The Village of Port Henry
and all associated departments will be closed on Monday November 12th in
observance of Veterans Day. Due to
the closure, the regularly scheduled meeting of the Port Henry Village Board
has been canceled and rescheduled for 7 PM Tuesday November 13th at the Village
Hall. The public is welcome to
attend.
Middlebury’s Town Offices
are closed today in observance of Veterans Day. Meanwhile various meetings are on this week’s schedule. The Finance & Fundraising Task
Force will meet tomorrow morning at 9.
Items on the agenda include the review of the brochure and a report on
Net-Zero Buildings. Following that
meeting the Steering Committee will meet at 10:30. There will be a report on the Town Center Display from
Election Day with a review of the comments received. Then the Gym Task Force meets at 3 PM followed by the
Downtown Improvement District Commission at 4 to review the parking study. All meetings will take place at the
Middlebury Town Offices. Various
meeting details and agendas are posted on the Town’s Website.
The Town Of Middlebury
Select Board will meet tomorrow evening with an early start time of 6PM. The meeting will take place in the Main
Conference Room of the Town Offices.
Items on the agenda include Reports from various committees, a Public
Hearing on the Town Plan, an update on the Riverfront Project and the Addison
County Solid Waste Management District budget proposal for next year. Also there will be an approval for
appointment of the Parks & Recreation director and the Town manager’s
Report. View the complete agenda
right now by visiting the Select Board page on the Town’s Website.
The Addison County Chamber Of Commerce invites you
to join them tomorrow for a tutorial on Facebook for Business. Bryan Gundron of
bMighty2, an innovative local website development company, will present a
tutorial on Facebook for Business. Bryan believes that "Facebook is a
great platform for marketing your small business, but building a great looking
page is just the first step. Fan engagement is crucial for creating a
successful Facebook presence, but it can be difficult sometimes to get your
page's fans to participate in the online conversation." The tutorial will take place from 8 -
9:30 AM in the Community Room at the Ilsley Public Library and is FREE! Please RSVP to Sue or get more
information by visiting the Chamber’s Website.
The Moriah Central School Board will meet at 6 PM tomorrow
in the High School Library. Items
of interest include bid awards, personnel discussions and report reviews. The public is invited to attend.
Policy adoption and an audit presentation are among
the items the Westport Central School Board will discuss at a regular meeting
set for 6 PM Wednesday in the school library. Westport Central School Board meetings are open to the
public.
Two public hearings to discuss the amendments to
the Pittsford town plan are set for December 12th and 19th. The public hearings will be hosted by
the Pittsford Select Board to consider proposed changes by the town’s planning
commission on the town plan. The
hearings will be held at 6:30 PM at the town municipal building.
Vermont State Police are investigating a theft of
wire from a residence on Ripton Road in the Town of Lincoln. Anyone with
information is encouraged to contact the Vermont State Police at the New Haven barracks
802-388-4919. Information can also be submitted online at www.vtips.info or text "CRIMES"
(274637) to Keyword: VTIPS.
Sheldon Museum executive director Bill Brooks will
present a talk about the 19th century weathervane of the Morgan horse Black
Hawk in the Smithsonian’s collection tomorrow at Noon. The Middlebury area is
the ancestral home of the world-famous Morgan horse. Sculptor Henry Leach of Boston carved the pattern of Black
Hawk. He probably based the design on an early lithographic portrait of the racehorse
Black Hawk. The manufacturer, L.
W. Cushing and Sons, used the wooden pattern to create a hollow iron mold, from
which many copper vanes could be produced. The pattern is in the collection of the Smithsonian American
Art Museum. Museum members attend this
talk for free, however it’s only $2 for non-members.
There will be changes to the Essex County Board of
Supervisors calendar in the next month.
The changes will be made for a number of reasons ranging from allowing
more residents to attend a night meeting to discuss the 2013 budget to not
interfering with a conference of Adirondack municipalities. The board has changed
the usual meeting time for the Ways and Means Committee, which will still meet
on Monday, November 26th, but it will start at 6 PM instead of its regular 10 AM
time. The change was made to
accommodate a pair of public hearings, which will take place on the same night,
including the hearing on the preliminary 2013 county budget at 7 PM and the
hearing on a local law to override the tax cap levy limit preceding the budget
talk at 6:35 PM. Also, the regular monthly board meeting for the supervisors
will be pushed back one day, from Monday, December 3rd, to Tuesday the 4th. The change was made to avoid conflicts
with the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages, which is also meeting on
the 3rd.
An armed robbery took place at the Ticonderoga Rite
Aid pharmacy last Thursday. Ti
Police said a male suspect entered the store at about 6:11 in the evening and
handed an employee a note demanding prescription pain medication. The robber claimed to have a weapon,
police said, but none was shown. After
receiving an unspecified amount of narcotics, he fled the on foot into nearby
fields. Police ask anyone with information about the robbery to contact the
department at 585-3456. Rite Aid Corporation told police they are offering a
$2,000 reward for details leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.
A Living Healthy free six-session workshop will be
held for those with ongoing health conditions such as diabetes, arthritis,
heart disease or asthma. Participants
will learn self-management skills and set their own goals to improve their
health and life. The sessions will be held on Fridays, beginning this week from
9 to 11:30 AM at Inter-Lakes Health, Ethan Allen Library on Wicker Street in Ticonderoga. Participants must attend week one or
week two to complete sessions three through six in December. For more information, call 564-3371.
Registration is required and permitted until November 26th. The Eastern
Adirondack Health Care Network and the Mental Health Association of Essex
County sponsor the workshops.
Vermont’s minimum wage is set to go up a bit on
January 1st, from its current level of $8.46 to $8.60 per hour. The wage is tied to inflation and
increases automatically under a state law passed several years ago. The wage changes on January 1 depended
on changes in the consumer price index during the 12 months ending the previous
August. This year’s increase is a
bit less than 2 percent. Service
and tipped employees who get some of their income in the form of tips will see
their minimum wage go from its current $4.10 to $4 17.
Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin will be the
keynote speaker at CVAA's Volunteer Recognition and Annual Meeting this
Wednesday afternoon at 4 at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center in South
Burlington. Kunin’s speech is
titled, "Building a Coalition Between Our Children and Our Elders:
Intergenerational Policies that Work." Kunin was Vermont’s first woman governor. She served as U.S.
deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under Clinton. CVAA volunteers deliver Meals on
Wheels, provide companionship, deliver groceries, build ramps, and shovel snow
among other things. The CVAA meeting
is free and open to the public but you must RSVP by calling 802-865-0360.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is leading a drive of
more than 50 organizations of veterans and senior citizens to block what he calls
significant cuts in veterans' and benefits and Social Security. Sanders sent a
letter to congressional leaders opposing a change in how annual
cost-of-living-adjustments are calculated that he says would lower Social
Security and veterans' benefits.
The Vermont Supreme Court will be temporarily
moving out of their building in Montpelier for maintenance. The Supreme Court
and court administrator's office will operate normally from a different
location down the street in the Washington Superior Court building. The Supreme
Court building is expected to be closed from Tuesday until after the
Thanksgiving holiday. It will reopen on November 26th.
A Vermont college has euthanized 1 of its farm oxen
that are at the center of an uproar over the college's decision to process the
animals into meat. Green Mountain
College in Poultney says the ox, named Lou, was put down Sunday. A recurring
injury to his hind leg had been deteriorating. Lou and another ox named Bill were retired this summer from
the college's working farm. The school plans to turn them into beef to be
served in the college dining hall.
That decision has drawn fire from animal rights activists who wanted the
oxen spared and had found a sanctuary for them. The college says Bill will stay at the school farm and
receive care consistent with appropriate livestock practices.
New York State is urging people cleaning up after
Superstorm Sandy to make sure they're up to date on their tetanus shots.
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an order Saturday that lets pharmacists administer
the vaccinations at their workplaces. Tetanus bacteria can enter the body
through cuts, cause painful muscle contractions and impair breathing.
Infections are rare in the U.S.
The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce November
“After Business Mixer” will be held on Wednesday, November 14th at Inter-Lakes
Health from 5:30 PM until 7:00 PM. Sponsors providing door prizes will be
Alexander R. Shmulsky Attorney At Law, Glens Falls National Bank, the Wagon
Wheel Restaurant and Inter-Lakes Health. Not only is this mixer a perfect
opportunity to network but a chance to get an update from Inter-Lakes Health as
well as tour their facility. Learn
more at www.ticonderogany.com.
You are invited to join the Addison County Chamber
of Commerce this Thursday for the after hours business mixer which is being
held at Vergennes Opera House. There will be plenty of great door prizes, food
& beverage, plus a chance to win the Pot of Gold—which is valued at $650! The mixer takes place from 5 – 7
PM. If you would like to attend,
please RSVP by sending Sue an email, or calling 388-7591 x2. Learn more by visiting the Chamber’sWebsite.
Lake Sunapee Bank will host the next Rutland Region
Chamber of Commerce mixer from 5 to 7 PM Tuesday. The mixer will be held at 104 Merchants Row, at the corner of
Merchants Row and Center St. There
will be food catered by Kelvans Restaurant, networking, a 50/50 raffle to
benefit the American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy Relief and door prizes. For more information, 773-2747 or
visit www.rutlandvermont.com
A group of Vermonters is doing what they can to
help victims of Superstorm Sandy, even the victims with four legs. Since many of the people displaced by
the storm cannot bring their dogs to shelters or even temporary housing, Sandy
Dog Nannies is a group of eight people looking for doggie foster homes. Burlington City Council president Joan
Shannon is one of the organizers, and says they're looking for folks who could
provide foster care for about six to eight months. The group is also looking for volunteers to inspect
potential foster homes and drive the animals up to Vermont.
A hearing is planned this week for the new state
mental health hospital. The old
one was closed in Waterbury last year by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene,
and that also forced the state to come up with a new plan on how to care for
the mentally ill. The new plan
calls for a system with small psychiatric units scattered around the state,
including a 25-bed facility in Berlin.
That's what the hearing is for Friday, as the application for a
certificate of need for the Berlin site moves forward before the state
Department of Financial Regulation.
Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House of
Representatives is set to talk about his priorities for the lame-duck session
of Congress. Congressman Peter Welch is scheduled to discuss the issues in his
Burlington office today before he returns to Washington.
The work is getting underway today on expansion at
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
Plans call for the facility to increase its size by 25-percent in order
to serve a growing number of emergency room patients. The project is expected to wrap up in the spring of 2014,
with a price tag of seven-point-five-million dollars.
