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VUHS valedictorian: 'Take in scenery'

Posted on June 14, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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VERGENNES — Last Friday, 111 Vergennes Union High School seniors marched to the podium to accept their diplomas in front of an audience packed full of family and friends.

Over the course of the ceremony, the seniors received plenty of advice and encouragement to guide them along their postgraduate paths.

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Young people work in the real world

Posted on June 14, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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MIDDLEBURY — To many it might seem daunting to head straight from classes at Middlebury College to designing a business model and outreach campaign for an established business, but Allen Hoffman doesn’t think so.

For eight weeks this summer, Hoffman is working with the owners of Café Alta Gracia — a nonprofit, fair-trade coffee company — to create a new business plan for the firm, which buys and processes coffee beans from the Dominican Republic.

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Slideshow: Commodores rally to win state championship

Posted on June 13, 2012 |
By Trent Campbell, Andy Kirkaldy, and Andrea Suozzo



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The Vergennes Union High School baseball team dropped behind 3-0 in the first inning of Saturday's Division II final against Missisquoi, but came back to beat the Thunderbirds 4-3. Afterward, the Independent caught up with some of the winning team members and coach George Ringer.

Photos: Trent Campbell, Audio: Andy Kirkaldy, Editing: Andrea Suozzo

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Legal hemp could net big money for farmers

Posted on June 11, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



MIDDLEBURY — At a meeting in Middlebury last Wednesday evening, the crowd was bullish on hemp as a cash crop.

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Low-cal sweetener poses hazard to dogs

Posted on June 11, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



MIDDLEBURY — When Karen Lykins of Middlebury woke up last Saturday morning, it was to find Lily, her three-month-old Sheltie puppy, surrounded by bodily fluids on the floor. She brought the dog to the veterinarian right away, but just a few hours later, Lily had died of liver failure.

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ANwSU settles contract

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



VERGENNES — Teachers and the school board within the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union have settled on a two-year teacher contract more than a month before the current contract expires on June 30.

Both Kristin Bristow, lead negotiator for the school boards, and Rose Wenzel, co-chief negotiator for the teachers, said the negotiation went smoothly, taking just a few months — from the first meeting in December until the teachers ratified the contract last Tuesday — to work out the full contract details.

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Orwell teacher bids farewell after 36 years

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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ORWELL — In the 36 years since Sally (Gilmore) DeLancey, 57, first set foot in the Orwell Village School to start work as a kindergarten teacher, a lot has changed.

DeLancey, who is retiring from her position this month, said she has seen curriculum pushed ahead by leaps and bounds, and children have been required to know more and more in their early years.

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College museum closes for plumbing work

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



MIDDLEBURY — This summer, those looking for art won’t find it at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.

The museum’s sprinkler and plumbing system is undergoing significant repair work, which began in May and will continue until August, said Douglas Perkins, operations manager for the museum.

The museum, which is housed in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, will reopen Sept. 4, and the main exhibit for the fall, “China Modern,” will go up Sept. 13.

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Ferrisburgh farmers bottle their own milk

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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HINESBURG/FERRISBURGH — There’s a new brand of organic milk hitting the shelves in stores around Vermont from a Ferrisburgh farm that after years producing high-quality milk is now also bottling it and sending it to retailers.

Kimball Brook Farm has been milking 200 Jersey and Holstein cows and selling to the national market for 15 years. But when Cheryl and J.D. DeVos flipped the switch at their small Hinesburg bottling plant on May 17, they were marking a major transition to processor and distributor of their own milk.

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Video: Art Clifford remembers the 1929 Champlain Bridge opening

Posted on June 1, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo and Kaitlyn Kirkaldy



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Crowds turned out to watch the Champlain Bridge Grand Parade on May 19, but for some in the crowd, this wasn't the first time.

Art Clifford of Starksboro was just a boy in 1929, but he traveled over to Addison with his family to watch the festivities that opened up the first Champlain Bridge. He was one of the '29ers who attended this year, and he sat down with Robinson Elementary School students to chat about what life was like back in 1929.

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