Archive
June 15th, 2009
By ANDY KIRKALDY
POULTNEY — For three years, talented Otter Valley Union High School softball teams have been knocking on the door of a Division II title. In 2006, four-time defending champion Lyndon slammed it shut on the Otters, and in 2007 and 2008 lower seeds knocked OV out of the tournament.
On Friday night before a big crowd of mostly Brandon-Pittsford area fans at the Poultney Recreation Center, the Otters walked through that door and evicted the Vikings in a nerve-wracking D-II final, 3-2.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — A combined total of four buses at Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) and Elderly Services Inc. will be replaced by the end of this year, thanks to a cut of $3.9 million in federal stimulus money.
The two local nonprofits were among a list of nine Vermont public transit providers that will share in the federal grant awards, confirmed last week by the state’s congressional delegation.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — Dairy farmers around the country are rallying behind a price stabilization program that some dairy farmers hope could help reduce volatility in bulk milk prices, which plummeted this winter to a low of roughly $10 per hundredweight, $7 or $8 below the cost of production for Vermont farmers.
But with milk prices projected to rebound somewhat this fall, advocates for the new program say farmers need to move fast before rising bulk prices dissuade some dairymen from pushing for change.
June 11th
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Angus Barstow was in need of a haircut. But for the Middlebury youth, a haircut was easier said than done.
He, along with fellow Middlebury Union High School senior Eli Cohen and 10 other Vermont students, was traveling high in the Himalayas of Northern India, into a region called Ladakh wedged between China and Pakistan.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Baseball
D-II Final at UVM
6/15 #1 Mt. Abe vs. #2 Lyndon - 6 p.m.
Softball
D-II Final at Poultney
6/12 or 13 #1 OV vs. #2 Harwood or #3 Lyndon - TBD
Track & Field
6/13 NE Championship Meet at Burlington
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Vergennes Police Chief Mike Lowe was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday by City Manager Mel Hawley while Vermont State Police investigate Lowe for driving under the influence of prescription drugs.
Hawley took that action following Sunday afternoon’s incident in which Lowe, 50, was processed by VSP for DUI after the police cruiser he was operating struck a parked car on School Street in a slow-speed accident.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen continue to look at ways to avert — or at least minimize — a boost in municipal water and sewer rates that may be needed to offset increasing expenses at a time of declining use of those services.
Town officials recently revealed the potential need to increase Middlebury’s water rate by around 20 percent — from the current $2.85 per 1,000 gallons used to $3.43 — in order to meet greater water department expenses in fiscal year 2010.
By JOHN FLOWERS
PANTON — It’s part of a longstanding ritual for military recruits: Saying goodbye to mom before more than two months of boot camp in a faraway state.
But Vermont Army National Guard enlistee David Hawkins won’t be saying goodbye to his mom when he ships out for Fort Jackson in South Carolina in August; he’ll be saying “see you there.”
That’s because David, 18, and his mom Paula, 40, have both signed up for eight-year stints in the Guard last year and will soon head out for basic training.
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