Archive - Jun 2009
June 16th
Online editor’s note: This summer, we’ll be bringing you occasional suggestions for free (or almost free) outings in and around Addison County on our new staff blog. Our first installment of the series comes from Addison Independent intern Andrea Suozzo. Check back periodically for more tips and tricks for enjoying the county on a shoestring budget.
Bristol looks to be buzzing tonight: in Holley Hall at 7:30, residents and members of the Planning Commission will meet for a public hearing on the latest draft of the Bristol Town Plan.
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June 15th
By KATHRYN FLAGG
NEW HAVEN — “I’m a pack rat,” said Ralph Farnsworth, standing in the jam-packed old barn where his father once milked a herd of 10 cows. “I figure somebody’s got to have it, so it might as well be me.”
“It” is everything — or, to be more specific, “anything old,” as Farnsworth puts it.
The casual passer-by at Farnsworth’s North Street home in New Haven will notice a few signs of this fascination with the antique. Arranged neatly on the groomed lawn by his barn are a few old tractors, all in pristine condition.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
POULTNEY — For three years, talented Otter Valley Union High School softball teams have been knocking on the door of a Division II title. In 2006, four-time defending champion Lyndon slammed it shut on the Otters, and in 2007 and 2008 lower seeds knocked OV out of the tournament.
On Friday night before a big crowd of mostly Brandon-Pittsford area fans at the Poultney Recreation Center, the Otters walked through that door and evicted the Vikings in a nerve-wracking D-II final, 3-2.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — A combined total of four buses at Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) and Elderly Services Inc. will be replaced by the end of this year, thanks to a cut of $3.9 million in federal stimulus money.
The two local nonprofits were among a list of nine Vermont public transit providers that will share in the federal grant awards, confirmed last week by the state’s congressional delegation.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — Dairy farmers around the country are rallying behind a price stabilization program that some dairy farmers hope could help reduce volatility in bulk milk prices, which plummeted this winter to a low of roughly $10 per hundredweight, $7 or $8 below the cost of production for Vermont farmers.
But with milk prices projected to rebound somewhat this fall, advocates for the new program say farmers need to move fast before rising bulk prices dissuade some dairymen from pushing for change.
June 11th
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Angus Barstow was in need of a haircut. But for the Middlebury youth, a haircut was easier said than done.
He, along with fellow Middlebury Union High School senior Eli Cohen and 10 other Vermont students, was traveling high in the Himalayas of Northern India, into a region called Ladakh wedged between China and Pakistan.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Baseball
D-II Final at UVM
6/15 #1 Mt. Abe vs. #2 Lyndon - 6 p.m.
Softball
D-II Final at Poultney
6/12 or 13 #1 OV vs. #2 Harwood or #3 Lyndon - TBD
Track & Field
6/13 NE Championship Meet at Burlington
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