The Middlebury Select Board will be holding its
regular meeting tomorrow evening at the Russ Sholes Senior Center at 7PM. Items on tomorrow’s agenda include
Appointments to the Recreation Committee, reception of the Town Plan from the
Planning Commission & Set Schedule for the Board's review & adoption of
the Town Plan as well as bids awarded for the Painter Hills Water Main Project
and the Riverfront Project. Other
items include reports from various committees and the Approval of the Bonding
Certificate for Refunding of the 2004 Police Department Bond. You can find more information by
visiting the Select Board page at the Town’s Website.
This week the Addison County Chamber of Commerce
will be holding their August after hours business mixer. The event takes place on Thursday from
5 – 7 PM at Cacklin' Hens: A Vermont Yarn, Beads & Gift Emporium in
Middlebury. There will be plenty of great door prizes plus a chance to win the
Pot of Gold, which is valued at $650!
For more information or to RSVP to Sue; Click HERE!
According to the Office of Vermont Attorney General
a Ferrisburgh man has been sentenced for possession of child pornography. Robert Gingras pleaded guilty to four
counts of possession of child pornography in Vermont Supreme Court last week. The charges were the result of a
combined investigation by Vermont State Police, the Hinesburg Police
Department, and other law enforcement agencies. He was sentenced to a suspended three to eight-year prison
sentence, and was placed on probation for a year. The court required Gingras to complete a sex offender
treatment program.
The last carillon concert in the Middlebury College
Summer Carillon Concert Series will be held this Friday at Mead Chapel.
Musician George Matthew Jr. will perform at 7 PM. Visitors attending the
concert can enjoy the bells from Adirondack chairs on the surrounding
lawns. The twenty-seventh annual
carillon concert season concludes with Matthew's performance at the Language
Schools Commencement event. The
concert is free to the public.
Addison County’s
new Natural Resources Pavilion opened in time for this year’s Addison County
Fair and Field Days. According to Addison County Forester Chris
Olson of Middlebury, the new all-native wood pavilion building took two months
to build. Olson is an employee of the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and
Recreation. He said the local wood
product industry is proudest of the hand-hewn timbers used in the pavilion;
they represent 19 vital tree species growing right here in Addison County.
Vermont’s largest agricultural fair marked another
milestone year in 2012. Hot temperatures, sunshine, and intermittent downpours
marked the early August week of the Addison County Fair and Field Days. For many farming families, Field Days
is an annual social event that brings the agricultural community of Addison
County together for a few days. For others, the event is a time for fair food, amusement
rides and animal shows. This year’s fair was no exception. While attendance figures are still being
tallied, there is every indication that Field Days equaled or surpassed last
year’s attendance.
The Penfield Museum will host its 49th annual
Heritage Day this Sunday. Activities
will get under way with a church service at 9:30 AM at the Ironville Church. The annual Heritage 10K road race will
begin at 10. A craft and artisan
fair will be held from 10 AM to 3:30 PM. And the traditional chicken barbecue
will begin at 1. Tickets are $10 each. The ninth annual Heritage 10K road race,
a 6.2-mile run, will start and finish near the museum. For more information on that visit www.lachute.us.
The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce is urging
local residents to welcome the community’s newest business. Peebles will open in Ticonderoga
Thursday, August 23rd. A ribbon cutting has been scheduled for 8:45 AM that day
in the former Grand Union building at the intersection of Routes 9N and 74.
There will also be a series of sales and promotional events throughout the
store’s opening weekend. Our very
own Amanda Leigh will be there on Friday the 24th from 11AM –
1PM. Get the scoop HERE!
An agreement to resolve an Act 250 traffic issue
over the proposed $133 million Killington ski village has yet to materialize. SP Land Company, the ski village
developer, and three regional planning commissions have not been able to come
together on a memorandum of agreement related to the need for future traffic
studies. The proposed
studies would analyze traffic impacts the ski village in its different phases
over the years would have on a number of regional intersections.
With the price of gasoline on the rise, Vermont
authorities are reporting several reports of gas theft. One report came Sunday from a
resident in Tunbridge who said someone took two cans of gasoline from a
landscape trailer parked in front of his home. Police also are investigating a similar incident that
happened in Brookfield on July 30, in which three, 5-gallon gas cans were taken
from a barn. In another incident,
a gas station in New Haven reported a pickup truck driver left without paying
$40 for gas.
State officials could learn this week how much the
Federal Emergency Management Agency will contribute to help rehabilitate the
state office complex in Waterbury, which was made unusable by flooding a year
ago. The dispute over FEMA's contribution could involve tens of millions of dollars.
The town of Rockingham is planning to mark the
anniversary of the flood by remembering the loss of a covered bridge, and
celebrating the bridge that will soon replace it. The town has scheduled a
barbecue August 28th at the site of the old Bartonsville Covered Bridge.
A new federal government survey shows New York has
a relatively low level of obesity among adults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures for
2011 released Monday reports more than a third of adults nationwide were obese. The rate in New York stood at 24.5%. That compares with 12 states where at
least 30% were obese. Colorado was
lowest, at just under 21%, and Mississippi was highest at nearly 35%. Vermont stands at 25.4% in this survey.
Like the people who hike it, the Appalachian Trail
is always moving. Although Tuesday
marks the 75th anniversary of its completion, the nearly 2,200-mile path from
Georgia to Maine is never really finished. In the decades since the original path was built, 99% has
been relocated or rebuilt, and transferred to public ownership. That means the
trail and some 250,000 contiguous acres are better protected from development. ATC:
www.appalachiantrail.org
