This past weekends Addison County Humane Society
Ruff Ride was very successful!
Executive Director Jackie Rose said they had a total of 136 participants
with 88 motorcycle riders and 48 bicycle riders. This is an increase for bicycle participants from the past
years and about the same for the motorcycle riders. They raised just under
$11,000, not including what they will ultimately raise with the raffle
tickets. Learn more about how you
can support the Addison County Humane Society all year long and find you next
“furry family member” by visiting www.addisonhumane.org!
The Town Of Middlebury Select Board will hold its
regular meeting this evening at 7 at the Russ Sholes Senior Center in the lower
level of the gym. Items on
tomorrow’s agenda include the award bid for Recycling and Paving of quarry road
along with a brief update on other Public Works Projects. The Board is also expected to award
bids for police dispatch console replacement and cruiser radio upgrades, which
are primarily grant funded. The
FY2013 Water and Wastewater Budgets will be previewed as well as a status
report on the FY2012 Budget and the setting of the FY2013 Tax Rate. For more details and a complete agenda
just visit the Town Of Middlebury’s Website.
Officials here in Middlebury are debating whether
to rebuild or replace the town's 100-year-old municipal building and
gymnasium. Preliminary estimates
for the proposed 16,000 to 19,000-square-foot municipal offices and community
center range from $6 million to $10 million. The current town office has structural problems, including
decaying stairs and water damage, which some town officials say would be too
expensive to fix. A steering
committee is researching energy efficiency, relocation, and potential grant
funding sources. The committee will meet this morning at 10:30 in the town
offices.
The Town of Moriah is sponsoring meetings to
provide information to local residents and small businesses about free and
low-cost energy services. The
meetings will be held today. The schedule is 1PM at the Moriah Senior Center,
Port Henry Train Station, 14 Park Place, Port Henry; and 4:40 to 6:30PM at
George’s Restaurant, with free pizza provided. Short presentations will be
given at 5 and 6PM. Speakers from New York’s EmPower NY and Home Performance
with Energy Star Programs will share information about free and low-cost energy
services available to residences at all income levels. George’s Restaurant will
discuss its experience with National Grid’s Small Business Program, which has
resulted in savings on its electricity bill. Questions about the energy
meetings should be addressed to Jennifer Monroe at 251-2525 or jlmonroe@capital.net.
Vermont State Police are currently investigating
the report of a burglary at a private residence on Hardscrabble Road in The
Town of Monkton. A Glock 10mm pistol, Ruger 9mm pistol, jewelry, and money were
stolen from the residence. The estimated loss is approximately $1,900. The
investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact Senior
Trooper Andrew Leise at 1-802-388-4919. Information can also be submitted
anonymously online at www.vtips.info
or text "CRIMES" (274637) to Keyword: VTIPS
The Manchester, VT Police Department seeks your
help in locating 16-year-old Hailey Rheaume Fox. She’s white, 120 lbs, 5'05" and was last seen in
Manchester on Thursday the 21st. Hailey
may be headed to Vergennes. If you
have information that can assist in helping safely locate Hailey, please
contact the police.
The Addison County Chamber of Commerce, with the
support of individual and business sponsors, is hosting French Heritage Day on
Saturday, July 14th from 10AM – 4PM in Vergennes. The event
celebrates the area’s French-Canadian heritage, but can be enjoyed by all,
regardless of family descent. There is truly something for everyone to enjoy! At
dusk the Otter Creek Falls will be lighted and can be viewed nightly through
August 26th. Full details of the event and a schedule of activities are
available at www.frenchheritageday.com.
The new president of Burlington College, Christine
Plunkett, who is a Middlebury resident, has extended a personal invitation to
members of Addison County Chamber of Commerce to join members of the Lake
Champlain Chamber of Commerce at the Burlington College After Hours event this
Thursday. Christine was recently
named the new president of Burlington College and would love to welcome our
Chamber’s members. If you’re
interested in attending, you may purchase advance tickets at www.vermont.org
using the "Business After Hours - Member Rate" of $8. If you arrive
without pre-registering, please let the greeters know you are with the Addison
County Chamber for the $12 door rate.
This event provides an excellent opportunity for local business people
to visit Burlington College’s beautiful new campus on the lake and tour its
historic building.
Addison County Transit Resources was recently
awarded a $100,000 grant by Middlebury College. These funds are a contribution
towards the 20 percent local matching requirements of a $2.85 million federal
grant previously awarded to ACTR for the construction of its Community
Transportation Center, which will be located off of Creek Road next to the
VTrans maintenance facility. ACTR plans to operate out of the new Community
Transportation Center by March 2013, shortly after marking its 20th anniversary
of service to the region. To learn more about ACTR’s services, or contribute to
the capital campaign for the Community Transportation Center, just visit www.actr-vt.org
or call 388-1946.
All four host towns for a proposed wind project are
in agreement. They all oppose the project with West Rutland voting against it
Monday night. In a 2-1 vote
the town Select Board joined the towns of Castleton, Hubbardton and Pittsford
in its opposition of Reunion Power’s project on the Grandpa’s Knob ridgeline.
Boat owners who want to pressure wash their vessels
before entering or leaving area waters now have a new option available. The Lake Champlain Basin Program and
the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation have established an
agreement with several car-wash businesses in the basin to provide facilities
to successfully clean boats, trailers and equipment and help prevent the spread
of unwanted invasive species.
Local New York stations are at Crown Point Car Wash on Main St., and
Treadway Car Wash on Route 9 in Ticonderoga. Eight stations are available in Vermont, ranging from
Swanton to Vergennes. Forty-nine non-native species occupy Lake Champlain, and
many more threaten to invade in the near future.
Ticonderoga will mark the birth of a nation with a
four-day celebration. The annual
Best Fourth in the North will be held July 1st – 4th.
It’s the largest event in the community each year. Highlighting the festivities
will be a road race, bed race and parade July 4th. The Best Fourth in the North
will conclude with fireworks at 9:30PM.
The Best Fourth In The North committee is a sub-committee of the
Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership. For more information and a complete
schedule of events visit www.best4thinthenorth.com
or contact the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce at 585-6619 or Email chamberinfo@ticonderogany.com.
The new power rates in Proctor are under review by
the Public Service Board. Central
Vermont Public Service bought the Vermont Marble Power Division of Omya, and
then instituted a rate hike for businesses. Now state regulators want to know if CVPS considered the
impact the hike would have. CVPS
says it has no way of knowing how much each individual company was paying to
Omya before the buyout. It's
likely the public service board will either negotiate a solution between CVPS
and the businesses or encourage them to come up with a solution on their own.
Vermont Achievement Center has a new CEO. The center announced Monday that
Mitchell Golub would take the reins effective July 1, succeeding the departing
Kiki McShane. VAC board of
directors chairman Samuel Groom said McShane submitted her resignation in
mid-May. Golub has served three years as the director of education at Sheldon
Academy, VAC’s program for children diagnosed with emotional or behavioral
issues.
Congressman Peter Welch made a stop at the General
Electric plant in Rutland Monday to see the dividends of some legislation he
helped author. The plant
manufactures parts for jet engines that are sold around the world. The
congressman worked to pass legislation creating an export-import bank that
provides financing to foreign customers purchasing U.S.-made goods, like the GE
parts. It was reauthorized by
President Barack Obama last month and will be extended through September 2014.
A Vermont farm owner says a hospitalized teenage
farm worker may have been struck by lightning over the weekend. The Valley News reports Crossroad Farm
owner Janet Taylor in Post Mills said the incident happened Saturday afternoon.
She had radioed farm workers to come inside after hearing thunder. Neighbors and friends identified the
worker as 16-year-old Connor Cook, who attends Thetford Academy. He remained in
critical condition at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Monday.
The Northern New England Region of the American Red
Cross is seeking to collect 8,300 units over the next two weeks to address a
blood shortage. The Red Cross is adding emergency blood drives and extending
blood drive hours and scheduled drives. It also is reaching out to eligible
donors, blood drive sponsors and community leaders to ask them to recruit blood
donors to help meet the needs of patients across the country. The chapter serves Maine, Vermont and
New Hampshire.
Cancer patients in northeastern Vermont should be
getting better coordinated and maybe less expensive care in the near future, if
a program that's part of the state's health care overhaul is successful. The Green Mountain Care Board is
spearheading the state's push to make health care access universal while
controlling costs, and on Monday it announced cancer care in the St. Johnsbury
area will be brought into a new pilot program.
Harwood Union High School is the very proud owner of a new addition to its music department: a white, baby grand piano. The piano was a gift from country music star Kenny Chesney, who is currently touring with a Harwood Union High alum, Grace Potter. It was Potter who was back on campus earlier this month, honoring her former music teacher, Di Phillips who was retiring after 40 years of teaching. Potter told Chesney about Phillips as they discussed teachers who had influenced them, and that's when he reportedly decided to donate the piano to Harwood.
Harwood Union High School is the very proud owner of a new addition to its music department: a white, baby grand piano. The piano was a gift from country music star Kenny Chesney, who is currently touring with a Harwood Union High alum, Grace Potter. It was Potter who was back on campus earlier this month, honoring her former music teacher, Di Phillips who was retiring after 40 years of teaching. Potter told Chesney about Phillips as they discussed teachers who had influenced them, and that's when he reportedly decided to donate the piano to Harwood.
The Vermont Department of Health is working on a
new campaign to encourage Vermonters to get tested for HIV at their own
doctor's office or at 1 of more than 30 free, anonymous testing sites around
the state. Health Commissioner Dr.
Harry Chen says HIV testing should be considered a part of routine health
screening. He says it can take up
to 11 years before a person with HIV develops any outward symptoms of AIDS.
Early diagnosis can make a big difference in the health and lives of those who
are infected.
A Vermont couple accused of taking the life Melissa
Jenkins are expected to be arraigned today. Allen Prue is charged with first-degree murder; Patricia
Prue is now charged with aggravated murder. The Prue’s previously pleaded not
guilty to second-degree murder charges.
From Fox 44 & ABC 22 News – Your Voice in
Vermont and New York:
Another candidate has officially entered the race
for Vermont's Attorney General position. Jack McMullen will be running on the Republican ticket. Right now, he faces incumbent, Bill
Sorrell, and the current Chittenden County State's Attorney T.J. Donovan. McMullen is the only Republican in the
race, so, he will face off against either Sorrell or Donovan, who are both
Democrats. He is a Navy
Veteran, who currently lives in Burlington, Vt., and previously taught at
Harvard Law School.
A woman is dead after a Burlington gas station
clerk says she poured gasoline on herself and lit a match. It happened at the Champlain Farms Gas
Station off of North Avenue in Burlington around noon. According to a clerk, the woman came
into the store and prepaid for gas.
She then went back out to her car, poured gasoline on herself and lit a
match. This situation might have
caused severe destruction if the gas pumps would have blown up. According to another clerk, the manager
shut off power to the pumps and grabbed a fire extinguisher hoping to save the
woman's life. Fellow employees are
calling her a hero. "Casey
grabbed the fire extinguisher, ran out there and put it out. And grabbed the
woman by her belt so you know, she wouldn't catch fire again," says Andi
Brown, a gas station clerk. At
this time police are not releasing the woman's name or if she had any mental illness.
A group is fighting to protect one of the great
camps in New York’s Adirondacks. That's
why the friends of Eagle Island say they have sued the island's owner… the girl
scouts heart of New Jersey. The Girl Scouts ran a camp here until they put the
island up for sale for more than three million dollars. The family that donated the island to
the girl scouts and former campers want to stop the island and its buildings
from becoming a private home. "Without
any restrictions, a person could buy it, tear everything down, and build what
they want on it. It would never be a Girl Scout camp again. It would never be
one of the five great camps that are left in the Adirondacks.” the group's hope
is that the girl scouts would turn the island over to them and then it could be
reopened as a camp. The friends of
Eagle Island say they tried to buy the island…but their million-dollar offer
was rejected. The girl scouts had
no comment on the lawsuit.
