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Local filmmaker shows kids taking risks in adventure playground

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Erin Davis has fond, vivid memories about how she and her neighborhood playmates used to regularly meet up for imaginative play and games in their native Ohio.

“I was never on a soccer team or a baseball team; I didn’t have a lot of scheduled activities — and neither did my friends at the time,” said Davis, now a Middlebury resident and a teacher of radio documentary at Middlebury College. “We had a lot of free time together to do all sorts of weird, goofy stuff.”

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Middlebury film festival plans winter offerings

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) was a hot ticket during its inaugural run this past August, and organizers want to make sure the enthusiasm for the event does not cool off during the frigid Vermont winter.

To that end, MNFF officials on Tuesday confirmed a 2016 Winter Screening Series featuring four films that will be shown at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater from January to April.

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Leicester students build community, teamwork with treehouse project

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By John Flowers



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LEICESTER — It’s not an exaggeration to say that education is scaling new heights at Leicester Central School. That’s where a collection of 4th- through 6th-graders — with some help from adults — recently put the finishing touches on six treehouses on school property.

The project has resulted in an amenity for future generations and required the young builders to become versed in all of the academic skills involved in construction.

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Addison farm, feds reach agreement on cattle medication case

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By John S. McCright



WEST ADDISON — An Addison County dairy farm and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have agreed on how to settle a concern by federal authorities about medications given to the farm’s cows.

 Amy Menard, the lawyer for the Wynsum Holsteins farm run by Anthony and Barbara Correia and family, noted that the Correias admitted no wrongdoing and no formal charges were filed.

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OV senior named as Presidential Scholar

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



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BRANDON — Otter Valley Union High School senior Emma Cijka has been named one of 24 Vermont U.S. Presidential Scholars. She is the only high school student from the Addison County and Brandon area to win this distinction.

Cijka, the daughter of Wendy and Stephen Cijka of Brandon, and her fellow Vermont nominees were honored last Thursday at a ceremony in the Cedar Creek Room at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier.

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Volunteers craft glades for backcountry winter skiing

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By Evan Johnson



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GOSHEN — A group of winter sports enthusiasts, who generally like to see snowflakes in the air, were happy to see woodchips and sawdust flying in the Green Mountains this past weekend.

A dedicated group of backcountry skiing fanatics took to the area around Goshen Mountain this past Saturday and Sunday with handsaws, clippers and the occasional chainsaw for the first of several planned forays to cut ski glades in the Green Mountain National Forest.

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ACTR announces its winter schedule

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



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MIDDLEBURY — ACTR kicks off its daily Snow Bowl Shuttle Bus winter schedule on Saturday, Dec. 19 — just in time for school vacation. The Snow Bowl Winter Schedule will serve nine weekday runs up to Rikert Nordic Center and the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, and six runs on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Three county towns earn municipal planning grants

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



MONTPELIER — Three Addison County towns were among 45 communities around Vermont that recently were awarded Municipal Planning Grants to help them tackle issues facing their towns. The kinds of issues the $478,000 in grants will address include things like where to locate new housing, how best to protect the community from floods or bring needed infrastructure to support new businesses and economic vitality.

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Hunting licenses for 2016 available online

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



MONTPELIER — Vermont hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for 2016 will be available on the Fish & Wildlife Department’s website (www.vtfishandwildlife.com) on Dec. 14.

“Vermonters really enjoy hunting and fishing,” said Vermont Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter. “Many people like to purchase their new licenses before January 1 so they will be ready to go ice fishing.”

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Handbell concert tour to stop in Bristol

Posted on December 10, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



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