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Dairy farm adds wind power to its energy portfolio

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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BRIDPORT — A wind turbine is up and running at the Audets’ Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, the second in Addison County that was constructed especially for the Green Mountain Power’s Wind Power Program. The turbine, which sits atop a 121-foot-tall tower just off Route 22A, generates around 165,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, about enough to power 23 homes. It also will save around 191,807 lbs. of carbon emissions annually.

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Tinkerer takes hobby to a new level with electronics fix-it shop

Posted on March 11, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — As a child, Joshua Chamberlain loved to take mechanical things apart and put them back together again. He wanted to see what made them tick and make sure they kept ticking when he had reassembled them.

Now 41, Chamberlain is still taking stuff apart — only he is now getting paid for it. He has just opened The Laptop Shop on Middlebury’s Merchants Row, where he works out bugs in computers and a variety of other electronics for customers who might otherwise have to make the trek to Rutland or Chittenden counties.

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Post office hours being reduced in rural communities

Posted on January 10, 2013 |
By John S. McCright



ADDISON COUNTY — As U.S. Postal Service officials implement a plan to wring costs out of rural post offices, some local residents have a last opportunity to affect how service will be cut in their towns.

USPS officials will host meetings in Monkton, Orwell, Shoreham, Hancock and Forestdale in coming weeks that will allow residents to give input on four options for cutting costs at their respective post offices — three of which include shutting the facilities down.

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Troopers investigate Bridport burglaries

Posted on November 16, 2012 |
By Addison Independent



BRIDPORT — Vermont State Police are investigating two burglaries reported off Route 125 in Bridport on Thursday, Nov. 15.

In one case, the culprit(s) forced open a rear door at the residence to get in and steal approximately $1,000 in jewelry. The thieves also initially broke a window in an unsuccessful attempt to get into the home. Damage to the door and window of the home is estimated at around $500.

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Bridport dairy farmer: "I feel like I was forced out"

Posted on October 8, 2012 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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ADDISON COUNTY — Leonard Barrett can remember when he moved to his East Street farm in Bridport in 1970 with his parents and his brother. There were eight dairy farms on the street.

Today, his is the last one. By the end of next week, there won’t be any.

Across the nation, a confluence of factors is putting family-owned dairies — long the backbone of many rural American towns — out of business.

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Around the region: Old Cornwall school needs roof repairs

Posted on July 5, 2012 |
By John Flowers



CORNWALL — Only a few months after settling the longstanding question of what to do with the old Lavalley store building (it will be removed), Cornwall citizens must now consider the future of another historic structure: School house No. 5, located on South Bingham Street.

The old school building, currently unused, needs roof repairs, according to Cornwall Road Foreman Stu Johnson.

Officials are considering whether shingles, slate or some other material should be used in repairing or replacing the roof.

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