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By JOHN FLOWERS

MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow (VSCC) will close its Middlebury gallery this Saturday, Jan. 31, and then move to sell its 1 Mill St. building to retire the growing debt the nonprofit has accumulated during the past year as a result of plunging sales.

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By KATHRYN FLAGG

ADDISON COUNTY — New England’s largest dairy co-op announced last week that it is phasing out use of a controversial bovine growth hormone that boosts dairy cows’ productivity. Come August, Agri-Mark Inc. of Methuen, Mass., will no longer accept any milk from hormone-treated cows at its New England processing plants.

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By JOHN FLOWERS

MIDDLEBURY — Leaders of Gov. James Douglas’s hometown school board on Tuesday pulled no punches in panning the Middlebury Republican’s recent request that communities freeze their per-pupil education spending levels for next year.

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By ANDY KIRKALDY

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ basketball team rode one offensive surge and a third-quarter defensive stand past visiting Vergennes on Tuesday, 48-30.

The win evened the Tigers’ record at 6-6, a record that follows last year’s 5-15 campaign and the 6-14 mark of the winter before.

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By Andy Kirkaldy

It was one thing for the Middlebury Union High School boys’ basketball team to crack 100 points against Montpelier earlier this year. The Solons are a perfectly competent (7-6 as of Monday) Division II Vermont basketball team and were willing, at least the first time the two teams met, to run and gun with the Tigers.

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By JOHN FLOWERS

ADDISON COUNTY — The sea of humanity that gathered in the nation’s capital on Jan. 20 for the inauguration of President Barack Obama has now receded, and local residents have trickled back to Addison County with pictures and memories they said would last a lifetime.

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By JOHN FLOWERS

MIDDLEBURY — Mediation has failed to resolve differences between the parties contesting a conditional approval awarded by the town last fall to a proposed Staples in The Centre shopping plaza, so the dispute will now have to be settled in Vermont Environmental Court.

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By ANDY KIRKALDY

PANTON — The Vergennes-Panton Water District board has in hand a report saying that its 37-year-old Panton plant needs at least $5.2 million of repairs and upgrades, and estimates that paying off a bond to fund that work could mean a hike of $306 a year for a typical residential customer.

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