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Middlebury firefighters move into refurbished quarters

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury firefighter Donald Patterson started taking pictures of the fire department’s Seymour Street headquarters last April when construction crews began the multi-million-dollar process of renovating and expanding it.

Eleven months, a lot of hard work and more than 1,000 Patterson photographs later, the Seymour Street fire station is substantially complete and now occupied by a grateful Middlebury Fire Department.

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Downtown Middlebury disruptions expected from rail bridge work

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Downtown Middlebury businesses and property owners on Thursday, March 28, will have a chance to air their concerns about the loss of parking, construction noise and traffic detours that will arise during the upcoming replacement of the railroad overpasses on Main Street and Merchants Row.

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MUMS spelling champ repeats feat

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Union Middle School eighth-grader Ronan Howlett has an expansive vocabulary for a 14-year-old, but two words in particular will always resonate with him even if he rarely gets an opportunity to use them in a sentence: “Qualitative” and “desultory.”

Those are the two words that have won him consecutive titles as Vermont’s top student speller.

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Sheldon Museum unveils treasures from its attic

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — A trip to the household attic can often yield a few cherished family treasures with some interesting stories attached to them.

So it should come as no surprise that a trip to the attic of Middlebury’s Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History can yield a veritable gold mine of artifacts that speak volumes about the people, places and history of Addison County.

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Town Hall Theater gallery showcases unique works by women artists

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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MIDDLEBURY — The Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater presents “The Blue Swans — Seven Women Artists,” featuring paintings and monoprints by Klara Calitri, Linda Hampton Smith, Molly Hawley, Patricia LeBon Herb, Phoebe Stone, Sarah Wesson and Yinglei Zhang. The exhibit runs March 1-31.

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Vt. dance film to be screened at Marquis Theater

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



MIDDLEBURY — Cradle to Grave Arts will host a benefit screening of the film “Dear Pina,” in Middlebury on Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the Marquis Theater on Main Street. A discussion with the artists behind the fill will follow the screening.

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More than 6,000 get a taste of fun at annual Middlebury Chili Festival

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — More than 6,000 people poured into Addison County’s shire town on Saturday, March 9, to feast on more than 60 varieties of chili in what has become one of the state’s signature winter draws, the annual Middlebury Chili Festival.

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Middlebury student exhibits photo study of trash cans

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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MIDDLEBURY — It’s the rare individual that takes real notice of trash receptacles.

But after spending two years making 1,300 photographs of a dizzying variety of garbage containers, Middlebury College student Ryan Kim has developed a bona fide visual study of those objects — and found that the duality of practical function and aesthetic form in them makes them very interesting indeed.

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Middlebury welcomes new beauty lounge

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Sisters Hannah Zeno and Andrea Hubbell have for years worked at making other people look and feel better.

Now they are able to work together at that task — at their new business, the Studio 7 Beauty Lounge located in downtown Middlebury.

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Tinkerer takes hobby to a new level with electronics fix-it shop

Posted on March 11, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — As a child, Joshua Chamberlain loved to take mechanical things apart and put them back together again. He wanted to see what made them tick and make sure they kept ticking when he had reassembled them.

Now 41, Chamberlain is still taking stuff apart — only he is now getting paid for it. He has just opened The Laptop Shop on Middlebury’s Merchants Row, where he works out bugs in computers and a variety of other electronics for customers who might otherwise have to make the trek to Rutland or Chittenden counties.

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