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2013 Legislative Wrap: Lawmakers hail productive session

Posted on May 20, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MONTPELIER — Addison County lawmakers generally gave good marks to a now-concluded 2013 legislative session that produced a General Fund budget of almost $1.4 billion that did not require the raising of new broad-based tax money, but did produce higher fees at the pump to leverage additional federal aid to repair the state’s roads, bridges and culverts.

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Shumlin grateful for strides in education

Posted on May 20, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin on Thursday gave high marks to the 2013 General Assembly, a body that he said granted 90 percent of his education priorities and completed one of the most productive sessions “in years.”

“It was a very productive session,” Shumlin said during a phone interview with the Addison Independent. “I thought they got more tough things done than I’ve seen a Legislature get done in a first half of a biennium in many, many years. There is a lot to celebrate with Vermonters.”

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Vergennes gallery blends old and new: Art world veterans return to New England roots to follow dream

Posted on May 20, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — Not too long after artists and Vergennes residents Cat Cutillo and Ross Sheehan met in New York City, they knew they wanted a space that would serve as a gallery and base of operations for her photography and his work in several artistic media.

Cutillo, 33, a New Hampshire native and Tulane University graduate, and Sheehan, 35, a Salisbury native, Syracuse University and 1996 Middlebury Union High School graduate, didn’t fulfill that goal in their first several years working in the art world together in New York this past decade.

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Bristol's WalkOver shows ‘Connections’

Posted on May 20, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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BRISTOL — A number of artists in the area will be presenting their views on the subject of “Connections” in a group show at the WalkOver Gallery in Bristol. An opening reception for the show, which runs through June 28, is on Friday, May 24, from 5-7:30 p.m. at the gallery, 15 Main St.

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Willowell’s outdoor preschool wraps up a successful pilot year

Posted on May 20, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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STARKSBORO — An unusual nature-and-arts-based preschool program is wrapping up a successful pilot year.

The Wren’s Nest Preschool is a project of the Willowell Foundation and run by a mother-daughter team of educators. Katie and Karen McEachen of Bristol co-teach the weekly sessions, which are currently run out of Camp Common Ground in Starksboro.

“Willowell has been doing nature education for high schoolers for a decade, and they thought that a preschool would be a really nice sister program,” Katie McEachen said in a recent interview.

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Middlebury selectmen endorse natural gas pipeline

Posted on May 16, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — A majority of the Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday threw its enthusiastic support behind the proposed extension of a natural gas pipeline into town, citing the need for a cheaper fuel source to both reduce residents’ heating bills and boost local businesses.

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City backs $1.45 millon police station bond

Posted on May 16, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vergennes voters on Tuesday backed, 296-186, the city council’s proposed $1.45 million bond to fund a new 4,611-square-foot police station on a North Main Street site between the railroad crossing and Kennedy Brothers. The small lot once was home to Vergennes Auto Sales.

City officials said they expect work to begin on the project in September, with a target completion date early in 2014.

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County sees increase in sexting cases

Posted on May 16, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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ADDISON COUNTY — Cell phones can serve as a vital public safety link between a child and a parent.

But as some Addison County families are learning, cell phones can also be used as a tool for producing and sending naked images from one teen to another, photos that once out of the sender’s hands can cause them torment in school and come back to haunt them later in life.

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College protesters push trustees to divest from weapons, global warming

Posted on May 16, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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MIDDLEBURY — Several dozen Middlebury College students marked the last day of spring semester classes with a protest outside of the administrative buildings at Old Chapel that lasted through Friday night and into the next day, serenading the board of trustees’ May meeting with a barrage of speeches, chants and acoustic guitar songs.

Pizza was served, and points were made.

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Preserving a legacy: Group seeks to restore old Quarry Hill School

Posted on May 16, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — It’s been 59 years since classes were in session at the former Quarry Hill School on Case Street, but if you listen really closely, you can almost make out the echoes of the daily roll call bouncing off the now-bare plaster walls in that single room.

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