MONDAY EDITION ADDISON COUNTY Vol.INDEPENDENT 31 No. 17 Middlebury, Vermont Monday, September 9, 2019 32 Pages $1.00 Singer goes beyond folk • Canadian Catherine MacLellan will make an emotional connection at THT. See Arts Beat, Page 10. Governor lauds fab François • Singer, actor, writer and more – François Clemmons earns Gov.’s Award for Excellence. See Page 19. Go get ’em! MEMBERS OF THE Vergennes Union High School girls’ varsity soccer team are pretty enthusiastic after being released from Stores shuffled team picture duty during a preseason photo shoot Wednesday. Look for a more staid photo of the Commodores and all the other local high school teams in our Fall Sports Report in Thursday’s edition. Independent photo/Steve James on Main Street • In Middlebury, Bundle moves to 51 Main and a Marquis expands its role Grants boost ANWSD resale shop takes its place. See Page 3. with nonprofit screenings afterschool programs By JOHN FLOWERS than holding his own, thanks By ANDY KIRKALDY All but $40,000 of the funding MIDDLEBURY — to a formula that includes VERGENNES — Two grants to ANWSD came in the form of Competing with movie working with local businesses awarded this summer totaling the district’s third 21st Century mega-plexes for viewers and nonprofits to secure small $999,600 will allow preservation Community Learning Centers can be challenging for small independent films that shine of Addison Northwest School (21C) grant, a federal award community cinemas like a light on — and generate District afterschool and summer administered through the Vermont Middlebury’s Marquis. But revenue for — environmental programming and expansion of Agency of Education. All three owner Ben Wells is more (See Marquis, Page 21) its K-6 offerings into Addison grants have been for comparable and Ferrisburgh central schools. (See Grants, Page 20) Police find gun used in killing; link it to stepson Monkton man facing weapons charges Local rivals By CHRISTOPHER ROSS James Vooris of the VSP Major BURLINGTON — Vermont Crimes Unit in an affadavit filed work overtime State Police have arrested Kory with the U.S. District Court in • Regulation wasn’t enough Lee George, 31, of Monkton Burlington Wednesday. when the Mount Abraham for firearms violation charges, David Auclair, 45, a longtime including possession of the gun Monkton resident, was shot field hockey team visited police say was used to kill his and killed in the parking lot of Middlebury. See Page 16. stepfather, David Auclair. the LaPlatte Headwaters Town “A VSP investigation Forest, off Gilman Road in has established that George Hinesburg, at approximately possessed the Beretta which was 9:45 p.m. on July 11, police say. DAVID AUCLAIR WAS shot and killed in the parking lot of the La used to kill his stepfather, David A little over an hour later, Platte Headwaters Town Forest in Hinesburg. Police charged his stepson Kory George with possession of the gun that killed him. Auclair,” said Det. Sergeant (See Arrest, Page 22) Independent photo/Christopher Ross PAGE 2 — Addison Independent, Monday, September 9, 2019 MANY USEFUL HERBS, including the pink Joe Pye weed shown here, grow along the Starksboro Creekside Trail off Route 116. On Saturday morning, herbalist Margi Gregory will lead a Guided Herb Walk along the trail, explaining the various uses of 10 of the herbs that grow wild there. Photo courtesy of Margi Gregory Starksboro Herb Trail taking shape By CHRISTOPHER ROSS Saturday, Sept. 14, and last about The Green Mountain Club STARKSBORO — The an hour. categorizes the Starksboro Starksboro Creekside Trail, which “Margi will identify Creekside Trail as an “easy” makes a 1.5-mile loop around communities of herbs on the walk, so participants should not a short stretch of Lewis Creek trail and explain how each may expect to encounter any issues off Route 116, has be safely used,” with the terrain. been getting some said Jan McCleery, “We will be sticking to the special attention “I thought it a member of main trail,” Gregory said. lately. would be fun, the Starksboro Preparation for the Guided “There are many interesting Conservation Herb Walk has been Phase One wild, medicinal and hopefully Commission, of what Gregory expects will herbs growing helpful to the whose members not be a two- to three-year project, along the (trail),” community to only help maintain she said. Initial plans to create wrote Starksboro the Starksboro an herb map for the Starksboro resident and begin a project Creekside Trail, Herb Trail have been setaside for practicing clinical to identify the but have also now. Instead, the group plans to herbalist Margi herbs, mark contributed install markers next to examples Gregory in a Front them, learn how significantly to the of the targeted herbs and will post Porch Forum post to harvest them herb trail project. on the kiosk a laminated sheet last March. “I Before the walk instructing walkers on how to thought it would be sustainably, begins, organizers find the herbs. fun, interesting and learn basic plan to distribute Gregory is a member of the hopefully helpful to uses and safety information American Herbalist Guild and the community to considerations about 10 different has been studying and working begin a project to and create an herbs — burdock, with herbs for years. Through identify the herbs, educational dandelion, elder, her practice, Spring Mountain mark them, learn goldenrod, Herbs of Vermont, she offers how to harvest tool for the hawthorn, Joe Pye herbal consultations, classes them sustainably, community to weed, nettles, red and apprenticeships. She also learn basic use.” clover, viburnum operates an apothecary garden uses and safety — clinical herbalist and willow — and sells herb-related products. considerations Margi Gregory including their Guided Herb Walk participants and create an locations around should meet at the Starksboro educational tool for the trail. Creekside Trail kiosk, at Cota the community to use.” There will also be an exhibit Ballfield, at 9:55 a.m. on Six months and several of herb books and other herbal Saturday. volunteer meetings later, an materials at the Starksboro The use of sunscreen and bug inaugural Guided Herb Walk has Library around the time of the spray is strongly encouraged. been scheduled for this coming event. For more information, email weekend, during celebrations “Because so many of the herbs Margi Gregory at margigregory@ of the 150th anniversary of the are located near the beginning email.com. Starksboro Baptist Church. of the trail, we will probably Reach Christopher The walk will begin at the walk for no more than 1/4 mile,” Ross at christopherr@ trailhead kiosk at 9:55 a.m. on Gregory told the Independent. addisonindependent.com. Addison Independent, Monday, September 9, 2019 — PAGE 3 Buy Again Alley, Bundle to move Stores settle on Midd’s Main Street By JOHN FLOWERS that was interested in being full- MIDDLEBURY — Main time and permanent, we would Street Middlebury will welcome vacate with basically no notice,” a new enterprise later this month Duguay said. “We want these when the Buy Again Alley store downtown vacancies filled. We moves from Frog Hollow into the don’t want to take up a space 60 Main St. storefront recently that somebody else wants to be vacated by Bundle, a pop-up in on a full-time basis. We feel events center launched this past downtown is best when it’s filled April. with full-time tenants.” Meanwhile, Bundle will Bundle was scheduled to debut continue its sporadic workshops, at 51 Main St. this past Friday, classes and product showcases in Sept. 6, with a swing dance class. a new, nearby venue: 51 Main St., Bundle has hosted many events which most recently hosted The since last spring. It is being subsi- Rough Cut Restaurant. Middle- dized through part of a state grant bury College holds Middlebury won to JUTTA MISKA, LEFT, and Jeannette Gyukeri bring some clothing from the “Buy Again Alley” the lease on the market the down- business in Middlebury’s Frog Hollow into the retail space at 60 Main St., the former home of the 51 Main St. space “We want these town during the rail Bundle pop-up events center. Bundle has moved to 51 Main St., most recently occupied by The downtown Rough Cut Restaurant. and has agreed to bridges project. Independent photo/Steve James host Bundle for vacancies filled. Workers spent the same rent the last week sprucing main drag of Addison County’s I have not figured out how this for customers. She noted the We don’t want to shire town. And merchants in happens, to be honest.” walk down Mill Street to Frog venture paid at its take up a space up the 60 Main former location, St. location for today’s retail atmosphere need to Having an extra 600 square Hollow Alley is steep and can be according to Better that somebody Buy Again Alley look for every advantage. feet of space at 60 Main St. will slippery during the winter. Middlebury Part- else wants to be to occupy as soon “Each day is different form the allow Miska to put out more That said, Miska has nothing nership Executive in on a full-time as Sept. 16. Jutta next,” she said with her trade- inventory. She has no plans at but good things to say about her Director Karen basis. We feel Miska, owner of mark melodious German accent. this point to branch out into new previous spot in Frog Hollow. Duguay. Buy Again Alley, “You can think you’re going to products. “I was really happy in my downtown is best have a good day, and you get a In addition to the increased space; it served me well,” she Matthew Cur- when it’s filled is thrilled to secure ran, the college’s a coveted Main bad day; you think it’ll be a bad foot traffic, Miska said the new said.