The Middlebury Business
Development Advisory Board will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 in the Town
Offices. Agenda items include an update on the status of fundraising & the
recruitment of a Director. The
Select Board will meet Tuesday at 7PM at the United Methodist Church in East
Middlebury. Items on the agenda
include an update on Middlebury River matters. There will also be a follow-up from the Town Plan Public hearing
that was held on the 13th.
Reports from various committees will be heard along with a project
update in the Middlebury Fire Department.
There will be a year-to-date budget report as of October 31st
also a timeline and schedule for the FY2014 budget review. For complete agendas anytime just visit the Town’s Website.
Vermont State Police are
searching for 16-Year-Old Scott Tower from Monkton. He was reported missing on Friday and is described as 5’ 10”
tall, 180 pounds, with Brown Hair and Brown Eyes. He was last seen wearing Khaki Colored Carhartt’s, Boots,
and a Brown Plaid Button Up Shirt. Scott was last seen in Monkton and is
possibly heading to an unknown destination in Florida. He is traveling with
Jeff Tanner and Justin Stevenson and they are in a turquoise Mazda truck with
gray Bondo displaying Vermont plate EXN837. If you have any information please contact the Vermont State
Police in New Haven. 802-388-4919.
The Orwell Historical Society
recently won an Award of Merit in exhibits and museum techniques from the
Vermont Historical Society for its exhibit “Orwell Women in Fashion: on the Eve
of the Civil War”. Mark Hudson,
Vermont Historical Society executive director, presented the award to Orwell
resident Sandy Korda.
Killington Ski Resort
prides itself for opening first every ski and snowboard season. Now they are
the first Vermont ski resort to run on Cow Power. The K1 Express gondola was busy transporting skiers and
riders to Killington Peak on Saturday. Just below the loading platform was
Marie Audet, a Holstein cow named “Bella,” and four newborns from Audet’s Blue
Spruce Farm of Bridport. Blue
Spruce Farm is one of 13 farms around the state generating electricity for the
K1 gondola for the entire ski and snowboard season. The Cow Power went online
November 5th and Audet believes there is potential for greater usage that can
help sustain family farms.
The Pico Peak ski area
that helped launch the skiing career of the first American skier to win two
Olympic gold medals in alpine skiing is celebrating its 75th Anniversary this
season. Andrea Mead Lawrence was the daughter of the founders of the Pico Ski
area, Brad and Janet Mead who opened Pico Peak off U.S. Route 4 in Mendon to skiing
in 1937. It was in 1952 that Andrea Mead won two gold medals at the Oslo games.
The first brewery in
Rutland County is now open. Dan
and Patrick Foley of Brandon kicked off their new beer-brewing business at the
Neshobe River Winery on Saturday. Foley Brothers Brewing offers Ginger Wheat
and Brown Ale beers in 22-ounce bottles and both will be available on a
wholesale basis in the coming weeks. The Foleys will start selling kegs in the
winter to local bars, restaurants and ski areas. They plan on being small
brewers for the time being. For more information on Neshobe River wines and
Foley Brothers’ beers, visit www.neshoberiverwinery.com.
The Ticonderoga Area
Chamber of Commerce will host an open house with the North Country Small
Business Development Center on Tuesday December 11th. Services provided by the North Country SBDC will be
available at the chamber office typically on the second Tuesday of each month.
The open house will be from 9:30 AM to 3 PM. The December business seminar will be held prior to the open
house from 8 to 9:30AM and is titled “Business Basics: Customer First Culture.” Learn more right now at www.ticonderogany.com.
The Port Henry Office of
Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co. will offer free document shredding and
a chance to visit with Santa during its Community Appreciation Day tomorrow. The event will be from 10 AM to 2 PM in
Port Henry and will feature food and a visit from Santa. In addition, the
Moriah Police Department will provide free fingerprinting and car-seat safety
checks from 10 AM to Noon, and Adirondack Mobile Shredding will be on hand to
offer free shredding of confidential documents from Noon to 2 PM. The public is encouraged to donate a
nonperishable food item to support the Moriah Food Pantry, or a toy to support
the Ladies Auxiliary’s Local Toys for Kids program. All customers who bring a
donation will be entered into drawings for various prizes.
Cyber Monday provides
shoppers with an opportunity to skip the lines at stores and do some holiday
shopping from the comfort of their home.
But online scammers may try to take advantage of the unsuspecting
shopper on the popular shopping day, as well as year-round. According to the Better Business Bureau
if a deal seems too good to be true, it usually is. To look up businesses and
charities on the Better Business Bureau’s website, go to www.bbb.org. To file a complaint with Scambook, go to www.scambook.com.
The New York State Office
of Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites is discounting the cost of the $65
Empire Passport to $40 for a special Cyber Monday online promotion. The discount will strictly apply only
to online orders placed through 11:59 p.m. today. Purchases will be accepted online at www.nysparks.com during this time, but will not be accepted in
person or by phone. Each customer will be able to purchase up to three passes
at the reduced price.
A 6-year-old Vermont boy
is safe following a night in the woods after going missing during a
family-hunting outing. Joseph "Jo Jo" McCray, of Arlington, was able
to walk out on his own after being located by a search team around 9:30 AM
Sunday in a wooded area of Sunderland. Officials say the boy was reported
missing Saturday afternoon after failing to show up at a prearranged place
after his family spread out while entering the woods.
Vermont Law School is
offering voluntary buyouts to staff and may do so soon with faculty as it
prepares for what its president and dean says are revolutions about to sweep
both the legal profession and higher education. A sharp drop in the numbers of
Americans applying to law schools, triggered by a drop in the number of legal
jobs open, is being felt at the South Royalton campus. The class due to
graduate in the spring with juries doctor degrees numbers just over 200. The
class that will follow it in 2014 numbers about 150.
The Springfield police
chief says he needs at least two more officers to help patrol the southern
Vermont community that has seen a spike in crime in recent years. Chief Douglas Johnston says the town is
seeing an influx of out-of-state drug dealers and more and more serious crimes.
He says heroin is currently the illegal drug of choice in the region. The Rutland Herald reports that
Johnston has asked for extra officers every year in recent years, but the weak
economy has made that impossible. He says he's hoping the Select Board will
agree to his request this year. The
Springfield police department currently has 16 officers.
New York has gotten a $27
million federal grant that will go toward hiring people to help Superstorm
Sandy cleanup efforts. Gov. Andrew
Cuomo announced the National Emergency Grant on Sunday. The money is going to
go to communities that were hit hard by the storm so that they can hire people. The state Department of Labor is
administering the funds.
The firearms deer-hunting
season is over for Vermont, but this season ended successfully for one man who
is wheelchair-bound. Chris Chaput
of Hinesburg lost the use of his legs in an accident 17 years ago, but still
manages to go hunting, as he's licensed to hunt from his truck. Although he started hunting eleven
years before his accident, this was the first time he actually got a deer, and
it was a big one. The buck weighed
more than two hundred pounds and had a nine-point rack.
Former Vermont Gov. Jim
Douglas is planning to attend a screening and discussion of the Vermont Public
Television series, "The Governors," at Johnson State College. The December 3 screening of the series
will include interviews with Douglas and former Gov. Howard Dean. The series will offer behind-the-scenes
accounts of the issues and decisions made during the tenures Vermont's last two
governors. Dean served as governor
from 1991-2003. Douglas served from 2003-2011. A discussion will also be held with Douglas and Johnson
State College professor William Doyle, who also represents Washington County in
the state Senate. The screening
and discussion are among a series of weekly presentations by Vermont political
figures as part of Doyle's fall course on Vermont politics.
A Vermont cheese company
that was launched late last year is expanding its distribution. The Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co. in
Woodstock says it's now being distributed in 15 states, from New England to
Texas, after securing partnerships with five distributors. The Rutland Herald reported that
Vermont Farmstead has also expanded its production by installing a new vat in
September, increasing cheese production from 17,000 pounds to 48,000 pounds per
month.
Six elderly Massachusetts
women are due to go on trial on charges they chained themselves to the gate at
the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant two days after the state was hammered by
the remnants of Hurricane Irene. The
women, all members of the Shut It Down Affinity Group, are scheduled to go on
trial Tuesday in Vermont Superior Court in Brattleboro. Police say they traveled to nuke plant
gate in Vernon on August 30, 2011, used a chain and padlock to lock the
entrance gate and chained themselves to the fence. It was 1 of about 22 protests the group has mounted against
the reactor's continued operation in recent years.
State transportation
officials say traffic on a main route between northern New York and Vermont
will be reduced to one lane for four to eight weeks while work is being done to
repair damage from a rock slide last month. Officials say traffic will be controlled by alternating
signals on both ends of the closure on Route 4 in Fort Ann, Washington County,
starting on Monday. The closure is between Kelsey Pond Lane and Route 22. Workers are removing additional rock
from the slope involved in last month's massive rockslide. There may be
temporary closures of both lanes as blasting is done. The cliff collapsed on October 15, sending 2,000 tons of
rocks and boulders onto 200 yards of roadway.
Mirror Lake Inn Resort and
Spa has impressed the readers of Conde Nast Traveler with yet another
distinction. As ski season
approaches, the publication’s readers have placed the Mirror Lake Inn sixth
among their Top 50 Ski Hotels in North America. In addition, as the top five
are located in the western United States, the Lake Placid property becomes the
poll’s top-rated ski hotel in eastern North America. The Lake Placid Lodge tied
for eighth place in the ski hotel survey, while the Whiteface Lodge was 11th.
Annette Nadelson Lazarus
of Middlebury will be featured on an upcoming television documentary, titled
“Little Jerusalem”, about Vermont’s Jewish community. The film will be
broadcast on Vermont Public Television December 6th and 8th and 10th. “Little Jerusalem” will explore the
lives and culture of the Jewish people of Vermont
at large, but with a special focus on early Jewish immigration in the
Burlington area.
Brandon Music on Country
Club Road in Brandon will present vocalist Violette this Thursday at 7:30pm. Growing
up on a small island off the French Atlantic coast, Violette fully embraced the
beauty and unspoiled nature of her surroundings, dividing her days between
sports, books and music. Her originals, although rooted in jazz, reflect the
young artist’s eclectic range of musical influences from Pop to Rock and
R&B. General Admission is
$15. Brandon Music Café offers a
concert and dinner package, which includes dinner and a ticket to the show for
$30 plus tax per person. For
Information & Reservations (802) 465-4071 / info@brandon-music.net www.brandon-music.net
A car accident in Bristol,
VT Saturday night has taken the life of an elderly woman who is a lifelong
resident of the town. It was about
6 PM Saturday when Ann Roscoe was crossing the street close to her home when 85
year-old Ann Roscoe was struck by a car at the intersection of North Street and
Park Street and eventually died from the injuries she received in the accident.
It was right outside her home that Roscoe was crossing the road when she was
hit by a car driven by a 19 year-old Ashley Nancollas of Bristol. Roscoe was
transported to Fletcher Allen in Burlington where she died of from her
injuries. Police say that alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor in the
accident. Her neighbor for almost
a decade, Lisa Powell, came home as Bristol Police were still investigating the
incident. "I've known Ann an
extremely long time before we were neighbors," Powell said. She said that Roscoe had always been a
lively person, even at the age of 85, and that she was a great friend to talk
to. "We'd just kind of sit in
the chairs waste the day away solving the world's problems and talking about
what was going on in town," Powell said. Roscoe had been a longtime member of the community. She had
been a member of St. Ambrose church her entire life and Saturday evening she
was on her way to mass when the accident occurred. The church is only a block
from her home. Congregation members
said they could see police cars on North Street as they came together for the
service. Roscoe was also known as the lunch lady at a local high school and a
friend to many, like her neighbor.
"Yeah we kind of looked out for each other and it's going to be
hard right now it's like oh my god she's not there. and that's really going to
be the tough part right there," Powell said. Roscoe had four sons who lived in Bristol as well. Vermont State Police will help
reconstruct the accident this week. Bristol Police are still investigating the
scene. No charges have been filed against Nancollas.
