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New sign honors Cornwall abolitionist William Slade

Posted on December 10, 2018 |
By John Flowers



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CORNWALL — A new sign has gone up in the center of Cornwall village.

This particular sign doesn’t order people to stop, but they should — to take a moment to read about one of the town’s most colorful and accomplished historical figures, a man named William Slade (1786-1859). The Middlebury College graduate and ardent abolitionist served his state as governor, congressman, and as a passionate advocate for public education.

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Addison County Weddings: Kristen and Travis Wilson

Posted on October 22, 2018 |
By Christy Lynn



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Kristen Smith married the same man twice in one month this year.

She and her fiancé Travis Wilson were planning a full wedding celebration for August 18, filled with many of the classic rituals, guests and ceremony.

Kristen and Travis had met in high school, but reconnected in 2010 and had been together ever since. The duo has been engaged since August 2015, and finally had plans to cinch the deal.

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Rev. Klohck to offer talk on Dog Team founder Wilfred Grenfell

Posted on October 18, 2018 |
By Addison Independent



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CORNWALL — The Cornwall Congregational Church invites everyone to a service on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 9:30 a.m., when the Rev. George Klohck will give an illustrated sermon on Sir Wilfred Grenfell and the medical mission that Grenfell founded in Newfoundland.

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Cornwall house is a labor of love for Habitat crew

Posted on September 24, 2018 |
By John Flowers



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CORNWALL — With its great elementary school, sweeping vistas, stately homes and proximity to the shire town, Cornwall has earned a reputation as being one of Addison County’s “high-rent” communities.

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Video: When the Oxford Punch Needle went viral

Posted on September 13, 2018 |
By Megan James



Amy Oxford invented an ergonomic rug-hooking needle in 1995. Since then, she's been running her business and teaching rug hooking from an old farmhouse in Cornwall. But recently, business has been booming. Sales are up 644 percent thanks to a little boost from a decidedly modern source: #oxfordpunchneedle started trending on Instagram.

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Cornwall rug-hooking maven's invention goes viral after 23 years

Posted on September 13, 2018 |
By Megan James



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CORNWALL — Amy Oxford thought rug hooking was a dying art. She has been making punch-needle-style rugs since 1982, and teaching the craft almost as long. In the mid-’80s, there was only one shop in the country that specialized in punch-needle supplies. So she opened her own shop and mail-order business — from her Cornwall home — to meet her students’ needs.

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Driver killed in crash with Cornwall fire truck on Route 125

Posted on September 13, 2018 |
By John Flowers



CORNWALL — Area residents were voicing shock Monday morning in the wake of Sunday afternoon’s frightful collision between a pickup truck and Cornwall Fire Department utility vehicle on Route 125 that took the life of 44-year-old Deane Rubright of Shoreham.

In addition to the tragic loss of life, the accident has left Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department members shaken and temporarily without a utility vehicle, which was used to carry all the force’s equipment to the many fire and accident scenes it responds to each year.

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Karl Lindholm: Imperfect perfection — it ain't fair!

Posted on August 30, 2018 |
By Karl Lindholm



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Imagine this baseball game:

The first batter of the game walks on four pitches. The pitcher who issued the walk is outraged by the umpire’s calls. They exchange words and the pitcher charges the plate and punches the umpire in the face, whereupon he is summarily ejected from the game.

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Suspicious fire strikes Cornwall; biggest blaze chief has ever seen

Posted on July 26, 2018 |
By James Finn



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CORNWALL — Crews from six Addison County fire departments were dispatched to put out a massive blaze in Cornwall last Friday evening that Cornwall Fire Chief Denny Rheaume called the biggest fire he has seen in all of his 25 years with the department.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire, which started under suspicious circumstances.

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Where are they now? Emerson Conlon (MUHS)

Posted on June 23, 2018 |
By Addison Independent



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Hometown, current residence, age: Cornwall, Chicago, 26

Family: Parents: Mary and Peter Conlon; siblings: William Conlon MUHS class of 2012 and current 1L at Stanford Law School, Silas Conlon MUHS Class of 2019, fiancée: Rachel Tornquist. We met in college in 2011. Our wedding date is July 21, 2018!

What I am up to: I currently teach high school Spanish at Waukegan High School, a far north suburb of Chicago. This past year I taught Spanish 1 and AP Spanish to about 125 students.

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