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Monkton selectboard OKs pipeline agreement with Vt. Gas

Posted on June 17, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



MONKTON — The Monkton selectboard unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding with Vermont Gas Systems at a hastily scheduled special meeting on Wednesday night. The board had rejected an earlier draft of the agreement in a 3-2 decision just nine days earlier.

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Half of Monkton Central School teachers plan to leave amid conflict with administration

Posted on June 17, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



MONKTON — Nine teachers at the Monkton Central School have chosen to leave the school, according to Monkton Central parents and the school's May newsletter. Along with an administrative decision not to rehire a 10th, that would shrink the elementary school’s 18-person faculty by over 50 percent. 

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New Sheldon Museum exhibit offers a view into the history of dairy

Posted on June 17, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Ask some young whippersnapper where milk comes from, and you might get the wiseacre response, “from a carton.”

Well, a new exhibit at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History aims to set the record straight on all things dairy, covering the past 200 years. On display at the Middlebury museum through Aug. 4, “From Dairy to Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England” features a mesmerizing mélange of milk memorabilia that would make Old McDonald’s jaw drop.

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Returning student learns the value of a high school diploma

Posted on June 17, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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LEICESTER — Daryle Stone didn’t have much use for school — or at least that’s what he thought 14 years ago as an Otter Valley Union High School freshman.

He wasn’t learning things as easily as his classmates, some of whom teased him for being “slow.”

“I’m the type of person if you made fun of me, there was a confrontation,” Stone, now 28,  recalled.

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Vergennes mayor and others 'jailed' in city Rotary fundraiser

Posted on June 17, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — After being jailed on Park Street for crimes ranging from being loud — that would be Vergennes City Manager Mel Hawley — to impersonating a mayor and allegedly misbehaving in high school — that would be city mayor Bill Benton — a number of Vergennes-area residents on Thursday tapped friends and family members for more than $3,000 to be bailed out.

Those funds were turned over to the Vergennes Rotary Club, which in turn planned to donate the cash to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes.

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Plan forged for new Middlebury town offices, gym with college help

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College has pledged $5.5 million toward a $7.5 million plan that would result in a new downtown municipal building and a new gym that would be located near the Memorial Sports Center off Mary Hogan Drive.

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Deal in the works to acquire and raze Middlebury's Lazarus Building

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury and Middlebury College are working on a deal that would result in the purchase of the so-called Lazarus Building at 20 Main St., a structure that would be razed to provide a wider and safer Printer’s Alley link between the downtown and the Marble Works complex.

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Mount Abe sends off graduates but urges them to return

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School bid farewell to the 122 seniors in the class of 2013 on Saturday, with a diverse group of speakers urging the newly minted graduates to have fun, make the world a better place, remain inquisitive and to return to Vermont someday.

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High school comes to a happy finish for 111 VUHS grads

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School celebrated the many achievements of the 111 members of the class of 2013 in a moving commencement ceremony this past Friday evening at the high school gymnasium. 

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Silver Lake is 'One of Creation's Quiet Retreats'

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By M. Dickey Drysdale



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Friday, May 24, was Lennie Waltrip Day at Silver Lake in Leicester, but it came as a surprise to him.

For three months of the year, Lennie is lord of a domain that is the antithesis of the 21st-century world. Silver Lake, a mile-long jewel of the Green Mountains, lies 600 feet above popular Lake Dunmore. Surrounded on all sides by forests, broken only by a grassy picnic area on the northern end, Silver Lake seems a place apart, a little miracle of solitude, even as it graciously hosts those who seek it out.

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