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MIDDLEBURY — For 71 years, Marion Guild has known that she was the true designer of the oft-admired marble monument at the head of Main Street in Middlebury that pays tribute to one of the community’s most iconic citizens, ground-breaking educator Emma Hart Willard.

But Guild remained silent when her boss, Pierre Zwick, claimed the lion’s share of credit in 1941 when the structure was erected on the town park, near the intersection of Routes 7 and 125.

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VERGENNES — Heavy rains, lightning and thunder struck most of Addison County last Wednesday afternoon, but no storm slammed any site as hard as the one that targeted Vergennes.

According to city public works head Jim Larrow, starting at around 4 p.m. on May 16 two-and-a-half inches of rain fell in 45 minutes, overwhelming many city storm drains and culverts as well as stormwater drainage systems in many Vergennes subdivisions.

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LEICESTER — The Leicester selectboard at its April 2 meeting heard reports of illegal trash dumping on Lower Bullock Road.

Town Health Officer Jim Russo reported that he had inspected the site and found prescription bottles, syringes, receipts from a liquor store and a Rite Aid drug store and three coy dog carcasses. He also found a name in one of the garbage bags on the site.

Russo passed the information on to Gary Urich, an enforcement officer from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.

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VERMONT — On a gray May morning in Monkton, Norma Norris and Denzel Rankine were hard at work planting tomatoes, watering seedlings in the greenhouse and painting tables in preparation for the upcoming summer season.

Rankine, 48, comes to Norris Berry Farm from his home in Jamaica for six months each year through the federal H2A guest worker program, arriving in mid-April and staying until the end of the season in the fall.

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