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ACSU hires Oregon man to serve as new superintendent

Posted on March 25, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Peter L. Burrows, 42-year-old principal of Willamette High School in Eugene, Ore., will officially take the administrative helm of the Addison Central Supervisory Union on July 1.

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Lincoln students step on stage, step back in time with Shakespeare play

Posted on March 25, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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LINCOLN — Renaissance Italy came to life last week at the Lincoln Community School with a performance of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” this year’s annual play put on by the school’s fifth- and sixth-grade students.

“It’s a really fun play,” said sixth-grader Lizzie Nault, shortly before the first performance on Wednesday. She played Hero, one of the play’s female protagonists.

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MUMS quartet has a head for numbers

Posted on March 25, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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RANDOLPH — A quartet of Middlebury Union Middle School students kept their thinking caps on Saturday, March 16, and earned fourth place as a team in the 30th Vermont State MathCounts competition.

One of them — eighth-grader Ronan Howlett — won the individual championship and will represent Vermont at the national contest.

His teammates were seventh-graders Greta Hardy-Mittell of East Middlebury, Laura Whitely of Weybridge and Julian Schmitt of Middlebury. Their coach is Diane Guertin.

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Mothers Without Borders' benefit work in Zambia to be presented in New Haven

Posted on March 25, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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NEW HAVEN — Jo LaFontaine will present an Armchair Traveler program at New Haven Community Library on Thursday, March 28, at 7 p.m. LaFontaine will share slides and the story of her work with Mothers Without Borders in Zambia.

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Lawmakers ready for tax hike votes; expect pain at pump to help fix roads

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By John Flowers



BRISTOL — Local lawmakers were poised this week to vote on several tax initiatives aimed at improving the state’s road and bridges and backfilling federal dollars for health care and other services.

Lawmakers commented on those challenges at Monday’s legislative breakfast at the Bristol American Legion Hall. Chief among those tax proposals: A plan to raise the state’s gasoline tax by 2 percent this year and next year.

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Vergennes to review smaller police station proposal

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen on Tuesday will look at a proposal for a smaller new North Main Street police station, and City Manager Mel Hawley said this week that they could act quickly to schedule another vote on the issue.

City residents on Town Meeting Day rejected a $1.85 million bond to pay for a 5,940-square-foot station on the 0.75-acre former Vergennes Auto Sales parcel by a slim margin, 302-292.

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Middlebury firefighters move into refurbished quarters

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury firefighter Donald Patterson started taking pictures of the fire department’s Seymour Street headquarters last April when construction crews began the multi-million-dollar process of renovating and expanding it.

Eleven months, a lot of hard work and more than 1,000 Patterson photographs later, the Seymour Street fire station is substantially complete and now occupied by a grateful Middlebury Fire Department.

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Huddleston book captures the eternal in everyday landscapes

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By John S. McCright



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ADDISON COUNTY — Weybridge photographer John Huddleston has released a book of compelling images that capture the quiet grandeur of the Champlain Valley’s landscape. “Healing Ground: Walking the Farms of Vermont” features more than 60 photos that illuminate what is unique in ordinary things, and what is beautiful in the places that we drive past without noticing.

“They are everyday things, not idealized images of Vermont, not sunsets,” Huddleston said.

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Principal of an Oregon high school hired as ACSU superintendent

Posted on March 20, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union Board on Wednesday evening offered the job of superintendent to Peter Burrows, principal of Willamette High School in Eugene, Ore., and Burrows accepted.

Burrows will replace Superintendent Gail Conley, who will retire at the end of June.

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Shoreham OKs WhistlePig distillery, appeal looms

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Shoreham Zoning Board of Adjustment has given its approval to WhistlePig’s proposal to establish a whiskey distillery at its property off Quiet Valley Road.

But WhistlePig founder and owner Raj Bhatka cannot take that zoning board approval to the bank — at least not yet. George Gross and Barbara Wilson, owners of the nearby Solar Haven Farm LLC, have already served notice they will appeal the zoning board’s decision to the Vermont Environmental Court.

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