Category: Addison County

Towns learn lessons from Tropical Storm Irene disaster

Posted on August 30, 2012 |

• Addison County
• Vermont
• Featured
• tropical storm irene

By Andrea Suozzo

ADDISON COUNTY — It’s been one year since Tropical Storm Irene wiped out roads, bridges and buildings throughout Vermont, taxing emergency management systems statewide.

That storm, and the weeks immediately after spent on emergency repairs, helped to get area town officials thinking more about the realities of disaster management, according to Tim Bouton, emergency response planner at the Addison County Regional Planning Commission (ACRPC).

“People are more conscious that there could be a large-scale disaster here,” Bouton said.

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Mosquitoes in Whiting test positive for West Nile Virus

Posted on August 30, 2012 |

• Addison County
• West Nile virus

By Addison Independent

BURLINGTON — Four mosquito pools from the Whiting area in Addison County have tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus and one pool tested positive for West Nile virus.

No human cases of EEE have been confirmed in Vermont, and the last human case of West Nile Virus in was in 2003. The state traps and tests mosquitoes, and tests people and horses that have symptoms consistent with the virus. Both viruses are spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.

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Voters go to polls on Tuesday for Primary election

Posted on August 23, 2012 |

• Addison County
• election
• Featured

By John Flowers

ADDISON COUNTY — Vermonters will go to the polls on Tuesday, Aug. 28, to cast ballots in primary elections highlighted by a heated contest between two Burlington Democrats vying for attorney general.

That contest features longtime incumbent Attorney General Bill Sorrell, who is being challenged by Chittenden County State’s Attorney Thomas “T.J.” Donovan. The winner of that race will go on to face Republican candidate Jack McMullen in the General Election this November.

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Phosphorus runs through local rivers

Posted on August 9, 2012 |

• Addison County
• agriculture
• environment
• Featured

By Andrew Stein

ADDISON COUNTY — Data released earlier this year showed that in 2011 the Otter Creek poured more than 206 metric tons of phosphorus into Lake Champlain — almost twice the 18-year average of 121 annual metric tons.

An increase in phosphorus, which fuels growth of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, is not viewed by staff at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) as a positive harbinger in their effort to clean up Lake Champlain.

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