury, and the community that have the effort thinking, and genuine compassion impacted by ACSD decisions. towns in the district as well. While date with his wonderful spouse. strain the rail project, and COVID, and drive to help govern our shire for all our community members During my time as an active we work to engage as a broader I know him to be an intelligent, has put on our already struggling town. But for me, I think we’d be offers a potent combination of elementary parent volunteer, I community to deal with the capable and confident person, local commerce. in good hands with Hooper. talent and experience. came to know Chris as equally realities of budgets and the desire whether discussing current events, Andy understands local Jeff Trump As a former elementary school engaged, and we joined forces for an equitable and supportive technology, Tigers and Panthers government and has the town East Middlebury board director, I appreciate for several programs. His energy, educational system for all of our the value of having someone commitment and humor benefit students, we need people like with current knowledge and any endeavor. Even before Chris Kramer to represent us. Thomas ‘a discerning listener,’ offers ‘thoughfulness’ involvement in the local schools offering to serve, Chris poured his Kristianne Tölgyesi serve in this important role. It can efforts into learning the process. Cornwall Esther Thomas is running sound management skills, commitment to giving back be easier to dismiss the effects His diligence in attending ACSD for the one-year post on the excellent communication, and to the community. She offers of consolidation, the impact of meetings and ability to sort Middlebury selectboard, the firm knowledge of guidelines a particular balance to the seat previously held by Victor and campus regulations. Esther selectboard’s membership in that Nuovo. I have come to know holds undergraduate and graduate she is a person of color, a single On board, Thomas would focus on issues that matter Esther as a fellow board member degrees in Communication and mom who works full-time and of the Middlebury Natural Foods I am energized to cast my vote work for working families, I believe those most impacted Public Relations and hence is lives the challenges of work/life Coop. She adds energy and for Esther Thomas to become the Esther brings an intersectional by a particular problem should well prepared for her duties. She balance and reliable childcare. thoughtfulness to our work, is a newest member of the Middlebury perspective that has long been be leading the way toward its relates experiencing a very strong She can offer a fresh perspective very discerning listener, and has selectboard. missing from town discussions of solution. As the selectboard connection with Vermont and the that her particular life experience no personal agenda to promote. Esther is unlike the perennial priorities, policies and budgets. continues its focus on the crises town of Middlebury right from has taught her, and we can all Esther moved to Middlebury candidate for elected office, a A thoughtful listener, Esther of affordability, community health the start, and knew she wanted learn from that. a couple of years ago to take quality that is both refreshing and will bring to the selectboard and racial justice, I know that this as the place to live and raise I encourage you to support a position at Middlebury Esther’s candidacy … she imperative. Esther is a woman, a the experiences and voices of Esther’s got my back — and I’ve her two young children. College. She is a Residence definitely has my vote! single mom of two kids, a person Middlebury residents, especially got hers. Esther has much to contribute Director within the Student Louise Vojtisek of color, and a full-time worker. from those whom are often Jason Kaye to the selectboard given her Life staff, a job that requires Middlebury Striving to make Middlebury underrepresented. East Middlebury intelligence, energy and Legislators’ plan to cut pensions betrays educators Noble, Conlon, have background for ACSD board I am writing today because was lauded by Governor Scott, witnessed many family and To all: Please vote for school administrators, coaches. Already transparent process as the board of the proposed changes to during the summers to offer rich friends earn larger salaries than board members on March 2nd demanding, their jobs have been makes difficult but unavoidable the Vermont State Teachers’ and real-world experiences to our I do within their first couple either by mail or in person. made even more difficult by decisions for the future. Retirement System. As a native most vulnerable students. Also, I of years of graduating college Next to food and safety, COVID-19. These are people Peter Conlon (Cornwall) Vermonter, I have been an serve on numerous unpaid local despite my holding a Master’s education is the most important who sincerely care about our has been a board “workhorse,” educator since 1995, teaching a and state committees, task forces, Degree (plus 30+ additional gift we can give the youngsters youngsters and what happens to stabilizer and realist. He is direct, variety of subjects and students and boards to ensure equitable credits) and National Board of our towns. To me a good them. They deserve our support. open and willing to listen and in the Vergennes, Burlington, and opportunities for Vermont’s Teacher Certification along with education should provide each This year there are more school honestly consider. Peter has been Middlebury school districts. Most children. Like my respected working continuously these years. student the skills to become board candidates than open the board’s chief negotiator with of these years, I designed and colleagues, I am a teacher through While dedicated and competent a secure, self-confident and positions. Two stand out for me: the teacher’s union and was board taught camp-like programs, such and through. employees, these members do productive adult in whatever area Mary Heather Noble chair. He currently sits on the as the “Shark Tank Start-Up” that Over the years, I have (See Santa Maria letter, Page 10A) is chosen. My personal “sell by” (Middlebury) would be a new House Education Committee in date as far as having children in member on the board. She brings the Legislature and has been an can be found the school system is long past and knowledge gained from the invaluable resource to the ACSD Letters to the Editor like many without kids in school Oregon school system where her Board. on Pages 4A, 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A and 11A. I’ve taken much for granted. No family lived prior to moving to Our schools are central to the more. Vermont and worked with MESA, success of our youngsters. Think During my single term as the Mentorship Program and about it and make your vote count. an Addison Central School coached when her children were And so, I end this letter end as it District school board member at Mary Hogan. More recently began — please vote for school I have been awed and inspired Mary Heather has been involved board members on March 2nd by the caring and dedication with the ACSD Facilities Planning either by mail or in person. of ACSD staff — all of them; Committee’s effort to design and Thank you, be well. teachers, cafeteria workers, implement a public participation Peg Martin specialists, building maintenance process. Perhaps most important Middlebury personnel, curriculum developers, she is dedicated to an open and Ross letter

(Continued from Page 7A) an open mind and not jump to or that help schools navigate many not just a select few. This has been seek certain conclusions during the challenges. It is just time for new, especially pertinent over the last information gathering processes more inclusive perspectives to have year while we have supported involved in making good decisions a voice on the ACSD board. Cornwall School in new ways and that will make our district stronger While this is a race for the continued traditions during the in the face of adversity. Cornwall seat on the board, it is an COVID-19 pandemic. As I have said before, I would at-large position representing the He has been willing and much love to see every school be able to whole district. So I encourage all more able to interact on the remain open. Our current dynamics voters in the ACSD to visit Chris’ larger school community level locally and statewide provide too campaign page at votechriskramer. than myself. He then thoroughly many challenges to maintaining the com or Facebook page at facebook. reports what he has learned and status quo. I only ask for a board com/pg/votechriskramer/ observed back to those of us who that is willing to look objectively community to learn more about are less able to participate at that at all viewpoints and I know Chris this upstanding citizen. higher level. He has continued will do that in a transparent way. Ian Ross to exhibit his willingness to I thank Peter Conlon for the Cornwall support the greater good of our work he has done in support of district community by expressing the whole ASCD community for and standing by what could be well over a decade, and continue The time unpopular positions in our town. to welcome his service at the I believe it is more an expression state level, where he is in a good to start your seeds of the need for everyone to keep position to support initiatives is before town meeting day! – Agway, Botanical Interests, High Mowing Organic, Livingston, New England Seed Co., Renee’s, Seedway and Pages Liberty Seeds! • Seed Starting Soils • Starter Trays • Jiffy Pots and more. 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I have been actively I look at Ripton’s withdraw the 6th-grade move. following the ACSD school from a fiscal perspective, it will We must have accurate fully Race for Middlebury board makes for tough choice consolidation discussion and not have a negative financial substantiated data available I wish I could vote for both on Middlebury’s priority for this committed to this work, which I have attended every ACSD impact on the remaining towns. before we as voters make any Esther Thomas, who I helped year, knowing that the following view as our priority. Board and facilities master plan In fact, according to a recent decisions about something as recruit, and Andy Hooper, my year ushers in more opportunities I hope both of our wonderful committee meeting since late ACSD Ripton school withdrawal critical as closing one of our rural good neighbor, on Middlebury to seek election to the selectboard. new candidates remain involved, 2019. I will be voting “yes” to assessment, the district’s cost elementary schools. And for me, selectboard for the one-year seat Racial justice work emphasizes for even if not elected, they ratify Ripton’s town vote. per equalized pupil would be the thought of holding Ripton’s for which they are competing. I the need to actively recruit and can have a voice in selectboard From firsthand knowledge, I less than it is today. The ACSD children hostage just so that the will have to choose. support people of color on our meetings and town committee know that Ripton is not making financial assessment clearly district can close their school It is healthy to have such a boards. We are fortunate to have involvement, as I did rising from this decision lightheartedly. Over shows that Ripton’s rural school to offset excessive spending robust choice. Esther brings Esther, a single mother of color, our energy committee. And I urge the past year, I have had the is not the root cause of the elsewhere is inequitable. a fresh, encouraging and stepping forward and Lindsey everyone to look for opportunities opportunity to personally meet district’s year-over-year budget Closing the Ripton school open voice to our diversity Fuentes-George, a parent of to serve that are posted in March several Ripton families and I increases. would, at best, only offset one efforts in this critical time of bi-racial children, and Farhad at the Welcome To Town of can attest to the fact that their This same assessment goes year of healthcare coverage this focus. Andy brings local Khan, a business owner of color, Middlebury, Vermont website decision to withdraw from this on to show what the district’s increases. What happens the government experience serving running again for three-year seats — townofmiddlebury.org — and district is what they believe will potential financial benefit following year? And then the on Montpelier’s selectboard and and joining “rookie” Dan Brown on our town list serve. Consider be best for their children. They would be should Ripton not be next? As a district, we must now on Middlebury committees, on Middlebury’s Diversity, Equity, them, and a future selectboard have done a tremendous amount allowed to withdraw so that redirect our focus holistically especially on our library board, and Inclusion Workgroup. The seat. of research and they genuinely the district could benefit from on the entire ACSD budget to working to sustain this essential rest of our selectboard, Andy and Laura Asermily believe that they can establish a closing its school. Unfortunately, ensure that we fully understand town asset. You’ll need to decide many others in our community are Middlebury successful community school in this assessment is not an and document the process Ripton. Furthermore, they will be accurate portrayal of the actual and criterion by which school held accountable by the Agency savings that would result. The consolidation and other cost- Hooper seen as ‘compassionate,’ ‘even-tempered’ of Education to ensure that primary focus is limited to cutting decisions are being made. Andy Hooper for Middlebury for an elected official. an inspiration to me to become as they meet the high educational unsubstantiated staffing and Concrete financial assessments selectboard! Andy is an all-around As I grew to know him I great a man as he is. He is a caring standards in Vermont. facilities cost reductions. It that clearly identify the great guy. He is intelligent, found him to be a quintessential husband and father who has Beyond withdrawing from the does not consider budget areas anticipated financial and erudite, compassionate, and Vermonter — a love of Cabot raised amazing children — well district, their only other option where costs will increase, such socioeconomic impacts, both even-tempered. I have known him cheese and maple syrup, from mannered and studious. is to allow their school to close, as transportation. And it does positive and negative, must be the as my neighbor and friend ever multiple generations living in I believe that as a selectman which has many downsides. I not consider the socioeconomic foundation on which all decisions since he moved in next door to our this state, wily, the whole nine Andy Hooper will lead our recently traveled several of the impacts that may result. are made. As a newly elected farm on South Munger Street. My yards. Andy taught me a lot town in a fiscally and socially back roads of Ripton. For me, As with the 6th-grade move ACSD Board member, one of first impression of him was that about different topics ranging responsible fashion that will this reinforced how difficult it to MUMS, there is no guarantee my commitments is to advocate he was willing to talk to anyone at from economics to philosophy, increase the quality of life for would be to have a young child that the district will be able to for the level of detail required to any time, which is a great quality science and history. He has been its residents. Nobody can be travel by bus to Mary Hogan realize the staffing reductions make the difficult decisions that everything, but Andy certainly and/or Salisbury, especially suggested. Initially, we were we as a district are being faced comes close. Please consider in the winter. It would also told that the 6th grade could with. voting for Andy Hooper. greatly diminish the ability for be absorbed with no additional I strongly urge you to vote Welcome Back Students! Relief Quinn their children to participate in MUMS staff. Clearly this “Yes” to allow Ripton to Middlebury afterschool programs and for turned out not to be the case withdraw from the district to Stock up on Dorm Supplies: parents to take an active role in as documented in this year’s pursue what they believe is best • Storage Totes, Organizers and Laundry Baskets their children’s education. annual report. Even though for their children. • Small Appliances Pots and Pans I sincerely do not believe that several staffing positions Barbara J. Wilson the other uninformed ACSD were eliminated others were Shoreham • Coffee Grinders and Coffee Makers Letters to • Kitchen Utensils and Supplies DOLLAR $ $ the Editor Democrats have become the party with real values Don’t Forget St. Patrick’s Day! 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The Republicans they support and value, they say 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A, degrees different. have given lip service to small Freedom and Liberty, but then FACE MASKS REQUIRED FOR ALL SHOPPERS The Dems have stepped businesses but the heart of they go and do an insurrection 198 Court St., Middlebury VT 05753 • (802) 388-7145 10A and 11A. forward for these values: their support was/is for those intended to keep their leader in decency, integrity, honesty, the who are already well-off. Their power and override the freedom MONDAY-SATURDAY 9AM-6PM • SUNDAY 10AM-5PM truth, respect for science and environmental values were/are and voice of a majority of the factual evidence. They support nearly non-existent. The same for voters. When you ask what they human kindness, compassion, their support and compassion for want, the answer is power and empathy, respect for all, respect people in need. Trump. for the land and the environment. Now, because of the last four And patriotism? They are attempting to help the years, Republicans have moved The Republicans really have WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER! largest numbers of Americans towards ending democracy, work to do to restore their image and they are inclusive in their supporting an authoritarian. They and credibility. Right now, the definitions of Americans. They have taken truth and respect Democrats are the party of values, are for the public good and the for science out of their bag of good values. Try our want to fight injustice and racism. values. They have elevated lying, Van Talmage FREE: What is not to like about the demagoguery, bigotry, corruption, Lincoln • 2 Pkgs. Batteries hearing • Programming On aids Any Hearing Aids Santa Maria letter • Cleaning & Adjusting • Hearing Test FREE! & Diagnostics (Continued from Page 9A) retire. I love my profession and do these years. not work well beyond their receive many emotional rewards Over 70% of teachers are contractual hours nor pay for from being an educator. But I give women. Given the wage their office supplies out of their to my community, too. When a difference between teaching and Trade in your old WE SERVICE/SELL THE own pockets without getting current or former student needs a other professions, and if these FOLLOWING: reimbursed. Teachers do. letter of recommendation or help proposed changes are enacted, hearing aids and get • Signia • Phonak • Unitron Whenever my husband, a with an application, I give. When what message does this send to • Starkey • Oticon • Widex business owner, lamented that I the students at school sponsor a the women of our state? Might premium $$$$! • Bernafon • Gn Resound should be working in the private food drive for the local agency, they infer that Vermont is not sector making significantly higher I give. When the student asks very progressive as it perpetuates wages given my education, for a donation to an organization gender income inequality? I Advance Hearing Technologies expertise, and work ethic, I have or cause, I give. When a child wonder why a predominantly always countered that I make a needs a ride home or to a special female profession must be the one Marble Works, 63 Maple Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 difference in the lives of so many event, I give. When a kid needs to bear this burden. 802-233-2345 young people and that my pension lunch money or a snack to get Additionally, one must question offers me some reward when I through the day, I give. When a the integrity of our leaders if these teen needs a winter coat, I give. changes are enacted. I know these When a student’s family loses its changes will have significant

home to fire or eviction, I give. short-term repercussions and When a student’s family member long-term ramifications. The Addison, VT Homeowner battles cancer, I give. Well beyond implications will not only impact the couple of thousand dollars of me as I will need to get a second classroom supplies and resources job or seek early retirement to Recommends Bristol Electronics for my students that I acquire pursue another profession, but annually in receipts, I, like other will affect the educational system teachers, give generously. I will and our children also. How will carry these memorable moments Vermont expect to attract and in my heart, but memories will not keep intelligent, skilled, and pay the bills. dedicated educators? Why would Given the proposed pension any prospective educator have changes and my being not that faith that Vermont would keep any far from retirement, I feel like my of its future promises? Vermont’s contributions, including financial, children — as well as its local and are being discounted, devalued, state economies — benefit from and disregarded. I, too, pay having teachers who live, work, property, sales, and income taxes and invest in their communities. in Vermont. Like other teachers, A pension is far more than I make the required contributions a promise. It is an indication to the pension fund. Even after of what an entity, individual, The State of Vermont significantly or community values. Do you underfunded the pensions for value Vermont teachers? Do you seventeen years, 1990-2007, value our profession’s service to “We are loving our new heat pump - it’s like our house teachers agreed to changes in our Vermont children? Do you value suddenly got bigger! The room has been warm even on pensions in 2010 that require us integrity and commitment? If so to contribute more and to work then you must prevent any aspect recent cold nights - very impressive.” additional years. Now, because The of this proposal from being passed -Viveka Fox & Peter Macfarlane State of Vermont has not been a by the legislature so that Vermont Addison, VT good steward of this fund, it seeks to upholds its commitment to its ask even more of its compassionate educators. OFFERING FREE SITE EVALUATIONS and committed educators ... some Martha Santa Maria, M.Ed., • of us at the twilight of our careers NBCT (802) 453.2500 BristolElectronicsVT.com and have fulfilled our obligations all Addison Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 11A Middlebury College recognizes residents for community service MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury and Architecture, has shared his College has recognized for local expertise in community planning, residents — Glenn Andres, Sadie historic preservation, and thoughtful Brightman, Emily Joselson and Amy development with the residents of Mason — with the 2020 Bonnie and Middlebury, Addison County, and AMY MASON John McCardell Citizen’s Awards Vermont since arriving in the state GLENN ANDRES SADIE BRIGHTMAN EMILY JOSELSON in recognition of their remarkable in 1970. He has worked to inspire contributions to the community. The the public to appreciate and protect activist, consensus builder, and The community and the MCMC discussions on issues ranging from helping those who are vulnerable.” college delayed its announcement of their historic buildings by giving pragmatic problem solver for issues board, which includes Brightman, racism and gun violence to hate Amy Mason identifies needs the 2020 awards until 2021 due to lectures, organizing exhibitions, and relating to the historic buildings have responded to the center speech and homelessness. Joselson in her community and addresses the pandemic. serving on the Vermont Advisory and downtowns that are such a with enthusiasm and support. also cofounded Addison Central them. A resident of Addison Normally Middlebury College Council for Historic Preservation fundamental part of Vermont’s The center serves as a musical Teens in 2008. She identified space, County who returned to her native President Laurie L. Patton presents for 30 years and the cultural landscape,” ecosystem by providing a place staff, and funding to start it, in part Vermont with her family 12 years the annual awards at a celebratory Middlebury Design said his nominator for for music learners and teachers by visiting every select board in ago, she has drawn on her passion dinner for the current and prior Advisory Committee “Even though the award. “Glenn has to inspire each other. Brightman Addison County and attending half for volunteering and learning new recipients of the award at the since 1990. we cannot honor devoted considerable encourages students to improve the town meetings. She partnered skills as well as her professional President’s House. The dinner for Among his works these award energy to accessing their skills through performance, with the Addison County Parent/ experience in marketing, the 2020 award winners will take are books on two recipients in resources to preserve and this effort has led to MCMC Child Center for institutional communications, and education place at a later date. Vermont topics: “The person right and maintain historic students performing regularly in support, and assembled and led to support her community. As the the community in locations ranging the teen center’s board of directors board chair of WomenSafe since “Even though we cannot honor Walking History now, we want architecture, and has these award recipients in person of Middlebury” creatively advocated from the Residence at Otter Creek until the organization was fully 2014, she launched and managed right now, we want to recognize and “Buildings of to recognize for new patterns of and the Town Hall Theater to school established in the community. a capital campaign that raised how deeply we appreciate the work Vermont,” a 20-year how deeply use to ensure the assemblies. She is also a member of Joselson’s concern for the hungry, more than $1 million to expand the that they have done and the time project for which he we appreciate continued relevance the Vermont Creative Network. sick, homeless and mistreated nonprofit’s facilities and deepen its that they have invested in making and coauthor Curtis the work that of the region’s “It was Sadie’s vision and her is evident in the many local capacity to serve people across the our community a stronger and more Johnson had to raise they have early buildings to passion for music education that organizations that have benefited gender spectrum who experience resilient place for everyone,” said $60,000. He has served Vermonters.” made MCMC possible,” said her from her service on their boards or as sexual violence, domestic violence, Patton. many other state and done and the Sadie Brightman nominator for the award. “For her, a volunteer. She was a board member dating violence, and stalking. Middlebury College honors local local organizations in time that they is the founder and this work has only begun. She of the Addison County Parent/Child When the pandemic hit Addison citizens for exemplary volunteerism leadership positions, have invested executive director and the other teachers at MCMC Center for more than 20 years and County in March 2020, Mason and service in a tradition that dates including the Henry in making our of the Middlebury are constantly looking for ways of Havurah: The Addison County quickly helped to launch a to the college’s bicentennial year in Sheldon Museum community a Community Music to have their budding musicians Jewish Congregation for almost neighbor-to-neighbor response by perform, to create new programs 30 years. A former co-chair of the cofounding Addison County Mutual 2000. and the Center for stronger and Center (MCMC), Nominations come from members Research on Vermont. an institution that that excite their students, and to give Addison County Hunger Council Aid and serving as its countywide of the community, and a committee His extensive more resilient has become an instructors a platform to develop and board member of Addison coordinator. The organization’s of faculty and staff makes the final involvement in the place for important artistic and their educational goals.” County Home Health and Hospice, website is run by volunteers to selections. Every recipient of the community reflects everyone.” educational asset for Emily Joselson, a partner in the she has volunteered consistently connect people in need with those Citizen’s Award receives a locally his passion for the — Middlebury the community since Middlebury law firm Langrock for Standing up for Racial Justice who can help with everything from crafted medallion from Danforth performing arts College President it opened in 2014. The Sperry & Wool, has founded, and the Middlebury Task Force on grocery shopping and chores to Pewterers. as well. Andres is Laurie L. Patton nonprofit offers year- championed and volunteered for Homelessness. Gov. Madeleine finances. Mason also helps organize A complete list of past winners the director of the round music lessons multiple community endeavors. Kunin appointed her to the Vermont events and manage communications of the McCardell award online at Salisbury Summer Performance in 24 instruments and voice, Concerned about growing threats to Human Rights Commission, which for Parents Supporting Thoughtful tinyurl.com/CollegeCitizenAwards. Series, which he founded in 1979; classes, camps and workshops community solidarity and civility, Joselson chaired from 1991 to 2000. Technology, a group she cofounded Descriptions of this year’s a former longtime member of the for all ages. The organization she co-created a series of events “Emily has been working to in 2018 for families and educators in winners, in alphabetical order, Middlebury Community Players; also offers a scholarship program, called Community Conversations address inequality and division the Addison Central School District. follow: and a participant in the early hosts performances, and partners that took place from 2017 to for many years,” said one of her She is a past board chair for the Glenn Andres, professor planning for the Town Hall Theater. with local childcare centers and 2019. At these public meetings, an nominators. “She has repeatedly Mary Johnson Children’s Center emeritus of the Middlebury College “For the better part of 50 years, school programs to provide music expert or panel of experienced and demonstrated her commitment to and a past chair and co-chair of Department of History of Art Glenn has served as an advocate, education experiences. knowledgeable local citizens led strengthening our community and Friends of Weybridge Elementary.

Unique science opportunity on tap from UVM Letters to the Editor BURLINGTON — Curious The presentation is hosted an adjunct professor in criminal about how the police process a by University of Vermont justice with Champlain College. crime scene or what happens to (UVM) Extension 4-H as For questions about this Conlon shows ‘thoughful, diligent concern’ for all the evidence that is collected? part of its ongoing program, program, contact UVM Peter Conlon is the right oncoming changes in public the experience and level- Or have you ever considered “How Did You Get There?” Extension 4-H educator Molly person for ACSD School Board. education — driven by many headedness that Peter brings to joining the ranks of the Vermont Past presenters in this career McFaun at molly.mcfaun@uvm. Throughout the 25 years I have factors at the state and local levels the board. Now is the time for a State Police? exploration series have included edu. To request a disability- known Peter, he has served our — will not be easy. Changes will clear-eyed and comprehensive On March 10, students in a television producer, attorney related accommodation to community with thoughtful, bring beneficial opportunities for view, for a deep understanding grades 7-12 are invited to join and veterinarian. participate, call Rose Crossley diligent concern for all residents. our children as well as discontent of the system-wide complexities in a conversation with Aimee Detective Sergeant Nolan, who at (802) 476-2003. Peter does not pretend that and dissatisfaction; Peter does and pressures that our schools Nolan, a detective sergeant has a master’s degree in forensic Check out the 4-H At Home there are simple answers to not pretend that there are perfect and all of us face, and for a with the Vermont State Police, science, will walk participants website at uvm.edu/extension/ the difficult situation Vermont solutions. person with a great track record to get the inside scoop. The through how she got into her youth/4-h-home for information schools are in. He has what Through numerous of working effectively with a virtual session, which will run chosen career and what her job about future sessions in this we need, including a depth of conversations over the years, broad spectrum of people. from 12:30-1:30 p.m., is free, as a crime scene investigator series and to learn about other knowledge and experience to I know that Peter has a vision I urge you to join me in although registration is required involves before opening up the youth learning opportunities understand the state and federal in which all students receive supporting Peter Conlon for at go.uvm.edu/howdidyou discussion for questions. She involving science, citizenship, laws that relate to education, and the educational services and ACSD School Board. to receive the Zoom link has served as a police officer the environment and other an understanding of local fears opportunities they need to learn, Marc Lapin information. in Vermont for 24 years and is topics. and concerns that run through grow and thrive. This vision Cornwall all communities in the district. has been behind his decades of Peter is a clear communicator; he public service, starting, I guess, is very highly respected by his with his chairmanship of Friends Letters to the Editor can be found colleagues on the school board of Cornwall School. Peter’s three on Pages 4A, 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A, and in the state legislature for his children have gone through our broad view, his ability to calmly central Addison County schools; 10A and 11A. and intelligently assess complex he knows the whole system, from societal problems that we all are elementary schools up to the grappling with, and for being high school, and even the whole a collaborative, community- state; he knows and loves our minded leader. Addison County communities; Porter Pediatrics Peter is a Vermonter who he knows many of us personally knows Vermont. He has lived and cares about us and our and Primary Care through many changes here, families. Accepting New Patients and knows that the ongoing and Now is not the time to ignore

We Welcome Elizabeth Coogan, M.D., F.A.A.P.

“I chose a career in pediatrics because I love seeing children grow and develop. I enjoy helping families through every stage of childhood and adolescence and the myriad challenges and opportunities each stage presents. I love meeting and getting to know kids of all ages and their families and working together to promote their health and well-being. I speak Spanish and English and am happy to conduct visits in both languages. In addition to my clinical practice, I am the medical technology lead for my colleagues in primary care, the champion for transgender care in our department, and sit on our medical office’s patient service committee.” To learn more about Dr. Coogan, visit UVMHealth.org/PMC To make an appointment, call (802) 388-7959 PAGE 12A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 President Patton addresses the community Students To Members of the Middlebury Community, (Continued from Page 1A) more in-person social options, As we prepare once again to bring in a campus-wide announcement travel to the Snow Bowl and students back to the Middlebury last week. Rikert Nordic Center, and more.” College campus for the spring Students who test positive will Middlebury has replaced the semester, we write to share our be isolated in dedicated campus “phased reopening” structure it plans and collective commitment to housing and health officials will used last fall with a Campus Status creating and maintaining a safe and conduct contact tracing. webpage, which explains what is healthy community for all. Roughly 2,200 students went and is not permitted on campus We are incredibly grateful for through the same routine last each week, based on local and the partnership with this — our August, at the start of the fall national public health conditions. town and county — during a most 2020 semester. The initial round Visit tinyurl.com/1cl07e85 for unusual fall, and we look forward of testing revealed just two cases. more information. to continuing our work together Four more students tested positive As in the fall, the college for another successful term. In this over the next three months. All of will conduct weekly “targeted letter, we will tell you about some them subsequently recovered. dynamic testing” for both students of the changes we are making on But things were different then. and staff. campus, building on our successes In August Vermont averaged Addison County Home Health in the fall, and in response to the fewer than seven new cases per & Hospice will again be assisting evolving conditions in Vermont day. On Jan. 26, when the college with the testing, beginning on and worldwide. We invite you also emailed detailed instructions Feb. 22 and continuing throughout to review our detailed plans and to incoming spring semester the semester on Mondays and read our latest announcements on MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE HAS erected a winterized tent on the lawn next to the McCullough Student students, the state recorded 120 Thursdays. our Spring 2021 Campus Guide Center on campus where students arriving this weekend will be able to do such things as eat meals, new cases. This past Tuesday: reserve space for student-organized uses and pick up skates and helmets for use on a new outdoor ice “This is a great local partnership website: middlebury.edu/office/ 185. and we are very grateful to them,” skating rink being set up nearby. The college has also set up fire pits around campus where student can spring2021. hang out in the COVID-safer outdoors. Nationwide case counts have Photo by Tim Parsons said college spokesperson Sarah STUDENT ARRIVAL charted similarly. Ray. AND TESTING our approach in response to these or in our community change, and skating on an outdoor ice In their Jan. 26 announcement, And the college will continue Similar to the fall, about 2,000 expectations. Rather than planning we are prepared to shift to room rink. You may notice some new Doucet, along with Chief to provide the community with students will return to Middlebury in to progress through phases with quarantine or to send students home tents, firepits, and hot chocolate Health Officer Mark Peluso and testing data through its COVID-19 two groups, on Feb. 21 and 22, after a slow easing of restrictions over to complete their classes remotely huts as you drive by campus. We Environmental Health and Safety Reporting Dashboard, which can completing a two-week prearrival time, which was not fully possible if that becomes necessary. In the are embracing the cold weather Officer Jen Kazmierczak, laid out be found at tinyurl.com/5qpxvbst. quarantine at home. They will report in the fall, we will remain nimble event of a high number of cases and everything wonderful about a number of concerns about the At present there are no active immediately to our COVID-19 and adjust protocols from week to or unexplained clusters of cases, Vermont. As conditions allow, we current state of the pandemic: cases at Middlebury. testing center at Virtue Field House, week as conditions warrant. We we will rely on guidance from the anticipate allowing students to • the emergence of new and A handful of students remained followed by room quarantine until think this more realistic approach Vermont Department of Health and travel into town and within Addison more contagious strains of the on campus after the fall semester, they receive negative results. They will make it simpler for students our Porter Medical Center partners County, including to the Snow coronavirus. and a few dozen returned in then will move to campus quarantine to navigate life on campus and to to determine how best to proceed. Bowl and Rikert Nordic Center. • it will be months before January to conduct winter term until it is determined to be safe to know what rules are in effect at EXPANSION OF OUTDOOR In the meantime, we will continue vaccines will be made available research. All of those students allow visits to town and Addison specific times. We will offer weekly ACTIVITIES allowing local deliveries at our to most of the campus community. have been tested and none were County. Some changes this term: webinars for students and monthly It is important to note that the drop-off center at 75 Shannon St. • pandemic fatigue has set in positive. Rather than two arrival tests, students webinars for faculty and staff to health and safety of our community We thank you for your participation and fewer people are complying More details about how the will be tested three times, and classes discuss the changes and answer includes the mental health and in these endeavors. with public health protocols. college plans to conduct the will be conducted remotely at least questions. The latest information well-being of our students. We We learned much from the fall. • cold weather means more upcoming semester can be found through the first week of the semester. will be posted on our new Campus as a community did a remarkable And we were reminded that this time indoors, where transmission in the Spring 2021 Campus Guide, We will not commence in-person Status webpage: middlebury.edu/ job in following health and community has incredible fortitude, of the disease is more likely. tinyurl.com/1cl07e85. learning until we know it is safe to office/spring2021/covid-reporting- safety protocols in the fall, and resilience, and — an attribute that Still, college officials are The first major news to emerge do so, and we will continue regular dashboard/campus-status. that partnership is essential to an surely will be needed in the spring hoping that what worked on since the creation of that guide testing for students in response to the We also have updated our conduct enjoyable and rewarding experience — perseverance. We thank the campus in the fall will, with a few involves the Class of 2021. latest conditions. policies and will continue to publish on campus in the spring. This entire community for all you have tweaks based on experience, work On Tuesday the college CAMPUS STATUS AND statistics about COVID-19 cases means that more faculty and staff done to support Middlebury and in the spring. announced its intention — if all CONDUCT POLICIES and disciplinary outcomes on our will welcome our students and their our students. And perhaps most of “Assuming a low prevalence of goes well — to hold an in-person With the increased incidence Reporting Dashboard: middlebury. families to campus at a safe distance all, we look forward to the moment COVID-19 cases on campus and commencement on May 30. The of COVID-19 worldwide and edu/office/spring2021/covid- on arrival days; they will participate when the pandemic is behind us, in surrounding communities, and ceremony will be restricted to in Vermont — including new, reporting-dashboard. in weekend rounds to assist in and we can celebrate the historic that students are complying with seniors who are already studying more transmissible strains — this OUR COLLECTIVE HEALTH monitoring student behavior; and vibrant connections between health and safety expectations, on campus, however. Families, semester could be more challenging AND WELL-BEING and they will help operations run the College and the community that we expect to move more friends, community members and than the fall, and we are prepared for Middlebury will continue to more smoothly at the dining halls have helped us through this time. quickly than we did in the fall to seniors studying remotely will not a higher incidence of the virus on monitor local and regional health and at our testing center. We also Sincerely, introduce additional privileges be allowed to attend. campus. Still, we know that the best conditions, including health system will be providing more outdoor Laurie Patton, President and activities,” Doucet wrote last Reach Christopher way to prevent spread of the virus is capacity, cases in the broader opportunities for our students, most Mark Peluso, Chief Health week. “This might include travel Ross at christopherr@ strict adherence to core health and community, and other factors in notably skiing and snowshoeing Officer and College Physician into town and Addison County, addisonindependent.com. safety protocols. We have simplified the spring. If conditions on campus on the Ralph Myhre Golf Course Middlebury College

Are you aware of Ripton’s recent vote to withdraw What will this future look like for Ripton? from the Addison Central School District? Ripton is seeking to maintain its own school, one based on After two years of effort to engage the board in creative equity. As a small, tight-knit community, we can make sure solutions, it became certain that the school would be people of all ages won’t slip through the cracks, and keep closed. Therefore, on Jan. 12, the town voted to leave the our school as the center of a community that sets a standard district. for accountability and success.

Now we need your help. Will this affect my taxes? On Town Meeting Day, March 2, Bridport, Cornwall, You should not see any significant tax impact if Ripton Middlebury Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge will vote on withdraws since it is one of the smallest schools in the allowing Ripton to leave. district. Tuitioning students to MUMS and MUHS would continue Ripton’s financial contributions to ACSD. VOTE YES ON MARCH 2 TO LET RIPTON GO Paid for by Save Our Schools, LLC Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 13A Depot (Continued from Page 1A) Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), which says the building must be removed or demolished by this fall. Many of the recent public conversations about the depot have focused on how close it is to the train tracks, and Roundtree was hoping that moving the building just 14 feet to the south and east might solve the TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INSIST this historic depot on Route 7 problem. near Route 17 in New Haven be moved or demolished because it could But according to Brassard, Deputy produce a potential deadly line-of-sight obstruction when Amtrak Director of Policy, Planning & trains come whizzing through the junction beginning late this year. KEVIN HANSON ERIN JIPNER KRISTA SIRINGO Intermodal Development (Aviation, Independent photo/Steve James Rail and Public Transit) at VTrans, the building’s proximity to the tracks there have been issues with freight where they want this building, and isn’t the main issue. and freight packaging hitting the that I would participate in those MAUSD seats “The issue is sight distance,” she building, Brassard said. meetings,” she recalled. “And then told the Independent. “When you “The easiest way to explain this is what the use of it is going to be. (Continued from Page 1A) “But instead I’m nervous — and look at where (Route 7 traffic is) to use lumber as an example. When Are we moving it to be someone’s Bristol holds five seats on the not just because of the financial supposed to stop, where the gates we go out and talk to kids about why private home, in which case we’re board. The following candidates burdens the district is facing. It’s and lights come down for a train to they shouldn’t be walking along the going to struggle to find public are competing for two of them. also the health and education and go through that intersection — at tracks we talk about the banding on money? Or are we moving it so it’s KEVIN HANSON well-being of district kids.” 59 miles per hour — the MUTCD shipments of lumber. If that metal a museum or a visitor center or some Kevin Hanson was first elected Jipner believes the biggest (Manual on Uniform Traffic Control band breaks and it’s flapping in the type of public use? Once we know, to the MAUSD board in 2018. challenge facing the district right Devices) recommends a sight line of wind and you are walking along the we can look at what types of funding Before that he served on the Mount now is responding to current and 1,445 feet ... But when I look at this track and get hit by it, think of all are available.” Abraham Union High School projected financial constraints, she site, in some cases I only have 15 and the damage it could do. Now picture Either way, it’s important for board for about 18 months. said. 30 feet. That’s what our problem is.” some of the other freight (the trains) people to understand that VTrans Last year Hanson chaired “There’s one plan, but there’s In other words, a southbound move,” which could hit the building, isn’t insisting the building be the school board’s Facilities nothing for the community to train can’t see any of the northbound she said. demolished, Brassard said. Feasibility Study Subcommittee, compare it to, no other ideas traffic on Route 7, and the traffic FUTURE USE “What we’re saying is: We get it. which concluded its work in circulating, no other plans,” she can’t see a train coming from the The town of New Haven is We understand why it’s important November with a report and set said. “The community hasn’t been north, Brassard explained. forming a committee to come up to the region, but we just need to of recommendations for long- given enough of the ‘why’ and PAMELA JENNINGS This is less of a concern for slow- with a plan for moving the building, find a better home for it. We don’t range facilities planning. He has ‘how’ of the proposal. Have we moving freight trains, but it becomes Dupoise said. want Amtrak to derail into it. We expressed support for Reen’s been transparent enough?” a serious issue with a 59-mile-per- At a selectboard meeting last don’t want them hitting somebody proposal. The tone of public discussion to make sure we had effective hour passenger train sailing across month, Brassard said VTrans may be in the crossing. It’s more to prevent “We’re in a real quandary of the plan has felt very partisan, communication channels between Route 7. able to help. something from happening.” about underused buildings and Jipner said. the board and the community. Train operators would just have to “I told them they need to get a Ross at christopherr@ declining enrollment,” he told the “Either you’re for the plan or “The Community Engagement trust that cars have actually stopped group of people together and decide addisonindependent.com. Independent. “It’s been going on you’re against it.” Meanwhile, “the Committee has spent the last two at the intersection when the lights for a while and it’s not letting up.” community is fighting to find a years working hard to engage flash and the gates come down, One of Hanson’s goals, if re- middle ground.” and connect with students, Brassard said. w elected, is to help keep the focus In addition to fresh eyes and staff members, families, elders, But as it stands now, that’s not on the kids. an eagerness to jump in, Jipner selectboard members and other always the case. “Our function is to educate believes she would bring to the community leaders. Last Fall, we “To add complexity to this, students, and that needs to be at board a useful communication held many in-person meetings, and Phoenix Feeds (& Nutrition, which is the forefront of what we do,” he style, as well as expertise on child since COVID we have continued located just north of the train depot), said. “(Conversations) all too often development and experience with to find ways to connect and share moves their own rail cars around to go to taxes and cost containment local schools and how they work. information in a variety of ways. unload them.” This is typical for that — and that’s important, people “I have some real ideas about I’m proud to have been a part of kind of operation, Brassard said. But are struggling. But at the end of interacting with the community, this effort to connect more broadly “sometimes (this activity) trips the the day you can provide education creating a grander sense of with our community. And yet, there lights and gates. What we have seen with an efficient use of resources.” community,” she said. “We have is so much more to be done.” is, (drivers) that go through here a In a letter he shared with the a huge spectrum of people, a lot Siringo is committed to ensuring lot are like, ‘It’s just Phoenix Feeds Independent and planned to post on of diversity, and we need to draw the board prioritizes community again,’ and they go around the gates. social media, Hanson pointed out on that to figure out how to merge involvement, she said, and is So if we introduce a train coming some of the troubling side effects these five communities.” always happy to hear from through there at 59 miles per hour of preserving buildings while Some of the most impactful community members who want to and (northbound drivers) decide that enrollment continues to decline. moments begin with one person share their thoughts and concerns. because they can’t see a train it must “The teachers who help students who has the goal of changing one PAMELA JENNINGS be Phoenix Feeds again — there’s before they fall behind (and who part of the system, Jipner pointed Jennings is running for the two- your issue.” also help the gifted students) are out, and that’s also true in the year seat currently held by Krista This is news to Steve Dupoise, who locked into maintaining undersized 5-Towns. Siringo. chairs the New Haven selectboard. and imbalanced classrooms,” “There are small changes we Jennings said she is running for “That issue has not been relayed to he wrote. “And the support for can make that will have a lasting school board because “I would like me,” Dupoise told the Independent students as they fall behind is impact.” to see change in our taxes and still this week. He said he would look not always accessible due to KRISTA SIRINGO provide adequate education,” she into it. intervention teachers being spread Siringo was elected to the told the Independent. “And I do not Phoenix Feeds officials did not thin across multiple campuses on a MAUSD board in 2017. Currently believe we should shut down our respond to a request for comment. part-time basis.” she is the vice-chair of the board elementary schools!” TOO CLOSE Furthermore, he wrote, the and chair of the Community Jennings has six years of board A train did, in fact, derail at that Community Health district’s per-pupil spending is Engagement Committee. She also experience, pre-MAUSD, and spot in 1982, Brassard said. Two inequitable. represents the school board on the is familiar with the rules, she weeks later another train derailed in “Bristol Elementary operates at Community Council at Mount Abe. explained. the exact same spot. Needs Assessment a cost below the equalized pupil “We have three children “I’m also a very outspoken “It took out half the building,” spending limit by about $2,500, attending MAUSD schools: twin person who says what’s on my Brassard said. “We rebuilt half of it, Your imput makes a BIG impact! while all the other campuses daughters at Mount Abe and a son mind.” which raises the issue of ‘Is it really operate above the limit.” at (Bristol Elementary),” Siringo Jennings spoke her mind about historic?’ And Historic Preservation Spending at one of those wrote in a recent Front Porch Forum the school district in a recent Front will tell you the inside is all offices campuses, Lincoln Community post. “As a parent, I have had the Porch Forum post. now, so it’s not a train station.” UVMHN Porter Hospital, United School, is roughly $12,000 opportunity to spend time in both “I have the students’ education at Since then, though there have Way of Addison County, Five-Town higher per pupil than at Bristol schools in a variety of ways: as a heart,” she wrote. “But I also know been no derailments at the depot, Elementary. volunteer, as a spectator watching this five town community is not a Health Alliance, Addison County Home Whatever decision the board sports games, in the audience at money pit! We have been dishing makes in August, it’s not going the fall and spring musicals, and out monies here left and right! We Health and Hospice, and several other to be a win-win situation, Hanson attending many other community can not sustain the taxes we have told the Independent. events.” for the schools.” organizations are working together to “Not everybody’s going to be Siringo has been impressed with Jennings pointed out the irony deliver the best services possible to our happy with it. But hopefully, as the care and attention her children of the district’s having spent Winter Clearance the board works through Patrick’s have received from teachers and money to renovate Mount Abe to community and are seeking your input proposal, and any alternative staff, she wrote, and she’s proud of accommodate a middle school, and Hot Buys – proposals, people will start the way educators have stepped up only to find itself some years through a 15 minute survey! The goal of to understand — not like, but during the pandemic. later discussing the closure of Select Winter the Community Health Needs Assessment understand — what needs to “I joined the board because I elementary schools. Carhartt – off happen.” wanted to be directly involved “I really don’t understand this 40% is to use local data to improve services ERIN JIPNER in the decisions we make about thinking,” she wrote. MEN, WOMEN AND KIDS Jipner is running for the three- how we direct resources to make Jennings is opposed to busing Jackets, Lined Bibs, Vests, and promote a healthy community. sure we are doing the best job we children from one town to another, year seat currently held by Hanson. Flannel Shirts, HW and Participation in this survey is completely Jipner was born and raised in can to educate all of the kids in and from the 5-Towns to Vergennes Thermal Sweatshirts, our community,” Siringo wrote. New Haven and went to Mount for middle school, if a district Lined Pants, Long “As a board member, I have been merger comes to pass. voluntary and anonymous. Abe. After moving away for Underwear, privileged to be a part of the “When I was on the board I college and career-building, she HW socks, returned to Bristol about a year important conversations about the never missed a meeting and intend Infant Link to English survey: ago. She’s currently working future of our school district, and to do the same,” she told the toward a PhD in Infant and Early I look forward to continuing this Independent. “I (will) also listen Sets, Winter surveymonkey.com/r/86PSH65 Childhood Development. work.” to the needs of our community and Hats and “My passion is working with In the face of significant financial share them with the board.” Pac Boots. Enlace a la encuesta en español: kids,” she told the Independent. challenges, “it is very important to BILL MOUNT Jipner became interested in me that ALL members of our Five Mount is running for the two- surveymonkey.com/r/86PSH65?lang=es running for the school board after Town community feel they have a year seat currently held by Krista PLUS attending, via Zoom, several recent voice in these conversations,” she Siringo. Elite Windshield meetings. wrote. “When we shifted from six The Independent sent Mount If you have any questions or would like “I wish I were excited about boards (one for each of our schools) multiple requests for an interview Wash $1.99 to receive a paper copy of the survey, what’s happening and by the to one board representing all of our but he did not response before All While Supplies Last, opportunities I’m seeing,” she said. schools, it was clear that we needed press time. Cannot be combined with any other sale or offer, please contact Sylvie Choiniere at in-stock items only. [email protected] Sale Ends 2/28/21 802-382-3406. Find The Addy Indy On: MIDDLEBURY AGWAY 388 Exchange Street Open For breaking news & updates wherever you are! 388-4937 7 days facebook.com/addisonindependent Mon. - Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-5, Sun. 9-4 twitter.com/addyindy www.MiddleburyAgway.com PAGE 14A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 Casey Casey joins effort to combat media sexism By ANDY KIRKALDY strongly. to give voice about some of this. (Continued from Page 1A) season, and we’d give each other SOUTH BURLINGTON — “We hear the stories about And the examples (in the letter) “I’m not somebody who has gifts and posters before the games, Late last month 50 Vermonters, harassment and, God forbid, were meant to show you in black a grand plan. I find plans are a things like that, to try to create including prominent current and assault, and we know that’s and white what this looks like. good way to disappoint yourself, more of a community. Things like former politicians and many wrong. But we rarely hear about And so I was really proud of the or wander down a path you find that really matter. It’s not just about business leaders, wrote a public the subtle things, because it’s women who stepped up to write is not the right one,” Casey said. how you act in practice or on the letter asking the state’s media harder to explain,” she said. this letter, and I was honored to “I try to look for the opportunity, field, it’s how you treat each other outlets to become more even- Casey offered convincing be asked to be part of it. Because and seek it out, and along the way as a team,” Casey said. handed in its coverage of women examples, however, to help for all the progress we’ve made, work as hard as I can so that I’ve Stetson described Casey as “a in politics. people understand the kind of and believe me people love to demonstrated I’m ready for it.” very strong leader” who helped The Jan. 25 letter in particular discrimination that she said can talk about the progress, rather Douglas, now teaching at create the culture of teamwork and requested that media use the have “devastating” impacts on than the lack of it, I will say very Middlebury College, said Casey hard work that led to the program’s same language to describe people’s confidence and careers. plainly it’s not good enough.” earned those opportunities. success in later years. candidates regardless of sexual “It’s people making comments Overall, Casey, who is the “She learned quickly. She could Stetson said Casey led by identity, pointing out a double like, ‘You talk too much.’ People chair of the Vermont Women’s execute a plan. She interacted example and would explain what standard clearly existed in media used to accuse me of being a, Fund Council, thought the media comfortably with people, most of she had learned “in a way that kids treatment of men and women in quote, ‘motormouth.’ Or telling response and coverage has largely whom were a lot older when she understood and took her lead well.” the political arena. Read the letter me I was too aggressive or been thoughtful, and was pleased started,” Douglas said. “She’s the “She always practiced at 110%, online at tinyurl.com/1uqnd6yn. bossy,” she said. she and two others were asked to kind of person whose success I so she always expected her One of the 50 was Dennise “This stuff is meant to hold appear on WCAX to discuss the saw at the outset, and knew could teammates to practice that way so Casey, who served as Gov. James you down. It’s meant to put you letter. assume increasing responsibility, DENNISE CASEY that we could always be prepared Douglas’s communications in a place. And the other things “I was really encouraged,” she so I was happy to give it her.” for competition,” Stetson said. director and deputy chief of staff that people do that are subtle are said. “Having the dialogue is Casey, a 1999 Mount Abe absolute joy,” she said. “She used her experience at the for several years and also twice not making eye contact with you key.” graduate, traces some of the traits But field hockey became her Futures level to help kids realize it worked as his campaign manager. in a meeting even though you’re Casey said that in addition to that led to her success, including at passion. Casey chose to play field wasn’t just enough to go through a The 1999 Mount Abraham Union speaking. The way that people encouraging the media to work her decade-old South Burlington hockey in sixth grade mainly drill and perform it in mediocrity.” High School graduate, profiled fold their arms and turn away better, another way to combat consulting firm, Casey Inc., to her because older sister Koran and On the field Casey cites winning in this issue, now runs her own from you. Who sits where at a sexism is for women to support sports career. younger sister Michaela did not. an eight-overtime playoff game vs. consulting firm and lives in South boardroom table. These are the one another. “A few that applied to both “I was determined to play field U-32 and seeing her team at the Burlington. kind of things that send messages “My message to women is too sports and politics, certainly, are hockey, and play it well, because Junior Olympics coming in second She spoke to WCAX-TV when to people about your value.” seek out mentors, champions, inner strength, perseverance, grit, at the time my sisters played in that tournament as highlights. the letter first came out, and last Casey said she was happy to be professional partners,” she said. loyalty, teamwork, and one that soccer,” Casey said. “This was my But the Junior Olympics meant week also shared her thoughts approached to join the effort to “And if you can’t think of one, I focus a lot on now is the value very obvious middle-child way of a lot more in other ways. First, with the Independent concerning shed more light on the issue. call me.” of role models … my parents, my distinguishing myself.” it showed Casey what she could an issue about which she feels “The letter was an opportunity sisters, (Eagle field hockey Coach) She attended field hockey camps accomplish. Mary Stetson, for sure,” Casey run by Lucy Pellegrini, played in “That was really an incredible said. “And just that awesomeness middle school, and then made the moment of validation for me as a of winning and deep, deep pain varsity as 13-year-old freshman. young person of my hard work,” Casey on. of losing are good things to be About to turn 14, Casey was she said. “Stets flew to North Carolina practiced.” much younger than most of her Her selection also helped to be with me and support me,” SPORTS CAREER teammates. But they made her feel Casey understand the level of Casey said. “Opportunities like Sports took root for Casey at her welcome. support she had from family and this are wonderful. But really the Starksboro home. “Some of my teammates had community. She already knew her lesson for me was the sacrifice “Sports have always been a part already turned 18, so there was parents, Peg and Dennis Casey, these people made for me because of my family,” Casey said. “My a big age gap for me, and they were fully dedicated to their they believed in me.” mom was a Little League coach made the biggest deal out of my daughters’ athletic careers, but this POLITICS & MORE since I was a baby, so I sort of grew birthday. They gave me this hunter, commitment meant extra time and At UVM Casey’s Starksboro up around sports.” blaze-orange beanie that they’d finances. roots also informed her choice She played Little League, and written Queenie on it. It was the “My parents worked really hard of Political Science as a major. then softball in elementary school. Queenie Beanie,” she said. “And to give me that opportunity, and Her grandmother and mother had Casey, better known for field I never forgot that. It was a lesson I’m very grateful for that,” Casey always been poll workers and hockey, played second base and of camaraderie and support. I felt said. “My parents worked really served on the town’s board of civil used her quickness to hit leadoff so included and appreciated and long, hard hours, but they never authority, and at home town issues for the Eagle softball team. supported.” missed a game.” were common topics. “I loved high school sports. There were more lessons to But they couldn’t travel to North “When it was time to think what I loved the coaches. I loved come. Carolina due to work obligations. else interested me, politics was my teammates. Softball was an “We had secret pals during the Instead, Stetson went and cheered something that had always been there,” Casey said. She looked for ways to turn that interest into a career, signing on as an intern for a semester with New Hampshire Rep. Charles Bass in Washington, D.C. Upon her return, Jim Douglas was launching his first bid for governor. Casey already knew a DENNISE CASEY AND longtime partner Neale Lunderville, shown bit about Douglas through Rep. during a 2019 visit to Peru, enjoy travel and have visited several Connie Houston and by attending continents. Photo courtesy Dennise Casey Addison County GOP meetings with her father. She volunteered campaign. “I realized, wait a minute. This for his campaign. That turned into Douglas said Casey made a good could be a thing,” she said, and her the job as campaign field director first impression on him that proved company was born. while she was a UVM junior. to be correct. Casey had developed varied “I just balanced school and this “Even though just a college expertise over the past decade, job. And he was elected, and I just student she was very sophisticated, and Casey Inc. allowed her to put finished my last semester, and the interested in the processes it to work. MOUNT ABE ALUM Dennise Casey worked for former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas in important roles day after graduation I reported for for seven years after volunteering for him as a 2002 UVM undergraduate. Here she is consulting with of politics and government. “The best way to describe Douglas in his Statehouse office along with his then Secretary ofAdministration Mike Smith. duty in his office,” she said. Sometimes you can get a sense my company is we solve Photo courtesy Dennise Casey She worked as a policy and of people from just an initial problems. And those problems political assistant. Three years later encounter, and that was the case are usually crisis-based, she was his campaign manager, with Dennise,” Douglas said. “I problem management-based, communications director and sensed this was a young Vermonter communications-focused. Where deputy chief of staff, remaining with a bright future ahead of her, there’s an intersection between W in the latter positions until 2009, Wellness MA OR and sensed an opportunity to tie it regulations and business is a sweet O K S taking a break to manage his 2008 to my own.” spot for me. If there’s a project Casey appreciated the faith that you need to get going, I’m often Douglas placed in her. called in to help with the strategy “He always believed in me. He around that,” Casey said. Directory WELLNESS had very high standards. They were She said Casey Inc. has helped CENTER clear standards. 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In dinners and four lunches a week. state and federal COVID-19 relief Vermont, restaurants are restricted “Business is different,” Smith funds — particularly for businesses to allowing only one household per said. “Friday nights have increased that haven’t qualified for assistance table; all guests must be seated — by 25 to 30%, and all the other through the more conventional no standing at the bar, no mingling nights have decreased by the same programs. — and all in-person service must amount.” In the meantime, Jessica’s is stop table service at 10 p.m. He doesn’t blame people for not soldiering on, its owners grateful A survey of some Addison wanting to come out to restaurants, for the support from local diners. County restaurant owners showed he said. Like many other restaurants, a mix of fatigue, appreciation for “It makes sense. I mean, I don’t Jessica’s has increased promotion what limited successes they’ve had venture out to restaurants much, of takeout during the pandemic in the past 11 months, and guarded either, except to go across the street in order to supplement its dine-in optimism — very guarded — about to get takeout from the Bobcat opportunities. It’s open Thursday the future. sometimes.” through Sunday (winter hours). BRISTOL’S BOBCAT Cubbers also has received state “(Takeout) has picked up a bit, The Bobcat Cafe and Brewery and federal assistance. it’s pretty solid,” Robinson said. in downtown Bristol decided not “We took advantage of the first “Our outreach is working, which is to offer dine-in services, said co- round of PPP and we also got a very gratifying.” owner Erin Sanderson. Vermont Economic Recovery Robinson was pleased to report “The occupancy allowance was Grant,” Smith said. “I didn’t think Jessica’s was fully booked for a just never enough,” she said. “We we’d need such funding at first. Valentine’s Day dinner that many can only be successful at dine-in if In fact I felt kind of bad about people enjoyed on Saturday, Feb. we’re really full. Besides, the bar applying for it.” 13. is the focal point of the dining area, But he’s been using the funding “It’s certainly the biggest and without it it would just feel to keep his staff employed, he weekend I’ve seen in a while,” he really sad.” explained. said. “Things are going about as MATTHEW ROBINSON, CO-OWNER of Jessica’s Restaurant at the Swift House Inn, pulls a beer at Sanderson remembered the day “These grants have been super well as can be expected during the the Middlebury restaurant. He was able to keep some staff employed and some revenue coming in by working with the Everyone Eats program. last summer when Gov. Phil Scott important for hospitality workers, pandemic.” Independent photo/Steve James eased state COVID-19 restrictions who are always living life on the He expects steadier business for to allow for outdoor restaurant edge as it is,” Smith said. Jessica’s and the inn will come has received a boost through a “There’s a lot people that you package, which contained an extra seating. Last March Cubbers had 25 with the reopening of Middlebury charitable food program. In this wouldn’t think of that are being $300 per week for recipients in “It was right when they started employees, and now it’s down to College next week. case, it’s the Giving Fridge, which affected very negatively by this unemployment insurance. tearing up the sidewalks (for 17 — mostly through the loss of Robinson and Kim have used the raises money through the sale of right now.” Hibernating was also the best Bristol’s downtown paving and dishwashers, for whom there’s temporary lull in business to make flowers, honey and other products, To keep costs in check, the twin choice to make sure Three Squares sidewalk project),” she said with currently no work, and seasonal some upgrades to the property — and then uses that revenue to businesses also pared back both the will “be economically viable when a laugh. “And it was like, ‘Well, I high school and college kids. The such as painting touch-ups and purchase food from area producers. Hired Hand and Antidote menus we open back up,” he said, possibly guess that decides that.’” restaurant did pretty well during re-covering chairs. The program also compensates “basically by two-thirds, if not a in mid-March. The Bobcat’s alcohol sales have the summer and fall, but it hasn’t “It’s to get ourselves ready for restaurants for transforming that little more,” adding what he called “I’m hoping we can at least completely evaporated, and with made any money since October. the mid-summer and fall when food into delicious meals for those weekly “rotational specials.” operate this summer the way we the loss of in-house dining, the And 17 employees are probably things begin to get a bit busier,” without enough to eat. Overall, Huizenga described did last summer,” he said. restaurant has had to let go of two- too many for the amount of Robinson said. Two Brothers is hoping to get Vergennes-area eateries as No one in the sector is thriving, thirds of its employees over the business Cubbers is doing. Jessica’s has been a major cog in the OK to make a second round of “hanging in” during what is Birong said, but at least in the past year. “If you came in during the the local Everyone Eats program, Giving Fridge meals, Holmes said. historically the slowest time of Vergennes area he believes the But they’re managing to survive. week you’d see that we’re kind of which uses federal HIRED HAND & year for restaurants in Vermont. businesses should survive. “Food sales are actually about overstaffed,” Smith said. funds to purchase food “Without that BAR ANTIDOTE November and January are the “I don’t think anybody’s in the same as last year,” Sanderson But Cubbers has kept them on for meals to distribute Everyone Ian Huizenga, co- worst, and boosts in December jeopardy of going out of business,” said, “which is amazing.” anyway. to homeless and owner of Hired Hand from holiday bar business and he said. “It’s really just how do we When the pandemic hit last “I feel totally blessed to be able hungry people in the Eats program, Brewery and Bar February from Valentine’s Day will manage our economic relief grant winter, the Bobcat switched almost to keep them going. Restaurant Middlebury area. In I would be Antidote in Vergennes, be lost because of the pandemic. money, both federal and state, in immediately to curbside pickup. workers live paycheck to paycheck. 2020, Everyone Eats willing to say said that in 2020 he and Fellow restaurateur Matt Birong the most logical way. I guess it’s “We transitioned to cheaper, Even just missing a few hours funded over 530,000 with 99% partner Eliza Benton described his Three Squares Café just like cautiously optimistic, if simpler food — nothing on the a week could put people in dire meals across Vermont, certainty we consolidated the two as being in “hibernation mode.” you have to throw catch phrases or injecting $5.3 million menu is above $12 — and we economic circumstances.” would be at operations into one According to websites, other tag lines in.” haven’t really changed it at all,” During the pandemic Smith has into local restaurants restaurant and are also Vergennes-area eateries and food Uncertainties remain, he she said. come to appreciate their anxieties and nearly $500,000 a definite focusing on marketing specialty shops such as Park added. Event catering that many And it’s working. even more, he said. to Vermont farms and hibernation Hired Hand beer to Squeeze, Black Sheep Bistro, restaurants have as profitable “Prices are low but we make up JESSICA’S RESTAURANT food producers. mode until restaurants in cans, Rockers Pizzeria, Vergennes sidelines remains uncertain this for it in volume. It’s just a matter of Two Middlebury restaurants Jessica’s has provided May.” rather than kegs. Laundry, and The Starry Night year, and establishments that how fast we can answer the phone are getting by with a little help staff and its kitchen for — Ian Huizenga, “We’re working on Café are combining takeout and rely on entertainment to draw in to take orders.” from their friends, and have been Everyone Eats meal Hired Hand ... essentially kind of socially distanced dining between customers are unsure if they can The Bobcat has received two diligently looking for local, state prep — even during Brewery and rebranding to be able four and six days a week. rely on that income source. government grants, one state and and federal grants and loans to a three-week period Bar Antidote to get the beer out to No one is going gangbusters. “So much of Vermont’s economy one federal, Sanderson said. weather the COVID-19 pandemic. when program funding Café market and convey our “It wasn’t like we were making is based on social gathering in “We didn’t do the first round Matthew Robinson and ran out. Everyone story a little more,” money in the summertime. We recreational environments,” of PPP (the federal Paycheck Serna Kim purchased Jessica’s Eats is again receiving Huizenga said. were breaking using PPP funds,” Birong said. “That’s what makes Protection Program) because it Restaurant at the Swift House Inn, funding, thus restoring a financial Huizenga said their ongoing Huizenga said. “I think we lost a this so damaging for everybody.” wasn’t clear how the program at 25 Stewart Lane, from Dan and support for Jessica’s. commitment to the Everyone Eats little more than half of our annual Help should be on the way from would work,” she explained. “But Michelle Brown last September. “It is such an important program for the Vergennes area revenue.” the stimulus package that the new we participated in the second The timing unfortunately program,” Robinson said. “It’s has been helpful in keeping a Nor will reopening be easy. administration in Washington looks round after hearing about how well disqualified them from PPP aid, a very gratifying experience for few employees on board and the Availability of employees and likely to push through Congress, it had worked for other people.” Robinson said. everyone involved. I know the business open. They now have skilled replacements will be an and it is needed while Vermont’s The Bobcat’s PPP funding has just “I’ve fallen through the cracks local community is happy to get six working at the restaurants, issue, as will how quickly diners hospitality sector struggles, he said. come through in the last few days, on this one,” he lamented. the food and very happy the food including Huizenga and Benton. will return to dining out and “Our tax receipts aren’t looking she added. But Jessica’s is eligible to receive they’re getting is coming from “We’ve been fortunate enough vaccines will roll out — all these as good as a while back,” he The Bobcat is grateful for the help through a local grant program Jessica’s.” to get involved with Everyone Eats questions weigh on Huizenga: said. “They’re seeing big dips in assistance, she said. called Table 21. As recently TWO BROTHERS TAVERN really early. Back in March when “I honestly believe we’re January.” “We wouldn’t have survived reported by the Independent, Table At Two Brothers Tavern at 86 we started with the Boys and Girls probably a year away from being Birong said Vermont has already without that help,” Sanderson said. 21 is a charity created earlier this Main St., Holmes Jacobs said Club helping them out and laying like a normal restaurant at the done more than most states with the CUBBERS month through the Congregational his restaurant is “weathering the the groundwork to get 150 or 250 earliest.” federal money to help businesses, Across the street from the Church of Middlebury, thanks to a storm. We’ve been able to make meals out a day, max in October, THREE SQUARES CAFÉ including the hospitality sector, Bobcat, the dining room of Cubbers $300,000 anonymous contribution. ends meet.” that really allowed us to maintain Before hibernating for three and he believes Vermont will restaurant also sits empty. The money goes to food providers/ Sales have been down around 80% a good footing to go into this months Birong, who is also a continue to do so, with a caveat. “We decided a while back not producers such as farms and during the pandemic, he explained. winter. Without that program, I Democratic state representative, “There’s a lot of hope pending to open it until things get back restaurants that have seen their Two Brothers has received a would be willing to say with 99% considered continuing to operate on there being state money … to normal,” said co-owner Drew revenues decimated by the decent boost from state and federal certainty we would be at a definite the business with “limited dining in that next package that’s being Smith. “Takeout was always two- coronavirus. The Table 21 board assistance programs, including hibernation mode until May.” capacity” as he had in the summer. negotiated in Washington,” he said. thirds of our business anyway, and will soon review grant requests of PPP funds. That help, according to The decision not to serve in-house But hibernating became the most “It would be very difficult for the when we get busy there are a lot up to $25,000, with awards to be Jacobs, has helped backfill around came after studying the numbers. logical choice, Birong said, when state of Vermont to pump another of people coming in and out for given by the end of this month. 40-50% of lost revenues. “When we decided to reopen we diners could no longer eat outside, $120 million into economic pickup in a tight space.” Jessica’s is represented by the Two Brothers has had to took a very pragmatic approach to, and when the governor prohibited recovery grants.” temporarily reduce staffing during like, OK, let’s not be naive about “commingled households at our Birong looked favorably on these tough times. But Jacobs is this. We have outside dining until tables.” different kinds of support given optimistic the business will emerge the end of September at the latest. That was essentially the final to restaurants. A recent Vergennes in a strong position post-COVID. So that’s when our regular revenue straw. Partnership “Dine Around the Little “We are so appreciative for the stream stops,” he said. “So we Birong said Three Squares City” promotion featured 11 city- support we’ve received,” Jacobs trimmed back to the bare essentials “burned through about $45,000 area restaurants and shops offering said. “We would not be open now, and worked with Everyone Eats, in operating capital in about 10 gift certificates and other rewards but for our loyal customers.” and that allowed us to get into weeks” between October and the to repeat customers, as evidenced Two Brothers is open seven days a good position for a worst case end of December. by getting cards stamped. a week, for takeout and dine-in. It’s scenario, which was we can close He compared that to the “I do believe it’s a positive currently allowed to seat up to 50% and reopen in May.” $8,000 a month cost in overhead collective marketing strategy,” of its usual, maximum capacity of Huizenga said the program has of simply shutting the eatery’s Birong said. “I’ve seen other 100. been vital for both restaurants doors, waiting for spring, and downtown village centers All of the Two Brothers menu is and recipients, and his drivers allowing his employees to collect promoting eateries and retail in on the takeout list. Jacobs is also cover territory from Starksboro to unemployment insurance. similar ways online. I think it’s encouraging people to purchase Addison, delivering almost 200 Meanwhile, those operating important to keep public awareness Two Brothers gift cards as a way meals. losses can be covered by federal up. The industry doesn’t want to of supporting the business through “Our numbers are going up grant money, Birong said, while see COVID fatigue begin to let the these leaner times. regularly with Everyone Eats. his employees got a boost from struggles of our businesses fade in ELIZA BENTON AND IAN HUIZENGA Like Jessica’s, Two Brothers There’s a lot of need,” he said. the January federal stimulus people’s minds.” By the way (Continued from Page 1A) Let’s keep that vaccine rolling. and marketing executive with several leadership positions in Children still need books — The books are classic and new, available a couple days a over 20 years of government, Scott’s administration, including especially during this pandemic. high-quality, colorful with week, you have to bring your Gov. Scott this week appointed corporate and entrepreneurial Vermont Tourism and Marketing And children residing in engaging text, some bilingual, own movie on DVD, and it’s Wendy Knight of Panton to serve experience in the advertising and Commissioner. Knight is now the Addison County can get a free and all encourage the love of available for single households a four-year term on the Vermont marketing, food and beverage, chief marketing officer of Knight new book mailed to their homes reading. To learn more about only — no group gatherings. Commission on Women, the healthcare, media, nonprofit, Automotive and a consultant to On every month by signing up for the Imagination Library, see a But, hey, who wouldn’t want to state’s non-partisan commission and publishing sectors. She’s the Fly, a women-led collective the Dolly Parton Imagination list of the books and sign up, go be back in a theater again? And that works to advance rights and also a former Panton selectboard supporting Vermont hospitality Library program, sponsored to addisoncountyreaders.org. they will have popcorn! (Pre- opportunities for women and member and freelance New York and tourism businesses affected by Addison County Readers. Any questions? Contact Dinah order only for the popcorn.) girls. Knight is a communications Times journalist. She has held by the COVID-19 pandemic. There are no strings attached. Bain at [email protected]. PAGE 16A — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

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TIGER GOALIE ABBY Hodsden makes a glove save in the first period of Middlebury Union High School’s 4-0 win over the visiting Missisquoi Valley Thunderbirds on Saturday. Independent photo/Steve James

TIGER DEFENDER AUDREY Schnoor (18), who scored two goals in the game, battles a Missisquoi player for the puck during Saturday’s 4-0 home win by the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team. Independent photo/Steve James ELLA TUCKER (4) celebrates scoring the Tigers’ third goal with linemates Channing Brush (20) and Mckenna Raymond (24) in the second period of Middlebury Union High School’s 4-0 win over Missisquoi on Saturday. MUHS girls’ hockey rides surge past T-Birds Independent photo/Steve James By ANDY KIRKALDY second and third periods to defeat Schnoor said. “We wanted to play and assistants Erin Robinson and other practice. Matt keeps us at a in the third period, when we had MIDDLEBURY — After a visiting Missisquoi Valley Union, as hard as we can every minute. Duncan Rollason can only roll out high level,” she said. “He knows only nine skaters and we still had couple dozen practices in the past 4-0. It was really frustrating not being two lines and rotate three defenders we need it.” a little juice.” month, the Middlebury Union Senior defender Audrey Schnoor, able to, and we were just so happy in front of goalies Abby Hodsden Brush threw a bouquet back to In the first period both teams High School girls’ hockey team, whose two goals bookended the to be out there.” and Lydia Deppman (along with his team. took a while to play cohesively. like most high school athletes decisive surge, described the The Tigers were facing a team Schnoor the only other Tiger “Nine skaters worked their butt The Tigers’ Channing Brush everywhere in Vermont, were Tigers’ feelings of finally skating that showed up with 22 skaters, seniors), who will handle the lion’s off. We’ve been preaching that launched the game’s first shot thrilled just to compete this past in a real game — and then winning. including two goalies, while due to share of time between the pipes. effort’s got to be our motto. We’ve five minutes in, and a minute later weekend. “We really wanted it. It’s our injuries and the decisions of some Schnoor credited the coaching got to work hard because we can’t Hodsden, who played half the It just made their return to action first game. It’s been two months. athletes not to play the MUHS staff when asked why the deeper rely on numbers,” Brush said. game and made 11 saves, denied sweeter when the Tigers iced their We started a month-and-a-half late. team is suiting up 13 skaters, four T-Birds were unable to wear the “We’ve been working really hard T-Bird Haley Stefaniak twice. Saturday-evening cake with a We wanted to be out there doing of whom are goalies. Tigers down. in practice, through the COVID, The Tigers came closest to four-goal outburst that spanned the our best while we had ice time,” That means Coach Matt Brush “We do conditioning at every through the masks, and it showed (See Hockey, Page 3B) MUHS boys’ hockey ScheduleSchedule HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS team takes opener Boys’ Hockey 2/20 Burlington at MUHS...... 5:30 PM 2/24 MUHS at Burr & Burton...... 8 PM MIDDLEBURY — Before first period lead on Iain Olsen’s 2/27 MUHS at Mt. Mansfield...... 1 PM a homestand this week, the unassisted shorthanded goal, the Girls’ Hockey Middlebury Union High School first of his high school career, 2/20 MUHS at CVU...... 4:10 PM boys’ hockey team opened on and Owen Lawton’s power play 2/24 U-32 at MUHS...... 4:30 PM Saturday with a 5-3 victory over goal, from Clyde Mulhotra and 2/27 MUHS at Harw/Nfield...... 3 PM host Mount Mansfield. Cole Schnoor. Tiger goalie Giles Girls’ Basketball 2/18 Mt. Abe at Colchester...... 7 PM The Tigers snapped a 2-2 second- Heilman finished with 19 saves, DAVE DRAVECKY’S POST-BASEBALL career has been as a motivational speaker and “community 2/18 VUHS at Missisquoi...... 7 PM period tie with three straight goals and MMU goalie Lucas Parisi ambassador” for the San Francisco Giants. on the way to the win. Five Tigers made 30. 2/19 MAU at OV...... 7 PM Courtesy of DaveDravecky.com scored, and they took the lead on MUHS was scheduled to host 2/22 VUHS at Winooski...... 7 PM 2/22 Milton at MUHS...... 7 PM unassisted strikes in the middle MMU in a Wednesday rematch at 2/22 Missisquoi at Mt. Abe...... 7 PM ‘I was sure he had been shot’; baseball and high anxiety period by Tucker Stearns and Abel 4:30 p.m. after the print deadline 2/23 OV at Burr & Burton...... 7 PM Anderson. Andy Giorgio made it for the Addison Independent and 2/25 Enosburg at Mt. Abe...... 7 PM I have attended, in person, baseball was not incidental to our of Giant pitcher Billy Swift from 5-2 early in the third period with the Tigers are set to entertain 2/25 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS...... 7 PM thousands of baseball games, many relationship. Her Giants came to Portland, Maine. Quite a family it another unassisted score. Burlington at 5:30 p.m. on 2/25 Colchester at VUHS...... 7 PM thousands, but one stands out in Montreal twice a year. She would was too: Billy was the 14th of 15 Before the Cougars knotted the Saturday. 2/26 OV at MSJ...... 7 PM high relief: This game write to her friend, Swift children. game at 2-2, the Tigers took a 2-0 Boys’ Basketball was the most dramatic the Giants Traveling (I have always wondered if I 2/18 MAU at OV...... 7 PM I have witnessed in any Secretary, who would might have been a better pitcher had 2/19 Mt. Abe at North Country.... 7 PM sport ever. leave tickets for us at my name been “Billy Swift,” not 2/19 VUHS at Milton...... 7 PM As I mentioned in “Will Call.” this clunky ethnic one.) 2/20 BFA at MUHS...... 12:30 PM this space a couple We climbed in the At this game, Aug. 15, 1989, 2/12 Rutland vs. OV...... 51-21 2/22 OV at Burr & Burton...... 7 PM months ago, my wife car on warm summer my 10-year-old daughter Jane was ScoreScore 2/12 Colchester vs. MUHS...... 40-32 2/23 Mt. Abe at MUHS...... 7 PM 2/15 VUHS vs. Milton...... 60-15 2/25 MSJ at OV...... 7 PM Brett worked for the afternoons, drove for with us along with Craig Hanson, BOARD 2/15 Mt. Abe vs. Winooski...... 38-37 2/26 MUHS at Mt. Abe...... 7 PM San Francisco Giants for Sports (Mostly) a couple hours, pretty the 9-year-old son of family friends HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS 2/15 Fair Haven vs. OV...... 63-33 2/26 VUHS at Mt. Mansfield...... 7 PM three-and-a-half seasons, KARL much a straight shot up (Craig is now and has been for the Boys’ Hockey Boys’ Basketball Nordic 1983-86, when she was in LINDHOLM 89 across the border, a past 14 years the baseball coach at 2/13 MUHS vs. Mt. Mansfield...... 5-3 2/12 MUHS vs. Missisquoi...... 67-63 2/22 MUHS at Sleepy Hollow...... TBD graduate school — that’s right and a left, across a Dickinson College and was profiled 2/17 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS...... Late 2/12 MUHS vs. Enosburg...... 50-43 2/24 MUHS Hosts...... TBD over 300 games. She ran pont, et voilà, the Big O. by Andy Kirkaldy in last week’s Girls’ Hockey 2/13 North Country vs. VUHS....53-25 Note: Schedules are subject to the message board in Candlestick Good seats too! We sat with the Independent). 2/13 MUHS vs. Missisquoi...... 4-0 2/15 Fair Haven vs. OV...... 67-36 change. Please consult school websites Park, the only woman in the press extended Giant “family,” which This night, we were seated just 2/17 MUHS at Rutland...... Late 2/16 Essex vs. MUHS...... 59-53 for latest updates. Spectators are not box. included the literal family members behind a row of Manwarings, the Girls’ Basketball 2/16 St. Albans vs. Mt. Abe...... 49-40 allowed at Vt. high school games played 2/12 VUHS vs. Mt. Abe...... 50-32 2/16 VUHS at Missisquoi...Postponed She came to teach at Middlebury of players from the Northeast. At family of 23-year-old Giants catcher indoors. in ’86, and our mutual interest in one game, we sat near the family (See Lindholm, Page 2B) PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 Lindholm (Continued from Page 1B) I was sure, at first, that Dravecky Hudler then attempted a steal of Kirt Manwaring, from Horseheads, had been shot. That seemed to me second — and Manwaring, who N.Y. (near Elmira). Kirt was a the best explanation for what I had had been inserted for defensive backup that year to starter Terry just witnessed. purposes, threw the ball into center Kennedy (who a few years later, Dravecky was attended to on the field, Hudler taking third. There was 1994, managed our own Vermont field for what seemed an eternity, agony among the Manwaring clan Expos). then was taken off on a stretcher in front of us. The bi-cultural flavor of games to a polite sustained applause from With the tying run on third, in Montreal was a source of real the crowd. The Giants’ relief pitcher Bedrosian managed to get the next enjoyment. As soon as I got to my Jeff Brantley came on and was given two outs on full 3-2 counts. seat, I bought a chien chaud. With all the time he needed to warm up. Game over: Giants win, 3-2. We great flourishes, the PA announcer We sat there in silence. could all exhale. read the names of the players The game resumed to no crowd The teams filed solemnly off coming to bat by position: le noise at all, none in the immediate the field, again to polite applause lanceur, the pitcher; les voltigeurs, aftermath of the injury, or for that from the fans. There was none of outfielders. Andres Galarraga, the matter, little or none for the rest of that familiar echoing din of massed popular Venezuelan, was the le the game. The mood throughout fans merging onto the stadium Grand Chat. was somber. concourses and heading for the exits There was special interest in Raines hit a long fly to left to and the parking lots and into the this game. Giants pitcher Dave score Galarraga, who had raced to night — and, for us, the drive home. Dravecky was making only his third base in the confusion, to make Reports the next day revealed that second start of the season. The Dravecky had broken the humerus previous fall, October 1988, bone in his left arm throwing that surgeons had removed a cancerous pitch. He never threw another tumor and some of the muscle from one, and in June 1991 his arm his left arm. While his doctors urged and shoulder were amputated, THE VUHS GIRLS’ basketball team put their hands in — following safe no-touch COVID protocol — caution, Dravecky had undertaken preventing further spread of the during an in-game huddle on Monday night. The Commodores improved to 2-0 by putting the clamps on a determined effort to return to cancer. overmatched Milton. pitching and was playing in the He lives today in California at Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy minors by mid-summer. age 65. His post-baseball career has In his first start, on Aug. 10, been as an inspirational speaker and Commodore girls coast past Milton Dravecky had pitched eight strong “community ambassador” for the innings (a shutout for the first seven) Giants. By ANDY KIRKALDY team rebounds. they earned free throws with strong in Candlestick Park, defeating the About that game, my daughter VERGENNES — Visiting The Commodores’ depth helps, passing. Cincinnati Reds, 4-3. He was poised Jane remembers “how scary and Milton posed no threat to the too, she said. “Offensively I think we’re a lot for an inspirational comeback. unnerving it was to see the pitcher Vergennes Union High School girls’ “We can all play. So having all of better,” Gosliga said. “We have some Against the Expos, he cruised go down in the middle of the game. basketball team on Monday night. us who can come in whenever is just girls who can shoot the three, which through five scoreless innings. The Especially as a kid. And I remember The deep Commodores blitzed great for defense,” she said. is really helpful. And we can have Giants were up 3-0 when the Expos the stadium going very, very quiet.” the Yellowjackets with full-court Coach Waller said the the in-and-out kind of offense. Last came to bat in the fateful bottom of Craig Hanson also has a keen pressure in the first half and cruised Commodores have learned the year we didn’t have that as much.” the sixth. PITCHER DAVE DRAVECKY recollection more than 30 years pitched eight years in the Majors to a 60-15 victory. defensive system well. If there was any suspense in the Light-hitting Expo second later: “What I remember most is the The 2-0 Commodores, who for “We’ve been working on it for game it might have come when for the Padres and the Giants. baseman Domasio Garcia led off His career came to an end at eerie silence following the injury. I the second game put 11 different two years, and the older kids, they Milton cut the lead to 13-4 two with a homer (he only hit three all Stade Olympique in a game in knew that something was seriously players on the floor, had limited a have it. And the kids that are new to minutes into the second period. In the year). Dravecky then hit the next Montreal in August 1989. wrong. shorthanded Mount Abraham team the program … they’re getting it,” next 90 seconds Gosliga fed Sydney batter, Galarraga, sending him to “I also remember coming home to to eight points in the second half of Waller said. Jewell for a layup, and Poirier went first. it 3-2 Giants, before Brantley retired a very worried mother who had seen their opening victory the previous The defense also leads to offense. coast-to-coast for a three-point play On the next pitch, the first pitch the next two Expo batters. a trailer for the late local news citing Friday. The Commodores and their coaches and hit a jumper. to Expos Hall of Famer Tim Raines, My sense was that even the a tragedy at Olympic Stadium. On Monday they forced the are touting improved outside After a Milton bucket, Gosliga the sound of a pop or crack could most partisan Expo fans were “She was relieved that the roof hapless Yellowjackets into 26 first- shooting, but they didn’t hit all converted a Poirier feed inside and be heard throughout the stadium. quietly rooting for a Giants win. It hadn’t collapsed and we were safe.” half turnovers and led at the break, that well from the perimeter on set up a Jordan Jewell layup to trigger Dravecky let out a scream and seemed fitting. The air was thick Editor’s note: See a video of 30-6, after which Coach Billy Waller Monday, although two newcomers, a 10-0 quarter-closing run. fell to the ground, writhing in with tension. Brantley did his job, Dravecky’s final pitch with this story mercifully told the Commodores to sophomore Kyra Bradford and junior Junior Mallorie Chalmers, pain. His teammates raced in from pitching three scoreless, hitless online at addisonindependent.com. play half-court defense. Ryley Dubois, sank threes. arguably the only Yellowjacket who their positions to the mound, first innings, then gave way in the ninth Karl Lindholm, Ph.D., is the Senior Kate Gosliga said the team But at least 16 of their points came could crack the VUHS rotation, baseman Will Clark getting there to Giants closer Steve Bedrosian. Emeritus Dean of Advising/Assistant — including its eight seniors, six of directly from turnovers, and the team scored seven points to lead Milton. first. In the bottom of the ninth, with Professor of American Studies at whom played last winter, when the also worked the ball well around Tougher competition lies in wait The 25,000 fans in attendance one out, Bedrosian gave up a single Middlebury College. Email him at program earned its first home playoff in the paint, especially as the game for the Commodores, who are stood in mute attention, utter silence. to Tim Wallach. Pinch runner Rex [email protected]. game in a decade — has worked wore on. aiming to make the most of a season hard on perfecting its full-court man- And seven Commodores had four they weren’t sure they would be able to-man pressure defense. points or more: Behind Gosliga and to play — Gosliga said they believe “Communication is the biggest Sydney Jewell, Bradford scored 10; they can compete for a Division III Girls’ hoop: VUHS tops Mount Abe; Eagles win thing, and making sure we’re in junior Felicia Poirier notched seven; title. ADDISON COUNTY — that spanned the third and fourth Milton on Monday; see story on the right spots for help-side. We Dubois and senior forward Hannah “It feels so good. There were a lot Vergennes topped rival Mount quarters. Page 2B. struggled a bit with that in the Kelly each had five; and senior of things that could have kept us from Abraham to highlight local girls’ Pacing a balanced VUHS effort TIGERS beginning, but we’re definitely Jordan Jewell chipped in four. playing,” Gosliga said. “There’s high school basketball action in the were Sydney Jewell (13 points, six On Feb. 12 Coach Chris locked in on that now,” said Gosliga, Gosliga said the outside threat eight seniors this year. It would have past week. rebounds), Kate Gosliga (12 points, Altemose, the former longtime who tied classmate Sydney Jewell opens up the interior play — the hurt a lot if we all lost our senior In other games, Mount Abe won seven boards) and Felicia Poirier Tiger boys’ program head, made his for scoring honors with 13 points and Commodores had five assisted season. This was supposed to be our on the road, Middlebury lost on the (seven points, seven rebounds, six girls’ varsity debut in the MUHS helped VUHS earn a 37-26 edge in layups and other plays in which best year, so we’re really excited.” road, and Otter Valley dropped a pair steals). game at Colchester. The Tigers Waller said if they are to reach of contests to tough competition. Cami Masse scored eight points came up short, 40-32, despite a their goal of competing for a title the This was the first week of winter to lead the Eagles, and Madi Gile, game-high 16 points from MUHS Commodores must continue to put in sports in Vermont. High school Abby Reen and Maia Jensen sophomore forward Ele Sellers. the effort they have since the end of sports competitions at indoor added six apiece. Ryleigh Garrow scored 15 to lead last season and the beginning of this Tasty breakfast and healthy lunch, venues have been on hold because On Monday the Eagles evened the Lakers. preseason. of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. their record with a 38-37 win at OTTERS “They’re not done getting better,” all at your local country store. Scott recently lifted the ban on all Winooski. The Spartans took a 15-4 On Feb. 12, host D-I Rutland Waller said. “We had 27 practices but wrestling as of Friday, Feb. 12. lead after the first period, but the took a big early lead and coasted before we got to play our first game. EAGLES-VUHS Eagles rallied to tie it at the half, 18- to a 51-21 victory over the Otters. Not one kid asked me when do you On Feb. 12 the host Commodores 18, and the game was still knotted at Sophomore Emily Peduto debuted think we’re going to play. Not one. broke away from a 24-24 halftime 28-28 entering the final period. for OV with eight points. They came every day with whatever tie to top the Eagles, 50-32. VUHS Five Eagles scored as they took at On Monday host Fair Haven plan we had and acted like it was their Coach Billy Waller said his team’s 37-31 lead, but the Spartans fought defeated the Otters, 63-33, as Slater first practice. So they keep getting depth — 11 Commodores played back behind Kiara Mack (15 points Ryleigh Coloutti recorded 29 better. They keep improving.” Order online at — and full-court play-to-player total) to tie the game at 37-37. A points and 15 rebounds. Courtney defense were factors against an late Masse free throw then proved Brewster added nine points and 12 ottereast.com Eagle team that played shorthanded. decisive. Jenson led the Eagles with rebounds for the winners. ebruary The Eagles led, 24-18, late in the 12 points, and Reen and Masse Alice Keith paced the 0-2 Otters F first half, before VUHS knotted the scored eight apiece. Masse added with 13 points in a game moved OPEN TUESDAY - SATURDAY 6:30AM-2PM score. 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Tucker muscled past scoring in the period, when Brush a defender, cut to goal and beat hit the crossbar on a feed from Conley high to the short side. Ella Tucker. The puck bounced to Schnoor capped the run at 1:42 defender Hana Doria, but her shot of the third period. After taking a slid just wide left. MVU had a late feed from Ryley Olsen, Schnoor power play, but Hodsden stopped fired a long wrist shot high into the Lora Fresn’s bid from between the right side. circles. The Tiger defense of Schnoor, Both teams had golden chances Doria and Lily Finn — as well early in the second as checking by the forwards — period. Hodsden protected Deppman stopped a doorstep “We wanted well the rest of the backhand bid way. Deppman right from MVU’s to be out there also made a strong Elizabeth Laroche doing our best blocker stop on Karissa LeClair after the opening while we had ice faceoff. A minute with five minutes later T-Bird goalie time. We wanted left. Conley made Madison Conley to play as hard 20 saves for MVU. Brush was pleased held her ground as we can every when Tucker cut in with the Tigers’ from the right side. minute. It was better passing and Hodsden stopped really frustrating teamwork as the Fresn a few minutes game progressed. later before giving not being able “They started way to Deppman, to, and we were trusting each other who made 15 saves just so happy to a little bit more and to complete the making that extra shutout, including be out there.” pass. And in the key stops on Rory — Audrey Schnoor second period we Schreindorfer and talked on the bench Fresn before MUHS in the middle of Feel the excitement took the game over. the period that we’ve got to start HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS are back, but state COVID-19 restrictions don’t allow fans to watch indoors, so the members of Middlebury The Tigers’ first goal came from working together, and five minutes Union High School girls’ hockey team had no family and friends to cheer them on as they beat Missisquoi, 4-0, on Saturday. The later we’ve got two goals with members of the press allowed in the building could hear the shouts of the players and coaches and the thwack of the puck. Schnoor at the right point. Her Independent photo/Steve James shot, on a feed from Brush, found assists,” he said. its way home through traffic at Brush also believes the Tigers 12:05 in the second period. Fifteen will have an enjoyable season. seconds later Tucker controlled in “We have the right 13 kids,” he the left corner and fed Mckenna said. “They come to play every Boys’ basketball: Tigers, Mt. Abe players prevail Raymond cutting through the day. They have great attitudes, a ADDISON COUNTY — As the 13 points and five steals. Patrick strong in a game of runs to get past Griffin Paradeeadded eight. circle. Raymond moved through great work ethic. They have real local high school boys’ basketball Walker scored 25 to pace the visiting Enosburg, 50-43. The COMMODORES the slot and flicked the puck back spirit. They feel fortunate they’re season opened, Middlebury and T-Birds. Hornets went on a 22-11 surge to Visiting North Country inside the left post. here, that they have an opportunity Mount Abraham each split a pair On Tuesday the Tigers gave take a 43-40 fourth-quarter lead, overwhelmed the Commodore At 14:13 of the second frame to play, and that they’re able to do of games, while Vergennes and visiting Division I Essex a battle but the Eagles put the clamps boys on Saturday, 53-25. The Tucker made it 3-0. Raymond sent this together.” Otter Valley came up short. before falling short, 59-53. The on them and countered with the Falcons bolted to a 10-0 lead Tucker into the MVU zone along Vt. high school sports Hornets took a 22-11 lead after one game’s final 10 points to prevail. and never looked back behind a competitions at indoor venues period, and MUHS chipped away. Balanced scoring helped Mount balanced attack. Tyler Bergmans have been on hold because of the But MUHS Coach John Howe said Abe: Grayson Lyons (13 points) scored 10 of the VUHS points. COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Scott the Tigers could not overcome and Koby LaRose (seven) led the The Commodores’ Tuesday lifted the ban on all but wrestling the Hornets’ size and edge on the way. game at Missisquoi was called off. as of Friday, Feb. 12. boards. On Tuesday visiting D-I BFA SLATERS TOP OTTERS TIGERS Alberts scored 20; Riche St. Albans played strong man On Monday visiting Fair Haven On Saturday the Tigers got a contributed 11 points, five assists defense to limit the Eagles in the coasted past OV, 67-37. Kohlby big game from sophomore Max and two steals; and Gabe Dunn Bobwhites’ 49-40 victory. Charlie Murray and Sawyer Ramey led Alberts in outlasting visiting chipped in 10 points. Aiden Yates scored 12 to lead BFA. the Slaters with 20 points and 18 Missisquoi, 67-63. Alberts scored Paquette scored 23 for Essex. Liam Oxford led the Eagles points, respectively, while Alex 27 points and grabbed 10 boards. EAGLES with a game-high 16 points, Philo tossed in 17 for the Otters. Senior Karic Riche contributed On Saturday Mount Abe finished including five three-pointers, and Vergennes and Bristol police join forces ADDISON COUNTY VERGENNES — Vergennes business. On Feb. 12 looked into a School Briefs police are working with Bristol On Feb. 9: complaint from a Hillside Drive police to investigate a possible • Helped a motorist whose car resident that flower pots on a The following students at the child pornography case, according had broken down on Main Street. patio had been vandalized and Community College of Vermont to Vergennes Chief George Merkel. • Helped a citizen try to find a determined the damage had been (CCV) were named to the fall 2020 Merkel said lost phone on Main done by cold weather freezing Student Honors List. This honor the case involves Street. water in the pots. recognizes part-time students with TIGER FIRST-YEAR FORWARD Ella Tucker skates down the left alleged nude photos On Feb. 10 took On Feb. 13 took a report from a 4.0 grade point average. wing and squeezes the puck past Missisquoi goalie Madison of a juvenile, and Vergennes a report that a car a Northlands Job Corps employee Bridport: Andrew Burkins and Conley for Middlebury’s third goal in the second period of the an investigation is parked on Green that a local resident had been riding Matthew Burkins. home team’s 4-0 win at home on Saturday. ongoing. Street had been hit around the center on a bicycle at Independent photo/Steve James Police Log Bristol: Elizabeth Coleman, In other activity by a truck, which 4:30 a.m. that morning. Police plan Emily Mason and Lisa Stockwell. between Feb. 8 and knocked its side to follow up. Ferrisburgh: Jennifer Poulos. 14, Vergennes police conducted 22 mirror off. On Feb. 14: Middlebury: Rebecca Hanley, motorized and three foot patrols On Feb. 11: • Checked the welfare of an Jamie Krymlak, Chelsey Lattrell and one property watch; ticketed • Responded to an unfounded upset woman on a Main Street and Saddie Roy. three vehicles left on city streets report of an odor of drugs at a sidewalk who had an argument with Salisbury: Amber Thornton. in violation of the city’s overnight Hillside Drive apartment. a roommate. Police determined she Starksboro: Devin Rochon winter parking ban; dealt with one • Sent two officers to make a was OK, but said she should call Vergennes: Madison Ask, false alarm and one accidental 911 safe-driving presentation to local them if she needed help. Krystal Dragon, Jenny Russett and call; and also: students. • Secured an unlocked door at a Angela Shugart. On Feb. 8 secured an unlocked • Calmed an arguing couple on Main Street business. Whiting: Katie Mitchell door at a New Haven Road a West Main Street sidewalk.

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It will be quality and wildlife habitat and subdivision regulations this spring conducted by Zoom on Monday, conserved 160 acres of adjacent and early summer, Vergennes March 1, at 7:30 p.m. Details are farmland. Planning Commission Chair at Vergennes.org. “We’ll make it as Three organizations — Shannon Haggett told councilors grand and glorious as we can, but the Vermont Land Trust at their Feb. 9 meeting. it’s going to have to be COVID- (VLT), Vermont Housing & Haggett said planners had been safe,” Redmond said. Conservation Board (VHCB), working on the new laws since • Vermont Agency of and USDA-Natural Resources early 2020, when Vergennes Transportation officials had Conservation Service (NRCS) adopted an updated municipal plan, committed “hundreds of thousands — this month announced that the and the new regulations will bring of dollars” to a preliminary study land along the river was enrolled zoning and subdivision provisions of an alternate truck route to Route in the NRCS ACEP Wetland into alignment with that plan. 22A/Main Street, and that research Reserve Easement component. Planners expect to approve the should pin down a preferred A family-owned dairy and new laws in March and hold a route within three-to-five years. milk processing business since public hearing in April. If that goes Redmond said that initial outlay 1930, Monument Farms is the well, the planning commission suggests VTrans had a strong only large-scale milk processor would forward the document to the commitment to the project. in Vermont that sells milk NEARLY 100 ACRES of wetlands and streams have been protected by Monument Farms Dairy in council in May. • He and Police Chief George exclusively from its own herd. Weybridge with help from state and federal investments. The council would then by Merkel had recently held a It has 400 cows and 350 young law hold at least two hearings productive meeting with the stock. The milk and cream to its natural state, which will help VHCB partnered to protect 160 funded in part by VHCB. on the proposal before voting committee studying whether they produce are distributed to retain floodwater and improve acres of adjacent farmland. This Vermont is making substantial on adoption. Any major changes Vergennes should have a citizen throughout the region and sold wildlife habitat. unique approach to protect the progress in reducing phosphorus prompted by public feedback advisory panel to work with city at their on-farm store, a popular This is the first time NRCS entire parcel allowed Monument run-off into our waterways and could reboot the hearing process. officials and the police department. spot for the community and for has worked with partners and Farms to permanently set aside farmers are leading this effort Haggett said changes from Redmond praised the level of visitors. producers to conserve the least productive with actions like this that protect the existing regulations that research and dedication of the Monument Farms now owns one parcel with two “Monument farmland and restore and restore river frontage and planners are proposing include committee members and said they and stewards five conserved separate easements, its wetland functions wetlands,” said VHCB Executive incorporating the city’s should have a recommendation Farms plays agricultural zone into its existing ready by May. parcels in Weybridge. side by side but with a significant and values, but at the Director Gus Seelig. “Our “Over the past 20 years, different purposes. same time protect board is pleased to support the low density residential zone, • He expected the city’s backlog Monument Farms has worked “We are excited to role in the valuable uplands conservation of this property expanding the high density of recording deeds, mortgages and with the Vermont Land partner with Monument Addison from development and and congratulates Monument residential zone, and giving the other documents to be cleared by Trust, Vermont Housing & Farms to help them County’s ensure it is set aside for Farms for their commitment Vergennes Development Review Feb. 26. Conservation Board and the achieve their water rural farming into the future. to improving water quality by Board flexibility to ease setback • He had established monthly and parking restrictions in some NRCS to conserve and protect quality goals and economy.” “This was only possible restoring a portion of the land to meetings with the city’s department the Lemon Fair waterway and restore wildlife habitat through the innovative floodplain forest.” high density zones. heads. — VLT Farm farmland. Their funding and through the wetland leadership of both our “Monument Farms plays He added another goal was to • He had met individually with Project Director guidance have been instrumental reserve easement,” said conservation partners a significant role in Addison make Vergennes “more bike and 32 “community stakeholders,” Al Karnatz in making this possible,” said Vermont NRCS State and Monument Farms,” County’s rural economy,” VLT pedestrian friendly.” and would continue to schedule Peter James, Monument Farms Conservationist Vicky said Drew. Farm Project Director Al Karnatz In other business, the council such meetings as he attempts to farm manager. Drew. “Private landowners, like The conserved farmland also said. “Their commitment to heard from new Vergennes City familiarize himself with Vergennes The land enrolled in the Monument Farms, are essential includes streams, including sustainable land use and to their Manager Ron Redmond that: and residents’ concerns. wetlands protection program partners in restoring wetlands headwater tributaries of Beaver community is exemplary. They’re is low-lying, adjacent to the and ensuring that wildlife, like Brook and the Lemon Fair River. constantly innovating to become Lemon Fair River, and subject bobcats, white-tailed deer and These will be enhanced through more efficient and to become to flooding. Under the new bears, have excellent habitat and wooded areas along the banks that better environmental stewards. protections, this land will no can safely move across Vermont’s help to maintain water quality and We’re thrilled to work with them Vt. State Police Log longer be farmed. Instead, NRCS mosaic of farmland, forestland provide crucial space for animals and our partner organizations on will work with Monument and developed areas.” to move through the open farm water quality and the health of ADDISON COUNTY — in Shoreham. Farms to restore the floodplain In addition, NRCS, VLT and fields in the area. The effort was Vermont’s farmland.” Between Feb. 7 and 15, troopers • On Feb. 10 at 3:12 p.m. at the New Haven barracks of the assisted another agency on River Vermont State Police reported Road in Bristol. no incidents serious enough to • On Feb. 11 at 10:02 a.m. warrant a full press release. dealt with a report of a suspicious State police keep a briefer log person or circumstance at the New If you’re not sleeping, of daily activity. According to that Haven barracks on Route 7. log, troopers at the New Haven • On Feb. 11 at 11:07 a.m. barracks: calmed a family disturbance on maybe you’re doing it wrong. • On Feb. 7 at 6:15 p.m. Vincent Drive in Bristol. assisted a citizen on Plank Road • On Feb. 12 at 12:08 p.m. in New Haven. quieted a family disturbance on • On Feb. 8 reported no North Road in Whiting. Simmons Beautyrests are designed to bring you better quality sleep – incidents. • On Feb. 13 reported no • On Feb. 9 at 9:48 a.m. checked incidents. so you’ll have more energy the next day. out a report of a disturbance • On Feb. 14 at 10:07 a.m. caused by a motor vehicle at responded to a false alarm on Routes 30 and 74 in the heart of River Road in New Haven. Cornwall. • On Feb. 14 at 5:27 p.m. looked • On Feb. 9 at 11:58 a.m. into a report of a suspicious person assisted an agency at the barracks. or circumstance on Mountainside • On Feb. 9 at 2:10 p.m. assisted View in Bristol. another agency on Munsill Avenue • On Feb. 14 at 11:34 p.m. and Bristol Pond in Bristol. assisted another agency on West • On Feb. 9 at 11:01 p.m. Shore Road in Salisbury. assisted a citizen at Blaises Mobile • On Feb. 15 at 12:38 a.m. Home Park in Bristol. checked out a report of a • On Feb. 10 at 12:09 p.m. suspicious person or circumstance assisted a citizen on Route 74 East on Quiet Lane in Salisbury.

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Have a news tip? Call Dawn Lincoln Mikkelsen at 453-7029 NEWS community LINCOLN — Now is the time If you are going to vote in person, to request your absentee ballot for please remember COVID protocols Town Meeting. will be in place. There are nearly There will be no in-person meeting 50 questions on all three ballots, so calendar this year, so all articles will be voted please dress appropriately as long by Australian ballot. The polls will lines may form outside. If you have feb THURSDAY be open on Tuesday, March 2 from any questions, please contact town 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Burnham Hall. clerk, Sally Ober. 18 Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Voters are strongly encouraged to Even though there were no Hill watch party. Thursday, Feb. 18, 2-4 p.m., Zoom. Watch the landing of the vote absentee, and ballots must Country Holiday festivities this year, 2020 Perseverance rover on Mars in this Live be requested. Ballots will not be Lincoln Sports will be offering a free Zoom call. For access info contact Elaine Fortin automatically mailed like they were meal on Saturday, Feb. 20. If you at [email protected]. in the general election. You can are interested in enjoying soup, chili “Abenaki Creation Story, Language, and request your absentee ballot in one of and bread, stop by Burnham Hall Culture.” Online presentation. Thursday, Feb. the following ways: online at mvp. between 3 and 5 p.m. for pickup/ 18, 5-6 p.m., Zoom. Jesse Bowman Bruchac, vermont.gov, by emailing clerk@ takeout. a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, traditional storyteller, musician and Abenaki lincolnvermont.org, by mailing the After you pickup your food from language instructor will give this talk sponsored postcard that will be coming in the Burnham Hall, don’t forget to tune by CCV. He works as co-director of his family-run mail soon, by filling out a request into the variety show live stream at education center Ndakinna, where he teaches form at the town office and leaving 6:30 p.m. at neatbristol.com/live- Native American Life Ways, martial arts and it in the drop box, or by calling the stream. the Abenaki language. He has lectured at Yale, town clerk’s office at 453-2980 and Until next time ... Happy 13th Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton, and is also the director of the School of Abenaki, which is part leaving a detailed message. Birthday, Jacob! of Middlebury Language Schools. Register at ccv. edu/speakerseries. Have a news tip? Cabin Fever Lecture Series: Black-capped Call Liz Pecor Chickadees. Thursday, Feb. 18, 6:30 p.m., Zoom. Black-capped chickadees are one of the most Monkton at 453-2180 ubiquitous of our year-round bird species, and NEWS yet somehow always remain a joy to encounter. MONKTON — The Monkton the town when it outgrew the old Learn about these charismatic birds with Otter Mission to Mars Town Hall and Library are moving town hall in Monkton Borough. THE PERSEVERANCE MARS rover is expected to land on Mars on Feb. 18. Join the Zoom Creek Audubon Society board member David up the street in a few months to the The Monkton Ridge building Hof. Find the Zoom link at ottercreekaudubon.org watch party that day from 2-4 p.m., if you can. More info in calendar listings. or email [email protected]. new Town Offices and Library. As is on the National Register of Bill McKibben — “The Climate Fight: A Report part of the plan, the town intends to Historic Places. For the past few From the Front” online presentation. Thursday, sell the 1859 Town Hall on the open months, the Monkton Museum and Feb. 18, 7-8 p.m., Zoom. This presentation a racially ambiguous man born in Bradford, Vt., our answering service (866-972-5266) and an market to fund part of the cost of the Historical Society (MM&HS) has is part of the Green Mountain Club’s James in 1795, is known as the first Black graduate Al-Anon member will call you back. new building. An initial appraisal been exploring the possibility of of an American College (Middlebury) and the Little Free Pantry in Monkton. Monkton Friends P. Taylor Outdoor Adventure Series. Author, values the old building at $51,300. purchasing the building. What are environmentalist and activist, McKibben is a first Black headmaster of a grammar school in Church, Monkton Ridge. Pickups will be offered Ripton resident and GMC member. Admission to Vermont. In this virtual presentation, Bill Hart, every Saturday and Sunday from 9 to 10 a.m. The Town Hall was originally your thoughts? this Zoom program is free with an optional donation professor emeritus of History at Middlebury Call 802-453-3020 and leave a first name and built in 1859 by residents of Please take our survey at forms. to GMC to support its Education Program. More College, discusses the significance of how many people in the household and any Monkton Ridge and donated to gle/tGnfpx4tBAL4pceJ8. info and registration at greenmountainclub.org/ Twilight’s many achievements and examines special needs so we can prepare a bag of items education/speaker-series. his complicated racial identity. More info and for you to pick up. Pick-up can also be made registration at HistoricNewEngland.org/Twilight. by appointment by calling 802-453-3020. If you th need something in between, call and leave a Happy 85 Birthday feb FRIDAY message and we will get back to you about a feb FRIDAY pick up time. You are also welcome to go to Careen Farnsworth Lenten take-out fish dinner in Have-A-Heart at St. Ambrose Church in Bristol 19 th Vergennes. Friday, Feb. 19, 5-7 p.m., 26 American Red Cross Blood Drive on the 3rd Friday of each month, from 5 - 6 pm. on February 25 ! St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 85 South Maple in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 26, 9:30 The Makery Sewing lab. ONLINE ONLY AS OF St. St. Peters’ Knights of Columbus offer this a.m.-2 p.m., Middlebury Rec Center, NOV. 26 Thursdays, 5-9 p.m., The Makery at meal of baked beer battered haddock, zesty fries, 154 Creek Rd. 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ONLINE ONLY AS Libanus Lodge, 2 Elm St. Menu includes call 1-800-Red-Cross (1-800-733-2767) or visit OF NOV. 26 Thursdays, 5-9 p.m., The Makery homemade meatballs served with homemade redcrossblood.org to register. at Hannaford Career Center, 51 Charles Ave. sauce on spaghetti with grated Parmesan Tool Training is a one night prerequisite for cheese, homemade garlic bread (baked locally), new participants to use the Woodworking tossed salad with Italian dressing and dessert. Lab. Limit of 5. Pre-registration is required. mar TUESDAY [email protected] • addisoncountypcc.org • 388-3171 Everything except the pasta will be homemade. Free, $5 Drop-In Fee or Membership Cards. All this for only $10/dinner. Please remain in your 2 Town Meeting curbside dinner in Select what works best for you. More info at car and a Mason will come right to you, take your Cornwall. Tuesday, March 2, 5-6:30 hannafordcareercenter.org/about/the-makery. • Community Playgroups order and bring you your dinner. Call 802-453- p.m., Order by Tuesday, Feb. 23. The The Makery Woodworking lab. ONLINE • Parent Education Classes Friends of Cornwall School (FOCS) will provide ONLY AS OF NOV. 26 Thursdays, 5-9 p.m., 4877 to reserve your meal. • Home Visits Virtual variety show in Lincoln. Saturday, Feb. 20. Cornwall residents with a dinner of Greek lemon The Makery at Hannaford Career Center, 51 6:30 p.m. NEAT-TV. The Lincoln Variety Show is baked chicken or tofu, roasted potatoes, green Charles Ave. Use Makery tools and equipment • Pregnancy Prevention Programs back! There won’t be a live in-person audience, beans and Turtle brownies for dessert, all for to work on projects. Get your questions • Parent Training & Child Center but there is good news. Watch it live from the $10 adults/$5 kids. To order send name, contact answered or learn new skills from our kind and comfort of your own home via live stream at information, how many meals you want (adult/ talented Mentors. 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Rokeby Museum will host this virtual For a list of online meetings on the Teen Center’s Discord Server, and discussion of led by Vermont historian Elise visit vermontalanonalateen. will be emailed to any participant without a Guyette. For all the special winter events, visit org. Online Sundays, Discord account. Registration form at forms. Rokeby’s website at rokeby.org. 7:15 p.m. and gle/2ypt9abMWcWcjD9N6. Wednesdays, Weatherization Wednesdays via Zoom. Noon. 1:30 p.m. If you’d Button Up Vermont is offering weekly sessions like to speak to to via Zoom and Facebook live. Each week a feb WEDNESDAY an Al-Anon new topic will be covered. Get your questions 24 American Red Cross Blood Drive member, call answered. Register at buttonupvermont.org/ in Vergennes. Wednesday, Feb. events 24, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Victory Baptist Church, 862 Route 7. 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Community Invest Counselors see changes MIDDLEBURY — Recent months full-time. In his free time, he enjoys have brought some significant changes playing guitar and watching a good to Community Investment Counselors football game with family and friends. (CIC). Rob Fjeld and George Mitchell For the past six years, Mitchell joined the Middlebury business this used his nights to study successful Reader Comments past fall as financial advisors. Then, investors and money managers. on Jan. 18 company founder Mitchell’s philosophy Here’s what one reader has to say about us! Rollie White died. ADDISON COUNTY is that with diligence “We were shocked and Business News and planning, virtually saddened by the loss of anyone can achieve CIC’s founder, president financial prosperity. A subscriber from Bridport, VT writes: and friend to all Rollie White,” a CIC Fjeld grew up in Leicester, going official said in a press release. “Rollie’s to the same church as Fulton. After “Thanks for holding on through the pandemic. We all needed contributions to our community — as a attending Otter Valley, Fjeld earned high-school math teacher, a basketball a bachelor’s degree in psychology to have frequent updates on local & national news!” and softball coach, and as a financial at Castleton University in 2016 and counselor — are wide reaching.” has been working at the Counseling Quotes are taken from reader comments submitted with subscription renewals. Mitchell and Fjeld each have passed Service of Addison County, where the Series 65 examination and are he found a passion for helping now licensed as Investment Advisor people. Representatives, according to CIC Holding a mutual interest in the President Holly Fulton. stock market and various investing Mitchell grew up in Brandon, strategies with his friend George graduated from Otter Valley Union Mitchell, Fjeld started investing in High School and Stafford Technical his personal account in 2016. His COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COUNSELORS founder Rollie Center. He holds a Journeymen knowledge of investing has continued White, center, is flanked by Robert Fjeld, left, and George Electrical License and worked as an to expand since then, including picking ADDISON COUNTY Mitchell in a photo taken last year. Fjeld and Mitchell have joined the Middlebury company as financial advisors, and White died electrician in the Rutland area until up fundamental market concepts from INDEPENDENT last month. this February when he joined CIC his golfing buddy Woody Dorsey. Serving Addison County, Vt., Since 1946 PAGE 6B — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY Police investigating vehicle crash in Middlebury SPECIAL SELECTBOARD MEETING MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury treatment. could not find the vehicle. police are looking at a Feb. 8 • Helped out with a vehicle that • Went to Route 7 South to look MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021 - 6:00 P.M. one-vehicle crash with injuries slid off Seminary Street Extension. for a reported erratic driver, but The Town Offices remain closed to the public. In accordance on Blake Roy Road as a possible Middlebury • Dealt with a minor accident could not find the vehicle. with Act 92, the meeting will be held on the Zoom video platform. driving-under-the-influence of Police Log on Creek Road. • Accepted a license plate found alcohol offense. On Feb. 10: by a citizen and began trying to To view and participate in the Selectboard meeting: Police responded to the • Checked the Court Street area contact its owner. URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89703408275 investigation was continuing as of incident just before 10 p.m. that earlier this week. for a reported odor of gas. • Checked on a Route 7 South By Phone: +1 646-558-8656 (not toll-free) Monday. They said a truck went In other action between Feb. 8 On Feb. 11: bank after a cleaner reported Webinar ID: 897 0340 8275 off the road and struck a tree. The and 14, Middlebury police: • Took a call from a man suspicious activity. male driver was transported to On Feb. 8: reporting “a variety of suspicious On Feb. 13: For those wishing to watch but not participate: Porter Hospital, while the male • Aided Middlebury Regional circumstances” at his residence. • Went to a locked Case Street Selectboard meetings are livestreamed to MCTV’s YouTube Channel: passenger was taken to UVM Emergency Medical Services with Police said they determined he residence because a resident said https://www.youtube.com/user/MCTVVermont Medical Center. a call on Sugarwood Court. was experiencing a mental health he was not sure he could gain and also broadcast live on Comcast Channel 1071 Police said they obtained a episode. entry and stood by while he gained • Looked into a report of a search warrant to draw a sample missing vehicle from Boardman • Went to a Court Street hotel to entry. AGENDA of the operator’s blood due to help identify two unknown males • Responded to a call from 6:00 1. **Call to Order Street and found it in a nearby 2. *Approval of Agenda suspicion of DUI-alcohol, and an parking lot. in the building. a Case Street resident about 3. *Approval of Minutes of the February 9, 2021 On Feb. 9: • Responded to Middlebury suspicious activity at his home. Regular Selectboard Meeting • Went to Porter Drive to begin Union High School to help with a On Feb 14: 4. **Citizen Comments [Opportunity to raise or address issues not investigating a man’s report of a student in possession of drugs. • Dealt with a report of someone • Went to the Residence at Otter trying to enter a woman’s North otherwise included on this agenda] Public Notices sexual assault. Creek to help staff with a possibly Pleasant Street apartment through 6:05 5. *Approval of First, Second and Third Class Liquor Licenses, can be found • Went to Court Square to help Outside Consumption Permits & Entertainment Permits a woman who reported receiving intoxicated resident. a window. Police determined the 6:10 6. *Local Emergency Management Director/Chief of Police, on Pages 6B, 7B, 10B, threatening text messages from an On Feb. 12: report was unfounded. Update on Pandemic Response • Helped a motorist on Court • Helped a motorist on Bakery 6:15 7. *Dan Werner, Director of Public Works Planning, with the 11B and 12B. ex in Burlington. • Took a North Pleasant Street Street. Lane. Infrastructure Committee’s February 11, 2021 Recommendation on an • Went to Route 7 North to look • Dealt with an animal incident Engineering Services Agreement with Otter Creek Engineering for Final man experiencing a mental health Design/Permitting & Bid Phase Services for the Halladay Road sanitary crisis to Porter Hospital for for a reported erratic driver, but on Court Street. sewer pump station improvement project PROBATE DIVISION 6:20 8. **Jennifer Murray, Director of Planning & Zoning, Regarding an DOCKET NO. 20-PR-01308 Application for Grant Funding from the Downtown Transportation Fund STATE OF VERMONT 6:25 9. **Chris Zeoli, Tree Warden, with a Request for Approval of Letter DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. of Collaboration with the Vermont Urban & Community Forestry IN RE THE ESTATE OF Bristol Police Log Program for development of a Shade Tree Preservation Plan TRACY MERRILL BEDELL NOTICE TO CREDITORS 6:30 10. *Labor Relations BRISTOL — Between Jan. one loose dog and one lost wallet. parked on the sidewalk impeding a 10.a. *Consideration of One-Year Extension of the Town’s To the creditors of the estate Collective Bargaining Agreement with the American Federation of of Tracy Merrill Bedell, late of 25 and Feb. 7, Bristol police The department also assisted snowplow. State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 93, Starksboro. completed 16 foot patrols, Vermont State Police once and the • On Feb. 1 began investigating Local 1201, the DPW, Wastewater, Water, Office, Recreation & We have been appointed as personal conducted eight car patrols, Vermont Department for Children a report of inappropriate photos Library Departments’ Employees’ Union representatives of the above named monitored traffic during school and Families once. shared through social media. 10.b. *Consideration of One-Year Extension of Town’s Collective estate. All creditors having claims dismissal five times, and checked In other recent activity, Bristol • On Feb. 2 began investigating Bargaining Agreement with the New England Police Benevolent against the estate must present their security at Mount Abraham police: a theft complaint. Association (NEPBA), Inc., Local 423 claims in writing within four months of Union High School 14 times, at • On Jan. 25 helped a local • On Feb. 3 investigated a 10.c. *Consideration of Settlement of AFSCME Employee the first publication of this notice. The Bristol Elementary School 14 business with a property damage complaint about unwanted phone Grievance 03-24-2020 claim must be presented to us at the times, and at local businesses 14 complaint and will file a report. calls and determined that no action address listed below with a copy filed 6:40 11. *Approval of Check Warrants times. • On Jan. 28 began investigating rose to the level of an offense. 6:45 – 7:00 with the register of the Probate Court. BREAK TO PREPARE FOR INFORMATIONAL MEETING FOR TOWN The claim will be forever barred if it is Police also completed at least 16 a theft complaint. • On Feb. 4 investigated MEETING not presented as described within the fingerprint requests, responded to • On Jan. 28 began investigating a harassment complaint and 7:00 12. *Information Meeting for 2021 Town Meeting voting by Australian four month deadline. three alarms that turned out to be a report of possible identity theft. determined that no action rose to ballot on March 2, 2021; Discussion of five warned articles, no voting Dated: February 11, 2021 false and facilitated the return of • On Jan. 29 ticketed a vehicle the level of an offense. from the floor Mary L. Hutchins-Berry 9:00 13. *Executive Session – NOT ANTICIPATED c/o Nancy Corsones, Esq., 14. **Action on Matters Discussed in Executive Session Corsones and Fitzsimons, LLP ADDISON COUNTY 802-776-4980 School News 9:05 15. *Adjourn [email protected] Four local students have Archie Milligan of Middlebury, for the WPI dean’s list differ from 26 South Main Street, been named to the dean’s list at a Robotics Engineering major; most other universities as WPI * Decision Item ** Possible Decision Rutland, VT 05701 For view-only access, you can watch Selectboard meetings live Publication: Addison Independent Worcester Polytechnic Institite Chemical Engineering major does not compute a grade point on MCTV’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/user/ Publication Date: 2/18/21 in Worcester, Mass., for the fall Dylan Rapoport of Vergennes; average. Instead, WPI defines the MCTVVermont and on Comcast Channel 1071. Address of Probate Court: semester. They include: Electrical and Elinor Ross of Brandon, dean’s list by the amount of work Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady and Computer Engineering major an Electrical and Computer completed at the A level in courses REACH THE COUNTY, PLACE YOUR AD HERE. CALL 388-4944 Court, Middlebury VT 05753 Arden Carling of Starksboro; Engineering major. The criteria and projects. STUDENTS OF THE WEEK FROM AREA HIGH SCHOOLS Middlebury Union High School Vergennes Union High School Emma Franklin Adam Sausville Congratulations to Emma Franklin of Middlebury, the Student of the Week Adam Sausville of Waltham is Vergennes Union High School’s Student of the from Middlebury Union High School. She is the daughter of Tim and Annette Week. Adam is the son of David and Lisa Sausville. He has two older siblings, Franklin and has a younger sibling, Gedeleine, who is in the eighth grade at both VUHS grads, Samara and Ethan. MUMS. Her older brothers and sisters are Skylar, Bethany and Elliot. Adam’s academic record demonstrates his commitment to education. He has Emma has enjoyed her educational experience at MUHS and is grateful several AP classes under his belt, as well as dual enrollment classes. He joined she opted to pursue the International Baccalaureate program. Emma feels the the National Honor Society in 11th grade, and was among the VUHS students to coursework, while challenging, is preparing her well for college. Emma has host students from Germany as part of an exchange. COVID-19 prevented him especially appreciated the extensive writing component of the IB curriculum. and his fellow students from traveling to Germany. Academically, she has enjoyed Mr. Krahn’s classes and says she believes Adam has played soccer and basketball all four years at VUHS, and was the his love of literature has been a motivator for her in the classroom. Emma’s captain of the basketball team this year. He is also an Eagle Scout. transcript reflects her dedication to her studies, and it is not surprising that she’s Adam has worked at Basin Harbor and Button Bay State Park. He says he on the honor roll at MUHS. learned many different lessons from both of these jobs, including keeping an eye An involved student, Emma is well known to all members of the MUHS out for what he could do and be helpful where he could, taking initiative on work community. She’s been active in the high school band and played clarinet. before being asked to do something and always helping the customers. Emma is key member of the school’s theater program and has been a co-stage While in Scouts and working with the younger boys, Adam participated manager for several drama productions. She has had roles in the ensemble in annually in one-day food drives, placing flags on veterans’ graves, assisting two school drama productions, “Hello, Dolly” and “Singin’ in the Rain.” She’s Emma Franklin local trail maintenance, Green Up Day, construction of wood duck nesting boxes, Adam Sausville a member of the environmental club and represents the Tigers on the soccer MUHS assisting at Dead Creek Day and painting projects. VUHS and tennis teams. Outside of school, Emma is actively involved in Young Life, Outside of all these activities, Adam enjoys hunting because he gets to do it with his family and is able to enjoy the outdoors a Christian group. She attended their summer camp in the Adirondacks in the summer of 2019 and loved hiking, kayaking and when sitting in the woods. He often hikes and camps with family and friends and skiing when he has the time. When not in school adventuring with friends. sports he likes to play soccer or basketball with his friends. Biking and swimming also make the list, as does playing with is dog, Emma has a part-time job at Middlebury College in catering services but given the pandemic, her hours have been reduced. Theo. She spends much of her free time outdoors, hiking and exploring the area with her friends. As she reflects on her time in high Adam’s high school experience has taught him not to procrastinate and just get his work done. He says it helps reduce his stress school, she encourages others to take full advantage of all that MUHS has to offer, especially the wonderful teachers. Emma is and gives him more free time. He urges underclassmen to get their work done and ask for assistance if they are confused or could looking ahead to college with anticipation and has focused her attention on institutions in the Mid-West with small classes and use some guidance, and to always understand other people’s views before coming to a conclusion. personalized attention where she can really know her professors and peers. Emma’s contributions at MUHS have been positive After high school Adam plans to go to college and earn his bachelor’s degree, though he has yet to select a major, or to take a and long-lasting. We are sure she will thrive wherever she ultimately enrolls as she pursues her college studies and we wish gap year. Whatever his choice, everyone at VUHS wishes him all the best. her well.

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YOUR Jackman Fuels, Inc. Keep your Eye Serving the Champlain ACHIEVING Valley since 1945 on your makes our Congratulations to: future goals! Emma and Adam Congratulations Keep up the great work, whole Mon 8-4 • Tues–Fri 8-5 Emma and Adam community Emma and Adam 877-3118 proud Vergennes, VT 205 Main Street, Vergennes 877-2661 • jackmanfuels.com 27 Main Street, Vergennes Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 7B WARNING TOWN OF NEW HAVEN ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE OF Public Notices VIRTUAL PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING DOGS AND WOLF-HYBRIDS ORDINANCE can be found FEBRUARY 23, 2021 On February 2, 2021, the Selectboard of the Town of New Haven, Vermont, Member Towns are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, adopted amendments to the existing “Dogs and Wolf-Hybrids Ordinance” on Pages 6B, 7B, 10B, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Weybridge pursuant to 20 V.S.A. § 3549, 24 V.S.A. § 2291 (10), (14) and (15) and 24 V.S.A. The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby notified Chapter 59. This notice is published pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §1972 to inform the of the Virtual Public Information Hearing on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at public of these amendments and of the citizens’ right to petition for a vote to 11B and 12B. 7:00 PM, to discuss Australian Ballot articles warned for vote on Tuesday, disapprove these amendments. March 2, 2021. SECTION 1. AUTHORITY. SECTION 2. PURPOSE. Virtual connection details on the ACSD Website: https://www.acsdvt.org SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS. ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Linda J. Barrett, Clerk Mary Cullinane, Chair SECTION 4. NUISANCES AND EXEMPTIONS. TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY Addison Central School District Addison Central School District SECTION 5. ENFORCEMENT. 77 MAIN ST., MIDDLEBURY, VT 05753 SECTION 6. PENALTIES AND COSTS. The Addison Central School District Annual Report and FY22 Budget SECTION 7. IMPOUNDMENT. Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of: Main Street Curb & Sidewalk Book will be available in the following manner: SECTION 8. INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIALLY VICIOUS DOGS. Improvements Project will be received by The Town of Middlebury, Public Works http://www.acsdvt.org/domain/30 (Departments/Finance) SECTION 9. INVESTIGATION OF VICIOUS DOGS. Department at: 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 until 1:00 pm (prevailing or call 802-382-1274 to request a copy. SECTION 10. INJURED ANIMALS. local time) on Friday, March 5, 2021 if mailing, or to the Public Works Department SECTION 11. OTHER LAWS. at 1020 South Route 7 if hand delivering, and then at Middlebury Public Works SECTION 12. SEVERABILITY. Dept. publicly opened and read aloud. TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY SECTION 13. EFFECTIVE DATE. Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the OWNER The full test of the Ordinance may be examined at the New Haven Town Office for five percent (5%) of the total amount of the BID. A BID bond may be used in PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE at 78 North St., New Haven, VT and may be examined during regular business lieu of a certified check. The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold an online video public hours; or on the Towns website: newhavenvt.com The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations: hearing on Monday March 8, 2021, via Zoom, beginning at 7:00 p.m. to consider CITIZENS’ RIGHT TO PETITION FOR VOTE Green Mountain Engineering, Inc., the following: Title 24 V.S.A. § 1973 grants citizens the right to petition for a vote at a special 1438 South Brownell Road, Williston, VT 05495 1. Application (file #2021-07:003.100-amend PUD/SD) is a request by Middle or annual Town Meeting to disapprove ordinance amendments adopted by the Road Ventures (MRV) for amended site plan/subdivision approval to the Town of Middlebury, Public Works Offices, Selectboard. To exercise this right, citizens must present to the Selectboard or previous decisions dated 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2014 and to consider 1020 South Rt. 7, Middlebury, VT 05753 Town Clerk a petition for a vote on the question of disapproving the amendments modifications to the lot reconfiguration as approved by Act 250. The MRV Works in Progress, 20 Farrell Street, Suite 103, South Burlington, VT 05403 signed by not less than five percent (5%) of Town’s qualified voters. The petition subdivision amendment request is specifically related to the lots formerly must be represented within forty-four (44) days following the date of the adoption Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office identified as #401-#412, of parcel # 007003.100. The MRV property is of amendments. Unless a petition requesting a vote is filed pursuant to 24 V.S.A. of Green Mountain Engineering, Inc., located at 1438 South Brownell Road, located at 490 Middle Road North in the Medium Density Residential § 1973, the amended “Dogs and Wolf-Hybrids Ordinance” shall become effective Williston, VT 05495 upon a non-refundable payment of $60.00 for each set. district. sixty (60) days from the date of said adoption. A Performance BOND and a Payment BOND each in an amount equal to one Application, plans and additional information regarding this application may be hundred percent (100%) of the contract price, will be required. viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office in the Town Offices or by calling 388- PERSON TO CONTACT Federal minimum wage rates and public work employment laws are applicable. 8100, Ext 226. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right Additional information pertaining to this Ordinance may be obtained by A pre-bid conference for prospective bidders will be held at the Municipal Office to take any subsequent appeal as an “interested person(s)”. Interested persons contacting Aaron Brown, Town Administrator at 78 North St., New Haven, VT Building, located at 77 Main Street in Middlebury, at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, wishing to participate in this hearing may do so by contacting David Wetmore 05472 or by calling 802 – 453 – 3516, during regular office hours. February 17, 2021. at 388-8100, Ext 226 or email to [email protected]. Request Representatives of Green Mountain Engineering and the Town of Middlebury to participate in hearing must be made by 4:00 PM on the day of the hearing will be present to answer questions from bidders and discuss participation (3/8/2021) to obtain the Zoom link. requirements. 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Within 40 mile Please send resume and references to: radius of Bristol, VT. Must adhere to COVID-19 Nursery and Greenhouse Sales and Care Associate guidelines to join our circle. [email protected]. Middlebury Agway is seeking a highly motivated individual to assist Contact Robin: 802-989-8521 More Info: whistlepigwhiskey.com/careers. or [email protected] in our Nursery and3 Greenhouse.x col 7.5The main CD\ focus of this position will be on sales, customer service, care and display of all plant material inventory. Knowledge of Trees, Shrubs, aagway wide variety of plants and garden/landscape Opportunities Opportunities Opportunities4t-WhistlePig011321.inddOpportunities 1 Opportunities Opportunities1/8/21 10:31 AMdesign. We’re looking for someone to pleasantly and confidently interact with customers in a demanding, fast paced environment. 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Available storage COMMISSION SALES ADDISON INDEPENDENT VIEW APARTMENTS is snow removal and excavation/ space in my barn for sum- currently taking waitlist ap- RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT on Pages 6B, 7B, mer/winter storage. The The Keewaydin Foundation seeks to construction work. Excellent pay. plications. Occupants must Sales for 2/11 & 2/15, 2021 barn is structurally sound 10B, 11B and 12B. hire a Coordinator of Alumni Relations/ be 62+ years of age. No and weather-tight with COST Please call to apply. 802-388-4529. smoking/ No pets. Income BEEF LBS. /LB $ Records, a key member of the successful electricity. No heat or run- TOM BODETTE limits apply-Rent based on Addison Central School Keewaydin Foundation Development ning water. The barn is also McGlaslin Farm 1750 .66 1155.00 income. Equal Housing available for lease. The en- District (1) Team. This staff member is responsible Excavating & Landscaping, Inc. 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Text Baba, leather (for now) horsewear A. Brisson 98 1.90 186.20 Middlebury (5) management; Raisers’ Edge experience a of all kinds for cleaning and The ZA administers and enforces zoning 802-373-6456. Hatch Farm 118 1.80 212.40 repairing at my Weybridge Monkton (1) plus. The successful candidate will work regulations and provides professional and staff P. Doton 104 1.80 187.20 out of our Keewaydin Foundation Office in location. Call or text Sue support to the Planning Commission and Zoning LARGE, 1 BEDROOM Miller at 802-377-5945 or Gosliga Farm 95 1.75 166.25 New Haven (1) Salisbury, VT. Some weekend and evening Board of Adjustment. Minimum qualifications walkout basement apart- email svdwmiller@icloud. M. Churchill 107 1.70 181.90 work is required. include one year of relevant work experience ment. Electric included. com with “horse” in the Total # Beef: 229 • Total # Calves: 345 Vergennes (2) in a related field (planning, environmental Tenant pays heat. $1,000 subject line for more in- Applicants will need to send in a cover science, civil engineering, etc.) Excellent oral per month. First, last month formation. We value our faithful customers. Vermont, State of (1) letter, resume and three references to & written communication skills, attention to rent. Furnished or unfur- nished. 802-349-2918. Sales at 3 pm - Mon. & Thurs. Mary Welz at [email protected] detail, and ability to remain professional at all Whiting (1) MULCH HAY FOR SALE. call 1-802-388-2661 by February 26. times required. The complete job description is Small square bales. 802- MIDDLEBURY 8,000 349-9281. 802-453-4481. Read the full job description at: available at www.lincolnvermont.org/town-office/ zoning-and-planning and by contacting the SQ.FT. light industrial in- https://keewaydin.org/employment/ cluding a store front ap- INVITATION TO BID Lincoln Town office at townbk@lincolnvermont. proved for retail. Exchange WHITNEY’S CUSTOM org or (802)453-2980. FARM WORK Pond agi- TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY Street, industrial. 802-388- BID NUMBER # 20210211-1 Apply by email with a letter of interest and 4831. tating, liquid manure haul- Place your ad here! resume as a PDF attachment to Bill Finger, ing, drag line aerating. Call Sealed competitive bids for a Class 3 Crew Cab/Stake Body Truck will be for price. 462-2755, John received at the office of the Town Manager, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT Call 388-4944 Selectboard Chair at: admin@lincolnvermont. MIDDLEBURY, OFF CAM- Whitney. 05753 until 3:00 PM, March 1, 2021. org or by mail to: Bill Finger, Selectboard Chair, PUS HOUSING available. Lincoln Town Office, 62 Quaker Street, 802-388-4831, AJ Neri The Town of Middlebury, VT reserves the right to waive any Lincoln, VT 05443 by March 1st, 2021. Property Rentals. informalities, reject any and all bids, or to accept any bid Help Wanted Help Wanted deemed to be in the best interest of the Town. Position is open until filled. Wanted Information for Bidders, Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained by VT COLLECTOR WILL PAY cash for old wooden contacting the Department of Public Works at 1020 Route 7 South via email bird carvings, goose, duck at [email protected], by phone at (802) 388-4045 or on the Town’s and shorebird decoys. 802- webpage at www.townofmiddlebury.org. 238-1465. Bill Kernan Director Public Works Operations OLD guns STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION wanted ADDISON UNIT Docket No.2 5 1 -3-20 Ancv Need to work from home, or have a flexible KURTIS M. KLING and ROSELIN B. WHITE schedule? Offering 15-40 hours! Rifles, Plaintiff, NOW HIRING Hand V. guns, ALL THOSE CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN 25 ACRES OF WOODLAND THAT Digital Marketing/Advertising Administrator Shot guns WAS PART OF THE FORMER BROWN FARM IN STARKSBORO, VERMONT Defendants. Join us as we pursue excellence in local media! Top prices paid. P: 802-775-2859 The Addison Independent is hiring a dynamic individual C: 802-236-7213 SUMMONS AND ORDER FOR PUBLICATION with boundless creative energy and an optimistic desire THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: ALL THOSE CLAIMING AN INTEREST to help local businesses. IN 25 ACRES OF WOODLAND THAT WAS PART OF THE FORMER BROWN FARM IN STARKSBORO, VERMONT A successful candidate would have: For Rent 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. A copy • Experience and/or education in marketing/ of the Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is on file and may be obtained at the offce advertising, specifically digital All real estate advertising of the clerk of this court, Vermont Superior Court, Addison Civil Division, 7 Mahady in this newspaper is • A tenacious drive to support and grow sales. subject to the Federal Court, Middlebury, Vermont. Do not throw this paper away. It is an offcial paper An outgoing personality eager to meet and Fair Housing Act of 1968 that affects your rights. help develop effective marketing plans for area as amended which makes 2. PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM. (a) Plaintiffs are the fee simple owner of all right, title and it illegal to advertise “any businesses. preference, limitation or interest in and to the 25 Acre Woodland Parcel, and (b) no other person or entity • Excellent communication skills and comfort discrimination based on race, has any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien on the 25 Acre Woodland Parcel. conducting business over email, phone, and color, religion, sex, handicap, 3. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 42 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You familial status, national origin, in-person. sexual orientation, or persons must give or mail the Plaintiff a written response called an Answer within 42 days • Exceptional organization skills and the capacity receiving public assistance, after the date on which this Summons was first published, which is February 4, to help clients navigate the field of options or an intention to make any 2021. You must send a copy of your Answer to the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attor- effectively. such preference, limitation or discrimination.” ney located at: Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC, Attn: Jeremy S. Grant, This newspaper will P.O. Box 1489, Burlington, Vermont, 05402-1489. You must also give or mail your This is a position offering a flexible schedule and room not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate Answer to the Court located at Vermont Superior Court, Addison Civil Division, 7 for self-direction. Benefits include health care package, Mahady Court, Middlebury, Vermont, 05753. 401K, and the opportunity to join a cheerful, which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby 4. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written re- family-owned company in Middlebury. informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper sponse to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you If this is you, let us know! are available on an equal agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff opportunity basis. To complain should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in of discrimination, call HUD Christy Lynn, Director of Sales Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. your Answer. 58 Maple St. Middlebury, VT 05753 For the Washington, DC area 5. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR WRITTEN AN- please call HUD at SWER TO THE COURT. If you do not send the Plaintiff your Answer Within 42 [email protected] 426-3500. days after the date on which this Summons was first published and file it with the Court, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the It’s against Complaint. the law to 6. YOU MUST MAKE ANY CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF IN YOUR RE- discriminate PLY. Your Answer must state any related legal claims you have against the Plain- tiff. Your claims against the Plaintiff are called Counterclaims. If you do not make when your Counterclaims in writing in your Answer, you may not be able to bring them advertising up at all. Even if you have insurance and the insurance company will defend you, you must still file any Counterclaims you may have. Mary Johnson Children’s Center housing Looking for 7. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If you seeks a dynamic Operations Its easier to break the law cannot afford a lawyer, you should ask the court clerk for information about places something different? Manager. MJCC has served local than you might think. You where you can get free legal help. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still families for more than fifty years can’t say “no children” or give the court a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case. Your local newspaper “adults only.” and seeks a candidate who can ORDER is your work in partnership with the ED, There’s a lot you The Complaint filed in this action shows that service cannot be made with due BEST RESOURCE 2 x col 5 CD board, staff, community partners, can’t say. The Federal diligence by any of the methods provided in Rules 4(d)-(f), (k), or (l) of the Ver- for local and current and prospective funders Government is watching mont Rules of Civil Procedure. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that service of the job opportunities! Mary Johnson for such discrimination. summons set forth above shall be made upon the Defendant, All Those Claiming to design and execute a plan for an Interest in 25 Acres of Woodland That Was Part of the Former Brown Farm strategic financial structure that Let us help you sift in Starksboro, Vermont, by publication as provided in Rules 4(d)(1) and 4(g) of Read the allows for fiscal health and growth through the complexities those Rules. of the Center. Duties also include of the Fair Housing Law. This order shall be published once a week for 3 weeks beginning on February Addy Indy! Stay legal. 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Also available online: addisonindependent.com Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 11B TOWN OF WHITING can be found TOWN OF MONKTON SHOREHAM WHITING ROAD CULVERT Public Notices HIGHWAY ROAD FOREMAN on Pages 6B, 7B, 10B, 11B and 12B. REPLACEMENT WHITING, VERMONT The Town of Monkton is seeking qualified applicants for Highway Department Road Foreman. This position is to serve as the working supervisor of the INVITATION FOR BIDS Highway Crew and is responsible for day-to-day operations of the Highway Sealed Bids for the construction of the Town of Whiting – Shoreham Whiting CITY OF VERGENNES Department. Experience in highway maintenance and repair, mechanical Culvert Replacement will be received by Town of Whiting by US Mail; or by hand ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE! ability, record keeping and communication skills required. The position is full- delivery on the day of the bid opening at Whiting Town Hall, 29 S. Main Street, In an effort to keep our community safe, the City of Vergennes is highly time, 40 hours per week, requiring a flexible schedule which may include nights, Whiting, VT 05778, until 3:00pm local time on March 18, 2021. Bids received recommending that our citizen’s vote absentee. Absentee ballots can be weekends and holidays, as well as overtime. Must have CDL, pass a drug test, will be “publicly” opened and read. Bidders providing bids by mail shall allow for requested via the City website here: www.vergennes.org/departments/city_clerk. and be dependable and willing to be on call during winter hours and live within delivery time. The Project consists of removal of existing embankment material, Absentee ballots can also be requested by calling Vergennes City Hall at 15 minutes of the Town Garage. Salary of $55,000 to $65,000 depending on removal of the existing metal culvert, and installation of a 70 feet long polymer (802) 877-2841. Ballots will be mailed to the address on your voter registration experience and qualifications. Full job description is available at Town Hall or coated corrugated metal pipe culvert (5.5 foot diameter) and replacement backfill form unless you provide us with an alternative mailing address. online at monktonvt.com/road-foreman. and paving. In the absentee mailing, you will receive the local ballot, the Addison Northwest To apply fill out an application at monktonvt.com/apply and submit with a Bids will be received for a single prime contract. Bids shall be on a lump sum School District ballot, and a Patricia A. Hannaford Regional Technical School and unit price basis as indicated on the bid schedule. resume to [email protected] or mail at P.O. Box 12 Monkton, VT. District ballot. All ballots must be returned for your votes to count. Please do 05469-0012 The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is: Otter Creek Engineering, Inc., not forget to put your voted ballots in the certificate envelope. The certificate P.O. Box 712, 404 East Main St., Middlebury, VT, (802) 382-8522. Prospective envelope must be filled out a signed. A return envelope with postage is provided. Bidders may examine the Bidding Documents by appointment at the Issuing In-person voting will still occur on March 2, 2021 at the Vergennes Fire Station Office on Mondays through Fridays between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and located at 50 Green Street. Polls are open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. may obtain copies of the Bidding Documents from the Issuing Office. Please call If you have any questions regarding the Annual City Meeting, voting, or the Issuing Office to make an appointment, as the office may be closed due to the the voter registration process, please feel free to reach out to Britney Aube, WARNING COVID-19 pandemic. the Vergennes City Clerk. The Clerk’s office can be reached by phone at BRISTOL POLICE DEPARTMENT A pre-bid conference will be held at 1:00pm local time on February 26, 2021 (802) 877-2841 or by email at [email protected] . at the Whiting Town Hall at the address listed above. Attendance at the pre-bid SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT MEETING conference is highly encouraged but is not mandatory. Attendees are expected to TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 comply with current State of Vermont guidance regarding the Executive Order No. The legal voters of the Police Department Special Service District of the Town 01-20, Declaration of State of Emergency in Response to COVID-19. Contact the ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT of Bristol are hereby WARNED and NOTIFIED to meet at Holley Hall in said Issuing Office if you prefer to attend the meeting remotely using a web conference NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS IN GRADES 8-11 Bristol, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, between the hours of 7:00 a.m., at which link. PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL CHOICE time the polls will open, and 7:00 p.m., at which time the polls will close, to vote The complete bid advertisement is posted on the Vermont Bid Registry website. by Australian ballot on the following article(s) of business: You may also contact the Issuing Office for an emailed copy. Vergennes Union High School, along with all other Vermont high schools, par- ticipates in a statewide system of high school choice. Under this system, students ARTICLE 1: Will the voters of the Bristol Police District adopt the proposed Town of Whiting, Paul Quesnel, Road Commissioner from VUHS may apply to transfer to any other high school in the state. For the 2021-2022 fiscal year budget in the amount of $455,987, a portion thereof in the February 9, 2021 2021-2022 school year, the maximum number of students eligible to transfer is amount of $405,637 to be raised by a District special assessment property tax; limited to fifteen (15). The actual number will depend on the number of students the tax rate on the 2020 Grand List of the property in the area included within the selected in prior years to continue their enrollment at other area high schools. District sufficient to raise said special assessment property tax sum as taxes to To apply to participate in the program for the 2021-2022 school year (grades be determined by the Selectboard? 9-12): Informational Meetings: The legal voters of the Bristol Police District VERGENNES WARNING are further notified that informational meetings will be held via Zoom on Complete an application available from the VUHS School Counseling Office; ANNUAL CITY MEETING • Monday, February 22, 2021 during a regular Selectboard meeting which will • All applications must be signed by a parent or guardian; MARCH 1, 2021 commence at 6:30 p.m., and on Monday, March 1, 2021 during a special • File the application with the School Counseling Office no later than March Selectboard meeting which will commence at 6:30 p.m. for the purpose The qualified voters of the City of Vergennes are hereby warned and notified 1, 2021. of discussion about all matters on the Annual Town Meeting warning, that the Annual City Meeting will be held remotely on Monday, March 1, 2021, Notification of decisions to all students who have applied to participate will be including the proposed Police District Budget. commencing at 7:30 p.m. The Annual City Meeting can be accessed via Zoom provided no later than April 1, 2021. using the following information: Additional school choice information, including a timeline, is available from the To log into the Zoom meetings: • Join by Computer: https://zoom.us/j/561577976 School Counseling Office. Monday, February 22, 2021, 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 1, 2021, 6:30 p.m. A student’s enrollment application may be denied by another receiving school if https://us02web.zoom.us/ https://us02web.zoom.us/ • Join by Phone: Dial: 1 (312) 626-6799 the student has been expelled or received an extended suspension for violation of Meeting ID: 814 7386 7210 Meeting ID: 856 6813 7815 • Meeting ID: 561 577 976 Vergennes Union High School’s alcohol, substance abuse, or weapons-in-schools Passcode: 412702 Passcode: 994616 policies during the year prior to enrollment in that regional partnership school. Phone in: 1 (646) 558-8656 Phone in: 1 (646) 558-8656 • Meeting Password: 1234 Upon enrollment in the receiving school, students are subject to the disciplinary The Annual City Vote will be held on Tuesday March 2, 2021 at the Vergennes policies and procedures of the receiving school. If selected to attend another high Adopted and approved at a meeting of the Selectboard of the Town of Bristol duly Fire Station located at 50 Green Street. The polls will open at 9:00 a.m. and will school in the regional partnership, students shall be guaranteed enrollment in that called, noticed and held on January 25, 2021. Received for record and recorded close at 7:00 p.m. The following Articles will be included on the ballot: receiving school until graduation as long as they remain residents of the Addison in the records of the Town of Bristol on January 26, 2021. Article I: To elect by Australian ballot one Mayor for a two-year term; three Northwest School District and are not subject to expulsion as a result of the receiv- Bristol Selectboard: Michelle Perlee, Chair, Ian Albinson, Joel Bouvier, John Aldermen for respective two-year terms; one Lister for a three-year term; one ing school’s policy and federal and state law. “Peeker” Heffernan, Darla Senecal. ATTEST: Sharon Lucia, Town Clerk Auditor for a two-year term; one Auditor for a three-year term; one Commissioner to Vergennes-Panton Water District Board of Directors for a three-year term; one Grand Juror for a one-year term; and one Director to Addison Northwest School District Board of Directors for a three-year term. WARNING - ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Article II: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the real estate presently owned by Vergennes Area Rescue Squad, Inc. and located at 106 BRISTOL, VERMONT Panton Road, be exempted from property taxation for a period up to five years, The legal voters of the Town of Bristol are hereby WARNED and NOTIFIED to meet at Holley Hall in said Bristol, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, between the hours first applicable to the Grand List of 2021, as provided in Title 32, Vermont State of 7:00 a.m., at which time the polls will open, and 7:00 p.m., at which time the polls will close, to vote by Australian ballot on the following articles of business: Statues Annotated? Article III: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the real estate ARTICLE 1: To elect Town Officers as required by law: one Selectboard ARTICLE 16: Shall the voters appropriate $2,000 to the Bristol Little League to presently owned by Vergennes Masonic Association Inc. and located at 54 member for a three-year term; one Selectboard member for a two-year term; two provide baseball for elementary school children? School Street, be exempted from property taxation for a period up to five years, Library Trustees for a three-year term; one School Board member for a two-year ARTICLE 17: Shall the voters appropriate $15,000 to the Bristol Recreation first applicable to the Grand List of 2021, as provided in Title 32, Vermont State term and one School Board member for a three-year term for Mt Abraham Unified Club to manage the 10-acre recreation land and properties adjacent to Mt. Abe Statues Annotated? School District; one Moderator for a one-year term; one First Constable for a one- Unified School District? year term; one Second Constable for a one-year term; one Lister for a two-year ARTICLE 18: Shall the voters appropriate $13,500 to the Bristol Rescue Squad Article IV: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City of term; one Lister for a three-year term. to provide emergency treatment and transportation of ill and injured persons to Vergennes permit the operation of licensed cannabis retailers, subject to ARTICLE 2: Will the voters of the Town of Bristol vote that all real property taxes nearby hospitals. such municipal ordinances and regulations as the City may lawfully adopt and payable in installments shall bear interest at a rate of ¾ of one percent per month ARTICLE 19: Shall the voters appropriate $1,200 to the Bristol Town Band, a implement, as allowed by Vermont Act 164. or fraction thereof for the first three months and thereafter one and one-quarter group of citizens that play weekly on Town Park and at other locations. Article V: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City percent per month or fraction thereof from the due date of each installment with the ARTICLE 20: Shall the voters appropriate $4,700 to Addison County Home appropriate $5,000 to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, Inc., said sum payment to the Town Treasurer of the real property taxes for the Town’s fiscal year Health & Hospice for providing in-home care and hospice? to come from City funds? period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, being due in two equal installments ARTICLE 21: Shall the voters appropriate $4,800 to Addison County Parent/ Article VI: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City on November 15, 2021 and April 15, 2022 by physical delivery to the Town Office Child Center to provide family education services? appropriate $2,000 to the Addison County Humane Society, Inc., said sum to before midnight on that date? ARTICLE 22: Shall the voters appropriate $2,000 to Addison County Readers, come from City funds? ARTICLE 3: Will the town limit the amount of the penalty charged by the Inc. to support pre-school literacy activities? Article VII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City collector of delinquent taxes for payments made after the due date for payment to ARTICLE 23: Shall the voters appropriate $1,150 to Addison County appropriate $3,074 to Addison County Parent/Child Center, said sum to come four percent (4%) of the tax collected pursuant to 32 V.S.A. § 1674(3)(A)? Restorative Justice Services, Inc. to provide restorative projects for offenders who from City funds? ARTICLE 4: Will the voters set the salaries that shall be paid to the members have potential to learn from their mistakes. Article VIII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City of the Selectboard at the same as FY2021, being $500 plus $10 per meeting and ARTICLE 24: Shall the voters appropriate $300 to Addison County River Watch appropriate $750 to Addison County Readers, Inc., said sum to come from City $25 per meeting for the Chair? Collaborative, a citizen run water quality monitoring program? funds? ARTICLE 5: Will the voters of the Town of Bristol adopt the Bristol Town Plan, ARTICLE 25: Shall the voters appropriate $2,700 to Age Well to provide home Article IX: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City as updated by the Planning Commission, and approved by the Selectboard on and community-based services? appropriate $850 to Addison County Restorative Justice Services, Inc., said sum December 14, 2020? (Copies of the document may be reviewed at the Bristol ARTICLE 26: Shall the voters appropriate $3,875 to the Counseling Service of to come from City funds? Town Office or on the Web site at www.bristolvt.org.) Addison County to offer professional mental health services, including a 24-hour Article X: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City ARTICLE 6: Will the voters authorize the transfer of $75,000 from the Fire emergency service? appropriate $2,500 to Age Well, Inc., formerly known as CVAA, said sum to come Department Equipment Reserve Fund to the Fire Department Vehicle Fund for the ARTICLE 27: Shall the Town appropriate $1,200 to End of Life Services from City funds? purpose of contributing to the purchase of a new Fire Department engine? (formerly Hospice Volunteer Services), said sum to come from Town funds? ARTICLE 7: Will the voters adopt the proposed 2021-2022 fiscal year Public ARTICLE 28: Shall the voters appropriate $1,000 to Homeward Bound (Addison Article XI: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City Works/Highway Fund Operating Budget in the amount of $809,116, a portion County Humane Society, Inc.) to promote the ethical treatment of and prevention appropriate $5,000 to Boys & Girls Club, of Greater Vergennes Inc., said sums to thereof in the amount of $706,144 to be raised by taxes; the tax rate on the 2021 of cruelty to all domestic animals by providing shelter and education services? come from City funds? Grand List of the Town sufficient to raise said sum as taxes to be determined by ARTICLE 29: Shall the voters appropriate $3,250 to HOPE (Helping Overcome Article XII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City the Selectboard? Poverty’s Effects) to provide emergency services, dental care, and affordable appropriate $2,500 to Counseling Service of Addison County, Inc., said sums to ARTICLE 8: Will the voters adopt the proposed 2021-2022 fiscal year Arts, housing? come from City funds? Parks and Recreation Department budget in the amount of $307,211 a portion ARTICLE 30: Shall the voters appropriate $1,400 to John Graham Housing and Article XIII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City thereof in the amount of $202,411 to be raised by taxes; the tax rate of the 2021 Services, to provide emergency shelter to the homeless? appropriate $2,000 to Elderly Service, Inc., said sum to come from City funds? Grand List of the Town sufficient to raise said sum as taxes to be determined by ARTICLE 31: Shall the voters appropriate $3,500 to NEAT (North East Addison Article XIV: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City the Selectboard? Television), a non-profit public access television station which serves Bristol’s five- appropriate $2,000 to End of Life Services, Inc., formerly known as Hospice ARTICLE 9: Will the voters adopt the proposed 2021-2022 fiscal year General town region? Volunteer Services, said sum to come from City funds? Fund Operating Budget in the amount of $976,393, a portion thereof in the amount ARTICLE 32: Shall the voters appropriate $1,000 to Open Door Clinic to Article XV: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City of $783,099 to be raised by taxes, subject to modification by actions on the provide free health care to the uninsured and under-insured residents in Addison appropriate $4,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Addison County, VT Inc., said sum previous articles; the tax rate on the 2021 Grand List of the Town sufficient to raise County? to come from City funds? said sum as taxes to be determined by the Selectboard? ARTICLE 33: Shall the voters appropriate $750 to RSVP and Green Mountain Article XVI: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City ARTICLE 10: Will the voters appropriate the following sums to be placed in Foster Grandparent Program (volunteer), a program for people 55 and older who appropriate $3,000 to HOPE, said sum to come from City funds? various Town Reserve Fund accounts as noted? want to help meet community needs through use of their skills and knowledge to Article XVII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City non-profit organizations? appropriate $4,000 to John Graham Housing and Services, Inc. said sum to come Reserve Fund: Amount: ARTICLE 34: Shall the voters appropriate $11,306 to Tri-Valley Transit from City funds? Capital Building Fund $30,000 (formerly Addison County Transit Resources) to provide transportation with a Tri- Capital Fire Equipment Fund $25,000 town Shuttle bus and other transportation services for elderly and the disabled. Article XVIII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City Capital Fire Vehicle Fund $100,000 ARTICLE 35: Shall the voters appropriate $3,000 to Turning Point Center appropriate $1,000 to Open Door Clinic, said sum to come from City funds? Capital Highway Equipment Fund $135,000 of Addison County behaviors for the purpose of supporting its mission to assist Article XIX: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City Capital Road Fund - Construction $40,000 persons, their families, and their friends in recovery from substance use disorder appropriate $1,000 to Otter Creek Child Center, Inc., said sum to come from City Capital Road Fund – Paving $125,000 and addiction? funds? Capital Sidewalk Fund $35,000 ARTICLE 36: Shall the voters appropriate $1,650 to Vermont Adult Learning to Article XX: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City Conservation Fund $10,000 provide educational programs for adults. appropriate $950 to RSVP of Addison County, said sum to come from City funds? Reappraisal Fund 5,000 ARTICLE 37: Shall the voters appropriate $3,500 to WomenSafe to promote Article XXI: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City Technology Fund $ 7,000 the social welfare of Addison County to reduce the incidents of physical, sexual, appropriate $1,500 to Turning Point Center of Addison County, Inc., said sum to Total: $512,000 and emotional violence against women. come from City funds? Informational Meetings: The legal voters of the Town of Bristol are Article XXII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City ARTICLE 11: Will the voters approve an appropriation of $144,248 for the further notified that informational meetings will be held via Zoomon appropriate $2,000 to Vergennes Area Seniors Association, Inc., said sum to Lawrence Memorial Library for its annual operating budget, said sum to be raised Monday, February 22, 2021 during a regular Selectboard meeting which come from City funds? by taxes? will commence at 7:00 p.m., and on Monday, March 1, 2021 during a special Article XXIII: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City ARTICLE 12: Will the voters appropriate $29,000 for the Bristol Cemetery Selectboard meeting which will commence at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of appropriate $890 to Vermont Adult Learning, said sum to come from City funds? Association, Inc. in accordance with 24 V.S.A. §2691 for the purpose of maintaining discussion about all matters on the Annual Town Meeting warning. Greenwood Cemetery (mowing and trimming) in a well-kept manner? Article XXIV: To vote by Australian ballot on the following: Shall the City ARTICLE 13: Shall the voters appropriate $10,000 to Bristol CORE, Bristol’s appropriate $4,000 to WomenSafe, Inc., said sum to come from City funds? non-profit downtown organization committed to increasing and maintaining the To log into the Zoom meetings: Article XXV: To transact any other non-binding business that may come economic vitality of the downtown area? Monday, February 22, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Monday, March 1, 2021, 7:00 p.m. before the meeting. ARTICLE 14: Shall the voters appropriate $6,000 to the Bristol Fourth of July https://us02web.zoom.us/ https://us02web.zoom.us/ Ballot boxes will remain open from nine o’clock in the forenoon until seven Committee to organize the parade and events at the Town Green? Meeting ID: 814 7386 7210 Meeting ID: 856 6813 7815 o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at the Vergennes Fire Station ARTICLE 15: Shall the voters appropriate $2,500 to the Bristol Historical Passcode: 412702 Passcode: 994616 on Green Street for voting by Australian ballot on Articles I through XXV. The Society, caretaker for the local area history including local legends and artifacts? Phone in: 1 (646) 558-8656 Phone in: 1 (646) 558-8656 legal voters of the City of Vergennes are further notified that voter qualification, registration and absentee voting shall be as provided in Chapters 43 and 51 of Adopted and approved at a meeting of the Selectboard of the Town of Bristol duly called, noticed and held on January 25, 2021. Received for record Title 17, Vermont Statutes Annotated. and recorded in the records of the Town of Bristol on January 26, 2021. Dated at Vergennes, Vermont this 26th day of January 2021. Bristol Selectboard: Michelle Perlee, Chair, Ian Albinson, Joel Bouvier, John “Peeker” Heffernan, Darla Senecal. ATTEST: Sharon Lucia, Town Clerk PAGE 12B — Addison Independent, Thursday, February 18, 2021 TOWN OF LINCOLN TOWN OF LINCOLN can be found Public Notices PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING on Pages 6B, 7B, 10B, 11B and 12B. The Lincoln Planning Commission will hold a public hearing for Subdivision Wednesday, March 3, 6:30 PM Application # 20-064, as requested by Nicholas & Susan Gulrajari, for Discontinuance of Section of TH-3 (Downingsville Road) [Following 1998 flood Parcel I.D. # 27070382.000 at 542 Geary Road, Lincoln, VT. The hearing TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT damaged road was replaced by new road. Old ROW was not fully conveyed back regards a proposed two lot subdivision of the existing 50.43 acre lot. Lot #1 to abutting landowners.] WARNING will be a 27.09 +_ acre lot including the existing dwelling and buildings. Selectboard will visit the southern end of the proposed discontinuance on Annual Town Meeting Proposed Lot #3 will be a 23.34 +- acre lot served by on site waste and Wednesday, March 3 at 6:30 and will follow the site visit immediately with a Tuesday, March 2, 2021 potable water systems and will be improved by a four bedroom dwelling. hearing to be held in person at the town office or virtually if COVID-19 related Said hearing will be held Thursday, March 4, 2021, beginning 7:30 virtually. restrictions so require. The hearing will be followed immediately by a regular Participation in the hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent Selectboard meeting at which time a decision will be made. The legal voters of the Town of Middlebury, in the County of Addison, the State of appeal. For questions please contact: [email protected] Vermont are hereby warned and notified to vote by Australian ballot on Articles 1 Lincoln Selectboard Published, February 18, 2021 through 5 on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 from 7:00 A.M. through 7:00 P.M. at the Rec- reation Center, 154 Creek Road in Middlebury, as provided by the Middlebury Town Charter and Act 162, which, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, temporarily allows a municipality to apply the Australian ballot system to any or all of its Town TOWN OF LINCOLN Meetings. PUBLIC NOTICE The Lincoln Planning Commission will hold a public hearing for Subdivision The legal voters of the Town of Middlebury are further notified that the Middlebury Application # TBD, as requested by Rick Yolman, for Parcel I.D. # 470 401 38.200 Selectboard will hold an informational meeting on Articles 1 through 5 on Monday, W A R N I N G at 383, Lincoln, VT. The hearing regards a proposed two lot subdivision of the February 22, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom Videoconferencing, with details provided MARCH 2, 2021 existing 25.2 acre lot. Lot #1 will contain the existing dwelling and buildings. below. The legal voters of the Addison Northwest School District, consisting of the towns Proposed Lot #2 will lot served by on site waste and potable water systems and of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, and Waltham, are hereby notified will be improved by dwelling.(* please see contact below for exact bedroom and Article 1: Shall the voters of the Town of Middlebury vote to adopt the proposed and warned to meet at the following polling places on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 to acre numbers) budget for the Fiscal Year 2022 (July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022) in the amount of vote by Australian ballot on the following articles of business: Said hearing will be held Thursday, March 4, 2021, beginning 7:30 pm virtually $11,510,928, with a portion thereof in the amount of $7,571,924 to be raised by hosted by Lincoln ZA. to review applicant testimony and evidence, by interested taxes and $622,706 to be allocated from annual local option tax receipts in ex- Municipality Polling Hours Location parties wishing to be heard on this matter. Addison 7:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Addison Town Clerk’s Office cess of debt and maintenance requirements of the Cross Street Bridge to offset Participation in the hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent Ferrisburgh 7:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Ferrisburgh Town Office appeal. * For questions please contact: [email protected] spending for Capital Improvements? Panton 9:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Panton Town Hall Article 2: Shall the voters of the Town of Middlebury vote to collect taxes on real Vergennes 9:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Vergennes Fire Station property for fiscal year 2021/2022 in THREE equal installments due in the Trea- Waltham 10:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Waltham Town Hall CONTACT GOV. PHIL SCOTT surer’s Office on the 15th day of August 2021, the 15th of November 2021 and the 15th day of March 2022? Article 1: To elect a Moderator for the term of one year: David Tatlock 1-800-649-6825 (toll-free in Vt. only) Article 2: To elect a Clerk for the term of one year: Martha Kenfield Article 3: Shall the voters of the Town of Middlebury permit the operation of canna- 802-828-3333 bis retailers and integrated licensees within the Town of Middlebury, pursuant to Article 3: To elect a Treasurer for the term of one year: Greg Burdick 7 V.S.A. §863(a)(1)? Article 4: Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District vote to 109 State Street, Pavillion Article 4: Shall the voters of the Town of Middlebury ratify the Town of Ripton’s vote authorize stipends to be paid district officers including the directors ($850 each member, Board Chair $1,275, clerk $150, and treasurer $3,000)? Montpelier, Vermont 05609-0101 of January 12, 2021 to withdraw the Town of Ripton from the Addison Central Article 5: Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District vote to au- www.vermont.gov/governor School District? thorize the Board of Directors, under 16 VSA 562 (9), to borrow money by issuance Article 5: To elect officers as required by the Middlebury Town Charter. of bonds or notes not in excess of anticipated revenue for the school year? The legal voters of the Town of Middlebury are further notified that voter qualifica- Article 6 Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District vote to au- tion, registration and absentee voting shall be as provided in Chapters 43 and 51 of thorize the Board of Directors to electronically distribute the annual report? Title 17, Vermont Statutes Annotated. Article 7: Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District approve the Board of School Directors to expend $21,604,213 which is the amount the school Dated at Middlebury, Vermont this 26th day of January 2021. board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year? It is estimated Brian Carpenter, Chair that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in projected education spending REMOTE PUBLIC INFORMATIONAL HEARING Heather Seeley, Vice Chair of $19,289 per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is NOTICE AND AGENDA Nick Artim 2.96% lower than the spending for the current year. Farhad Khan Article 8: Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District vote to es- The Addison Northwest School District Board of Directors will hold a public informational hear- Lindsey Fuentes-George tablish an Education Stabilization Reserve Fund, pursuant to the provisions of 24 ing by electronic means on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 6:00 PM to discuss the Australian Dan Brown V.S.A. §2804, for the purpose of funding future budget shortfalls with adherence to ballot articles on the 2021 Town Meeting Warning. the Districts’ current Fund Balance Policy, and authorize the Board of School Di- Laura Asermily Information on how to access the remote hearing: rectors to assign any surplus funds at the close of the fiscal year, up to an amount MIDDLEBURY SELECTBOARD • By Zoom Video: Register in advance: not to exceed 4% of current year annual expenditure budget? https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rdXbqODhRT6r5E-ub_h1ug Article 9: Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District authorize To view and participate in the informational meeting on Articles 1 through 5 on Mon- • By Zoom Phone: 1-301-715-8592 the assignment of $475,000 pursuant to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. §2804, from day, February 22, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Webinar ID: 863 3113 4955 Passcode: 255709 the fiscal year 2020 fund balance to the ANWSD Capital Improvements Fund, Via Zoom Videoconferencing: • By Facebook Live Stream: https://www.facebook.com/BTVMediaFactory Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89703408275 established by the electorate on March 7, 2017? Article 10: Shall voters of the Addison Northwest School District authorize the Please review our “Informational Handout for Remote Public Hearings” to understand how the By phone: 1 646 558 8656 Board of School Directors to incur indebtedness not to exceed $380,000 for the electronic hearing will be managed. If you wish to make a public comment but do not have the Webinar ID: 897 0340 8275 ability to comment remotely during the meeting, please email your comment(s) to Board Chair purposes of mold mitigation in the Early Childhood wing of the Ferrisburgh Central For view-only access: School? John Stroup at [email protected]. For those wishing to watch but not participate, the hearing will be livestreamed to Dated this 20th day of January , 2021. MCTV’s YouTube channel: Dated this 20th day of January , 2021. Martha Kenfield, ANWSD District Clerk Martha Kenfield, District Clerk https://www.youtube.com/user/MCTVVermont John Stroup, ANWSD Chair of Board of Directors John Stroup, ANWSD Chair of Board of Directors and also broadcast live on Comcast Channel 1071. Real Estate Food Lifestyle Entertainment Reviews Feature Interviews ARTS+LEISURE The Addison Independent February 18, 2021

Middlebury realist painter Katie Runde was selected to paint a life-size portrait of Alexander Twilight for the Vermont Statehouse. She estimates the portrait project, supported by a grant from the National Life Group of Vermont, will take about a year to complete. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES Local artist painting portrait of college alum

he Vermont Statehouse is “I am honored to be commissioned to paint Including people of color. filled with framed portraits of such an important figure,” said Runde in the governors, historic military figures state’s press release, “both in terms of Vermont’s Born in Corinth, Vt., in 1795, Twilight rose above and — let’s just say it — old white enterprising, progressive past and how we now his childhood status as an indentured servant men. Addison County Sen. Ruth choose to model our future.” to attend and graduate from Middlebury Hardy stepped up in January 2020 College in 1823. He devoted his life to and introduced legislation to help For several years, the Friends of the Vermont education, moving to Brownington in 1829, diversify this collection of portraits Statehouse (a private nonprofit that has worked where he became the principal of the Orleans to better represent for nearly 40 years helping to restore the building County Grammar School and the pastor of the TBY ELSIE the diversity of the and to educate visitors at Vermont’s capitol in Brownington Congregational Church. Both LYNN PARINI state. Just last week, Montpelier) and State Curator David Schutz have institutions flourished under his leadership, and it was announced had Twilight on a short list of possible portrait in 1836 he built an imposing, four-story granite that Middlebury artist commissions. Twilight was selected this year to schoolhouse and dormitory that still dominates Katie Runde was selected to paint a life-size honor his achievements and character. the hilltop village of Brownington. Twilight portrait of Alexander Twilight — an important called it “Athenian Hall,” and today it is owned early Vermont educator and minister, who is The Statehouse “is the edifice that represents by the Orleans County Historical Society and is believed to be the first person of African descent our government, and all Vermonters need to feel known as The Old Stone House. That same year, to be an American legislator and a graduate of connected to it,” Schutz said. Twilight was elected to represent Brownington in an American college (Middlebury College). SEE PORTRAIT ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 — Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 IN CELEBRATION OF

From the Sheldon Museum Archives: This is a three-part series addressing the presence of Black Americans in early Addison County. Two weeks ago, we introduced the topic and shared relevant documents available at the Sheldon’s archives; last week we told a story of Middlebury Black resident Prince King; today we outline the Twilight Project and explain how Middlebury College students are Black using local archives to research difficult moments of local history.

HISTORYMONTH FROM INTROSPECTION TO HEALING: THE TWILIGHT PROJECT AND THE RICHES OF LOCAL ARCHIVES s the school year began in many of which we today would regard as Middlebury in September problematic. The students in my remotely 1889, children were invited to taught 2021 Winter Term course, “Histories of attend a performance of “Uncle Struggles: Middlebury, Town and Gown,” the Tom’s Cabin,” produced by G. first Twilight Project course, sampled such P. Stetson. The April 28, 1893, ephemera digitized by the obliging archive edition of the Ann Arbor Argus staff at the Henry Sheldon Museum, now declared that “Mrs. Harriet a Twilight Project Community Partner, as ABeecher Stowe, the immortal authoress of the well as digitized sources archived in Special world famed drama,” had given her approval Collections at the Davis Family Library. for Stetson’s production because he had adhered more closely to the original text than The Twilight Project is a Middlebury College Fig. 1 — Uncle Tom’s Cabin performance, 1889. other production companies. Nevertheless, initiative that encourages and supports COURTESY OF THE HENRY SHELDON COLLECTION Stetson’s “mammoth production” featured research into the college’s and town’s “two comical Topsys…ferocious bloodhounds, pasts that probe difficult moments. The which employs intersectionality — how race, two brass bands…[and] the celebrated Lone project maintains that deep examinations gender, sexuality, power, class, the law and Star Quartet,” and, according to the poster, of our complicated pasts of exclusion, other social categories intersect to explain two comical lawyers, jubilee singers, a steam marginalization and discrimination invite discrimination and privilege — in analysis, calliope, Eva’s miniature pet pony, and a introspection that will foster healing in the and History, which foregrounds change over street parade – hardly a faithful dramatization present and result in change for the future. time, my students investigated challenging of Stowe’s novel. “Tom shows” freely Just as students at Rutland moments from the College’s and the town’s incorporated minstrel set High School asked their pasts, using the archives of the Sheldon pieces for popular appeal school to jettison “Raiders,” Museum and of the College. Their projects and dramatic effect. [Fig. 1] its mascot, and Quaker Oats probed pejorative racial attitudes conveyed decided to abandon Aunt in minstrel shows and in advertisements that Minstrel entertainments Jemima as a logo — both used cheap, offensive stock images, such such as this appeared actions the result of deep as the tableau of grasping, wide-eyed Black routinely in Middlebury introspection and reflection boys, slapped on ads for myriad consumer throughout the late-19th — Twilight Project Fellows goods that bore no connection to the product and early-20th centuries. immerse themselves in itself, but merely grabbed the attention of They reenforced negative research that beckons and amused the consumer [Fig. 2]; Governor white racial attitudes personal reflection and William Slade’s (1844-46) anti-slavery thought; toward Black Americans greater understanding. the recruitment and retention of Black faculty and contributed to what W. at the College; the evolution and effect E. B. Du Bois called “double The students in my of “Whiteness Studies” at Middlebury; the consciousness” within Black 2021 Winter Term experiences of student-athletes of color; race self-awareness. Thanks to course undertook and Public Safety; and the College’s support the exuberant collecting of research projects that of students with disabilities. These and other Henry L. Sheldon, we can induced reflection current Twilight Projects are not designed to study such documents that resulting in deeper wag a finger at the town or the College, but advertised past minstrel Fig. 2 — Advertisement for Graphite awareness. Through rather — to paraphrase Prof. Emeritus Darlene shows, lectures, concerts, Elastic Paint. the interdisciplinary Clark Hines (Northwestern University) — to circuses and sporting events, COURTESY OF THE HENRY SHELDON COLLECTION lenses of Black Studies, SEE TWILIGHT ON PAGE 5 Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 3

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Runde, born in upstate New York in the 1980s, grew up in a very different world than Twilight, Katie Runde stands in front of Alexander Twilight but still sees overlaps in their lives. To start, Hall on the Middlebury College campus. Runde was she worked on a cheese farm in Corinth commissioned by the state to paint Twilight’s portrait. (Blythedale Farm), earned her Master’s in INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and was a Waldorf And that set her life off in a different direction. school teacher for three years in Tunbridge. Aside from location, ministry and education, Next she found music — saxophone Runde also sees a “huge overlap between and woodwinds specifically — went to a misogyny and racism,” she said in an interview conservatory for a couple years, but found last week. “The movement to egalitarianism is it felt mechanical. She went abroad to study good for everybody.” folklore and earn her bachelor’s degree from Announcing our free, University College in Cork, Ireland. Continued As the selected artist for this life-size to earn her master’s in Chicago and then virtual spring season! commission, Runde now faces at least a turned to teaching here in Vermont. go.middlebury.edu/pas year’s worth of work to complete Twilight’s portrait. The cost of the portrait will be “I was so burned out all the time,” said Runde, covered by a generous grant from the reflecting on her teaching years. “It was taking National Life Group of Vermont. something I didn’t really have. As I finished out the year, I started sneaking back into my Danish “I’m going to start with several sketches artistic self with (graphite) pencil and colored String Quartet so there are different ideas pencil… Pencils are great February 27 ■ 7:30 PM to choose from,” she said. because there are zero toxins, “There are a lot of different WANT TO KNOW MORE but the color was just not aspects to think about and a ABOUT ALEXANDER vibrant enough.” lot of information to get in the TWILIGHT? portrait without making it too On Feb. 24, Bill Hart, Runde enrolled in a one-week busy. The trick is to show who professor emeritus of class in 2014 to learn more Sullivan Fortner the person is without using History at Middlebury about oil painting. Jazz Piano words… How are we going to College, will give an March 12 ■ 7:30 PM show that?” online lecture about “You can actually teach Twilight’s achievements anyone how to do realist art,” Runde said once she has the and examine his Runde said. “It is way more idea, there will be a lot of back complicated racial accessible than you realize.” and forth between Schutz, identity. Vivaldi the Friends of the Vermont See Calendar on page 4 for details. She then went to Florence, Explosion Statehouse and other Italy, for a two-week course Chamber Music Society collaborators about what will to further her knowledge, of Lincoln Center be included in the portrait and but got sidelined for several March 26 ■ 7:30 PM what won’t. Then she’ll need a body double in months with a bad case of C. diff (also accurate clothing because all she has to work known as Clostridioides difficile, a severe on now is a “tiny daguerreotype.” gastrointestinal illness she picked up after an appendicitis surgery). Same But Different Rest assured, Twilight’s portrait is in good Christal Brown hands. Runde has been an artist her whole “Kicking back into gear was difficult after and Lida Winfield life. She remembers her young-self as “that that,” said Runde, who was living in Southern April 2 ■ 7:30 PM kid” — you know, the wacky one who carried Vermont at the time. “But shortly after, I found around an encyclopedia of animals and a my teacher Evan Wilson; I’d drive down to sketch pad. With a healthy dose of sibling Hoosick Falls, N.Y., every week.” competition, Runde found drawing as the The Complete “one thing I was better at than my sister.” From 2016-2018, Runde undertook a two-year Brandenburg apprenticeship with master realist painter Concertos By age 15 she was selling her work Wilson. Chamber Music Society commercially at the Corn Hill Arts Festival in of Lincoln Center Rochester, N.Y. But “pumping out work just to She established her own studio in White River April 23 ■ 7:30 PM do work was destructive for me,” Runde said. SEE RUNDE ON PAGE 7 PAGE 4 — Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 UPCOMING MUSIC BRISTOL FOLK ICON RELEASES NEW ALBUM

On three sun-dappled days last March, five hands and feet. voices of the musical group VOCO gathered in Mobile, Ala., to record in the beautiful “As a white folk singer in North America, Dauphin Street Studios. Little did they know I feel the breadth of my privilege and the world would begin shutting down in my discomfort as I navigate dangerous response to COVID-19 the next day. Moira information silos and seek to act Smiley and VOCO scattered to shelter at responsibly,” Smiley said. “As a singer home — Smiley came back to Bristol. Soon who inspires others to sing, I hold tight to grief in harmony and thunderous body after, as cries for social justice echoed our ability to listen, to fight ‘othering’ and to percussion. VOCO brings fire to 12 songs around the world, these 12 freshly-recorded hold humility at the center when we use our calling out racism, violence and inequality. songs took on a new urgency. voices.” The album releases tomorrow, Feb. 19 and is available on all the major streaming services, From the sharp, shocked inhale that opens This new album, In Our Voices, features through Bandcamp or Smiley’s website anti-racist anthem, “Sing About It” to the choral-and-folk icon and New Haven native, (moirasmiley.com). rhythmic ripple of the empathic “Refugee” Smiley; Canada’s queen of soul, Dawn and sweet banjo-driven protest of “Days Pemberton and silver-toned Karla Mundy; Check out addisonindependent.com to Of War” and “Oh Susannah,” this album and gifted Long Beach-based creators, see an exclusive look at the beautiful and expresses communal grief and a call-to- Gregory Fletcher and Jake Asaro. This mesmerizing “Sing About It” music video action through music of the body — voice, collection of songs-for-five-voices wraps animated by Christine A. Banna.

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charismatic birds with Otter Creek Audubon THURSDAY, FEB. 18 Society board member, Dr. David Hof. Find SATURDAY, FEB. 20 “ABENAKI CREATION STORY, the Zoom link at ottercreekaudubon.org or VIRTUAL VARIETY SHOW IN LINCOLN. LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE.” Online email [email protected]. Saturday, Feb. 20. 6:30 p.m. NEAT-TV. The presentation. Thursday, Feb 18, 5-6 Lincoln Variety Show is back! There won’t be a p.m., Zoom. Jesse Bowman Bruchac, a member live in-person audience, but there is good news. of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, traditional FRIDAY, FEB. 19 Watch it live from the comfort of your own home storyteller, musician and Abenaki language MNFF SPLIT/SCREEN VIRTUAL SCREENING via live stream at neatbristol.com/live-stream. instructor will give this talksponsored by CCV. FEATURING AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN He works as co-director of his family-run FILMMAKERS. Friday, Feb. 19-Sunday, Feb. education center Ndakinna, where he teaches 28. “Farewell Amor,” an intimate and deeply WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24 Native American Life Ways, martial arts and personal look at an inter-generational tale “ON HIS OWN RESOURCES: THE ENIGMATIC the Abenaki language. He has lectured at Yale, that has defined America since its inception; ALEXANDER TWILIGHT, 1795-1857” ONLINE Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton, and is also “Unapologetic,” a piercing look into Chicago’s LECTURE. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 5 p.m. Alexander the Director of the School of Abenaki, which is Movement for Black Lives, from the police Twilight, a racially ambiguous man born in part of Middlebury Language Schools. Register murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of Bradford, Vt., in 1795, is known as the first Black at ccv.edu/speakerseries. Mayor Lori Lightfoot; “Losing Ground,” one graduate of an American College (Middlebury) of the first American features directed by a and the first Black headmaster of a grammar CABIN FEVER LECTURE SERIES: BLACK- Black woman, but unreleased until 2015; and school in Vermont. In this virtual presentation, CAPPED CHICKADEES. Thursday, Feb. 18, three short films, “Illusions,” “Blackout” and “A Bill Hart, professor emeritus of History at 6:30 p.m., Zoom. Black-capped Chickadees Mother” — all powerful narrative dramas that Middlebury College, discusses the significance are one of the most ubiquitous of our year- tackle issues of racial identity, motherhood of Twilight’s many achievements and examines round bird species, and yet somehow always and memory. Register at vtiff.org/vtiff-now/ his complicated racial identity. More info and remain a joy to encounter. Learn about these split-screen. registration at HistoricNewEngland.org/Twilight. Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 — PAGE 5

the book BEST PICKS NEW NONFICTION UNDER A WHITE SKY: THE NATURE OF THE FUTURE — Four Hundred Souls: A Community History BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT of African America, by 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (Crown Publishing Group) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of may have you shaking your head and chuckling, albeit grimly Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib and under your breath. In the groundbreaking Silent Spring, Rachel Carson denounced the idea of the “control of nature,” Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage, unfortunately, this convenient approach to our environment by Anne Lamott continued, helping to create a new era, the Anthropocene, a period during which human activity has been the dominant The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin influence on climate and the environment. And now, as Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Kolbert explores, we are faced with attempting to wrest Shaped a Nation, by Anna Malaika Tubbs control of the control of nature, an “effort begins with a planet remade and spirals back on itself... First you reverse Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from a river. Then you electrify it.” That last is an actual ecological engineering project Sustainable to Suicidal, by Mark Bittman Kolbert investigates, many of which begin and end with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The book has three sections, each detailing processes, both implemented The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and in development, to reverse damage to water, earth and air, as we try to engineer and Women’s Rights, by Dorothy Wickenden our way out of disastrous climatic change. You will learn about biological efforts gone awry (Asian carp and Cane toads), the land-loss crisis in Louisiana, genetic “rescue,” Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s carbon dioxide turned to stone. The sheer scale of these attempts is astounding Rights, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali making this book a must-read. — Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, by Annalee Newitz

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TELEVISION: look critically at our past to MCTV SCHEDULE Channels 1071 & 1091 TWILIGHT improve our future. P.O. Box 785, Middlebury, Vt. 05753 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Please see the MCTV website, www.middleburycommunitytv.org, for changes in the schedule; MCTV events, Middlebury College and classes and news; and to view many programs online. Submit listings to the above address, or call 388-3062. the town have much of MCTV Channel 1071 11 p.m. GMC Board 6 a.m. Jack Mayer which to be proud. The Friday Feb. 19 Wednesday, Feb. 24 7 a.m. Elise Guyette college was the first 3 a.m. VT State House 5 am. Press Conf., Public Affairs 8:30 a.m. COVID Lectures 7:30 a.m. Congregational Church 7:30 a.m. Mem. Baptist Church 12 p.m. Gardening Questions American college to confer Service Service 1:30 p.m. Northern Roots Festival an honorary degree on an African American, Lemuel Haynes 10 a.m. Selectboard, Press 9 a.m. Catholic Mass 5:30 p.m. All Things LGBTQ Conferences 10 a.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 6:30 p.m. COVID Lectures (1804); the first to confer a bachelor’s degree on a student 4 p.m. Memorial Baptist Church 5 p.m. Energy Week 11 p.m. State Board of Education of African descent, Alexander Twilight (1823); the first to Service 7 p.m. Selectboard, State House Monday, Feb. 22 confer degrees on women — Mary Chellis, a white woman, 5:30 p.m. Energy Week Thursday, Feb. 25 5 a.m. Local School Boards 6:30 p.m. Press Conferences 4 a.m. Energy Week 9 a.m. COVID Lectures in 1886, and Mary Annette Anderson, a Black woman from Saturday, Feb. 20 5 a.m. State House 10 a.m. Yoga Shoreham, in 1899 — well ahead of most of its New England 5 a.m. Press Conf., Public Affairs 8 a.m. Cong. Church Service 11 a.m. COVID Lectures 10 a.m. Selectboard, VT State 12 p.m. Selectboard, Press Conf. 3:23 p.m. The Root Social Justice peers. The town, too, can boast worthy accomplishments House 5 p.m. State House 5:30 p.m. All Things LGBTQ in confronting race and gender: in 1804, Supreme Court 4 p.m. Mem. Baptist Church 10:30 p.m. Eckankar 7 p.m. Quaker Coffee House Services 11 p.m. Press Conf. 8 p.m. VT Education Committees Justice Theophilus Harrington denounced the sale of an 6:30 p.m. Eckankar Tuesday, Feb. 23 enslaved man; in April 1834, several town residents joined 7 p.m. Catholic Mass MCTV Channel 1091 6 a.m. First Wednesday - 7:30 p.m. Energy Week Friday, Feb. 19 Medical Cannabis more than eighty Vermont men and women from across 8:30 p.m. Press Conference 5 a.m. Dr. John Campbell - 7:07 a.m. Jack Mayer the state to launch the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society right Sunday, Feb. 21 COVID Lectures 8 a.m. COVID Lectures here in Middlebury; and Middlebury is the home of women’s 5 a.m. Press Conference 7 a.m. Local School Boards 11:30 a.m. Yoga 9 a.m. Catholic Mass 12 p.m. Elise Guyette – The 12 p.m. All Things LGBTQ education pioneer, Emma Hart Willard. 11 a.m. Mem. Baptist Church Jagged Edge of Progress 1 p.m. Elise Guyette Service 3:30 p.m. Quaker Coffee House 5 p.m. Local School Boards 1 p.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 4:16 p.m. Jack Mayer – Poems from Wednesday, Feb. 24 Twilight Projects are not intended to find fault with 4 p.m. Cong. Church Service the Wilderness 5 a.m. COVID Lectures Middlebury College or with the town, but rather to 5:30 p.m. Eckankar 5 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 8 a.m. Yoga 6 p.m. Energy Week 7:07 p.m. Jack Mayer 9 a.m. Leg. Ctees on Education contribute to our students’ immersive learning to prepare 7 p.m. Catholic Mass 8 p.m. COVID Lectures 2:30 p.m. Gardening Questions them to lead “engaged, consequential and creative 7:30 p.m. State House 10 p.m. Elise Guyette 4 p.m. All Things LGBTQ Monday, Feb. 22 Saturday, Feb. 20 5 p.m. Local School Boards lives” through critical inquiry into local histories and their 12 a.m. State House, Public Affairs 6:30 a.m. Yoga 10 p.m. Elise Guyette relationships to broader social forces. (See more about the 8:30 a.m. Energy Week 7:30 a.m. Local School Boards Thursday, Feb. 25 Twilight Project at middlebury.edu/office/twilight-project/ 9:30 a.m. Eckankar 11:30 a.m. 14th Annual Northern 5 a.m. All Things LGBTQ 10 a.m. Selectboard, Green Mt. Roots Festival Concert 6 a.m. Local School Boards project-description). Care (GMC) Board 1:30 p.m. COVID Lectures 11 a.m. COVID Lectures 6:30 p.m. Catholic Mass 3 p.m. The Root Social Justice – 12 p.m. Elise Guyette 7 p.m. Press Conf., State House Celebrating BIPOC 4:16 p.m. Jack Mayer Tuesday, Feb. 23 5:07 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 5 p.m. All Things LGBTQ Contributed by William B. Hart. He is Professor Emeritus of 7 a.m. Press Conference 6 p.m. Jack Mayer 6 p.m. Medical Cannabis 10 a.m. Selectboard, Press Conf. 7:30 p.m. Quaker Coffee House 7:07 p.m. Jack Mayer History, the former Director of the Black Studies Program, former 4 p.m. Cong. Church Service 8:30 p.m. Elise Guyette 8 p.m. COVID Lectures Co-Director of the Twilight Project, Middlebury College, and a 7 p.m. Selectboard Sunday, Feb. 21 past member of the Henry Sheldon Museum Board of Trustees. 10 p.m. Energy Week 5 a.m. Quaker Coffee House PAGE 6 — Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 PETS IN NEED Cats need enrichment, too HOMEWARD BOUND Addison County’s Humane Society ndoor cats have specific around but they are both overall sense of happiness environmental needs predators and explorers so and security. Cats that do not Meet Guilford, this cool loving dude is that are necessary to owners should give them have climbing enrichment about a year old. He came to us as a surrender, since being here in shelter be addressed to keep the chance to hunt and may create their own by he shows nothing but affection and them happy and avoid seek. Cats love to climb and jumping on the kitchen tables curiosity. 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Cosmic Forecast

ARIES: March 21-April 20. Aries, you are feeling through thick and thin. ambitious this week, so it might be time to try a new hobby or other interest. Write down your LIBRA: Sept. 23-Oct. 23. Even though the goals and see if any align with potential hobbies. holidays are over you may still want to continue the celebration, Libra. TAURUS: April 21- Find a way to socialize May 21. Taurus, some with friends or family in nice surprises are a responsible manner. likely to come your Are your hands itching Katie Runde holds up her pallet of oils in her makeshift studio. way, especially in to crochet or knit? SCORPIO: Oct. 24-Nov. We have tools, and lots INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES your private life. Enjoy 22. Scorpio, you may of yarns at 20 - 50% off. every moment as it be finished with the Junction but COVID threw unfolds and express Come shop our great selection! business that made last RUNDE a wrench in that plan. She your appreciation when month hectic. Now you CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 moved to Middlebury in applicable. are ready to start a new the spring of 2020 to lock chapter. A calm period down with her partner GEMINI: May 22- Check for updates at www.yarnandyoga.com is ahead. 25A Main St., Bristol 453-7799 James Chase Sanchez, who June 21. Gemini, you teaches writing and rhetoric are likely to upstage SAGITTARIUS: Nov. at Middlebury College. everyone else this 23-Dec. 21. Sagittarius, Runde traded her large studio for a small guest room with week because people a potentially lucrative one north-facing window and not enough room to step back simply cannot get opportunity may far enough to see a painting properly. Not ideal for painting enough of your present itself in the a portrait of Twilight that she estimates will be about 5-feet, magnetic personality. If days to come. Consider 7-inches tall. you grow weary of the all of your options and limelight, take a break. give equal thought to All the same, Runde has a calm and elegant confidence all of them. as she thinks about beginning this commission for the CANCER: June 22-July In the depths of winter, Statehouse. 22. Cancer, clear your we’ve got a little spring! CAPRICORN: Dec. 22- social schedule in favor Mon.-Fri. 9-5:30, Sat. 9-2 Jan. 20. Capricorn, even “It has to be alive,” she answered when asked what makes of some quiet time at Rte 7 So., Middlebury if you don’t say much, one of her paintings good? “You’ve either got the spark or you home. Such a respite www.middleburyfloralandgifts.com there is a lot of chatter don’t; you can’t fake it. You’ve got to get started and get out of can provide a great going on in your head. your own way.” opportunity to reflect Take some time to and make a new plan. find a quiet place and Runde likened the soul of a painting to music that has soul. meditate for a while. LEO: July 23-Aug. 23. “Music has soul when it’s raw and direct,” she said. “Your self Leo, you have a goal AQUARIUS: Jan. 21-Feb. has to go into your work. It’s natural to have walls around to meet someone 18. Sometimes you yourself, but to get that spark in your art you have to let new and there’s a just have to take a risk those walls down and let yourself into it. There’s a sense of good chance you will without vetting all of openness.” discover that person the possible outcomes, in the days to come. Aquarius. If it feels like When she spoke last week, Runde was open about her Accept the possibility it’s a good time to make hesitation as someone who identifies as a white female that hopes and dreams a change, embrace the painting the portrait of a black male. can come true. opportunity.

“At first I thought it might be better for an artist of color to do VIRGO: Aug. 24-Sept. PISCES: Feb. 19-March this,” she said. “I feel like it’s not necessarily my place.” 22. Virgo, friends often end up filling familial 20. This week is the ideal opportunity to show roles. Even though a person may not be related strength and exhibit your organizational skills, But she applied, and was selected. by blood, certain friends can be relied upon Pisces. Don’t be afraid to think big.

“I do feel really connected with Twilight and his dedication to teaching and ministry … and I’ve always had a special thing FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS for Corinth,” Runde reiterated. “It’s a really good direction for FEB. 18 — Bebe Moore Campbell, author (d) activist (d) the Statehouse to be moving in and I feel proud Alexander FEB. 19 — Smokey Robinson, singer, record FEB. 22 — Julius Erving, basketball player, (71) Twilight is the person they’re choosing to honor. The weight producer (81) FEB. 23 — Simone Whitmore, doctor (54) of that honor is a little intimidating but also inspiring — it is so FEB. 20 — Trevor Noah, comic, tv host (37) FEB. 24 — Kasi Lemmons, film director, easy to stand behind.” FEB. 21 — John Lewis, senator, Civil Rights actor (60) PAGE 8 — Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 Puzzles Crossword by Myles Mellor

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ermont takes the number-one revenue increases of 26% and 10% respectively In total, American households spent $5 billion spot for highest electric bill increasing the cost to consumer and driving up more on electricity in just six months, during the increase (20.8%) during the first the cost of bills from March to October pandemic. six months of the pandemic according to the home valuation website ownerly.com’s analysis of EIA (Energy Information Association) data. The average bill for Vermont came in at ($108.74). VThe state’s electric bill growth rate (20.8%) is over five times the national average at 3.8% (year- over-year) for the first 6 months of the pandemic.

Vermont households spent $36,612,400 more on electricity, from March through August 2020 compared to the same time period in 2019.

Addison County is serviced by two main energy providers, Green Mountain Power Corp and Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. Each showing significant differences between the increased usage and the company revenue due to resulting price changes for the consumer.

Both Green Mountain Power Corp and Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. consumers showed an increased usage of 8%, while more residents stayed home and used more electricity during the pandemic, however, the companies showed PAGE 12 — Addison Independent | ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, February 18, 2021 Students show art in Brandon

espite the challenges facing students and teachers this year, the Brandon Artists BRANDON Guild (BAG) will proudly host its annual 65 Park Street show of new artwork by local students MLS #4845613 | $359,000 from grades K to 12. The exhibit will be on 4BR | 2.5BA | 2521SF | 0.60 AC view through Feb. 28.

Beautifully renovated home on The exhibit includes work from students charming Park Street in Brandon. from Otter Valley Union High School, Barstow Totally updated kitchen with stainless D Memorial, Neshobe Elementary, and Lothrop, Sudbury steel appliances, granite countertops and Leicester Elementary Schools. This celebration and cherry cabinets which opens to a large eating area or family room. of creativity from our schools gives students an The living room has hardwood fl oors exciting opportunity to have their work displayed in a and a wood burning fi replace. First professional gallery setting. The exhibit also provides fl oor bedroom (currently used as a the public a rare chance to see talented student work den/exercise room) with an attached in a wide variety of styles and media. In addition to 3/4 bath and laundry. A formal dining room completes the fi rst fl oor. Upstairs artwork on the walls, the exhibit includes a video slide you will fi nd three bedrooms, full show of socially distanced student work. bath, and a half bath. Sweet offi ce up the back staircase. Fully fenced “It has been a strange year, but working with students yard with garden area. Nicely poised to make, talk about, and look at art has been inspiring carriage barn with abundant storage. A magnifi cent move-in ready home and motivating,” said Otter Valley art teacher and close to everything the new Brandon BAG ceramic artist Dasha Kalisz. “The slide show and has to offer! photocopies of student work are examples of the modifications taking place in this ‘new normal.’” This gorgeous Brandon home had multiple offers within days of being listed! With a market like “Students were able to use art to take a break and this, be sure to fi nd representation. focus on the act of creation,” added Otter Valley art With the help of a qualifi ed teacher Frannie Willard. “They found ways to express Realtor, you’ll be positioned to their disappointment, came to realize that they were react quickly! not alone even though we were all in isolation, and discovered beauty in unexpected places.”

The BAG, at 7 Center Street in Brandon, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information call (802) 247-4956 or visit BrandonArtistsGuild.org.

ipjrealestate.com 34 Main Street, downtown Middlebury [email protected] | 802.388.4242 Sawyer Doenges “holds” his snowman artwork, which will hang with other student art in the Brandon Artists Guild gallery through February.