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ST. JOHNSBURY SCHOOL
JAY PEAK RESORT
NORTH COUNTRY
ADMINISTRATORS
DESIRE NEW DIGS
REGIONAL TEAM
TO HOST ENERGY
FAIR SATURDAY
By tAyloR REEd
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Will Present
Newest
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Savings
By RoBERt BlEChl
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BETHLEHEM, N.H. — From
solar power to heat pump technology, the Ammonoosuc Regional Energy Team continues to get the word
out on cost-effective and environment-friendly technologies that will
be featured at an energy fair Saturday.
“We have eight workshops on all
different kinds of energy topics, including how to pay for it,” ARET
President David Van Houten said
Monday.
The 2015 Ammonoosuc Energy
Fair and workshops are scheduled
from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at
Proﬁle School in Bethlehem.
An upward of three dozen exhibitors will participate, including
local construction and energy companies, utility ﬁrms and several
schools, including St. Johnsbury
Academy and White Mountain
School.
Representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, a funding agency for many
energy-related projects, will also attend.
Technologies are available for
homes, businesses, town buildings
and institutions and opportunities
will be presented Saturday on how to
save money through reduced energy
costs as well as lessen the environmental impact through their use, said
Van Houten.
In recent years, the Lafayette
School and Bethlehem Elementary
School had oil tanks that needed replacement, and in both cases the
schools decided to go with a wood
PHOTO BY ROBIN SMITH
Dr. Jake Lee, lead scientist for AnC Bio Vt, shows where clean rooms and other operations will be located
in the facility planned for Newport City. He spoke Monday after a press conference at Jay Peak Resort.
ANC BIO VT TO BREAK GROUND MAY 12
The developers say they have raised 90
percent of the $100 million needed for the
■ The Impact Of Stem Cell building and equipment, and are seeking the
40 more foreign investors needed while
JAY — Developers will break ground and Work At Anc Bio Vt
waiting for final regulator approval of the
begin construction on the AnC Bio Vt facil- Page A6
updated business plan.
ity in Newport City on May 12.
The Vermont Department of Financial
It is expected that the bio-tech research and manufacRegulation two weeks ago approved the market offering
turing facility, a project funded through EB-5 program inSee AnC Bio, Page A6
vestments, will create 400-450 jobs.
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ST. JOHNSBURY — The Board of School Directors is apprehensive about a proposal to separate
district ofﬁces from the school, but they’re considering it.
At a regular board meeting Monday Superintendent Ranny Bledsoe pitched relocating the ofﬁces
from the school’s third ﬂoor to space at Emerson
Falls owned by residents Jim and Lorraine Impey.
The $1,500 monthly rent, including utilities and Internet service, can be covered by an untapped
“overhead” option within annual federal funding,
she said.
“This is something that has actually been a conversation in the school for a very long time,” Bledsoe said. “The district really wants to relocate. They
feel it would be better. They’re just really saying
this is not the best thing for us … There is kind of
a friction between the school and the district. We
have different agendas. We run on different calendars.”
Bledsoe cited reasons for relocation including
greater autonomy between district and school,
which was a 2010 recommendation from the state
of Vermont. She also cited the fact district ofﬁces
must be separated next year because of programming changes and plans for at least one additional
grant funded employee.
“With the development of the middle school
model, there is no way to keep the district together
See School, Page A6
NORTHEAST KINGDOM
ANNUAL YOUTH TOWN MEETING TO FOCUS ON POSITIVE ASPECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
By JAmES JARdinE
Staff Writer
PHOTO BY JAMES JARDINE
Students from eight area schools will converge on the Lyndon State
College campus Thursday for the 14th annual Youth Town Meeting.
The all-day event was planned by students from grades 9-12 who are
part of the Youth Advisory Council of Caledonia/Southern Essex. This
year’s focus will be “Social Media and Arts Reveal Truth.”
On Monday, two of the area student organizers – Jiayum Zhou, a junior at St. Johnsbury Academy, whose home is in Shanghai, China, and
Autumn Shufelt, a Lyndon Institute sophomore from Burke – described
Thursday’s event.
According to Shufelt, the topics at the Youth Town Meeting change
every year. This year, the theme developed by the student organizers focuses on social media. Zhou, who goes by the nickname “Angela” and
See youth, Page A6
See Energy, Page A6
St.
Johnsbury
Academy junior
dorm student Jiayum Zhou, left,
and Lyndon Institute sophomore
Autumn Shufelt, of
Burke, chat about
the
upcoming
Youth Town Meeting at LSC on
Thursday.
PREPARING FOR A FUN FEST
VERMONT
HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS 3 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR TB
PHOTO BY JAMES JARDINE
TODAY: Mostly cloudy,
possible showers early
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Population: 320,337,145
Your share: $56,693.77
“The budget should be balanced; the
treasury should be refilled; public
debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be
controlled.” –Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
NATION
Jay Churchill, a volunteer with the St. Johnsbury Chamber of Commerce,
posts a sign announcing an Easter Fun Fest for Saturday, April 11. Churchill
said the date was picked hoping to ensure warm weather for the event.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Three more students have tested positive for tuberculosis
at the Charlotte Center School, but none of
the students and adults who have tested
positive for exposure to the disease since
January have developed active cases of the
disease and there is no danger to the public, the Health Department said Monday.
A total of 19 children and two adults
have tested positive out of 349 students
and 84 adults who have been tested and
evaluated at the Charlotte Central School.
months of treatment with antibiotics.
“These additional students who are positive are no risk for anyone around them
because they’re not symptomatic,” Kelso
said. “They don’t have active TB disease;
they are not able to infect anyone around
them.”
None of the 12 adults and 19 children
— Patsy Kelso,
tested at the Freedom Rains daycare center
Vermont Epidemiologist in Colchester tested positive, ofﬁcials said.
The Charlotte case began in January
They’re offered chest X-rays and a medical after an unidentiﬁed female employee was
checkup to be sure they have not devel- found to have an active case of the disease,
oped an active case of the disease, said which most commonly infects the lungs.
Vermont Epidemiologist Patsy Kelso. If
they are not sick, they’re offered nine
See tuberculosis, Page A6
“They don’t have active
TB disease; they are not
able to infect anyone
around them.”
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THE REcORD • TuESDAY, APRIl 7, 2015
FOR THE RECORD
OBITUARIES
ETHEL ELIZABETH DALLEY
1932-2015
Ethel Elizabeth Dalley, 82, of
Derby, Vt., peacefully passed
away March 31, 2015 in Newport, Vt.
She was born May 8, 1932 in
Cambridge, N.Y., the daughter
of James and Florence (Gray)
Hess. On Oct. 4, 1950, in Johnson, Ethel married Winﬁeld Dalley Jr., who predeceased her in
2006.
Ethel grew up in Arlington
and Johnson, graduating from
Johnson High School with honors. After marriage, Ethel spent her adult life living in Derby Line, Island Pond, Norton and lastly in Derby. For many years she was the
bookkeeper at the Buck & Doe Restaurant. Ethel kept herself busy
volunteering in her communities holding town appointments, helping
to establish the Island Pond Medical Center, Home Health, working
for the church suppers at the Congregational Church and many hours
for the Republication Committee. Ethel had very strong beliefs and
shared them freely. Her greatest joy was helping so many during difﬁcult times. Ethel was extremely intelligent and a very giving person
with a big heart, always thinking of others.
Ethel loved living in the Northeast Kingdom spending time with
her family on the lake, skiing and snowmobiling. Mostly, she enjoyed
time and talks with so many friends.
She will be deeply missed by her family: her son and his wife,
Robert and Annette Dalley of East Burke, Vt., their two children Jennifer Dalley of Breckenridge, Colo. and Joshua Dalley, and his wife
Ivy of Mancos, Colo.; her daughter Denise Shannon of Plant City, Fla.,
her children Angel Shannon and Kaylan Murray of Rutland, Vt., Luis
Shannon, and Heather and Peter St.Onge of Plant City, Fla., ﬁve greatgrandchildren: Onnalise and Damon Shannon of Rutland, Vt. and
Heavyn and Neese Shannon and Brynley St.Onge of Plant City, Fla.
Also, by her extended family, which includes these cherished children:
Janice Wing, of S. Burlington, Al and Sharon Canﬁeld of Milton, Vt.,
daughter Amie of S. Hadley, Mass., Speedo Deskins of Holland, Vt.,
children Damian and Abbie Deskins, daughter Iliana, of Holland, Vt.
and Anna Deskins, daughter Kaya, of Newport, Steve Lontine of N.
Troy, Vt. Also, many other very special friends, Roberta (Tootie) Chesney of Island Pond, Vt. and Donald Phillips of Fla.
Ethel was predeceased by her son-in-law Randall Shannon on
March 28, 2015. Also, her two brothers, James Hess Jr. of Belchertown and Charles Hess of Morrisville.
Ethel’s family appreciates your thoughts & prayers. A celebration
of Ethel’s life will be at a later time. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations may
be directed to First Congregational Church, 21 Middle St, Island Pond,
VT 05846.
JAMES EDWARD MEYER
James Edward Meyer, of St. Louis, Mo., died March
31, 2015, at age 86. Jim was a graduate of Harris Teachers
College and received his Master’s degree from Washington University, St. Louis. During the Korean War, while stationed at
Fort Allen Air Force Base in Winooski, Vt., he met his future wife,
Rose Mary Traynor. They were married Aug. 8, 1953, at South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury. Jim taught school in St. Louis city
and Lindbergh School District. He had been a member of Calvary
Presbyterian Church since 1962. He was a lifelong resident of St.
Louis, but he, Rose Mary and children frequently visited family and
friends in St. Johnsbury.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughter Kathryn Salter
(James), O’Fallon, Mo.; son Kendon Meyer, Wildwood, Mo.; grandchildren Daniel and Tyler, Columbia, Mo. and Emily Salter, Springﬁeld, Mo.; sister-in-law Dorothy Desrochers, St. Johnsbury; nieces
Susan Desrochers McLaughlin (James), Wallingford, Conn., and Patricia Desrochers (the late Thomas), Waterford, Vt.; nephew James
Desrochers (Karen), Sugar Land, Texas; three great nieces and one
great nephew. He was preceded in death by his parents Carl F. and
Erna L. Meyer; in-laws William Craig and Madge Traynor; his
nephew Thomas Craig Desrochers.
A memorial service will be 2 p.m. April 11, Calvary Presbyterian
Church, St. Louis.
CLARA J. STUART
1930-2015
Clara J. Stuart, 84, of Westminster, Vt., died Thursday, April 2,
2015. Clara was born in Hardwick, Vt. on April 6, 1930 the daughter
of Benjamin and Barbara (Wilkins) Leach. She was a member of the
Red Hats and the Emblem Club.
Mrs. Stuart is survived by her children Granville “Chip” Paine &
wife Teresa of Barre, Vt., Susan Kimball & husband Warren of Moretown, Vt., Michael Paine & wife Jennifer of Danville, Vt., Barbara
Bazin & husband Peter of Westminster, and David Paine of North
Danville, Vt.; her brothers Gary Leach & wife Linda of Idaho, Terry
Leach & wife Norma of Colorado, and Jerry Leach of Burke, Vt.; 11
grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. She is predeceased by her
parents, her husband Robert Stuart, and a grandson Michael Alan.
There will be no calling hours. The funeral service will be 11 a.m.
Friday, May 1 at the Westminster Congregational Church. Arrangements are in the care of Fenton & Hennessey Funeral Home.
NEWS BRIEFS
MARJORIE STEVENS MILLER
1918-2015
Marjorie Stevens Miller, 96, of
Burlington, Vt., died on April 2,
2015, at Birchwood Terrace Nursing Home following a long illness.
She was born on April 18, 1918, in
St. Johnsbury, the daughter of
Arthur and Grace McLeod
Stevens. She was a graduate of St.
Johnsbury Academy, class of
1936, Bradford Jr. College in 1938
and Eliot Pearson School of Tufts
University in 1940. She married E.
Roger Miller of Johnson in 1942.
Marj taught kindergarten in
Springﬁeld and Wellesley, Mass., while her husband served overseas.
After the War they settled in Morrisville and later moved to Hyde Park.
In 1974 she moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., where she worked at the Phoenix
Zoo for nearly 20 years. She returned to Vermont in 1998 to be near her
family. She loved animals and all sports, made many needlepoint heirlooms for her family and was an avid knitter. In her later years she made
hundreds of baby hats volunteering with the United Way of Chittenden
County’s RSVP Crafty Hands Warm Hearts program.
She is survived by her son Jeffrey Miller and his wife Brenda of Hyde
Park and a daughter Janice Miller Sawtell of Essex. She is also survived
by her grandchildren, Ian Miller, Christi Miller Dussault, Erin Sawtell
Phelan, Andrew Sawtell, and several great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents and a brother, Walter.
At her request there will be a small family gathering and memorial in
St. Johnsbury at the convenience of the family. In lieu of ﬂowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association of
Vermont. Please visit www.alz.org/vermont.
The family would like to thank the entire staff of A Wing at Birchwood Terrace for their kindness, love and patience over the past three
years.
Arrangements are in the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden
County, a division of the Ready Family, 261 Shelburne Road, Burlington. To send online condolences, please visit www.creamationsocietycc.com.
Local Forecast
Today: Mostly cloudy with a
chance of snow or rain showers,
mainly in the morning, then gradual clearing as showers taper off.
Highs low to mid 40s. Winds
light, becoming northerly 10 mph
or less.
Tonight: Variable clouds. Lows
again in the upper 20s to lower
30s. North to northeast winds 5
to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain showers late, possibly mixing with snow in the
mountains. Highs in the low to
mid 40s. East to northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
Extended Forecast:
Wednesday Night: Evening rain
showers likely, then snow showers. Lows in the mid to upper
20s.
Thursday: Increasing clouds.
Slight chance of a shower late.
Highs in the low to mid 40s.
Thursday Night: Cloudy. Rain or
mixed precipitation likely. Lows in
the low to mid 30s.
Friday: Chance of mixed precipitation early, changing to rain.
Temperatures slowly rising into
the lower 50s.
Friday Night: Evening showers
likely. Lows in the mid 30s.
Saturday: Scattered showers.
Highs around 50.
Daily Weather Highlights
A wavy cold front runs eastward
from northern Illinois to Long Island.
The front will sag southward through
Pennsylvania and into Maryland
today, and Canadian high pressure
will ridge into northern parts of the
state, with gradual clearing taking
place there by this afternoon, as any
lingering showers taper off from
north to south, and with gradual
clearing then setting in across the
north. The same clearing could lead
to some quite cold temperatures – in
the teens – across the north tonight,
even though clouds should start to
ﬁll in after midnight. Farther south
there should be some clouds around
even through the evening. Tomorrow, a trough of low pressure will
poke up into the ridge from the
southwest, bringing a rising chance
of precipitation late in the day, with
precipitation becoming likely into the
night. A strengthening surface low
will then move into the Great Lakes
Thursday night, sending a warm
front, and another round of precipitation, in our direction, says
Lawrence Hayes of the Fairbanks
Museum weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Light Snow
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . .40
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . .23
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . .32
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . .65
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . .11
Maximum this date (1991) . . . .81
Minimum this date (1982) . . . . . .9
HUMIDITY
92%
DEWPOINT
31
WINDS
2 mph, 5 max . . . . . . . . . . . . .SSE
BAROMETER
30.18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Falling
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.05 in.
Total for Month . . . . . . . . .0.36 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . .0.57 in.
SNOWFALL
Past 24 Hours . . . . . . . . . . .0.2 in.
Monthly Total . . . . . . . . . . . .1.4 in.
Season Total . . . . . . . . . . .95.0 in.
Season Norm To Date . . . .83.6 in.
Snowpack . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.0 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . .6:18 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . .7:22 p.m.
Length of day . . . . .13 hrs. 3 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
To date since July 1 . . . . . . .7636
To date last year . . . . . . . . . .7668
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Troopers take man with guns
into custody in Marshﬁeld
State troopers were threatened by a man
carrying a riﬂe Monday morning in
Marshﬁeld but were able to take him into
custody without injury.
Troopers from the Middlesex Barracks
responded to a residence on Gilman Street
in Marshﬁeld for a report of a distraught
male who had ﬁred a gun inside the residence. Upon arrival, it was learned that
Frank Sanborn, age 40 was inside the resiFrank Sanborn
dence with his girlfriend.
The woman left the residence and met with troopers. Investigation
showed that Sanborn was in possession of several ﬁrearms and had ﬁred
two shots through the ceiling of the residence.
While attempting to speak with Sanborn, Sanborn exited the residence on several occasions armed with a riﬂe. At one point, state police
reported, Sanborn advanced toward troopers with the riﬂe. Troopers
continued to negotiate with Sanborn and just after 10 a.m. Sanborn exited the residence and was taken into custody without further incident.
Sanborn was charged with reckless endangerment, simple assault,
and aggravated assault.
Seven Vermont communities
to help vulnerable children
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Seven Vermont communities are going
to be participating in a two-year program to help vulnerable children.
The Agency of Human Services says the “Promise Communities”
program will get guidance from special coaches to develop a plan that
will unite education, social services, health care and the private sector
to better support children with high needs.
The communities that will be participating are Barre City and Barre
Town, Bellows Falls, a portion of Brattleboro, portions of Franklin
County, the city of Rutland, St. Johnsbury and Winooski.
Vermont Public Radio (http://bit.ly/1IkOmr5 ) reports the communities were chosen by a committee that evaluated economic, education
and child care data.
The communities will be eligible to receive grants of up to $200,000.
The money comes from a $36.9 million federal grant.
Hiker tumbles about 60 feet
down Mount Ascutney, rescued
WEATHERSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Authorities say a hiker has suffered
non-life-threatening injuries after tumbling about 60 feet down Mount
Ascutney in Vermont.
Fireﬁghters say another hiker in the area called 911 Sunday and multiple crews responded.
WCAX-TV reports the rescuers reached the woman at about 8:30
p.m. and were able to get her off the mountain about an hour later.
Her name has not been released. Authorities said she is from Claremont, New Hampshire.
State gets grant of nearly
$1M for trafﬁc monitoring
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Agency of Transportation
is getting a federal grant of nearly $1 million to put up trafﬁc monitoring
devices on several locations along Interstate 89 affecting South Burlington, Colchester and Williston, and along a road in Essex.
The project is designed to boost trafﬁc monitoring along high-volume
roads.
Charlie Baker, executive director of the Chittenden County Regional
Planning Commission, said the project will seek to reduce commuter
congestion and crashes.
The grant will be used to deploy blue tooth monitoring devices on
up to ﬁve transportation corridors in four municipalities: I-89 Exit 14
in South Burlington; I-89 Exits 16 and 17 in Colchester; Route 289 in
Essex; and Vermont 2/2A, or I-89, Exit 12, in Williston.
South Burlington candidates cited
under campaign ﬁnance law
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The former chairwoman of the South
Burlington, Vermont, City Council, has agreed to settle a state complaint
that she violated campaign ﬁnance law by paying a $2,000 penalty. Two
other candidates in the city’s 2013 municipal elections will pay $750
each.
The Vermont attorney general’s ofﬁce says Pam Mackenzie created
a committee called Pam Pac during that election that bought advertising
for fellow candidates Chris Shaw and Pat Nowak.
The ofﬁce says Pam Pac failed to register as a political committee,
inaccurately reported its contributions and expenditures, failed to ﬁle
complete campaign ﬁnance disclosure reports, and did not identify itself
on the advertisements.
The three former candidates say they disagree with the state’s conclusions but will not go to the trouble and expense of contesting them.
Bridge to Stowe’s Mountain Road
closing for replacement
STOWE, Vt. (AP) — A bridge on the Mountain Road in Stowe is
going to be closed for almost two months so it can be replaced.
The Agency of Transportation says the bridge on the busy Mountain
Road, also known as Vermont Route 108, closed Monday. It’s just north
of the intersection with Route 100 in Stowe village.
Detour signs have been posted to help motorists reach the Mountain
Road, a busy tourist area where a number of tourist amenities are located, including the Stowe Mountain Ski Resort.
Pedestrian trafﬁc is being detoured to the nearby Stowe bike path.
The bridge is expected to be closed completely through the end of
May. Construction will continue after that and delays can be expected
until the project is ﬁnished, scheduled for August.
Vt. holds meetings on teacher equity
BARRE, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Agency of Education is continuing to hold public meetings around the state to address whether some
poor communities have the same access to high quality teachers as
schools in wealthier communities do.
An education ofﬁcial says Vermont data suggests that there are pronounced inequities in access to high quality educators for students attending schools with greater poverty, especially in rural communities.
The meetings are intended to gather input on why this is happening
and how to address it in response to a federal Department of Education
request that states examine the issue.
The next meetings will be held on Tuesday at the Bellows Falls
Union High School, Wednesday at the Rutland Middle School, and
Thursday at the Bennington Elementary School. All three run from 6:30
to 8 p.m.
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LOCAL
CLERK ACCUSED OF DOCTORING BOTTLE
RECEIPTS TO FUND LOTTERY HABIT
NO INJURIES IN CRASH
By todd WEllinGton
Staff Writer
A Hardwick store clerk has been
accused of falsifying bottle return
receipts and using the extra cash to
play the Vermont Lottery.
Carol Fradette, 26, of Woodbury, pleaded not guilty to six
felony counts of embezzlement in
Caledonia Superior Court Monday
and was released on the condition
that she not enter the premises of
M & M Beverage on Route 14 in
Hardwick.
PHOTO BY ROBIN SMITH
Caledonia Superior Court
This car crashed at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning on southbound Interstate 91 at the
According to an afﬁdavit ﬁled
Newport City exit after rain changed to wet heavy snow, making driving conditions extremely
by Hardwick Police Ofc. Steven
Mitchell, store owner Gilles
treacherous. No details were available at press time but no one appeared injured.
Moreau called police on Nov. 25,
2014, alleging he caught Fradette
changing the numbers of bottle return slips received from customers
to cover extra cash taken from the
register and used to purchase VerMotorists can expect delays today on Duke Street while the St. Johnsbury
mont Lottery tickets.
Public Works Department repairs a sewer line.
“While looking at some of the
The job starts at 8:30 a.m. It is unclear when work will conclude.
bottle slips in question it is apparent that numbers were both added
Duke Street is located off Route 2 west of Maple Grove Farms.
and changed on the bottle slips,”
wrote Mitchell in his report. “This
happened on many of the bottle
ST. JOHNSBURY
slips on the days where Fradette
had been working. While watching
the video surveillance Fradette is
observed going to the fast play machine several times throughout her
day when reached by telephone.
“They’re buying it for an invest- shift.”
By tAyloR REEd
He might talk following the ment,” Cliche said last week.
Moreau told police he and store
Staff Writer
closing but felt uncomfortable “They’re very happy with every- manager Danielle Towns, 37, condoing so before the deal is done.
thing.”
The soon-to-be proprietors of
Jacobs also said he and Johnson
Cliche is selling in order to enter
the Republican Block apartment
“may” own other apartment build- semi-retirement. Jacobs and Johnbuilding on Eastern Avenue in St.
ings.
son though hired him to manage
Johnsbury aren’t yet talking.
Johnson was not available for the building for 2 years post sale,
HERE’S THE …
Pete Johnson, founder and
comment Monday.
said Cliche.
owner of Craftsbury-based Pete’s
The Republican Block is now
Management is a far lesser
Greens, and Isaac Jacobs, an emowned by Bobby Cliche of North headache than ownership, Cliche
ployee there, are scheduled to
Haverhill, N.H. He bought it in said.
close on the St. Johnsbury building
1981.
Pete’s Greens raises and sells orFriday. The downtown block
Cliche last week said Jacobs and ganic vegetables and meats. The
houses apartments and commercial
Johnson are “nice guys.” They business is on South Craftsbury
space including a barroom and barplan to leave the building’s format Road.
ber shop.
of apartments and businesses in
Its website is www.petes“I guess I don’t have any complace, he said.
greens.com.
ments for you,” Jacobs said Mon-
Expect duke Street delays in St. Johnsbury today
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PHOTO BY TODD WEllINGTON
Carol Fradette in Caledonia Superior Court with defense attorney Janssen Willhoit Monday.
fronted Fradette on Nov. 28, 2014,
with a falsiﬁed bottle slip and a
surveillance video of her playing
the lottery while working at the
store.
“She admitted she was playing
lottery (Megabucks) while on the
clock,” wrote Towns in a sworn
written statement given to police.
“We then showed her a falsiﬁed
bottle slip. Carol then admitted to
a falsiﬁed bottle slip. Carol then
admitted to falsifying the bottle
slips and using the money to play
Megabucks. She begged Gilles and
myself not to go to the cops. She
asked if she could just pay us back.
Gilles told her she had until Monday the 1st of Dec. to come up
with $5,000 and we would settle
on the case. We did not hear from
her again.”
Moreau purchased the store in
June 2014 and he told police that a
report compiled by Vermont Lottery Director of Security Michael
Ferrant indicated that Fradette had
a fondness for the Fast Play game
prior to his ownership.
“Ferrant
advised
from
01/01/2010 to present Fradette had
excessive fast play wins with
$13,000 in fast play winnings in
just the higher tier bracket which
consists of $500 or more,” wrote
Mitchell in his report.
If convicted on all six felony
charges Fradette faces a possible
sentence of up to 10 years in prison
and $60,000 in ﬁnes.
BIG
DEAL!
IRASBURG
CELL TOWER PROPOSED IN 2010 BACK ON THE TABLE
By JEnnifER hERSEy
ClEvElAnd
Staff Writer
IRASBURG — A proposed cell
tower that ended up on the chopping block after clearing all Public
Service Board hurdles in 2010 is
back on the table.
American Towers, LLC, is running newspaper ads seeking comment on the potential impact the
tower could have on “the quality of
the human environment” in regard
to a proposed tower at 6067 Route
14 in Irasburg, property owned by
Rob and Sue Miltner.
Rob Miltner, who owns Westwood Fences Inc., said AT&T
wanted to build a telecommunications tower on his property, got all
of the necessary permits, and was
just about to start building when
the powers that be put the project
on hold.
His neighbor, assistant town
clerk Priscilla Stebenne, said a
concrete pad had even been
poured.
And then … nothing.
American Towers, LLC, contacted the Miltners and is going
ahead with the project, but Rob
Miltner hasn’t been told who the
carrier will be.
American Towers helps companies ﬁnd good sites for towers to
expand their networks and sometimes takes inquiries from
landowners interested in offering
their land for lease.
The Orleans County Record
contacted the company at the email address provided in the newspaper ads for more information
about the proposed tower, but got
a response from Chad Rumsey,
project manager of site development, directing the paper to reach
out to the company’s media relations.
“One of New England’s Largest Auto Dealer Groups”
A week later, no representative
from the company has provided
documents or called.
According to the newspaper
ads, the proposed tower would be
a 130-feet-tall monopole that will
not be lit.
The company seeks comment
on the aforementioned quality of
the human environment as well as
potential impacts on historic or
cultural resources that are either
listed in the National Register of
Historic Places or are eligible for
that listing.
Irasburg Town Clerk Danielle
Ingalls said all she had received –
since the giant binder of materials
from AT&T in 2010 – was the request for comments about historic
properties from a company called
AquAeTer, based in Brentwood,
Tenn.
The deadline for comments is
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THE REcORD • TuESDAY, APRIl 7, 2015
Todd M. Smith, Publisher
OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
Non-essential
Travel Order
Last week Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin banned state employees from travel to Indiana. The directive, to “Secretaries and
Commissioners” read: “The Governor is directing that all agencies
and departments ban any non-essential state funded or state sponsored travel to Indiana. This ban is effective immediately until further notice.”
Shumlin was presumably reacting to recent passage of Indiana’s
“Religious Freedom Restoration Act” that proponents say mirrors
a federal statute by the same name that afﬁrms religious liberty.
Detractors, Shumlin among them, says the act provides a license
to discriminate.
Either way, are state employees really doing a lot of travel (nonessential or otherwise), to Indiana? If so, why? If not (as we suspect), then doesn’t Shumlin have more pressing things to worry
about?
At this point the only reasonable explanation is that Shumlin has
no idea how to clean up the messes he’s made out of the budget,
health-care, energy, education, human services, corrections or our
crumbling economy. The only thing left for him to do is issue
meaningless travel advisories.
In My Opinion…
ADDRESSING
DISCRIMINATION
nately not an uncomToday, in the Peomon practice. Ironiple’s House, I sponcally,
they
were
sored and voted for
friendly and collegial
H.R. 8, a resolution
many years later. We
expressing strong opdid not have school
position to state relidances for fear that
gious
freedom
dancing
restoration legislation By REP. SCott bi-racial
and/or dating might
that authorizes disBECK
occur, and at homecrimination based on
sexual orientation. On Good coming we had a white and
Friday, the House did some black court. There was not a
school-sanctioned prom. ForGood.
This resolution gained sup- tunately, the school itself was
port from Representatives integrated, athletics and
from both parties and all cor- classes were open to all, and I
ners of Vermont. On one count, hope all felt free to participate.
Neighborhoods were segrehowever, the resolution in my
opinion advocates a well-in- gated by choice and common
tentioned, but misguided practice, as were many public
course of action, specifically settings, golf courses, restauthe restriction of non-essential rants etc… Most of the segretravel by government officials gation would be imperceptible
to Indiana and any other state to a visitor, but it was apparent
that adopts similar legislation. as time went on.
During the three years I
lived there, until graduation,
things improved, if even
marginally; they did not
change because those that
practiced racism and discrimination decided to stop
this behavior on their own.
Change occurred because
In 1983, at fifteen years of students, parents, school offiage, my family moved to cials, and others engaged in
Meridian, Mississippi. Merid- conversation about race and
ian is in the east central region, discrimination, yielding mujust a few miles from Alabama. tual respect and understanding.
In many ways, Meridian was a At one point, the feds even
center of the Civil Rights showed up to join the converMovement in the 1950’s and sation.
How does this relate to Indi1960’s. It is the home of James
Chaney, one of the three work- ana, Vermont and H.R. 8? Simers executed in Philadelphia, ple, the only way to break
Mississippi during Freedom down discrimination, includSummer, 1964. By many ing this strain being directed at
measures, the brutally and vio- our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
lence inflicted on the black transgender population is to
population in Mississippi was actively engage those that
unprecedented during this era. practice discrimination.
If official state travel deThe public high school that
I attended had been a segre- mands that Vermont should
gated school in previous send people to Indiana or any
decades; in the hallways were other state practicing discrimiclass composition photographs nation, we should go. While
by class. Early classes were there, we should engage their
composed entirely of black leaders and let them know our
students, at some year classes, thoughts on discrimination.
as evidenced by the photo- Our actions will cause those
graphs became integrated. My responsible to pause and rejunior English teacher, had flect, and it will give confibeen active in the Civil Rights dence and cover to those that
Movement, and if I recall cor- are so inhumanely discrimirectly, had marched with Dr. nated against.
King at Selma. My American
Rep. Scott Beck is a RepubHistory teacher had been a part lican serving the St. Johnsbury
of the Ku Klux Klan during the representative district.
same time period, unfortu-
On Good
Friday, the
House did
some Good.
In My Opinion…
ONLY AMISH SERVED HERE
Each summer dad would pack
the family into the station wagon
and off we’d go to the Amish country of Pennsylvania to go camping.
It was a totally different environment from the all-Catholic suburbs
I grew up in. We’d reconnect with
my mother’s side of the family
while practicing the ﬁner points of
outdoor living. Thankfully Dad always packed my guitar and transistor radio, which made life slightly
more tolerable for a hip suburban
teenager who grumbled every time
campﬁre smoke forced him to
move his chair.
Each trip we’d visit one of the
area’s many Amish, family-style
restaurants. We’d drive past meticulously kept farms with no telephone poles or electric lines, while
my Pennsylvania-born mom reminded us the Amish did not use
modern appliances. The people
seemed right out of a 19th century
daguerreotype. The men
utilize any of the amenities
all wore white shirts,
I could never live without.
black pants and susWe’d sit at long tables with
penders, and wide black
other diners, just like any
hats. Boys in similar garb
standard church supper
with straw hats we’d
here in Vermont, to be
often see conﬁdently
served wonderful food by
guiding the reins of a team By SEn. JoE people from a culture that
of incredibly huge oxen. BEnninG ignored our differences. I
The women wore plain
didn’t know it then, as I decolored dresses, cinched tight by veloped my taste for apple butter,
an apron, their hair tucked into a but that open door business policy
bun beneath a bonnet with long tie was a life lesson for America.
strings. Young girls with plain
This brings me to the kerfufﬂe in
dresses and white head coverings Indiana. A baker refused to do
could be seen skipping about with business with a couple seeking a
bare feet.
wedding cake. The couple is gay,
Our station wagon, now loaded members of what many states legwith cousins, would pull in to park islatively treat as a “protected
next to horse-drawn carriages. The class” for civil rights purposes. The
cultural divide became more pro- baker objected to the gay couple’s
nounced as soon as we walked lifestyle, and denied them a cake
through the door, ushered to our ta- using the religious protection lanbles by young women about my guage in our constitution.
age who consciously chose not to
I’m a strong believer in our con-
stitution, but using it to cloak active discrimination is not what it
was intended to do. It is one thing
to protect the practice of one’s faith
or thoughts, quite another to demand the right to actively discriminate against another in a business
environment. America should
strive to reach that place where we
interact with each other like the
Amish do. Clearly the Amish are
of strong religious faith, but they
live in peace with their faith and
thoughts even when they conduct
business with those of faiths or
lifestyles they choose not to emulate. You’ll never ﬁnd a sign that
says: “Only Amish Served Here.”
They remind me of that Christian
who once said: “Do unto others as
you would have others do unto
you.”
Sen. Joe Benning is a Republican serving the Caledonia-Orange
Senate district.
Letters to the Editor…
The real threat
from within
To the Editor:
Mr. Tom Licata’s commentary
“Progressivism” (Caledonian
Record 3/26/15) left me confused. Was he suggesting that a
“society of peace, justice, freedom and material well-being for
all mankind” is responsible for
the “ideology of American suicide and specifically of American
Constitutionalism?” Was Mr. Licata intimating that the survival
of “American Constitutionalism
(whatever that is) depends on inequality, injustice, and poverty?
If Progressive ideology of
equality and fairness is destroying “American Constitutionalism,” than the Constitution itself
must be the one to blame for this.
Whether Mr. Licata understands
this or not, our Constitution is a
progressive document in many
ways. The opening preamble is
about as progressive as it could
get, especially in those famous
lines like “promote the general
welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity.” The progressive tenor
of these lines is as true now as
when the constitution was signed
on September 17, 1787. For better or worse, the original Constitution did not state exactly who
this general welfare concerned
(slaves and women, for example,
were generally left out until a
civil war and separate amendments corrected these situations
later on), and the United States is
still having difficulties with them
nearly three centuries later.
I do concur with Mr. Licata’s
argument that “the demise of
American Constitutionalism (if it
is happening) is coming almost
entirely from internal or domestic sources.” These sources are
internal. They are, however, not
the excessively progressive idea
of “the general welfare. “ It is
something the founders dreaded
and Mr. Licata seems to be trying
to protect in his diatribe against
Progressivism. It is the oligarchy
of wealth now buying our
democracy to transform it into a
tyranny of inequality to deny the
rest of us the “Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Walter Carpenter
Montpelier, Vt.
Cell phone tower
To the Editor:
Recently, I received a notice of
an application to install a cell
phone tower at the above address. As an adjoining land
owner with my property less than
30 feet from the proposed tower,
I would like to express my concern.
First of all, cell towers are here
to stay, but they are just ugly
structures in any environment.
Although the newer towers have
been re-designed to look more attractive, they are still an eyesore
to any landscape.
The electronic revolution continues to evolve from radio towers and tv towers which travel a
great distance with fluctuating
air waves to cell phone towers
(hereafter referred to as tower/s)
with broadband air waves. Unfortunately, broadband has limited distances and travels above
surfaces leaving dead zones of
reception thereby requiring many
more towers.
The federal government gave
the states the mandate to allow
the installation of towers to create an infrastructure that will
give complete cell phone service
throughout the United States.
Like almost all states, Vermont
was not proactive and did not
make a master plan to identify
specific strategic locations where
any and all cell phone companies
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could erect a tower or towers that
would not be environmentally
detrimental to the pristine and
beautiful mountains of Vermont
or cause a health hazard. Also,
with key designated areas and the
consolidation of sites of different
cell phone companies, the total
number of towers could be reduced from 25-35 to 10-25 towers per county. The present
method of approving tower locations creates a hodge-podge network of sites.
The location of a tower should
never be a factor because of an
additional cost for the land
and/or a slightly higher installation expense. When you compute
the extra cost into millions of cell
calls, it would be less than 1 cent
per call.
Although the law states you
cannot consider health effects, as
a quasi-judicial governmental
body, you must indirectly consider the amount of radiation
generated by the towers in approving their location. Any
close-by residents would be exposed continuously to radiation
being emitted by the tower. For
many years all forms of government disregarded major health issues caused by many sources.
Our rivers, lakes, ground, oceans
and air became polluted. Now,
we are paying billions for the
clean-up. You cannot ignore radiation as it is a serious health
problem. Due to the health dangers of radiation, the government
and the medical field are currently making a concerted effort
to reduce the amount of radiation
used in taking medical tests. The
Vermont legislature, in error, is
saying that you can allow uncontrolled amounts of radiation in
Vermont without concern for the
potential cancerous or health effect on its citizens. Act 248
should be amended.
On a personal basis, I would
not be able to live on my prop-
erty, as I have an ICD, a defibrillator/pacemaker device, installed
in my chest. A strong electromagnetic field and radiation will
cause the implement to malfunction. For the same reason, I can’t
have an MRI without turning the
ICD off.
You have a difficult and un-envied position in reviewing tower
applications and inturn issuing a
certificate of public good. You
have the duty and obligation to
minimize the negative impact on
the landscape and the health risks
caused by each tower. The 4 primary considerations for approval
should be:
1. Is the proposed site located
in an area where the tower is
detrimental to the environment
and landscape. Preferably it
should be in a forested area
where it is more inconspicuous hence a lesser eyesore.
2. Does the proposed site create a potential health hazard for
the residents who live in the immediate neighborhood. Is it too
close to any existing homes.
3. Does the proposed site give
the applicant maximum coverage
for the cell zone it is located in.
Applicants often pick less expensive sites with poorer coverage
for economic reasons.
4. Can the proposed site be
moved to a different location in
the general area where it will
provide the same coverage but
with a substantial decrease in
health risks and with the unattractive tower camouflaged in a
forested setting.
In conclusion, the site chosen
by V-tel in an open field and very
close to a home is definitely not
the best location in the area. I
strongly recommend that you not
issue a certificate of public good
and hold a public hearing as there
are substantially better sites in
the area.
Don Gaskell
Oak Ridge, N.J.
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NEW ENGLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
REGION BRIEFS
Boston Marathon Bomber Wanted To Terrorize US
Sorrell to speak at law school
on campaign ﬁnance laws
Bill would protect people who
report alcohol, drug overdoses
SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Attorney
General William Sorrell will give a talk at Vermont Law
School about the state’s campaign ﬁnance laws and a
lawsuit to block Vermont’s genetically engineered food
labeling law.
The event is on Wednesday from 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m.
and is free and open to the public.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a review of
a lower court in case about the state’s campaign ﬁnance
laws. Sorrell is expected to discuss what Vermont campaign ﬁnance laws prohibit, what the Vermont Right to
Life Committee tried to accomplish and the broader implications of what the lower court ruling might be.
He is also expected to talk about the lawsuit ﬁled by
the Grocery Manufacturers Association to block Vermont’s GE food labeling law.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a bill that would give people
who report alcohol or drug overdoses immunity from
criminal prosecution in certain situations.
A Senate committee is taking testimony on a bill,
already passed by the House, on Tuesday. Senators
earlier this year sent a similar bill for more study. The
bill’s sponsors say their intent is to encourage witnesses and victims of drug overdoses to seek medical
attention that could save a life.
New Hampshire is facing an ongoing heroin epidemic that caused about 70 deaths last year. Under
the bill, the police would not be able to use evidence
gathered at the scene of a reported drug overdose to
prosecute the person who reports the crime, or the
victim if he or she reports the overdose.
Mud season makes for
some challenges in Unity
Fireﬁghters: Candle led
to Keene apartment ﬁre
UNITY, N.H. (AP) — As spring comes, so does the
mud, and at least one New Hampshire community is getting more than it thought it would.
One road is so bad in Unity, some people are parking
their cars at the start of it and then walking the rest of the
way home. Charles Sisson tells WMUR-TV he hasn’t
left his home since Friday, cancelling his heating oil and
newspaper deliveries.
Mark Hayward, another resident, said he tried to clear
the mud with a bulldozer, with little success.
Town Selectman Bill Schroeter said the trucks will be
laying down stone and gravel on six streets. He said in
order to keep some roads open, they had to put sand on
them. He said the community will ask the governor for
disaster relief funds.
KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a candle
that was knocked over led to an apartment ﬁre that
burned a woman and displaced six people in Keene,
New Hampshire.
The candle was in a second-ﬂoor bedroom and the
ﬁre spread quickly Friday night. A 41-year-old
woman who lived in the apartment suffered seconddegree burns while leaving. She was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital; her condition and name
weren’t immediately available Monday. A dead cat
was found in one of the apartments.
Nighttime work on Spaulding
Turnpike to cause some delays
NEWINGTON, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire
Department of Transportation is doing some nighttime
work near a Spaulding Turnpike exit.
The work near Exit 4 of the turnpike in Newington is
taking place Monday night, April 6. Southbound trafﬁc
delays and lane closures are expected from 7 p.m. Monday and 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Northbound trafﬁc should not be impacted by this
work, ofﬁcials say. Bad weather would postpone the project until Tuesday night.
N.H. wildlife ofﬁcials help
injured red-tailed hawk
STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) — The red-tailed hawk is
getting a lot of attention these days — ﬁrst a group of
fourth-graders proposed a bill to make it New Hampshire’s ofﬁcial raptor, and now the state Fish and Game
Department has helped nurse an injured one back to
health.
Conservation Ofﬁcer Graham Courtney rescued the
hawk this winter in heavy trafﬁc on Route 101 in
Stratham. He said the bird suffered an eye injury.
The hawk was cared for by Jane Kelly of “On a Wing”
Wildlife Rehabilitation in Epping. It was being released
Monday afternoon near where it was found, to reunite
with its mate.
The students’ bill failed to pass in the House last
month, but a state senator is attaching language to a bill
to name the bobcat the state’s ofﬁcial wildcat.
N.H. gas prices still coming down
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gas prices in New
Hampshire have fallen 2.6 cents per gallon in the past
week, to average of $2.28.
Gasbuddy.com, which surveyed 875 gas stations
in the state, says that’s 11 cents less than the national
average, which went down 3 cents, to $2.39 a gallon.
Gas prices in New Hampshire are nearly $1.22 per
gallon lower than they were a year ago, and are 12.3
cents per gallon lower than a month ago.
The national average decreased 7.3 cents per gallon in the last month and stands nearly $1.19 a gallon
less compared to a year ago.
Maine governor vetoes bill
ensuring fair pint of beer
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor has
vetoed a bill that sought to ensure that any pint of
beer sold in the state would be 16 ounces.
Supporters of Democratic Sen. John Patrick’s
measure contend that some establishments use
shorter glasses for beers they advertise as pints.
Patrick says Mainers should get what they’re paying
for.
But Republican Gov. Paul LePage said in his veto
message on Monday that the state already has laws
protecting against deceptive trade practices and this
bill would create additional ﬁnancial and regulatory
burdens on businesses.
LePage says that unlike some elected ofﬁcials, he
doesn’t “believe the answer to every problem is more
government, more laws and more regulation.”
It would take two-thirds support in both the House
and Senate to override LePage’s veto.
Christie Plans Town Hall Events In N.H.
By Jill Colvin
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie is taking his
signature town hall events on the
road.
The potential Republican presidential contender will hold a “Tell
it like it is” town hall meeting in
Londonderry, N.H., April 15, and
is expected to do another two days
later, in Nashua, as part of a series
of events in the early voting state.
He’ll have “an honest and direct
conversation about why America
needs real leadership,” said
Samantha Smith, speaking for his
political action committee.
The visits will mark Christie’s
ﬁrst extended swing this year in
New Hampshire, where his blunt
style might play well. Christie appears to be having trouble gaining
traction with the public and donors
in the early stages of the party’s
2016 contest with many likely rivals.
The town-hall format is deeply
familiar to Christie, whose ofﬁce
says he’s held over 130 of them
governor, including one every
week since he came out with his
budget plans in February.
His events, which have generated many moments made for
YouTube, are typically slickly produced, with music blasting as the
governor enters an auditorium
ﬁlled with a largely friendly
crowd. After the governor delivers
an extended monologue on a topic
of his choosing, he launches into a
well-practiced set of rules that includes instructing questioners to
keep their queries brief and warning them against grandstanding for
the cameras.
He then takes off his jacket,
tosses it to an aide and jumps into
a question-and-answer session that
can go on for more than an hour.
Such events are expected to be
a cornerstone of a Christie campaign if he chooses to go forward.
Steve Duprey, a New Hampshire Republican committeeman
and former adviser to 2008 GOP
nominee John McCain, said he’s
been advising potential contenders
to hold town halls in the state early
and often. McCain did as many as
ﬁve a day in his campaign.
MEADOW LEASING
Littleton, N.H.
Duprey said New Hampshire
voters expect to get to know their
candidates, asking questions as
well as follow ups.
“They want to get a sense of
who you are, how you handle authentic questions, and how you respond to people with real
problems,” he said.
New Hampshire voters may not
be as “edgy” as voters in New Jersey, he added, “but we’re as persistent, if not more so.”
By dEniSE lAvoiE
AP legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON — As he planted a
backpack containing a bomb near a
group of children, Boston Marathon
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made a
coldblooded decision aimed at
spreading terror and punishing
America for its wars in Muslim
countries, a federal prosecutor told
the jury during closing arguments
Monday at Tsarnaev’s death penalty
trial.
“There was nothing about this
day that was a twist of fate,” Aloke
Chakravarty said. “This was a
cold, calculated terrorist act. This
was intentional. It was bloodthirsty. It was to make a point. It
was to tell America that ‘We will
not be terrorized by you anymore.
We will terrorize you.’”
Defense attorney Judy Clarke
countered by arguing, as she did at
the trial’s outset, that Tsarnaev took
part in the attack but did so under
the malevolent inﬂuence of his
now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.
Clarke repeatedly referred to
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — then 19 —
as a “kid” and a “teenager.”
“If not for Tamerlan, it would
not have happened,” Clarke said.
The jury is expected to begin
deliberating Tuesday morning in
the case against Tsarnaev, 21, almost two years after the twin
bombings near the ﬁnish line of the
Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 260. It
was the nation’s deadliest terror attack since 9/11.
If Tsarnaev is convicted — and
that is considered a near certainty,
given his lawyer’s admission —
the jury will then begin hearing evidence on whether he should get
life in prison or a death sentence.
Prosecutors used their closing
argument to remind the jury of the
horror of that day, showing photographs and video of the carnage
and chaos after the shrapnelpacked pressure-cooker bombs exploded. In one video, jurors could
hear the agonizing screams of
Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old
restaurant manager who bled to
death on the sidewalk. Another
woman and an 8-year-old boy
were also killed.
Taking aim at the argument that
Tsarnaev was led astray by his
older brother, Chakravarty repeatedly referred to the Tsarnaevs as “a
team” and “partners” in the attack.
“That day, they felt they were
soldiers. They were the mujahedeen, and they were bringing
their battle to Boston,” the prosecutor said.
As for the youngsters killed or
maimed by the bomb that was in
Dzhokhar’s
backpack,
Chakravarty said: “These children
weren’t innocent to him. They
were American. Of all the places
that he could have placed the
bomb, he placed it right there.”
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died
four days after the bombings after
he was shot by police and run over
by Dzhokhar during a getaway attempt. Dzhokhar was captured
hiding in a dry-docked boat.
At the end of his closing argument, Chakravarty displayed photos of the those killed in the
bombings and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police ofﬁcer who was shot to death during
the getaway attempt.
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pellet heating system when they
made the switch, he said.
Technologies featured will include
solar power and wood pellet heating
as well as heat pump technology.
Like solar, air source heat pump technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, said Van Houten.
ARET began as a loose group of
local energy committees before it organized into a nonproﬁt corporation
in 2008, after members realized the
energy issues have regional impact.
Today, ARET serves northern
Grafton communities and has an
eight-member board of directors
from the towns of Bethlehem, Franconia, Sugar Hill and Littleton.
Its stated mission is to educate the
public about energy policies and
practices that save money, advance
the sustainability of natural resources, protect and preserve the environment, including climate change
PHOTO BY ROBIN SMITH
Dr. Ike Lee, CEO of the proposed AnC Bio Vt facility for Newport City, and developer Bill Stenger, mitigation and adaptation, and reCEO of Jay Peak Resort, discuss the AnC Bio Vt project at a press conference at Jay Peak Resort duce dependency on fossil fuels.
To that end, ARET strives to inMonday morning.
crease the participation of town governments, area residents, institutions
and businesses, promoting energy efﬁciencies, awareness of current encontinued from Page A1
ergy use and expenses, and audits to
for the facility, giving developer
Bill Stenger, president and coowner of Jay Peak Resort, the
go-ahead to seek more investors
By RoBin Smith
and break ground. The financial
Staff Writer
plan still must be approved becontinued from Page A1
fore any new investments can be
NEWPORT CITY — Three different businesses will operate as part
Shufelt said the organizers were well
used for construction.
of AnC Bio Vt in Newport City.
aware of all of the negative aspects
Stenger, head of Jay Peak BioTwo will begin to generate income as soon as the facility at Jay
of
social media and the tendency to
medical Research Park where Peak Biomedical Research Park on Bogner Drive opens next year.
focus
on all the harm done to people
AnC Bio Vt will be located, and
The two which will be almost immediately operational involve
through
the misuse of social media.
Dr. Ike Lee, CEO of AnC Bio Vt, adult stem cell work:
The group wanted to explore the possaid Monday at a press confer- in-house research and development of adult stem cell therapies –
itive uses of social media and offer
ence at Jay Peak Resort that the like ﬁnding ways to use stem cells to repair human tissue;
workshops on how to use social
timing is right for the construc- renting space and providing adult stem cell lines to visiting sciention and operation of AnC Bio tists from other companies or universities for their own research or media in a positive way.
The Youth Advisory Council
Vt, with demand for clean rooms trials.
found
Dan Ozimek, from Technito research and develop adult
Renting out clean rooms for stem cell therapy makes this facility
cool,
who
will be the keynote
stem cell therapies.
unique, project developers said Monday at a press conference at Jay
speaker.
Ozimek
is the program Co“We are at the right time Peak Resort.
ordinator/Trainer for Prevent Child
point,” Lee said.
A third business would take a longer time to show income. It inAbuse Vermont. His address will
“There’s market demand for volves the research and development of artiﬁcial portable organs.
focus on how communities can make
it,” Stenger said.
Dr. Jake Lee, a researcher at the University of Vermont, said he
“Having access to the capital would move his research of a heart pump to AnC Bio Vt when it opens the best use of technology and social
media.
is the key to this,” Stenger added next year.
In the morning, half of the particas Lee nodded.
After that, Lee said it could take him a year and a half to complete
Lee called the facility to be research and begin manufacturing the device. Future devices include
built at the former Bogner plant portable kidney dialysis and liver dialysis machines.
site “unique” in the U.S. because
Each of these businesses will need the locally hired technicians and
it will not only offer clean rooms even scientists to man the clean rooms and other features of a statebut the technicians and experi- of-the-art biomedical facility.
continued from Page A1
ence that will attract research
The development of a facility that can rent out clean rooms and proscientists to use the facility.
vide the technicians and services for a visiting scientist or small com- She is being treated and will be alConstruction is expected to pany to do research and clinical trials is “a unique approach,” said Bill lowed to return to the school when
take 14 to 16 months, they said. Stenger of Jay Peak Biomedical Research Park and CEO of Jay Peak she is cleared to do so by medical
professionals, the health departMarket analysis from interna- Resort.
tional consulting firm Frost &
The facility is being built as demand is growing for places to work ment said.
The latest positive results were
Sullivan states that AnC Bio Vt on adult stem cells, the developers said.
from a ﬁnal round of screening
will be “one of the first of its
kind” with the ability to work cell research and manufacturing
The oversight won’t slow clinics held last week on people
with small and large scale man- and also for rent by scientists, down construction at this point, who tested negative in the original
rounds of testing. There are an adufacturing of stem cell therapies and development and manufac- Stenger said.
for other companies and scien- turing of artificial organs.
The developers already have ditional 30 students and adults who
tists, said Frost & Sullivan conThe adult stem cell production $77 million in hand to use tosultant Judy Andrews.
facility is key, because it will ward construction from previous
They conducted the analysis allow other scientists FDA-ap- investors, he said.
for AnC Bio Vt through industry proved cell lines to do clinical
The last 40 investors, who
leader interviews and market re- trials on therapies.
could each put in $500,000 to $1
search. The market analysis was
Dr. Jake Lee, who is doing re- million, would see their money continued from Page A1
required for the regulatory re- search at UVM, said he will go into an escrow account until
view.
work for about a year and a half the financial plan for AnC Bio next year, and this will undermine
“A facility like this will re- at AnC Bio Vt on portable artifi- Vt is approved by the Depart- our efﬁciency as a team,” Bledsoe
writes in a statement circulated Monquire deep industry expertise,” cial organs before they will go ment of Financial Regulation.
Andrews said.
The U.S. Customs and Immi- day. “We are faced with occupying
on the market. A heart pump will
“We believe, at Frost & Sulli- be the first to be completed.
gration Service also needs to ap- space that the school needs to devan, Dr. Ike Lee and his team
The emphasis is on portability prove the investor applicants. velop its programs, or to undermine
have that expertise.”
and lower cost with unique fea- USCIS is moving quicker on re- the district by scattering us through
Lee said that his experience at tures.
view of applicants and projects, the building – neither alternative is
acceptable.”
a biomedical plant called AnC
Stenger said.
Korean Connection
The second ﬂoor Emerson Falls
Bio in Seoul, South Korea, gives
With a more thorough and efIke Lee said he started work
the Vermont facility an advan- on adult stem cells in 2005 in ficient federal review of appli- rental covers about 2,233 square feet.
tage.
AnC Bio in South Korea. How- cants and projects, any investor It is handicap accessible via an eleWhen asked why AnC Bio Vt ever, the development of stem that signs up in June might get vator.
It is immaculate, she said.
will succeed in rural Newport cell products took much longer approved by the federal govern“It’s a beautiful space,” she said.
City, Stenger said that it will than expected. “There was a fail- ment in the New Year.
open debt free, because it de- ure of timing,” he said.
Stenger said he could have the “It’s just beautiful space.”
In-town space costs about $500
pends on EB-5 investors who
That meant that the Seoul fa- last $20 million of investments
will receive a green card in ex- cility was not able to generate available for use by next sum- more monthly, and is smaller and less
attractive.
change for creating 10 jobs.
income and the government took mer.
School directors tabled the issue
Stenger also pointed to the control of the building which
The U.S. Food and Drug Adnew runway being built at New- was built with government ministration, which will oversee for further consideration within a
port State Airport in Coventry, bonds, Stenger and Lee said.
the construction and final ap- month.
School Director Becky Baldauf,
where shipments to market will
The building was sold at auc- proval of the facility and its opboard
chairwoman, has viewed the
be easier to make than in Boston. tion.
erations, is “ramping up” for
The location is central to UniBut the new owner is working approval of stem cell facilities of Emerson Falls space.
“It really is large,” she said. “I was
versity of Vermont, state col- with the same scientists who all kinds in response to demand,
actually quite impressed with it. I
leges and the big research were in the building before, who Andrews said.
think it’s a pretty good deal.”
universities in the Northeast and are still working on research, Ike
EB-5 Risk
School Director Richard Boisseau
eastern Canada, Stenger said, Lee said.
Stenger said that both infrom which the facility will draw
AnC Bio Vt has the “total ex- vestors and the developers have is concerned about its out-of-town
location.
some employees and research clusive Western Hemisphere a risk in an EB-5 project.
Superintendent Bledsoe said, “I
scientists who will want to do rights” to that facility’s stem cell
Stenger said he hoped to begin
their work there. It is also near technology, Stenger said.
to offer investors exit strategies agree that it’s not ideal. We could
the North Country Career Center
The industry has been “idling” within five to seven years, pay- look for something closer.”
School Director Rob Mach opin Newport, where programs can until now. No other company got ing them back with interest. The
be tailored to jobs open at the fa- the green light to do this work in idea is for EB-5 investments to posed relocation at ﬁrst glance.
“I’m just not in favor of this,” he
cility.
“be patient,” giving the investthe U.S., Ike Lee said.
Demolition in downtown
ment time to create the jobs, he said. “I think it’s actually a plus havDelays And Oversight
ing the district in the school.”
Newport City to make way for
Once AnC Bio Vt is approved said.
It builds community, he said.
the Renaissance Block with 80 by the Vermont Department of
The situation that happened
Mach said relocation was never
hotel suites along with commer- Financial Regulation, it will un- with a group of Tramhaus Lodge
cial space is linked to AnC Bio dergo ongoing oversight and investors at Jay Peak Resort, mentioned during budget discussions
Vermont, Stenger said. Scientists reapproval every three months, where they were not notified in despite talk of the middle school
and others visiting the facility Stenger said.
a timely fashion about how they model. He also said the district ofwill have places to live a mile
“It’s good for the project,” would be repaid, “will not be re- ﬁces moved from the school’s ﬁrst
from the facility, he said.
Stenger said, and it’s good for peated,” Stenger said, calling the ﬂoor to the third ﬂoor only 2 years
Facility Products
the Vermont EB-5 regional cen- failure in communications a ago, at a cost.
However, Mach softened some
The facility will include clean ter, which promotes Vermont as clumsy mistake.
following input from Bledsoe. He is
rooms for in-house adult stem an EB-5 investment site.
AnC Bio
cOuRTESY PHOTO
The Ammonoosuc Regional Energy Team, which hosted a solar
forum last year at White Mountain School, pictured here, will
host an energy fair this Saturday.
determine energy losses and guide
steps toward energy efﬁciency and
conservation.
“What we do is act as a forum for
energy,” said Van Houten. “
A future ARET project could involve solar technology and be based
on a program in the Upper Valley
called “solarize,” which is conducting a solar marketing campaign, with
the goal to implement an aggregate
group of residential solar installations
to help reduce costs.
Last year, ARET hosted a solar
forum at White Mountain School and
in 2013 hosted a biomass forum.
The team’s ﬁrst energy fair was
shortly after its formation in 2008.
The fair this Saturday will feature
Christophe Courchesne, an attorney
with the Conservation Law Foundation, as the keynote speaker.
“We wanted to have someone to
connect what the big picture is with
us and he can do that,” said Van
Houten.
Of ARET’s mission, he said, “We
are trying to help people build a more
resilient, independent and cost-effective energy system.”
Youth
ipants will choose one of ﬁve workshops to attend, all of them sharing a
common focus on social media. The
other half of the participants will attend a Resource Fair set up in the
Rita Bole Gym. At the conclusion of
the ﬁrst round of workshops, the participants will switch — with the remaining participants attending the
Resource Fair while the other group
takes its turn attending a workshop.
Workshop titles include “Creating
Global Communities Through Social
Media” and “News and Social
Media; Deciphering Fact vs. Fiction.”
A second round of workshops will
be held in the afternoon. In the second workshop, “Autumn” will introduce participants to Chinese
characters and introduce some aspects of Chinese culture. The second
round of workshops are run by youth
participants.
One of the activities is the creation
of “Trees.” Those who attend can
choose something they want to “let
go of” such as a character trait they
do not like or a bad habit. The participant will name it and write it on a
paper, then hang it on a tree. The participants will also think of a positive
attribute , write it on a piece of paper
and hang it on a tree. Finally, students
will write something they like or admire about another person, who they
will not name. They will write out a
description of the trait they admire
and hang it on a tree for others to read
and enjoy.
Students spent six moths planning
the event and the youth participants
hope for a positive impact from the
events.
Tuberculosis
still must be tested.
Since more than eight weeks
have passed since the last possible
exposure to the person who had
TB, there can’t be any new cases.
No further follow-up is needed for
the people who tested negative,
Kelso said.
A positive test mean a person
has been exposed to the TB bacteria. The disease can’t be transmitted unless an infected person gets
sick, which can come years, sometimes decades, after initial exposure.
Though TB was long a deadly
disease, it became controllable
with antibiotics in the mid-20th
century. There still are occasional
ﬂare ups across the country. Tuberculosis is transmitted through the
air but is not as infectious as many
other common diseases.
Vermont usually deals with a
handful of TB cases a year.
“This was a big deal, this took a
lot of resources … to pull together
statewide. It was not the type of
thing we do all the time,” Kelso
said.
School
willing to further consider relocation.
“I need to think about it,” Mach
said.
He requested a school walk
through to better understand space issues.
School Director Tony Greenwood
is tired of hearing about friction between the district and the faculty. It’s
an old issue, he said.
Greenwood suggested ﬁring
everybody and starting over.
Superintendent Bledsoe understands the friction. She cited exam-
ples.
“A teacher has 10 minutes and
they rush in [the ofﬁce] and want to
be taken care,” Bledsoe said.
Furthermore, teachers are sometimes frustrated that district employees maintain ofﬁce hours and go
home for lunch, while district employees are sensitive to teachers not
working summers, she said.
“Schools are very stressful,” Bledsoe said. “There’s a reason most district ofﬁces aren’t in schools.”
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Virginia fraternity announces legal action
against Rolling Stone for ‘reckless’ rape story
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A fraternity at the University of Virginia announced Monday that it will “pursue all available legal action”
against Rolling Stone, saying a Columbia Journalism School review shows
the magazine acted recklessly and defamed its members by publishing an
article that falsely accused them of gang rape.
“The Rolling Stone article viewed by millions fueled a court of public
opinion that ostracized Phi Kappa Psi members and led to vandalism of the
fraternity house,” the fraternity’s statement said.
“Clearly our fraternity and its members have been defamed, but more importantly we fear this entire episode may prompt some victims to remain in
the shadows, fearful to confront their attackers,” said Stephen Scipione, president of the the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi chapter. “If Rolling
Stone wants to play a real role in addressing this problem, it’s time to get serious.”
Rolling Stone’s “shock narrative” about sex assaults at the University of
Virginia was rife with bad journalism, and the magazine has nobody but its
own staff to blame, Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll said Monday at a question and answer session about the review he led at the magazine’s request.
The magazine pledged to review its practices and removed “A Rape on
Campus” from its website, but publisher Jann S. Wenner said he won’t ﬁre
anyone despite the blistering review. In a New York Times interview, Wenner
described “Jackie,” whose claims provided the article’s narrative thread, as
“a really expert fabulist storyteller” who manipulated the magazine’s journalism process.
Kenya unleashes airstrikes against Islamic
extremists in Somalia after college attack
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan warplanes bombed militant camps in
Somalia, ofﬁcials said Monday, following a vow by President Uhuru Kenyatta to respond “in the ﬁercest way possible” to a massacre of college students
by al-Shabab extremists.
The airstrikes Sunday and Monday targeted the Gedo region of western
Somalia, directly across the border from Kenya, said Col. David Obonyo of
the Kenyan military.
The al-Shabab camps, which were used to store arms and for logistical
support, were destroyed, but it was not possible to determine the number of
casualties because of poor visibility, he said.
The Somalia-based militant group claimed responsibility for Thursday’s
attack at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya in which militants
killed 148 people, most of them students.
Hawa Yusuf, who lives in a village near the town of Beledhawa that is
close to the Kenyan-Somali border, said the warplanes “were hovering
around for a few minutes, then started bombing.” She didn’t know if there
were any casualties, she said by phone.
Kenya attack victims described as humble,
intent on building a career through studies
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — He was a soccer player with a ﬁghting spirit,
a talented keyboard player with “golden ﬁngers” who was intent on succeeding in life, his guardian said. But Bryson Mwakuleghwa, a 21-year-old student at Garissa University College in Kenya, never had the chance to make
his dreams happen.
Mwakuleghwa was among 148 people who were killed in an attack by
Islamic militants Thursday on the college in Garissa, near the border with
Somalia, where the al-Shabab extremist group is based. On Monday, relatives
of the dead converged on a funeral parlor in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, for
the grim task of identifying the dead. Some grieved quietly, while others
emerged from viewing bodies of lost family members in physical distress,
wailing as Red Cross ofﬁcials escorted and even carried them to tents for
counseling.
Several mourners interviewed by The Associated Press outside the Chiromo Funeral Parlour of the University of Nairobi spoke wistfully of those
they lost, sometimes using the same words — humble, devout, studious and
a role model — to describe youths who were trying hard to forge a career,
leaving home and traveling many hours by bus to Garissa to take advantage
of the education opportunities there.
“I knew Bryson as a young man who grew up in the church” and performed in its choir, said his guardian, Ginton Mwachoﬁ.
The young man’s death hit hard in Taita-Taveta, the coastal county where
he grew up, Mwachoﬁ said.
doubts over the possibility of landing ground forces from a Saudi-led coalition backing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to try to carve out an enclave to which Hadi, who ﬂed the country two weeks ago, could return.
Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan to contribute soldiers to the military campaign, as well as air and naval assets, Pakistan’s defense minister said Monday. Pakistan’s parliament is debating the request and is expected to vote in
coming days.
Saudi Arabia has been leading an air campaign since March 26 against
the Houthis and their allies, military units loyal to Hadi’s predecessor, ousted
autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh. The International Committee for the Red Cross
said Monday it was still unable to get medical supplies into the capital, Sanaa,
or to Aden amid the air and sea blockade by the coalition.
On Monday, Houthi ﬁghters and pro-Saleh forces attacked Aden’s Moalla
neighborhood, one of the last districts held by Hadi loyalists where the presidential palace, port facilities, TV, government ofﬁces and a military camp
are located. The districts are on a peninsula that juts into the sea, meaning
Hadi’s forces are bottled up in the neighborhoods.
White House ramps up lobbying campaign to
persuade skeptics to stomach Iran deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing deep skepticism on multiple fronts, President Barack Obama ramped up lobbying Monday for a framework nuclear
deal with Iran, one of the toughest sells of his presidency. Yet critics from
Jerusalem to Washington warned they won’t sit idly by while Obama and
world leaders pursue a ﬁnal accord that would leave much of Iran’s nuclear
infrastructure intact.
The White House deployed Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — a nuclear
physicist — to offer a scientiﬁc defense of a deal that Moniz said would block
all Iranian pathways to a nuclear weapon. He described the emerging deal as
a “forever agreement,” disputing skeptics who contend it would merely delay
Iran’s progress toward a bomb.
“This is not built upon trust,” Moniz said, describing a set of intrusive inspections that would tip off the global community if Iran attempts to cheat.
“This is built upon hardnosed requirements in terms of limitations on what
they do, at various timescales, and on the access and transparency.”
Under the agreement, Moniz said, Iran would agree — in perpetuity — to
a beefed-up level of inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Other elements of the inspection regimen, such as those dealing with storage
and mining of nuclear materials, would end sooner. And Moniz acknowledged that over time, some restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities might be
eased if the world gains conﬁdence that its program is being operated for
purely peaceful purposes. Skeptics of Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran
were undeterred.
Israeli Cabinet minister warns military
option against Iran is still ‘on the table’
JERUSALEM (AP) — A senior Israeli government minister on Monday
warned that taking military action against Iran’s nuclear program is still an
option — despite last week’s framework deal between world powers and the
Islamic Republic.
The comments by Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister for strategic affairs, reﬂected the alarm in Israel over last week’s deal, which offers Iran relief from
economic sanctions in exchange for scaling back its suspect nuclear program.
Israeli leaders believe the framework leaves too much of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure intact and could still allow it to develop the means to produce a
nuclear weapon.
Steinitz, a conﬁdant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s, said the
government would spend the coming months lobbying the world powers negotiating with Iran to strengthen the language in the deal as they hammer out
a ﬁnal agreement. While stressing that Israel prefers a diplomatic solution,
he said the “military option” still exists.
“It was on the table. It’s still on the table. It’s going to remain on the table,”
Steinitz told reporters. “Israel should be able to defend itself, by itself, against
any threat. And it’s our right and duty to decide how to defend ourselves, especially if our national security and even very existence is under threat.”
Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be a threat to its survival, pointing
to years of Iranian calls for Israel’s destruction, its support for anti-Israeli
militant groups and its development of long-range ballistic missiles that could
be armed with nuclear warheads. Israel — which is widely believed to be a
nuclear power — says a nuclear-armed Iran would set off an arms race in
the world’s most volatile region.
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Furor Over Rolling Stone Rape
Article May Leave Mixed Legacy
By dAvid CRARy
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — The furor over a
retracted Rolling Stone article may
deter some rape victims from coming
forward, but the national campaign
to curb sexual assaults on college
campuses will keep gaining strength,
according to advocates who have
been following the high-proﬁle case.
The November 2014 article, purporting to describe a vicious gang
rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, was retracted by
Rolling Stone on Sunday after the
Columbia Journalism School issued
a scathing critique of how the story
was reported and edited. The critical
report followed an announcement by
police ofﬁcials last month that investigators had found no evidence to
back the claims of the alleged victim.
Advocates for victims of sexual
assault, in interviews Monday, had
mixed views on the legacy of the
Rolling Stone article.
“I’m afraid this will perpetuate the
myth that sexual assault on campus
is this made-up phenomenon,” said
Alison Kiss, executive director of the
Clery Center for Security On Campus. “It puts a lot more on the plate
of those who are working to combat
it.”
Kiss described on-campus sexual
assault as an epidemic that needs to
be addressed aggressively. The rate
of false reports, she said, is between
2 percent and 10 percent.
At the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, anti-violence activist
Savannah Badalich also worried that
the Rolling Stone retraction might
dissuade some assault victims from
coming forward. Badalich, a senior
who is UCLA’s student wellness
commissioner, has written about
being sexually assaulted during her
sophomore year and deciding not to
report the incident. She subsequently
founded a group called 7,000 in Solidarity that campaigns against sexual
violence on campus.
Rolling Stone, she said, did a disservice to the woman featured in its
article by not fact-checking her account more rigorously.
“Survivors often jumble their stories — they remember bits and
pieces,” she said. “Now this becomes
this evidence for people who are trying to oppose violence-prevention efforts on campus. They say, ‘Hey, this
is an example of someone lying
about their case just to get reported.’”
However, Badalich said there
could be a positive legacy to the case
if journalists improve the overall
coverage of sexual assault.
“If we take this as a teachable moment on how to report on incidents
of violence like this, it could be positive,” she said.
Scott Berkowitz, president of the
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in Washington, D.C., said he
was hopeful that the case would have
only a limited deterrent effect on victims.
“This was such an unusual case in
every respect,” he said. “I think most
victims would see that it’s easily distinguishable from their own cases.”
Berkowitz noted that the University of Virginia and the local police
department responded vigorously
when the allegations surfaced last
year.
“There was a tremendous amount
of attention and effort put into investigating them and taking them seriously,” he said. “Hopefully that
would be comforting to victims.”
Nationally, Berkowitz predicts
that efforts to curb on-campus sexual
assault will gain further momentum,
with active engagement by the White
House, the NCAA and many other
parties.
“We’ve seen a tremendous
amount of effort from college administrators in the past year,” he said. “I
wish everything about this Rolling
Stone case had never happened, but
the country is going to continue to
pay more attention to sexual violence
on campus.”
At the University of Virginia, a
group of students, faculty, staff,
alumni, parents and board members
has formed to explore how to improve the safety and well-being of
sexual assault survivors and other
students. The effort is focusing on
prevention, institutional response and
campus culture, holding town meetings and preparing recommendations
for changes.
Some students have called for disciplinary action against the purported
victim in the Rolling Stone article,
identiﬁed only as Jackie. Her lawyer,
Palma Pustilnik, told The Associated
Press on Monday that “we are not
making any comment at all at this
time.”
At the University of New Hampshire’s Prevention Innovations center, co-director Jane Stapleton and
her colleagues have been working to
develop and evaluate programs to
help end violence against women.
As soon as she read the Rolling
Stone article, Stapleton became concerned about its sensational aspects.
“It seemed to me so splashy and
ﬂashy — it set the bar so high for
what campus sexual assault looks
like,” Stapleton said. “I worried that
some survivors might have thought,
“My assault wasn’t so bad. Somehow I am less of a victim.’”
“Then, with the retraction, you
have some people saying, ‘Well, she
was lying. She had ulterior motives,’” Stapleton added. “The effect
on some survivors would be, ‘Well,
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Clinton expected to launch ‘16 campaign soon
HAVANA (AP) — American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet at a regional summit
this week have been snarled in disputes about Cuba’s presence on the U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of anticipation, Hillary Rodham list of state sponsors of terror and U.S. diplomats’ freedom to travel and talk
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a top incoming campaign aide, traveled to both states last week to meet party
activists and longtime Clinton allies.
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second-largest city, Aden, leaving streets littered with bodies, as Shiite rebels
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WARSAW, Poland — NATO aircraft scream across eastern European
skies and American armored vehicles
rumble near the border with Russia
on a mission to reassure citizens that
they’re safe from Russian aggression.
But these days, ordinary people
aren’t taking any chances.
In Poland, doctors, shopkeepers,
lawmakers and others are heeding a
call to receive military training in
case of an invasion. Neighboring
Lithuania is restoring the draft and
teaching citizens what to do in case
of war. Nearby Latvia has plans to
give university students military
training next year.
The drive to teach ordinary people
how to use weapons and take cover
under ﬁre reﬂects soaring anxiety
among people in a region where
memories of Moscow’s domination
— which ended only in the 1990s —
remain raw. People worry that their
security and hard-won independence
are threatened as saber-rattling intensiﬁes between the West and Russia
over the conﬂict in Ukraine, where
more than 6,000 people have died.
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fears: The government has reached
out to some 120 paramilitary groups
with tens of thousands of members,
who are conducting their own drills,
in an effort to streamline them with
the army exercises.
In an unprecedented appeal, Parliament Speaker Radek Sikorski
urged lawmakers to train at a test
range in May, while Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak called on men
and women aged between 18 and 50,
and with no military experience, to
sign up for test-range exercise. So far,
over 2,000 people have responded.
“The times are dangerous and we
must do all we can to raise Poland’s
ability to defend its territory,” President Bronislaw Komorowski said
during a recent visit to a military unit.
The Poles believe they have
grounds for feeling particularly vulnerable because they have been invaded by Russia repeatedly since the
18th century. Russian leader
Vladimir Putin seems to have singled
out Poland, a staunch U.S. ally, as a
prime enemy in the struggle over
Ukraine, accusing it of training
“Ukrainian nationalists” and instigating unrest.
Recently Moscow said it will
place state-of-the-art Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad enclave, bordering Poland and Lithuania, for a
major exercise.
Last week, over 550 young Polish
reservists were summoned on one
hour’s notice to a military base for a
mobilization drill. In their 20s and
30s, in jeans and sneakers, the men
and women arrived at a base in
Tarnowskie Gory, in southern Poland
for days of shooting practice. One of
them, 35-year-old former soldier
Krystian Studnia, said the call was
“absolutely natural.”
“Everyone should be willing and
ready to ﬁght to defend his country,”
he said.
In Warsaw, Mateusz Warszczak,
23, glowed with excitement as he
signed up at a recruitment center. “I
want to be ready to defend my family, my relatives, from danger,” he
said.
Even older Poles feel obliged to
take responsibility for their own
safety.
In
September,
Wojciech
Klukowski, a 58-year-old medical
doctor, and his friends organized a
civic militia group of about 50 men
and women of various ages, and
called it the National Guard. They
practiced skirmishes and shooting,
with the aim of becoming citizen-soldiers in their hometown of Szczecin,
on the Baltic Sea coast.
“We do not feel fully safe,”
Klukowski said. “Many people ...
want to be trained to defend their
homes, their work places, their families.”
India’s P.M. Blames Changing Lifestyles For Rising Pollution
Indian cities in the world’s 20 most
polluted — with New Delhi deemed
the ﬁlthiest — while pollution levels
even in the countryside are often several times above what is deemed safe.
Environmental activists said the
index had little value without offering
advice on how to cope with high pollution levels, or announcing any
measures to reduce pollution.
“Given the scale of air pollution
and the impact it has on the public in
Delhi and many other cities across
the country, we had expected the
government to address the issue with
more rigor and responsibility,”
Greenpeace said in a statement.
The index — a simple ranking of
pollution over a 24-hour period as
good, satisfactory, moderately polluted, poor, very poor or severe —
will be used New Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Faridabad,
Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore
and Hyderabad. A few of the cities,
however, have just one air monitor.
New Delhi has 20 in operation, but
even that is deemed very low.
The index’s scale may also downplay pollution levels. For example,
Monday’s pollution level at the U.S.
Embassy in central Delhi was described as “moderately poor” on the
Indian scale. But that same level is
considered “unhealthy” by the U.S.
Environment Protection Agency.
Already, many of New Delhi’s 4.5
million children have reduced lung
capacity, according to a study by the
Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute of Kolkata submitted to India’s
Central Pollution Control Board two
years ago — yet made public by Indian media only last week. The researchers found that, out of about
11,000 children studied over years,
one-third showed lung disease or deterioration.
While there is scant reliable data
on respiratory illness in India, doctors
said the number of respiratory illnesses is rising and the cases they see
are becoming more serious.
“By 35, you tend to have lungs
which start behaving like a smoker’s
lung,” says Dr. Pankaj Syal, a lung
specialist at PSRI Hospital in the capital. “Not only are the cases rising, we
are having difﬁculty controlling patients’ (cases) which were easily controlled earlier on.”
India’s air pollution comes mostly
from coal-ﬁred power plants, crop
burning, domestic cooking with ﬁrewood or cow dung, and vehicles
burning diesel fuel. The incomplete
burning of these fuels produces black
carbon, which constitutes most of the
tiny particulate matter known as
PM2.5, and can lodge and fester in
human lungs. Black carbon is also
blamed for up to 20 percent of global
warming.
Anxious to grow its economy,
India has made building electricity
capacity a top priority. It plans to
boost solar and wind power, but also
plans to triple its coal-ﬁred electricity
capacity to 450 gigawatts by 2030.
Modi also complained that other
nations were thwarting India’s cleanenergy ambitious by not selling it nuclear fuel.
India’s lack of progress in building
nuclear capacity, however, is largely
a result of its reluctance to allow U.S.
tracking of ﬁssile material as well as
its law making U.S. nuclear suppliers
— not operators of nuclear plants —
liable for accidents. Modi’s government has been discussing ways to
placate those concerns.
The country’s planned coal expansion will at least double sulfur dioxide levels, along with those of
nitrogen oxide and lung-clogging
particulate matter, according to a
study published in December by
Urban Emissions and the Mumbaibased nonproﬁt group Conservation
Action Trust.
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long-term optimism.
“There’s more and more attention
to sexual assaults on campus, and
continued from Page A7
what campuses need to do to prevent
cause nobody’s going to believe them,” she said. “It’s not inevitable.
me.’”
We can stop it.”
However, Stapleton expressed
Lisa Maatz, the top policy adviser
for the American Association of University Women, said it likely would
be a boon for advocates to be able to
move past the Rolling Stone case.
“We’ve seen that it’s only a very
sensational, scandalous story that
gets the attention,” she said. “Truthfully, the daily amount of sexual assault on campus is scandalous
enough. We don’t need to sensationalize it to report the story.”
Briefs
that way,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a brieﬁng
on Friday when asked whether an agreement on embassies was likely before
the gathering in Panama City.
By KAty dAiGlE
AP Environment Writer
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Monday blamed
the changing lifestyles that have
come with India’s economic development for rising pollution levels that
have given the country some of the
world’s dirtiest air.
With his government rolling out a
new air quality index to 10 of the nation’s cities, Modi urged Indians to
curtail waste and conserve resources
even as they become wealthier, in
order to prevent an environmental catastrophe.
Air pollution kills millions of people every year, including more than
627,000 in India, according to the
World Health Organization.
India announced plans last year for
the air quality index, releasing a draft
proposal in October based on New
Delhi’s small network of air quality
monitors. Experts have criticized
New Delhi’s readings as erratic and
unreliable, calling for more transparency and rigor in the data.
They also said using an air quality
index in 10 cities was a welcome step
for raising public awareness of pollution dangers, but was still far below
what is needed. The WHO puts 13
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diplomatic relations after a half-century of hostility. The Obama administration wanted the embassies reopened before the summit starts in Panama on
Friday, boosting a new American policy motivated partly by a sense that isolating Cuba was causing friction with other countries in the region.
Arriving at the summit with a deal to reopen embassies in Washington and
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sanctions on selected Venezuelan ofﬁcials last month that prompted protests
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communist regime that lasted more
than four decades.
It’s a danger felt across the EU
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“There’s a real feeling of threat in
our society,” Latvian defense ministry spokeswoman Aija Jakubovska
told The Associated Press. Military
training for students is a “way we can
increase our own defense capabilities.”
Most people are still looking to
NATO’s military umbrella as their
main guarantor of security. Zygmunt
Wos waved goodbye to a detachment
of U.S. armored vehicles leaving the
eastern Polish city of Bialystok with
apprehension: “These troops should
be staying with us,” he said, “not
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