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Mt. Abe softball blanks Tigers, 3-0; but MUHS rebounds to beat Rice

Posted on May 6, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — The Mount Abraham Union High School softball team snapped what had been a four-game losing streak by blanking host Middlebury, 3-0, on Thursday, but the Tigers bounced back on Saturday to defeat visiting Rice, 10-5.

The Eagles’ win came behind the three-hit pitching of sophomore Haley Davis and boosted their record to a misleading 2-4.

Three of Mount Abe’s losses have been either one or two runs to Division I teams with winning records, BFA-St. Albans, Colchester, and Spaulding.

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Two men plead innocent to multiple charges in heroin bust

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — A Philadelphia man and a Burlington man both pleaded innocent on Tuesday in Addison Superior Court’s Criminal Division to heroin sales and trafficking charges that stemmed from their Monday arrest in Ferrisburgh by Vergennes police, a bust made with assistance from Vermont State and Bristol police.

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City sets forum on $1.45 million police HQ proposal

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen have scheduled a public informational meeting for this coming Tuesday on their proposed $1.45 million bond to fund a new 4,611-square-foot police station on North Main Street.

City residents will vote on May 14 on the police station bond proposal and also join residents in neighboring towns to decide on a $600,000 loan proposal to fund new roofing for Vergennes Union High School (see related story).

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VUHS to host information meeting on repair proposal

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School board will host an informational meeting on Monday on its proposal for a five-year, $600,000 loan to put a new roof on the school’s leaky classroom wing and auditorium. Monday’s forum will begin at 6 p.m. in the VUHS library.

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City to move carefully in considering smoking ban

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vergennes Mayor Bill Benton said this week city officials would take a measured approach to a request by Vergennes Union High School 8th-graders to make the city’s pool and recreation areas and its central green off limits to smoking.

Benton said several decisions have to be made, including whether to treat the pool and recreation area differently than the city green, whether to address public smoking with laws enforceable with fines or with less strict policies, and whether to act and how quickly to do so.

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VUHS baseball follows recipe for success in win over Essex

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School baseball team on Tuesday followed the formula that allowed the Commodores to win the 2012 Division I title: pitching, defense and timely hitting.

The result was the program’s first win, 2-1, that anyone at VUHS on a sunny spring afternoon could recall over Metro Conference and Division I power Essex.

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Local softball teams run into a rough patch

Posted on May 2, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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ADDISON COUNTY — Things did not go well for area teams in recent high school softball action, as Mount Abraham and Otter Valley each lost a pair of games while Middlebury and Vergennes dropped a game apiece.

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Police make big heroin bust at Route 7 traffic stop

Posted on April 30, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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FERRISBURGH — Vergennes police on Tuesday with the assistance of Vermont State and Bristol police arrested two men at a Ferrisburgh traffic stop and filed multiple drug charges against them, including sale and trafficking of heroin on one of the two and sale of heroin and possession of marijuana on the other.

According to a press release from Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel, Todd Green, 23, of Philadelphia was cited for both sale and trafficking of heroin and for providing false information to a police officer.

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Local police and their dogs to make cameos on TV show

Posted on April 22, 2013 |
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Local police and their dogs to make cameos on TV show

Posted on April 22, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — Two Vergennes Police Department members, one Vermont State Police trooper from the New Haven barracks and two police canines from those agencies are set to make cameos on this week’s episode of “Golden Boy,” a CBS show that debuted in February.

Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel and his dog, Akido; Vermont State Police Sgt. Eugene Duplissis and his canine, Argus; and Vergennes detective Jason Ouellette were all invited to New York City in October to film brief appearances in the show.

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