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Organizer of county events leaves chamber

Posted on April 14, 2014 |
By Evan Johnson



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ADDISON COUNTY — Despite the departure from the Addison County Chamber of Commerce of organizer and promoter Marguerite Senecal this month, the signature events she coordinated — including the Vergennes Day celebration — will still go on.

Chamber President Andrew Mayer said French Heritage Day, the Bristol Harvest Festival and the Better L8 Than Never Car Show, all of which Senecal had a hand in, are still on the calendar as well.

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The Outside Story: Coyotes' language of yips and howls still keeps secrets

Posted on April 7, 2014 |
By BRIAN R. MITCHELL



As the sunset colors fade from purple to black, the forest is dimly illuminated by a first-quarter moon. An eerie sound breaks the calm. It is not the long, low, slow howling of wolves that can be heard further north, but the group yip-howl of coyotes: short howls that often rise and fall in pitch, punctuated with staccato yips, yaps and barks.

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Lawmakers debate shorelands protection, GMO labeling bills

Posted on April 2, 2014 |
By Zach Despart



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BRIDPORT — Two issues dominated the conversation at the annual legislative luncheon Monday in Bridport: bills in the Legislature to mandate the labeling of genetically modified foods and pollution regulations affecting Lake Champlain.

Farmers, community members and legislators packed the Bridport Community Hall Monday for the luncheon devoted to agriculture issues. State Reps. Harvey Smith, R-New Haven, Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, and Will Stevens, I-Shoreham, were on hand to discuss agricultural issues facing Addison County farmers.

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Buck kill is up 8 percent in 2013 Vermont deer season

Posted on March 31, 2014 |
By Addison Independent



MONTPELIER — Hunters took 14,107 deer during Vermont’s four deer hunting seasons in 2013, according to a report on last year’s hunting success released March 20 by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. 

The number of legal bucks with at least two points on one antler totaled 8,831, up 8 percent from the year before.

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Man sentenced for sexual assault on a girl

Posted on March 31, 2014 |
By Addison Independent



 MIDDLEBURY — A former Vergennes man will serve a prison term of 20 years to life in connection with the sexual assault of a 12-year-old Addison County girl back in November of 2012.

Addison County Superior Court Judge Robert Mello passed the sentence on Leo Pratt, 46, following an extensive hearing at the Addison County Courthouse on Thursday, March 27. Pratt was convicted of the charge of aggravated sexual assault in October, a trial that Judge Mello presided over in Addison County Superior Court, criminal division, last October.

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Healthcare expert forecasts bumpy road in Vermont

Posted on March 31, 2014 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Green Mountain Care Board member Dr. Allan Ramsay urged Addison County’s medical community to be patient as the state transitions to a new health care system that he acknowledged will be fraught with change and challenges.

“One of the things I’ve learned intensely over the past two years is that change is very hard,” Ramsay said at Porter Medical Center’s annual meeting last week. “It is very hard to change the system.”

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Bobolink Project seeks help protecting nesting habitat on farms

Posted on March 31, 2014 |
By Addison Independent



BURLINGTON — Songbird populations have been declining in recent years due to threats to their nesting habitat. To help reverse that trend, the Bobolink Project uses community contributions to compensate farmers for adopting haying practices that protect nesting habitats of grassland birds.

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United Way to miss goal for fund drive

Posted on March 26, 2014 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — United Way of Addison County leaders will spend the coming weeks reminding potential donors that there’s still time to contribute to the organization’s 2013 fund drive, which as of last week had yielded around $622,000 — approximately $100,000 shy of the $725,000 goal announced last September.

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Hospital chief Jim Daily sets retirement date

Posted on March 26, 2014 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center Chief Executive Officer James L. Daily has confirmed he will retire from his position by early 2016, after what will have been 32 years at the helm of the county’s top health care organization that he has helped transform. Daily, 59, confirmed his planned departure through a recent letter to Porter employees.

He has pledged to participate actively in the leadership transition.

The Addison Independent next week will run a longer article on Daily’s time at the medical center.

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Stone Soup Summit connects farms and schools

Posted on March 26, 2014 |
By Addison County



MIDDLEBURY — An event this week will help draw closer connections between local farms and the school children they feed.

On March 27, the central Champlain Valley’s school community will come together for a day of inspiration, celebration and networking at the fifth annual Stone Soup Summit. Students, teachers, parents, administrators, farmers, food service managers, nurses and community volunteers will share stories of challenge and triumph and work in diverse groups to address the issues facing farm-to-school programs and school nutrition in our region.

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