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Middlebury College, town announce plan to build new municipal building

Posted on June 12, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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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Cornwall hires Hackett to serve as new principal

Posted on June 10, 2013 |
By John Flowers



CORNWALL — Susan M. Hackett, a Rutland County educator and past principal of the Plymouth and Sunderland elementary schools, has been named the new top administrator of Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School.

“I’m thrilled,” Hackett, 53, said in reaction to accepting the job, extended to her by the Cornwall School Board Thursday evening after a thorough interview.

“I think the school is a wonderful match for me.”

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Invasive fly species threatens berry crop

Posted on June 10, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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ADDISON COUNTY — Berry growers across New England are on high alert for a new invasive insect species this year.

“We’ve been hearing all about it for the last few years,” said Jon Satz, whose Wood’s Market Garden in Brandon sells berries, along with many other vegetables, herbs and flowers.

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Cornwall student serves up cookbook to help children in Africa

Posted on June 10, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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CORNWALL — When 9-year-old Sarah Holmes did some research on Africa earlier this year, she was astonished with some of the things she read.

“I looked up a video on Africa that showed how kids there are not being treated as well as they are here,” she said. “There are sicknesses there that are preventable, but they don’t have enough money.”

So Sarah, a 3rd-grade student at Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School, brought the dilemma to her young classmates and teacher Janne Giles to see what they could do.

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Bristol elementary students create poetry in the park

Posted on June 10, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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Editor’s note: This piece was submitted by Michele Lowy, literacy specialist at Bristol Elementary School.

BRISTOL — On Thursday, May 30, a beautiful spring day full of the promise of summer, Bristol Elementary School students were out on the town green celebrating their first annual Poetry in the Park Festival. Students from kindergarten through sixth grade spread tarps, blankets and quilts on the grass and listened as their schoolmates went up to the bandstand to read and recite poetry.

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Monkton board rejects natural gas pipeline agreement

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



MONKTON — Once again, it’s back to the drawing board for Vermont Gas Systems and the town of Monkton.

After several hours of impassioned discussion at a special meeting on Monday night, Monkton’s selectboard rejected a Memorandum of Understanding negotiated between VGS officials and Monkton Selectmen John Phillips and Stephen Pilcher by a 3-2 vote, with Phillips and Pilcher dissenting. Around 70 citizens attended the meeting.

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Middlebury eyes options for replacing downtown RR bridges

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — An engineering firm within the next few weeks will recommend a “preferred” method of dealing with Middlebury’s two deteriorating downtown railroad overpasses, a project that will be selected from a list of six options ranging from doing nothing to replacing the spans with a concrete tunnel at a cost of around $17.4 million.

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Conley has overseen many changes in his short tenure at ACSU

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union School Board set some guarded expectations for Gail Conley when they lured him out of retirement in 2011 for what was expected to be a one-year stint as superintendent: Help the seven-town district stay the course during a tumultuous period marked by two lawsuits, a fractured administrative office and negotiations for a new teachers’ contract.

It’s safe to say Conley greatly exceeded most school board members’ expectations.

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Economic pressures push ambulance service to expand

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Three years after moving into its new, 11,860-square-foot headquarters off South Street, the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association (MVAA) is now ready to expand its billing, dispatching and education outreach services. A major goal is to generate more revenues to stay financially solvent in the face of a still-tough economy and health care reform efforts that could present new budget challenges for all of Vermont’s emergency response organizations.

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Longtime VUES educator to step down — but return

Posted on June 6, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — After 49 years of teaching, 44 of those either full- or part-time at Vergennes Union Elementary School, Marilyn Woods will retire this month at the age of 72.

Well, sort of.  

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