The Town of Bristol
is encouraging residents to keep an eye out for animals possibly infected with
rabies. Town officials released a
statement this week indicating there has been two reported incidents involving
rabid animals. The first involved a raccoon biting a man and the second after a
dying fox was found to be infected with the disease. The events in Bristol
are not the first reports of the disease in the area this year. Fifteen people
have been treated for rabies after a 9-week-old puppy tested positive for the
disease. The town of Bristol
advises residents to report suspicious animals to the town office
(802-453-2410) or to the police department (802-453-2533).
The former Econo Lodge on Route 7 in Shelburne now has a new
name and new mission. The 59-room
facility is now called Harbor Place ,
and was sold yesterday to the Champlain Housing Trust for one-point-eight
million dollars. It’s going to be a new
temporary housing unit, with case workers helping others find basic needs, jobs
and long-term housing. Harbor Place
should be open and receiving residents by this Friday.
The Vermont Agriculture Agency is going to hold a webinar so
Vermonters can provide feedback on rules for a new law that some say could
significantly affect the state’s fruit and vegetable farmers. The webinar will be held on November 4. It will walk participants through the comment
process for the Produce Safety and Preventive Control Rules. The deadline for making comments on the Food
and Drug Administration’s proposed rules to implement the Food Safety
Modernization Act is November 15. When
finalized, these rules will affect many Vermont
vegetable and fruit growers.
Although more than 28-thousand households in Vermont
rely on the Low Income Heating Assistance Program known as LIHEAP, two oil
dealers are saying they won’t participate this year. The state is adding more than eight million
dollars to the program which is getting nearly 17-million from the federal
government. But, Jack Corse in Cambridge
and Bourne’s Energy in Morrisville are not joining in because of the way the
contract is set up this year with pricing formulas. Customers of the two dealers are being told
they’ll have to find another if they’re going to be heating this winter with
LIHEAP funds.
The Moriah Food Pantry is asking for your help. The holidays are approaching and the Moriah
Food Pantry is not prepared. Its shelves
are near empty. The Moriah Food Pantry,
located in the basement of All Saints Church on Bartlett Pond Road in
Mineville, is an emergency service that provides a three-day supply of food to
families in need. It serves about 85
families a month. Officials hope people
will keep the food pantry in mind this holiday season, when demand for food is
at its greatest.
