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Porter Medical Center is 'profitable,' but difficult financial decisions loom

Posted on March 24, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Less than a week before it convenes its annual meeting on March 30, Porter Medical Center has pushed the proverbial reset button on its top executive position and on a new compensation plan for providers. PMC officials are also searching for more stability in the institution’s operating budget, which each year is thrown a financial life preserver through a federal drug subsidy program.

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Steam keeps rising in sugarshacks as maple season surprises

Posted on March 24, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



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ADDISON COUNTY — From the back roads of Lincoln, high in the Green Mountain National Forest, to the plowed-earth fields of Orwell sweeping close to Lake Champlain, the steam is rising from Addison County sugarhouses and many sugarmakers are working the midnight hours to boil down this year’s sweet crop of maple syrup.

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Blazing the way: Monkton farm couple pioneers cheesemaking niche

Posted on March 24, 2016 |
By Emilie Munson



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In the cold Vermont darkness, Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack slide into endlessly pocketed Carhartt pants and tall muck boots. It is February, and though the snow is gone, the earth is hard when they step out of their small farmhouse. Their breath hangs in faint wisps before disappearing in the early morning air. It is 5:30 a.m.

Pollack, 68, heads to the barn to milk their six Jersey cows, Clover, Hershey, Kudo, Pookah, Slinky and Bounty. Her boxy body moves briskly, gray shorn hair standing on end.

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Porter Medical Center CEO resigns after doctors pass 'no-confidence' vote

Posted on March 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — After nine months on the job, Porter Medical Center Board President and CEO Lynn Boggs resigned on Friday afternoon, following a notice to the Porter Medical Center board and administration that the Medical Staff had met Tuesday night and had issued a vote of “no-confidence” in Boggs.

Upon receiving the medical staff’s announcement on Friday morning and Boggs’ resignation later that day, the board appointed Dr. Fred Kniffin to serve as acting president and CEO.

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Vermont Green Line tests move to Middlebury

Posted on March 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — A group planning to bring hydro and wind power from upstate New York via cable under Lake Champlain and into the New England grid are sizing up Middlebury’s industrial park as a potential site for a high-voltage converter station in case a site in New Haven falls through.

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St. Mary's School in Middlebury to close

Posted on March 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Hit by the same trend of declining enrollment that is sapping public school districts throughout Vermont, St. Mary’s Catholic School in Middlebury will officially close its doors on June 15, the final day of classes.

Father William Beaudin, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, confirmed the imminent closing of the school during an interview on Friday morning. He had previously shared the news with school parents, faculty and St. Mary’s parishioners.

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VUHS pioneers afterschool food service

Posted on March 21, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School is hosting what is being touted as the county’s first after-school meal program, providing free, nutritious food to children right after the final bell sounds for the day.

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Monkton film company releases its first feature-length movie

Posted on March 21, 2016 |
By John S. McCright



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MONKTON — Jonnie and Jennifer Corcoran developed a passion for film when they were growing up. Their mother wrote, directed, shot and edited 8mm and 16mm films, as well as plays. She introduced her children to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mister Magoo and, as they grew up in Italy, to the pantheon of iconic Italian filmmakers. 

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MUMS principal Patrick Reen hired to run ANeSU district

Posted on March 16, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



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BRISTOL — Middlebury Union Middle School Principal Patrick Reen has been chosen to be the next Addison Northeast Supervisory Union superintendent. Reen will begin as superintendent July 1.

Residents in the five towns that comprise the ANeSU, and members of the school community, met with Reen Monday afternoon, and the ANeSU board interviewed the 37-year-old Bristol resident on Monday evening.

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Panton, Green Mountain Power agree on biggest local solar farm

Posted on March 16, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



PANTON — Late last week, Panton officials and Green Mountain Power were closing in on an agreement on how the town would benefit from GMP’s proposed $11 million, 4.99-megawatt solar farm off Panton Road not far from Panton Town Hall, and how GMP would install landscape screening.

Town and GMP officials met on Thursday evening, and Selectman John Viskup said on Friday morning that he was hopeful a memorandum of understanding (MOU) could be signed later that afternoon.

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