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Bleak Outlook for Forestry Industry Aquafest Moose herd in Newport. well below 2 state target. 8 the Chronicle THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF ORLEANS COUNTY TWO SECTIONS, 56 PAGES VOLUME 44, NUMBER 31 AUGUST 2, 2017 ONE DOLLAR Bleak outlook A “slugfest” at Glover Day for forestry industry by Tena Starr Nearly 50 years ago, a few weeks out of high school, Ken Davis had a tiff with his farmer father that set him on a new career course. Instead of a farmer, he became a logger. And for nearly half a century that’s pretty much how he’s made his living. Until recently, that is, when the venerable logging industry went to pieces, especially in the Northeast Kingdom. “I gave it up over a year ago,” Mr. Davis said in a recent interview. “I logged for 48 years. It’s pretty bleak out there from a logger’s point of view. I couldn’t make a profit anymore.” He still operates a logging station in Hardwick, meaning he takes in wood from loggers, then finds a market and distributes it. But even that has become increasingly precarious, he said. “We aren’t sure what the future is going to bring. We did find a pine market up in Maine. That’s helped us. We’re still in business, but it’s Glover Day and the Vermont Army National Guard bring out the sumo wrestler in Isaiah Breitmeyer (left) and a dire situation.” Wyatt Mason. The two boys climbed into inflated suits provided by Guard soldiers for the annual event, which By all accounts, the forestry industry in took place Saturday morning under sunny skies. Wyatt quickly discovered the secret to the sport and simply Vermont is, indeed, in trouble. What that means stepped aside to let Isaiah fall of his own accord to take two out of three falls. For more Glover Day highlights, (Continued on page twenty.) please see page eighteen. Photo by Joseph Gresser Nicholas Miller is Diaz says she threw remembered as a thumb drive away by Elizabeth Trail December. The suit asked, among other things, for the return of town rock to others NEWPORT — Former Coventry records in Ms. Diaz’ possession. by Elizabeth Trail Corporal Miller found words to Town Clerk and Treasurer Cynthia “I was no longer in office, I didn’t comfort friends and family when Diaz said in court on Tuesday that need it any more,” Ms. Diaz told “It is what it is,” Nicholas Miller they were facing bad times. she has destroyed at least one Judge Robert Bent when he asked used to tell his mother. “He never thought about thumb drive, possibly the one the about the fate of the removable The young Marine corporal, himself, he was always there with a select board and auditor Jeff computer storage that she is alleged home for his best friend’s wedding, hug, he’d reassure you that things Graham have been looking for. to have used to carry work back and was killed in an ATV accident in would be okay,” his father said. Ms. Diaz was in Orleans County forth from the Coventry town office Lowell on Sunday afternoon. Searching for their own words of Superior Court for yet another to her home computer. And on Tuesday, his mother hearing in the civil suit that the comfort, the family wrote in (Continued on page twenty-eight.) repeated that phrase, remembering Corporal Miller’s obituary, “He went town filed against her last a son who had always been everyone out of this world doing what he else’s comforter in times of need. loved, with all his close friends.” “He was the rock that everyone Corporal Miller was 22 when he leaned on,” Bobbie Jo McManus said. died. He joined the Marines right A new kind of prescription Corporal Miller’s father, Arjay out of Lake Region Union High Miller, called his son “the picker- School, and was four years into a — local veggies upper.” five-year tour. In fact, when the family sat Friendly and outgoing, he had a by Elizabeth Trail bag of locally grown fruits and down at the funeral home to write lot of friends in California, where he vegetables into the kitchens of his obituary, the thing that was stationed. NEWPORT — Sometimes food people suffering from chronic everyone remembered was the way But he and his best friend back is the best medicine. And North conditions like obesity, diabetes, in Vermont talked on the phone Country Hospital has found a way and heart disease, said Community nearly every day. And he’d saved to provide healthy food to at least a Relations Director Wendy Franklin. up leave time to be able to come few of the people who need it most Doctors “prescribe” the fresh back to Vermont for his friend’s here in the Kingdom. produce for their patients who meet wedding. Last Thursday, the hospital health and eligibility guidelines, she Sunday night was to be the launched a program called Health said. (Continued on page thirty.) Care Share, that will put a weekly (Continued on page thirty-two.) Page Two the Chronicle, August 2, 2017 the Chronicle A sunny day for Aquafest INDEX Crossword Puzzle..........................................25 Kids’ Corner...................................................25 Kingdom Calendar ...............................12B-17B Letters to the Editor ....................................4-5 Obituaries................................................4B-5B Perimeter......................................................3B Property Transfers ......................................20B Ruminations..................................................2B Sudoku Puzzle .................................................9 Advertising Sections Auctions & Real Estate ............................7B-9B Auto .........................................................32-35 Building Trades ....................................10B-11B Classified Ads.......................................18B-19B Gardening......................................................26 Hair................................................................27 Jobs ..........................................................30-31 Pets................................................................28 Restaurants & Entertainment..............13B-16B M’s Wooden Spoon Bakery A giant lake trout appears be chowing down on a tyrannosaurus rex Saturday afternoon. 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(802) 766-2714 Open Mon.-Fri. 7-5:30, Sat. 7-4. 2875 Hardwick Street, Greensboro, VT / highlandartsvt.org / 802.533.2000 the Chronicle, August 2, 2017 Page Three In Craftsbury ANR considering rule change on Hosmer by Elizabeth Trail The DEC set up a website to give out That’s the allowed speed on any lake or pond information about the pond and put out a survey that doesn’t have more than 30 contiguous acres CRAFTSBURY — The Agency of Natural to collect more opinions. that lie farther than 200 feet from shore — unless Resources (ANR) is considering a rule change And at a community meeting in January, the high speed is a normal use for the lake. that would restrict afternoon and evening sculling state proposed a framework for deciding what By declaring “high speed boating” a normal on Great Hosmer Pond here during the summer kinds of activities will be allowed on Great use of Great Hosmer, motorboats can operate at months. Hosmer Pond. speed on any water that’s at least 200 feet from Great Hosmer is a 150-acre ribbon of water The rule proposed this week would read “Use land. running through the towns of Albany and of racing shells and rowing sculls is prohibited on But there’s a narrow neck in the midsection of Craftsbury. the Pond between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 the lake called “The Narrows” where the pond is At places, it’s only about 175-feet wide. p.m., and the hours of 7:00 p.m. and sunrise, from only 175 feet wide. The long narrow shape and the way the lake the last Saturday in May through the first Under current rules, that means that boats sits deep in a cleft between hills reduces wind on Monday in September.” have to slow down to five miles an hour to get the surface of the water and makes it a perfect It’s a draft rule, subject to public input.
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