Category: Andy Kirkaldy

ANwSU residents to vote on $600,000 VUHS roof loan

Posted on May 9, 2013 |

• Vergennes
• Aldermen
• ANwSU
• vergennes
• VUHS

By Andy Kirkaldy

VERGENNES — Addison Northwest Supervisory Union voters on Tuesday will decide whether to support a proposal put forth by the Vergennes Union High School board for a five-year, $600,000 loan to put a new roof on the school’s leaky classroom wing and auditorium.

If voters back the $600,000 loan, payments would add about $10 of annual taxes per $100,000 of assessed home value, according to an estimate offered in April by ANwSU business manager Kathy Cannon. Those who are eligible for prebates would not pay the full amount of that increase.

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Vergennes to vote on a new police station on Tuesday

Posted on May 9, 2013 |

• Vergennes
• Featured

By Andy Kirkaldy

VERGENNES — Vergennes voters will decide on Tuesday whether to approve the city council’s proposed $1.45 million bond to fund a new 4,611-square-foot police station on North Main Street.

Residents may cast their ballots on the proposed bond at the city’s Green Street fire station from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. They will also join other Addison Northwest Supervisory Union voters on the 14th in deciding a $600,000 loan proposal to fund new roofing for Vergennes Union High School (see related story).

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Area track and field teams vie at major invitational

Posted on May 9, 2013 |

• Sports
• Track and Field

By Andy Kirkaldy

BURLINGTON — Athletes from the Middlebury, Vergennes and Mount Abraham union high school track teams scored points with top-six finishes on this past Friday and Saturday at the Burlington Invitational, a major midseason meet that drew dozen of teams.

The Essex boys’ and girls’ teams prevailed overall. The Tiger girls were 14th among 21 teams that managed to score points, followed by the Eagles in 16th and the Commodores in 18th.

The Tiger boys were 16th, and the VUHS boys were 18th among 27 teams that scored at least one top-six finish.

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Addison fights crime wave with neighborhood watch

Posted on May 6, 2013 |

• Addison
• drug crime
• Featured

By Andy Kirkaldy

ADDISON — When Addison resident Michele Kelly and her husband, Charles, moved to Vermont from Philadelphia a number of years ago, they didn’t foresee themselves in the middle of a crime wave.

But their home is just one of nearly a dozen in Addison — several in the past couple weeks — and many more in surrounding towns from which burglars in the past year have stolen, usually during daylight hours, items like jewelry, cameras, watches, computers, prescription drugs and family heirlooms.

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