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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
ADDISON COUNTY — Join Addison Independent reporters online tonight for live coverage of Town Meeting Day 2010.
We'll be collecting town meeting results from around the county, and we'd love for you to join us in our first-ever online chat as we discuss the issues on the ballot in your town. To participate in the live chat, visit www.addisonindependent.com between 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. tonight, March 2, and click on the chat in the upper right corner of the Web site.
You can also visit the Web site any time today to set up an e-mail reminder for the event.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
ADDISON — The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) today announced that the Lake Champlain Bridge demolition has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 28, at 10 a.m. due to the formation of ice on Lake Champlain and severely cold temperatures which have delayed work to prepare the bridge for demolition.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
ADDISON — New York and Vermont transportation authorities have tentatively set Wednesday, Dec. 23, as the date on which an Idaho-based company will demolish the Champlain Bridge.
Details were still being firmed up on Friday morning.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
MIDDLEBURY — Sources this morning confirmed that Vermont Gov. James Douglas will announce today that he will not seek reelection in 2010.
The Middlebury Republican, who is serving his fourth term as governor, will make the announcement at an 11 a.m. press conference from the governor’s ceremonial office at the Statehouse.
Douglas has served 36 years in public office. A Massachusetts native, he was first elected to the Vermont House in 1972, the year he graduated from Middlebury College.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
By KATHRYN FLAGG
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After weeks of pleading their case for struggling dairymen in Washington, D.C., Vermont’s Congressional delegation finally made a breakthrough Friday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the Obama administration is taking immediate action to boost prices paid to dairy farmers.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
By ANDY KIRKALDY
ADDISON — As of Friday, traffic on the Crown Point Bridge, which links Addison with Crown Point, N.Y., will be reduced to one lane to allow New York Department of Transportation workers to perform repairs to the span’s steel trusses.
NYDOT spokesman Peter Van Keuren said traffic will be limited to one lane on the bridge until at least the end of August while work is done on its structure, and a 40-ton weight limit will also be imposed on trucks.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
By JOHN FLOWERS, KATHRYN FLAGG and LEE KAHRS
ADDISON COUNTY — The streams and rivers in Addison County are normally postcard-perfect images of tranquility this time of the year. But this summer’s unrelenting rain transformed many local waterways into proverbial freight trains on Wednesday, sending water careening into roads, bridges and backyards in a swath from Leicester and Brandon north and east to Granville and Hancock.
Emergency crews responded in at least eight area towns. Flooding compromised at least two bridges — one on Route 53 just south of Lake Dunmore and the other on Lower Plains Road in East Middlebury — prompting their closure. Numerous roads in southern Addison County and in the White River Valley were closed because of flooding.
As the Addison Independent went to press, authorities had closed 18 roads and streets due to floodwaters. They included:
• Route 53 along Lake Dunmore in Salisbury and Leicester.
• Olde Town Road in Ripton.
• Fernville Road, the Leicester-Whiting Road, Fern Lake Road and Shaddock Road in Leicester.
• Silver Lake Road, Dutton Brook Road, Flora White Road, and Carlisle Hill Road in Goshen.
• Three Mile Bridge Road in Middlebury and portions of Lower Plains Road (which was evacuated) in East Middlebury.
• Route 125 between Route 116 and Route 100 in East Middlebury, Ripton and Hancock.
• Newton Thompson Road, Wheeler Road, Union Street, Barlow Avenue, and Forest Dale Road in Brandon.
Authorities were still assessing flood damage Wednesday afternoon, when the floodwaters appeared to have crested and even receded in some areas. But officials cautioned that conditions could quickly worsen in the event of new rainfall. Showers were forecast through this Saturday.
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Addison County Independent: Breaking News
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — For four long months, hundreds of volunteers and investigators wielding state-of-the-art equipment had combed through Middlebury in an effort to find missing Middlebury College student Nicholas Garza.
That search came to a cathartic end in the Otter Creek in downtown Middlebury on Tuesday with the chance discovery of Garza’s body by the very man who had coordinated the massive search since the college freshman disappeared on campus during the evening of Feb. 5.
“There’s no feeling of exhilaration,” said Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley, who spotted Garza’s remains submerged within a mound of floating wood and other debris that had gathered on the Marble Works side of the Otter Creek, near the base of the falls.
“There’s no celebration here. This is a tragic story with a tragic ending.”
An autopsy was scheduled to be performed at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington on Wednesday to confirm the identity of the deceased and cause of death. But a wallet found within clothing on the remains yielded Garza’s ID, leaving authorities little doubt that the long search for Nick had ended with the anticipated but dreaded results.
The discovery ended a longsuffering vigil for the Garza family, including Nick’s mother, Natalie, and his younger brother, Damon, who had relocated to Middlebury from their native Albuquerque, N.M., to monitor, and participate in, the search.
“On May 27, 2008, our beautiful Nicholas was recovered from Otter Creek,” reads a statement posted by the family on the Web site nicholasgarza.org. “We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness with the loss of our beloved boy. We thank everyone for their prayers and support.”
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