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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

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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. from one end of the lake to the other. place for sculling — a specialized kind of high- And the DEC is willing to listen — or even Changing the speed through that section speed rowing. stop the rulemaking process altogether — if the would call for a rule change from the Department The Craftsbury Outdoor Center has used the community can come up with a better idea, Ms. of Motor Vehicles, said Rebecca Ellis, senior lake to train competitive rowers. They also hold Boedecker says in an e-mail that went out to the counsel for government affairs for the rowing camps, and have a free program to Great Hosmer community on August 1. Department of Environmental Conservation in an introduce local youngsters to the sport. “We have considered all options open to us interview with the Chronicle in January. Just about any time of day in summer, and have made the decision to pursue rulemaking Department of Conservation policy calls for scullers in their lightweight racing shells can be as a possible route to improve use and safety on the rule to allow all “normal uses” of the pond “to seen skimming across the water. Great Hosmer,” the letter says. the extent possible.” But the growing number of scullers on the The rule wouldn’t apply to canoes or kayaks. That policy is behind the effort to figure out a lake has created problems for powerboat owners But this is the first time the Agency of Natural way for power boaters and scullers to share the in recent years. Resources has moved to restrict non-motorized lake. And there have been complaints. boating in Vermont. The public has until August 21 to comment on In the e-mail announcing that the state had In 1995 the state Water Resources Board the proposed rule. Comments and suggested decided to change the rules at Great Hosmer spelled out that high speed boating is a normal alternatives should be sent to Pond, Emily Boedecker, the commissioner at the use of Great Hosmer Pond. [email protected], Ms. Department of Environmental Conservation That got boaters around a complicated state Boedecker says. (DEC), says that the state has been collecting rule that would otherwise cap motorized boat public comments for several years. travel on the pond at five miles an hour.

New principal settles in at Barton Graded School New Barton Graded School Principal Kim National Institute of School Leadership program “I have the highest respect for Bob, who has Wheelock is excited and honored to be working in 2014, and received her curriculum helped me with my transition and continues to be with such a dedicated staff, school board, and administration and principal certification from a great resource,” she said. “It has also been nice supervisory union. Plymouth State University in 2015. She is dual to receive welcoming e-mails and visits from staff, Before becoming principal, Ms. Wheelock certified in Vermont and New Hampshire as students, and parents.” taught English for 17 years after receiving her school principal and curriculum director. Ms. Wheelock’s new assignment began July 1. bachelor’s degree in secondary English education On March 21, the Barton Incorporated School — submitted by Kim Wheelock. from Vermont College in 2000. She received her Board of Directors chose Ms. Wheelock to be the master’s degree in K-12 literacy in 2013 from the next principal to lead their school after Bob University of New England, graduated the Partridge’s retirement.

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We also know that in the last few Vermont is using no renewable energy from these lobbyists and legislators were also asked to years Mr. Blittersdorf bought a ridgeline, also in industrial developments (Vermont Law School attend, but none came. So to provide balance to Morgan near Lake Seymour, where he’s installed study). This also allows the state purchasing the the meeting, material from the website of a wind measuring device on the camp on that RECs to continue to use “dirty” energy. Renewable Energy Vermont was provided to all ridgeline. Property values have been diminished: town residents. After a lengthy and lively In the last year, many of us have learned Property values are being diminished by discussion, we took a vote. With the exception of more than we ever expected to about industrial industrial renewable developments. For example, one person, the standing-room-only crowd scale renewable energy. Regarding industrial in the town of Georgia, Vermont, homes in unanimously voted to oppose an industrial wind wind, in particular, here’s just a part of what we proximity to the industrial wind development development on the ridgeline owned by Mr. know: there already have been devalued by the town of Blittersdorf next to Lake Seymour. Vermont is already a carbon neutral Georgia by as much as 12 percent. Additionally, subsequent to this informational state: Vermont produces just over 8.3 metric Price: Utilities like Vermont Electric meeting, our lake association polled its members tons of CO2 and 8.2 metric tons are removed by Cooperative are required to pay 19-20 cents/kwh to gauge their support or opposition to the same trees. So perhaps Vermont should plant more for industrial renewables, when the current industrial wind development. The results were trees rather than stripping them from our market price for power is 5-6 cents/kwh. 92 percent of our members oppose it. Obviously, those higher costs are paid for by us, With this as background, imagine our the ratepayers. surprise when Mr. Blittersdorf recently showed The health and environmental impacts from up at our lake association’s annual meeting, Chronicle office industrial wind are far too lengthy to enumerate where he also mentioned that he planned to in one letter to the editor. I have yet to hear of a attend our upcoming summer social get-together. hours single benefit realized by Vermonters from Most residents had never laid eyes on him before We are open for business: industrial-scale renewable energy. Developers this. like Mr. Blittersdorf and their lobbyists talk a So here’s my heartfelt message to Mr. Monday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. great deal about national or global issues, but Blittersdorf: Morgan is a town filled with kind, Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. never have I heard any believable facts about the welcoming people. And if you’d like to make Wednesday, closed. benefits that flow to Vermont. yourself a part of our community, we will Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. I asked myself why are Mr. Blittersdorf and welcome you — when you provide us with a Come by our office located on Water Street in other developers here in tiny, carbon neutral signed document stating that you will respect the Barton or phone us at (802) 525-3531. Vermont when they should be in other states clearly stated wishes of our residents not to erect where their 500-foot wind turbines would an industrial-scale wind development next to our probably a.) produce more energy with more lake. But if you refuse to do that (which you have consistent wind and b.) be closer to load? Could a stated you will refuse), please do not mistake the the Chronicle substantial part of Mr. Blittersdorf’s motivation warmth and civility of Morgan residents as be that the Vermont Legislature and Vermont support. And if what you’re doing by attending © copyright, 2017 regulators have mandated that our utilities pay our local events is mounting a new PR campaign, (through us, the ratepayers) wind developers that I’m quite certain you’ll be wasting your time. Vo lume 44, Number 31 August 2, 2017 incredible 20 cents/kwh mentioned above? Sincerely, Published weekly, except for the last week in A year or so ago, the town of Morgan had a Bill Bilowus December, by the Chronicle, Inc. duly warned meeting so we all could hear both Morgan the Chronicle (014-590) Publishing office: 133 Water Street Barton, VT 05822

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Opinion Vermont’s economy and landscape are intertwined by Nick Richardson from our land ethic — a thoughtful today as we recognize and respond landowners, members and partners way of living, the qualitof our to global climate change. who share an interest in finding the The economy and our landscape products and services, and our We don’t have to tell Vermont balance in embracing renewable in Vermont are intertwined. environmental and social famers, or those who work in the energy opportunities, while Recreation, tourism, agriculture, and stewardship. Elected officials in woods, about the impact of global maintaining access to high quality forestry, all key economic drivers, Vermont, regardless of political climate change. The increase in the farmland for agricultural depend on the natural resources leaning, have shown national unpredictability of our weather, production, recognizing the fragility from our landscape. Indeed, the leadership in caring for the invasive species, the change in the of our natural systems, and Vermont brand itself is inseparable environment, and continue to do so growing season are just a few protecting the identity and beauty of examples of how those who work on our state. I’m proud that, at the the land have a front row seat when Vermont Land Trust, we’ve been it comes to the challenges of a able to facilitate the development of In memory of Dorothy (Dot) Cowles Lehnow 1914-2017 warming planet. We also don’t have renewable energy in harmony with to tell those who recreate in the woods conservation of these other values. by Fran Blake Smith or have an outdoor recreation business It has been interesting to sit on about climate change. They the Vermont Council on Rural Well into her eighties, she still could understand how ski and bike seasons Development’s Climate Economy Invite me to canoe with her. have fluctuated or how different and Action Team to speak with She would steer; that was understood. products are more useful to customers. individuals across many sectors and Just another thing that Dorothy would Climate change is the greatest to find common ground on this Accomplish firmly, deftly. No discussion or debate! challenge of our time. The important issue — and to help She seemed happiest when sitting transformation of a global economy Vermont’s climate economy emerge. Surrounded by dozing dogs and knitting from the current fossil fuel driven, On a personal level, I am Or crocheting. Her cats would visit, deigning carbon intensive system to one based encouraged by this interest of many To check on her — or their food dish — disdaining on renewable and regenerative sources to bridge differences in areas of A nap with those lazy dogs. will not be easy. While it will not be expertise and background and find without controversy, this solutions that consider our Dot herself was always occupied: transformation will also offer us an environmental and economic future. Reading, writing, hiking up the side unprecedented economic opportunity. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. Of the road, picking berries or tracking scat. In facing the fact of global climate As Vermonters we think beyond our Or calling in search of her fugitive cat. change we must accept our own interests, considering what’s responsibility to reduce our reliance on best for all. This leaves me One of the lessons I learned from Dot carbon based fuels by looking towards a optimistic about our state’s (example, not precept, was the way she taught): range of energy alternatives, including environmental, social and economic Companionable silence. Compared to chatter, in-state renewable energy generation. well-being. Being silent in the moment with a friend can matter Indeed, we are also seeing the positive Nick Richardson is a member of More than reminiscence. An old old-friend: effects of this transformation on our Vermont Council on Rural Though Dorothy is gone, fond memories won’t end. economy with 18,000 Vermonters now Development’s Climate Economy Fran Blake Smith, a participant in the Wednesday Poets workshop at the working in the green job sector. Action Team. He is the vice- Barton Library Our staff at the Vermont Land president for Enterprise and Finance Trust engages with many at the Vermont Land Trust.

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Derby Select Board Vicious dog complaint amicably settled by Joseph Gresser ordinance requiring dogs to be restrained when Membership is open to all, she said, and costs they are not on their own property and to be only $10 a year. DERBY — A vicious dog hearing ended under control when they are. Jessica Judd said the club performs valuable peacefully Monday evening once it became clear He said he regrets that no autopsy was done services to the community by hosting hunting that no one wanted to see the canine culprits on Lily to determine exactly what happened. safety classes for youngsters and making its harmed. Select board Chair Grant Spates read a letter range available to local law officers and Border According to Derby Animal Control Officer from Jason Stanzione, Mr. Stanzione’s son. He Patrol agents to train and pass qualifying tests. Renee Falconer, the dogs, two German shepherds said he was sorry that Ms. Sheltra lost her dog, She said there is some night training, but it belonging to Neil Stanzione, attacked Lily, a but he wished she had gotten treatment for it. takes place in October and November when dark small dog belonging to Andrew and Ruth Sheltra, He offered to pay for a dog run at his father’s falls early. on July 19. house and to install a fence around his back yard. Jessica Judd said the club did file a no Mr. Stanzione called the dogs back to him, Those suggestions met with general approval trespass order on Ernest Judd, but said he had but Lily was injured and died soon after. by all involved. Mr. Spates asked how soon Mr. been posing as a range officer and ordering people Dustin Horne, a neighbor of the Sheltras on Stanzione could put the ideas into practice. to leave. The order lasted for only one year and Dashner Circle in Derby Line, said he witnessed Mr. Stanzione said the equipment for the dog hasn’t been in effect for nine years, she said. the event. He said Mr. Stanzione’s dogs ran down run arrived that day and would be up the next. The club does have a problem with people from his house and encountered Lily between He agreed to have the fence installed within three sneaking in when no one is around and shooting, their property and his. weeks and to keep his dogs under control. she said. She said the club plans to install Mr. Horne said the neighborhood is very dog He expressed sorrow about Lily and said he cameras and a locked gate that opens only when friendly, and its canine residents roam freely and never intended to do any harm, but instead has a member’s card is inserted. That way, she said, get along together. He said he is now worried always wanted to protect things. Mr. Stanzione the club will have some idea of who is using the that Mr. Stanzione’s animals could present a denied that his dogs are vicious, but said he will range and when. She noted that people can threat to young children in the neighborhood. keep them leashed or fenced in from now on. sneak in by walking through the woods, so the He said a veterinarian told him that if a dog Mr. Hunt expressed satisfaction with the gate is not foolproof. has killed once it will do so again. Mr. Horne result. “This is the way we settle problems in Martha Judd asked whether the club will do said his children and his girlfriend are now afraid Derby Line; we kept our cool and talked things something about the road. to go outside. out,” he said. Jaret Judd said he was asked to contribute to Ms. Sheltra and her husband were not able to After resolving the dog problem to everyone’s buying chloride last year. The club, he said, paid attend the meeting. She sent a letter giving her satisfaction, the select board went into regular for the whole load of chloride. account of what happened. session. The club has plans to build 15-foot-high According to Ms. Sheltra, Mr. Stanzione had They were immediately confronted with a berms to cut back on sound, Jaret Judd said. rudely objected when Lily wandered up to his heated complaint from Ernest Judd, who lives on Recent road work and power line maintenance house earlier in the day. She placed the attack Fish and Game Club Road. He strenuously projects have resulted in the removal of trees that closer to her house than did Mr. Horne, but objected to the presence of the firing range, which once helped diffuse sound from the range, he said. otherwise her account was the same as his. he said has made his life a misery. The club saves taxpayers a lot of money by Ms. Sheltra made it clear that she did not “I’m being over-burdened with gunfire,” he charging law enforcement officers so little for want to see Mr. Stanzione’s dogs harmed, but said. “It’s automatic. It’s loud. There’s no their training site. wanted to be sure the neighborhood is safe. schedule. It’s seven days a week. We can’t have Mr. Hunt said earlier plans for the border Perry Hunt, a member of the select board, people over because we start wondering when the station currently under construction on Interstate which was meeting in its role of animal control next barrage is coming.” 91 called for an indoor shooting range. He board, looked at the crowd sternly. Mr. Judd said the club used to be a public suggested getting in touch with federal officials to “You are all to blame for this,” he said. Mr. facility, but is now open only to members. He see if they can find money to build such a facility. Hunt said Derby Line has long had a leash said he used to go down and complain about the Mr. Spates proposed revisiting the issue once noise, but was served with a no trespass order the new gate and cameras are in place. He and barred from the premises. offered to write a letter to Vermont’s united christian Academy Martha Judd, his wife, said their property has Congressional delegation to see if it might be 65 School Street, Newport, Vermont 05855 lost more than a third of its value due to the possible to get an indoor range built in the area. COMECall to visit, meet FOR teachers, A and VISIT! discuss your constant shooting. She also complained that the Martha Judd again asked if the club might be child’s future with an Educational Success Consultation. Teaching the ABCs of Academic Excellence, Biblical Values, bottom part of the road has been torn up by able to help with the road. and Christian Unity since 1995 traffic to the shooting range and said the club has Jessica Judd said the club has 400 or 500 Phone 802-334-3112 · www.ucaeducation.org done nothing to repair the private road. members and pulls in a total of around $4,000 a Club secretary Jessica Judd said her year. She said there might not be too much it can organization has been in the same spot with the do about the road, and asked if the town might same number of members for 70 years. She consider putting some money into its upkeep. denied that shooting has increased in frequency. There appeared to be no enthusiasm among She said the club had to become a board members for that suggestion. Blanchard Oil membership organization. Its insurance agent The board also set the 2017 tax rate. 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Mr. Alexander said a few In 1993 the Department of Fish is unclear. That was the grim news of nutrition to build up fat reserves moose were spotted drifting through and Wildlife issued moose permits offered to the 50 people who showed to see them through the harsh the state in the 1960s. for the northeastern corner of the up at the Craftsbury Outdoor winters they encounter in their More were seen in the 1970s state. That year, 25 were taken, Center on July 27 for the most range. and, by the 1980s, there were Mr. Alexander said. recent in a series of lectures about During the cold months, moose enough moose in Essex County that Elsewhere in the state, the the northern forest. strip bark from trees and get some some deer hunters began advocating animals had become popular, and Biologist Cedric Alexander, who nutrition from balsam firs, but even for a moose season. people told wildlife officials that leads the moose project for the state eating around ten pounds of dry The return of the moose was they enjoyed having them in the Department of Fish and Wildlife, weight or 40 pounds of green assisted by the return of another area. State wildlife biologists retold the recent history of the weight, they manage only to stave creature that was absent for a great worked with members of the public largest member of the cervid family, off the exhaustion of their stored fat while, the beaver. They helped to determine what the target moose a group that includes deer, elk, and before spring. moose to thrive by building dams population should be. reindeer. In addition to their natural diet, and creating shallow ponds where The minimum number needed to Unlike their more familiar and moose use their highly developed the moose could graze. ensure genetic diversity in an area numerous cousins, the white tail sense of smell to find places where Unfortunately for the moose, the size of Vermont is around 500 deer, moose are creatures of the road salt runs into small pools. they returned to encounter a moose, Mr. Alexander said. If there forest, Mr. Alexander said. While There they can get some of the parasite carried by deer, the brain are too many they can cause deer can thrive on a landscape that minerals they need. worm. Deer have developed ecological damage by heavy browsing is as much as 50 percent open land, When a motorist sees a moose resistance to the worm, which of young trees and stripping bark off a moose needs trees to survive. crossing the road, the creature is attacks the nervous system. older ones, he said. When European settlers arrived most often heading for a salt lick, Moose are susceptible to the In Essex County the moose in Vermont they quickly cleared the Mr. Alexander said. parasite and it killed about half of population had grown to three or state’s forests for lumber and to Unlike deer, moose are well those that came to Vermont from four animals per square mile, which create fields in which to graze sheep. equipped to handle deep snow. New Hampshire. Mr. Alexander said was the greatest The moose retreated north where Their long legs and high bellies let In the 1980s many Vermonters number since the last ice age. He conditions were more to their liking. them move through the winter were interested in seeing the moose attributed that increase to the They find their food in the landscape at elevations between restored to its ancient habitat. absence of natural predators such as woods, dining on young trees in the 1,000 and 1,500 feet with ease, he There were a few difficulties as the catamounts and wolves. summer and such food as they can said. Moose don’t venture into creatures spread into territory that Foresters working for the Essex find in winter. higher elevations where the snow is had changed a great deal since they Timber Company, which managed Moose are hearty eaters too deep even for their physique. last lived here. the private lands from the consuming about 3 percent of their As forests reoccupied an For instance, some young bulls Champion sale, found extensive body weight each day. increasing proportion of Vermont’s that had been chased out of the damage caused by moose. Looking A 1,000-pound cow can consume land, the moose slowly returned to herd by the older males decided to at 954 plots they found a quarter up to 100 pounds of green food each the state. Mr. Alexander said they hang out with dairy cows. showed signs of moose browsing, day, about equivalent to 30 pounds mainly came from Maine, which That amused some people for a and 17 percent were heavily of dry weight, Mr. Alexander said. remained heavily forested, by way of while, but the moose had a tendency browsed. In addition to browsing on New Hampshire. to chase the cows, cutting down on When the foresters set up saplings, an activity that makes Maine had no hunting season their milk production, Mr. fenced-in areas to exclude moose, them unpopular with loggers or for moose for a full 30 years, and Alexander said. they showed how much thicker the others interested in forest the population expanded to the Moose go where they please, and new growth was than in areas regeneration, moose like to graze on point that animals needed to seek fences present no obstacle to the where moose could feed. vegetation growing on the bottom of new territory. forest giants. They walk right The Department of Fish and through them, creating pathways Wildlife decided there were too for cattle to follow, and unwanted many moose and decided to expand opportunities for farmers to chase hunting in an effort to get their their livestock. numbers down to around 3,000 Sugarmakers, too, found that across the state. In practice that moose were a hazard. A bull taking meant the eastern part of the Jeans Shoes & Boots a stroll through the woods in spring Northeast Kingdom, the regions can take down a lot of sap lines and around Jay and Lowell, and forested Starting at spill a goodly amount of a farmer’s areas along the spine of the Green $ 00 Starting at $ 00 crop on the ground. Mountains. 8 6 As the Northeast Kingdom’s By 2003 the state was issuing as moose population continued to grow, many as 800 permits a year. That Undies Socks people in Essex County began to number increased to over 1,200 ¢ $ 00 say, “This is nice, but we’ve got permits in the next six years, but 75 1 enough,” Mr. Alexander said. the number of moose taken peaked 158 Main Street, Newport, VT And moose were becoming a (Continued on page nine.)

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A similar pattern could be seen in the number They can sense the ticks and are flexible enough of moose that were involved in accidents. A bit to be able to lick them off their body before they more than 50 moose were killed by cars in 1993. get established, he said. That number more than tripled in the intervening After feeding over the winter, female ticks years, but has fallen now to fewer than 50. drop off their host and lay eggs on the ground in Mr. Alexander said the number of moose in spring. In the past many would have died after the state has now fallen well below the target of landing in deep snow in April or early May. But 3,000, and hunting has been sharply curtailed. as the climate has gotten warmer that natural It has not been eliminated because only bull control no longer applies. Mr. Alexander said moose can be taken, and their numbers do not scientists don’t know how to deal with the affect the ability of the herd to reproduce as long problem. as a proper ratio between male and female moose Perhaps the decline in moose will mean fewer is maintained. ticks can survive and a balance can be Mr. Alexander said the reasons for the decline established, he said. are not entirely clear. He and his colleagues are Mr. Alexander said he does not expect anyone working on a study to determine what is to want to spray chemicals over a wide area of the happening with the herd. state to kill the ticks, assuming that such One problem that exists in Essex County and chemicals exist. the Lowell area is deer ticks. Those creatures In the meantime, he said, the current study of All horizontal rows of nine, all vertical attach themselves to moose in the thousands and the herd will continue for another year, in hopes columns of nine, and all the heavily feed on their blood during winter months when of finding a way to maintain the moose as part of outlined boxes of nine squares must the animals are able to get only enough nutrition the state’s ecosystem. contain all the numbers from one to nine. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com Moose hunting permit winners drawn The answer is on page 2B. The winners of Vermont’s 2017 moose of Vermont’s successes in science-based wildlife hunting permits were determined Saturday, July management,” said state wildlife biologist Cedric 29, at a lottery drawing at the Barre Fish and Alexander. “Vermont’s first moose hunt was in Game Club. 1993, when 25 moose were taken with 30 permits Governor Phil Scott activated the computer- issued. We expect close to 34 moose will be taken generated selection process that randomly picked this fall in a carefully regulated hunt.” 80 winners from 4,971 lottery applicants. Winners in this year’s moose hunting lottery The drawing is done by a random sort of are posted in a searchable database on the applications that were submitted by a July 3 Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s website deadline. (www.vtfishandwildlife.com). As part of the regular lottery drawing, a If an applicant’s name wasn’t drawn, they can Happy Birthday “special priority drawing” was held for five still bid in Vermont’s auction for five moose permits to go to applicants who are Vermont hunting permits, which is open until August 10. to the following people! resident veterans. The unsuccessful applicants Sealed bids must be received by Fish and Wildlife from the veteran drawing were included in the by 4:30 p.m. that day. Contact the Fish and Ted VonSchoppe, Derby, Aug. 3 larger regular drawing that followed. 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A large The effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is majority raised their hands. He then asked how only one of Mr. Sanders’ concerns, said Mr. many are pleased with their Medicare coverage. Fiermonte. He said that many older people face a A large proportion of the gathering again put precarious future because more than half of their hands up. Americans have no savings for retirement. Mr. Fiermonte said the defeat of the That means 20 percent of the nation is trying Obamacare repeal efforts was due to people to survive on Social Security payments of less organizing and demonstrating against the bill. than $13,000 a year. He compared it to Mr. Sanders’ presidential “Trump said he was a different type of campaign and urged people to get organized and Republican and that he would stand up for work for the kinds of laws they hope to see passed. seniors,” Mr. Fiermonte said. “Trump proved he He then introduced a three-person panel of did not mean what he said. His cabinet is the advocates for senior issues. They included Meg definition of the swamp.” Burmeister, the executive director of the Mr. Fiermonte said Republicans have long Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging, who said said Social Security is going broke and have her organization is focused on helping older advocated cuts to the program. Summer people stay in their homes rather than move into “That’s a lie,” he declared. nursing homes or other facilities. He said the program has $2.8-trillion, enough That work is funded by Medicaid, she said, to pay full benefits to seniors for the next 17 years. and will be in danger if Medicaid funding is cut Clearance After that the program would have to pay as proposed by Republican bills. something less than full benefits if nothing is done. The organization also funds Meals on Wheels Mr. Fiermonte said Mr. Sanders has proposed and senior meal sites, she said. Both programs increasing the limit after which people no longer also would be in danger, according to the have to contribute taxes to support the program SALE President’s announced budget priorities. from the current level of $127,000 a year to Dennis LaBounty of the AFL-CIO serves on $250,000. the board of the Alliance for Retired Americans, That, he said, would allow the system to pay which works on economic and justice issues on full benefits to seniors for generations and to behalf of 4.3 million retired Americans, he said. increase benefits by $1,300 a year for the next 60 He blamed Republicans for trying to pit BEDROOM DINING years. retired people against working folks, and said the “Don’t believe Social Security is broke,” Mr. two groups need to work together for a higher Fiermonte told the group. minimum wage and paid sick days and family He then warned his audience about spending SETS UP T0 ROOMS time for workers. cuts proposed in President Trump’s budget proposal. 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But he thinks the payback will be within her lifetime. And the house is designed to last hundreds of years. The solar panels have already earned Ms. Creaven a substantial credit against future electric bills through net metering. And the thick walls, airtight construction, and efficient appliances mean that the house sips energy rather than guzzling it. A well-known index called the Home Energy Rating System gives a typical new home a score of 100. The average older home is about 30 percent less efficient, so it might earn a score of 130. An Energy Star home is about 30 percent more efficient, so it would get a score of 70. An energy audit under the Home Energy Rating System gave Ms. Creaven’s house a score of -1, meaning that it’s 101 percent more efficient than a typical new home. With results like that, Mr. Creaven said he’s looking forward to designing and building other high efficiency homes in the future. During Sunday’s open house, a plug-in hybrid and an electric car sat outside in the parking area for good measure. “People need to be aware that about half our Organizers of the Glover Energy Committee’s open house on Sunday relax after the afternoon event at Ann energy use is related to transportation,” said Creaven’s new net zero energy house in West Glover. The house surpasses every standard for energy efficiency. From left to right, are energy committee member Mariel Hess, homeowner and energy committee member Ann Glover Energy Committee member Mariel Hess. Creaven, her son Caleb Creaven, who designed and built the house, and energy committee member Jack Sumberg. Weatherization can make big changes in an At the table in the background, Amelia Fritz of the Craftsbury Energy Committee talks to Sarah Gluckman of the older house’s energy use. But efficiency on the Glover Energy Committee. scale of the Creaven house would be difficult if not impossible to achieve without starting from change as the first flurry of leased electric cars To arrange a visit, seniors should call Karen scratch. are turned in and put up for sale. Budde or Patty Beckwith at the Northeast So for many people, cars are the low-hanging Still, plug-in cars are within a few years of Kingdom Council on Aging in St. Johnsbury, Ms. fruit in the effort to save money and energy. being readily available, and charging stations are Gluckman said. But like building a net zero energy house, popping up everywhere. The volunteers will hand out free replacement buying an electric or plug-in hybrid car can be At this year’s Vermont Electric Cooperative light bulbs, smart power strips, low flow shower pricey. The sticker price of a Nissan Leaf is just annual meeting, speakers were hopeful that heads, and hot water tank pipe insulation. under $31,000. Right now there’s a $10,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids can move in to And they have information about ways that rebate offer from Nissan for Vermont Electric use the electricity that people are saving through income eligible seniors can qualify for NETO, a Cooperative members who buy a new Leaf, said weatherization and more efficient appliances. program that tackles more serious winterization Sarah Gluckman, another member of the energy Last weekend’s house tour was only one of a and efficiency needs. committee. number of events that the Glover Energy Over recent months, the Glover Energy There’s also a $7,500 federal tax credit, she Committee has put on over the past few months in Committee has also shown films, organized a one- said. Together, the rebate and the tax credit an effort to reduce the town’s energy consumption. day “energy challenge,” and offered information would bring the price down to under $15,000 — Recently, committee members were trained to at public events like Saturday’s Glover Day. for someone with enough income to benefit from perform free home energy audits that look for As for Mr. Creaven, he’s already looking the credit. ways to lower electric bills. forward to his next house design. But $15,000 is still out of reach for many The Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging has contact Elizabeth Trail at working people in the Northeast Kingdom. a grant to cover audits for 100 area homes. [email protected] And so far, only a few plug-in hybrids have People over 60 living anywhere in the Northeast reached the used car market, though that may Kingdom are eligible.

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The neighbor said Mr. there are steps that could, and his estranged wife and then himself “He said it was ridiculous, ‘A McLain had blood on him. should, have been taken to prevent on July 26, was arrested and guy can’t even get his stuff,’” the Sheriff Colby said he was the what he called a “terrible tragedy.” charged with domestic abuse and sheriff recalled. first to arrive, followed soon after by “There is no reason when a interfering with emergency services Mr. McLain asked Sheriff Colby the State Police, the U.S. Border judge releases a domestic abuser on on June 16. According to a press to allow him to go back to the house Patrol, and members of the New conditions that he can’t order him to release from Major Glenn Hall, the and get more of his possessions. Hampshire State Police. wear a GPS tracker,” he said. commander of the State Police’s “I told him the court gave him They found Mr. McLain inside Sheriff Colby said his criminal division, Jason McLain permission to go one time, he had to the house on Route 102 alive, but department recently signed a pled innocent and was released on go back to the judge,” the sheriff with a self-inflicted gunshot wound contract with the Windham County conditions. Sheriff’s Association that will allow A week later he was served with it to keep tabs on the whereabouts a relief from abuse order by Molly of individuals who are wearing McLain, which barred him from “It’s one of those situations. tracking devices. their home and prohibited him from He said the current standard for having any contact with her. You never, ever know what’s going protective orders, which calls for Essex County Sheriff Trevor to happen. It’s a terrible tragedy.” people to stay 300 feet away from Colby said he served the order on the person protected by the order is Mr. McLain and acted as a go- insufficient. between, helping him get his Sheriff Colby said he would belongings from the house while said. to his head. He was taken to Weeks prefer that people be barred from keeping him away from Ms. McLain. Ms. McLain told the sheriff that Memorial Hospital in Lancaster, being in the same town as the He said Mr. McLain said he was she felt Mr. McLain was harassing New Hampshire, and from there to person under protection. The GPS the victim of a “kangaroo court” and her and did not want him back at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical devices can act something like shock tried to get the order lifted. the house. Center in Lebanon, New collars for dogs, he said, alerting Meanwhile, Sheriff Colby said, Sheriff Colby said Mr. McLain Hampshire, where he died the next law enforcement officers when a Ms. McLain remained fearful of her didn’t contact Ms. McLain directly morning. person crosses the line, so they can husband and asked the sheriff to but did try to get messages to her by Officers found the two children, intercept him. search her house to make sure he way of friends. who were not harmed, and went “It’s not just violating an abuse wasn’t hiding in it before she got the But on July 26, 911 calls began looking for their mother. prevention order,” Sheriff Colby locks changed. coming in, all reporting an incident They found her across Route 102 said. “It’s violating conditions of Ms. McLain was so grateful to near the McLain home. One of the from the house. She had serious release.” the Sheriff’s Department that she callers told police that a man with a injuries to her head and torso, the Such violations can put a person baked a plate of brownies to thank knife was running after a woman. press release said. back into jail immediately. them for being so nice, Sheriff Colby Another caller reported hearing a Ms. McLain was taken to Weeks Sheriff Colby had some said. gunshot. hospital where she was pronounced complaints about judges who release He said Mr. McClain gave him One of the McLains’ neighbors dead. Her body was taken to the domestic abusers on conditions. He office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Essex County State’s Attorney in Concord, New Hampshire, for Vince Illuzzi often asks a judge to autopsy to determine how she died. set bail, but the judge frequently Doesn’t Meanwhile a team of Vermont decides not to follow that State Police detectives from the suggestion. matter Major Crime Unit and Bureau of If people charged with domestic Criminal Investigations arrived and abuse are released, Sheriff Colby the closed off a portion of Route 102 said, their conditions ought to be while they looked for evidence. made tougher in one area. Instead berry, A later press release from Major of barring them from possessing Hall said autopsies on both Mr. and firearms, the condition ought to maple Ms. McLain were complete, but will keep them from staying in a home not be made final until toxicology where firearms are present. sugar tests are finished. “Many people live in homes makes it According to Major Hall, without firearms, and some people evidence in the case suggests Mr. would be willing to get rid of their better! McLain killed Ms. McLain and then firearms in order to give a friend or killed himself. He was found with a relative a place to stay,” Sheriff Gift Shop Hours: single gunshot wound to his head Colby said. Mon.-Fri. 8-4, Sat. 10-4. and had a semi-automatic handgun Speaking of the deaths of Mr. (802) 766-2700 when he was found. and Ms. McLain he said, “It’s one of jedsmaple.com Ms. McLain had been shot in those situations. 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In Superior Court Photo lineup leads to arrest by Paul Lefebvre Bail set on defendant facing of conditions, including alcohol had driven off intoxicated after a felony charge screening and counseling and anger domestic altercation. NEWPORT — A new resident of management. Police cited Ms. Ingalls after she Newport City may have foiled a Restrictions on alcohol and According to an affidavit from drove back to the residence while burglary when she encountered a driving plus $25,000 bail were Trooper Daniel Lynch, Ms. Koloski they were still there investigating young and unknown male subject in imposed on a North Troy man who was cited for assaulting family the complaints. her bathroom during the late is facing a fourth conviction for members on December 5, 2016, in Jennifer Thompson, 37, of morning hours of July 27. driving while under the influence of Derby Line. Newport will serve a split sentence “Ma’am, let me stay, let me alcohol (DUI). of 60 days to one year for stealing stay,” he allegedly pleaded. William Starr, 52, pled innocent Two felony marijuana charges groceries from Price Chopper in “Somebody is chasing me. I need to to a felony DUI charge and to a brought Derby on December 23, 2015. be safe.” companion charge of driving after his Information incorporated into an The male was allegedly carrying license had been suspended (DLS). A 34-year-old Barton man pled affidavit by Trooper Callie Field says a large phone with a white case, If he is able to post 10 percent innocent to charges of felony that Ms. Thompson has a prior according to the affidavit of Newport or $2,500 of the bail, Mr. Starr must marijuana cultivation and conviction for petty larceny, along Patrolman David Jacobs. comply with court conditions to keep possession, and was released on with eight failures to appear in court. The woman’s attempt to restrain him off the road and sober. He standard conditions. According to the affidavit, Ms. the subject failed as he escaped must also go along with a police State Police Sergeant Andrew Thompson and her boyfriend walked through an open window. request to give a sample of his Jensen said in his affidavit he was out of the store with $587 worth of On Tuesday here in the breath at any time. contacted by a woman on June 14, groceries in a shopping cart. Criminal Division of Orleans County On July 30 State Police Trooper advising she had photographs of an In a plea agreement covering 11 Superior Court Nathan Cheney, 20, Mark Pohlman responded to a indoor cultivation operation in the separate charges, Luc Quirion, 58, of Newport, whom police believe request from a U.S. Border Patrol basement of Robert Russell. of Newport pled guilty to reckless committed the crime, pled innocent agent to assist on a DUI stop in Police allegedly met with the endangerment and to two charges of to a felony charge of unlawful Newport Center. woman, who showed them violating conditions of release. trespass. Allegedly stopped for erratic photographs of the plants, in different As part of the agreement, the He appeared in court, according driving, Mr. Starr was standing stages of growth, and provided a prosecution dismissed two felony to a supplemental affidavit from outside his car when the trooper sworn statement to what she had charges of domestic assault, a single Newport Patrolman Travis arrived. After performing a breath observed about the operation. misdemeanor of domestic assault, a Bingham, after the homeowner test, he was cited. The woman also told police, the DUI, and a charge of violating allegedly picked him out of a police According to the trooper’s affidavit continues, that she conditions of release. photo line on July 31. affidavit, the Border Patrol agent witnessed Mr. Russell selling Accepting the terms of the plea “There’s my kid,” she allegedly saw Mr. Starr use the door to catch marijuana to numerous people. agreement, Judge VanBenthuysen said. himself when he attempted to exit On June 5, police executed a handed out a suspended sentence of Following his arraignment, Mr. the car. search warrant at the defendant’s one to three months. Multiple Cheney was taken into custody for Unable to post $10,000 bail, house, and allegedly located 33.5 conditions of release restrict his use lack of a 10 percent deposit on Christian Almodovar, 32, of ounces of dried marijuana. According to of alcohol and require Mr. Quirion $10,000 bail. If he makes bail, he Springfield was taken into custody Sergeant Jensen, police also observed to continue alcohol counseling. must comply with a 24-hour curfew. after pleading innocent to a felony evidence of a growing operation. On December 22, 2016, a woman Judge Howard VanBenthuysen charge of lewd and lascivious It is unlawful in Vermont to who accused Mr. Quirion of harassing said he was imposing bail and a conduct with a child. possess more than one pound of her called Newport police to a city curfew because Mr. Cheney has a Mr. Almodovar was cited for marijuana and cultivate more than residence. prior record and because he recently allegedly toughing the private parts 25 plants. When police arrived, they found violated his probation. of a young boy during a field trip Carrie Ingalls, 47, of West Mr. Quirion in his truck playing Police allege they were able to between September 1, 2016, and Glover pled guilty to charges of loud music and showing signs of make a quick arrest in the case March 31, 2017, according to an domestic assault and DUI on alcohol use, according to an affidavit because a witness, who recognized affidavit from Newport Police September 20, 2015. from Newport Patrolman Jacobs. him from high school, reported she Detective Jennifer Harlow. Judge VanBenthuysen accepted Six criminal charges arose from that saw him running across a neighbor’s The defendant was transported the recommendation of a plea encounter, including DUI and yard at the time of the reported to court from a Springfield jail, agreement and handed out a two- reckless endangerment. crime. where he was sent after pleading year suspended sentence on the On the charge of violating court Patrolman Jacobs, the innocent in April to six charges that DUI, reduced from a second to a conditions of release, Newport investigating officer, said in his include sexual assault on a minor, first offense. Patrolman Corey Marcoux caught affidavit that he secured a photo of according to court records. On the domestic charge, the Mr. Quirion violating a curfew and the defendant, which was used in A two-year deferred sentence court imposed a two-year deferred drinking on October 1, 2016. the lineup to identify Mr. Cheney. was handed out to Alana Koloski, sentence. Special conditions of Newport police say they 21, of Derby Line, who switched her probation require the defendant to A repeat offender of court arrested Mr. Cheney around eleven plea to guilty to a domestic assault continue alcohol counseling. conditions o’clock at his apartment Tuesday charge. Sergeant Jensen said in his morning. While serving her sentence on affidavit that police responded to a In a plea agreement, Ashley the misdemeanor conviction, Ms. Glover residence on September 20, Geoffrey, 29, of South Burlington Koloski must comply with an array 2015, on complaints that Ms. Ingalls (Continued on page sixteen.)

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Moose Festival takes place August 25-26 Police report An annual Canaan celebration worthy of New Festival — the moose. “And of course, we have Info on missing England’s largest land mammal kicks off on lots to offer moose fans,” noted Ms. Meader. “Our Friday, August 25, with the opening of the 2017 event includes moose chili, moose-themed Moose Festival. Corrine Rober, chair of the painting classes, and a moose calling contest guitar sought Marketing Committee for the North Country among other activities.” The guitar that never returned has State Chamber of Commerce commends Kathy Meader “An event of this size and scope would not be Police searching for clues. and Cathy Boutin, the co-directors of the Moose possible without the generous support of our Trooper Callie Field says in a press release Festival. “It’s a huge undertaking to plan an sponsors as well as countless community that a Lowell musician loaned his Gibson J200 event of this size while also running a business.” volunteers,” said Ms. Meader. “Both have guitar to some unnamed individuals on July 15 “This event represents the festival’s twenty- stepped up in a big way for the festival.” and is still waiting for its return roughly two sixth year and is truly a celebration of the North Admission to the 2017 Moose Festival is $5 weeks later. Country’s communities, culture and of course, the for adults, $3 for children from 4 four to12, and The trooper says the guitar, along with “lyric moose,” said Ms. Meader. “There really is free to kids under four. Those purchasing an sheets,” was inside a hard black Gibson case. something for everyone.” admission bracelet on Friday can also attend on Anyone with information is asked to contact Presented by Indian Stream Health Center, Saturday free of charge, just make sure to keep State Police at the Derby barracks. the event is organized by the North Country the bracelet on. Event hours are Friday, August A 73-year-old Guildhall man was killed on Chamber of Commerce and begins on Friday, 25, from 3 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, August 26, July 27 while working on a dump truck. August 25, at 3 p.m. at the Canaan Recreation from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. According to a press release from State Police Park on Route 102 in Canaan. The two-day Recognizing the area’s connection to off-road Sergeant Detective Clark Lombardi, the dump festival will feature an amazing array of activities vehicles, an ATV ride-in will take place Saturday. body was in an upright position when it fell and including: ATV riders are asked to gather at 10 a.m. at crushed Richard Martin of Guildhall. Over 75 artisan, craft and food vendors; Murphy Dam in Pittsburg. Once assembled, the Police say the cause of death was accidental. tethered hot air balloon rides sponsored by group will ride down to the Moose Festival. In Holland last week, police believe a 96-year- Re/Max; horse drawn carriage rides provided by The North Country Community Recreation old man committed suicide after driving to a pull- the CJEJ Farm; and a classic car show sponsored Center in Colebrook, New Hampshire, will host a off on the Gore Road. by Brooks Chevrolet and Young’s Hotrods and guided tour of the river walk on Saturday Detective Herbes Cassandra says police were Restoration. CR Helicopters will be offering morning. Also on Saturday, the Amey Farm on called to the scene after the body of Russell helicopter rides ($25 per person), and there will Tabor Road in Pittsburg will be hosting a “day at Marcotte of Derby had been discovered. be art contests and shows hosted by the the farm” with barn tours, live music, an antique Police are not considering the death Connecticut River Artisan Group, a dog show tractor and engine show, and tours of the historic suspicious. presented by Two Rivers Habitat for Humanity, Indian Stream School House. That evening, John Three flat screen television sets were stolen and an old-fashioned barn dance. There will also and Cindy Lou Amey will host their traditional from a Derby residence during the evening hours be a New Hampshire Fish and Game display evening of bluegrass music under the stars in the between July 30 and 31. featuring officers from Animal Planet’s “North field on Route 3 in Pittsburg. Information on all State Police Sergeant Andrew Jensen said in Woods Law” TV series. of the weekend’s activities can be found at his press release the homeowners were away at Then there’s the true centerpiece of the www.moosefestival.com. work when the burglary occurred. Ms. Meader added that the festival is still Access was apparently gained through an accepting vendor applications. To register or for unlocked front door. more information, please visit Anyone with information is asked to call the www.moosefestival.com or call (603) 237-8939. Derby barracks at 334-8881. The Moose Festival is a fund-raiser for the l North Country Chamber of Commerce. — from und e It! the North Country Chamber. B the Chronicle customers have been asking for it, and we listened. Waterfront Plaza, Newport • 334-2610 For only www.CityCinemaNewport.com $10 more, you can add Advertise in the online edition of Wednesday is the Chronicle date night! 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Solana Gordon is imprisoned behind netting at the Glover Day bounce castle Saturday and loving it. Michael Romanyshyn in the guise of Spencer Chamberlain gets an encouraging splash of water as he recreates the famous run that saved the people of Glover from disaster over 200 years ago. Howie Cantor (right) looks on appreciatively. They were taking part in the Bread and Puppet Theater’s long-running Glover Day tradition of performing a dramatization of the town’s legendary tale. Photos by Joseph Gresser

Pinky the elephant sticks her nose in the business of the Bread and Puppet band’s drum section at Glover Day. Drummers Mariselis Martinez (left) and Cavan Meese ignored the pachyderm busybody, while trainer Lyndsay Love did her level best to get her charge under control. Despite the elephantine interruption, the Bread and Peter Krantz (left) and Dylan Cummings shared top honors at the Glover Day Fun Puppet musicians performed the task of welcoming runners to the finish line without Run Saturday. Both finished the course in 4 minutes and 28 seconds. pause.

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Dan Marcotte’s jet car shows some real speed as it roars down the runway Saturday at the Northeast Kingdom Air Show in Coventry. Mr. Marcotte also displayed his skills as a pilot. The popular event, which had to be canceled last year due to runway construction, drew hundreds to the Northeast Kingdom International Airport on a perfect weekend to marvel at aerial acrobatics and go up with local aviators for the view from above. Dr. Don Majercik, a general surgeon from Essex Junction, operates in the sky as well as in the hospital. He demonstrated his skills as he took his Pitts Special S2-B biplane through an elegant loop above the Northeast Kingdom International Airport Sunday afternoon. Photos by Joseph Gresser Big Hosmer Soccer Camp starts August 7 Big Hosmer Soccer Camp will be held August 7 to 11 in Craftsbury. This is year 38, and there is still room available for boys and girls ages seven to 17. There are six age groups for field players. Goalies will receive training with two goalie coaches that will specialize on the skills unique to their position. The day camp runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Sixteen coaches include head coaches who have high school, varsity or college coaching experience. All players with varying skill levels and experience are encouraged to attend. Coaches plan their skill and game sessions with the goal of improving individual skill, field awareness and developing game strategies in an enjoyable and competitive atmosphere, with plenty of game play. The hope is for players to take a higher skill level to their school or club season to increase their chances of a successful David Windmiller, a member of the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team for three years, offers a taste of his season and enjoyment of the game. piloting skills in the skies above Coventry Sunday at the Northeast Kingdom Air Show. Mr. Windmiller’s performance was both daring and precise as he put his Zivko Edge 540 through its apparently unlimited paces. Registration forms can be accessed on the website www.townofcraftsbury.com on the calendar of events or by contacting Camp Director Mike Clark at 563-2216 or 595-3419 or [email protected]. — from Big Hosmer Soccer Camp.

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For information on becbecomingoming a BrBreastfeeding-Friendlyeastfeeding-Friendly EmploEmployerer visitvisity healthvermont.gov/wic/food-feeding/breastfeeding/employers.aspxhealthv t.goermon v/wic/food-feeding/breastfeeding/emplo xs.aspery Page Twenty the Chronicle, August 2, 2017 The push to a paperless society hurt the industry (Continued from page one.) in the short term is that few people are going into the business, some are getting out, and those who remain are having a harder time making a living. In the long term, it could mean that it will be increasingly tough to find someone to manage a woodlot, or at least cut it. And that has repercussions for Vermont’s working landscape, just as the loss of farms has. Ironically, obeying that “go green” message could lead to a less well- managed forest ecology. A number of factors have played into the decline, which started a couple of years ago. But if there’s a single big one, it might be technology — computers, smart phones, and the Internet. Shopping or getting news online, or responding to those messages Americans constantly receive urging them to go paperless, has led to a serious decline in the demand for paper, which is made of low grade pulpwood. “We were warned many years ago that with the advent of computers it was being portrayed as a paperless age,” Mr. Davis said. “Kids don’t carry books anymore; they carry computers, Ipads. The only thing that’s doing good is cardboard.” That’s because people tend not to be lugging Brian Stone and Tyler Scelza are logging this Albany lot. Mr. Stone said the markets, particularly for certain types packages home from brick and mortar stores of wood, are bad, and the price is worse. One of the big culprits has been technology and the push to move toward these days; they buy products online that have to a paperless society. Photo by Elizabeth Trail be shipped. “International Paper, they saw the costs are cheaper and environmental regulations Power prices are also a factor, Mr. Lincoln handwriting on the wall,” Mr. Davis said. “They are more lenient, said Sam Lincoln, deputy said. “Wholesale electricity prices are being spun off all the mills that were producing paper commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation. driven down further by natural gas and large and bought up more packing mills.” “You don’t have to climb as high to get over the scale renewables.” Both demand and price have plummeted and bar in other countries.” It costs big biomass plants like the ones in many of the big paper mills in New England, Governor Phil Scott created Mr. Lincoln’s Burlington and Ryegate about $85 a megawatt to particularly in Maine, have closed. position, and the longtime logger and farmer said generate power, he said. Whereas, the price of There are other factors as well. he hopes to be a problem solver, although this wholesale power is about $25 a megawatt. The world is investing heavily where labor particular problem may have no easy solution. (Continued on page twenty-one.)

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That “They say this is not cyclical, this is a rapid used to bring $12 a ton, Mr. Stone said. “Now it’s decline, and it’s not going to come back,” he said. “Biomass became expensive, compared to $5 a ton.” Some of the Maine paper mills have already fracked natural gas in particular,” Mr. Lincoln It may look like a lot of money sitting there, been dismantled for scrap, Mr. Lincoln said. said. “Natural gas is the huge player.” but it’s not, he said. That tall stack of wood will “They don’t exist anymore. To our west, A third factor is the cost of logging in fetch only about $1,000, he said. International Paper and others that produce Vermont. For one thing, Vermont has the highest “We don’t even have any mills around here higher quality paper, their markets remain workmen’s compensation rates in the region. By anymore,” he said. “Everything we’re selling goes strong. So the loggers from central and southern far, Mr. Lincoln said. He once thought that was to Canada. We used to have mills in Maine, but Vermont still have access to those markets and just bad policy. He said he now knows it’s more they don’t really need wood anymore.” are still within reasonable trucking distance.” than that. He said he gets $36 a ton for softwood pulp in But the Northeast Kingdom markets are Vermont is a small state with a relatively Jay, Maine. The trucking costs $23 a ton, leaving gravely diminished, Mr. Lincoln said. “The Verso small number of people in the logging business. him with $13. mill is still functioning, but at a shadow of its That means the pool of those insured is also former self. They were a major purchaser of wood small, which leads to higher rates. in the Kingdom and in the Connecticut River “I learned that we have very low participation Valley.” in the forestry pool,” Mr. Lincoln said. “So when “What occurred in Maine, starting in 2015, I there’s an accident there’s not a broad pool of believe their largest paper mill announced a 30 loggers to spread the risk over. There are well “I can’t see it getting any percent reduction in paper output,” Mr. Lincoln under 100 loggers in Vermont that have workers said. comp. We’re trying to change that culture.” better. You can’t force The Maine mills were heavy into the Some are legitimate sole proprietors, who the prices up if the production of the type of paper used in don’t need workmen’s comp, he said. And some newspapers, magazines, and catalogues, he said. are not. market isn’t there.” “And of all paper uses, that’s the one that has There are incremental things the state can precipitously dropped.” do, but what it probably comes down to in the end There was a time when about everyone got a is market, and price, the drivers of any business. Sears catalogue stuffed into the mailbox, for And there are some stark numbers there. “Back in 1980 and 1990, we were getting $50 instance, but those days are long gone, he said. Mr. Davis said he pulled out an old 1994 a cord by the roadside,” Mr. Stone said. “We’re And the decline in demand for print newspaper contract and saw that the going price for a only getting half today what we were getting 25- and magazines has also affected the market. thousand board feet was $300. 30 years ago. “Due to the same factors, multiple other mills Twenty-three years later, it’s $300. (That’s Echoing Mr. Davis, he said, “Softwood logs I closed within months,” Mr. Lincoln said. That not a typo.) was selling back in 1994 for $295 a thousand was in 2015-2016. “The capacity in Maine “What we’ve paid landowners has about board feet. Today, if you’re lucky, you can get through those closures, the entire pulp industry, doubled,” he said. The cost of fuel, labor, that price.” has shrunk by 35 percent in two years.” equipment, and just about everything else has And logging has no benefits beyond the work “We’re a heavily forested region, and we’ve also gone up substantially since 1994, he said. itself, Mr. Stone said. No health insurance, no lost a bunch of markets for low grade wood,” Mr. Loggers, he said, are having a tough time making predictability, no assured income, no regular hours. Lincoln said. “We’re pushing aside this local it on what they earned in 1994. “I’ll keep struggling along,” he said. “I’ve source, which is really impacting the ribs of the Meanwhile, water quality laws have gotten always worked in the woods; it’s all I’ve ever forest economy.” stricter, and foresters are taking a piece of the pie done. I’m not going to be able to get another job He said Vermont’s forests are growing nearly as well, Mr. Davis said. at 62. twice as fast as they’re being cut. “Landowners might hire a forester. That’s “Logging, you’re always fighting the weather, Mr. Davis said it was about two years ago in one more mouth to feed and the same revenue the markets. It’s something you’ve got to like.” August, when he’d just bought a $200,000 piece of you had 23 years ago,” he said. “I can’t see it getting any better,” Mr. Stone equipment, that he learned that one of the major Plus the wood chip market has bottomed out, said. “You can’t force the prices up if the market mills he shipped to had just gone from a 740- he said. isn’t there. employee operation to 200 employees. “The chip market back in those days was $9,” Like others, the industry can be cyclical, Mr. “It’s a roller coaster,” he said about the wood Mr. Davis said. Lincoln said. But this time it seems to be more business. “But this is the worst of all the Now it’s as low as $4.50, he said. “That’s half than a downturn. price from what we got 30 years ago.” (Continued on page twenty-two.) 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She’s also vice- president of the Vermont Forest Products Association. “We’re in decline,” she said. “Last winter the market challenges were much greater, and it’s hard for loggers to market their product, whether they could sell it at all, or whether they sold it at such a reduced price it wasn’t profitable. And the weather this summer adds insult to injury.” Meaning it’s been so wet that those loggers who are still trying to make a go of it are having a hard time getting into the woods. Another problem, as she sees it, is that Vermont doesn’t invest in its forestry industry. “Unfortunately, we have been kind of shortsighted in our own state and haven’t encouraged more investment in mills so we could harvest our trees here in Vermont,” she said. “There are some mills left, but in Vermont we’re dealing with the high cost of doing business.” And, Ms. Goodridge said, with loggers aging and fewer people going into the business, there’s The market for firewood is still strong in Vermont. Photo by Tena Starr an increasing manpower shortage. “The loggers are 55 years or older, and the sawmill people are “This is a very interconnected system that loads, Mr. Starr said. Many have been cut to two probably close to that.” makes forest management happen,” Mr. Lincoln tickets, he said. She talks to loggers on a regular basis and said. “A logger can’t stay in business just “Utilization is important in this said many are not encouraging their children to delivering logs to Colleen’s mill. You need conversation,” Mr. Lincoln said. “You can’t cut follow in their footsteps because they’re worried diversity. We are just losing so much of the down just the good part of the tree. It’s how you that it’s no longer a profitable business. diversity in the market, so rapidly, and for market a tree from the stump to the tip. There “We’re seeing a lot of loggers go out,” Ms. different reasons.” might be ten different sorts.” Goodridge said. “We’ve seen people go out who “It’s the combination of many things all kind Highest quality saw logs are made into have done it for generations. We’re seeing people of landing at the same time,” said state Senator boards, he said. The middle section of the tree downsizing, having to retire early, and younger Bobby Starr of North Troy, chair of the Senate goes to pulpwood, and the brushy tops go to chips. people can’t make a go of it.” Agriculture Committee. “You hear people talk “There’s a tremendous amount of skill needed As far as her own business, she said it could about the perfect storm. to properly utilize the tree. Your value declines be in jeopardy as well if loggers don’t find the “We’re dependent on weather to start with, as you go up the tree.” broad and varied types of markets they need to and we’ve had rotten weather this summer. A lot “Proper forest management is now at risk,” survive. of loggers don’t want to go into the woods because Mr. Lincoln said. “Because when you’re “We have a specialized business here. I’m it’s so wet and they’d cut their customers’ woods managing a timber stand we really like to being affected if I don’t have loggers who can all up. And that means runoff. That water gets compare it to weeding a garden.” continue to do business. If they can’t find into streams, and then they get in trouble.” No one has a good garden without culling markets, pretty soon that same logger won’t cut He said he knows of one logger who is going weeds so the crops they do want have room to cedar trees because he’s out of business. through the laborious and time-consuming grow. “Not many people are successful gardeners “The bottom line in all of this is we all have to process of hauling wood out to his landing with a who plant the seeds and think they’re going to make a living,” Ms. Goodridge said. “We’ve been small John Deere tractor, the type that one would make tomato sauce without managing that in this business for 43 ears, and we’ve seen a lot use around home. garden,” of changes. The forest industry has so many And then, of course, there’s the market. As So it goes for timber. Loggers can’t just sell components — right from landowners, foresters, the former owner of a trucking business, Mr. selectively. They can’t just cut the high end loggers, truckers, processors — and we all depend Starr understands how that business works. wood if they’re practicing proper forest on each other. All the steps along the way have Truckers who were hauling logs once got five (Continued on page twenty-three.) to be economically viable.” tickets a week, meaning they could ship five

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Ed Larson is a lobbyist for the Vermont “Those who have been able to hang on will “We couldn’t get the reduction in workmen’s Forest Products Association and a bit more probably start seeing the reward from higher comp. But we did get a study of why our workers upbeat than some. prices,” Mr. Davis said about loggers. comp is so high and other states so much lower. “We may be faltering, but we’re not done,” he Ms. Goodridge said she’s encouraged by a And they had to come up with ways of lowering said. “We still have a lot of good strong Vermont Council on Rural Development survey. workers comp for loggers and farmers.” industries.” It determined that preserving Vermont’s working One idea for cutting the cost of workmen’s But, he said, finding markets for low grade lands — farms and forests — is a core value compensation is to pool high risk workers, such as timber is critical. among the state’s population, she said. roofers, farmers, and loggers, together, to increase There are only one or two paper mills left in “I grew up on a farm, and I always knew that the size of the pool. the region’s marketplace, Mr. Larson said. “We agriculture was important. Then I got into Beyond that, Senator Starr said, hearings will lost quite a bit of demand, about 50 percent, forestry, and thought, why don’t we hear more start this fall on a right to forestry bill, similar to maybe more.” about that? one that exists for farmers. In Vermont, a little over half the forest is “If you’re going to support agriculture and “It’s really to open it up a little bit so these growing trees that are suitable for biomass or forestry, you have to support the people who have guys could maybe earn a living without being pulp, he said. dedicated their lives to doing the work. Because harassed by their neighbors.” “Having markets for all types of products that of their work, we enjoy the benefits of healthy Biomass could be a solution, Mr. Larson said. come from the forest makes it better for us to forests, clean water, clear air.” “Efficiency standards are difficult for biomass properly manage the timber base. But what do Mr. Larson, the lobbyist, said elected officials plants,” he said. “That’s something we really we do with the low end? That’s the challenge.” need to recognize the challenges the industry is need to look at.” There are bright spots. facing. And a strong Current Use program is For instance, more than a third of Vermont’s “They did in a fairly substantial way this past important, he said. schoolchildren attend a school that burns wood,” session,” he said, acknowledging a handful of “They keep putting more strings on Mr. Lincoln said. “Norwich [University] burns steps taken to make life easier for people who CurrentUse. Some landowners are no longer the equivalent of 5,000 cords of wood delivered in work in the woods. comfortable being in it. We need a landowner chips.” Some of the measures passed were small, but friendly Current Use law.” And the market for firewood remains strong. small things add up, Mr. Larson said. “There’s a lot at stake here, not just for the “Fortunately, in Vermont we still have a good “Loggers and wood people always had to pay people who work in the woods,” Ms. Goodridge firewood market,” Mr. Davis said. “Loggers have sales tax on skidders and parts,” Senator Starr said. “Vermont is not going to look like Vermont. been getting a decent price.” said. “We exempted all that out.” We will have overcrowding, less wildlife habitat. And, he said, some markets are starting to Also, loggers had to buy skidder bridges to We’ll see quite a change over time.” run into scarcity as fewer loggers log. put over streams on logging jobs. They can now contact Tena Starr at He said that, in the past two or three weeks, rent them from the state, or buy one, with the [email protected]

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Enjoying our Kids’ Corner? Please let us know by e-mailing us at [email protected]. ANSWER IS IN SECTION B. Page Twenty-six the Chronicle, August 2, 2017 GARDENS Madame Archetype’s Panoply comes to Newport & BERRIES by Joseph Gresser It was around that time that she fell in love with Newport and, after retiring from environmental NEWPORT — Some may wonder why Sherry engineering, opened The Thrifty Magnolia. Trahan-Perry gave up a life of traveling to exotic, The store was a great success, but it came to or at least warmer, places to return to Newport. a sad end. Others may wonder why her new store, the Ms. Trahan-Perry said she went to work on a second she has run on Main Street, is called very cold morning in 2009 and noticed that some Madame Archetype’s Panoply. toys that she thought her two sons had put away When Ms. Trahan-Perry answers those were near the front door. questions about her new clothing store, it all kind “Then I noticed the sheen on the floor,” she of makes sense. recalled. BLUEBERRY MEADOWS Her shop, which occupies the space that formerly Looking up the street, she saw a city truck U-PICK BLUEBERRIES housed Wider Than The Sky, a children’s book and and realized something was wrong. What was 1590 May Pond Road, Barton toy store, is hard to categorize. Most of her stock is wrong was that her store was filled with 18 $2.75/lb. • 525-3919 clothing, new, but priced well below retail. inches of water mixed with diesel oil and a touch Open Weekends, 9-6. Call for weekday hours. Nevertheless, an attentive shopper can find of raw sewage. almost anything imaginable among her wares. The store and its stock were a total loss. A recent visitor found several cruiser bikes in “You couldn’t get the smell out of the clothes,” the front of the store. Sheets and other bedding Ms. Trahan-Perry said. A Heath Orchard were on display nearby. That was the end of the Thrifty Magnolia and Toward the back of the shop were several U-PICK & PRE-PICKED the beginning of several years of extensive travel P high-end baby strollers, and a variety of toys. for Ms. Trahan-Perry and her two sons, Keegan OPENING Sat., Aug. 5th With Ms. Trahan-Perry acting as a guide the and Trevor. P OPEN DAILY 9-5 • 819-876-2817 visitor discovered a Dyson portable vacuum The family traveled to Jamaica, Orlando, • APPLES • POTTERY • AND MORE! cleaner under a spiffy toy airplane, and tucked away Florida, Los Angeles, California, and the L Up-to-date information: in the farthest recesses of the store, some examples mountains of Guadeloupe. www.vergerheathorchard.com of Royal Doulton china and Waterford crystal. “We did some extensive traveling,” Ms. E E-mail: [email protected] The only thing the collection shares in Trahan-Perry recalled. “For seven or eight years 4950 Rte. 143 (Ch. Heath), Stanstead, QC. 5 Miles north of Stanstead, QC/ Derby Line, VT border. Take Rte. 143 North. After golf course, turn left on Heath Rd. common is that each item is priced far below we were nomads.” S 819-876-2817 • HOURS: 9–5 DAILY. • Ecological Apples what it would fetch in most other store. During the family’s wanderings, Ms. Trahan- Ms. Trahan-Perry’s first store — The Thrifty Perry retained a dream of returning to Newport Magnolia — was located across the street from and opening another shop. her present shop, downstairs in the westernmost “The beauty of the Northeast Kingdom is building of the Spates Block. unparalleled,” she said by way of explanation. U-pick The store’s name was a nod to her origins in She said she felt the city needed what she New Orleans. It also sold inexpensive clothing, could offer, a place to buy good clothing at low although, unlike her present establishment, it prices in a location available to people who don’t BLUEBERRIES & featured second-hand items along with new clothing. have cars. Ms. Trahan-Perry moved to the northern “We always wanted to be on Main Street,” she RASPBERRIES latitudes after she finished college. She was said. working as an environmental engineer based in (Continued on page twenty-seven.) CONTAINERS PROVIDED. 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Ms. Trahan-Perry learned that Many manufacturers have Rick Woodard and Frank Knoll, who contracts with retailers that call for own the building that houses her them to make a certain amount of a store, had been hoping to find particular style. The retailer someone who wanted to open a promises to buy a certain amount of clothing store in the space. the clothing, the rest is kept by the Stocking the store was not a maker in case the style takes off problem for Ms. Trahan-Perry. and stores need more stock in a “I have five storage units in hurry. three states,” she said. “I still A lot of times that leaves the travel all over the U.S. visiting manufacturer with a pile of this vendors. If they have something year’s clothing and no buyer. good to offer I have it shipped to the Ms. Trahan-Perry said companies southern location because shipping don’t want those clothes in high is cheaper.” profile job lot stores, but are okay Ms. Trahan-Perry insists that with them being sold in smaller Keegan Gehrmann and his mother, Sherry Trahan-Perry, in front a rack of vintage her store is not a thrift store. establishments. She does have to clothing at Madame Archetype’s Panoply, their recently opened Newport store. “Everything is new except for cross out barcodes and manufacturers Photo by Joseph Gresser the vintage pieces,” she explained. labels, not to keep customers from Those include clothing from knowing what brand they are buying, Memorial Day and was in a rush to and Trevor approved. such famous designers as Hermes, but to keep unscrupulous people from register its name with the Vermont The name was approved by the Louis Vuitton, and Chanel, she said. buying clothing inexpensively at her Secretary of State. Her first Secretary of State’s office with “We don’t sell seconds or shop and then bringing it in as a thought was “archetype,” but that minutes to spare. irregulars,” Ms. Trahan-Perry said. return at the retailer mentioned on name had already been taken. That didn’t bother Ms. Trahan- She continues to travel in search the label for full price. Her next try — panoply — was Perry who said, “I love stress.” of merchandise for the store, but she Of course, none of that explains also registered to someone else, in What has surprised her is the is no longer buying for one store. As the store’s name. As Ms. Trahan- fact someone in Orleans County. number of people who have thanked she got to know manufacturers, they Perry tells it, she wanted a Time was running out and Ms. her for giving Newport a chance. started to call and ask her to place masculine sounding name because Trahan-Perry was desperate. Ms. Trahan-Perry has a more larger orders. That required her to Keegan, her older son, bought into Thomas Perry, her husband, is a positive view of the city. get commercial credit. the business and will be working graphic designer and works in “It’s not that dire. It’s been Ms. Trahan-Perry said it would there much of the time. branding. He suggested Madame gratifying in so many ways.” be impractical for her to try to sell She needed to open the store by Archetype’s Panoply, and Keegan

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Judge Bent interrupted her to put her under oath. Then Judge Bent asked whether she’d ever had New England Municipal Resource Center (NEMRC) software or NEMRC-generated documents on a pen drive. Cynthia Diaz in Court Tuesday. Photo by Chris Roy On October 17 last year, attorney Paul Gillies, acting on behalf of the select board, sent that the select board had asked for so many The judge had his hands full keeping the Ms. Diaz a written request for her copies of public times. hearing focused on the documents that the town records including “a copy of the thumb drive you And, she said, she doesn’t have it anymore. has been asking for — town records that his have been using in the office to record financial Ms. Diaz was upbeat at Tuesday’s hearing. predecessor, Judge Howard Van Benthuysen, transactions as the town treasurer.” When Selectman Scott Morley was on the ordered Ms. Diaz to turn over to the select board The civil complaint the town filed on witness stand, she embarked on a spirited cross- in February. December 16 also asked that Ms. Diaz be examination that seemed to be aimed at trying to She did turn over a foot-high pile of papers at required to turn over “a thumb drive that she prove that he had come into the job without a lot one hearing. regularly carries back and forth to work which of background on town affairs. But accountant Jeff Graham said after includes her records for several years as treasurer Pivoting, she challenged Mr. Morley on the getting those papers that the missing records the and delinquent tax collector, leaving no copy in town’s right to audit the books of the cemetery town is looking for would fill a six-foot cube. the town office or computer.” fund, which is a nonprofit organization. In April, Judge Bent gave Ms. Diaz and the And forensic auditor Jeff Graham’s affidavit She challenged assertions that her records select board three weeks to produce lists of the attached to the civil complaint notes that she “has were incomplete, that she hadn’t returned the documents that each side has, preferably date refused to provide my firm copies of her records town’s keys, and that she had filed the numbers stamped and numbered. including a thumb drive that she uses to keep off the dial on the town’s safe. Mr. Gillies appeared at a hearing in May with public town records.” In another exchange, she said that now that a list that filled a binder. 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LOWELL GRADED SCHOOL LOWELL, VERMONT NOTICE OF TAX SALE – IRASBURG The resident and non-resident owners, lien holders and mortgagees INVITATION TO BID of lands in the Town of Irasburg, in the County of Orleans and State Notice of Road Closure of Vermont, are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the said PARKING LOT PAVING AND REPAIR Town of Irasburg for the year 2015 and 2016, remain either in whole Town of Charleston or in part unpaid on the following described land and premises in For a copy of bid specifications, contact Theresa Miller at: said town, to wit: Tues., Aug. 8 – Weds., Aug. 9 (802) 334-5847, ext. 2012 PARCEL NO. 3: Hudson Road at Bowen Hill Road North Country Supervisory Union Name of Taxpayer: A short section of Hudson Road will be 121 Duchess Avenue, Suite A RICHARD CARROLL, SR. and KAREN CARROLL closed for culvert replacement, immediately Newport, VT 05855 Description of Property west of Bowen Hill Road. No through traffic [email protected] Being all and the same land and premises as conveyed by Warranty between Bowen Hill Road and Center School Deed dated November 3, 1999 and recorded in Book 44, Page 361 of Sealed bids to be sent to: the Town of Irasburg Land Records from Ruby I. James to Richard Road. Detour via VT Route 105. Bowen Hill Anita Gagner, Principal H. Carroll, Sr., and Karen Carroll. Road accessible from Twin Bridges Road. Lowell Graded School AMOUNT OF TAXES, COLLECTOR’S 52 Gelo Park Road YEAR FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS 2015 $35.58 Lowell, VT 05847 2016 $2,794.72

Notice of Sale by Sealed Bid No later than 2 p.m. local time, on August 18, 2017. PARCEL NO. 6: The Town of Albany Board of Selectmen hereby Name of Taxpayer: request sealed bids for the sale of a Swenson Sand Bids will be opened publicly at the regularly scheduled Board SHIRLEY FORTIN, DAVID FORTIN and DARIN FORTIN Spreader with V-Box Rear Discharge for 6 wheel dump meeting on August 21, 2017. Description of Property Being all and the same land and premises as conveyed by Warranty truck. The unit is stainless steel, with an approximate The Lowell Board of School Directors reserves the right to Deed dated October 11, 1994 and recorded in Book 38, Pages 301- capacity of 4 yards. The sander can be viewed by accept any proposal, which it deems most favorable to the 302 of the Town of Irasburg Land Records from Shirley Fortin to Shirley Fortin, David Fortin and Darin Fortin. contacting the Albany Road Foreman, Paige Horner, at interests of the School District and to reject any and all 802-393-2604. proposals or any portion of any proposal, submitted which, in its AMOUNT OF TAXES, COLLECTOR’S YEAR FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS Bids must be received by the Town of Albany Board at opinion, is not in the best interest of the School District. The 2016 $990.94 school district also reserves the right to waive any technicalities the office of the Albany Town Clerk, P.O. Box 284, in the bid process not in the best interest of the district. PARCEL NO. 7: Albany, VT 05820, no later than 4 p.m., on August Name of Taxpayer: 15th, at which time the bids will be publicly opened RUSSELL HARMON and ROSE MARIE HARMON and read aloud. The select board reserves the right to Description of Property refuse any and all bids. Being all and the same land and premises as conveyed by Warranty PROPOSED STATE RULES Deed dated June 8, 2005 and recorded in Book 54, Pages 578-579 of Dated at Town of Albany, this 19th day of July, 2017. By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication the Town of Irasburg Land Records from Russell Harmon to Russell The select board, Town of Albany in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the Harmon and Rose Marie Harmon. public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for AMOUNT OF TAXES, COLLECTOR’S administrative rules are now also available online at: YEAR FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/. The law requires an agency 2016 $3,181.86 to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members. And such lands and premises will be sold at public auction at the REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Clerk’s Office in the Town of Irasburg, Vermont, a public place To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or within said municipality, on the 16th day of August, 2017, as per the AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION PROVIDERS special needs, please call or write the contact person listed below as following schedule: soon as possible. The North Country Supervisory Union’s ENCORE After School and PARCEL NO. 3 - 10:00 A.M. PARCEL NO. 4 - 10:02 A.M. Summer Programs request proposals from organizations to provide To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), PARCEL NO. 5 - 10:04 A.M. PARCEL NO. 6 - 10:06 A.M. services in the following program areas: obtain copies of proposed rule(s), or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed PARCEL NO. 7 - 10:12 A.M. PARCEL NO. 8 - 10:08 A.M. 1) Gardening, cooking, and healthy food consumption below. You may also submit comments in writing to: the Legislative unless such taxes respectively assessed against the aforesaid Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, 2) Environmental education properties, together with costs, interest and fees, shall have been Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231). 3) Physical and recreational activities previously paid. —————————————————————————————— Judicial Nominating Board Rules. All proposals should focus on positive, hands-on experiences for Pursuant to Title 32, Section 5254 (b), Vermont Statutes Annotated, children in grades K-8. Submissions should include a per hour or per Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P020 an owner of property being sold for taxes may request in writing, not class rate. Organizations should provide liability insurance less than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the tax sale, that only a AGENCY: Judicial Nominating Board documentation, and all employees of service providers must have portion of the property be sold. Such request must clearly identify the fingerprint supported criminal background check clearance. CONCISE SUMMARY: The amendments conform the Judicial portion of the property to be sold, and must be accompanied by a Nominating Board Rules with statutory changes made by the certification from the district environmental commission and the Proposals should be submitted no later than August 18, 2017, to: Legislature in Act 123 of 2015, and comprehensively update and Town of Irasburg zoning administrative officer that the portion restructure the Rules for the first time since they were initially identified may be subdivided and meets the minimum lot size Elizabeth Chambers, ENCORE Program Coordinator adopted in 1987. The rules incorporate the confidentiality and open requirements. In the event that the portion so identified by the North Country Supervisory Union meeting provisions of Act 123, clarify the processes and taxpayer cannot be sold for the amount of the unpaid tax and costs, then the entire property will be sold to pay such unpaid tax and costs. 121 Duchess Avenue, Suite A requirements for applying for a vacant judicial or Public Service Newport, VT 05855 Board position, detail Judicial Nominating Board procedures for Taxpayers are further advised of their right to have a hearing before [email protected] considering and acting upon applications, and reorganize and the Town of Irasburg Board for the Abatement of Taxes in rewrite the language to improve its accessibility to the reader. Equal Opportunity Employer. accordance with the provisions of Title 24, Section 1535, Vermont Statutes Annotated. Taxpayers wishing to have such a hearing must FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: John Evers, Esq., Chair contact the Clerk of the Town of Irasburg to request such a hearing. The NCSU Board of School Directors reserves the right to accept Judicial Nominating Board, 84 Pine Street, 4th Floor, Burlington, VT any proposal, which it deems most favorable to the interests of the 05401. Tel.: 802-861-6666. Fax: 802-861-6070. Dated at the Town of Barton, Vermont, this 11th day of July, 2017. School District and to reject any and all proposals or any portion of E-mail: [email protected]. URL: www.leg.state.vt.us. any proposal, submitted which, in its opinion, is not in the best ATTEST: interest of the School District. The school district also reserves the FOR COPIES: Erik Fitzpatrick, Vermont Legislative Council, 115 State right to waive any technicalities in the bid process not in the best Alan Butler, Tax Collector for the Street, Montpelier, VT 05633-5301. Tel.: 802-828-2231. Town of Irasburg, Vermont interest of the district. Fax: 802-828-2424. E-mail: [email protected]. Page Thirty the Chronicle, August 2, 2017 Service will be on Sunday (Continued from page one.)

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Build a fairy house in Hardwick Friday, August 4, at 10 a.m., the public is invited to join local fairy house builder Stephanie TOWN OF WESTMORE Garguilo at the Hardwick Trails. The Jeudevine Memorial Library and the Hardwick Trails are Transfer Station Attendant teaming up to bring little kids and their adults a morning of fairy house building in the woods. The Westmore Select Board is looking for applicants for Participants should meet at the Hardwick a Transfer Station Attendant at the Westmore Transfer Trails trailhead sign behind Hazen Union School, Station. Please send, or drop-off a letter of interest to: 126 Hazen Union Drive in Hardwick. From there, Ms. Garguilo will lead the group in a walk The Town of Westmore through the woods to collect the necessary items, Attn.: Select Board and then the fairy houses will be built. This 54 Hinton Hill Road event is free and open to the public. For more Orleans, VT 05860 information, please call the library at (802) 472- 5948. — from Jeudevine Memorial Library. For further details, please contact the Westmore Town Clerk at 525-3007.

Asack & Son Tree Farm is hiring for August seedling planting. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FULL TIME ROAD CREW/FOREMAN HELP WANTED: TOWN OF BROWNINGTON The Town of Brownington has an opening for a full-time, Auto Technician/ Job includes seedling grating and machine planting. year-round position of road crew/foreman. Employment will Smoke-free environment. No experience necessary, require weekend and possible overtime during adverse Mechanic will train. Flexible hours, part time or full time. weather. Rate of pay will be determined by experience. Starting pay $11/hour including bonus, or $12 per hour including bonus for previous employees who Applicants must possess a current Class B CDL, and have successfully completed a work season at agree to pre-employment drug testing. Asack & Son. Apply by phone only. Call Bill Interested applicants apply at: Busy GM dealership looking for evenings from 6-8 p.m. at 754-6934. Brownington Town Clerk’s Office Auto Technician/Mechanic. Albany Town Library 622 Schoolhouse Rd. 802-334-5028 Brownington, VT 05860 Top wages paid, based on experience. The small town library in Albany, Vermont, is looking for (802) 754-8401 DelabruereCall Auto Eric or Sales Mike. & Service a motivated individual who would like to be our librarian, 5602 U.S. Route 5, Newport, VT 9-12 hours per week. Ability to manage children, young Applications must be received no later than adult, and adult collections of books and DVDs 4 P.M., on August 11, 2017. required. Willingness to host a storytime and book club desired. Technical skills to assist library patrons, inter- Previous applicants must reapply to be NEWPORT TOWN SCHOOL library lending, Listen-Up-Vermont, and state reporting NEWPORT CENTER, VT required. Open to working with library trustees to obtain considered for this job. state certification. Individual would be an employee of IMMEDIATE VACANCY the Town of Albany, but reports to the library trustees. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER A letter of interest, brief resumé, and references before FOOD SERVICE ASSISTANT August 18th would be appreciated. Please send to: Newport Town School has an immediate opening for a Food Service Marsha Mongeon, Trustee, P.O. Box 513, Albany, [email protected] Assistant. VT 05820-0513, or to: . EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Newport Parks & Recreation Minimum qualifications: Candidates must have a high school diploma. Preference will be given to applicants that have at least one RN/LPN NURSING SUPERVISOR year of experience in school nutrition and/or food preparation, Harbor Master however, training is available for suitable candidates. Strong Position Available Seeking qualified applicants interested in organizational and problem-solving skills are a must. A knowledge Maple Lane is seeking a caring and compassionate individual administrative, supervisory, and maintenance work in of state nutrition regulations and health and safety standards is also to assist us in leading our nursing services. operation of the Newport City Dock, beginning preferred. Come join a team where resident focused care This is a school-session position, up to 6 hours/day, 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 is at the heart of what we do. October 1, 2017. Position requires enforcement duties for Ordinance #114, pertaining to Mooring p.m. Maple Lane offers competitive wages with flexible Management of Public Waters within city limits. Salary & Benefits: Per Support Staff Policy. scheduling, and vast benefit programs with options of Harbormaster is expected to be on site a minimum of medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurances, as well Submit letter of interest, and resumé listing 3 current references to: as a generous time off program, employee funded retirement, 35 hours a week from May-October, including some Wendy Wood, Principal and excellent staffing ratios. evening and weekend hours. In November-April, the position requires 6-8 hours weekly to maintain off- Newport Town Elementary School Qualified applicants may contact: P.O. Box 48 season administrative duties. Knowledge of boats, Rhonda Smith at 802-754-8575. Newport Center VT 05857 Or, apply in person to: docks, or marinas is a must; supervisory experience a or via e-mail: plus. Computer skills required. Application and cover [email protected] Maple Lane Nursing Home letter or resumé due no later than August 16th, Application Deadline: Application screening process will begin 60 Maple Lane 2017. Application and job description available at the immediately and continue until position is filled. Barton, VT 05822 Newport City Clerk’s office, or online at: Criminal Record and Child Abuse/Neglect Registry Checks are NewportRecreation.org. Inquiries contact: Jessica required. Also accepting per diems applications. Booth, Parks & Recreation Director, at (802) 334-6345. Equal Opportunity Employer. Page Thirty-two the Chronicle, August 2, 2017 The program will serve about 80 families (Continued from page one.) The program, which is by pre-registration only, is already filled for the year. All told, it will serve about 80 families. The majority of the people signed up for the Health Care Shares program pick up their bags at the hospital in Newport. But a small group will be served at the Barton clinic. When participants come to pick up their vegetables, they get a chance to taste samples of the week’s featured foods. Last week, that meant sticks of raw vegetables and a cilantro-lime dressing to dip them in. Everyone got a newsletter with recipes and cooking tips, and a manual full of nutrition information and ideas for healthy eating. “Some of these foods are new to people,” Ms. Franklin said. This week’s newsletter headlined the recipe for the cilantro-lime vinaigrette, along with directions for making roasted beets in a mustard sauce. It also took the mystery out of whipping up salad dressings from scratch and cleaning leafy greens. The program was developed by the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC). It seems like an all-round win. Teens in need of a summer job can get work Social worker Lisa Erwin (left) and North Country Hospital chronic care coordinator Holly Converse prepare for the 12 families who will be picking up their Health Care Share CSA bags at the Barton clinic each week. Doctors refer growing vegetables. Hospitals buy shares of the patients to the program who could benefit from access to fresh fruits and vegetables. crop using a community supported agriculture Photo by Elizabeth Trail (CSA) model. Doctors refer people who need better access to fresh food. And corporate sponsors pick up the part of the program portion of the land is to be kept for recreation and in a household. expenses that isn’t covered by selling the CSA other benefits to the community. Participants commit to picking up their bags shares. Getting food from a large organization like of vegetables once a week from July 27 through This year’s sponsors include Community the youth conservation corps has its benefits. October 14. National Bank, NEKCA and the Walmart Thanks to this year’s cool damp weather, The veggies come in reusable shopping bags Foundation. planting was late at the Bluffside Farm CSA, so that are swapped out each week for a fresh bag. Up here, the youth conservation corps is for the first few weeks, the vegetables will be There’s also a table where children can color tilling a field at Bluffside Farm in Newport. The coming in from another VYCC farm in Richmond. while their parents pick up the vegetable shares. Vermont Land Trust bought Bluffside last year. North Country Hospital gets 50 shares from Last week, the kids’ newsletter was all about It’s still looking for a new owner who will keep the conservation corps. The hospital further how to get children to try beets. part of the historic property in agriculture. But divides those shares into small, medium and “The taste of beets is very dependent on under the terms of the land trust’s purchase, a large portions depending on how many people are (Continued on page thirty-three.)

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Zabinski from North Country tried a lot of new vegetables since part of a nonprofit group called “This so much forwards the Hospital, who was at the Barton her daughter started bringing home Upper Kingdom Food Access. work that we’re interested in clinic on Thursday passing out food recipes from the Farm-to-School According to numbers put out by because it includes both food access samples. program at Newport City the Vermont Department of Health, and education,” Ms. Edwards said. “They taste completely different Elementary School. the Northeast Kingdom has the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in to different people,” he said. “I’m always looking for ways to state’s highest rate of “food Newport opened up its kitchen for So the sheet that children were hide more vegetables in our food,” insecure” people — that is, people the volunteers. given to take home included an idea Ms. Converse said with a laugh. who aren’t always sure they’ll be Ms. Edwards and her group find for colorful savory “lollipops” made Mr. Zabinski, she said, really able to put food on the table, or who out on Mondays what food will be in of slices of roasted beets and sweet knows how to eat vegetables. But have to scrimp to afford food. the share. potatoes. There was also a recipe even the registered dietician said The area also has high rates of Volunteers research recipes, and for chocolate beet cupcakes with that he probably doesn’t eat as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and others meet at the church on beet pink frosting. many vegetables as he should. cancer. Thursday mornings to prepare the Here’s a fun fact from the “I do try to have a big green Jane Edwards, one of the food, a process that takes about four children’s newsletter — eating beets salad for lunch every day at the leaders of Upper Kingdom Food hours. makes people’s urine temporarily hospital,” he said. Access, heard one day last year that In the afternoons, volunteers go pink. Putting on a project of this size the VYCC wanted to expand its to the hospital to help hand out the If that isn’t enough of a reason requires a lot of hands on deck. Mr. farm program into a new bags and answer people’s questions to try beets, youngsters get a Zabinski estimates that about 20 to community. about the food. “nutrition passport” that they can 24 people will be involved each Its main farm is at the Monitor “It brought tears to my eyes,” fill up over the growing season by Thursday. Barn in Richmond. Ms. Edwards said. “People stepped checking off and rating new foods as That includes hospital staff and Ms. Edwards suggested Newport up to help, not just from our group they try them. volunteers at the two pickup sites, as a possible location, and within a but from the wider community.” “We’re trying to engage the as well as the community members few weeks VYCC Agricultural Any leftovers go to Cornucopia, whole family,” said Holly Converse, who pack the bags, write the Director Paul Feenan had come to another food-related nonprofit in the Newport, scouted out the Bluffside Newport area. Farm site, and met with hospital contact Elizabeth Trail at officials. [email protected] The hospital agreed to buy 50 Free adult art classes in Barton CSA shares to kick off the program. Greater Barton Arts will offer Teens is underway at the Barton free adult art classes at the Barton library Monday through Friday Memorial Building starting August mornings, August 7 through August 1. 11. Greater Barton Arts will offer an The classes will meet from 4 to 6 advanced class for students from p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays this year’s or last year’s camps. It through August. All are welcome no will emphasize color and painting matter their level of experience. techniques. They will start with the basics of Please contact Adrien Helm at drawing and move to color and [email protected] or 525-3740, paint. for registration information. — Currently Free Art Camp for submitted by Adrien Helm.

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Beginning in January 2017, severely underweight. the northeast, from warmer temperatures to researchers placed radio collars on 60 wild moose Adult cow moose expectedly fared better, with dramatically increased parasite loads and habitat and began tracking their movements. 27 out of 30 moose surviving the winter and fragmentation,” said Mr. Alexander. “It is Moose across the Northeast are increasingly spring period. Fifteen of the 30 adult cow moose important that we understand how much these under stress from a parasite known as winter produced calves this spring, of which ten have factors are affecting our moose population in ticks. The ticks are becoming more prolific as survived thus far. Vermont. Our moose conservation efforts must be spring and fall weather has warmed in recent “We’re still very early on in this study, so it’s based on a strong foundation of science if we are years, causing some moose to collapse from blood too soon to draw any conclusions from these data to understand and address these threats in the loss or die from hypothermia after rubbing their so far,” said Cedric Alexander, Vermont Fish and long term.” insulating hair off in an attempt to rid Wildlife’s lead moose biologist. “We’re pleased Vermont’s moose herd has decreased from an themselves of the parasite. that we were able to successfully radio collar the estimated high of over 5,000 individuals in the Department staff began tracking the moose desired number of moose and that most of the state in the early 2000s to roughly 2,000 today. using the GPS points gathered by the collars and cows have survived thus far. The collars have The majority of the reduction in the number of by visiting moose directly in the field to record been working properly and our field staff have moose was a deliberate effort by biologists to observations. They have been examining moose been afield daily to visit the moose and record bring the herd into better balance with available that have died during the study period to attempt observations.” habitat at a time they were considered to determine cause of death. Staff have also been Department staff plan to capture an overabundant. A single moose can eat over 25 observing whether female moose are successfully additional 35 moose in January 2018. pounds of food a day, and their browsing was reproducing and how well newborn calves are Vermont is the fourth northeastern state to damaging forest ecosystems, harming not only surviving their first few months. partake in such a study — state fish and wildlife their own habitat but also habitats for many Eighteen out of the 30 radio-collared calves agencies in New Hampshire, Maine, and New other wildlife. According to Mr. Alexander, this deliberate reduction in the herd through hunting may have also helped Vermont’s moose stave off the worst effects of winter ticks, as they have increasingly Clan of the Hawk to host powwow become a problem in recent years. The Clan of the Hawk will host an intertribal will be a naming ceremony on Sunday morning. “Winter ticks spread more rapidly when powwow on Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and Sunday afternoon will feature Abenaki language moose are overabundant,” said Mr. Alexander. 6, on the tribal grounds on Route 58 in presentations and the fourth annual pet parade “Although we decreased Vermont’s moose herd to Evansville, three miles east of the village of (all animals are welcome). There will be prizes reduce the impacts of moose on the landscape, it Orleans.Admission to the grounds and parking for all. may have also contributed to the much lower are both free. All weekend the powwow will There are reasonable rates for vendors and rates of winter ticks on Vermont’s moose than feature native dancers, drummers, storytellers, overnight campers. Bring a teepee and camp for biologists had observed on moose in New basket weaving, and dream catcher classes. free. Come in traditional dress, and get a free Hampshire or Maine.” The Koasek Band of Thetford will host a 50/50 ticket. The study will run through 2019. For more chicken barbecue on Saturday. Chief Nathan For more information, call 754-2817, or e-mail information, go to www.vtfishandwildlife.com. — Pero will prepare a fish fry on Sunday. There [email protected]. — from Clan of the Hawk. from Fish and Wildlife.

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