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College boasts talent, diversity in prospective new class

Posted on April 25, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



MIDDLEBURY — Describing an especially competitive applicant pool, Middlebury College officials announced early this month that the school had offered admission to 1,700 students for the incoming Class of 2017.

The college admitted students from a pool of 9,112 applicants from 77 countries and all 50 states. It was the largest group of applicants in the college’s history.

Students will choose their college by May 1. In recent years, 23 to 28 percent of the students Middlebury College has accepted have chosen to attend the school.

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Bristol grandstand gets a facelift

Posted on April 25, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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BRISTOL — The Bristol Recreation Club is wrapping up a much-needed renovation project to its grandstand and kitchen facility just in time for the Little League baseball season.

“We thought it was going to be a minor repair project to start with,” said Eric Carter, co-director of the Rec Club. “But when we tore off the siding, we realized that five big posts that hold up the building — two of them had about two feet rotting.”

About 30 years of garbage, stuffed between cracks in the grandstand, had also accumulated.

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Quest continues for improved Bristol firehouse

Posted on April 25, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



BRISTOL — More than 30 potential locations for a new fire facility were proposed this past Saturday at the first public gathering to discuss potential ways to expand the Bristol Fire Department’s headquarters.

After a contentious bond that would have funded a first stage of expansion to the firehouse on North Street was rejected by voters on Town Meeting Day, 587-293, town officials committed to facilitating public discussions to identify a new site.

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College hosts forum for ‘fair trade recycling,’ experts seek safer handling of material

Posted on April 18, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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MIDDLEBURY — Consumers are used to seeing specialty stores stocked with fair trade coffee, chocolate and produce. Robin Ingenthron has added one more idea to the lexicon: fair trade recycling, a concept that’s catching on in national and international markets.

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Lincoln holding special Town Meeting to settle disputed selectboard expansion

Posted on April 15, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



Update: This article has been amended to reflect that voting on May 14 will take place through Australian ballot voting, not by voice vote, as stated in an earlier version of this article. The Independent regrets the error.

LINCOLN — It’s past the time of year that most Addison County residents keep their ears peeled for important Town Meeting Day news, but Lincoln residents will return to Burnham Hall in the coming weeks for another round of discussion, debate and voting on municipal matters.

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Canal barge to ship Vt. food products to NYC

Posted on April 15, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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FERRISBURGH — “Where does our food come from?” is a question to which shoppers concerned about eating local have given careful consideration in recent years.

Ferrisburgh farmer and baker Erik Andrus has a slightly different take on it: “How does our food get to us?”

Long ago waterways, not roads, were the backbone of the Northeast’s regional food system. After decades of reliance on roads and automobiles to get foods to market, Andrus is taking a journey back in time.

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Bristol to mull options for firehouse upgrade

Posted on April 11, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



BRISTOL — Following Bristol voters’ rejection last month of a bond that would have taken the first step toward an upgrade to the fire department’s North Street facility, the search for an improved firehouse will continue in coming weeks.

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New Haven woman bikes for cancer cure

Posted on April 11, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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NEW HAVEN — Linda Sweeney used to bicycle alone. But that changed one fateful week last year, when her favorite  uncle, Jack Hurlbut, learned he had lymphoma, a form of blood cancer that more than 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with annually.

 

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Jer Coons launching debut album with musical partner

Posted on April 11, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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MIDDLEBURY — Every good album has a story behind it. For Addison County native Jer Coons and music partner Caroline Rose, the story of their debut album, “America Religious” — which will be released on June 11 — began with a costly mistake.

“I accidentally bought a car,” Rose explained during a recent interview in her soon-to-be adopted hometown, Middlebury.

“Caroline’s life is defined by impulsive behavior,” offered Coons.

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New county daycare center supports autistic kids

Posted on April 11, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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NEW HAVEN — On a recent morning in a sunlit room on Rivers Bend Road in New Haven, four-year-old Brian Henderson sat on the floor and pondered his next move. A pair of mittens on a string was placed next to him and his snowsuit was half on and half off. His teacher sat on the floor beside him; after some consideration, Brian moved over to sit on her lap.

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