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Trash volume falls, tipping fees to rise

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The sluggish economy is slowing the local waste stream, which is good news — unless you are the Addison County Solid Waste Management District (ACSWMD), which during the past year laid off two workers and must hike some its fees in 2010 in light of declining trash revenues.

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Salisbury school votes 'no' on Leicester merger

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By Andrea Suozzo



SALISBURY/LEICESTER — The Salisbury Community School board has voted to end discussions of consolidation between Leicester and Salisbury’s elementary schools.

The Nov. 12 decision brought a definitive end to Leicester’s latest bid to solve ongoing concerns about the future of its K-6 elementary school. Faced with an aging building and rising maintenance costs, as well as a relatively small student population, Leicester has been pursuing consolidation options for several years.

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Lost dog is home for the holidays

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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LINCOLN — On Oct. 15, Lila the cocker spaniel pulled her leash free from where it was tied to a tree branch near the Lueders-Dumont home in Lincoln. She vanished into the Green Mountain National Forest, dragging the leash and a broken piece of branch behind her. Despite persistent searching by her family, neighbors and friends far into the night, Lila did not return.

It took more than a month for the family — Jim Dumont, Karen Lueders and their children Jessica, Tim and Adrienne Lueders-Dumont — to find out what had happened to their beloved pet.

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Carrara pit expansion gets OK

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By John Flowers



EAST MIDDLEBURY — While the Middlebury Development Review Board (DRB) continues to gather testimony on the Fenn gravel pit proposal on Route 116 (see related story), the board recently issued a conditional use permit to a less controversial pit proposal off the east side of School House Hill Road.

The property in question is owned by J.P. Carrara & Sons. Plans call for Carrara to extend its existing 20.4-acre sand and gravel pit by 8.5 acres onto an abutting parcel the company owns to the east. The balance of the land, 30.5 acres, is to be left as undisturbed woods.

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Fenn gravel plan draws more fire

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Development Review Board (DRB) on Monday continued its evaluation of the hotly contested Fenn gravel pit off Route 116, with testimony focusing on truck traffic and dust the project could generate.

Neighbors of the proposed pit again packed the Ilsley Library conference room to dispute the development team’s contentions that trucks could safely merge and coexist with current traffic on Route 116, and that the project site — if properly maintained — would not generate enough dust and environmental impurities to pose a hardship to surrounding residents.

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Mt. Abe kids collect hometown stories

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — Trekking up and down Main Street, a handful of Mount Abraham Union High School students set out on their own version of “Mythbusters,” eager to investigate claims of the supernatural on South Mountain, the ridge that rises south of the heart of Bristol village.

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Bristol pens proposed standards for gravel pits

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — The Bristol Planning Commission last week wrapped up the first draft of a new zoning ordinance that planners hope will go before voters in March. The ordinance, if approved by voters, would regulate the mining of earth resources in the town, governing the hot-button issue extracting gravel, among other natural resources.

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Junior leads Eagle flock on paper squad

Posted on November 26, 2009 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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ADDISON COUNTY — The Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ soccer team reasserted itself this fall as the best among local sides, compiling a 9-6-1 record that included a Division II home playoff victory. Among their fine individual efforts was that of the 2009 Addison Independent Player of the Year, junior central midfielder Phil McCormick.

Coach Mike Corey’s Eagles had plenty of depth that is reflected in this edition of the Addison Independent Boys’ Soccer All-Star Team: In all, six Eagles earned recognition here.

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Local charities gear up for the holidays

Posted on November 23, 2009 |
By John Flowers



ADDISON COUNTY — Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) and other local nonprofits will spend the coming weeks working to lift people’s holiday spirits with some food and gifts they might not otherwise get in this tough economy.

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Feds scrutinize dairy farms in sweep for illegal aliens

Posted on November 23, 2009 |
By Kathryn Flagg



ADDISON COUNTY — Some Vermont dairy farmers found themselves in the crosshairs of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday when the agency rolled out its largest ever audit of employers in a crackdown on businesses shirking laws about employing foreign workers.

Reports Friday from the Addison County Migrant Workers Coalition and other farmers indicated that perhaps only four or five farms in the state would be issued subpoenas for employment records, though initial reports about the audits placed that number much higher.

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