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Residents, officials consider Monroe Street safety

Posted on January 10, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Monday told more than a half-dozen Monroe Street residents that the town would study, in Chairman Dean George’s words, “traffic-calming and other alternatives” to make a short stretch of their road safer.

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Busy meeting schedule hurts search for ACSU superintendent

Posted on January 7, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — When the Addison Central Supervisory Union board next meets on Jan. 16, it will begin to discuss whether to quickly launch a fourth attempt at hiring a new superintendent or instead focus on bringing in an interim administrator to temporarily take the helm come July 1.

Some board members also promised the upcoming discussion will include a debate on what the ACSU could do to reduce the number of board meetings the superintendent must attend as part of the job.

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Parcel near Lodge at Otter Creek eyed for solar farm

Posted on January 3, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Developers of the South Ridge neighborhood off Middle Road in Middlebury are seeking permission to install a 500-kilowatt solar farm on a 3.3-acre parcel near the Lodge at Otter Creek.

The project, if OK’d by state utility regulators, is expected to generate enough electricity to power more than 100 homes while remaining relatively inconspicuous due to the topography and surroundings of the three-acre parcel on which it would be sited.

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Middlebury selectman look to trim spending proposal

Posted on January 3, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials will try to pare at least another $120,000 from a 2013-2014 municipal budget proposal in order to achieve the selectboard’s goal of limiting the spending plan’s impact on residents. The goal is an increase on the local property tax rate of no more than 5.5 cents while maintaining current services.

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Middlebury zeros in on economic development post

Posted on January 3, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — A committee charged with recruiting Middlebury’s first-ever business development director will soon interview a fifth and final candidate before narrowing down the field and introducing a new hire as soon as Town Meeting Day.

“I think we are on a good path,” said John Tenny, a member of the Middlebury Business Development Fund Advisory Board.

“I think we have some very good candidates.”

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Middlebury weighs in on natural gas pipeline plan

Posted on January 3, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Members of the Middlebury selectboard last month signed a letter of support for Vermont Gas Systems’ proposal to extend its natural gas pipeline from Chittenden County to Middlebury and Vergennes.

The $72 million project, if approved by the Vermont Public Service Board and built out as planned by 2015, would save the approximately 2,100 eligible residential and business customers in Middlebury a combined total of $5 million per year compared to what they are currently paying for fuel oil, according to the company.

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Middlebury historical geography professor wins Smithsonian award

Posted on December 24, 2012 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



MIDDLEBURY — The question “What was General Lee thinking at Gettysburg?” has puzzled historians for decades. For Middlebury College geography professor Anne Kelly Knowles, the question came to her almost at the same time as a way to uncover the answer.

A pioneer in historical geography, Knowles uses geographic information systems (GIS) technology to shed light on historical questions and situations. The technology can process and analyze massive databases, so long as the data is attached to a physical location.

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Collins, Johnson decline ACSU superintendent job

Posted on December 21, 2012 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY - The Addison Central Supervisory Union's search for a new superintendent will continue after a third bid to locate a top executive failed to woo a finalist on Friday, Dec. 21.

District officials confirmed late Friday afternoon that both finalists - Burlington School District Superintendent Jeanne Collins and John W. Johnson, an executive with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction - withdrew their names from consideration, citing personal reasons.

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Rachel's Cookies a godsend to school

Posted on December 20, 2012 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — It’s not unusual for bakers to engage in a little hyperbole when promoting their products.

But when Rachel Wollum claims her cookies are “simply divine,” one can hardly accuse her of stretching the truth.

Not only do Rachel’s cookies taste heavenly, they are baked with love in the basement kitchen of Middlebury’s St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School.

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Police hope to solve 41-year mystery of missing student

Posted on December 20, 2012 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Monday, Dec. 10, brought the 41st anniversary in the search for former Middlebury College student Lynne Schulze, and with it a new set of eyes to scan some new information in the mountainous case file accumulated over the years by the Middlebury Police Department.

Middlebury police Detective Kris Bowdish is the latest in a long line of local investigators to head up the probe into what happened to Schulze, a first-year student who disappeared from Middlebury College campus back on Dec. 10, 1971.

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