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Brandon police seize heroin, charge Waite with trafficking

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



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BRANDON — A Brandon man was jailed on drug charges Wednesday evening after Brandon police searched his home and found bundles of heroin ready for sale and more than $1,000 in cash.

Richard J. Waite, 40, was due today to answer charges of trafficking heroin (in excess of 3.5 grams) and cultivating marijuana.

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Wildlife experts plan culverts for critters

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By Gaen Murphree



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MONKTON — The wildlife tunnels that construction workers this week are beginning to build under Vergennes-Monkton Road are not your typical Vermont Agency of Transportation culvert project.

The low-slung tunnels will enable amphibians to migrate between their habitat in Huizenga Swamp and in the forests of Hogback Mountain without the life-threatening danger of crossing the busy highway.

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ASCU launches effort to to merge governance

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union is kicking off the 2015-2016 academic year with a first-ever strategic plan and the organization of a committee that will help the Middlebury-area school district comply with a new state directive to form a single school board that would have oversight over a single education budget for what would be a consolidated K-12 district.

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Back-to-School Shop to end but aid it offers won't

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County Back-to-School Shop — as we now know it — will be closing this summer. But families needing low-cost school supplies for their children can take heart in the fact that the United Way of Addison County (UWAC), public school officials and organizers of the original shop are joining forces to make sure the flow of free- and low-cost supplies will not stop for those who require them.

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Make way for salamanders; amphibian tunnel sited under road in Monkton

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By Gaen Murphree



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MONKTON — How do you get slow-moving salamanders across a busy road without becoming roadkill? Ten years of grassroots effort will finally come to fruition this week when work begins on two wildlife culverts that will link migrating salamanders, newts, frogs and toads with critical habitat.

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Local inventor unveils portable standing desk

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Franklin Dean-Farrar is taking a stand for the future health of the American office worker.

Well, he’s not actually taking a stand, as opposed to making one, to support laptop computers in a manner that will allow workers the more back-friendly option of typing while standing instead while seated.

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Lengyel caps 35 years as sewer, water worker

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — When Paul Lengyel was helping build the former Middlebury wastewater treatment plant off Seymour Street more than three decades ago, he never imagined he would someday land a job at a new municipal treatment plant that would eventually replace it.

But that’s just what happened.

And after 35 years tending to Middlebury’s water and sewer systems, Lengyel decided to hang up his wrench and pager and retire this past Friday, Aug. 14.

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Vergennes lands major paving, culvert grants

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vergennes recently received more than $200,000 of good financial news, City Manager Mel Hawley told city council members at their Aug. 18 meeting.

Most of that money came in the form of two grants, Hawley said, one of $144,000 to support paving projects on South Maple Street and Panton Road and one of $45,000 to pay most of the cost of a new culvert on South Maple Street.

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Author to discuss parenting strategies at chocolate shop

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



MIDDLEBURY — Back-to-school time is the perfect time to retool family and home routines. The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury brings parenting expert Vicki Hoefle to Middlebury Chocolates on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. to help parents get their kids, and their home life, in order. She shows parents how to trust their intuition and develop an intentional strategy for meeting each child’s unique needs.

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'Drive Sober' campaign closes out summer

Posted on August 24, 2015 |
By Addison Independent



ADDISON COUNTY — As the 2015 summer winds down, the Addison County Sheriff’s Department along with other state and local law enforcement agencies will be ramping up its enforcement efforts as part of a national crackdown on drunk driving.

The 20-day, high-visibility campaign, “2015 Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over,” is a partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP) and Vermont State, County, and Local law enforcement agencies to curb impaired driving and save lives.

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