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the Chronicle THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF ORLEANS COUNTY TWO SECTIONS, 56 PAGES VOLUME 44, NUMBER 18 MAY 3, 2017 ONE DOLLAR by Elizabeth Trail ALBANY — Father and son Christian and Clark Katzenbach are hoping to earn a living from a vein of gravel on their 203-acre property on Grigg Road. Christian Katzenbach has spent most of his life as a logger, and it’s time for a change, he said. And 18-year-old Clark just bought a truck and is keen to go into business with his dad. That puts them at odds with their neighbors, some who fear for their own livelihoods, and others who worry about living near a gravel pit — about the noise, the traffic, the dust, or just the look of the thing. Albany has no zoning, Selectman Chris Jacobs said at an Act 250 hearing held at the Albany Community School in April to consider the Katzenbachs’ application for a permit to open a three-acre gravel pit on the land (Continued on page thirty-two.) Bridge work underway in Barton. 3 Dailey library seeks room to grow. 10 by Elizabeth Trail BARTON — Dave’s Rubbish is back on track to pick up trash in the town of Barton. Over the past two weeks, owner Dave Giroux has turned in all of the paperwork the select board had been asking for since last fall. The board voted to revoke his right to pick up trash in the Barton Solid Waste Management District at a hearing on April 3. Mr. Giroux appealed the decision on April 17, the day the ban was to take effect. On Monday night, he and his wife, Marcie, came to the select board meeting to hear the decision. “You guys got the numbers to us,” Chair Bob Croteau said. “You guys did good. You seem to have done everything we asked.” Selectman Jim Greenwood attended the meeting by speakerphone. “I talked to the SWIP administrator and they’ve done everything they were supposed to,” he said. SWIP is the solid waste implementation plan. The select board revoked Mr. Giroux’ right to operate after finding that he had failed to comply with town rules about required recordkeeping for trash services. The decision was to take effect in two weeks to give Barton residents time to make new arrangements to get their trash picked up. by Brad Usatch This week’s weather notwithstanding, summer is on its way, and with it, another year of tick vigilance for people and their pets. Lyme disease, the most prevalent pathogen spread by ticks, used to be a fringe issue for a handful of unlucky souls in southern New England and maybe southern Vermont counties. But in the past ten or so years, ticks have spread north, and biologists and doctors warn that no place in Vermont is safe from the parasites and the host of diseases they are able to transmit. Based on information on the Department of Health website, up until about the year 2000, Vermont averaged roughly ten to 20 confirmed cases of Lyme disease per year. That number grew steadily to reach 50 by 2004, 105 by 2008, and 330 by 2010. In 2013, the state recorded 675 cases of Lyme disease, Farce opens at Haskell Merelli (Phil Gosselin) is aroused and alarmed by the seductive wiles of Diana (Rhonda Lucas), an ambitious soprano in QNEK’s performance of Lend Me a Tenor, which is the opening show of QNEK’s final season. For a story and more photos, please see page eighteen. Photo by Joseph Gresser Editor’s note: Our staff interviewed people throughout Orleans County over the past week about their views on President Trump’s first 100 days in office. For the most part, Republicans, while not always unconditional in their support, give the new President the benefit of the doubt. Not surprisingly, Democrats are less generous. We heard some unexpected, and unexpectedly thoughtful, views on the new President’s early days in office. John Wilson, president of the Newport City Council: “He’s doing pretty well considering that half the country doesn’t support him. This country is so polarized.” Charlotte Bernarde, Newport: “If I talk about him, I end up mad. Or depressed. Luckily, he isn’t really getting all that much done. He mostly just talks about what he’s going to do. Or rather, Tweets. “I mean really, what do people who voted for him think? He wants to take away health care that we finally got. And his tax reform is cutting the corporate tax rate? Sorry, but people got conned by a con artist. And we all have to live with it. “I guess what I focus on is that people are fighting back. I think it’s going to make us stronger in the end. “I’m taking bets on him resigning before the end of his term because, first, he really didn’t want to be president and didn’t get how hard it was going to be, and two, the heat will get too hot for him on taxes and Russia as long as pressure stays on. Or he’ll get impeached. In Barton Dave’s Rubbish is back in Barton NEK not immune from ticks Community sounds off on Trump’s first 100 days (Continued on page twenty-one.) (Continued on page sixteen.) (Continued on page twenty-four.) In Albany Neighbors leery of gravel pit

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the ChronicleTHE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF ORLEANS COUNTY TWO SECTIONS, 56 PAGESVOLUME 44, NUMBER 18 MAY 3, 2017 ONE DOLLAR

by Elizabeth Trail

ALBANY — Father and sonChristian and Clark Katzenbach arehoping to earn a living from a vein ofgravel on their 203-acre property onGrigg Road. Christian Katzenbachhas spent most of his life as a logger,and it’s time for a change, he said.And 18-year-old Clark just bought atruck and is keen to go into businesswith his dad.

That puts them at odds withtheir neighbors, some who fear fortheir own livelihoods, and otherswho worry about living near agravel pit — about the noise, thetraffic, the dust, or just the look ofthe thing.

Albany has no zoning,Selectman Chris Jacobs said at anAct 250 hearing held at the AlbanyCommunity School in April toconsider the Katzenbachs’application for a permit to open athree-acre gravel pit on the land

(Continued on page thirty-two.)

Bridge workunderway in

Barton.3

Dailey libraryseeks room to

grow.10

by Elizabeth Trail

BARTON — Dave’s Rubbish isback on track to pick up trash in thetown of Barton.

Over the past two weeks, ownerDave Giroux has turned in all of thepaperwork the select board hadbeen asking for since last fall.

The board voted to revoke hisright to pick up trash in the Barton

Solid Waste Management District ata hearing on April 3.

Mr. Giroux appealed thedecision on April 17, the day theban was to take effect. On Mondaynight, he and his wife, Marcie, cameto the select board meeting to hearthe decision.

“You guys got the numbers tous,” Chair Bob Croteau said. “Youguys did good. You seem to have

done everything we asked.”Selectman Jim Greenwood

attended the meeting byspeakerphone.

“I talked to the SWIPadministrator and they’ve doneeverything they were supposed to,”he said.

SWIP is the solid wasteimplementation plan.

The select board revoked Mr.

Giroux’ right to operate after findingthat he had failed to comply withtown rules about requiredrecordkeeping for trash services.

The decision was to take effectin two weeks to give Bartonresidents time to make newarrangements to get their trashpicked up.

by Brad Usatch

This week’s weathernotwithstanding, summer is on itsway, and with it, another year oftick vigilance for people and theirpets.

Lyme disease, the mostprevalent pathogen spread by ticks,used to be a fringe issue for ahandful of unlucky souls in southernNew England and maybe southernVermont counties. But in the pastten or so years, ticks have spreadnorth, and biologists and doctorswarn that no place in Vermont issafe from the parasites and the hostof diseases they are able totransmit.

Based on information on theDepartment of Health website, upuntil about the year 2000, Vermontaveraged roughly ten to 20confirmed cases of Lyme disease peryear. That number grew steadily toreach 50 by 2004, 105 by 2008, and330 by 2010. In 2013, the staterecorded 675 cases of Lyme disease,

Farce opens at Haskell

Merelli (Phil Gosselin) is aroused and alarmed by the seductive wiles of Diana(Rhonda Lucas), an ambitious soprano in QNEK’s performance of Lend Me aTenor, which is the opening show of QNEK’s final season. For a story and morephotos, please see page eighteen. Photo by Joseph Gresser

Editor’s note: Our staffinterviewed people throughoutOrleans County over the past weekabout their views on PresidentTrump’s first 100 days in office.

For the most part, Republicans,while not always unconditional in

their support, give the new Presidentthe benefit of the doubt. Notsurprisingly, Democrats are lessgenerous. We heard someunexpected, and unexpectedlythoughtful, views on the newPresident’s early days in office.

John Wilson, president of theNewport City Council: “He’s doingpretty well considering that half thecountry doesn’t support him. Thiscountry is so polarized.”

Charlotte Bernarde, Newport:

“If I talk about him, I end up mad.Or depressed. Luckily, he isn’treally getting all that much done.He mostly just talks about what he’sgoing to do. Or rather, Tweets.

“I mean really, what do peoplewho voted for him think? He wantsto take away health care that wefinally got. And his tax reform iscutting the corporate tax rate?Sorry, but people got conned by acon artist. And we all have to livewith it.

“I guess what I focus on is that

people are fighting back. I think it’sgoing to make us stronger in theend.

“I’m taking bets on himresigning before the end of his termbecause, first, he really didn’t wantto be president and didn’t get howhard it was going to be, and two, theheat will get too hot for him ontaxes and Russia as long aspressure stays on. Or he’ll getimpeached.

In Barton

Dave’s Rubbish is back in Barton

NEK notimmunefrom ticks

Community sounds off on Trump’s first 100 days

(Continued on page twenty-one.)

(Continued on page sixteen.)

(Continued on page twenty-four.)

In Albany

Neighborsleery ofgravel pit

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Brighton Elementary recently received a$1,000 grant from the Vermont CommunityFoundation’s Northeast Kingdom Fund. Thegrant will help further Brighton’s mission ofpromoting lifelong learning and an appreciationfor diversity by giving students cultural exposureand opportunity. This spring, Brighton studentstoured the Orozco murals at Dartmouth College,attended a matinee at the Flynn Theater, andtasted Thai food for the first time.  

Brighton’s principal, Denise Russell said,“This grant from Vermont Community Foundationis so appreciated, as it supports opportunities forcurious young students to step outside their dailyexperience in rural Vermont to experience thesights and tastes of unknown cultures. These arethe moments when imaginations are cultivatedand dreams are born.”

The Northeast Kingdom Fund is a permanentphilanthropic resource dedicated to supportingthe people and communities of Caledonia, Essex,and Orleans Counties. Its grants are decided bya committee of local residents, providingphilanthropy for the Kingdom, by the Kingdom.

For more information about BrightonElementary School, please visit the website:http://bes.ncsuvt.org/, or call at 723-4373.

The Vermont Community Foundation is afamily of hundreds of funds and foundationsestablished by Vermonters to serve theircharitable goals. It provides the advice,investment vehicles, and back-office expertise tomake giving easy and effective. Visitwww.vermontcf.org or call (802) 388-3355 formore information. — submitted by Thea Storz.

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Students from Brighton Elementary school enjoy lunch at El Gato Mexican Restaurant in Burlington on a recenttrip to a live show at the Flynn Theater. Pictured from left to right are: Cameron Poutre, Collin Santaw, Adam Sykes,Gwen Warner, Magnolia Siana-Wolf, Kendal Simmons, Tori Simmons, and Anneke Beth.

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by Elizabeth Trail

BARTON — Anyone who hasdriven through Barton lately hasprobably had to stop and wait for ago-ahead from one of the half-dozenflagmen stationed along roads onthe south end of town.

Backhoes and bulldozers are atwork along the riverbank nearwhere Roaring Brook Road comesout onto Route 16. And there arebig trucks and a drilling rig in themiddle of Glover Street a few blocksfrom downtown.

It’s all leading up to replacingthe bridges on those two roads this

summer, said Doug Bonneau,project manager at the VermontAgency of Transportation (VTrans).

According to a VTrans fact sheetabout the bridge on Roaring BrookRoad, “The bridge deck andsuperstructure are in poor conditionand the bridge is hydraulicallysubstandard. Additionally, theexisting bridge railing is notstructurally adequate for moderndesign standards.”

In June, a 68-foot long precastconcrete bridge — 20 feet longerthan the one that’s there now — willbe installed by J.P. SicardConstruction next to the existingone and at a slightly different angle.

Right now, workers are puttingprotective sheeting along the bankso they can dig without getting intothe river, Mr. Bonneau said.

He expects work near whereRoaring Brook Road comes intoRoute 16 to be pretty muchcontinuous for the next six weeks.

“Because we are making aneffort to keep the actual roadclosures as short as possible, theyare doing the work that they canahead of time,” he said.

The last few hundred feet ofRoaring Brook Road will be closed

from June 12 to June 26 while theold bridge is being taken out andthe new one put in. During thattime, traffic will have to detouralong Park Street. 

The smaller bridge on GloverStreet, originally built in 1919, willbe torn out and replaced in July,also by J.P. Sicard.

That’s the project that’sresponsible for the trucks anddrilling rig blocking one lane oftraffic last week.

“The tall drilling rig is pre-drilling holes to set the steel piles inthat will support the new bridgeabutments,” Mr. Bonneau said.

He expects that there will be alull in the construction work afterthat part of the project is finished.

“There may be a period of timeafter the piles get driven that therewill not be much work going onuntil the road closure date,” he said.

Between July 5 and August 2,anyone driving in and out of thesouth end of town will have todetour along the Roaring BrookRoad to Park Street and Elm Street.

The bridge on Glover Street is ina little bit better shape outwardly.The VTrans fact sheet for thatproject describes the deck as beingin fair condition — but like theRoaring Brook bridge, its mainstructure and guardrail don’t meetmodern standards.

The planned bridge will be thesame width as the old one but 42feet long instead of 28 feet.

Traffic delays and one-lanetraffic are expected on both roadsfrom April to September.

Fact sheets about the twoprojects are available on the VTranswebsite.

“We’re trying to help people self-serve for information,” Mr. Bonneausaid.

One lane of Glover Street on the south end of Barton is closed as workmen from J.P.Sicard construction prepare to put in a new and longer bridge. The road will be fullyclosed from July 2 to August 5. The bridge where Roaring Brook Road comes outonto Route 16 is also being replaced. Traffic on that bridge will be rerouted alongPark Street from June 12 to June 26. Photo by Elizabeth Trail

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To the editor, On Saturday April 22, of this year I had the

privilege of taking part in the March for Science inWashington D.C. By all accounts it was exciting tosee the scientific community as well as educatorsand other like minded individuals coming out for aworthy cause. In a time where proposals are beingmade by the current administration to cut fundingfor just about everything but defense, citizens needto stand up for causes that will actually move thecountry forward.

Just before tax day, my high school classesread an article by John W. Schoen for NBC newsentitled: “Here’s where your federal income taxdollars go.” The chart from the article shows howour tax dollars are spent by the government topay for various programs. We currently have anational budget where defense already makes up20 percent of the pie chart. We only spend moreon health care at 21 percent, and the defensebudget outpaces both the science and educationbudget by a factor of ten. Only 2 percent goes toscience and 2 percent to education. It is alsointeresting to note that the U.S. spending on themilitary already outpaces the next nine countriescombined! It is a shame we don’t put more intoefforts that will actually help grow and developour own economy.

As I tell my students, our history of taxationwith representation goes all the way back toMedieval England, and it has ever since been atradition that those who pay tax dollars have aright to say how they are spent. Also, as Englishphilosopher John Locke wrote, and our foundingfather Thomas Jefferson so eloquently

paraphrased in the Declaration of Independence,it is the government’s job to protect the life,liberty, and property (happiness) of the Americanpeople. This includes our future generations. Wemust educate them and do research that will notonly make their lives better, but also create morejob opportunities in this country. We must alsosave the Environmental Protection Agency andprotect the natural resources they will need torely on. All of this will require an investment inscience and research.

As a veteran of the United States Air Force, Ican vouch for the strength of our military. We

have adequate resources to defend ourselves aswell as the cause of democracy. President Wilsonproposed we do this one hundred years ago on theeve of our entrance in the first World War. A warin which my grandfather William Sydney McCraewas a veteran. After two world wars, the Earthhas become a much more stable place but at thecost of millions of lives. As it says on the KoreanWar Veteran’s memorial, “Freedom is not Free.”We need to ignore the fear mongers who want towaste money building walls, deporting millions ofproductive immigrants, and pouring extra moneyinto an already more than adequate military, andput it toward more productive resources. Thereare certainly problems around the world that willrequire our assistance, but we need to continue towork with groups like the United Nations andNATO to help quell destructive forces in NorthKorea and the Middle East. We have not yeteven begun to tap our massive national arsenal todo this, and hopefully never will.

Let’s put our money where our minds are

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Dear editor,As the first half of this biennium

draws to an end, we are writing toapplaud a majority of the VermontLegislature, Governor Phil Scott,and Vermont Attorney General T.J.Donovan for quickly and efficientlyaddressing some of the backwardsimmigration policies of the Trumpadministration.

By creating a law that requiresthe Governor and attorney generalto approve specific types ofimmigration agreements betweenlocal police and federal authorities,

and prohibits Vermont agenciesfrom participating in the creation ofa registry of Muslims or othergroups based on personalinformation, our state has beenpositioned on the right side ofhistory and our integrity has beenprotected.

In the growing political climatethat is marred by rigid ideology, itmade us proud to see the bipartisaneffort from our Vermont officials tostand up and say, “this is not howVermont does things and we will notbe complicit.”

Moving forward, we recognizethat this probably won’t be the lasttime in the next year and a half thatyou all will be required to cometogether to stand up for what isright, and when those times come, itwill be imperative that you do sodecisively.

To our statewide officials andour representatives from theNortheast Kingdom — we thankthose, again, who have supportedsensible statewide immigration

policies, and we acknowledge thosewho have not.

As a bloc of voters from theNortheast Kingdom, we are comingtogether to tell each of you that weexpect the promotion of sensible andhumane immigration policies in ourstate. Your decisions now and inthe future will not be forgotten.

Sincerely,Shane Rogers

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A trip around the mall in Washington a daybefore the march put this into perspective. It isin the interest of all of our everyday citizens whowould be called upon to fight, to limit the carnageof war. Our President might do well to take awalk around the mall to look at all themonuments, understand the human toll of war,and take some historical advice from the likes ofLincoln, Jefferson, FDR, George Mason, andMartin Luther King whose collective wisdom isinscribed there in stone. None of this nation’sgreat leaders there were fans of war.

With the largest economy in the world, theUnited States is poised to lead the world inscientific innovation. Energy companies need toshift their focus from obsolete fossil fuels, whichharm the environment, to invest in renewableforms that will be able to produce and storeenergy indefinitely without destroying theenvironment.

Global warming is real, which is a fact thathas been proven by scientists who have beeninterpreting the data on it for over a century.Even if you believe global warming is a hoax, asdoes our President, coal and natural gas are a

finite resource, they will get scarcer, and moreexpensive to extract over time. It will becompletely depleted within a century at thecurrent growth rate of the world’s population.Investing billions in pipelines and fracking willonly contribute to the destruction of theenvironment. Instead we should put that moneyinto developing technologies that will collect andstore energy using renewable sources. It justmakes sense economically. More money intoresearch will develop jobs here in our country, notjust in other nations around the globe that arealready outpacing us. There is no such thing as“clean coal” or safe nuclear power. Even if all thecarbon emissions could be removed from coalburning power plants, you would be left with ahuge amount of toxic waste to store. The same istrue of nuclear power which, even if it is madesafe from accidents like those that occurred atChernobyl and Fukushima, we would still havemasses of dangerous radioactive waste to store for250,000 years. Natural gas that is touted by thecurrent ads for Exxon-Mobil is also a fossil fueland contributes about half the amount of carbonas coal, so don’t be fooled by their advertisingthat suggests it is “clean” by making thestatement that it is “cutting” emissions. Half the

amount of poison is still poison. If we keepadding carbon to the atmosphere, all the ice onour planet could be gone and sea levels would risehigh enough to flood all of the world’s coastalcities by 2100.

So let’s listen to some of the most intelligentmembers of our society, the scientists whomarched in Washington D.C. and all around theworld on Earth Day this April. It is up to uscitizens to speak up for how our tax dollars arespent.

I am a patriot, and believe the United Stateshas the collective resources to continue to leadthe world in terms of scientific innovation andnew job creation. I do not need a tax cut of a fewhundred dollars, and the big banks andcorporations certainly do not need to keep extratrillions tied up in a volatile unregulated market.That money can better serve us by investing inour future, as well as the future of our children,and their children. Let us put our money whereour minds are, and get to work. Communicateyour desires to your Congressmen and let’s investin science.

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Letter to the editorTo the editor,

Sometimes it appears like there’s a bigcontest by some in Montpelier to see who canhurt the poor and low income people in Vermontthe most. Isn’t it something how all of the state’stransplants have moved up here, taken control ofa lot of Montpelier with a big desire to runVermont the way they want it? Yet they can’tfigure out why it’s so damned expensive to livehere.

If the education system and its related unionhasn’t driven us into such a financial burden thatit’s next to impossible for the blue collar workerin Vermont to make ends meet, now theDepartment of Transportation (DOT) wants totorture us even more. And, wouldn’t you know,it’s all about money. No safety what-so-ever;money!

It’s obvious now that some complete idiots inour state want a big monetary piece of theinspection pie. And they are going to get it thecommunistic way — no discussion with thepublic; no chance to vote on it; to hell with thepoor people, just implement it. And they wonderwhy people are leaving the state and why wehave to have the ridiculous number of assistanceprograms.

Hey, I’m the first to admit we need welfareprograms, etc. There are a lot of people out therewho truly need some assistance. But take a ridearound the back roads of Vermont with a socialworker and have them explain why somerecipients have an ATV, two snow machines, andtwo vehicles in the yard, and they come to thedoor with a beer in their hand and a cigarettehanging out of their mouth. What is wrong withthis picture? And 70 percent of the places youstop at will find the woman of the houseexpecting her third. Why? Well, I’m told bythose very people that that’s how they’ll getenough support to live comfortably. Where am Igoing with this? I’m just showing one moreexample of how bad our state government is. Sowhere does the DOT and their brainless newinspection system fit in? Stay with me!

First of all, remember this, it’s all aboutmoney. And let me tell you, if you think for oneminute that the cost to have your car inspectedwithin just a few years doesn’t triple, then youneed help. Hey, it’s as simple as this: the statehas their hands in it.

Something most of us would agree with: It’sonly right that the inspection stations deserve tomake a reasonable portion of their living off of therepairs related to everyone’s annual vehicleinspection. I’m good with that. But then thestate is now forcing these garages to purchasenew inspection equipment to the tune of $1,500,

plus other related costs. So it leaves them withno recourse but to up inspection fees considerably.Before continuing I’d like you all to know that I’vedone some investigating.

Numerous police department and body shoppersonnel I spoke with have no recollection of anyaccident resulting due to a repaired frame on anyvehicle. None. Period. Faulty brakes, yes, butframe failure? No. Yet the state of Vermontrefuses to accept any frame repair whatsoever.Hello. Did they ever stop to think about thethousands of brand new and/or used heavy dutytruck frames that are either shortened orlengthened on a daily basis all over the state?Did they ever realize that many, manyaftermarket parts companies offer exceptionallywell made frame repair kits for hundreds ofvehicles on the roads today? Obviously not.

And just as importantly, have they ever hadany concern for the thousands and thousands ofus who own older vehicles? Often, nice appearingvehicles of not that many years old have somedegree of rust on their frames. Especially in thisstate where there is a lot of salt used on thehighways in the winters we have. In most cases,the people who own these vehicles have neverowned a new car and probably never will.Chances are they are young people or couplestrying to get their feet on the ground. Now,however, they cannot repair any spot on thevehicle frame, thus they cannot get that vehicleinspected.

But wait — it gets worse! They can’t tradethe vehicle because no dealer would be able toresell it, no matter how outwardly good inappearance it seems. As if it couldn’t get anyworse, get this: They cannot sell the vehicle tosomeone else, either, knowing full well that theride is uninspectable. Big trouble with the lawthen. So now what can these people do? Excusemy English, but the Vermont DOT inspectiondivision just screwed them badly by creating aterrible financial hardship. There are alsothousands of older citizens out there on fixed andinadequate incomes that don’t need to get kickedin the face either.

So, wake up Vermont DOT, our neighboringstates all allow vehicle frame repair as long as it’sdone in a professional manner. Did you read thatlast sentence, commissioner? I said, ourneighboring states all allow vehicle frame repair.Of course if we Vermonters ever talked theinspection division into rewriting theirregulations you know what’s scary? Need Iremind you we are dealing with the state ofVermont now, they’d probably make it mandatorythat only their state certified welders would beallowed to make any repairs. Come on,

inspection division, make a change that will helpthose in need; and make it before any hard-working people get hurt. It’s the right thing todo; and I don’t believe you who instituted thisridiculous rule are any smarter than all of thoseinvolved in New Hampshire, Maine, New York,and Massachusetts.

Hey, John Rodgers, you seem to be one of thegood guys in the State House, and one who canwork with both parties on things. Possibly youcould bring this to Phil Scott’s attention and see ifhe will add it to his clean up Shumlin’s disasterlist. Thankfully there is some cross party votinggoing on in the capitol nowadays. And thereobviously should be.

The people of Vermont went to the polls andvoted not only for Governor Scott but also whathe stands for. Being a former car lover maybe I’llsend this off to him as well. Come to think of it,I’ll bet if he had been in office this wholeridiculous inspection gouging fiasco would neverhave happened.

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Letters to the editor

Dear editor,Today I write about a traffic problem that

could wind up as an accident site. When you turnonto Elm Street from Sias Avenue in Newport,often cars are parked on both sides of Elm Street,making it difficult to get through Elm Street.

I believe I may have a solution to theproblem. Parking on only one side of Elm Street(preferably on the side opposite of Spates theFlorist), as when you turn into Elm Street, youare on the side next to Spates. This would help toprevent turning cars from having to jugglearound parked cars to enter Elm Street.

I believe the city of Newport has the authority

to make and enforce parking changes, onceapproved, the city has the authority to get signsput up on Elm Street and then the police wouldhave the authority to enforce the parking change.This has nothing to do with Spates the Florist. Ithas to do with safety and driver courtesy. Also,the Newport Elementary School is very close tothis intersection, and the children are walkingthrough this intersection daily. I believe thesituation is prone for an accident and none of uswould want that to happen, would we?

Jacob KokalyNewport

Dear editor,Questions were mailed out for the town (all

zip code 05846), one month ago to landownersand renters [regarding Brighton as an ATVdestination.],

I do not agree with Brighton as an ATVdestination to attract more visitors for economicgrowth, and to open up roads to connect trails toaccess town services for everyone.

Economic opportunities exist in the town ofBurke or Craftsbury, etc., and they are thrivingwithout motorized sports. We live near EastBurke and are getting their overflow of skiers,mountain bikers from their Kingdom Trails, andBrighton State Park campers, Clyde River CanoeTrail, hunters, fishermen.

Century 21 recently told me they never havean empty rental unit in Island Pond. An excuselike economic growth being used for some quickmoney for a few multi-business entrepreneurs inIsland Pond to sell more gasoline, rooms and food,is not worth it.

NorthWoods Stewardship Center in EastCharleston has worked to prevent erosion andmake trails for hikers and cross-country skiers,and connected Brousseau (sp) Mountain inNorton to our Bluff Mountain. We have Silvio O.Conte and Wenlock preserve, which attracts otheroutdoor enthusiast sports such as bird watching,people come from other states to see rare birds oranimals such as the spruce grouse.

I also called the Burke town clerk’s office andasked if they had ATVs. She was appalled at the

thought of this…. Non-motor sports have beenenjoyed for hundreds of years. This area is atreasure and should not be taken for granted,especially with the lake right next to town. Thelake has filled in in the last 20 years. I havewitnessed the cove on Birch Street. I also haveseen the oil from the snowmobiles streamingdown the road into the lake with snowmelt onwarm-ups from the two-cycle engines. Theerosion from ATV use is detrimental to the areaand lake and sensitive mountain trails. Localpeople who have not lived outside this area arenot understanding how unique this area is andhow that brings people to this area. Withpatience it will happen. If this ATV happens, itwill be for three seasons. Burke said they’recounting on mountain biking more for economicgrowth, not skiing or snowboarding. Recently thebike was taken off of Ted’s store over their door.That was a symbol, and represented a welcome tonon-motorized sport-minded people, especially atthis time of year when the snowmobile season isover.

If ATVs bring economic growth, what’s next?We have drug busts, drinking allowed on thetown green on Friday nights, should we allowATVs on our roads? We have had a death fromdrinking this past winter, which broke our hearts.Please protect the people and the vulnerablechildren and youth. You do know they will bedrunk and drive ATVs. This is dangerous andunsafe. The police will not have access to thetrails and the lawbreakers will get away with it.

The snowmobiles are an example. I havewitnessed for years the breaking of curfews andoff trail use. I can’t even walk or ski on the lake,town, or trails, unless I get in my car and go. Ispoke to the town manager and the selectmen arelearning with this. They did give us a survey torespond to; they did have in mind everyone….

If you have any responses, I’d like to hearthem, or contact Island Pond Selectman DougNiles for input or output, or the town clerk’soffice, P.O. Box 377, Brighton, Vermont 05846.

Gwyn WorthingtonBrighton

Much opposed to Brighton becoming a destination for ATVs

A solution to a traffic problem?

To the editor,A few weeks ago 47 people from 12 churches

got together, practiced for ten weeks and sang abeautiful Easter cantata at The Barton UnitedChurch. Our church secretary sent in anannouncement to the Kingdom Calendar twoweeks prior, along with a small piece to beprinted in the paper the week before explainingthe cantata. The Kingdom Calendar was justfine, but no article was printed. I realize spacecan be an issue, but there were many articles thatweek that were not time sensitive.

This is not the first time the Chronicle has letus down. In the past, with another cantata I

have offered to pay to have a picture and a smallwrite up, but I was told, no, this is a communityevent and the paper would print it. And they did,but just the article and no picture.

Going back even further, I had two photos, forthe same kind of event, and they used just one,which left half of the singers out.

I have been a supporter of this paper for 24years, buying one every week and as a businessowner in Barton, placing ads every two weeks.

It just saddens me that our local paper andneighbor would treat us this way.

Catherine McMasterBarton

Saddened by the Chronicle’s lack of coverage

Dear Chronicle,Regarding Steven Gold’s letter to the editor of

last week:I’ll bet most do not know the meaning of “tax

expenditures.” I sure didn’t but looked it up andfound it is a term defined by the feds asallowances for special exclusion, exemption, ordeduction from gross income, lowering taxes foran individual. Most of us know them simply astax deductions. Steven makes it sound as thoughthe state collects taxes and then gives awaydollars to high-income taxpayers. But they nevercollected it in the first place.

In plain English, what Steven wants is higherincome residents to pay more in taxes to benefithis favorite programs, however good they may be.Why doesn’t he just come out and say it? Butremember, many of these deductions come offfederal returns, which drive state taxes andVermonters have little say in that. So, if youwant to help Steven, lobby your representativesto increase the state tax rates on the rich.Problem solved.

Erik LessingMorgan

In plain English…

Dear editor,I am running for the Vermont Electric Co-op

(VEC) East Zone seat on the board of directors,because I believe VEC should:

Consider commercial scale wind and solarprojects in the VEC service territory only if theyhave the support of their host and neighboringtowns; provide reliable service to its members andkeep electric rates as low and stable as possible;and promote cost-effective energy efficiency.

I would appreciate your vote by May 5 whenvoting ends for online and mailed ballots. Votingonline is through SmartHub, or by visitingwww.directvote.net/VEC. You may call VEC at(802) 635-2331 for assistance. Members can alsovote in person at the annual meeting on May 6 atJay Peak Resort.

My family has been a VEC member for 29years.

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by Joseph Gresser

NEWPORT — The city council has put off adecision on hiring a new developer for its website,and decided to wait until the Public ServiceBoard puts new net metering rules in place beforeconsidering an offer to buy solar power fromGreen Lantern Capital.

Council members spent much of the rest of ashort meeting Monday night looking forward 14months to the celebration of Newport’s hundredthbirthday.

City Manager Laura Dolgin asked the councilto put off a decision on the website because shehas a meeting scheduled with a second developeron May 5. Council members had been looking ata proposal from a company that specializes inmunicipal websites.

Members of the council had a few questionsabout details of the proposal from Avenet WebSolutions. The company was recommended bythe Vermont League of Cities and Towns, andalready has designed sites for St. Albans andRutland, said Mayor Paul Monette.

The remaining questions concerned the cost oflong-term maintenance and ownership of dataposted to the site. Ms. Dolgin said the newdeveloper approached her, and she wanted to seewhat that company has to offer before making herfinal recommendation.

Green Lantern came to the city with an offerto sell power from its solar generation facility at acost below what Vermont Electric Cooperativecharges. Ms. Dolgin sent documents provided bythe company to the city’s lawyer.

She said the lawyer advised waiting beforeentering into any such agreement until the PublicService Board finishes its revision of regulationsgoverning the net metering program.

That program allows individuals orcompanies that make power with renewableresources to sell that power to an electric utilityat an above-market-rate price.

Utilities are required to accept a certainpercentage of their power sales from net meteringcustomers. Some power companies havecomplained that customers who don’t sellelectricity to them have to pay higher rates as aresult of the program.

Ms. Dolgin said the offering documents fromGreen Lantern were incomplete because of the

uncertainty about the Public Service Board’seventual decision.

Newport already has an agreement like thatproposed by Green Lantern in place. Great BayHydro sells power from its solar array to the city.

Great Bay gives Newport a lower price thanthe city would pay the co-op by handing back aportion of the difference between ordinary electricrates and the higher price Vermont Electric Co-operative has to pay for the solar power.

Council Member Denis Chenette said theuncertainty about net metering rules will notaffect the contract with Great Bay Hydro becauseit continues to be governed by the old regulations.

Ms. Dolgin enthusiastically briefed thecouncil on plans for the Newport centennialcelebrations. A planning committee holdsmonthly meetings, and an $82,000 contributionfrom the Pomerleau family has kicked its effortsinto high gear, she said.

The celebration will run from Friday, June29, 2018, through the Fourth of July, and willculminate with a fireworks display that CityClerk and Treasurer James Johnson modestlysaid would be bigger than the usual IndependenceDay show. Mr. Johnson said there will befireworks in March, the city’s actual birthday.

Steve Edgerley is in charge of the grand paradeand is looking for businesses and organizations thatwish to enter a float in the procession, as well asmarching bands, Ms. Dolgin said.

Mr. Chenette has promised to create acommemorative stamp and coin to mark theanniversary and Mr. Monette has taken on thetask of putting together a book celebratingNewport’s history.

Mr. Monette showed his prized copy of the 1968publication marking the city’s fiftieth birthday andsaid it would be the model for his work.

So far, the committee has planned a waterskiing display and a showing of Cars ofYesteryear. Ms. Dolgin said she has been workingon organizing a lumberjack competition, and thecity’s recreation department is considering a planto create and bury a time capsule.

She was most excited about a group ofcostumed Revolutionary War re-enactors whoplan to bivouac around Prouty Beach and stagebattles on land and on water.

Four groups will represent the British, theFrench, Native Americans, and settlers, Ms.

Dolgin said. They will camp in different parts ofthe park and move into place for staged battles.

Ms. Dolgin said the heights of Prouty Beachwill serve as a natural amphitheater, enablingspectators to have good view of the action.

The re-enactors will wear historicallyaccurate clothing and carry weapons of theperiod, including cannons.

“Who doesn’t like cannons?” Ms. Dolgin asked.She said the planning committee is not

finished with its work and would welcome newmembers.

In other business, the council had a shortdiscussion of its legal options in seeking damagesfrom the failure of Jay Peak’s EB-5 projects.

City resident Brian McNeal asked if there is adeadline to file suit in the case. Does the cityplan to sue for damages to the tax base? he asked.

Mr. Johnson said the receiver has beenpaying the taxes owed on property Jay Peak ownsin town, including the former Spates Block andBogner property. The city has not taken afinancial hit, he said.

Mr. Monette questioned Mr. McNeal’ssuggestion that the demolition of the Spates Blockwill have a negative effect on the Grand List. Anassessing company is in the process of reappraisingall the properties in Newport, he said, and theresults won’t be known until summer.

He said it is quite possible that the value ofthe Newport block will increase. Mr. Monettepointed out that the demolition crew removedlead and asbestos from the site and left it in goodcondition for future development.

Mr. Monette said Jay Peak also improved theBogner property by putting in a stormwaterdrainage system and underground utility lines.That work may also have raised the worth of theproperty, he said.

Ms. Dolgin told Mr. McNeal that lawsuits inthe case have largely centered on recoveringdamages suffered by investors and others whoactually lost money in the case. She said Mr.McNeal raised a valid question, but it doesn’tappear that Newport has grounds to sue.

Later in the meeting, several residents raisedquestions about police enforcement of trafficregulations, including those requiring motoriststo stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, andprohibiting cyclists from riding on sidewalks.

Ms. Dolgin said she would take up thosequestions with Police Chief Seth DiSanto.

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by Elizabeth Trail

Local power companies opposeDairy Air Wind project

On April 19, both Green Mountain Power andthe Vermont Electric Cooperative filed for theright to have a say before the Public ServiceBoard (PSB) as it considers whether to issue aCertificate of Public Good for a 2.2-megawattwind turbine in Holland.

The utilities say that the Dairy Air Windproject would cause them economic harm, both bylowering the price of other power they are tryingto sell on the wholesale market, and by forcingthem to cut back on the power they are allowed tosend into the system from their own renewableenergy projects.

Northern Vermont’s transmission systemcan’t handle the output when the existing windand hydro resources are producing at high levels,Green Mountain Power’s application says. Theutilities have to turn off existing power sources attimes, including turbines in Lowell and Sheffield.

Until the bottleneck is resolved, it’spremature to add more wind to the system herein the Northeast Kingdom, the application says.

Both companies asked to be a part of thehearings on the grounds that there was no otherway to adequately represent their interests andthe interests of their ratepayers.

The PSB has already approved a temporarymeteorological (MET) tower to measure wind onthe site.

Barton water is back

As of Monday, May 1, it’s safe to drink thewater in Barton Village again.

Last week, town officials posted noticesaround the village telling everyone to boil waterbefore drinking.

Vermont Agency of Transportation equipmenthit a water main while digging in preparation forthe bridge replacement on Glover Street.

“The boil water is in effect until the testresults come back Saturday or Monday,” NateSicard, chair of the Barton Village Trustees,wrote in an e-mail on Thursday.

“We are waiting to hear from VTransregarding the water main break on their projectand what the plan is to fix the pipes,” he said.

Notices were again posted on Monday, sayingthe coast was clear.

Anyone who still has questions about Barton’swater should call Andy Sicard at the villageoffice.

Lunchbox truck returns to Barton June 21

The Lunchbox will be back in Barton thissummer on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30p.m., beginning on June 21.

At its last meeting, the Barton VillageTrustees approved Green Mountain Farm-to-School’s request to park in the village-owned lotnext to the library once a week for the summermeals program.

The meal truck served 615 free meals tochildren last year in Barton, up considerably fromthe year before, according to the proposal thegroup submitted to the trustees.

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by Joseph Gresser

DERBY — Patrons who show up at the DaileyMemorial Library after Saturday will find thedoor locked. If they get there before May 7 andhave a yen to catch up on some back reading,they may still be able to borrow up to 20 booksand keep them until the end of September.

After ten years of waiting, the small library inDerby Center is about to close for a few monthswhile builders work to make it a little bigger.

On Tuesday former librarian Barb Whitehilland other volunteers were packing books inboxes. Some will be shipped to the DerbyCommunity Church, which will host a smallerversion of the library until the building is finishedthis fall.

Recently published books, many children’stitles, audio books, and DVDs are headed to thelibrary’s home away from home. Volunteers areboxing older books for storage, except thoseborrowed under the 20 books for five monthsprogram.

All will be returned to a renovated andexpanded library in the autumn.

In 2007 the library board and then-librarianBarb Whitehill began planning an expansion forthe small frame building. The initial plan calledfor more than doubling the size of the 28-by-36-foot building, but library supporters found itdifficult to raise the needed cash.

Library Board President Ginette Provost saidthe board created a “Plan B” committee last fallwith the help of Newport architect Mark Stewart.

“Once we went to Plan B, everything has justfallen into place,” Ms. Provost said. “Some peoplemight have given up, but we persevered.”

The committee came up with a plan thatwould be less expensive and, according tolibrarian Maureen Badger, more suitable to thelibrary’s needs.

“Instead of a million dollar project we’reexpecting this to cost between $500,000 and$550,000,” Ms. Badger said. “We’re adding 1,600square feet to the building, 800 to the top floorand 800 to the bottom.”

The entire building will be renovated andinsulated. Posts on the ground floor will beremoved and an I-beam put in their place to holdup the second floor.

“This building was built in 1957 for $10,000,”Ms. Provost said. “The front door is Greekrevival, the rest is get it done.”

The children’s collection is moving downstairswhere it will be shelved in bookcases fitted withcasters. That way the large ground floor roomcan be easily configured for community events.

A lift and a new accessible bathroom on eachfloor will bring the library into compliance withthe Americans with Disabilities Act, Ms. Badgersaid.

Plans also call for a conference roomdownstairs. Each year AARP volunteers meetwith local residents to help them with their taxes.Now those conversations can take place in aprivate space, she said.

Ms. Badger said the conference room can alsodouble as a classroom.

The adult collection will remain upstairs, butit will get new shelves and room for more books.The new design also provides space for fivecomputer stations, Ms. Badger said.

The Dailey’s librarians are looking forward tohaving an actual office, she said. At present they

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Dailey library closing for expansion

(Continued on page eleven.)

The main entrance of the Dailey Memorial Library withits familiar Greek revival columns will be retained, butthe building’s new main entryway will be on the otherside of the building. Photos by Joseph Gresser

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have to work in a space defined by the backsidesof a pair of bookcases set at right angles.

Ms. Whitehill once told a reporter that peoplebrowsing in the library could hear her businesscalls and sometimes corrected what they thoughtwere her misstatements.

The new library’s main entrance will be inwhat is currently the back of the building andpatrons will enter a new lobby.

Ms. Badger was quick to say that the familiarGreek revival entrance and its columns willremain in place.

The new entrance, she said, will echo the old.Ms. Badger said the Dailey has a cozy feel to

it that she expects will be retained after therenovation. She said the earlier design mighthave been more than what the Derby communityneeded.

So far, the library has about 70 percent of themoney it needs for the project in hand, Ms.Badger said.

Members of the board have been writinggrants to cover some of the remainder, anddonations are very welcome.

Looking beyond the project, Ms. Provost said,an endowment would be a great thing to have.

“Very often when a library does a revamp, it’sbecause someone left a large amount of money,”she said. “We’ve done it without that.”

Ms. Provost looked around the small room atfour or five patrons. The Dailey is well used bycommunity members, she said.

“People are here at all hours,” she said.“When I come during off hours, I have to lock thedoor because people always come in. I wasdownstairs while we were closed and as I walked

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Ms. Provost said, “People want a place to

come to be with other people and to be withbooks. It’s really amazing.”

New entrance will echo the old(Continued from page ten.)

Barbara Whitehill spent 24 years as librarian at the Dailey Memorial Library. She retired last fall and was followedby Maureen Badger. On Tuesday, Ms. Whitehill helped pack books for the library’s upcoming move to the DerbyCommunity Church.

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WESTMORE — It looks like children inWestmore will get a basketball court.

About ten parents in town sent the selectboard a petition asking to use $5,000 in the townyouth fund to put in a basketball court at thebeach.

As it happens, select board Chair Bill Perkinssaid, Pike Industries was just awarded the bid onsome paving work. And the company has offeredto pave the court at no additional cost if the towndoes the site work.

“We’ll lose probably five parking spaces,” Mr.Perkins said. “There’s a few weekends a yearthat will hurt, but we have a lot of kids now whowould benefit from having a place to paybasketball without their parents having to takethem to Orleans or someplace.”

The town will still have to pay for fencing andbasketball rings, Mr. Perkins said, but that cancome out of the youth fund.

Before they approved the plan, the selectmentalked over possible problems.

Liability insurance will cost an extra $50 ayear, but still the town needs to make thebasketball court as safe as possible.

And there must be rules posted about sharingthe court when there are a lot of people who wantto play.

“They can play half court, and there can betime limits if people are waiting,” Mr. Perkinssaid.

Hours could be the same as the hours thatthe beach is open, the board decided.

“When it gets dark, they go home,” Mr.Perkins said.

“I want to be sure we dot all the i’s and crossall the t’s,” Selectman Dave Stevens said. “I havesome concerns but it’s better than…”

Mr. Stevens’ voice trailed off and he raised hishands in an imitation of someone playing a videogame. Or maybe it was someone texting on asmart phone.

In the end the select board voted to moveforward on building a court in part of the parkingarea across from the beach.

“I’m sure there will be some people who aregoing to say that they don’t like to hear the soundof a basketball bouncing,” Mr. Perkins said, “butif it’s for the kids, it ought to be okay.”

The board also hired Renee Falconer as townanimal control officer.

The three spent a good deal of time talkingover how much to pay, starting with figures thatTown Clerk Melissa Zebrowski had collected fromother nearby towns.

Westmore doesn’t have much of a problemwith stray or at-large dogs.

“People here along the lake keep their dogswith them,” Mr. Perkins said.

So the selectmen didn’t want to pay too muchup front.

“Judging by the number of complaints we’vehad in the past four years, what Brownington ispaying is more than we want to,” Mr. Perkinssaid.

The job includes checking up on dog licenses,dealing with barking dog complaints, and pickingup and boarding strays.

All three of the selectmen have served asanimal control officer at one time or another.

“If I had to go out at midnight, minimumwage wouldn’t be enough,” Mr. Stevens said.

The select board finally settled on a $600annual retainer plus $15 an hour for calls and$15 a day for board.

“The owners pay that anyway,” Mr. Perkinssaid.

If anything, the stickier question was whetherthe animal control officer should patrol NorthBeach.

The town has an ordinance against dogs inthe beach area.

Selectman Burton Hinton didn’t think he’dwant to see anyone patrolling the beach andwriting tickets.

“But a lot of people don’t read signs,” he said,“and it would be nice to have someone warnpeople that if they bring a dog to the beach it’sgoing to cost them $50.”

The uproar over the Department of Forests,Parks, and Recreation’s plan to upgrade theSouth Beach area came up in conversation at themeeting.

“Does anyone know what’s happening withthe nude beach?” Mr. Perkins asked.

Ms. Zebrowski said she’d received an e-mailsaying that the state is revising its plans inresponse to all of the letters and e-mails that thedepartment had gotten recently.

“It’s the nude beach people using the treehuggers to get what they want,” Mr. Perkins said.

That probably wasn’t a popular sentiment, heacknowledged, but he believes that’s what’s goingon.

He said he is firmly against the nude beach,which is state land and not under select boardjurisdiction.

“I don’t know if I’ll get any support for this,”he said, “but we have families who can’t taketheir children to the beach because there are oldmen walking around with it all hanging out.”

“I just hope they don’t take too long workingon a new plan and lose all the grant money,” Mr.Hinton said.

contact Elizabeth Trail [email protected]

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In Westmore

Selectmen talk basketball, animal control, and nude beach

Page 13: Neighbors leery of gravel pit - Barton Chronicle

the Chronicle, May 3, 2017 Page Thirteen

by Joseph Gresser

NEWPORT — The owner of an Irasburggarage trailed a truck that hit one of his businesssigns while keeping police informed of itswhereabouts.

The truck’s driver, Keith B. Sylvester Jr., 28,of Newport, pled guilty Tuesday to driving underthe influence (DUI) and driving with a suspendedlicense (DLS).

Judge Howard VanBenthuysen, sitting in theCriminal Division of Orleans County SuperiorCourt, sentenced him to spend six days on a statework crew.

State Police Trooper Daniel Lynch’s affidavitsays that on September 9 dispatch told him ablue truck with a large Confederate flag had beenrevving its motor in the drive of the garage. Asthe truck pulled away, the flag hit a sign andpossibly damaged it.

Newport Police Patrolman George Butlerpulled Mr. Sylvester over when he showed up onMain Street.

Randy S. Olmstead, 50, of Gorham, NewHampshire, pled guilty to DUI and was fined$500.

The state dismissed a charge of driving at

excessive speed.On January 10 Orleans County Deputy

Sheriff Jonathan MacFarlane saw a silver truckheaded along the Shuler Road at 70 miles an

hour. The road is posted for a 35-mile-an-hourlimit.

In his affidavit Deputy MacFarlane said he

noticed the odor of intoxicants when he spokewith Mr. Olmstead.

Kellie A. Peters, 31, of Newport admittedstealing $30 worth of merchandise from theDerby Walmart on March 31.

After she pled guilty to retail theft, JudgeVanBenthuysen ordered her to serve 59 days onthe work crew.

Deputy MacFarlane’s affidavit says he wascalled to the store and told that Ms. Peters stoodby the self-checkout counter without scanning theitems she held. She started to leave the store,but was stopped by a store security officer.

Misdemeanor arraignments

Among those pleading innocent tomisdemeanors were:

Pedro Garcia, 45, of Boston, Massachusetts, todriving at excessive speed on March 6 in Derby;

Jason M. Norris, 40, of Glover to DUI-2 onApril 16 in Glover;

William M. Anderson, 20, of Concord, NewHampshire, to DUI on April 15 in Barton; and

Cassaundra Walker, 27, of Newport Center toretail theft on April 1 in Derby.

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by Brad Usatch

NEWPORT — A Morgan manstands accused of a pair of larcenycharges stemming from separateincidents. Police say Troy Guertin,32, snatched a purse from ashopping cart only two days after heallegedly robbed a man blind whowas trying to lend him a helpinghand.

At his arraignment before JudgeHoward VanBenthuysen, Mr.Guertin pled innocent tomisdemeanor petty larceny andfelony grand larceny.

State Police Trooper CalvinBurns said in his affidavit that heresponded to a Derby Line residenceon April 16 after a caller reportedthe disappearance of weapons,ammunition, power tools, weldingequipment, and a computer, totalingan estimated $7,448. Thehomeowner said he had been lettingMr. Guertin stay there since aboutApril 1 to “help him get back on hisfeet.” He said he noticed the itemsmissing on April 15.

The homeowner said heconfronted Mr. Guertin about themissing items and later received atext from Mr. Guertin saying hecould retrieve the guns for a price.The homeowner told police he gaveMr. Guertin $975 but has yet toreceive any of the stolen property

back. Trooper Burns said he wasshown texts allegedly from Mr.Guertin that said, “I got your tools,”and “got all your stuff.”

Sergeant Travis Bingham of theNewport Police Department said inhis affidavit that he responded toVista Foods on the afternoon ofApril 18. He said video surveillanceprovided by the store managershowed someone reach into ashopping cart and take a purse froman individual looking at chicken atthe back of the store. Other cameraviews showed the person tuck thepurse into his coat as he made aquick line to the exit. SergeantBingham said that, based onprevious contact, he recognized theindividual as Mr. Guertin. Courtrecords show the purse contained$45 in cash, a set of keys, a cellphone and other items totalingabout $565.

Unlawful trespass

A Derby man settled up withthe state on April 25, striking pleaagreements on a number ofunrelated charges.

Thirty-year-old Ryan Hintonwill serve four days in jail and pay$307 in surcharges in exchange forhis guilty plea to one charge offelony DUI, third offense or greater.As part of a plea agreement, the

state dismissed a companion felony“legal limit” charge.

Mr. Hinton was also sentencedto three years on furlough when hepled guilty to felony unlawfultrespass, amended from felonyburglary, for breaking into anoccupied residence.

Trooper Marie Beland said inher affidavit that a Derby residentreported returning home on themorning of July 31, 2016, to findpots, pans, dishes, food andbathroom items had been taken.The caller told Trooper Beland thatMr. Hinton had a history of doingsimilar things as a way to getattention. The resident told TrooperBeland that she went to Mr.Hinton’s place of work and found acrate containing some of the missingitems in his unlocked car. Sheprovided Trooper Beland withphotographs of the items in Mr.Hinton’s car.

When confronted by TrooperBeland at his workplace, Mr. Hintonadmitted to “popping a lock” with ascrewdriver, but said he did so toretrieve items belonging to anotherperson. That individual told policethat he absolutely did not ask Mr.Hinton to retrieve any items fromthe residence.

Trooper Robert Helm said in hisaffidavit that a resident on Route 5in Derby called shortly before 1 a.m.on August 12, 2016, to reporthearing a skid and a crash near herhome. At the scene, Trooper Helmdiscovered Mr. Hinton’s damaged

car off the roadway. Trooper Helm said he smelled

the strong odor of intoxicants andnoticed Mr. Hinton had slurredspeech and bloodshot eyes. Headministered a field sobriety testand a breath test resulting in acitation.

Domestic assault

Nicholas Montgomery wassentenced to nine to 18 months onprobation for a violent incident inwhich he punched an individual inthe head.

The 28-year-old Derby Lineresident pled guilty to a singlemisdemeanor charge of domesticassault as part of an agreement thatalso required he pay $147 insurcharges.

Trooper Helm said in hisaffidavit that an individual who wasdriving to the Newport PoliceStation on May 22, 2016, to reportan assault stopped en route to speakto a Border Patrol agent. Theindividual told police that Mr.Montgomery had been drinkingbefore arriving at a North Troyresidence where an argumentensued. At one point he punchedthe resident with a closed fist in thehead, and shoved the individual intoa door frame and a clothes dryingrack. The person reporting theassault said it wasn’t the first timeMr. Montgomery had beenphysically violent.

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Man allegedly gropes bar patron

Fabian Prive, 56, of Newport is facing a felonycharge of lewd and lascivious conduct forallegedly groping a bartender while she wassitting in the bar off duty.

Patrolman Joshua Lillis said in his affidavitthat he was called to the Eagles Club in Newportby a bar manager who showed him surveillancefootage from three different angles of theallegedly illegal contact. Patrolman Lillis said herecognized Mr. Prive from prior law enforcementcontact. He said the video appeared to show Mr.Prive approach a seated individual and touch heron her mid-section, breast, and thigh as she triedto avoid contact by drawing her elbows in to herbody.

The woman told Patrolman Lillis that shesaid, “What the hell are you doing?” when shefirst felt herself being touched.

Mr. Prive pled innocent to the charge at hisarraignment on April 25. He was lodged at theNorthern State Correctional Facility in Newportfor lack of $5,000 bail.

Woman steals wallet at job interview

A Newport woman failed to put her best footforward when she was nabbed for taking a walletoff a desk at a Newport business where she hadarrived for a job interview.

She will serve one to three months onprobation and pay $147 in surcharges, for takingmoney from a wallet at the Newport business.

Donna Sanville, 45, pled guilty tomisdemeanor petty larceny and was sentenced toone to three months on probation as part of anagreement that also requires her to reimburse therightful owner of the cash, and pay $147 insurcharges.

Senior officer Royce Lancaster of the NewportCity Police said in his affidavit that he was calledto Claire’s Cleaning on the Bluff Road onNovember 28, 2016, by an employee who reported

the theft of $205 from a wallet left on a desk.Patrolman Lancaster said video surveillanceshowed Ms. Sanville entering the office for 28seconds then leaving.

Confronted with the video evidence, Ms.Sanville said she would pay the money back. Shewas cited into court when she failed to repay anyof the money by the date she had agreed to.

DUIs

A Barton woman will pay a $500 fine and$282 in surcharges for driving under theinfluence in Barton on April 20, 2016.

Rachel Duquette, 49, pled guilty to onemisdemeanor charge of driving under theinfluence and had a companion charge dismissedby the state on April 26. According to courtrecords, Ms. Duquette was stopped by SergeantDavid Roos and was issued a citation after heconducted a field sobriety test and a breath test.

A Coventry man will serve up to one year onprobation after he resolved a number ofmisdemeanor charges against him at a change ofplea hearing before Judge VanBenthuysen onApril 26.

Damion Daniels, 20, pled guilty to one chargeof driving under the influence and one charge ofviolating the conditions of his release. As part ofthe agreement, the state dismissed a separateDUI charge and a charge of driving with asuspended license.

On January 27, Newport Patrolman NicholasRivers said he pulled Mr. Daniels over on UnionStreet in Newport after he drove by while texting.Further investigation revealed that he wasprohibited from driving any vehicle as a conditionof his release from a previous DUI charge.

Newport Patrolman David Jacobs said in hisaffidavit that he pulled Mr. Daniels over on EastMain Street in Newport on March 18 afterestimating his speed at 55 miles per hour in a 25mile per hour zone. He said Mr. Daniels wasarrested and charged with driving under theinfluence based on his performance on a fieldsobriety test.

Mr. Daniels received a suspended sentence of

three to six months and was ordered to pay $147in surcharges for violating conditions of release.He was sentenced to six to 12 months, allsuspended, for the DUI judgment.

Detergent top-off

Honey Daniels, 37, of Derby, pled guilty toone misdemeanor charge of retail theft inexchange for $147 in surcharges and therequirement that she complete a program withthe reparative board.

Newport Patrolman J. Lillis responded to theFamily Dollar in Newport City on October 28,2015, at the request of a store manager. Themanager explained that Ms. Daniels, had takentwo detergent bottles off a shelf, used one to topoff the other, then paid for the full one. Themanager said that a typical new bottle ofdetergent is about three-quarters full. Videosurveillance allegedly showed Ms. Daniels walkoff camera with two bottles and return with onlyone. The manager said she later found the half-full bottle at the back of the store.

Patrolman Lillis said that he called Ms.Daniels, who initially told him that she alwaysdoes that and does not consider it stealing.

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“What really worries me is the environment.He can do a lot of damage in four years. He’salready done a lot.

“And in the meantime we’re paying the SecretService to guard him and his wife in separatehouseholds and footing the bill for his golf trips toMar-a-Lago almost every freakin’ weekend.”

Susan Sicard of Barton: “I am a fan of him. Ithink he’s done as well as he possibly could withthe people he has to work with. Like any otherPresident, he can’t do more than what peopleallow him to do. I think the media has beenextremely horrible to him.”

Ms. Sicard said she approves of PresidentTrump’s stance on illegal immigration, and shebelieves that he’s looking for fraud and waste inentitlement programs such as welfare and SocialSecurity.

“A lot of things need to be changed,” she said.“Welfare, Social Security, where is the money andwho’s getting it? I think a lot of people are takingadvantage.

“I like the fact that he’s trying to get thingsstraightened out for our country, not letting allthe illegal aliens in. We need to take care ofourselves first.

“Leave him alone right now to do what he hasto do. I don’t care what he did in the past.

“I believe if the media would get their nosesout of his business and stop criticizing him you’dsee a different world.”

Eugene Levine, who works in Newport andlives in Burke: “Trump laid out a plan to destroythe government, and people were prepared to lethim do that. He was like Samson ready to tearthe temple down around him.

“When he got to Washington he found hecouldn’t do that. The institutions of governmentwouldn’t allow him to do that by design.

“Every move he made put him in conflict withthe other institutions, because they were designedto do that.

“So what’s happened is that he’s fighting aseries of battles without a plan for winning thewar.

“There are powerful institutions in conflictwith each other. All of them got powerful becausethey served some interest. Much of what hewants to tear down grew up in the fertile soil ofthe New Deal.

“Those institutions were designed to protectthe poor, the dispossessed, blacks, Hispanics, andmigrant workers. He wants to dismantleprotection for those people and help the rich andpowerful.

“This is fine with people who benefitted fromthe institutions but refuse to recognize that theywere helped by them.”

Brian McNeal, Newport: “I have to say themedia is after him more than any other

President. When Obama was starting, becausehe was a black man, they were afraid to sayanything because of discrimination.

“As far as I can see, Trump is trying to dowhat he promised. He’s finding out that somethings can’t happen, but I have to say he’s beentrying.

“He’s trying to give people a tax break butadding taxes to gas. That means people will payless in taxes, but spend more on the road. Thatmay be a wash.

“Other than that, the media, for some reasonor another, won’t let go.”

John Selmer, Westfield: “I’m going to holdneutral on that. I see some good and some bad. Istopped voting because I’ve never seen apolitician, yet, stick to his promises.

“Trump has tried, but he hasn’t gotten a lot ofcooperation from either side. That’s including hisown party.

“I still watch the news and read newspapersand hope.”

Deb Smith, Westmore: “He’s a catalyst forchange. People are stepping up and payingattention and taking the reins back.

“I think there’s some complacency.Sometimes, if individuals’ lives work for them,complacency sets in.

“One person can’t save us; we all have to stepup and get involved. It’s almost like Trump isproviding an opportunity for that. I feel like he’sa spiritual bridge to something on the other sidewe all have to get to.

“I’m glad as a Vermonter I could vote forBernie, I couldn’t vote for Trump or Hillary.”

Anne Chiarello, Newport: “It’s been a terriblefirst hundred days. He distracted us with a groupof horrible things, so people didn’t know what tofight first.

“I hate what he has done with immigrants; heseems to forget we were all immigrants at onetime.

“He’s trying to take away our nationalmonuments and wants to build the Keystonepipeline. And there is the health care situation.he tried to take away the Affordable Care Act andfailed, then said he would leave it alone. Nowhe’s trying again.

“It’s horrible.” Peter Badertscher of Irasburg: “Trump’s

trying to do what he said he was going to do.” Elizabeth Harrington of Derby: “It’s pretty

much what I expected. I am very saddened thatour country chose to have Trump as ourPresident, and now we are feeling the effects of it.He’s presenting as very disorganized. I don’twant to offend anyone. But me, personally, as aneducated, American-born woman, I think it’s sadthat this is who we chose to lead our country. Idon’t think he represents the American peoplevery well, both in the country and across theworld. I think he’s not doing a very good job of

representing what we want and what’s best for usand our children.”

John Broe of Charleston: “It’s beeninteresting. I don’t even know. I’m not sure whatto think. I think some good, some bad.Sometimes I wish he’d be a little more quiet, notsay what he’s thinking every second.”

Linda Schneck of Barton: “I believe it’s been100 days of trying to destroy our democracy andto do unethical things that seem to be against ourConstitution. And so I do not think it’s asuccessful hundred days. I think he shouldactually be impeached and there are many, manyreasons for that.

Charlie Bachelder of Brownington: He’s doneas good as any other presidents so far, give ortake. Time will tell. It’s only 100 days and it’shard to get anything done in 100 days. You gotDemocrats and Republicans doing the same. It’sback and forth. Give it two years and we’ll seehow he’s doing.”

Scott Wheeler of Derby: “It’s certainly beenan interesting ride. As I would do with anypresidential candidate, I give them the benefit ofthe doubt. I hate to say this to the media, but Ido think the media in every form has got to knockit off. They’ve got to focus more on doing theirjobs and stop being cheerleaders. It’s kind of sadthat I have to listen to the BBC to find out what’sreally going on.”

Scott Jenness, Derby: “Make America greatagain!” he exclaimed when asked for hisassessment of the first hundred days.

When asked what the slogan means to him,Mr. Jenness said, “Closing borders.”

“We have to give him time. A hundred daysisn’t all that long. It’s going to take more than100 days to straighten out eight years of horror.”

Immigration, foreign affairs, and the economyare the things he thinks are most in need ofstraightening out.

“The economy should be number one,” hesaid. “I should have said the economy first.”

Marie-Josse Jenness, describes herself as aFrench Quebecer married to an American. She’slived in Derby for a year now.

“I come from a completely differentbackground, so this is how it looks to me,” shesaid.

“Give it a chance. He’s pushing people in theU.S. and you guys need it. It doesn’t mean it’sgoing to work, but you should at least give him achance. If you don’t, everyone voted for nothing.”

Jason Sicard, Barton: “You never know whatdirection he’s headed in, and I’m not surewhether that’s good or bad, but the biggest thingis that people should respect the office. Themedia and the people who didn’t win are so upset.It’s natural, I guess, but it comes across asinsulting.

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“He didn’t build the empire he’sgot because he’s dumb,” he said witha laugh. “But he sure didn’t go toPR school.

“We have two parties and theyboth bring good things to the table.I think that’s what our forefathershad in mind.”

Tim Lahar, Barton: The countrythat President Trump inherited isembarrassing, Mr. Lahar said. “We’resupposed to live in the greatestcountry, and there are Third Worldcountries that look better than we do.”

Government is one of the bigthings that needs to be fixed, Mr.Lahar said. “It’s just one handwashing the other.

“The people who criticize himneed to remember that somebodyput him in there. A lot of people puthim in there.

“I think he’s doing a lot and it’shappening fast and that scarespeople. He’s doing stuff that oughtto have been done a long time ago.”

An example is Syria, Mr. Laharsaid. “I can’t believe we sat backand watched it for so long.”

Mimi Smyth, chair of theOrleans County Democratic Party:“For me, these 100 days have been atime of disbelief, fear, and outrage,”she said. “We have a President whoopenly attacks the press, deniesscience, who wants to roll backenvironmental protections....

“I’m discouraged by many of theactions he’s taken. I’m alsoencouraged by the judicial systemthat has been able to act as a check.Immigration is a concern, I’mconcerned about the dairy industry.”

She said she’s also concernedabout President Trump’s Cabinetpicks, many of whom seem to wantto disable the very agencies theyhead, by hate speech, by policiesthat are the opposite of what shebelieves in as a progressiveDemocrat.

“I think we’re in a pivotal placein our democracy and that in orderto ensure civil liberties, preserve theenvironment, and move forward as anation that values all citizens,people need to get involved,especially through voting. Theelection of Donald Trump spurredmy interest in becoming the chairfor the Democrat Party of OrleansCounty.”

Chet Greenwood is chair of theOrleans County Republican Party.“I think he’s done fine,” he said. “Ithink he’d do better if so manypeople weren’t fighting him all theway.”

The stock market is up, in parta reflection of the optimism in thebusiness community, Mr.Greenwood said. And that, he said,has other benefits, such as the valueof 401ks has gone up considerably.

“As far as domestic policy, he’sappointed one of the better

cabinets,” he said. “They’rerealists.”

And the foreign policy staff is“superb,” Mr. Greenwood said.“He’s shown the world that we’regoing to fight back and not apologizeand retreat.

“The other thing he’s done wellis immigration.”

He said he’s not sure about thePresident’s plan to build a wallbetween the U.S. and Mexico. “I’drather see a virtual wall. I think wecould use that money someplace else.”

But on the other hand,President Trump’s get tough onillegal immigration attitude hasbeen effective in itself and

substantially slowed the flow ofillegal immigrants into the country,Mr. Greenwood said.

Obamacare and taxes still mustbe addressed, he said.

“He’s best probably on theeconomy and jobs. If you have morepeople working, you create betterjobs. And if the tax structure getsbetter, if corporate income getsbetter, employee wages get better.”

“He’s brash, he’s rude. Hedidn’t build that empire acting theway he acted in the Primary. Hemade his empire because he’sbrilliant.

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As its title suggests, the show revolves arounda night at the opera. The year is 1934, the placeis Cleveland. World-renowned tenor Tito Merelli(played by Phil Gosselin) is scheduled to give aperformance of Verdi’s Otello.

Henry Saunders (Michael Desjardins), theopera company’s manager, is busy dealing withlast minute emergencies, not the least of which isthat Merelli has yet to arrive.

Max Garber (Todd Cubit) is Saunders’assistant. The two men anticipate a disaster, onethat Max hopes to turn to his advantage. He tellsSaunders that he knows the role and offers to goon in Merelli’s place.

Saunders mockingly turns his assistant down.Max has similar luck with the boss’ daughter,

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Maggie is not the only one hoping to seeMerelli. Julia (Kim Gannon), the head of theCleveland Opera Guild, and Diana (RhondaLucas), the Cleveland diva who is to sing oppositeMerelli, are also eager to meet the great tenor.

Saunders, frantic with worry, puts them off

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wife, Maria (Tiffany Quinn), show up, but thegreat singer is in no hurry to get to the theater.He complains of a stomachache and goes into thebedroom of the hotel suite to rest.

This is a good time to note that the setreveals the sitting room and bedroom of the suite,with only a door and a white stripe on the stageindicating where the wall would be.

Merelli’s absence is a great disappointment tothe hotel bellhop (Ron St. John), an opera fan ona mission to meet his hero.

Merelli tells Saunders that there is no reasonfor him to attend the rehearsal. He hasperformed the part dozens of times, and evencarries his own costume and wigs with him. Infact, he explains, he carries two costumes sonothing can go wrong.

In a farce, that is a tell. If someone saysnothing can go wrong, everything will go wrong.And always, the thing that’s guaranteed toprevent trouble will guarantee that the maximumamount of hilarious trouble will ensue.

When Max and Saunders mistakenly decidethat Merelli has died, they quickly hatch a planto pass Max off as the superstar singer. Theycount on the Otello costume to be an effectivedisguise.

Their plan would be brilliant if Merelli were,in fact, dead. But when the tenor rouses himself,puts on the other costume and heads to the operahouse, all hell breaks loose.

Almost the entire cast is made up of seasonedQNEK members, and each is well cast. Mr.Desjardins is a volcano that barely holds back itseruptions.

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Merelli (Phil Gosselin) soothes his wife’s jealousy by promising a lovely holiday when his opera tour is over. Mariais played by Tiffany Quinn.

Max (Todd Cubit), still in his Otello costume, is overwhelmed by praise from Saunders (Michael Desjardins, left),the bellhop (Ron St. John), Julia (Kim Gannon), and his unsuspecting sweetheart, Maggie (Andrea Webster, right.)

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Mr. Cubit’s Max is properlymeek at the beginning of the play,but when his impersonation issuccessful he quickly takes on anopera star’s hauteur.

Ms. Webster handles theingénue role with a charmingmixture of naiveté andadventurousness.

The supporting characters madethe stage sparkle whenever they setfoot onto it.

As the leader of the opera guild,Ms. Gannon exuded the kind ofgoofy self-importance that the greatMargaret Dumont brought to theMarx Brother’s films.

Ms. Lucas exhibited analarming degree of sexuality —alarming that is to the male leads— in her role as an ambitioussoprano who will stop at absolutelynothing in her quest to hit the bigtime in New York City.

The persistent bellhop ismotivated by two forces —admiration of Merelli and acomplete dislike of Saunders. Mr.St. John plays both to the hilt,demonstrating conclusively thatthere are no small parts.

Maria, Merelli’s wife, could comeoff as a harridan, but in Ms. Quinn’shands she emerges as a woman wholoves her temperamental husbandand is justly worried about thewomen who are drawn to his

magnificent voice.That brings me to Mr. Gosselin,

who along with Ms. Dunne, his wife,has directed QNEK.

Mr. Gosselin is an excellentcomic actor with all the skillsimplied by that description. InLend Me A Tenor he revealedanother talent, a terrific voice.

When speaking as Merelli, Mr.Gosselin perfectly captures theexaggerated, from-the-diaphragm,style of speech affected by tenors.The surprise, though, was hisexcellent singing.

At one point in the play, Merelligives Max some impromptu vocalcoaching. It’s a lovely scene thatmoves from Max’s uncertainty whenhe first starts to sing before his idol,through a set of hilarious stressreduction exercises, to the momentwhen Merelli realizes that Max, infact, has a wonderful talent.

Max starts out singing theopening bars of “Dio, che nell’almainfondere,” the friendship duet fromVerdi’s Don Carlo. Merelli listensand then joins in.

Both men acquitted themselveswell, but Mr. Gosselin really cansing that sort of thing.

The real beauty of the scene,though, is how it shows thegenerosity of the great singer as heinstructs his protégé to tell himself,“I’m-a Max. I sing good.”

Sharp performanceslead to big laughs(Continued from page eighteen.)

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Ms. Dunne’s direction isunderstated, but her firm hand isevident in the complete lack ofextraneous mugging or needlessaction. The performance is honed toa razor’s sharpness.

The area will miss both Mr.Gosselin and Ms. Dunne when theyleave to try their theatrical fortunein Austin, Texas. The Kingdom willbe poorer for the loss of QNEK,which has regularly treated localaudiences to wonderful evenings inthe theater.

Though the company is

approaching its final days, this isonly the beginning of the end. LendMe A Tenor still has performanceson Friday, May 5, and Saturday,May 6, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday,May 7, at 2 p.m.

QNEK will continue through thesummer presenting Guys and Dollsfrom July 14 through July 23, andThe Q Revue, featuring fully stagedscenes from several shows, fromAugust 11 to August 13.

The company’s 25-year run willend with final performances of itssignature show, Nunsense, playingfrom September 15 to September 17.

(Continued from page nineteen.)

The bellhop is here with Merelli’s luggage. He sees Max (Todd Cubit, left), Maria(Tiffany Quinn), and Saunders (Michael Desjardins), but really hopes to meet thetenor.

Green Up Day is one of themany reasons why Vermont is sucha special pace and why folks from“the lower forty” come up here andcontribute to our economy. For 47years Vermonters have been comingtogether on the first Saturday inMay — rain or shine — to clean upthe trash left behind on the state’sroadways. The tonnage of trash leftthere had there been no Green UpDay is unimaginable. Just drivethrough some of the states south ofVermont and get a look at how litterdiminishes the landscape.

For those looking to lend a handthis year, on Saturday, May 6, freeGreen Up Day bags are available atthe Barton town clerk’s office, E.M.Brown and Son, in Barton, and J.B.Colton in Orleans. Fill them up andleave them on the road. Or, bringthem to the Barton Town garagenext to the recycling center on MayFarm Road between 9 a.m. and 4p.m. and enjoy some free ice cream.People can use regular trash bags ifthey prefer. Cleanup can also bedone prior to Green Up Day. Justbe sure to leave the bags on theroad so that others will see thatGreen Up Day around here is active.Ice cream is available on the honorsystem, so people who clean up

before Saturday should still come byfor a treat.

Volunteers should call BartonGreen Up Day coordinators Ozzieand Judy Henchel at 525-3944 to letthem know where they plan towork. If a neighbor is alreadypicking up on that road, they maysuggest another location.

Please do not dispose ofhousehold trash, electronics,hazardous waste, or furniture onGreen Up Day, per order of theselectmen. Roadside tires (we cantell by looking at them) will bepermitted. 

Judging by how full thedumpsters got, last year was verysuccessful.

“But look around,” said theHenchels. “It’s pretty bad out there.Let’s clean things up. Bring yourkids. They’ll learn a valuablelesson. They will be the ones tomake this an ongoing success for aVermont we can drive through andenjoy.”

People looking to help outside ofthe town of Barton should visitwww.greenupvermont.org to findout how they can participate. —submitted by Ozzie and JudyHenchel.

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The board told Mr. Giroux that he’d have tobring all of his paperwork up to date.

“We were trying to work with him, trying tomake it as palatable and painless as we could,”Mr. Croteau said.

Mr. Giroux failed to comply with part of thetown ordinances regarding trash and recyclingthat says all haulers are required to send in aform each month reporting how many tons oftrash they’ve picked up.

He wasn’t the only one of the town’s trashhaulers who got behind on turning in theirtonnage last fall, Mr. Croteau said. But all of theother trash services brought their reports up todate after getting notices in November.

However, Mr. Croteau said that, since Mr.Giroux didn’t respond after many attempts toreach him by mail, e-mail, and phone, the selectboard set a date for a hearing. On March 23, thetown attorney sent Mr. Giroux a notice to appear.

Mr. Giroux signed for the letter at the postoffice, but didn’t reply to it or show up for thehearing, Mr. Croteau said at the time.

“Laws without enforcement are just goodadvice,” he said. “If you are supposed to have anordinance, you have to enforce it.”

On Monday night, the board voted toreinstate Dave’s Rubbish as a permitted hauler inthe town of Barton.

“So carried,” Mr. Croteau said. “You’re backin business.”

Scott Jenness and Tim Lahar came toMonday night’s meeting representing the RidgeRunners, the local all terrain vehicle (ATV) club.

They’re asking the select board to open two-tenths of a mile of the River Road and half a mileof Tarbox Road to ATV traffic.

The piece of the River Road that’s in Bartonwould allow ATVers to ride from Irasburg toOrleans Village. And Tarbox Road connectsBrownington to Orleans Village.

“The point of doing this is that OrleansVillage had opened all of its streets to ATVs,” Mr.Jenness said.

A few minutes later he said he wasn’t sure ifthe streets in Orleans are currently open, or ifthat’s pending.

Despite the persistent rumor that Orleanshas opened its streets to ATVS, village trusteesLarry Wilcox and Gerard Martel said by phone onTuesday that, although the idea of allowing ATVsin the village has been brought up, to theirknowledge, no ordinance has been passed yet.

The idea is to open up roads connecting all ofthe towns in the area, Mr. Jenness said at theBarton meeting, and to find ways for ATV ridersto get into towns to buy fuel, pick up somethingat a local store, or eat at a restaurant.

“That benefits us, and it also benefits localbusinesses,” Mr. Jenness said.

“They came under the VASA banner last falland wanted to connect Barton, Irasburg, andGlover,” Mr. Croteau said.

VASA is the Vermont ATV Sportsman’sAssociation.

“They needed a piece of Stevens Road,” Mr.Croteau said. “We did that and drafted anordinance, that’s behind us.”

Ridge Runners is the local VASA affiliate, Mr.

Jenness explained. He’s the president of the club,the only ATV club in Orleans County. The groupis modeled on the Vermont Association of SnowTravelers (VAST), which has successfullyorganized thousands of miles of winter trails forsnowmobilers in the state.

The two men had been to Coventry earlier inthe evening and had gotten permission to useroads in that town.

“We’ve been working for years to get access tothe bridge over I-91,” Mr. Jenness said.

The club now has trails from Newport Centerto Danville, and from Danville they’re working toget over into New Hampshire.

“I don’t have any questions,” select boardmember Jodi Frey said. “They want to access thevillage and they need to use the roads to getthere.”

“I do support ATVs, I think it’s an up andcoming thing,” Mr. Greenwood said.

He had concerns about running ATVs onTarbox Hill in the winter because it’s steep andcan be treacherous, even for cars.

“The season ends October 1,” Mr. Jennesssaid. “We don’t run in the winter.”

Both Mr. Croteau and Mr. Greenwood want tohear more about what Orleans Village hasdecided to do about ATVs before opening twomore Barton roads.

Membership in the Ridge Runners has gonefrom 180 to 410 in the past year, Mr. Lahar said.

“We’re just trying to organize a sport thatneeds organizing.”

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This year’s camp runs July 24 through 28from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to campers whohave finished sixth, seventh, or eighth grade.

The purpose of the camps is to reinforcelearning for students over the summer break fromschool, but the reason that Irasburg has beenchosen each year is because the camps are fun.

This year’s theme is “Myths, Monsters andthe Greeks: What Do You Really Know AboutStar Wars, The Lion King and Harry Potter?”

There will be a week-long amazing racecontest, with team challenges in Promethean firerelays, Herculean labors, a search for Simba’s andLuke’s fathers, Olympic events, and more.

Each camper receives five free books to beused during the week. The art projects follow thereadings and highlight geography, story lines,architecture, masks, constellations, and culture.

Last year, nineteen campers, who came from

five different schools, became friends from thefirst day of camp. They also showed a genuinecuriosity and enthusiasm for learning.

If it sounds like school, it’s not. It’s a freesummer camp with a theme. The camp offers arange of activities that helps the campers learn inthe style that suits them best, whether it isthrough art, music, athletics, problem-solving,construction, games, or film.

Many campers have returned for more thanone camp. It is a camp that accepts andencourages the talents of all the campers.

Students from the Irasburg school, homeschoolers, as well as kids from the OrleansCentral Supervisory Union are welcome to apply.Enrollment is capped at twenty campers. Contactthe Irasburg school at 754-8810 for anapplication. Applications are due by Thursday,June 1. — submitted by Deborah and GaryJohnson.

The North Country Chorus will perform FelixMendelssohn’s popular oratorio Elijah, inEnglish, on Sunday, May 7, at 3 p.m., at UnitedCommunity Church, South Building (formerly theSouth Congregational Church), in St. Johnsbury.

The title role of Elijah will be sung bybaritone Lucas Weiss of St. Johnsbury. Otherfeatured soloists will include sopranos JulieDrown and Katharine DeBoer, and tenor TalanBryant.

Singers will be accompanied by PeterBeardsley on organ, and Robert Wilson on piano.Musical Director Alan Rowe will conduct.

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Trustees say no ATV ordinance yet in Orleans(Continued from page one.)

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Grants totaling $100,000 were awarded thisyear for ten projects statewide including thereplacement of a culvert with a new bridge thatwill allow improved movement of fish and wildlifebetween Hall’s Creek and Lake Memphremagogin Derby.

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or better than one infection for every 1,000people.

That same 2015 data ranked Vermont as thestate with the highest incidence of Lyme diseasein the country. That year, the Center for DiseaseControl reported that 78.4 out of every 100,000Vermonters was infected at some point. Thatnumber was well above most other states,including Connecticut, which reported aninfection rate of 52.2 per 100,000.

Lyme disease is caused by the presence of theBorellia burgdorfia bacteria. Its symptoms vary,but can include headache, fever, chills, musclepain, joint pain and fatigue. Symptoms can beginwithin days of a tick bite or up to 30 days afterinfection, according to the Department of Health.An infected tick bite is sometimes, but notalways, accompanied by a red bulls-eye rash.

While the general trend has been rising forboth the presence of ticks statewide and theillnesses they carry, no one can say for sure howsevere the season will be here in the NortheastKingdom this year.

Alan Giese is an associate professor of biologyat Lyndon State College. He said that, ingeneral, tick densities fluctuate from year to yearbased on factors like the severity and length ofwinters, and the number of available hosts —deer, mice, and birds.

“Unfortunately, my work doesn’t allow me tobe very predictive,” he said.

For the past four or five years, Mr. Giese andhis students have been surveying for ticksdirectly at different sites across the state,tracking geographical differences, looking foryear-to-year trends, and testing for differentpathogens.

What Mr. Giese’s research has shown is that

there is tremendous population variation on asmall scale throughout Vermont.

He said the general perception remains truethat ticks are a bigger problem farther south.But, he said, even down by Bellows Falls andBennington he will find areas of tick abundance,then a half mile away in a suitable area he justwon’t find the same number.

When averaged over small scale variations,Mr. Giese said, tick densities still remain higherfarther south, and even in the southern NortheastKingdom versus northern Orleans and Essexcounties.

But he cautioned that there are local hotspots.“Anywhere in the Northeast Kingdom where

it’s a little warmer and more moist than the areasaround it, particularly where there is a thicklayer of leaf litter from hardwoods, and groundvegetation is present, there are probably a lot ofticks,” he said.

Bradley Tompkins, an infectious diseaseepidemiologist at the Department of Health, saidhis agency’s focus is on prevention and treatment,rather than trying to forecast the tick season.

“We don’t do any kind of pre-surveillance,” hesaid. “There are just so many different factorsdetermining how severe a season will be.”

He recommended preventive measures likelong pants and long sleeves, and tight-fittingclothing to make it more difficult for ticks to finda place to grab on.

Most important, he said, is to regularly checkyourself and those you are with for the presenceof ticks, especially after being in wooded or grassyareas where ticks are likely to be abundant.

Mr. Tompkins said that, for Lyme disease, itis pretty well established that a tick has to beattached for a certain period of time in order forthe disease to be transmitted. People argue, hesaid, but in most cases that period is probablyaround 24 to 36 hours.

He also noted that contrary to what manypeople think, they often won’t realize a tick isattached until they or someone else finds it.

“So the point we emphasize is do tick checksevery day, and if you find one, pull it off as soonas possible,” Mr. Tompkins said.

Lyme is the most common tick borne disease,but other very serious infections can be spreadthrough tick bites. Compared to the 490-plusLyme disease cases on average over the last fiveyears for which data is available, Mr. Tompkinssaid the state saw 139 confirmed or suspectedcases of anaplasmosis in 2015, making it thesecond most prevalent tick-borne ailment.

Symptoms for anaplasmosis can include fever,chills, and muscle pain, but also cough, confusion,and nausea, Mr. Tompkins said. It is notcommonly associated with the bulls-eye rash of aLyme disease infection. Symptoms can be vagueand vary from person to person, so anyone whodevelops any symptoms, especially if they suspectthey were bitten by a tick, should seek immediatemedical attention.

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Vermont leads U.S. in incidence of Lyme disease(Continued from page one.)

(Continued on page twenty-five.)

A reader discovered this black legged tick (or deer tick)on her Wheelock property on April 30.

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Anaplasmosis can be treated with antibiotics,but if not addressed quickly, Mr. Tompkins saidthe illness can be severe, even fatal.

Another tick-borne disease, Babesiosis, oftenwill not show symptoms for one to four weeksafter a bite. Some people never have anysymptoms at all. For others, it is characterizedby many of the same conditions — fever, chills,muscle aches — as Lyme disease, but alsosometimes jaundice.

Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacterial infectionsometimes characterized by relapsing fever, hasalso been reported in Vermont.

Stan Dunklee has been on the front lines ofthe Lyme disease fight in more ways than one.He is the office manager at the Barton VeterinaryHospital — his wife, Judith Robitaille-Dunklee, isthe vet — and he has also personally beeninfected with Lyme disease. Mr. Dunklee saidpeople should, of course, take all therecommended precautions with clothing and tickchecks, but his own experience is at odds withsome of the conventional wisdom.

“I was personally bitten by a tick and 19hours later I had Lyme disease,” Mr. Dunkleesaid.

He said he was out mountain biking inWilloughby State Forest last summer when hepicked up a tick — a tiny nymph — and by earlythe next morning had flu symptoms, shakes, andtremors in his face. Mr. Dunklee said he had beencareful to remove the tick properly by grabbingthe head parts and pulling outward rather thansqueezing the body of the tick. Once infected, hehad himself treated by a physician immediatelyand has been free and clear ever since.

And while Mr. Dunklee would not discourageanyone from taking the recommended precautionsincluding tight-fitting clothing, he said the tickthat bit him had crawled up under his bikingshorts.

“Fortunately we can do more for pets than wecan for people,” Mr. Dunklee said.

He said, typically, cats don’t have as much ofa problem with ticks because they groomthemselves meticulously.

Mr. Dunklee said there is a vaccine for dogsthat provides some protection. He warned thattick bites have a cumulative effect as far as Lymedisease is concerned, and once an animal testspositive, it’s usually positive for life.

He said topical medications are available forabout $23 for a dose that lasts about a month andboth repels and kills ticks, as well as mosquitosand fleas. He said there is also a relatively new,non-toxic three-month tablet for a little over 60dollars per dose. He said they have been using itfor about two years and find it to be highlyeffective.

As far as when tick season starts and ends,Mr. Dunklee recommends a cautious approach,and the data from the Department of Healthbacks him up. Explore the tabs atwww.healthvermont.gov/disease-control/mosquito-

tick-zoonotic for a host of information oninfections carried by insects.

“If there’s anything brown that is not snow-covered,” he said, “ticks may be present. Ifthere’s grass poking through the snow, ticks couldbe on it.”

He noted that we are right now in the midstof a part of the year when tick activity is greatest.A chart on the Department of Health websiteshows that tick related emergency room visitsand urgent care visits spike early in the spring,decline briefly, then reach their annual peak inlate May and early June. Another significantspike occurs in October and November.

Barton Veterinary Hospital recommendsseeing dogs around this time of year to test forheartworm. That test that also picks up Lymedisease, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis — adisease spread by the lone star tick still foundmostly in southern Vermont.

Mr. Dunklee also said that while the blacklegged tick is the most common source ofinfections — recent studies have found that halftest positive for Lyme disease — any tick shouldbe considered a potential carrier of an infectiousdisease. He cited research from the Midwest thatshowed pathogens present in every tick exceptthe moose tick.

Mr. Dunklee said Lyme disease is still fairlyrare up here in the pets they see. They diagnosedtheir first case about five years ago, he said, whenthey tested a dog that was showing gait issues.

As for humans, Mr. Dunklee’s advice was tocheck yourself often and remove any ticks foundimmediately. There is a special tool available,but a pair of tweezers should often suffice to grabthe tick by the head.

“If you’re outside, do a tick check everynight,” he said. “And if you see one tick bite,don’t dismiss it.”

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“I was personally bittenby a tick and 19 hours

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The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board votedon the Fish and Wildlife Department’s proposalfor antlerless deer hunting for 2017 at its meetingon April 26 in Montpelier.   

“We are recommending an increase inmuzzleloader season antlerless deer permits thisyear to account for the increase in the deerpopulation following another mild winter in2017,” said Nick Fortin, deer project leader forthe Fish and Wildlife Department. “Much ofVermont has experienced two consecutive verymild winters.  As a result, the recommendation isintended to stabilize or reduce deer densities insome parts of the state while allowing formoderate population growth in other areas.”

The department’s annual recommendation isbased on population estimates, biological data,winter severity data, and deer sighting ratesreported by hunters, as well as input from gamewardens, foresters and the public. 

“We expect the statewide deer population tobe about 157,000 prior to the start of the 2017deer seasons,” said Mr. Fortin. 

Hunting for antlerless deer is proposedstatewide for the October 7 through November 3and December 2 through 10 archery season. Lastyear, hunters took 2,595 antlerless deer duringthe archery season. 

One deer of either sex would be allowed foryouths during the November 4 and 5 youth

weekend hunt. Youths took 885 antlerless deerduring the 2016 youth weekend hunt.

The December 2 through 10 muzzleloaderseason would have 24,500 antlerless permitsdistributed in 18 of Vermont’s 21 Wildlifemanagement Units (WMU), which is estimated toresult in 3,608 antlerless deer being taken. 

The Fish and Wildlife Department’santlerless deer hunting proposal for 2017 and theFish and Wildlife Board’s recommended permitsby each WMU are on Vermont Fish and Wildlife’swebsite (www.vtfishandwildlife.com). Publiccomments on the proposal may be e-mailed [email protected] by May 23,2017. 

The department held three deer huntingpublic hearings earlier and will hold two more inMay. The meetings will be held from 6:30 to 8:30p.m. on Thursday, May 11 at Randolph UnionHigh School, 15 Forest Street, Randolph, and onTuesday, May 16, at Burr and Burton Academy,57 Seminary Avenue, Manchester.  

The Fish and Wildlife Board will vote againat their May 24 board meeting on the antlerlessdeer hunting proposal. Muzzleloader seasonantlerless permit applications are scheduled to beavailable on the Fish and Wildlife Department’swebsite in early June. — from Vermont Fish andWildlife.

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About 4 hours per week in the Barton Area.

We are looking for a 7th or 8th grader in the Barton Areawho would like a job through high school.

You must:• Have a good work ethic and be willing to do the job every week.• Be trustworthy. • Have experience using a lawn tractor / weed whacker.• Have your parent(s) approval.• Have transportation to and from the property location.

If you are interested and are willing to work, get your parent(s)approval, and call the number below. We will be schedulinginterviews [with your parent(s)] in May.

Sean Riley 781-389-8342

Has a job opening for aPROPERTY & CASUALTY

INSURANCE AGENT.Salary to be based on both professional office andinsurance experience.Mail resumés to: P.O. Box 10, Derby, VT 05829, ordrop off at 346 Main St., Derby, or e-mail to:[email protected].

TMTAYLOR-MOORE

AGENCYCall us for all your

Insurance Needs

Opening at Irasburg Village School for .3 FTE Art Teacher for the2017 - 2018 school year.

Refer to www.schoolspring.com,for application and job details.

Send letter of interest, three letters ofrecommendation, and resumé to:

Paul Simmons, PrincipalIrasburg Village School292 Route 58 EIrasburg, VT 05845

Background check required.E.O.E.

As we gear up for the busy year weare now accepting applications forfull- and part-time positions for

sales, general laborers, experiencedfinish carpenters and drywallers,

truck drivers and groundmaintenance personnel.

We are only looking for hardworking, conscientious, dependable individ-uals with strong attention to detail who want to come to work every dayand be part of an award-winning team who values quality and excellentservice. Valid driver’s license is required. Compensation based on expe-rience. Benefit packages available.

Please apply in person only at Bean’s Homes, located at the junctionof Routes 5 & 114, Lyndonville, VT 05851. (NO PHONE CALLS)

Michaud Memorial Manor, operated by VermontCatholic Charities, is now hiring part-time LNAs tohelp care for our residents at our Level IIIResidential Care Home in Derby Line. Day,evening, and night shift hours available, everyother weekend required. Potential careeradvancement available for our LNAs through medtech training for the right candidate. If interested,please contact: Billie Jo Abbott, Director ofNursing, at 802-873-3152. Come join our teamand see what a fun, rewarding work environmentwe provide!

MICHAUD MEMORIAL MANORDERBY LINE

Northeast Farm Sales & Service4501 Route 5, Coventry Road, Irasburg, VT 05845Contact Keeno via phone at (802) 754-8863 or e-mail: [email protected]

Full-time ServiceWriter Position:

Requirements:• Motivated • Computer skills

• Mechanical Knowledge • Team Player• Pay Based on Knowledge & Experience

www.NEFSVT.com 802.754.8863

Riverview Garageis looking for

a full-time AUTOMOTIVETECHNICIAN.Foreign & domestic

cars and light trucks.Must have own tools,driver’s license, andinspection license.

Call or stop by!

2182 VT Rte. 15E Morrisville, VT802-888-3937

Celebrating over 35 years in business.

www.RiverviewGarage.com

To anyone who can help us find an experiencedcarpenter who is motivated (has a need or

desire), wants to work, willing to work, and mustnot be afraid of rain, heat, cold, snow, and long

hours. Top dollar paid to the right person. Hurry, aswe only have one position to fill! If you know

someone, or you may be this person, please call802-673-9768, between 5-7 p.m.

If no answer, please leave a message. Reward paidupon completion of three month review period.

REWARD $500

WANTED:Experienced carpenter with theminimum of 6 years experience,

references required.Also looking for a laborer with minimumof 2 years experience in the work field,

references required.Will consider training the right candidate.Call for an interview, 802-525-4022.

Asack & Son Tree FarmAsack & Son Tree Farm is hiring for spring seedling

harvest. Smoke-free environment, part time, full time.No experience needed, will train.

Starting pay for new employees is $11 per hourincluding bonus. For previous employees who

have successfully completed a work season withus pay is $12 per hour including bonus.

To apply, call Bill, evenings from 6–8 p.m., at754-6934. Please call first before you come.

WANTED: EXPERIENCED LANDSCAPERfor full-time, seasonal job starting immediately.

40+ hours weekly. Send resumé to: Doug Spates,83 Third St., Newport, VT 05855

EMPLOYMENT

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G.W. Tatro Construction, Inc.Jeffersonville, VT

Seeking a Water/Sewer/Storm water pipe layer.Must be able to lift 50 pounds, use shovels and othersmall equipment. Must have extensive knowledge oftrench safety, dewatering methods, pipe materials,and be team oriented. First aid and OSHA experiencealso a plus. Overtime and some travel around thestate may be required.

Seeking general laborers. Must be able to lift 50pounds, use shovels and other small equipment. Someexperience in the construction business is preferred,but not needed. First aid and OSHA experience also aplus. Overtime and some travel around the state maybe required. Candidates must be willing to learn andmotivated to work.

Seeking a construction superintendent.Responsibilities will include coordinating daily taskswith project manager, assisting with progressscheduling, supervise, and lead crews in a safe andefficient manner. Successful candidate will have astrong knowledge of earthwork and site constructionas well as OSHA standards. Candidate must be detailand safety oriented. The ability to read plans andspecifications, provide layout and shoot grades, arerequirements of this position. This position mayrequire some traveling. Wages will be decided basedon experience. Other benefits would include a 401Kplan, profit sharing, paid holidays, earned time off,annual performance bonuses, company vehicle andhealth insurance after a probation period.

We offer healthcare, 401K, profit sharing, and annualperformance bonuses after a probation period.Online applications available at www.gwtatro.com.

executive assistant to the SuperintendentOSSU Central Office

2017-2018 School YearThis full-time administrative position provides a wide varietyof complex and confidential administrative and secretarialsupport, i.e., interprets policy and administrative regulationsto officials and the public; analyzes requests and providesrecommendations for action; communicates information onbehalf of the district and the governing board to staff, otherdistricts, and public agencies.Candidate must be knowledgeable with standard assistantprocedures and office management techniques; recordkeeping and filing systems; Robert’s Rules of Order; standardoffice equipment and software applications; principles ofinternet research; and effective telephone techniques.Associate’s degree preferred, as well as training and/orexperience which demonstrates ability to perform the dutiesdescribed within the job description, including satisfactoryexperience at the executive assistand level, preferably in apublic education environment; coursework in businessadministration or a related field is desirable.For a complete job description, and to make application, go to:www.SchoolSpring.com, job #2782110.This position is expected to begin in mid-to-late May.Person offered employment will complete the CriminalRecords process.E.O.E.

CHARLESTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TEMPORARY VACANCYPARAEDUCATOR

2016-2017 School Year

Charleston Elementary School is looking for a paraeducator, up to 7hours per day, school session for the remainder of the 2016-2017school year only. Previous experience preferred. For moreinformation on our school, please visit our website at:https://sites.google.com/ncsuvt.org/ces/home.

Candidates must meet the district’s requirements: minimum of 48college credits, or paraeducator certificate and portfolio, orsuccessfully passing the para pro test.

Either submit letter of interest, resumé listing 3 references (or 3current letters of reference), and copies of transcripts, or complete aNCSU application and submit to:

Jessica Applegate, Principal255 Center School Road

West Charleston, VT 05872

Salary & Benefits: As per support staff policy.

Deadline: The application screening process will begin immediatelyand continue until position is filled.

Criminal Record Background and Child Abuse/Neglect RegistryChecks are required.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOROrleans Central Supervisory Union

Barton, Vermont

FTE: 0.50 - Starting Date: July 1, 2017.The Orleans Central Supervisory Union is seeking a half-timeHuman Resources Coordinator. The ideal candidate will haveexperience in the human resources field, with evidence oftraining. For complete job description visit:www.SchoolSpring.com.A completed application packet will include:• Cover letter indicating why the candidate is interested in

the position• Resumé• Three recent letters of recommendation• Proof of high school/college completion• A Criminal Record Check is required.• Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States

requiredContact Information:

Donald Van Nostrand, Superintendent130 Kinsey Road

Barton, Vermont 05822Phone: (802) 525-1204Fax: 802-525-1276

Or complete application at: www.SchoolSpring at Job # 2784119.Equal Opportunity Employer.

FOOD SERVICE COORDINATOROrleans Central Supervisory Union

Barton, Vermont

FTE: 0.50 - Starting Date: July 1, 2017.The Orleans Central Supervisory Union is seeking a half-time Food Service

Coordinator. The ideal candidate will have experience in the foodservice field, with evidence of certification or training in food serviceand nutrition. For complete job description visit:www.SchoolSpring.com, or contact the business office.

A completed application packet will include:• Cover letter indicating why the candidate is interested in the position• Resumé• Three recent letters of recommendation• Proof of high school/college completion• A Criminal Record Check is required.• Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States required

Contact InformationHeather Wright, Business Manager

130 Kinsey RoadBarton, Vermont 05822Phone: 802-525-1204Fax: 802-525-1276

Or complete application at: www.SchoolSpring at Job # 2783308.Equal Opportunity Employer.

the Chronicle

Help WantedWe’re looking for a personable and creativemarketing assistant to sell ads for newdigital and print products, work with website,and develop new accounts. The positionrequires thinking out of the box, knowledge ofwebsite technology, and eagerness to meetpotential clients face-to-face. This is a part-time position with commission-based salary.Experience in sales or related area is a mustfor this position. The successful candidate willbe a dynamic people person, a team playerand original thinker able to enthusiasticallypromote, develop, and sell media products.Please submit resumé and cover letter, whichincludes qualifications, experience and/orwhat you could bring to the position. [email protected] or send to theChronicle, P.O. Box 660, Barton, VT 05822,attn: Tracy.

LOWELL GRADED SCHOOLLowell, VT

To begin the 2017-2018 school year

PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER – 40%

Must have or be eligible for appropriate Vermont licensure. Positionmay be combined with other positions in the district.

Salary and Benefits: As per Teachers’ Negotiated Agreement.

Submit letter of interest, resumé listing three references (or threecurrent letters of reference), copies of transcripts, and a copy ofappropriate Vermont license via: www.Schoolspring.com (preferred)or to:

Lowell Graded SchoolAttn.: Anita Gagner, Principal

52 Gelo Park Rd.Lowell, VT 05847

Deadline: The application screening process will begin immediatelyand continue until the position is filled.

Criminal Background and Child Abuse/Neglect Registry Checks arerequired.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Lake Region Union High School

Lake Region Union High School isaccepting applications for

2017-2018Spanish TeacherFrench TeacherMath Teacher

.5 FTE English TeacherRefer to: www.schoolspring.comfor applications and job details.

Submit letter of interest, resumé, certifications, andthree current letters of reference to:

Andre Messier317 Lake Region RoadOrleans, VT 05860

Background check is requiredE.O.E.

Open until filled.

Newport Town Elementary SchoolNewport Center, VT

IMMEDIATE VACANCY NOTICECLASSROOM PARAPROFESSIONAL NEEDED

School sessionThe Newport Town School is in immediate need of a classroomparaprofessional. Candidates must meet the district’s requirements:minimum of 48 college credit or paraeducator certificate andportfolio or successfully passing the Para Pro Test. Previousexperience is preferred.

Submit letter of interest, resumé, list of 3 current references withcontact information, and copy of transcripts or Para Pro test scores to:

Wendy Wood, PrincipalNewport Town Elementary School

P. O. Box 48Newport Center, VT [email protected]

Application deadline: Screening will begin immediately and continueuntil suitable candidate is found.

Criminal Background Check and Child Abuse/Neglect RegistryCheck required.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Help Wanted!Driver with aClass A CDL.

References needed.Please contact John

at 802-274-5320.

Help wanted:part-time customer service representativeto collect deposits from customers, sign contracts,answer phones, copy and fax documents, andmanage business e-mail account.18 to 27 hours per week.Mail resumé to:P.O. Box 517, Newport, VT 05855.

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The Green Mountain Club, the VermontDepartment of Forests, Parks and Recreation(FPR), and the Green Mountain National Forestare teaming up to ask hikers to stay off trailsduring mud season.

Some trails, especially those at highelevations, are closed at this time of year. Pleaserespect the signage indicating closed trails.Snowmelt and rain will cause the trails to remainwet, muddy, and prone to erosion. Hikerswalking on saturated soils or on the sides of trailscause damage to surrounding vegetation, widentrails, and inhibit natural drainage of the hikingtrails.

“It can take hours for a volunteer or trail crewto fix what takes just moments to damage byhiking on muddy trails,” says Jessica Savage,FPR’s recreation program manager. “In a way,each footstep on a muddy trail makes extra workfor people who are needed for other major projectson trails. We know the sunshine makes gettingoutside a priority, but saving your mountainhikes until the trails are dried out will ensure abetter, longer hiking season for all.”

Dry trails at lower elevations, dirt roads, andrecreation paths provide excellent opportunitiesfor spring outdoors activities. A weekly trailupdate with the latest conditions and a list ofalternative hikes will be posted on the Vermont

State Parks website at:vtstateparks.com/hiking.html#mudSeasonHiking.

“Please give the trails time to dry out for thesummer hiking season,” says Dave Hardy,director of trail programs for the Green MountainClub. “Until the end of May, consider hiking onsouth facing slopes and lower elevations wherethe sun can dry out the trails sooner.”

For information on mud season hiking, callthe Green Mountain Club’s Visitor Center at(802) 244-7037, or [email protected], or call the VermontState Parks call center at (888) 409-7579, Mondaythrough Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. — from theDepartment of Forests, Parks, and Recreation.

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Hikers should avoid muddy trails

Barton Head Start will host its annualpreschool art show on Thursday, May 4, from5 to 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend. —from Barton Head Start.

COFEC to holdannual preschoolart show May 4

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Pursuant to the Judgment Order and Decree ofForeclosure by Judicial Sale issued by the VermontSuperior Court, Orleans Unit on July 27, 2016, in thecase entitled John V. Donlon, Jr. and Sharon M. Donlonv. Jeffrey A. Hill, Mary E. O’Rourke and Joy A. HillDocket No. 60-3-16 Oscv; the following notice of saleis hereby given:

TIME AND PLACE OF PUBLIC SALE: The propertydescribed in said Judgment Order and Decree ofForeclosure by Judicial Sale will be sold in its entiretyat Public Auction at 11:00 a.m., on May 18, 2017, atthe property located at 3090 Carter Road, in the Townof Lowell, Vermont.

REAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION:

Being a parcel of land said to contain 10.1 acres,together with a dwelling house and otherimprovements thereon, known and numbered as 3090Carter Road, in the Town of Lowell, Vermont; andbeing all and the same lands and premises conveyedto Jeffrey A. Hill, Mary E. O’Rourke, and Joy A. Hill bythe Warranty Deed of John V. Donlon, Jr. and SharonM. Donlon, dated September 29, 2011, and recordedin Book 58 at Page 270 of the Lowell Land Records.

TERMS: The highest bidder will be required to pay adeposit of $10,000.00 in certified funds, or by banktreasurer’s check at the time of the auction. Thehighest bidder will be further required to pay bycertified funds or bank treasurer’s check, within sevendays of the date of the auction, an additional depositto make the total deposit equal to 10% of the auctionbid. The highest bidder will also be required to sign apurchase and sale agreement at the time of the publicauction.

RIGHT TO REDEEM: The mortgagors Jeffrey A. Hill,Mary E. O’Rourke, and Joy A. Hill are entitled toredeem the premises at any time prior to the sale bypaying the full amount due under the mortgage,including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale. Inquiriesmay be made with Candace L. Bussiere, Paralegal, ofthe Law Office of Charles D. Hickey, PLC.Telephone 802-748-3919.

Dated at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, this 31st day ofMarch 2017.

/s/Charles D. Hickey, Esq.Attorney for John and Sharon Donlon

INVITATION TO BID

Fire Extinguisher/Fire AlarmInspections & Services

This Request for Proposal (RFP) is for any or all of thefollowing school districts within the North Country

Supervisory Union:

Brighton Town school districtTown of Charleston school districtTown of Coventry school districtHolland Town school districtTown of Lowell school district Town of Troy school district

For bid specifications, contact April Touchette, staffaccountant, at (802) 334-5847, ext. 2016.North Country Supervisory Union121 Duchess Avenue, Suite A

Newport, VT [email protected]

Sealed bids to be sent to the school district Principal no laterthan the date and time indicated in the specifications for each

school district.

The Boards of School Directors reserve the right to acceptany proposal, which it deems most favorable to the interestsof the school district and to reject any and all proposals or

any portion of any proposal, submitted which, in its opinion,is not in the best interest of the school district. The school

district also reserves the right to waive any technicalities inthe bid process not in the best interest of the district.

Notice of Special Town MeetingWarning

The legal voters of the Town of Brownington, Vermont, arehereby notified and warned to meet at the Brownington CentralSchool in Brownington Center in the Town of Brownington,Vermont, on Monday, May 15, 2017, at six o’clock in theevening to transact the following business, viz:

1. Shall the voters of the Town of Brownington reconsider theappropriation of $500.00 to assist the Pope MemorialFrontier Animal Shelter with its commitments to rescuing,providing care to, and finding homes for unwanted pets, anddirect the Selectmen to assess a tax sufficient to meet thesame?

2. To act upon any nonbinding business that may legally comebefore said meeting.

3. To Adjourn.

Dated at Brownington, Vermont this 8th day of April, 2017.Beverly White, ChairmanTerry CurtisBill FalconerBrownington Select Board

I hereby certify that the above warning was duly recorded in therecords of the Town of Brownington previous to the posting andpublication thereof.Attest: Valerie Faust Brownington Town Clerk

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #7R1121-1

10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6093

On March 22, 2017, Keone Maher [23 Pokorny Rd.,Higganum, CT 06441] and Jeffrey Poirier [PO Box 174,Barton, VT 05822] filed application #7R1121-1 for a projectgenerally described re-opening and continued operation of anexisting inactive sand and gravel pit (phased, 5 acres) subjectto all terms and conditions of permit #7R1121, includingmaximum annual extraction rate of 5,000 cubic yards per year,and permit expiration date extended to October 15, 2027. Theproject is located 2671 Dry Pond Road (Vermont Route 16) inGlover, Vermont. No hearing will be held and a permit will beissued unless, on or May 18, 2017, a party notifies the District#7 Commission in writing at the address below of an issuerequiring a hearing or the Commission sets the matter forhearing on its own motion. Such hearing request must includea petition for party status. The application and proposed permitmay also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s website (www.nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking “Act 250 Database”and entering the project number #7R1121-1. For moreinformation, contact Kirsten Sultan at the address or telephonenumber below.

Dated at St Johnsbury, Vermont this 28th day of April, 2017.

Kirsten Sultan, P.E., Coordinator District #7 Environmental Commission 374 Emerson Falls Road, Suite 4 St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 802-751-0126 [email protected]

Town of Brownington

Green Up DaySaturday May 6th, 2017• Green up bags will be distributed at the school

(1 bag/family), additional bags will be available atthe Brownington Town Clerk’s office.

• We would like to see families pick up trash in thevicinity of their homes.

• Do not pick up needles or hazardous waste, reportit to the Coordinator at the Town Garage.

• Bags can be dropped off at the Brownington TownGarage from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., or you can leavethem along the road for pickup. Eighttires/household will be accepted.

• Children dropping off bags at the BrowningtonTown Garage will receive a coupon for a free icecream at Tim & Doug’s.

Let’s make it a family affair!!!!

STATE OF VERMONT PROBATE COURTDISTRICT OF ORLEANS, SS. DOCKET NO.: 272-8-16 OsprIN RE: THE ESTATE OF: ANDREW J. MERCERILATE OF: ALBANY, VERMONT

NOTICE TO CREDITORSTo the creditors of the estate of ANDREW J. MERCERI, late of

ALBANY, VERMONT.We have been appointed personal representatives of the above

named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate mustpresent their claims in writing within four (4) months of thepublication of the first publication of this notice. The claim must bepresented to us at the address listed below with a copy filed withthe register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barredif it is not presented as described above within the four (4)month deadline.

Dated: April 20, 2017

Dated: April 20, 2017

Name of Publication: the ChronicleFirst Publication Date: April 26, 2017Second Publication Date: May 3, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Orleans County Probate Court247 Main StreetNewport, VT 05855

SignedKim Merceri

449 Garden St.Feeding Hills, MA 01030

(413) 636-2805

SignedDarrell Merceri

107 Coolidge Ave.Ludlow, MA 01056

(413) 378-3871

Preschool and Kindergarten RegistrationCharleston Elementary School

Friday, May 5th, 2017 8 a.m.-3 p.m. by appointment

Please call school for a 30 minute appointment,at (802) 895-2915.

Children entering Kindergarten must be 5 yearsold on or before September 1, 2017.

Please bring your child and their birth certificate,immunization record, and Social Security card.

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Watching wildlife is enjoyable,especially when young animalsappear in the spring.  But it’s bestto keep your distance.  Picking upyoung wildlife can do more harmthan good, according to the VermontFish and Wildlife Department.  It’salso against the law.

When people see young animalsalone, they often mistakenly assumethe animals are helpless or lost, introuble or needing to be rescued.Bringing young wildlife into ahuman environment often results inpermanent separation from theirmothers and a sad ending for theanimal.

Handling wildlife could alsopose a threat to the people involved.Wild animals can transmit diseaseand angry wildlife mothers can posesignificant dangers. 

Department scientists encouragewildlife watchers to respect thebehavior of animals in the springand early summer, and to resist theurge to assist wildlife in ways thatmay be harmful. 

Here are some helpful tips:Deer and moose nurse their

young at different times during theday, and often leave young alone forlong periods of time. These animalsare not lost. Their mother knowswhere they are and will return.

Young birds on the ground mayhave left their nest, but theirparents will still feed them.

Young animals such as fox andraccoon will often follow theirparents.  The family of a “wandering”animal searching for food is usuallynearby but just out of sight to aperson happening upon it. 

Animals that act sick can carryrabies, parasites or other harmfuldiseases.  Do not handle them.Even though they do not showsymptoms, healthy looking raccoons,foxes, skunks, and bats also mayalso be carriers of the deadly rabiesvirus. 

Many wildlife species will notfeed or care for their young whenpeople are close by.  Obey signs thatrestrict access to wildlife nestingareas, including hiking trails thatmay be temporarily closed. 

Keep domestic pets indoors,leashed or fenced in. Dogs and catskill many baby animals each year. 

Avoid projects that removetrees, shrubs and dead snags thatcontain nests during the spring andsummer. 

For information about rabiesand nuisance wildlife, call theVermont Rabies Hotline at 1-800-4RABIES (800) 472-2437).  

If bitten or in contact with araccoon, fox, skunk, or bat, or adomestic animal that has been incontact with one of these species,call the Vermont Department ofHealth at (800) 640-4374. 

For the safety of all wildlife,taking a wild animal into captivityis illegal, even one you suspect issick, injured or has beenabandoned.  To learn about injuredor orphaned wildlife, go toVermont’s Fish and Wildlife’swebsite vtfishandwildlife.com, orcontact the Vermont Fish andWildlife Department at (802) 828-1000. — from Vermont Fish andWildlife.

Garrett Heath takesturkey on youth weekend

Thirteen-year-old Garrett Heath of Westfield shot this turkey on North Hill inWestfield, Sunday, on Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend. It weighed 20.8 pounds, hadan 8.5-inch beard, and one-inch spurs. Photo by Scott Dean

Leave young wildlifein the wild

Newport Parks and Recreation is hosting thefourth annual Sprint Triathlon in and aroundLake Memphremagog on Saturday, June 24, at 9a.m. starting at Prouty Beach in Newport.Athletes will begin with a half-mile swim,transition to a 13-mile bike ride, then finish witha 3-mile run. Registrations for individuals andrelay teams are currently being accepted. VisitNewportSprintTri.Weebly.com for moreinformation and to register. — from NewportParks and Recreation.

Newport Parksand Rec hostssprint triathlon

TOWN OF ALBANYNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given to the residents of the

Town of Albany, VT, that the Albany Select Boardwill hold a public hearing at the Albany Town Hallon Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 7 P.M.This hearing will be held for public review and

comment on the proposed Albany Town Plan,pursuant to Title 24 VSA, Chapter 117.The purpose of the proposed plan is to establish

a coordinated comprehensive planning process toguide decisions made by the town.Copies of the proposed plan may be obtained at

the Albany Town Clerk’s office, or electronically at:www.albanyvt.com.

Town of Albany Select Board

SUMMER LANDSCAPINGMAINTENANCE BIDS ACCEPTEDOrleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc., is acceptingwritten bids for summer landscaping for theirfacility at 46 Lakemont Road, in Newport.Also seeking bids forOFFICE JANITORIAL SERVICES.For information, call Dottie at 334-5213.Bids accepted until May 12, 2017.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALSThe City of Newport is seeking proposalsfrom qualified painters to paint the Gateway

Center in downtown Newport.Project information can be found at:

www.NewportRecreation.org. For moreinformation, contact Jessica Booth, Parks &Recreation Director, at (802) 334-6345, [email protected]. A facilitywalk-through is scheduled for 9 a.m. onWednesday, May 3. The deadline forproposals is 4:30 p.m., May 12, 2017.

Preschool ScreeningAlbany, Barton, Brownington,

Glover, Irasburg, Orleans, WestmoreIf you have a child who will be at least 3 on orbefore September 1st, and you are interested in ascreening or enrolling your child in preschool, youare invited to attend our annual screenning.Screenings at the Albany site will be held onMay 30, and COFEC’s will be May 31 & June 1.To make an appointment, please call Danielle, atCOFEC at 525-6523. We look forward to seeing you!

WARNINGORLEANS CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONMembers of the Orleans Cemetery Association are herebywarned to meet at the Orleans Village Office at 7 p.m.,Tuesday, May 9, 2017, to transact the following business:

1. To hear and act upon reports of the officers and theassociation.

2 To elect trustees as required by law or by charter and by-laws of the association.

3. To transact any other business that may legally bebrought before said meeting.

/s/ Peter T. Gage, President/s/ Richard L. Pettengill, Secretary

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that Christian Katzenbach has owned since 1994.Rebecca Beidler and Jeffrey Ellis’ organic

vegetable farm lies right along the edge of what’snow a dead-end dirt road.

Chris Katzenbach’s plan is to reopen a long-unused segment of the road, and he’s agreed tobuild and maintain it. It’s the most efficient wayto get gravel trucks down to Route 14, he says.

Ms. Beidler and Mr. Ellis aren’t happy abouthaving heavy gravel trucks rumbling past theirfields many times a day, kicking up dust andspreading diesel fumes.

And they, along with some of their neighborson the two-tenths of a mile section of Class Threeroad at the base of the hill find it hard to believethat the Katzenbachs will be able to build a roadthat can take heavy truck traffic without washingout.

By old-timer David Valley’s account, theGrigg Road flooded out so badly around 1960 thatthe town put water bars across and quitmaintaining the middle section.

And he said that when the road was openedagain for logging in the 1970s, a flood washed itout again, filling a yard at the bottom of the hillwith sand and drowning a pig.

“This land is all sand, the road is a large hill,so many times the road washed out, the waterwashed sand on properties below,” Judy Valleywrote in a letter to the Act 250 commission.

She said she’s lived on the road for 65 years.By all accounts, that stretch of road is a steep

overgrown track that has been swallowed up bythe woods in the decades since the town hasmaintained it.

It’s even disappeared from state maps. There’s no sign of the middle section of Grigg

Road on a 1962 United States Geological Surveymap used by the highway department. Nor can itbe found on a similar map from 1980.

Mr. Valley and his brother-in-law Roger Praybrought the maps to the Act 250 hearing.

The fact that the road doesn’t appear on astate highway department map suggests that itcould have been thrown up by the select board atsome time in the past, Mr. Valley said.

“We need to look in the minutes,” SelectmanBrian Goodridge said. “That’s something we needto research.”

For the past seven years, Ms. Beidler and Mr.Ellis have worked to turn their piece of sandyground at the base of Chamberlain Hill into athriving organic farmstead called Peace of EarthFarm.

It’s taken a lot of work and a lot of compost,but thanks to greenhouses and intensive farmingtechniques, the couple is making a living from theacre and a half community supported agricultureventure.

A vehicle traveling along a mile of unpavedroad kicks up 6.3 tons of dust and distributes italong a corridor 1,000 feet wide, Ms. Beidler said.

The plan that Chris Katzenbach submittedsuggests that gravel trucks could make as manyas 20 round trips a day along the road.

Mr. Ellis added that road dust includesspilled fuel and oil, chloride, and particles fromdiesel exhaust.

Chris Katzenbach has been in the loggingbusiness for 25 years.

“I’m ready to change professions,” he said.A gravel pit seems to him to be the next thing

he can do to make a living on his land.“I’d be mighty proud to work my own land,

and not have to go to work at Walmart,” he toldMr. Ellis after the close of the hearing.

Clark Katzenbach dropped out of school whenhe was 16. He earned his commercial driver’slicense last fall, as soon as he turned 18. Andthree weeks ago, he bought his own dump truck.The 14-cubic yard truck is older than he is, butit’s younger than his dad’s truck.

“This is something I’m excited about,” he said.If the permit for the gravel pit doesn’t go

through, the young man expects he’ll find otherwork to make the payments on his truck.

“But this is my dream,” he said.Filing for Act 250 approval is a lengthy

process. So far Chris Katzenbach has submitted

12 documents, ranging from the initialapplication to site plans, and it’s not over yet.

Adjoining landowners are entitled have theirsay in Act 250 approval process, too.

There’s a long list of environmental issuesthat the committee has to weigh — water quality,wetlands, air quality and the like — and everyonewho wants to be part of the process has to spellout which categories their concerns fit under.

“You have to tell us how you’d be affected,”said Eugene Reid, chair of the District SevenEnvironmental Commission.

On April 13, about 15 people, including thethree Act 250 hearing officers, select boardmembers, the Katzenbachs, and neighbors,tramped through the woods from the proposedgravel pit site down to West Grigg Road.

When the hearing got underway, Ms. Beidlerand Mr. Ellis weren’t the only ones less than keento have a gravel pit in their neighborhood.

Katrin and Damien Mooney are worried aboutnoise, dust and traffic, as well as the long-termplan for reclaiming the site after the gravel pit isplayed out.

Ms. Valley has a handicapped daughter whois used to driving a motorized cart on the dead-end road.

Her ex-husband, Mr. Valley, and her brother,Mr. Pray, came to the meeting to testify on herbehalf.

Mr. Valley also spoke about his concerns fortheir 45-year old daughter.

“I’m worried about the kid,” he said. “Shegoes and sits in a little gazebo down by the roadevery day when the weather is good.”

Mr. Pray said that Ms. Valley also operatesan “Airbnb” — an informal bed and breakfastbooked through the Internet — though Ms. Valleydidn’t mention that in her letter to the Act 250commission.

And another neighbor, nonresident owner EdMateo, has sent letters and e-mails to thecommission about noise, traffic, dust, and havingto look at the gravel pit.

None of the neighbors expected to have todeal with a gravel pit when they bought land inthe Black River Farms subdivision years ago, he

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Family says it will build and maintain road(Continued from page one.)

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said in a letter to the commission.In fact, he said, the land was sold with a

covenant against gravel pits. But according to acopy of the covenant, the restrictions expired in1995.

The environmental commission made it clearthat there can be compromises, at least as far asthings like noise and traffic are concerned.

For example, the hours when trucks areallowed to go up and down the road could be cutback as a condition of granting a permit. And“jake brakes” could be forbidden to cut noise.

But Ms. Beidler challenged ChrisKatzenbach’s estimate on his application that it’shalf a mile to the nearest neighbor.

“It’s half that,” she said.And Mr. Mooney said that the estimate of

how loud sound levels would be off theKatzenbachs’ property are too low.

“We live on the side of a mountain,” he said.“Sound echoes. And when you cut down trees,sound goes even farther.”

Mr. Mooney said he works nights and sleepsdays.

Another question was about the mathsurrounding the gravel pit application.

The description of the project says theapplication is for “Development and operation of a[roughly] 3-acre commercial sand and gravel pithaving a maximum annual extraction rate of30,000 cubic yards per year and total extractionof 121,000 cubic yards over the 20-year operatinglife.”

At a rate of 30,000 cubic yards a year, theamount requested on the permit application couldbe dug out and hauled away in a bit over fouryears.

There is more gravel on the site, Mr.Katzenbach said, but he was noncommittal abouthis future plans.

“My son and I just want to make a living,” hesaid.

The price of pulpwood is really low right now,Clark Katzenbach said later. And by his figures,gravel is bringing about $7 or $8 a cubic yard.

Ms. Mooney wanted to know what thepotential is for an application to expand the pit ina few years.

The Katzenbachs would be free to apply foranother permit in the future, Mr. Reid said.

Some concerns that neighbors expressed, likepossible overflow from the pit after a rain, or amajor washout burying the fields down at Peaceof Earth Farm, are hypothetical, he said. And ahaul road doesn’t have to meet town Class Threestandards.

But there is a unused gravel pit in the areathat does overflow and run across Route 14 everyyear during snow melt, Ms. Beidler said.

And she and her partner submitted photos ofan eroding gully carrying runoff from themountain above that’s appeared in their land injust the last few years.

“It seems like much of the monitoring of thedrainage systems will fall on the owner withoutmuch state oversight,” Mr. Ellis wrote in an e-mail after the hearing. “If the owner fails tomonitor, then we’ll be more than likely the oneswho have to keep an eye on things and reportviolations.”

Other things that are worrying the neighbors— like impact on property values or quality of life— fall outside of the environmental commission’sjurisdiction, Mr. Reid said.

“We don’t really get to express our concernsabout the dramatic, permanent change of thecharacter of our neighborhood to the Act 250commission,” Ms. Beidler said later by e-mail.“That doesn’t really pertain to them.”

There’s another way out to Route 14 from theproposed gravel pit site — up the Grigg Road toChamberlain Hill Road — that’s longer butdoesn’t involve rebuilding a road.

It would require driving loaded gravel trucksthree-quarters of a mile uphill, Mr. Katzenbachsaid. And then it’s a much longer route, still onunpaved town roads, to Route 14.

But Ms. Beidler said that the downhill routealso avoids having trucks drive past Mr.Katzenbach’s house.

“This project will not impact the owner’shome life while shouldering that burden on his

neighbors,” she said. The Act 250 process still has a ways to go

before it makes any decision about the gravel pit. The Katzenbachs still have several permits to

file. Several of the neighbors promised to sendsupporting documents about their concerns.There’s a hearing on a possible wetland area.And the select board needs to find out why theroad disappeared from state maps in the 1960s.

But in the meantime, there are signs that thetwo sides are reaching out in hopes of findingsome middle ground.

After the hearing, Mr. Ellis approached ChrisKatzenbach and asked if they could talk.

And a week or so after the meeting, ClarkKatzenbach said that he and his father invitedtheir neighbors to come and walk the land andlook at ways to address their concerns.

Legal status of road uncertain(Continued from page thirty-two.)

Clark Katzenbach sits in the cab of the 1987 dump truck he bought three weeks ago in hopes of making a living inthe sand and gravel business. The 18-year-old got his commercial driver’s license last fall.

Photo by Elizabeth Trail

Rebecca Beidler and Jeffrey Ellis have spent the last seven years building up the sandy soil on their organic farm.The couple worries that their roadside crops will be damaged by road dust and diesel fumes. They also fear thedamage that a washout of the road above their land could do to their fields. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Beidler

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