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Literacy program rewards readers with bikes

Posted on October 6, 2016 |
By Addison Independent



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VERGENNES — The Greater Vergennes Rotary Club in partnership with the Bixby Memorial Free Library celebrates with the 2016 winners of the “Booked for Bikes” program. “Booked for Bikes” is a joint literacy program designed to empower children ages 5-15 to read books during the summer months.

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ANwSU leader taking charge of renovated city Boys and Girls Club

Posted on October 6, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — A familiar face is greeting new and current members of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes this fall.

Vergennes resident and former city afterschool program director Jill Strube took over as executive director of the city youth club on Aug. 31. She became just the club’s third executive director since it was founded in the Vergennes National Guard Armory in the late 1990s.

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City looks to loan fund to help restaurant and youth club

Posted on October 3, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Tapping a two-decade-old revolving loan fund, the Vergennes city council on Sept. 27 agreed to loan $95,000 to the owner of the School Street building that houses Bar Antidote and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes to allow expansion of the restaurant’s space and creation of handicap access to the youth club.

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Watercolors depict forest fires

Posted on September 27, 2016 |
By Addison Independent



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VERGENNES — Until the end of the month, original watercolor paintings of Lake Champlain’s Button Bay are on display at Vergennes Wine, which is on Main Street in Vergennes.

All of the money raised from any sale of a painting will go to The Wildland Firefighter Foundation, a nonprofit that helps support families of firefighters who die while battling forest blazes. Artist Vanessa Hampton will mark proceeds for Justin Beebe of Bellows Falls, who died last month while fighting a forest fire with the U.S. Forest Service.

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Bixby to offer writing classes

Posted on September 26, 2016 |
By Addison Independent



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VERGENNES— Local screenwriter Jay Dubberly will lead a new six-week class at the Bixby Memorial Library on Mondays from 6-8 p.m. The course will focus on preparing would-be writers for the grueling process of writing a longer work.

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Vergennes students unite to call for Peace One Day

Posted on September 26, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — The sun shone once again this past Wednesday morning on the Vergennes Union High School Peace One Day celebration, the 12th annual student-organized, school-wide assembly dedicated to peace in students’ lives, at the school, and in the broader Vergennes community as well as the nation and the world.

Student speakers, joined by Ben & Jerry’s Rob Michalak, the company’s Global Director of Social Mission, talked about what peace meant to them and what actions the school community could take.

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Vergennes property transfers through June 2016

Posted on September 26, 2016 |
By Addison Independent



VERGENNES — The following arms-length real estate sales were recorded at Vergennes City Hall during 2015 and the first six months of 2016:

•  Jan. 8, 2015, Peter Morris to Pierre Legrand LLC, commercial property at 247 Main St., $280,000.

•  Jan. 20, 2015, Briarwood LLC to Vergennes Healthcare LLC, commercial property at 1 Alden Place, $1,067,317.81.

•  Jan. 29, 2015, Donald Harrington to Claire Gendreau, condo at 5 Country Commons, $168,000.

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City council OKs money to study pool, resurface courts

Posted on September 22, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — After months of discussion, the Vergennes City Council last week decided to spend $4,000 on a professional evaluation of the city’s East Street swimming pool, as a number of residents have urged.

The council on Tuesday, Sept. 13, also decided another recreation facility issue it had debated for a shorter period of time, voting to spend $10,000 to resurface the nearby tennis courts, which double as a wintertime skating rink.

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Zig Zag: Who's behind the local literary magazine

Posted on September 22, 2016 |
By Elsie Lynn Parini



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Stuck in the closet? Not anymore. Writers and artists throughout Addison County now have a literary magazine that will consider their work for publication. Zig Zag Lit Mag — a 64-page, black and white, 8.5-inch by 5.5-inch printed magazine — will release it's first edition today, Thursday, Sept. 22. And there's a party to celebrate. Head over to Bixby Library in Vergennes at 6 p.m. tonight. (Psst, there will be free doughnuts.)

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Native American artifacts at Bixby part of kids' offering

Posted on September 19, 2016 |
By Addison Independent



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VERGENNES — September is Vermont Archaeology Month and Bixby Library will make use of its Native American Collections to present focused programs for children and adults. The children’s program will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17. Children will have a chance to view the Bixby Library collection then work with kits that provide hands-on experience with facsimiles of Native American artifacts.

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