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June 18th, 2009
By KATHRYN FLAGG
BRISTOL — In a public hearing on Tuesday to discuss the draft of a new Bristol Town Plan, Bristol residents had one consistent bit of advice for town planners: it’s all in the details.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
Before every varsity girls’ lacrosse game, the athletes line up for a stick check. The referees place a ball in the pocket of each of their sticks to make sure they are legal — not too deep — and thus don’t give the athlete a ball-control advantage.
That official ritual popped into my head when I read about the controversial disqualifications of a Burlington long jumper and a Champlain Valley girls’ relay running team at the May 30 New England qualifying meet in Essex.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
BURLINGTON — Monday afternoon’s rain let up to allow the Division II high school baseball final to be played at the University of Vermont’s Centennial Field, but unfortunately for top-seeded Mount Abraham, No. 2 Lyndon and ace righthander Buddy Lamothe never let up.
Lamothe tossed a complete-game two-hitter, striking out 16 Eagles and walking just one, as the 18-0 Vikings avenged their 2-0 loss to Mount Abe a year ago with a 9-0 victory this time around.
By CHELSEY PLETTS
BRISTOL — At a tense Tuesday night meeting, the Mount Abraham Union High School board publicly censured member Dick Merrill for adding “fuel to the rumor mill” with a series of actions that Chairman Lanny Smith said undermined the board’s credibility.
By JOHN FLOWERS
SHOREHAM — Students at Shoreham Elementary School got their summer vacation off to an early start this year — not to go out and enjoy good weather, but rather because a good number of kids were under the weather.
When around five students in the fifth-grade class exhibited flu-like symptoms on Thursday, June 11, school officials — in consultation with the Vermont Department of Health — decided to release that entire grade for summer vacation.
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.
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