VERGENNES — The volunteer president of the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad, Josh Deppman, is holding a series of meetings with the leaders of the communities VARS serves to deliver a critical message. That message: Change at VARS will be necessary, sooner rather than later, if the agency is to continue to meet its mission of supplying ambulance and emergency medical services to Addison, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham and Ferrisburgh, and to a lesser extent Monkton and New Haven. Deppman is saying the immediate need … (read more)