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Like clockwork
STEVE WARNER, CLOSER, and brother Mike Warner methodically check the two-dozen machines and the cows they are milking at a Monument Farms milking parlor on Saturday morning. They keep the operations moving and manage to collect tens of thousands of pounds of milk from nearly 600 cows in just one morning. See more photos on today’s Ag Pages, 12A and 13A.
Independent photo/Steve James
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Ice Out for Good
A PROTESTER IN Vergennes this past Sunday holds up a sign tying the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to a lack of courage. Protests this past weekend in the Little City, Middlebury and Bristol joined others across the country in condemning ICE’s actions following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis.
Photo by Jim Mendell
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On a merry mission
AROUND 20 MEMBERS of the Middlebury Rotary Club joined with several Middlebury Union High School football players and coaches and two Casella drivers plus their trucks this past Saturday morning at the start of the annual Merry Mulch Christmas Tree pick-up. Casella account manager Dennis Poole said an estimated 300 trees were picked up, and it went very smoothly. “It only took about three and a half hours start to finish again this year and we had a great breakfast provided by Middlebury Bagel,” Poole noted.
Photo by Max Kraus
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Remembering Renee
SOMBER-FACED PROTESTERS at Triangle Park in Middlebury Saturday evening hold candles in memory of Renee Good, a Minneapolis mother who was shot and killed by a federal ICE agent on Jan. 7. About 300 showed up in Middlebury that night. Others protested in Bristol and Vergennes.
Photo by Jim Mendell
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Enough is enough
ALMOST A YEAR after the Trump administration began a crackdown on civil liberties under the guise of immigration enforcement, Addison County just keeps coming out in huge numbers to protest. On Saturday in Middlebury and Bristol and Sunday in Vergennes, hundreds of Vermonters came out — many with bitingly witty but heartbreaking signs — to protest the latest outrage: an ICE agent’s shooting of a woman in Minneapolis.
Photos by Jim Mendell and Jonathan Blake
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Spotted by paparazzi
WHILE PATIENTLY WAITING their turn at the Monument Farms milking parlor this past Saturday, two cows gaze over at a curious visitor who they fear may ask for autographs.
Independent photo/Steve James
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Down to business
BROTHERS MIKE, LEFT, and Steve Warner take a quick snapshot then return to milking Holsteins and Jerseys at Monument Farms dairy in Weybridge this past Saturday morning. The gentlemen usher the cows into the parlor, clean their teats, attach the milking machine, troubleshoot any snafus and move the animals back to the barn. This tandem handled around 580 cows for the first milking of the day; the animals would return for a second session later on Saturday. Steve Warner said he’d been milking cows for more than six decades.
Independent photos/Steve James
