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College honors Keeler and Corbett for community service

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz last week presented the Bonnie and John McCardell Citizens’ Awards for outstanding community service to Addison County residents Joanne Corbett and Donald M. Keeler Jr. at a dinner on the college campus.

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Middlebury launches retail study

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Better Middlebury Partnership (BMP) has launched a yearlong study of retail options in the community. It will allow residents to again weigh in on the controversial topic of big-box stores, while at the same time help local officials identify the town’s current shopping voids and how they could be filled in a way that would not compromise the community’s rural character.

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DUI No. 3 nets Bridport man up to four years in jail

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



MIDDLEBURY — A Bridport man with a history of drinking and driving convictions was sentenced on June 3 in Addison Superior Court’s Criminal Division to between 60 days and four years in prison for driving under the influence of alcohol, third offense.

Richard Kimball, 44, was also sentenced to concurrent two-month sentences on four other charges.

Judge Helen Toor handed down the sentences to Kimball for offenses committed in three separate incidents in Middlebury and Brandon this past October, November and February.

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Silver Lake is 'One of Creation's Quiet Retreats'

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By M. Dickey Drysdale



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Friday, May 24, was Lennie Waltrip Day at Silver Lake in Leicester, but it came as a surprise to him.

For three months of the year, Lennie is lord of a domain that is the antithesis of the 21st-century world. Silver Lake, a mile-long jewel of the Green Mountains, lies 600 feet above popular Lake Dunmore. Surrounded on all sides by forests, broken only by a grassy picnic area on the northern end, Silver Lake seems a place apart, a little miracle of solitude, even as it graciously hosts those who seek it out.

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Farm worker charged with Whiting assault

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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MIDDLEBURY — A farmworker from Mexico on Monday pleaded innocent in Addison Superior Court’s Criminal Division to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and burglary, charges stemming from a June 5 incident at a Whiting mobile home.

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'Moth' storytime coming to Bristol on Saturday

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



BRISTOL — This Saturday beginning at 8 p.m., Smart Growth for Bristol will host a community storytelling event in Holley Hall modeled after the Moth Radio Hour, a popular weekly show heard on National Public Radio in which regular people tell stories from their lives.

The Moth’s storytelling model has each storyteller speak without notes, a strategy that often results in a variety of stories that range from tragic to hysterically funny, according to event organizer and Smart Growth member Caroline Engvall.

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Lincoln Library looks back at the big flood of 1998

Posted on June 13, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



LINCOLN — Fifteen years ago this month, on a stormy Saturday, the waters of the New Haven River rose dramatically and washed over the center of Lincoln village, including Burnham Hall. The lower levels, which housed the town library, were completely flooded.

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Proposed deal would demolish Lazarus Building in downtown Middlebury

Posted on June 12, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury and Middlebury College are working on a deal that would result in the purchase of the so-called Lazarus Building at 20 Main St., a structure that would be razed to provide a wider and safer Printer’s Alley link between the downtown and the Marble Works complex.

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Middlebury College, town announce plan to build new municipal building

Posted on June 12, 2013 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College has pledged $5.5 million toward a $7.5 million plan that would result in a new downtown municipal building and a new gym that would be located near the Memorial Sports Center off Mary Hogan Drive.

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Cornwall hires Hackett to serve as new principal

Posted on June 10, 2013 |
By John Flowers



CORNWALL — Susan M. Hackett, a Rutland County educator and past principal of the Plymouth and Sunderland elementary schools, has been named the new top administrator of Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School.

“I’m thrilled,” Hackett, 53, said in reaction to accepting the job, extended to her by the Cornwall School Board Thursday evening after a thorough interview.

“I think the school is a wonderful match for me.”

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