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Ballet takes up residence on Vermont farms

Posted on July 28, 2016 |
By Emma Cotton



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NEW HAVEN — Megan Stearns is in mid-air. Her back leg is straight, toe pointed, and her front leg is outstretched, hurtling her body toward the ground.

Stearns is a ballerina — she’s danced her entire life — but she’s used to landing on a dance studio’s solid wood floor. Now, in this fraction of a second, while she floats several feet from the Earth, she’ll have to prepare herself to land on an uneven, unknown surface.

Grass.

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Middlebury Farmers' Market looking for a new home

Posted on July 25, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Directors of the Middlebury Farmers’ Market (MFM) are looking for a new location to host the popular, twice-per-week showcase of locally produced foods and crafts. A looming downtown construction project will require the market to leave its current spot in the Marble Works at the end of its current season.

“We are set on finding a new home, and hopefully the community will support us in our search,” said Hannah Sessions, president of the market’s board of directors.

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Police say man stabbed two people in Middlebury

Posted on July 25, 2016 |
By John S. McCright



MIDDLEBURY — Police from at least three law enforcement agencies fanned out Sunday afternoon looking for a man who attacked two people in Middlebury, at least one of whom was an employee of a mental health agency. A few hours later they found their suspect and said they would charge him with two counts of attempted murder.

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Local group rallies for 'Black Lives Matter'

Posted on July 25, 2016 |
By Addison Independent



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MIDDLEBURY — About 100 Addison County residents and visitors gathered in downtown Middlebury on the evening of Thursday, July 21, to call for an immediate end to police violence against Black people. This was the first of what organizers hope will be many actions undertaken by the new Middlebury chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice, (SURJ), a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice.

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Olivia's Croutons eyes move to Brandon from New Haven and Middlebury

Posted on July 25, 2016 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



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BRANDON — Olivia’s Croutons is hoping to make Brandon its new home.

The New Haven-based crouton company owned by Francie and Dave Caccavo is in the process of buying the Tucel building on Route 73 near the Neshobe School in Brandon.

The couple appeared before the Brandon Development Review Board last Wednesday night regarding a conditional use application to change the use of the existing facility that manufactures brushes to a food manufacturing plant and warehouse space.

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Meet the chef: Julie Clancy is a chef for hire

Posted on July 25, 2016 |
By Emma Cotton



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MIDDLEBURY — At 6 a.m. on Sunday, while much of New England sleeps after the grind of a long workweek, Julia Clancy is awake. The young chef scans her meticulously constructed list of ingredients and instructions while loading various items — fresh herbs from the garden, maple syrup, coriander seeds — into a large box. She puts the box in her car, pulls out of her driveway in Middlebury and heads for Agricola Farm in Addison.

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Area police to receive Narcan for overdoses

Posted on July 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



ADDISON COUNTY — Middlebury police officers will soon be trained to administer Narcan to people they might encounter who are overdosing on opioids. Vergennes police are looking for resources to implement the same kind of program.

Emergency responders have successfully used Narcan to bring back, in some cases from the brink of death, folks suffering from the effects of a drug overdose.

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Salisbury voters decide to keep gun ordinance

Posted on July 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



SALISBURY — Salisbury residents on Tuesday voted 92 to 61 against repealing a new firearms ordinance intended to promote safety in the most populous parts of town.

The new law, unanimously endorsed by the Salisbury selectboard back on April 26 — prohibits “the firing or discharge of a firearm … within a safety zone of 200 feet from any residence, building or camper in the High Density Residential/Village Center (HDR district), or the Lakeshore District Areas.”

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Cheddar-making giant looms in Cabot plant

Posted on July 21, 2016 |
By Ellie Reinhardt



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MIDDLEBURY — Thanks to a huge new piece of machinery, the Cabot manufacturing plant in Middlebury’s industrial park will be able to process 4,000 more pounds of cheese curd per hour than the 8,000 pounds the current machine handles.

That’s as much weight as a fully grown great white shark or a large family car … every hour.

In Vermont, where cheese season never ends, that’s an announcement worth moo-ing about.

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Ex-diplomat seeks governor's office

Posted on July 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Former Democratic state Sen. Peter Galbraith of Townsend is perhaps best known for the role he played as a diplomat on the international stage during much of the 1990s. As the U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Galbraith helped negotiate an end to the Slavic nation’s war for independence.

Though he still likes to globetrot, Galbraith, 65, wants to use his networking skills closer to home, as governor of the state of Vermont.

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