WALTHAM — Ralph Jackman, who recently resigned after 62 years with the Vergennes Volunteer Fire Department, 55 as its chief, died at his Waltham home on Saturday morning.
There was so much going on in Addison County that it seemed absurd to limit ourselves to only 10 big stories for 2009.
The polls were tight and Middlebury Republican James Douglas didn’t have a clear read on his prospects for the governorship when voting closed on election day in November of 2002.
Enthusiasm for green energy burned bright in 2009 as more local groups embraced alternative means for heating their homes and businesses.
The story of Vergennes Police Chief Mike Lowe’s legal problems first broke in early June. When off-duty, he drove a police cruiser into a parked car in a low-speed accident.
Less than one year ago, the phrase “swine flu” was used only in connection with a scare back in the ’70s, or not at all by those too young to remember it.
2009 marked the end of an era in Vergennes — the Ralph Jackman era.
Middlebury’s much-discussed $16 million Cross Street Bridge project moved from the drawing board to actual construction in 2009.
Addison County dairy farmers in 2009 weathered the worst milk prices in 30 years. For months on end dairy farmers lost money on every gallon of milk they produced.
Seems like almost everyone was tightening their belts in 2009 as Vermont felt the impact of the national economic slide that many began calling the “Great Recession.”