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A woman on the Victory Road in Concord suffered a stab wound Wednesday night.
Details were few at press time as Vermont State Police were at the scene
of the incident and could not be reached for comment.
Rescue personnel from CALEX were alerted just before 9 p.m. that a 27year-old woman at 148 Victory Road had been stabbed. They were in-
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structed to wait to enter the residence until state police confirmed that it
was safe.
When allowed to enter, a rescue worker reported that the woman had a
small stab wound. She refused to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.
It was not clear at press time if the person responsible for the injury was
in custody.
LANCASTER
MAN, HIS NEPHEW TWO PLEAD GUILTY IN NASH GRAVE RANSACKING
Judge Rejects Daughter’s Motion To Suppress Confession
DIE IN CAR CRASH
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BY roBert BleChl
Staff Writer
COLEBROOK, N.H. — A small town is in mourning
after a man and his nephew were killed in a head-on collision along Route 3 Tuesday evening.
Jason Howe, 87, and Waldo Hicks, 62, both of West
Stewartstown, were pronounced dead at the scene after a
crash involving three vehicles.
Area residents are remembering Howe and Hicks for
their kindness and remembering Hicks, who worked at
See Crash, Page A6
BY roBert BleChl
Staff Writer
LANCASTER, N.H. — Two of the four defendants in the Eddie Nash grave ransacking
pleaded guilty this week and the daughter’s defense suffered a blow after the judge rejected her
motion to suppress her alleged confession to police.
Michael Day, 38, of Colebrook, who on May
11 dug up the Colebrook Village Cemetery grave
of Nash Equipment founder Eddie Nash and
rummaged through his cofﬁn in search of the
“real will,” faces 2 to 4 years in N.H. State
Prison on a felony count of criminal mischief.
Prosecutors are also recommending that Day,
as part of his sentencing, be required to assist a
cemetery caretaker in digging graves.
On Wednesday at Coos Superior
Court, Day pleaded guilty to criminal mischief as well as to felony
counts of interfering with a cemetery
and conspiracy to interfere and to a
misdemeanor count of abuse of a
corpse.
Coos County Attorney John McCormick asked the judge to sentence
Day to 2 to 4 years in prison for the
criminal mischief count, with the remaining charges - 2 to 4 years for the
other felonies and 12 months in jail
for abuse of a corpse - suspended for
ﬁve years of good behavior.
In proposing the sentence, McCormick noted
Day’s criminal history, which includes convictions for assault in 1998 and 2002, for DWI in
PHOTOS BY ROBERT BLECHL
Melanie Nash and Michael Day
2006, for more assaults in 2007 and 2008, for
false imprisonment in 2012, and for disorderly
conduct and resisting arrest in 2013.
See Grave, Page A6
Gavels Fall On New Session Of Vermont Legislature
SPEAKER IDENTIFIES KEY
ISSUES TO ADDRESS
NEW REPS BEGIN SERVING
ST. JOHNSBURY IN STATEHOUSE
BY daVe Gram
Associated Press
BY taYlor reed
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont lawmakers
opened their 2015-2016 session Wednesday
amid growing support for a constitutional
change that would make votes like the one they
must take on Thursday for governor unnecessary.
House Speaker Shap Smith, elected without
opposition to his fourth term in that role, told
his colleagues he expects the top issues of the
year to include alleviating rapidly rising school
property taxes, addressing the toxic algae
blooms that have choked part of Lake Champlain and improving Vermont’s business climate.
Smith also echoed comments made by Gov.
Peter Shumlin earlier in the week that some
form of new or increased taxes are needed, especially to shore up the state’s Medicaid health
insurance program. The year is expected to
present a broad range of ﬁscal challenges, as
the state faces nearly a $100 million shortfall
of projected revenues versus expenses for the
2016 budget year.
The day began with a news conference
where three state senators and the Vermont
AP PHOTO/THE TimES ARguS, JEB WALLACE-BROdEuR
Newly re-elected Speaker of the House Shap Smith, D-Morrisville, addresses his colleagues during the opening day of the Vermont Legislature in Montpelier, Vt., on
Wednesday.
Public Interest Research Group called for a
change to the state Constitution to reduce the
chances that future elections for governor, lieutenant governor and treasurer will have to be
settled by the Legislature.
“It’s rather simple. The governor of this
state, the top elected ofﬁcials of this state,
should be chosen by the voters of our state,”
said Paul Burns, VPIRG’s executive director.
Lawmakers now decide elections for those
ofﬁces when no candidate gets more than 50
percent of the popular vote. It’s not an unusual
occurrence in Vermont, as multiple candidates
frequently appear on the ballot. On November’s
ballot, seven candidates were running for governor with the top vote-getter, incumbent Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, topping
second-place ﬁnisher Republican Scott Milne,
46.4 percent to 45.1 percent.
The Legislature will vote Thursday in joint
session. In most past elections, including the
two times lawmakers have chosen a governor
so far this century, the second-place ﬁnisher has
See Session, Page A6
Mr. Beck and Mr. Willhoit
went to Montpelier on Wednesday.
The rookie Republican state
representatives from St. Johnsbury – businessman and teacher
Scott Beck and public defender
Janssen Willhoit – served their
ﬁrst day in the Vermont House.
The pair in November beat Democrat incumbents Michelle Fay
and Bob South for the seats.
“[The opening session] was
somewhat fast-paced but also
somewhat predictable,” Beck
said Wednesday afternoon. There
was no debate; it was more a time
to set the rules for coming session.
It was far from politically combative, Beck said. The atmosphere was very collegial, he said.
“It’s almost impossible to tell
who is from what party,” he said.
Beck was assigned to the
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Remembering Fallen
Law Enforcers
The Northeast Kingdom and North Country have lost their share of law enforcement
ofﬁcers who died while on duty over the
years.
Here is a look back at some of those ofﬁcers, where they worked and how they died,
and who they left behind, as recorded on the
national Ofﬁcer Down Memorial Page website (www.odmp.org)
Franconia
Franconia, N.H., Police Cpl. Bruce
McKay was shot and killed during a motor
vehicle stop on May 11, 2007.
See Fallen, Page A6
See Service, Page A6
NATION
There are times when law enforcement ofﬁcers come under ﬁre and society rallies both to challenge them and to
honor them.
This is one of those times.
The nation is involved in a debate
about police practices, after racially
charged incidents involving crime and
police that left men dead in Ferguson,
Mo. and in New York City, and about
how society reacts to the idea that police
honor ofﬁcers to wear blue, to wave at
an ofﬁcer on duty or to go right up and
thank them in person.
Other ideas are blue ribbons around
trees or on lapels, blue lights in windows and other measures of appreciation. For more information, go to
http://www.newenglandcops.org.
Higgins is the Vermont and western
Massachusetts representative for the
New England COPS organization and is
reaching out through the local media to
ask area residents to join the organization in the appreciation day.
REGION
BY roBin Smith
Staff Writer
A retired veteran of the Holyoke,
Mass., police department, Higgins
knows that ofﬁcers sometimes give their
lives in the line of duty.
He lost an ofﬁcer from his force.
That’s when New England COPS steps
in, providing assistance to the families
left behind by the ofﬁcer who died on
duty, “to help them get through it,” Higgins said.
“Hopefully there won’t be a need in
Vermont for it,” he said.
Higgins said the climate is right for a
ofﬁcers are targets of assassination, as
happened in New York City when two
ofﬁcers were shot and killed.
One of the reactions to the ofﬁcer
shootings is from a regional organization called New England C.O.P.S. (Concerns About Police Survivors).
New England COPS is asking citizens across New England to recognize
their local law enforcement ofﬁcers on
Friday, called Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, said Michael Higgins, a
Newport City second home resident.
Higgins asks anyone who wants to
House Education Committee. It
was his top choice.
“I’m excited about that,” he
said. “Now I have a tremendous
amount of reading and homework.”
Committee work begins next
week.
Beck’s seatmate is Republican
Bernie Juskiewicz representing
Lamoille-3. Juskiewicz, like
Beck, is a member of the Education Committee.
Willhoit attended the opening
session Wednesday with his wife
and children.
“That was a wonderful experience, just having them there,” he
said.
The House was abuzz with talk
of today’s governor conﬁrmation
vote, Willhoit said. He will support challenger Scott Milne over
incumbent Gov. Peter Shumlin,
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THE RECORd • THuRSdAY, JAnuARY 8, 2015
FOR THE RECORD
OBITUARIES
CARLISLE (CARLI) ANN WHITEHILL
1931-2015
Carlisle (Carli) Ann Whitehill, beloved wife of Kenneth
Whitehill of Island Pond, Vt.,
passed away on Jan. 2, 2015,
at Derby Green Nursing Home
with her husband, Ken, and
her son, Marty, by her side.
Carlisle was born Nov. 11,
1931, in Newport, Vt., to Kenneth and Dorothy (Marquis
Hildreth) Simons. She grew
up in Newport, graduated covaledictorian in her class from
Newport High school in 1949,
and then from the University of Vermont, class of 1953.
On June 20, 1954, she married Marshall R. Frizzell of Woodstock, Vt. They had three children – Sharon, Randy and Marshall.
The family lived in several states in the southeast while Marshall
was in the Army. In 1965 they moved to Island Pond when he was
deployed to Vietnam, where he died in 1966. Carli married Kenneth Whitehill of Morgan, Vt., Dec. 9, 1967. The family remained
in Island Pond.
Mrs. Whitehill taught elementary school in Norton and Morgan,
high school at North Country Union and St. Johnsbury Academy.
After retiring from teaching she continued to volunteer at the
Brighton Elementary School as well as being a foster parent for
over five years. She graduated from the master’s program at Lyndon State College in teaching. She was a member of the Island
Pond Congregational Church and the Random Ladies. She served
on the zoning board and as a justice of the peace for the town of
Brighton. Carli was an avid genealogist.
She is survived by her husband Kenneth; her daughter Sharon
Podlich (Chuck) of Orondo, Wash.; her son Randy (Pam) of Delaplane, Va.; her son Marshall (Sandy) of Island Pond; nine grandchildren – Allison Podlich (Dan Harkey), Hannah Poush (Adam),
Noelle Evans (Jeff) of Orondo, Wash.; Laurel Podlich of Bozeman, Mt.; Eric Frizzell of Richmond, Va., Ryan and Kyle Frizzell
of Delaplane, Va.; Brittany Frizzell of Island Pond; Fraser Frizzell
of Essex, Vt.; four great grandchildren – Marshall, Eleanor, Beckett Poush, and Mojo Harkey of Orondo, Wash.
A funeral service will be held on Friday, Jan. 9, at 11 a.m. at
the First Congregational Church in Island Pond with the Rev. Alan
Magoon and Rev. Richard Whitehill co-officiating. A luncheon
will follow at the Church. Should friends desire, contributions in
her memory may be made to the Pope Memorial Frontier Animal
Society, 502 Strawberry Acres, Newport, VT 05855.
On-line condolences at curtis-britch.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral
Home, locally family owned and operated.
NEWS BRIEFS
Florida man caught at the border
with cocaine in a loaf of bread
BURLINGTON — The Ofﬁce of the United States Attorney for the
District of Vermont stated that Tyrone Dixon, 34, of Florida, appeared
Tuesday in United States District Court in Burlington following his arrest for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Dixon on conditions
pending his next court hearing.
According to court records, early Monday a Customs and Border
Protection Ofﬁcer stationed at the Derby Line Port of Entry noticed a
vehicle making an illegal U-turn. The car had traveled north toward
the port of exit in the United States but turned back before attempting
entry into Canada. After Customs and Border Protection Ofﬁcers inspected the vehicle and conducted preliminary interviews with driver
Tyrone Dixon and passenger Emily Lasell of Vermont, Special Agents
from Homeland Security Investigations arrived on the scene to assist
with the investigation. From the vehicle, an ofﬁcer recovered a green
and black bag containing approximately ﬁve syringes that appeared to
have been used, approximately 25 used or torn white packages consistent with the packaging commonly seen in the heroin trade, and a hollowed-out loaf of bread concealing approximately 84 grams of crack
cocaine. From inside the Lasell’s bra, an ofﬁcer recovered two small
packages commonly known as “tickets” of heroin.
Wind chill could dip to
minus 20-40 in parts of Vermont
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont is entering the deep chill.
The National Weather Service is warning that wind chills could dip
to 20 to 40 below zero Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday morning in parts of Vermont.
The forecast calls for temperatures to drop to 25 below zero to 10
above zero. That combined with wind gusts are expected to lead to
dangerously cold wind chills as low as minus 40 in the Northeast Kingdom.
Snow is also in the forecast with accumulations of 1 to 3 inches in
central and eastern Vermont.
Keurig Green Mountain,
Dr. Pepper Snapple strike deal
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Keurig Green Mountain struck a deal
with Dr. Pepper Snapple to make single-serve capsules for use in
Keurig’s soon-to-be released cold beverage system.
The companies did not disclose terms of the agreement Wednesday
or specify which particular brands will be included. The soda maker,
based in Plano, Texas, sells Sunkist, Snapple, Dr. Pepper, Hawaiian
Punch and other brands.
The multi-year deal will make Keurig Green Mountain Inc. the exclusive producer in the U.S. and Canada for the drinks that use fountain
syrup in the new Keurig Cold platform.
Keurig Cold, which is expected to launch in the fall, lets users to
make cold carbonated drinks, sports drinks, teas, juice drinks and enhanced waters at home.
Shares of Keurig Green Mountain, which is based in Waterbury, Ver-
mont, rose more than 3 percent to $131.22 before the opening bell.
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc., like other soda makers, has been trying to maintain sales as American tastes and diets shift.
U.S. sales volume of carbonated soft drinks fell 3 percent in 2013,
according to a report released last year by Beverage Digest, an industry
tracker. That was a steeper drop than the 1.2 percent decline in 2012
and brought total soda volume to the lowest level since 1995.
“Our team is committed to building and enhancing our leading
brands, and this agreement presents an opportunity to reach consumers
in new occasions,” said Jim Trebilcock, a marketing executive with Dr.
Pepper Snapple.
Former football player
denies attempted sex assault
MILTON, Vt. (AP) — One of the ﬁve former Milton High School
football players linked to an alleged hazing scandal has denied a charge
of attempted sexual assault.
The Burlington Free Press reports that former quarterback, 21-yearold Brendon Beliveau, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.
Two other former high school football players pleaded guilty last
month to simple assault on a younger teammate.
Nineteen-year-old Colby Darling, 20-year-old Brian Lasell and Beliveau were among ﬁve men ranging in age from 18 to 20 accused of
hazing in 2011 and 2012. Court documents accused them of holding
initiations at homes and at Milton High School. They all initially
pleaded not guilty.
Southern Vermont chamber
comes up with marketing plan
WILIMINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s Mount Snow Valley
Chamber of Commerce says it has a marketing plan for the region, following a branding study. The Brattleboro Reformer reports the brand
is “Southern Vermont, Deerﬁeld Valley” with the tag line, “Lifestyle.
Freestyle.”
Chamber Executive Director Sharon Cunningham says the next step
is a new website and kiosks listing businesses in the 10 valley towns.
A presentation is scheduled Thursday at the Hermitage Club’s new base
lodge and clubhouse at Haystack.
Cunningham said the branding efforts are important because much
of the valley’s economy is driven by tourism.
Woman pleads not guilty to taking
money from nonproﬁt
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman has pleaded not guilty to
taking money from the nonproﬁt Association of Africans Living in Vermont.
Francine Mbayu was arraigned Tuesday in superior court in Burlington on three counts of embezzlement. She’s accused of taking $34,000
in tax refunds from clients she was expected to help.
The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/1lCm65g) a
lawyer for the 43-year-old Mbayu said she was not employed at the
association at the time of two of the alleged incidents.
Judge Samuel Hoar said the charge did not require that Mbayu be
employed by the group at the time of the alleged misconduct.
POLICE LOG
ST. JOHNSBURY
Tiffany Simard, 27, St. Johnsbury,
was issued a citation for petit larceny
on Dec. 24.
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Around Dec. 30, a single car key
was found on Pearl Street near St.
Jay Hardware and turned into the St.
Johnsbury police department.
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Seth Mitchem, 27, Sutton, was
was taken into custody on an active
arrest warrant on Dec. 31.
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John Champagne, 36, St. Johnsbury, was taken into custody for domestic assault on Friday.
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Alyssa Young, 23, St. Johnsbury,
was charged with sexual assault on a
child and lewd and lascivious behavior after the victim went to the St.
Johnsbury police department to report instances that had occurred over
a ten-year span.
Albert Sanborn, 90, Lyndonville,
and Barbara Hever, 71, Lyndon,
were in a two-vehicle collision at the
intersection of the White Market
Plaza parking lot and Memorial
Drive in Lyndonville on Friday.
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Brenna Bansiter, 24, Brookline,
Mass., was in a single-vehicle crash
on Vt. Rt. 15 in Walden on Friday.
STATE — BRADFORD
Christopher Paquin, 28, Groton,
and Gina Belyea, 26, East Ryegate,
were in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Hall Road and Witherspoon Road in Ryegate on Dec. 31.
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Jacob Knapp, 18, Bradford, and
Kenneth Schaffer, 47, Corinth, were
in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Vt. Rt. 25 and Chelsea
Road in Bradford on Friday.
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Tonya Salomaa, 32, Bradford, was
in a one-vehicle accident on Vt. Rt.
25 in Bradford on Sunday and subsequently taken into custody for suspicion of DUI.
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Gerald Remacle, 50, Corinth, was
in a one-vehicle collision on Rt. 113
in West Fairlee on Tuesday. Remacle
was not injured as a result of the accident.
STATE — ST. JOHNSBURY
Heath Doyon, 26, Lyndon, was
taken into custody for DUI on Saturday.
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Dale
Chamberlain,
46,
Somerville, Mass., was in a one-vehicle accident on I-93 in Waterford
on Friday. Chamberlain and his passenger, Ellen Hinnman, 54, Lyndonville, sustained injuries and were STATE — DERBY
Brian Naylor, 33, Albany, was
transported by CALEX to Littleton
arrested for suspicion of DUI and
Regional.
attempting to elude a police ofﬁcer
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on Saturday.
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Molly is a beagle mix and is about 7 years old. She has lived
with other dogs and cats and children. She is a little overweight, but with diet and exercise she will be ﬁt and trim.
She loves to be petted and go for walks. Min Min is a sweet
senior cat who is looking for her forever home. She enjoys
the company of other felines. Find them and others at Pope
Memorial Frontier Animal Shelter, 4473 Barton Orleans
Road in Orleans. Call 802-754-2228. Visit online at
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date on vaccines, treated for internal and external parasites, health-checked and microchipped.
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PRAYER TO THE
BLESSED VIRGIN
(Not known to fail)
(Not known to fail)
O most beautiful flower of Mount
Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of
Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of
God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in
my necessity. O Star of the Sea, help
me and show me here you are my
mother. O Holy, Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I
humbly beseech you from the bottom
of my heart to secure me in my necessity (make request). There are none
that can withstand your power.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray
for us who have recourse to thee (3
times). Holy Mary, I place this cause
in your hands (3 times).
Say this prayer for 3 consecutive days
and then you must publish and it will
be granted to you.
S.J.S.
O most beautiful flower of Mount
Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of
Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of
God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in
my necessity. O Star of the Sea, help
me and show me here you are my
mother. O Holy, Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I
humbly beseech you from the bottom
of my heart to secure me in my necessity (make request). There are none
that can withstand your power.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray
for us who have recourse to thee (3
times). Holy Mary, I place this cause
in your hands (3 times).
Say this prayer for 3 consecutive days
and then you must publish and it will
be granted to you.
S.J.S.
Today: Becoming mostly cloudy
with the slight chance of snow
showers. Highs between 5 and 10
above. West winds, becoming
south to southwest around 10
mph.
Tonight: Cloudy with light snow
likely. Lows mainly between zero
to 10 above. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
Tomorrow: Cloudy and breezy
with snow showers or periods of
snow likely early, then diminishing.
Highs in the low to mid 20s. South
to southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Extended Forecast:
Friday Night: Chance of evening
snow showers, then partial clearing with scattered ﬂurries. Lows
between zero and 5 above.
Saturday: Partly cloudy. Slight
chance for ﬂurries. Highs in the
mid to upper teens.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy.
Lows again between zero and 5
above.
Sunday: Partly to mostly sunny.
Highs around 20.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy with
a chance of ﬂurries. Lows in the
low to mid teens.
Monday: Mostly cloudy with a
chance of ﬂurries. Highs in the low
to mid 20s
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After a very cold start, today’s highs
will manage only the single digits and
teens. We are now becoming wedged in
between surface high pressure over the
south-central U.S, and low pressure developing over the Great Leaks. Ahead of
that surface low, winds will become
southwesterly, eventually leading to periods of snow, mainly tonight and early
tomorrow. Generally light accumulations
are expected, but the brunt of the snowfall might occur during tomorrow morning’s commute. Temperatures will make
it back into the 20s tomorrow, but the effect of that will be somewhat offset by
gusty southwest winds. Over the weekend, surface high pressure will slide past
to our south. That will provide a respite
from the wind and from any substantial
precipitation, but temperatures will remain below average, with high mainly in
the teens on Saturday, and then making
it back into the 20s on Sunday., says
Chris Bouchard of the Fairbanks Museum weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Mostly Cloudy
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .19
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . . .2
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .-6
Maximum this date (2008) . . . . . . .58
Minimum this date (1973) . . . . . . .-26
HUMIDITY
63%
DEWPOINT
-7
WINDS
12 mph, 22 max . . . . . . . . . . . . .NNW
BAROMETER
28.84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Steady
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace
Total for Month . . . . . . . . . . . .0.74 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.56 in.
SNOWFALL
Past 24 Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.1 in.
Monthly Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.6 in.
Season Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38.7 in.
Season Norm To Date . . . . . . .33.2 in.
Snowpack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.3 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . . . . .7:23 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . . . . .4:26 p.m.
Length of day . . . . . . . . .9 hrs.2 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
To date since July 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
To date last year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ST. J REP’S LEGISLATIVE DUTIES COLLIDE WITH COURT SCHEDULE TRUSTEES CONSIDER NEW GARAGE
LYNDONVILLE
BY JameS Jardine
Staff Writer
The local court system has been asked to make
a scheduling adjustment for public defender
Janssen Willhoit, a newly elected representative
from St. Johnsbury in the Vermont Legislature.
Willhoit, who works in the law ofﬁce of Doug
Willey, started his legislative duties Wednesday,
and the Essex and Caledonia courts have made
some changes to accommodate his legislative
schedule.
On Tuesday, Judge Robert Bent ruled, “Attorney Willhoit has requested a continuance of all
proceedings involving him on other than Mondays and Friday afternoons during the legislative
session.”
Willhoit, in requesting a continuance, cited a
statute which states, “Any attorney, party, witness, or juror who, while a member of and during
sessions of the General Assembly, is assigned or
scheduled to appear in any court of the State of
Vermont, shall be entitled to a leave of absence
or postponement from such judicial duties when
his or her duties in the legislature are more compelling, for the purpose of allowing the member
to perform any ofﬁcial duties in connection with
his or her elected ofﬁce.”
Judge Bent cited case law that states the
statute does not grant a party authority to fail to
appear, without court permission, based simply
upon an attorney-legislator’s own subjective
conclusion that his legislative duties were more
compelling.
Judge Bent wrote, “This court has made efforts to change its schedule to ease things for
Mr. Willhoit while having his Essex caseload
move forward, similar to accommodations
which the court has made for other attorneys
who have legislative duties.”
BY JameS Jardine
Staff Writer
FiLE PHOTO
In this ﬁle photo, attorney Janssen Willhoit is pictured inside the courtroom in
Caledonia Superior Court.
Judge Bent said the court will schedule a status conference to discuss current cases defended
by Willhoit to discuss priorities.
Willhoit ordinarily covers all pf the public
defender work in Essex County. The Vermont
Legislature is not in session on Mondays and
traditionally is only in session for a half day on
Friday.
An agreement has been reached with Judge
Bent and Essex County State’s Attorney Vince
Illuzzi and Caledonia County State’s Attorney
Lisa Warren that Caledonia County will hold arraignments on the ﬁrst three Mondays of the
month from January through May and all Essex
County arraignments will be held on the fourth
Monday of the month. This will enable Willhoit
to be present for the arraignments of clients in
both counties.
Warren said all other court matters, including
calendar calls, continuances and jury draws will
be scheduled as usual in Caledonia County.
Warren said the missing fourth Monday of arraignments will “bunch things up a bit,” but
adds, “we’ve done it before.”
Illuzzi, who for many years balanced his role
as state senator with his job as attorney, is not
worried about the wheels of justice affected by
Willhoit’s scheduling issues.
“I think we can work it out,” said Illuzzi. “I
think we can keep the docket moving.”
Willhoit said he and Illuzzi plan to meet on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 19, to go
through the entire current slate of defendants
and discuss the schedule. Willhoit said one
court hearing, scheduled for the morning of Jan.
23, he will attend because he realizes it’s too
close to make change.
Sen. Joe Benning, of Lyndon, is also an attorney and balances his court and legislative requirements.
NEWPORT CITY
$75,000 BAIL FOR NEWPORT WOMAN WHO CROSSED BORDER FLEEING POLICE
Facing Multiple Vermont Charges Following 90 Days In Canadian Jail
shots were ﬁred before Velasquez
was apprehended by Canadian authorities.
Canadian authorities used “stop
sticks” and a moving road block
to stop the vehicle, which ended
up in a ditch on its side, according
to Bingham’s afﬁdavit.
BY JenniFer herSeY
CleVeland
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — Bail was
set Wednesday at $75,000 for a
woman accused of attempting an
armed burglary at the Derby Corner Mini Mart before eluding police into Canada.
Valentina Velasquez, 31, of
Newport was unable to post bail
after pleading not guilty in Orleans Superior Court to 12 criminal charges related to attempted
burglaries and the pursuit that followed.
Velasquez pleaded not guilty to
felony counts of aiding in the
commission of a burglary at The
Brown Cow in Newport, possessing burglary tools, attempted burglary of Buzzy’s Redemption in
Newport, attempted burglary
while carrying a dangerous or
deadly weapon at the Derby Corner Mini Mart, eluding law enforcement while operating in a
negligent manner, and aggravated
operation of a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent.
She also pleaded not guilty to
misdemeanor counts of heroin
possession, possession of a narcotic, careless or negligent operation, a second offense of driving
after suspension, simple assault,
and possession of stolen property.
Velasquez was extradited from
Canada after serving a 90-day
sentence there for related charges
on that side of the border, and was
transported by Trooper Callie
Field to Orleans Superior CourtCriminal Division Wednesday afternoon.
State’s Attorney Alan Franklin
asked Judge Timothy Tomasi to
set bail at $100,000, based on the
severity of the charges at hand as
well as the defendant’s past criminal record, which includes 19
convictions for misdemeanor offenses and nine failures to appear
for court hearings.
Public Defender Zach Weight,
asking for $20,000 bail with a 10
percent deposit, argued that Velasquez’s children live in the area,
and said she has no ability to pay
that kind of bail. Weight asked if
Velasquez could be released to a
treatment facility for her addiction
rather than to a responsible adult,
which Tomasi said he’d consider.
But after noting that Velasquez
was armed during at least one burglary attempt, and the fact that she
not only attempted to elude police,
but actually made it across the
border into Canada, Tomasi set
bail at $75,000, and said Velasquez must post the entire
PHOTO BY JEnniFER HERSEY CLEvELAnd
Valentina Velasquez at her arraignment Wednesday.
amount in cash or through surety.
Velasquez’s apparent mental
state at the time of the offenses indicates that she is not willing to
submit to authority, Tomasi said.
According to afﬁdavits ﬁled by
Newport City Police ofﬁcers Tanner Jacobs and Joshua Lillis and
Sgt. Travis Bingham, Orleans
County Sheriff’s deputy Tyler Jacobs, and Vermont State Police
Sgt. Sean Selby, the alleged offenses took place between Sept.
20 and 26 in Newport and Derby.
A concerned citizen reported
that a woman was trying to break
into Buzzy’s Redemption on East
Main Street on the night of Sept.
24, according to Lillis’ afﬁdavit.
After noting the broken glass in
the door, Lillis located Velasquez
walking in the parking lot of Passumpsic Savings Bank with a drill
gun and hammer in her possession. Sgt. Charles Moulton radioed to Lillis that he’d located a
drill bit stuck in one of the damaged doors at Buzzy’s.
When Lillis told Velasquez that
she would be cited, and not arrested, she admitted attempting to
break in to get money to pay for a
lawyer to get custody of her children. She further confessed in an
apology letter to the business,
which was also a sworn statement.
When Lillis went to handcuff
her, he noticed that Velasquez had
a bag of heroin in each hand. She
was also allegedly found in possession of Clonazepam and oxycodone pills, Lillis wrote.
The following day, Ken
Stocker, owner of The Brown
Cow, reported that his business
had been burglarized twice, and
that the thief had stolen between
$450 and $1,000 in cash as well as
a drill gun and hammer.
Velasquez eventually admitted
that she served as a lookout for a
man known only as “Bill R.” on
two occasions and that Bill R. had
broken in a third time, taking the
tools. He asked her to get rid of
the tools, she told Lillis.
On Sept. 25, Carol Cady reported that someone had stolen
stuff from her vehicle near Jaspers
Tavern. When Tanner Jacobs arrived, Cady was holding and
swinging Velasquez by her hair.
Cady said after she noticed the
missing items, she confronted Velasquez, who she recognized as
the suspect in the Brown Cow
break-ins. Cady said Velasquez
showed Cady her wallet and then
took off.
William Allen told police that
his vehicle had been ransacked as
well, and Mark Olsen reported
that he gave Velasquez a ride and
observed her trying “many” cards
in an ATM. Further investigation
showed that Velasquez was also in
possession of a debit receipt from
Joyce Poginy’s card. Poginy had
not been aware that anything had
been stolen from her vehicle.
Just after 6 a.m. on Sept. 26,
Selby responded to a report of a
break-in at the Derby Corner Mini
Mart, where owner Nabil Ibrahim
was inside reporting that a woman
was attempting to break the glass
using a long gun. He had hidden
and drawn his own weapon for
protection.
Tyler Jacobs arrived while Velasquez was still parked in the lot,
and when he unholstered his
weapon and ordered her from the
vehicle, she instead took off, operating in an erratic manner and
traveling at 60 miles per hour in a
35-mile-per-hour residential zone.
In Derby Line, Border Patrol
agents opened the crossing gate
and Velasquez went into Canada.
Selby later learned that Velasquez had taken roommate John
Sleep’s gold Oldsmobile and his
bank card without his permission.
Selby wrote that during the pursuit, one cruiser was rammed and
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During their meeting Monday
night, Lyndonville Village Trustees
heard rough estimates on the cost
of purchasing and renovating the
former Vermont Flex manufacturing plant on Hill Street in Lyndonville.
The town and village are studying the feasibility of purchasing the
plant and warehouse and turning
the facility into a highway department garage. The town and village
highway crews would share the facility, which would have room to
store both departments’ equipment
indoors. The town and village
would share the cost of purchasing
and renovating the building and the
cost of maintaining the building.
The selectmen and trustees have
agreed the town would pay a 60
percent share while the village
would pay a 40 percent share.
The Smith family closed the
business on April 1 and sold most
of the manufacturing machinery to
one of the company’s longtime
customers, Precision Hose, Inc.,
based in Georgia.
The company, originally called
Vermont Flexible Tubing, manufactured ﬂexible steel tubing for 64
years.
The town and village have an
agreement in place that calls for the
town and village to pay Flexible
Realty, Inc. up to $22,575 by April
1 to offset costs incurred while the
company holds the property so the
two municipal governments can try
to obtain voter approval during the
town and village annual meetings
in March 2015.
At this point, no purchase price
has been negotiated, according to
Lyndon Municipal Assistant Justin
Smith. The trustees and selectmen
obtained a rough cost estimate of
renovating the business and, with
an expected purchase prices estimated to be in the vicinity of
$750,000, the total cost of the renovated building would be an esti-
mated $1.7 million dollars. Smith
cautioned that all of the ﬁgures are
broad estimates and a ﬁnal ﬁgure
to present to voters has not been
completed.
Justin Smith is the son of Donald Smith and the nephew of Marvin Smith and Beverly Simblest,
the owners of Vermont Flex. Justin
Smith said he is aware of the potential perception of a conﬂict of
interest if he is to handle an agreement by the town and village to
purchase the building. He said
Tuesday that he has agreed to obtain ﬁgures and other details to assist the two boards negotiating the
purchase, but he has told both
boards he wished to recuse himself
from any role in negotiating the
building or making a decision regarding the purchase of the building.
If the village picks up 40 percent
of the total $1.7 million dollar purchase and renovation cost, the approximate impact on a village
property owner would be about
$40 per $100,000 of appraised
value. That ﬁgure assumes a loan
was taken out for 30 years to repay
the purchase and renovation costs.
The estimate cost of the town’s 60
percent share of the project would
be about $20 per $100,000 of assessed value on a property tax bill.
According to Smith, the town
and village must still negotiate a
ﬁrm purchase price for the building
and must obtain more solid cost estimates for renovating the building.
The town highway garage on
Route 114 is situated on a bank of
the Passumpsic River and is vulnerable in the event of a major
ﬂood. The village garage is located
on the end of East Street and is not
large enough to house all of the village equipment indoors.
Before either the town or the village votes on the purchase, there
will be a public hearing to make a
presentation on the proposed
garage and an opportunity to learn
more about the proposal and present questions to the two boards.
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OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
Gamble on Hassan
Recent in-ﬁghting in the Republican-controlled New Hampshire
House of Representatives is no doubt pleasing to the minority party
in Concord.
Democrats shouldn’t get too excited. As the focus shifts to the
budget, Governor Maggie Hassan will receive much of the spotlight. The current budget, crafted by Republicans, was grudgingly
agreed to by Governor Hassan. It was based on realistic revenues,
but a number of departments overspent by millions of dollars. The
Governor resisted releasing details of the ﬁscal problem until a couple of months ago. What we learned is Concord does not have a
revenue problem, but a spending problem.
Governor Hassan’s budget proposal last session included a 10
percent increase with millions of dollars in new revenue based on
inﬂated and unrealistic revenue projections. She also included
casino gambling revenues in her proposal. One small problem is
that gambling isn’t legal in New Hampshire.
This coming session the House and the Senate will be controlled
by Republicans who we assume will stress ﬁscal prudence as New
Hampshire’s recovery remains anemic. That will put both houses
at odds with Hassan if the Governor insists on expanding state government without corresponding revenue increases.
That won’t play well with moderate voters in 2016 if there’s any
truth to the rumors that Hassan will challenge beloved U.S. Sen.
Kelly Ayotte when she runs for a second term in 2016.
Phil Kerpen
Keystone
fight is
about much
more
The House is set to
vote on the Keystone
XL pipeline as their first order
of business in the new Congress — and this time the
newly-elected Senate is expected to have enough votes to
break the anti-energy filibuster
led by liberals Harry Reid and
Chuck Schumer, who is urging
President Obama to stop the
pipeline with a veto.
The merits of the project are
well known, including over
40,000 jobs, more secure access to North American energy,
and lower greenhouse gas
emissions than the alternatives
of moving oil to market by rail
or tanker ships.
President Obama’s own jobs
council famously advised:
“Policies that facilitate the
safe, thoughtful and timely development of pipeline, transmission and distribution
projects are necessary” — and
yet this permit process has
stalled now for a stunning six
years.
The president himself said:
“The net effects of the
pipeline’s impact on our climate will be absolutely critical
to determining whether this
project is allowed to go forward” — and then his own
State Department, led by
Hillary Clinton, concluded that
all three “no action” scenarios
would have significantly
higher emissions than approving the pipeline.
Although oil prices have
sharply declined recently,
major infrastructure projects
are for the long term, and backing off based on market conditions now would play directly
into the hands of the Saudis
and other OPEC producers
who hope to use low prices to
disrupt North American competitors so they can raise prices
again later.
So what’s the problem? Why
did Democrats go to such enormous lengths to block this
project last Congress and why
is the president even now considering a veto?
The principal opponent of
the pipeline is San Francisco
billionaire Tom Steyer, who
made billions investing in fos-
sil fuels abroad before becoming a crusading
political
activist opposing affordable energy in
America — and
heavily investing in
taxpayer-subsidized
green energy that competes
with fossil fuels.
It was at an infamous
fundraiser at his house nearly a
year ago that he offered up to
$100 million for Democratic
candidates if they would block
the pipeline. He largely made
good on that promise, spending
about $73 million, joined by a
handful of like-minded donors
but mostly from his own pockets.
In a 2013 talk at Berkeley,
Steyer explained his obsession.
“The biggest thing about Keystone is we have to make a
change,” the biggest donor in
American politics said.
“We have to make a decision
to do something different…
And if we do that, we’ll end up
with a carbon tax or we’ll end
up with some control of carbon. That’s a given,” Steyer
said. “But the question is at
what point do we decide we’ve
had our Pearl Harbor moment?”
Got that? Steyer believes
that if he can stop a major infrastructure project against the
weight of all facts and logic,
his goal of a massive new energy tax becomes easy.
Democratic Senator Chuck
Schumer lined up with Steyer’s
“Pearl Harbor” for more expensive energy in a recent interview, in which he outlined a
series of messaging amendments — mostly protectionist
trade measures — that Democratic leaders would use to create
excuses
for
their
rank-and-file members to vote
no.
When interviewer Bob Schieffer asked Schumer: “If these
amendments pass, you would
still urge the president to veto
this legislation?” Schumer responded “Well, yes.”
Are Democrats really willing to block billions of dollars
of private investment and tens
of thousands of union jobs on
the hopes of future tax hikes
and the wishes of a single
mega-donor?
Let’s hope President Obama
is willing to stand up to Steyer
and sign the bill.
© 2014 PHiL KERPEn
Letters to the Editor…
Vermont
Constitution
To the Editor:
Happy New Year 2015!
I would like to share this letter to
the editor I wrote, which was published by “The Vermont Journal”
Dec. 18, 2014:
My favorite fantasy is to imagine
men in Vermont in the 1770s riding
their horses across the hills and
mountain trails splashing naked in
the hollowed gorges and streams,
and ﬁghting for their freedom.
The reality is that they wanted
their freedom to write their own Vermont State Constitution, and they
did.
Is the Vermont Constitution currently being violated?
Secretary of State Jim Condos admitted in a legally ofﬁcial e-mail to
me that the vote counters were tired
and that’s why my vote count for
U.S. Congress was about 800 or
more votes different, after they were
less tired, than before. The same
thing occurred to two other candidates for U.S. Congress That
amounts to about 2400 votes, the
amount that the Vermont Secretary of
State claims Governor Shumlin received in excess of Scott Milne’s
vote count.
The curious thing is, that Jim Condos also claims that there were far
fewer votes for Representative to
U.S. Congress than for Governor.
Can you legally cut and paste votes
from one Ofﬁce to a different Ofﬁce?
In all their exhaustion up there in
Montpelier, were ballot votes for
U.S. Congress shifted to Governor
Shumlin accounting for the mysteriously missing 2400 votes total that
Cris Ericson (me), Matthew Andrews and Jerry Trudell had deducted
from their vote counts for Representative to Congress after Jim Condos
suddenly stopped counting at 96%,
then took four days later to come up
with the “new vote count, which took
a total of about 2400 votes away
from Cris Ericson, Matthrew Andrews and Jerry Trudell?
Consider a forensic accounting of
the arithmetic trick that Jim Condos
pulled stopping the vote count at 96
waiting four days, then reducing the
vote count for three candidates for
federal ofﬁce, and then mysteriously
taking that amount and stating Governor Shumlin had just that many
more votes than Scott Milne but if
you were trying to pull this hat trick
in a Presidential Election, how many
years in federal prison would you
risk?
By the Constitution of the State of
Vermont, I ask for an ofﬁcial recount done by the General Assembly,
even if they have shirked their ofﬁcial name and fancy calling themselves the State Legislature, because
the Constitution of the State of Vermont clearly states that the vote count
is to occur “at the opening of the
General Assembly not before hand,
and that means in January 2015 so
the votes counted during Nov. 4th all
the way to the new count on Nov. 8th
should be voided and rescinded as a
violation of the Constitution of the
State of Vermont.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/statutes/
const2.htm
Constitution of the State of Vermont
AS ESTABLISHED JULY 9,
1793,
AND
AMENDED
THROUGH DECEMBER 14, 2010
ß 47. [ELECTION OF GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND TREASURER]
The voters of each town shall, on
the day of election for choosing Representatives to attend the General Assembly bring in their votes for
Governor, with the name fairly written, to the Constable, who shall seal
them up, and write on them, Votes for
Governor, and deliver them to the
Representatives chosen to attend the
General Assembly; and at the opening of the General Assembly, there
shall be a committee appointed out
of the Senate and House of Representatives, who, after being duly
sworn to the faithful discharge of
their trust shall proceed to receive,
sort and count the votes for Governor, and declare the person who has
the major part of the votes, to be
Governor for the two years ensuing.
The Lieutenant-Governor and the
Treasurer shall be chosen in the manner above directed.
The votes for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Treasurer of the
State, shall be sorted and counted,
and the result declared, by a committee appointed by the Senate and
House of Representatives If, at any
time, there shall be no election, of
Governor Lieutenant-Governor or
Treasurer, of the State, the Senate and
House of Representatives shall by a
joint ballot, elect to ﬁll the ofﬁce, not
ﬁlled as aforesaid one of the three
candidates for such ofﬁce (if there be
so many) for whom the greatest
number of votes shall have been returned.
Ms. Cris Ericson
Chester, Vt.
Defending
progress
To the Editor:
Because the high-sounding Ethan
Allen Institute is clearly inﬂuential in
your editorial policy, I took notice
when Tom Licata, a member of its
board, launched a series of articles
against “Progressivism.” It is frustrating that the series of four, with
more to come, is strung out over
months of time. How is the intelligent reader to remember the overall
argument? The series so far is extremely disappointing. Here are a
few of the reasons:
(1) If you really want to know
what a Progressive believes, (presuming there is a single body of Progressive beliefs) why don’t you ask
an articulate Progressive? Then you
can set about refuting it. Licata has
already committed the logical fallacy
of the “straw man” by presenting a
caricature, an incoherent and distorted version of what he is cutting
down.
(2) He admittedly derives most of
his ideas from a 1964 book by James
Burnham titled “Suicide of the
West.” To keep the argument man-
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ageable, why not simply give an intelligent review of book?
(3) Licata clearly thinks ideologically. Therefore, Progressivism must
also be an ideology. The ideologue
rejects facts and solutions which do
not ﬁt into his body of beliefs. Pragmatists are suspicious of ideologies,
because experience is dynamic and
changing, and situations vary. Many
Progressives were, and are, pragmatists. Ideas are important, but their
main function is to clarify and suggest solutions for situations which
demand action. Examples are
Theodore Roosevelt’s strategies for
curbing the power of monopolistic
corporations in the (ﬁrst) Gilded Age
and Obama’s bold response that
probably prevented a world-wide depression in 2008.
(4) This series is distressingly simplistic about complex ideas. He
writes that human nature has a “ﬁxed
essence”. Really? The “nature-nurture debate is profound and has a
long history. Further, it is appropriate
to ask what aspect of human nature
is displayed in a particular situation.
I have been moved in this Christmas
season by remembering the Christmas truce in 1914, when Germans
and Allies crawled out of their
trenches on Christmas Eve to shake
hands, offer cigarettes, take pictures,
recite the 23rd psalm and bury the
dead before going back to resume the
grim business of war. What does that
memorable event tell us about what
may be “ﬁxed” in human nature?
Another complication about deﬁning
human nature, as the wise Reinhold
Niebuhr reminds us, is that individuals are more capable of moral action
than collectives like huge corporations and large banks. The latter require structures of justice to keep
them moral. Only government has
that power.
(5) Another simplistic use of a
complicated idea is when the author
pits “Constitutionalism” against
“Progressivism”. Most thoughtful
Americans believe in the Constitution. But who can argue against the
fact that the Constitution has been interpreted repeatedly by our courts to
meet new situations and that a complex body of interpretation is evolving? Our current debates and rulings
about privacy, which has been derived from other constitutional rights,
are an example. So also is the controversial ruling of the current Supreme
Court that corporations are “persons.”
(6) It is true that there was a time
when many in the West, from the Enlightenment to WW I, believed in the
myth of endless progress. Not many
thoughtful and informed people believe that today. The challenge rather
is to make progress against the forces
that are dragging the world down,
like outrunning an escalator that is
going in the opposite direction. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who calls herself a Progressive in some sense, is
not so naïve. It would be progress to
restore the middle class and ﬁnd
ways in which government can be
both a watchdog on, and a creative
partner with, out dynamic and often
devious free market system. She
doesn’t expect perfection-only a
ﬁghting chance to create a fair society for all Americans.
Kenneth D. Vos
Shefﬁeld, Vt.
What is our
moral standard?
To the Editor:
Recently, on a TV news program,
Mr. Bernie Sanders was stating his
position on the subject of what constitutes torture. He claimed that the
actions, which were being deﬁned by
him and others as torture, violate
“our moral standard.”
I will refrain from discussing the
torture issue here; that will be in another letter. But, I must comment on
Mr. Sanders’ reference to “our moral
standard.” Exactly to whose standard
is he referring? Is it his standard? Is
it Mr. Obama’s standard? Is it a standard deﬁned by some elitists from
academia? Is his standard written
down somewhere? I challenge any of
the above persons to provide that
standard.
Can someone’s “standard” be evident to us? Can we know a person’s
standard by observing his beliefs, actions and words? Is Mr. Sanders alluding to the “moral standard” of our
founding fathers? If he is, then I do
know what that standard is: the
Bible. Our founding fathers, with
very few exceptions, believed in
God, the God of the Bible. Our
founding fathers knew that their very
lives and prosperity depended on the
benevolence of Almighty God. They
knew the outcome of the Revolutionary War, and the future of our nation,
depended heavily upon God’s mercy
and grace.
Is that the standard to which Mr.
Sanders is referring? I think not; let
me explain. I believe there are many
things Mr. Sanders has said and done
that violate God’s standard (the
Bible). One of those is his position
on abortion, where Mr. Sanders believes it is okay to murder babies in
the mother’s womb. Another issue is
where Mr. Sanders agrees with others in Congress regarding the socalled inequality of income, and the
many “handouts” our legislators are
giving to people who will not work.
The Bible standard does not support
Mr. Sander’s philosophy of taking
money from an honest person who
has earned it, and giving it to a person
who does not work. In fact, the Bible
does not condemn wealthy persons,
but instead urges them to share (voluntarily) with those who have little,
such as “widows and orphans.”
(James 1:27) Employers are urged
and warned to pay their workers a
fair wage for their labors. (James 5:16) The Bible also says “he that would
not work, neither shall he eat.” (II
Thess. 3:10) If Mr. Sanders really believes in equal income and wealth for
every U.S. citizen, why doesn’t he
give his wealth and most of his income to the poor, and try to live on
less than 100,000 per year?
If our politicians truly used God’s
standard as their guide, our government would function better, and we
all would be blessed. If we citizens
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Things To Know About Boston Marathon Bombing Jury Selection
BY deniSe laVoie
AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON — The ﬁrst week of
jury selection in the Boston
Marathon bombing trial is wrapping
up. Here’s what you need to know
about where the federal death penalty
case stands and what’s next:
THE CASE
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, is accused
of carrying out bombings near the
ﬁnish line of the race on April 15,
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would experience fewer problems,
commit fewer crimes, and be able to
have God’s peace in our lives.
Our country is experiencing many
major problems. If our country were
to honor Almighty God by following
2013. Three people were killed in the
blasts; more than 260 others were injured. Prosecutors say Tsarnaev and
his older brother, Tamerlan —ethnic
Chechens who moved to the U.S.
about a decade before the bombings
— planned the attack and set off two
bombs in retaliation for U.S. wars in
Muslim countries. Tsarnaev also is
charged in the killing of an MIT police ofﬁcer days after the bombings.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a
gun battle with police.
THE TRIAL
The trial is being held in federal
court in Boston. Tsarnaev is charged
under the federal death penalty
statute. Massachusetts abolished the
state death penalty in 1984. The trial
is expected to last three to four
months.
THE JURY POOL
More than 1,350 prospective jurors from eastern Massachusetts
were called to court this week in
groups of 200 to appear before U.S.
District Judge George O’Toole Jr.
O’Toole gave them initial instruc-
tions. They also ﬁlled out 28-page
questionnaires that will be used to
weed out people with obvious conﬂicts.
THE DEFENDANT
Tsarnaev has been introduced to
each group of potential jurors. Sometimes, he has given an awkward nod
to the group; other times, he has
looked down. While the judge gives
instructions, Tsarnaev has picked at
his beard, quietly drummed his ﬁngers on the table and looked at the
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McKay pulled over a suspect for
speeding on Route 116. The suspect ﬂed in his vehicle, leading the
ofﬁcer on a brief pursuit. The ofﬁcer pulled his cruiser in front of the
suspect’s vehicle, forcing him off
the road. McKay used pepper
spray on the suspect while attempting to take him into custody. After
being pepper sprayed, the suspect
produced a handgun and shot the
ofﬁcer four times, killing him. The
suspect then ran over the ofﬁcer.
A civilian witnessed the incident
and pulled his vehicle between the
suspect’s vehicle and McKay, in an
effort to shield him. The civilian, a
former United States Marine, then
exited his vehicle and rushed to the
ofﬁcer’s aid. He grabbed McKay’s
gun, while his son called for help
on McKay’s radio. The civilian
then ordered the suspect to drop
his weapon. When the suspect refused, the civilian shot and killed
the suspect.
The suspect had previously been
convicted of assaulting McKay
during a vehicle stop in 2003.
McKay had served with the
Franconia Police Department for
12 years. He is survived by his
daughter, ﬁancee, parents, and sister.
Bradford
Vermont State Police Sgt.
Michael Johnson, based at the
Troop B station in Bradford, was
struck and killed on June 15, 2003,
by a vehicle after he put spike
strips down on the highway to stop
the vehicle being pursued by other
ofﬁcers.
Troopers from the Vermont
State Police were chasing a suspect
who ﬂed from a trafﬁc stop on I-91
in Thetford. Johnson was located
about ﬁve miles south of the initial
trafﬁc stop. After laying down the
spike strips in the roadway, Johnson parked his patrol car in the
nearby crossover between the
north and southbound lanes of I91, near Exit 13.
As the suspect approached the
spike strips, the suspect swerved
into the median and through the
crossover, striking Johnson. The
suspect’s black colored Nissan
stopped in the northbound lane of
I-91 and he ﬂed the scene on foot.
He was apprehended in Pennsylva-
nia two days later. Johnson was
transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon,
N.H., where he later died from his
injuries.
The suspect was charged with
second degree murder in connection with Johnson’s death but
pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
On Sept. 15, 2004, he was sentenced to 26 to 33 years in prison.
Johnson had served with the
Vermont State Police for 16 years.
He is survived by his wife, two
sons, and a daughter.
Essex County, Vt.
Essex County Sheriff’s Deputy
Ruby Ann Rainault was killed
Nov. 24, 2003, in an automobile
accident while on duty. She was
making a U-turn on Route 2 to
help a stranded motorist when her
patrol car was broadsided by a
truck.
Rainault is survived by her husband, who was also an Essex
County deputy sheriff.
Derby
Vermont State Police Sgt.
Arthur Yeaw was accidentally shot
and killed on May 13, 1983, when
his service weapon discharged as
he cleaned it.
Yeaw was assigned to Troop B,
Derby Barracks and was the station’s commander.
Colebrook, N.H.
Colebrook Chief of Police Frederick Towle suffered a fatal heart
attack in 1956 while attempting to
arrest a man for being drunk in
public.
Towle was off duty at the time
and walking down main street with
his teenager daughter when he observed the intoxicated man in a vehicle on Main Street. After
removing the man from the car to
arrest him a struggle ensued. During the struggle, Towle collapsed.
Towle had served with the
agency for 10 years. He is survived
by his wife and four children.
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New Hampshire State Troopers
Scott Phillips and Leslie Lord were
shot by Carl Drega in Colebrook
on Aug. 19, 1997.
Drega opened ﬁre on Trooper
Phillips with an automatic riﬂe,
wounding him in the hand. Drega
was wearing a bullet proof vest.
Trooper Lord pulled up to the
scene without knowing that shots
had been ﬁred and was shot before
he exited his patrol car. The sus-
pect then returned and shot
Trooper Phillips four more times,
execution style, killing him. He
then stole Trooper Phillips’ patrol
car and drove to the ofﬁce of a
local newspaper where he shot and
killed a part-time judge, with
whom he had a long standing
grudge, and a newspaper editor
who had tried to intervene.
Lancaster, N.H.
Lancaster Chief of Police Andrew Malloy and Trooper Harold
Johnson, of the New Hampshire
State Police, were killed when
their patrol car was struck by a
train in Groveton after leaving a
court hearing. The train was backing up and there were no warnings
at the crossing.
The accident occurred in 1948.
A third ofﬁcer was injured in the
accident.
Chief Malloy was survived by
his wife and four children.
Lyndonville
Lyndonville Police Chief
Alexander Fontecha was shot and
killed by a 72-year-old man who
came to his home on July 9, 1965.
He was hit in the chest with two
shotgun blasts as he stepped onto
his front porch. Fontecha died in
the arms of his 15-year-old son.
The suspect was angry with the
chief for asking the state ﬁre marshal to investigate a suspicious ﬁre
at his home. He plead guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 25 to 30 years in prison
on Jan. 24, 1966. He was eventually paroled and died at the age of
93.
Fontecha is survived by his
wife, son and daughter.
Newport City
Newport City Trafﬁc Ofﬁcer
John Manogue was shot and killed
in the Newport Hotel in Sept. 26,
1917, while assisting U.S. Immigration ofﬁcers taking an illegal
immigrant into custody.
A struggle ensued and shots
were ﬁred. When the gunﬁre
ended, Manogue lay dying, and
Immigration Ofﬁcer Daniel McDermott was seriously injured.
The shooter, from Quebec, was
arrested and eventually transported
to the state hospital in Waterbury.
A jury later found him not guilty
by reason of insanity. He died in an
asylum in Beauport, Quebec, on
Oct. 4, 1926.
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and said a total of 38 constituents
contacted him to encourage a vote
for Milne, who in November won
St. Johnsbury and all but three
other Northeast Kingdom towns.
Willhoit was assigned to the
House Fish, Wildlife and Water
Resources Committee. He had requested the judiciary and education committees. The assignment
was based on his status as an attorney, which the committee lacked,
he said.
His seatmate is Democrat
Kevin “Coach” Christie representing Windsor-4-2.
Both Beck and Willhoit also addressed issues ranging from their
lack of institutional knowledge to
their similar priorities.
For Willhoit, it’s all about
money and affordability.
“We must get our ﬁscal house in
order,” he said. “It is important for
all legislators and their respective
committees to take a closer look at
what programs and services they
are funding, whether these expenditures have been proven beneﬁcial, and what areas need to be cut
so that Vermont can become more
ﬁnancially sound. By making
these tough ﬁnancial decisions, we
can then look at ways to better address our current tax structure,
particularly the property tax.”
Willhoit said property taxes are
a top concern for residents. The
topic was consistently raised during his campaign last year, which
included knocking on a few thousand doors.
“We must look at school funding and the property tax scheme in
its entirety so that Vermonters can
afford to remain homeowners,” he
said.
Willhoit is not worried about
his lack of institutional knowledge. He will rely on reason and
common sense.
“But I am fortunate to be part of
a strong, vibrant Republican caucus that has welcomed me with
open arms,” he said.
Session
conceded the race to the plurality
winner, making the legislative vote
a formality. This time, Milne has
continued to contest the election
and was at the Statehouse on
Wednesday greeting lawmakers.
Republican Sen. Bill Doyle,
Democratic Sen. Jeanette White
and Sen. Anthony Pollina, who
runs under the Progressive Party
and other labels, joined Wednesday to say they want to see the
Senate Government Operations
Committee, which White chairs, to
draft an amendment to address the
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Day’s public defender is arguing for a 12-month total jail sentence, with six months suspended.
The judge took the sentencing
recommendations under advisement and a sentencing date has not
yet been set.
At Wednesday’s plea hearing
was Nash’s widow, Shirley Nash;
son, Chris Nash; and eldest daughter, Susie Nash, who now runs
Nash Equipment.
After the hearing, Shirley Nash
said, “We think 2 to 4 years is very
appropriate. No less. We think
they should be made an example
of so it won’t happen to anyone
else.”
During the hearing, McCormick
said those who happened upon the
grave the following morning
found a “horrendous scene” that
was “something out of an Edgar
Allan Poe story.”
The cofﬁn was disinterred, he
said, and the concrete vault busted
up.
With the help of area camera
footage that captured a suspect
car, suspects were soon identiﬁed,
and Day, after his arrest, spoke
with Colebrook police and gave a
full account of what happened,
said McCormick.
Also charged in the case are
David Grey, 54, formerly of Colebrook, Ginette Dowse, 72, of
Clarksville, and Nash’s younger
daughter, Melanie Nash, 53, who
had been living with Dowse in
Beecher Falls.
The four “conspired to dig up
Mr. Nash’s remains and riﬂe
through the cofﬁn for a purported
missing will,” said McCormick.
During the course of the investigation, Colebrook police found
that “Melanie Nash, the estranged
daughter of Shirley Nash, talked
about doing this several times,” he
said.
The steel cofﬁn was damaged
considerably, “requiring manpower and tools to do,” said McCormick.
Stolen from the cofﬁn was cash,
a bottle of vodka and cigarettes, he
said.
No will was found.
On Monday at Coos Superior
Court, Dowse, who police said
drove Melanie Nash, Day and
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FiLE PHOTO
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Pictured is the gravestone of Eddie Nash. Two men have
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Grey to the cemetery that night
and picked them up, pleaded
guilty to a felony count of accomplice to criminal mischief and to a
misdemeanor count of conspiracy
to abuse of a corpse.
For the felony, Dowse is scheduled to begin serving a four-month
jail sentence on April 1. For the
misdemeanor, she received a 12month jail sentence suspended on
the condition of two years of good
behavior.
Melanie Nash and Grey, who as
of Wednesday have not made
pleas, each face three felony
counts each of criminal mischief,
interfering with a cemetery and
conspiracy to interfere, as well as
a misdemeanor count of abuse of
a corpse.
Nash is accused of holding a
ﬂashlight while Day and Grey,
using tools, smashed the 700pound concrete lid to the vault
housing Eddie Nash’s casket, disinterred the casket and broke it
open, damaging both the vault and
casket beyond repair.
Colebrook police said it was
Melanie Nash’s belief that the
“real will” was buried with her father that prompted the suspects’ to
visit the Colebrook Village Cemetery on the night of May 11.
In her June 11 statement to police, Nash wrote that she met up
with Day and Dowse on the afternoon of May 11.
“I had asked Mike and Ginette
to help me when I felt the time
was right and they all decided plus
myself it was the right night,”
Nash allegedly wrote in her statement.
Through friends, Nash said she
met Grey, who told her he knew
her father and later offered to help
her dig up his grave, according to
her statement.
“I held the ﬂashlight,” wrote
Nash. “Ginette picked us up.”
Melanie Nash then wrote, “All
this was done for the right reasons
and I know my father would be
OK with it.”
Nash ended the statement by
saying, “What we all did was to
dig up my father’s cofﬁn, Eddie
Nash, looking for documents. We
did it with respect.”
Following Day’s hearing
Wednesday was a hearing for
Melanie Nash, whose public defender, William Albrecht, attempted to suppress her statements
to Colebrook police, arguing some
statements were given before she
was read her Miranda rights
against self-incrimination.
Coos Superior Judge Peter
Bornstein, however, denied the
motion to suppress, ruling that
Melanie Nash freely came to the
police station after a warrant has
been issued for her arrest and voluntarily gave oral and written
statements.
The judge also said no evidence
exists that Colebrook police exerted improper inﬂuence on Nash
or that she made statements prior
to being read her rights against
self-incrimination.
Eddie Nash died of a heart attack in December 2004 at the age
of 68.
An engraving on his tombstone
reads “King of the Used Equipment World.”
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day of appreciation “with everything going on with Ferguson,
Missouri, and New York City.”
“These men and women are out
there serving every day,” he said.
“It shouldn’t be us police ofﬁcers versus the public. We are all
in this together.”
Higgins said ofﬁcers were targeted in the 1970s, and he thanked
God that those times faded. Now,
he laments the fact that there are
some who want to kill ofﬁcers
again.
There are mechanisms to handle
police actions that are not right, he
said. It’s not fair to target all ofﬁcers for the actions of a few, he
said.
The New England Chapter of
C.O.P.S. began its mission in July
1995. Each year, between 140 and
160 ofﬁcers are killed nationally in
the line of duty and their families
and co-workers are left to cope
with the tragic loss, according to
the organization’s website.
Crash
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LaPerle’s IGA, for his smile.
The accident occurred at 5:10
p.m. when Howe, driving a 2003
Chevy S-10 pickup truck northbound along Route 3, with Hicks
as his passenger, crossed the center line and struck the trailer of a
southbound vehicle, Colebrook
police said in a statement
Wednesday.
Howe’s pickup continued
north in the southbound lane,
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Representatives Janssen Willhoit, above, and Scott Beck
are pictured in the Statehouse Wednesday for the
opening legislative session.
Other legislators are available
for guidance, Willhoit said. He has
already met many of them, and
also convened with local bankers,
educators, business owners and
medical professionals to better
prepare himself for the job.
Willhoit though did not attend a
November orientation for rookie
legislators. He was away on vacation.
“I was unable to attend because
my family had planned a vacation
with our extended family over a
year ago, and I was not going to
miss out on that time with children
and family,” he said. “The [orientation] presentations were sent out
electronically so that I could review them.”
For Rep. Beck, like Willhoit,
it’s all about ﬁnances and affordability.
“I will be aggressively joining
the ﬁght to put Vermont on a different, more sustainable spending
path,” he said. “Creation of a caucus to address common concerns
of Connecticut River communities
and counties is a priority of mine,
hopefully leading to the eventual
elimination of the sales tax.”
State spending and taxes are top
issue for constituents, he said.
“People in St. Johnsbury, like
most of the rest of the state, are
terribly concerned about state
spending and its impact on their
taxes,” Beck said. “I think they expect their representative to be a
strong voice in Montpelier, focused on reducing state expenditures.”
Beck does not feel disadvantaged by his lack of institutional
knowledge. He has been researching materials including the Vermont Constitution, legislative acts,
and state statutes dating back
decades.
“It is very informative and
gives an excellent history of the
debate and evolution of many issues Vermont is still grappling
with today,” Beck said. “I have
[also] spoken with many veteran
and new legislators from both parties. Their advice is consistent:
work hard, form personal relationships, keep your word, and do
your homework.”
Beck said the November orientation for rookie legislators was
beneﬁcial. He met a number of
people.
“I have already made a lot of
connections on both sides of the
aisle,” he said.
issue.
Doyle has proposed reducing
the threshold for election by popular vote to 40 percent plus 1 vote,
an idea that Shumlin earlier this
week said he supports. Burns and
Sen. David Zuckerman, a longtime Progressive Party stalwart,
said they would prefer “instantrunoff voting” though Burns, unlike Zuckerman, said he’s open to
talking about the 40-percent
threshold.
With instant-runoff voting, voters rank multiple candidates in
order of preference. Candidates
ﬁnishing in third place or lower
have their votes distributed to the
top two ﬁnishers according to the
voter’s second preference.
For example, in this year’s gubernatorial race, Libertarian Dan
Feliciano ﬁnished third, with 4
percent of the vote. Feliciano
would be eliminated for ﬁnishing
third, but a voter who picked him
ﬁrst and Shumlin as a second
choice would see his or her vote go
to Shumlin. Someone who chose
Milne second to Feliciano would
see the vote go to Milne. Votes
would continue to be counted in
this manner until one of the top
two vote-getters earned a majority
and was declared the winner.
The national and local chapters
of C.O.P.S. provide resources to
help the families rebuild their
lives. Anyone can join the organization, Higgins said.
Anyone seeking more information about New England COPS
can
contact
Higgins
at
[email protected].
Orleans County Sheriff Kirk
Martin has not seen a change in
how society views law enforcement ofﬁcers in northern Vermont.
“In any society, there are a select few that don’t like law enforcement ofﬁcers,” Martin said.
These are the ones who ﬂee police in Dukes of Hazzard style, endangering others, he said. Police
have to respond to such acts, he
said.
“You don’t know why that person is running,” he said.
Police are upholding the laws
that society wants in place, Martin
said. “We don’t create these laws.”
A classic targeting of police in
this area was the destruction of
sheriff’s department cruisers by
Roger Pion. No one was injured.
Some of the situations that are
driving the national debate about
law enforcement practices are
based on suspects who resisted arrest, Martin said. He quoted former
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said that people don’t
have a constitutional right to resist
arrest.
Martin welcomed the Law Enforcement Appreciation Day organized by New England COPS,
saying that almost everyone he
knows shows appreciation for the
service of local law ofﬁcers.
He is thankful that New England COPS also supports families
of ofﬁcers who die on duty.
“Knock on wood, we’ve never had
that. I hope we never see it,” he
said.
But Martin said that the violence in the world, like the terrorist
shootings at the magazine ofﬁce in
Paris this week, can happen anywhere.
“We’re right here on the border.
We in the Northeast Kingdom are
not immune from the rest of the
world.”
said police, and then struck head
on a 2003 Chevy 1500 pickup
being driven by Michelle Rodrigue, 67, of Hudson.
Rodrigue initially refused
treatment, but was later taken to
Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital for a leg injury.
Police did not say what might
have led to the pickup crossing
the center line, but said alcohol
does not appear to be a factor.
Hicks worked at LaPerle’s
IGA in Colebrook for many
years.
On Wednesday, on the obituar-
ies web site of Jenkins and Newman Funeral Home, several area
residents posted memories of
Howe and Hicks, calling them
kind and saying both will be
missed.
On Wednesday evening,
LaPerle’s manager Wendy Lanciani, who had known Hicks for
many years, said Hicks’ death is
a shock to all in town and not
many people on Wednesday were
aware he had died.
“We will miss his charm,” she
said.
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than any other state in the country.
He called it "morally wrong" that school administrators take home sixﬁgure salaries and Maine teachers have to dig in their pockets to buy school
NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A North Bennington manufacturer
WMUR-TV reports the pipeline would cross Mason from west to east, supplies. The governor's speech comes two days before he's scheduled to unveil his two-year budget proposal.
has been awarded a $227,000 ﬁnancial incentive to create jobs over the next along with a lateral juncture heading into Massachusetts.
ﬁve years.
Some people are worried about water. The project would require blasting
National Hanger Company is one of seven Vermont companies that have to bury a 36-inch gas line in a town that relies 100 percent on wells for its
received similar awards for Vermont Employment Growth Incentive for a water.
total of $3.8 million.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Three men purchased enough state-subsidized,
The Bennington Banner reports that National Hanger has been operating
energy-efﬁcient light bulbs to ﬁll a rented truck with the bright idea of selling
on Water Street since 1981 and currently employs about 104 people. It prothem for a proﬁt in Chicago, police said Wednesday.
duces clothes hangers and a variety of related products.
Bangor police brought in bomb-snifﬁng and drug-snifﬁng dogs after reCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A 19-year-old New Hampshire woman acNational Hanger President Michele Pilcher president of National Hanger
ceiving
reports of a rented box truck parked outside the federal courthouse
Company says that over the next ﬁve years the company may hire an addi- cused of stabbing another woman in a park last year has pleaded guilty to at- Wednesday evening. In the end, no crime was committed and the truck was
tempted murder.
tional 30 and 40 people who will work in a new online retail division.
The Concord Monitor reports the plea allows Samantha Heath of Barn- simply full of light bulbs piled high on pallets, said Police Sgt. Tim Cotton.
Pilcher says work in the new division is expected to begin next month.
Some of the bulbs were purchased from local big box retailers and subsistead to testify against her former boyfriend, who is charged with coming up
by Efﬁciency Maine, said Cotton.
dized
with a plan to kill the woman and then rob a string of gas stations and ﬂee to
Under
the program, compact-ﬂuorescent bulbs that normally sell for $2
Florida.
and
LED light bulbs that normally sell for $10 can be purchased by
each
Police said 18-year-old Andrea Halvorsen was stabbed 16 times at Bear
consumers
for 25 cents and $2 to $5, respectively, said Efﬁciency Maine's
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Al Getler, group publisher of the North of Brook State Park in Allenstown in January 2014. Police say the two women
executive
director,
Michael Stoddard.
Boston Media Group, has been named publisher of the Burlington Free Press. knew each other.
While
the
subsidized
bulbs are a bargain, Efﬁciency Maine is aware of
In taking over at the Free Press, Getler returns to Gannett Co. Inc., where he
Heath, who is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 3, is expected to testify
spent nearly a decade with the Newspaper Network of Central Ohio in var- against Kyle Buffum, who has been charged with conspiracy to commit ﬁrst- only one other case of someone exceeding the 12-item purchase limit, Stoddard said.
ious marketing and circulation roles. He also was publisher of The Advo- degree murder and criminal solicitation.
Stores that sell subsidized bulbs in excess of a dozen won't be reimbursed
cate.
and
will have to absorb the loss, he said.
Getler also has worked for The Record in Troy, New York, The Press of
Cotton said the men told police they intended to sell them for a big proﬁt
Atlantic City in New Jersey and the North Jersey Media Group.
in Chicago.
At the Free Press, Getler succeeds Jim Fogler, who left in September to
One of the three men, a Jordanian national, was detained because of a visa
SALEM,
N.H.
(AP)
—
Police
in
Salem,
New
Hampshire,
have
recovered
become vice president of business development for Party City.
a riﬂe that fell off a cruiser as an ofﬁcer drove out of the police station parking violation and will likely be deported, he said. Two others were allowed to
go, but without the truck.
lot.
What becomes of the load of light bulbs was unclear. The person who
The
ofﬁcer
placed
a
black
canvas
bag
containing
the
riﬂe
on
the
trunk
of
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire heath ofﬁcials say the perleased
the truck wanted the truck and cargo, but the trucking company was
his
car
while
he
prepared
for
duty
Tuesday
afternoon;
he
didn’t
notice
it
was
centage of retailers selling cigarettes to children increased slightly last year.
retrieving the vehicle, Cotton said.
Nearly 300 retailers across the state were surveyed in 2014 as part of a missing until eight hours later.
An extensive search turned up no sign of the weapon. Police asked anyone
federal compliance check program. The state Department of Health and
Human Services says the violation rate increased 1 percent to just under 13 who may have picked it up to return it — no questions asked — either to popercent last year, showing the state still has work to do in checking identiﬁ- lice or to a local gun shop. A Good Samaritan who saw the information
Wednesday found it and turned it in to police.
cation for tobacco products.
afternoon. U.S. Attorney Carmen
Police said they are embarrassed by the failure to follow established proThe most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 86 percent of
Ortiz sat with Cohen and her father.
cedures.
high school students did not smoke cigarettes in the last 30 days. Ofﬁcials
Cohen declined to comment.
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
tobacco prevention program and the Division of Liquor Enforcement.
judge. He appears self-conscious and
Tsarnaev’s lawyers and federal
has only occasionally looked at the prosecutors will spend the next few
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul says that Maine teachers should prospective jurors.
days reviewing more than 37,800
be covered under one statewide contract, instead of each district creating its THE VICTIMS
pages of juror questionnaires before
Only a handful of bombing vic- individual questioning begins on Jan.
MASON, N.H. (AP) — Some residents of the New Hampshire town of own contract.
The Republican governor said Wednesday that Maine's education system tims have watched jury selection. 15. Twelve jurors and six alternates
Mason say they feel singled out by a proposed natural gas pipeline project
Jaymi Cohen, a Tufts University will be chosen. That process is exis "upside down."
that would cross the town twice over.
LePage's remarks came during his inaugural address on Wednesday at the lacrosse player who went to the pected to take three weeks. The judge
They raised objections at a public meeting Tuesday night.
Augusta
Civic Center, where he took the oath of ofﬁce to begin his second marathon with some of her team- told prospective jurors that he exTexas-based Kinder Morgan wants to construct about 70 miles of pipeline
mates to cheer on the runners, pects the trial to begin with opening
four-year
term.
through southern New Hampshire. About 90 percent of the project would be
LePage says that Maine has twice the number of administrators per capita watched the proceedings Wednesday statements on Jan. 26.
along an existing power line corridor.
REGION
BRIEFS
Maine police: Truck of cheap
light bulbs headed for Chicago
Teen pleads guilty to stabbing
at New Hampshire park
Al Getler named new publisher
of Burlington Free Press
New Hampshire ofﬁcer’s lost riﬂe
found by Good Samaritan
Tobacco sales to youth up in N.H.
Jury
Town residents express concern
over natural gas pipeline
Gov. LePage: Maine's education
system is "upside down"
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and the Concord School Main Office.
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parts of the country. And so
frigid in the Minnesota-St. Paul
area that you could get frostbite
in less time than it takes to buy
car insurance.
At least the Northeast isn’t
getting clobbered with snow the
way it was this time last year.
A look at the blast of dangerously cold air that is dropping
temperatures into the single digits and sending wind-chill readings below zero, even in the
Deep South:
WATCH THOSE FINGERS AND TOES!
With wind chills plunging into
the minus-30s to the minus-50s
across Minnesota on Wednesday,
Dr. Ryan Fey of the Hennepin
County Medical Center in Minneapolis warned that serious
frostbite injuries can happen in
10 minutes or less.
Wet gloves, socks or boots
speed up the process. So do
smoking and medical conditions
that cause poor circulation, such
as diabetes. And the thinner skin
of elderly people and children
makes them more vulnerable, he
said.
College student Jordan Harrell, 23, wore a stocking cap and
pulled his coat up around his
neck as he walked to work in
downtown Minneapolis.
“I have wool socks on, so
that’s nice. And that’s basically
how I prepare. And then, you
know, just have a tough mentality,” he said. “It’s a Minnesota
tough mentality.”
YOU HAVE NO CLASS
The arctic chill prompted
school closings or delayed openings from Alabama to the Dakotas.
Many school systems decided
to let it warm up a little before
making children stand outside
and wait for their buses. They
also hoped to avoid overtaxing
school heating systems and
allow more time for buses to get
running.
Wind-chill readings below
zero were forecast in such places
as Alabama and Asheville, North
Carolina, along with a wide
swath of the Midwest and the
Plains.
In the Birmingham, Alabama,
area, Jefferson County School
Superintendent Craig Pouncey
warned that the buses are vulnerable when the mercury falls to
20 or lower.
“Our buses still are pretty dependable about cranking, but
sometimes the moisture in the air
brakes may freeze, so we’ve got
to be conscious of that,”
Pouncey told AL.com.
As for warming up your own
car, police in Omaha, Nebraska,
warned people not to leave their
vehicles running unattended. Police told KMTV that 13 vehicles
that had been left idling were reported stolen in an eight-hour
span Tuesday morning.
HEY, IT COULD BE
WORSE
Temperatures are expected to
drop to zero or below in southern
New England and to 7 above in
New York City, with wind chills
getting into the minus-20s in
some places. But little or no
snow is forecast for most of the
Northeast.
And to think: Around this time
last year, parts of the region were
digging out from 2 feet of snow
accompanied by brutal polar air.
In fact, this season’s snowfall
totals are way down from last
year, one of the snowiest seasons
on record.
Last year, Philadelphia, New
York and Boston all got around
5 feet of snow from December
through February, or about 1½ to
2½ feet more than normal. This
year, they’ve seen only a few
inches of snow since Dec. 1.
Western New York is another
story. The Buffalo area got
slammed with more than 7 feet
of snow in November and saw
another foot on Tuesday, with
more expected Wednesday.
Still, the snow-free cold is no
day at the beach.
“I hate it. I can’t wait for
spring,” Rosalie Kahler said with
a laugh in Albany, New York,
where temperatures were expected to drop to single digits by
sunset.
MEANWHILE,
IN PARADISE
While the rest of the country
is bundling up, Southern California is enjoying a record-breaking
winter heat wave, with highs in
the 80s.
Museum curator Kimberly
Meyer, 51, took full advantage
of the sun along with other
swimmers at the outdoor pools at
the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
in Pasadena.
“My poor parents are in Madison, Wisconsin, freezing,” she
said. “So I know exactly how it
is, and that’s why we live here.
It’s because you can swim outside all year round, which is fantastic.”
Southern California’s winters
are usually in the mid-40s, with
highs in the 60s. The aquatics
center’s pools are heated, but
that wasn’t necessary Wednesday.
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French police identify 3 suspects in attack
on newspaper ofﬁce that killed 12
PARIS (AP) — French police ofﬁcials identiﬁed three men as suspects in
a deadly attack against newspaper ofﬁces that killed 12 people and shook the
nation on Wednesday.
Two ofﬁcials named the suspects as Frenchmen Said Kouachi and Cherif
Kouachi, who are brothers and in their early 30s, as well as 18-year-old
Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn’t immediately clear.
One of the ofﬁcials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. A
witness of Wednesday’s shootings at the ofﬁces of weekly satirical newspaper
Charlie Hebdo said one of the attackers told onlookers, “You can tell the
media that it’s al-Qaida in Yemen.”
The ofﬁcials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation. No arrests have been conﬁrmed in the hunt for the attackers.
Masked gunmen stormed the ofﬁces of Charlie Hebdo, which caricatured
the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor,
before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest terrorist attack in half a
century.
In deadly Paris attack, clash of values on
whether there should be limits to press freedom
Two conﬂicting sides on whether there should be limits to the liberty of
self-expression clashed violently Wednesday in a usually tranquil side street
on the Right Bank of Paris.
When it was over, a dozen people lay dead — including some of the most
prominent political cartoonists and satirists in France, and the police ofﬁcers
assigned to protect them.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo mourned the slain as “martyrs of freedom, of
freedom of the press, the pillar of democracy,” and called upon all freedomloving people to hold a solemn march in their memory Thursday.
On the other side of the Atlantic, President Barack Obama denounced an
attack on the “values that we share with the French people — a universal belief in the freedom of expression.”
“The fact that this was an attack on journalists, attack on our free press,
also underscores the degree to which these terrorists fear freedom of speech
and freedom of the press,” Obama said.
Obama: Shootings at French newspaper
‘cowardly evil attacks’ on journalists
and a free press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called Wednesday’s
deadly shooting at a satirical newspaper in Paris “cowardly evil attacks” on
journalists and a free press and vowed to help France pursue the terrorists
who went on the run.
Obama said the attack that left 12 dead in France’s deadliest terror attack
in at least two decades is a reminder that such tragedies can occur anywhere
in the world. He promised to stay vigilant and “hunt down and bring the perpetrators of this speciﬁc act to justice, and to roll up the networks that help
to advance these kinds of plots.”
“The fact that this was an attack on journalists, attack on our free press,
also underscores the degree to which these terrorists fear freedom of speech
and freedom of the press,” Obama said from the Oval Ofﬁce during a meeting
with Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden.
“But the one thing that I’m very conﬁdent about is that the values that we
share with the French people, a belief — a universal belief in the freedom of
expression, is something that can’t be silenced because of the senseless violence of the few,” he added.
Obama later telephoned French President Francois Hollande from Air
Force One en route to Detroit for a speech. Obama offered his condolences
and expressed solidarity with Hollande and the people of France, the White
House said in a statement. Obama also offered help from the United States
as France tries to bring the perpetrators of the attack, and any possible accomplices, to justice.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. ofﬁcial says the alleged shooter who
killed a doctor at a West Texas veterans’ clinic Tuesday was a retired Army
solider.
The ofﬁcial says the gunman was medically retired from the Army in 2007,
and left at the rank of specialist. The shooter, 50, received an honorable discharge from the military.
The FBI was interviewing hundreds of potential witnesses Wednesday to
determine the motive for the shooting. The gunman was also shot dead in
the Tuesday afternoon incident at the El Paso Veterans Affairs Health Care
System clinic on Fort Bliss.
The ofﬁcial said the doctor was a psychologist at the clinic. The ofﬁcial
was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. so spoke on condition of
anonymity.
A (GOP) House divided: Republicans argue over
whether Boehner opponents should be punished
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans began the new Congress
with old divisions on display Wednesday, bitter fallout from a failed rebellion
against Speaker John Boehner.
Boehner took swift action against two of the dissenters, knocking them
from a key committee. But some of his allies demanded more, furious at the
two dozen lawmakers who opposed the Ohioan in Tuesday’s speaker vote.
In the process, the GOP is starting the year with party inﬁghting instead of a
uniﬁed challenge to President Barack Obama.
“All of us think that they should have retribution,” Boehner loyalist Devin
Nunes of California said of the rebels. “They put the conservative agenda at
risk with their wanting to be on television and radio.”
The dissidents warned of their own payback if Boehner does take further
steps against them.
“There’s going to be a ﬁght,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, when
asked what would happen if leaders retaliated against lawmakers who opposed Boehner’s re-election. “And it’s going to be real hard to bring the party
together like they say they want to do.”
Even if Congress approves Keystone pipeline,
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Republican-led Congress appears ready to
approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but no matter what actions are taken
in Washington, the entire 1,179-mile project could be delayed until Nebraska
signs off on the route.
After several years of intense debate, the routing process is before the Nebraska Supreme Court, and depending on how the justices rule, months or
years could pass before construction begins in that state.
Even if approval comes from Washington and the high court, opponents
are looking for new ways to block the project, including ﬁling a federal lawsuit on behalf of Native American tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota over
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The court is considering whether an obscure agency known as the Ne‘Je Suis Charlie’ online after Paris attack
braska Public Service Commission must review the pipeline before it can
Messages of condolence, outrage and deﬁance over the Paris terrorist at- cross the state, one of six on the pipeline’s route. Gov. Dave Heineman gave
tack on a newspaper ofﬁce spread quickly around the world Wednesday with the green light in 2013 without the involvement of the panel, which normally
thousands of people taking to the streets to protest the killings and using the regulates telephones, taxis and grain bins.
slogan “Je Suis Charlie” on social media.
The justices have given no indication when they will render a decision.
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Many who poured into Place de la Republique in eastern Paris near the
site of Wednesday’s noontime attack waved papers, pencils and pens. Journalists led the march but most in the crowd weren’t from the media world,
expressing solidarity and support of freedom of speech.
Similar gatherings, including some silent vigils, took place at London’s
Trafalgar Square, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, in Madrid, Brussels, Nice and elsewhere.
“No matter what a journalist or magazine has to say, even if it is not what
the majority of people think, they still have the right to say it without feeling
in danger, which is the case today,” said Alice Blanc, a London student who
is originally from Paris and was among those in the London crowd, estimated
in the hundreds.
Online, the declaration “Je Suis Charlie,” or “I Am Charlie,” replaced proﬁle pictures on Facebook while Twitter users showed themselves with the
slogan on signs with words of support for the 12 victims who were killed at
Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet
Muhammad.
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