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Keewaydin seeking ecology camp funds

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By John Flowers



SALISBURY — Boosters of the Keewaydin Environmental Education Center (KEEC) have begun raising money in an effort to maximize the number of area students able to attend the camp each year.

Based in Salisbury along Lake Dunmore, KEEC “offers hands-on, experiential learning” in environmental studies. Drawing from the natural surroundings, KEEC leaders incorporate history, science, math, language arts, geology and physical education into a series of investigations that integrate with the school curriculums.

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Aldermen talk budget; eye solar deal, lighting of falls

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — At their May 28 meeting, Vergennes aldermen began consideration of a proposed city spending plan for next year.

In other business, aldermen:

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Sheldon Museum educates the public on dairy history

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



MIDDLEBURY — June is Dairy Month, and to celebrate, the Sheldon Museum will present a series of entertaining programs the weekend of June 14. The festivities are taking place in conjunction with the Sheldon’s current exhibit, “From Dairy to Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England.”

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Orb Weaver Farm joins Vermont Land Trust

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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MONKTON — Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack, owners of Orb Weaver Farm, are legends in the Vermont cheese world. Soon after buying their first Jerseys in 1981, they quickly realized they needed to do something different to survive in the dairy business. Before long, they decided to make cheese and they haven’t looked back.

Fifteen generations of cows later, their farmhouse cheeses continually win national and international awards.

Susman and Pollack recently conserved 102 acres of their Monkton farm with the Vermont Land Trust.

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Blue Spruce Farm's 100kW wind turbine now online

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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BRIDPORT — As dairy farms attempt to maximize their assets, one dairy in Addison County has found a way to put some new “energy” into its business.

Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, the first dairy farm in Vermont to put power from cow manure on the electric grid, is now capturing energy from the wind as well. Green Mountain Power has installed a Vermont-built Northern Power 100 kilowatt wind turbine at the Route 22A spread run by the Audet family.

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Habitat for Humanity builds first of four homes in Cornwall

Posted on June 3, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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CORNWALL — Angela McCluskey had grown tired of seeing her son Jonathan turn in for the night on the living room couch in their small apartment while she and her daughter Caitlin got to sleep in beds.

So McCluskey took what she believed was a long shot: She applied to become the owner of one of four new Habitat for Humanity homes to be built within a 13-acre subdivision off Cornwall’s Delong Road.

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Police, public works costs drive $1.83 million city budget draft

Posted on June 3, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — The Vergennes City Council last week got its first look at a draft 2013-2014 city budget, one that City Manager Mel Hawley prepared and said could mean the second increase since 2008 in the tax rate devoted solely to paying for municipal services.

Aldermen will make the final decision on the budget and the municipal portion of the tax rate by the end of June. That portion of the tax rate does not support school spending.

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Teacher who founded Starksboro art program is retiring

Posted on June 3, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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STARKSBORO — After more than two decades at Robinson Elementary School, art teacher Vera Ryersbach is retiring this month. She leaves quite a legacy behind — when Ryersbach came on board as a volunteer in 1989, Robinson was the last school in the Addison Northeast district that did not have an art teacher.

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Opera review: Tchaikovsky and Tatiana triumph at Town Hall Tenth

Posted on June 3, 2013 |
By Nancy Maxwell



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Opera review by NANCY MAXWELL

Note to self regarding reviewing Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of “Eugene Onegin”: Do NOT gush. Note to self: Forget note to self.

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GMO fight continues in Vermont

Posted on June 3, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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VERMONT — As summer heats up and the growing season is in full swing, groups around Vermont are stepping up their activism on an agricultural issue that is stirring up controversy around the state and around the world: genetically modified crops.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have deliberately modified DNA — scientists insert genetic material from other species to create a modified organism with different hormones, proteins or chemicals meant to do anything from repel insects to withstanding certain climates.

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