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  • strict warning: Non-static method view::load() should not be called statically in /home/addison/public_html/sites/all/modules/views/views.module on line 1118.
  • strict warning: Declaration of views_handler_field::query() should be compatible with views_handler::query($group_by = false) in /home/addison/public_html/sites/all/modules/views/handlers/views_handler_field.inc on line 1148.
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Middlebury Police Log: Potential hate crime under investigation

Posted on November 15, 2018 |
By Addison Independent



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police received a report of a potential hate crime in the Park Street area at around 11 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11. Police said two white men allegedly exhibited “very hostile, combative behavior” — including using “racial and sexual orientation slurs” — toward a person of color. Police said the suspects at the time were traveling in a dark-colored, four-door sedan with Vermont plates. The matter remains under investigation.

In other action last week, Middlebury police:

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Vermont State Police: Bridport man cited for DUI

Posted on November 15, 2018 |
By Addison Independent



ADDISON COUNTY — Troopers from the Vermont State Police barracks in New Haven responded to the area of Lapham Bay Road in Shoreham for a report of a two-vehicle crash at around 7:20 p.m. this past Friday, Nov. 9. It was reported that one vehicle, a 2009 Ford truck, had fled the scene of the crash.

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$5.5 million school bond defeated in OVUUSD

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By Russell Jones



BRANDON — Residents of the Otter Valley Unified Union School District on Election Day narrowly defeated a $5.5 million school bond to improve school security and operations in three of the district’s buildings. The next day school board members gathered to discuss next steps but came to no firm conclusions.

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Bevere readies recount request in State's Attorney election

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury independent Peter Bevere on Tuesday, Nov. 13, will officially petition for a recount of votes cast in the election for Addison County state’s attorney, in an effort to erase a nine-vote edge held by incumbent Dennis Wygmans following an initial ballot tabulation on Nov. 6.

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Civil rights activist DeRay McKesson offers hope in local talk

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By Christopher Ross



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MIDDLEBURY — A day after the midterm elections, with conversations about voting rights still front and center, civil rights activist DeRay McKesson took the mic at Middlebury College’s Wilson Hall and asked his audience a simple question:

“What can you buy for $300?”

Answers from the capacity crowd included “books,” “a television” and “sports-game tickets.” One student’s answer — “a hamster” — occasioned good-natured laughter throughout the hall.

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HOPE Holiday Shop needs donations

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) officials are enlisting the help of local businesses, restaurants, places of worship and individuals to boost what has become an historically low inventory of free toys that are given to low-income children through the organization’s Holiday Shop.

“This is as low as I’ve seen it,” longtime HOPE Executive Director Jeanne Montross said of the Holiday Shop’s toy reserves.

How low?

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Lincoln hopes to put the brakes on speeders

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By Christopher Ross



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LINCOLN — People are driving too fast in Lincoln and the town has had enough.

“We have to do something,” selectboard member Ellie Bryant told the Independent. “It’s almost lawless up here.”

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Demonstrators turn out to support Mueller investigation

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By Christopher Ross



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MIDDLEBURY — The night after civil rights activist DeRay McKesson spoke at Middlebury College, his ideas were very much on people’s minds as nearly 200 gathered downtown to protest President Trump’s firing of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The firing and appointment of administration loyalist Matthew Whitaker was widely seen as a move endangering a Justice Department investigation by independent counsel Robert Mueller into the Trump administration’s connection to Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.

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Car slams into city clinic; nobody injured

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vergennes patients, doctors and UVM Health Network officials were scrambling late last week after a car on Thursday rammed the front of the Vergennes UVM Health Network Primary Care practice on North Street and wound up partially entering its waiting room.

Porter Medical Center spokesman Ron Hallman and Vergennes police confirmed nobody was hurt in the noontime accident, which forced the office to close and to reschedule Thursday afternoon and Friday appointments and send patients to UVM network practices in Bristol and Middlebury.

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Police grow beards to raise funds for kids with cancer

Posted on November 12, 2018 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Members of various Addison County law enforcement agencies are once again covering their faces to symbolically encourage citizens to open their wallets to a special camp serving young cancer patients.

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