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May 7th, 2009
By Karl Lindholm
I saw The Bird before he was The Bird.
Here’s the story:
Many years ago (early 1970s), my good friend Jim was the basketball coach at Auburn High outside Worcester, Mass. Home in New England for a visit, I stopped to visit Jim and Candy on the night of the big hoop tilt between Auburn and Algonquin Regional High.
May 4th
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — A major effort aimed at upgrading access to, and enjoyment of, the Otter Creek Falls in downtown Middlebury received a huge boost on Thursday in the form of a $240,000 federal grant that will bankroll the vast majority of the project that borders the Marble Works Business District.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — An Addison County-driven traveling art show celebrating Lake Champlain’s quadricentennial is now set and ready to open at its first venue, Shelburne Farms, where it will be on display from May 5 to 25.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
MIDDLEBURY — It’s safe to say no one knew exactly what to expect from the Middlebury Union High School boys’ lacrosse team this year after 16 seniors, many of them three-year starters, graduated from the 2008 squad.
April 30th
By ANDY KIRKALDY
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ lacrosse team on Tuesday rode a big first half to its third straight one-sided win, 12-4, over visiting Essex.
By JOHN FLOWERS
EAST MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen are poised to release $60,000 from the town’s conservation fund to protect a 16-acre parcel bordering the Middlebury River, land that environmental advocates say could be critical in managing future flood events as well as in assuring access to swimmers, hikers and anglers.
ADDISON COUNTY — As reported cases of the swine influenza cropped up around the country, Vermont remained unaffected at midweek by the airborne, contagious disease that reached epidemic proportions in Mexico. Still, local and state officials said they were on the lookout for the disease should it spread, and one local high school stepped up precautions after a student trip returned from south of the border last week.
