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VERGENNES — City Manager Mel Hawley introduced a draft budget to Vergennes aldermen at their May 8 meeting that could again allow them...
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Library winds up for summer (with video)
Watch the video here. LINCOLN — Dancing gorillas, chattering teeth, jumping owls, rolling hamburgers, a climbing panda and a Mickey...
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Wind up

LEARN ABOUT THE collection of more than 200 wind-up toys at Lincoln Library. Lincoln Librarians Marcia Jimmo, left,...

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Old timey music

RICK CEBALLOS PERFORMS with the Hip Replacements at the annual Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Fine Arts Festival at Mount Abraham Union High School last Thursday morning.
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Step by step

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School band instructor Susan O’Daniel leads the school’s marching band through its paces in front of the school recently in preparation for upcoming Memorial Day parades.br...

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Cat on a hot tin pipe

A CAT WALKS along a slippery pipe on a Monkton farm last Thursday morning.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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In full bloom

BLOSSOMS BURST FROM a tree on the city green in Vergennes last Wednesday afternoon.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Hair of a different color

ST. MARY’S SCHOOL kindergartner Grace Leduc is all smiles as she sits with classmates Maggie Lane, far left, and Mason McAdams before performing a skit in front of the school last Friday morning....

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Sex ed

READ ABOUT HOW Bristol Hub Director Jim Lockridge, left, and Program Coordinator Ryan Krushenick are...

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Wall to wall

A FISH DRAWING by Bristol Elementary School kindergartner Helen Kihm is one of hundreds of student art pieces on display at Mount Abraham Union High School through May 10 as part of the Addison...

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Maple Run

A PACK OF leaders sticks together in the opening minutes of Middlebury's Maple Run on Sunday.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Building up the county

DILLON IRVING, LEFT, Wiley Conte, David Raphael and Rob Liu stand above the deck and kayak rack they helped build at Button Bay State Park as part of Raphael’s landscape architecture class at UVM...

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Weybridge man helps battle polio
MIDDLEBURY — Jason Schnoor in February got to witness India’s Taj Mahal, one of the most opulent and grandiose structures ever made by...
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USPS may cut hours to spare post offices
VERMONT — The U.S. Postal Service last week put forth a plan it says would save rural post offices, including several in Addison County that...
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Donovan seeks top lawyer post
MIDDLEBURY — TJ Donovan is seeking to graduate from chief prosecutor in the state’s most populous county to the chief law enforcement...
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Editorial: Volcker Rule needed to change industry's culture
Here’s what you need to know about the controversial Volcker rule and the $2 billion or more dollars that JPMorgan Bank lost recently on a bad bet: the Volcker Rule and proposed regulations as now written may not have prevented the risky gamble and its potential impact on the rest of the industry. That’s because the Republican-led House of Representatives has...
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Eagles edge rival Vergennes
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BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ lacrosse team dominated most of Saturday’s...

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Trout 2012, one month in
We are now one month into the 2012 open season for trout. I confess a little trepidation as the season began, wondering what would be the impact of Tropical Storm Irene on our local waters. And what would be the impact of our dry winter? The second of these questions is working itself out nicely. The season started with the lowest, warmest water, and some of the best mayfly hatches I’ve ever seen in the first three weeks of the season. Not surprisingly, therefore, fishing was very good in April, especially on Otter Creek. Best I’ve ever seen it for the first couple weeks of...
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Library winds up for summer (with video)
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Watch the video here. LINCOLN — Dancing gorillas, chattering teeth, jumping owls, rolling hamburgers, a climbing panda and a Mickey Mouse that strolls. What do they all have in common? They’re wind-up toys — a cultural relic of childhoods past. In an era where digital games, like Angry Birds and Diner Dash, dominate the...
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Arts Beat 5/14/2012
What do “Oliver Twist,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Peter Pan” and Edward Elgar’s orchestral masterpiece, “Enigma Variations,” have in common? They will all be a part of an innovative collaboration between Very Merry Theatre (VMT) and the Champlain Philharmonic that will feature a cast of 50 youth actors and 50 adult musicians at the Vergennes Opera House on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Don Wright, executive director of VMT, and Paul Gambill, music...
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