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Vermont Gas unveils five pipeline routes to N.Y. mill

Posted on April 11, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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SHOREHAM — Vermont Gas this week unveiled five potential routes for its proposed natural gas pipeline that would extend from Middlebury to Ticonderoga, N.Y., a plan that at Monday’s legislative breakfast in Shoreham continued to draw criticism from area residents who oppose the prospect of seeing the project running through their respective properties.

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Middlebury to vote Wednesday on $6.4 million school budget

Posted on April 8, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury voters on Wednesday, April 10, will meet at Mary Hogan Elementary School to decide a proposed 2013-2014 spending plan of $6,418,788, representing a 4.46-percent increase. The budget reflects, among other things, a growing commitment to science, technology, engineering and math programs.

But thanks in part to a student enrollment that’s expected to grow by 10 next fall (to a total of around 405), the property tax-affecting portion of the budget is expected to rise by only 0.82 percent, according to school administrators.

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Local Rotarians trot the globe to help others

Posted on April 8, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Rotary Club is well known for its good works in and around Addison County’s shire town.

But members of the group are now increasingly making a philanthropic impact in all corners of the world.

Two of those members, Judy Brown and Jason Schnoor, recently returned from trips to India and Ghana, respectively, during which they helped further Rotary International’s efforts to eradicate polio and provide clean water to rural villagers.

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Free county health care clinic gets a new leader

Posted on April 8, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — The Open Door Clinic has opened its doors to a new executive director — Heidi Sulis, who takes the helm of the county’s free medical center during a period of unprecedented growth.

Sulis takes over for former Director Julie Arel, who recently stepped down to become director of New England Rural Health Roundtable, a nonprofit that among other things identifies, researches and advocates for rural health issues.

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New Shoreham town office nears completion

Posted on April 8, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Work on Shoreham’s new town office building is proceeding nicely, and the 2,000-square-foot structure should be ready to accommodate municipal staff and records before the end of this spring.

“It’s going well,” Shoreham Selectman Sandy Witherell said on Thursday of construction at the worksite on the town green, near the current town office building.

“I will be very happy when it’s done.”

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Residents tell Vermont Gas to slow down on pipeline push

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Gas Systems officials on Monday asked for public feedback on their proposed “Phase II” pipeline from Middlebury to the International Paper Co. mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y.

What those officials heard, from a crowd of around 70 people who attended the informational meeting at Middlebury’s municipal gym, could be distilled into two words: “Slow down.”

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Cost to fix Middlebury town gym higher than expected

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectboard members got somewhat of a jolt at their meeting last Tuesday when they received an estimate that it would cost $525,000 to bring the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems of the municipal gym up to modern working standards, an amount that is just $50,000 short of the $575,000 sum that officials had hoped would suffice in making the well-used building completely up to speed.

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Methane gas project puts some Salisbury folks on edge

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By John Flowers



SALISBURY — While the Addison Natural Gas Project, a proposed 41-mile extension of natural gas pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury and Vergennes, grabs local headlines, a separate utility venture linked to that is gathering some momentum and generating some concerns among people in Salisbury.

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Students use flesh-eating beetles to make keepsakes from skulls

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — When students enrolled in the Addison Central Supervisory Union’s Diversified Occupations program were struggling a few years ago to pay for their annual science field trip to Braddock Bay near Rochester, N.Y., they turned to a beetle.

And we are not talking about a Volkswagen Beetle.

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Cornwall principal leaving after seven years

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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BRIDPORT — Denise Goodnow recalled taking over the principalship of Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School during the fall of 2006 and feeling a special kinship with the dozen-or-so freshly minted kindergartners who walked with her through the doors for this first time.

So it seems almost fitting that those kindergartners and Goodnow should matriculate at the same time.

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