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Mount Abe budget passes on third vote

Posted on June 9, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



BRISTOL -- Mount Abraham Union High School has a budget for the coming school year.

Voters in the five-town area on Tuesday approved a $13,947,738 spending plan for fiscal year 2015-2016; the tally was 852 in favor and 597 opposed.

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Gov. Shumlin says he won't run for re-election

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin today announced that he will not seek another term as the chief executive of the Green Mountain State.

In a press conference in the Statehouse, Shumlin said that by the end of his third term in January 2017 he will have completed what he set out to do as governor. He outlined what he said were his accomplishments as governor.

Here is the text of the speech Shumlin delivered:

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Ideas sought to reduce impacts of Middlebury RR tunnel project

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials last week identified next April as the start-up time for the estimated $50 million reconstruction of the community’s two downtown rail overpasses, a project they again stressed would be messy, noisy and inconvenient during up to three years of work that will ultimately yield additional green space near St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and a concrete tunnel that will someday accommodate double-stack train cars.

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College nears deal to conserve Battell lands

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By John Flowers



RIPTON — Middlebury College, the Vermont Land Trust and the U.S. Forest Service are putting the final touches on an intricate deal that will allow the institution to consolidate and permanently conserve approximately 2,100 acres of land in and around the college’s Bread Loaf campus in Ripton.

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Students put 'maker' spin on science

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By Evan Johnson



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MONKTON — Fifth-grader George Collette’s entreaty to come see the science experiment waiting outside the Monkton Central School gymnasium this past Thursday afternoon was hard to turn down.

“Have you ever seen a marshmallow fly?” he asked.

Outside on the pavement, he and his team scrambled to ready their contraption. Using a bicycle pump, a length of PVC tubing and lots of tape, they used air pressure from the pump to launch marshmallows, as well as their favorite projectiles — wadded tissues soaked in water.

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Mount Abe principal to take a new job

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By John Flowers



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BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School Principal Gaynell Lyman is leaving her position after only one year in order to accept a job with Advanced Learning Partnerships (ALP), a consulting agency that helps schools nationwide adopt technology plans and teaching innovations.

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Garden expert offers tips on planting a new flower bed

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By Judith Irven



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We have all seen pictures in garden magazines of stunning flower beds full of gorgeous plants, and these same magazines often have useful design suggestions about how to choose and combine these plants in pleasing ways.

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Whiskey distillery plans addition

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The owners of the Appalachian Gap Distillery are proposing to triple its 2,000-square-foot headquarters at 88 Mainelli Road in Middlebury’s industrial park. The addition would give the growing business additional warehouse space to house its whiskey barrels, more room for grain storage and a larger tasting room, and would allow for installation of a bottling line.

The additional space will help the distillery ramp up production of its growing line of whiskey, rum and tequila — spirits that are growing in popularity.

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McKernon restored Vermont buildings to look their best

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



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BRANDON — When most people die they leave a house and get a headstone to mark themselves in remembrance. Jack McKernon left hundreds of buildings all over Vermont: farmhouses, carriage houses, camps and barns, all meticulously redeemed to their former glory, or better.

McKernon died at his home in Rochester on May 28 at the age of 78. A man with a deep love for New England architecture and the finer things in life, McKernon changed the way Brandon looked, for the better as well.

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Ferrisburgh dairy farm benefits from energy efficiency

Posted on June 8, 2015 |
By JJ VANDETTE



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FERRISBURGH — Brace Farm Inc. off Little Chicago Road in Ferrisburgh is slated for $94,000 in lifetime savings — a direct result of making energy efficiency business improvements by working with Reed’s Equipment in Vergennes and Efficiency Vermont. The 58,300 kWh in annual electricity savings showed a direct cost benefit in the first year, saving the farm $7,600 by implementing a series of energy efficiency projects.

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