Category: Middlebury

Lecture on modern Catholicism to tackle tough questions

Posted on February 11, 2013 |

• Middlebury
• Middlebury

By Addison Independent

MIDDLEBURY — Robert A. Orsi, a distinguished historian of American Catholicism, will give a lecture, “Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned: Children, the Sacrament of Penance, and the Making of 20th-Century Catholicism,” at Middlebury College on Thursday, February 28. The lecture will be held at McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216, from 12:30-1:30 p.m., and the public is invited to attend. Feel free to bring your lunch.

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Middlebury Police Log: Police separate arguing couple

Posted on February 7, 2013 |

• Crime Logs
• Middlebury

By Addison Independent

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police on Feb. 3 assisted a Court Street resident who said that her boyfriend had broken things in their apartment and had thrown himself down the stairs. The man agreed to leave the apartment and was taken by police to a relative’s home. The woman reported later that the man was texting her. Police said they found him on Court Street and took him back to his relative’s home.

In other action last week, Middlebury police:

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Career center to educate 'Road Scholars' at new Transportation Academy

Posted on January 31, 2013 |

• Middlebury
• Career Center
• Middlebury

By John Flowers

MIDDLEBURY — The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center has put into gear a new program aimed at getting young adults on the road to good-paying jobs in the transportation industry.

It’s called the “Transportation Academy,” geared to students 18 and over who are willing to take evening classes en route to a certificate that will qualify them for a variety of jobs planning, maintaining and traveling on state and local roads.

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Middlebury fire department may be asked to accept fewer tax dollars

Posted on January 24, 2013 |

• Middlebury
• budget
• Middlebury
• Middlebury Fire Department

By John Flowers

MIDDLEBURY — Town officials want to know if the Middlebury Fire Department would be willing to receive $72,000 less into its equipment savings account next year as a way of relieving stress on a tight 2013-14 municipal budget.

It was around two decades ago that Middlebury began the process of earmarking two cents on its tax rate each year to raise money for major fire equipment purchases in the future. It is a policy that has allowed Middlebury to forgo floating bond issues for the purchase of fire apparatus such as pumpers and ladder trucks.

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