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Top-seeded Otter Valley falls in quarterfinal match

Posted on October 26, 2009 |

• Sports

By Andy Kirkaldy

BRANDON — The finest Otter Valley Union High School field hockey season in a decade came to a stunning conclusion on Friday, when No. 8 Woodstock knocked off the top-seeded Otters, 2-1, in a double-overtime Division II quarterfinal in Brandon.

Blake Wardwell’s second goal of the game and fourth in two playoff contests came with 15 seconds left in the final overtime period and gave the 8-8 Wasps the win. Wardwell also scored twice in Woodstock’s 2-0 first-round win on Wednesday over No. 9 Mount Abraham. The Wasps advanced to a semifinal date with No. 4 Milton.

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On the auction block: Vermont's culled dairy cows head out of state to slaughter

Posted on October 26, 2009 |

• Addison County
• agriculture
• dairy

By Kathryn Flagg

Editor’s note: In the first of two installments looking at slaughterhouses in Vermont, we examine what happens to the bulk of Vermont’s dairy cows — animals that are typically shipped out of state to be slaughtered. This Thursday, we’ll turn our attention to the growing market for local meats, the challenges facing smaller meat producers and slaughterhouses, and the creative solutions some farmers are exploring to make beef production more profitable.

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Bristol conservationists look to protect bat habitat

Posted on October 26, 2009 |

• Bristol
• environment

By Kathryn Flagg

BRISTOL — Conservationists in Bristol are looking to protect a 194-acre parcel of land in the northwest corner of town, which they say provides a large chunk of habitat for the Indiana bat, Vermont’s only federally endangered mammal.

The parcel would also extend the scope of the Waterworks, a 664-acre park conserved in the 1990s by the Watershed Center, a Bristol non-profit that converted the land from the one-time Vergennes City reservoir into a popular recreational and wildlife refuge on Plank Street.

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Snow geese population at Addison refuge plummets

Posted on October 26, 2009 |

• Addison
• environment

By Andy Kirkaldy

ADDISON — The numbers of snow geese making annual stops at Addison’s Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area have dropped dramatically in the past decade, according to a Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department official who staffs the site.

This fall, the count of snow geese at the Route 17 location peaked at about 2,500, said department wildlife biologist David Sausville. That’s down from roughly 7,500 in 2006 and 2007 and from an estimated 20,000 in the year 2000.

Instead, Sausville said, more snow geese are congregating in corn stands in southern Canada and northern Vermont and New York.

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Crossing Delancey hits the Vergennes stage

The Little City Players opened the second half of their 2009 season last Thursday with a production of Susan Sandler’s “Crossing Delancey.” The show, which was popularized in a 1988 movie starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert, tells the story of a New York City single whose life is complicated by her grandmother and the matchmaker who team up to find her a husband. The Vergennes production features Hannah Weisman, Janet Stambolian, Anna Sun, King Milne and Glen Eastman. “Crossing Delancey” continues Oct. 29-31 at the Vergennes Opera House.

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Bridge update: Public meetings slated for Tuesday and Wednesday

ADDISON —The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and Vermont Agency of Transportation this week will host two public information meetings regarding available transportation alternatives for crossing Lake Champlain and the plan to repair and reopen the Lake Champlain Bridge spanning from Chimney Point in Addison, Vt., to Crown Point, N.Y.

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