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DANVILLE, PEACHAM, BARNET
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UNIVERSAL PRE-K
SET TO COMMENCE
STATE APPROVES ANC-BIO PROJECT
State: Stenger And Partners Cleared To Break Ground, Court New Investors
By ROBIN SmIth
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation on Friday gave
developer Bill Stenger of Newport City a
green light to begin construction of AnC Bio
Vermont and seek new foreign investors for
the project.
Stenger announced the news late Tuesday
afternoon, paving way for groundbreaking at
the Jay Peak Biomedical Research Park that
could employ up to 500 people in Newport
City.
Susan Donegan, director of the Department
of Financial Regulation (DFR), conﬁrmed
Tuesday that she cleared the project, allowing
Stenger and partners to attract new investors
and spend the money of existing investors.
Donegan said that the project’s “private
placement memorandum,” the offering that
describes the project to potential investors,
“has been cleared for usage,” meaning they
can use it to attract more investors and move
See ANC-BIO, Page A6
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Vermont State Police Lt. Mike Henry, left, and Tpr. Shawn McGarvin visit the Peacham School Tuesday. The troopers earlier
that day conducted a safety checkpoint there to review incoming
motorists for seat belt use.
By tAylOR Reed
Staff Writer
School-wary tots beware.
Full day prekindergarten is coming to Danville School,
Barnet School and Peacham School next ﬁscal year. All
3-4 year old children will be eligible for ﬁve daylong sessions with busing to and from school.
“Offering full day pre-K is a great opportunity for our
students,” said Superintendent Mat Forest from Caledonian Central Supervisory Union. “I’m very pleased and
thankful for the support we received from our communities on passing the budgets in each town to allow for the
expansion of these programs. By offering full day preschool programs we can provide a better educational service to the children we serve. We are very excited about
this opportunity.”
Full day sessions will coincide with the general school
day running roughly from 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Busing
is available to and from school.
See Pre-K, Page A6
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ANASTASIA PICKED AS
NEW SUPERINTENDENT
VERMONT
WHEN PARENTS SERVE IN THE MILITARY, KIDS SERVE AT HOME
Lyndon Family Attends Passage Of
House Resolution Honoring
Sacrifices Made By Military Children
By leAh CARey
Staff Writer
Whereas in a state like Vermont where there are no military bases
to connect them, military children and youth can be invisible to
coaches, teachers and the community…
On Tuesday, the Vermont House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring children of military families in the state. The move is
the beginning of the celebration of April as the Month of the Military
Child, both in the state and nationally.
Families from around Vermont gathered at the State House to hear
the reading of the resolution, along with a proclamation by the governor, and hear speakers talking about the important role they play in
the state’s military.
Throughout the proceedings, the same message was voiced by
many different people: when a member of the family is in the military,
the entire family is serving their country.
State Representative Peter J. Fagan, R-Rutland, opened the day
talking about his own military experience. “When a service member
leaves to go - even just to training, or goes away for a few weeks, or
goes overseas for three months, six months, a year - if everything is
okay at home, they can focus on the task at hand. But nothing can drag
on so long as time spent away from the family when something is
See Service, Page A6
By ROBeRt BleChl
Staff Writer
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PROBATION OFFICER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN DUI CRASH
By ROBIN SmIth
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — A probation ofﬁcer who
police said was found lying on Interstate 91
March 11 next to his crashed vehicle pleaded not
guilty Tuesday to driving under the inﬂuence of
alcohol.
Andre Laliberte, 40, of St. Johnsbury faced
the charge brought by the Vermont attorney gen-
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Andre Laliberte.
eral’s ofﬁce in Orleans Superior Court Criminal Division.
Judge
Timothy
Tomasi released Laliberte on conditions,
including that Laliberte not drink, buy or
possess alcohol.
At 8:27 p.m.
March 11, Vermont
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REGION
See SAU 36, Page A6
SUPERIOR COURT
NATION
WHITEFIELD, N.H. —
The White Mountains Regional School Board has selected Marion Anastasia,
former principal of St. Johnsbury School and current principal of East Montpelier
Elementary School, as the new
superintendent for White
Mountains Regional School
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Anastasia, of Waterford,
Marion Anastasia, 2010.
was selected unanimously by
the school board March 9 over
two other superintendent ﬁnalists. She will replace interim
Superintendent Harry Fensom beginning July 1.
“The board would like to thank everyone for doing so
much to make the search process successful,” SAU 36
School Board Chairman Greg Odell said in an emailed
statement Tuesday.
Anastasia, who earned a certiﬁcate of advanced gradu-
Brooke (left) and Caitlin Haggett hold Governor Shumlin’s ofﬁcial executive proclamation naming April as the Month of
the Military Child in Vermont with Carolyn Haggett looking on.
State Police Trooper Jeff Ferrier said in an afﬁdavit that state police got a call about a one-vehicle accident on the Interstate in Brownington.
Ferrier said he found Laliberte lying on the
side of the interstate in Brownington next to the
driver-side door of his 2004 Honda Accord.
When asked what happened, Laliberte said
“drank too much,” Ferrier said.
Laliberte could not walk without help, Ferrier
said. “I had to hold Laliberte’s arms in order for
See Crash, Page A6
Vermont State Auditor: Little
Monitoring Of Medicaid Spending
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Defense Rests In 1st Phase Of Boston
Marathon Bombing Trial
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FOR THE RECORD
OBITUARIES
NEWS BRIEFS
BARBARA E. (MONFETTE) HARRIS
1940-2015
Barbara E. (Monfette) Harris,
75, entered into eternal rest on
March 28, 2015 at home surrounded by her family. Barbara
was born in Morgan, Vt. on Feb. 7,
1940, a daughter to Bernice (Newbold) and Lawrence Monfette.
Barbara was a kind and gentle soul
much loved by her family and
friends. Barbara had a soft spot for
animals and was an avid cat lover
giving homes to many through the
years.
She is survived to treasure her
memory by her ﬁve children, Herbert L. Harris and his wife Elizabeth
of Ware, Mass., George C. Harris of Epping, N.H., Carl L. Harris and
partner Claire of North Stratford, N.H., Bernard H. Harris of Berlin,
N.H., Robin M. Perham (Harris) and her husband Thomas of Berlin,
N.H.
Besides her parents, Barbara was predeceased by her husband Nelson
Warner Harris, Jan. 2, 2001; and siblings Patricia J. Woodard; Mary Elizabeth Langevin; Bernard L. Monfette; Margaret Joyce Burns and
Dorothy May Shufelt.
Barbara leaves her siblings; Carl J. Monfette, George Carl Monfette
and Lillian Rose Pingree along with many nieces, nephews and cousins.
No services are scheduled. The family plans a Celebration of Life
Gathering for the spring.
Memorial donations in her memory may be made to North Country
Senior Meals 610 Sullivan Street., Berlin, NH 03570.
Arrangements are under the care of Fleury-Patry Funeral Home. Visit
our online guestbook at www.ﬂeury-patry.com.
RIVERSIDE ADOPTIONS
Laconia man hurt in
Stewartstown snowmobile crash
A man from Laconia, N.H. suffered a serious leg injury after crashing his snowmobile on Trail 21 A in Stewartstown, N.H. Monday
evening.
Russell Beane, 66, was operating with three other riders, when he
failed to negotiate a sharp, icy corner, went over an embankment and
struck several small trees.
Beane had been operating as the last sled in the group, and the rest
of the riding party had turned around to look for him after he failed
to arrive at a nearby trail junction. Upon locating Beane with serious
injuries, they were able to use a cell phone to call for help.
Colebrook Fire and Rescue responded to the incident, as well as
45th Parallel EMS, a NH State Trooper and a Fish and Game Conservation Ofﬁcer.
Beane was taken to Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook for evaluation and treatment of his injuries.
Speed for the existing conditions appears to have been the primary
factor in the crash, and alcohol did not appear to be a factor.
“Once again, commendable response times by all agencies involved”, said Conservation Ofﬁcer Chris Egan. “I’d also like to recognize the staff at UCVH, who are always top notch when caring for
trauma patients involved in these types of incidents.”
“This incident also serves as reminder that as spring progresses,
trail conditions begin to deteriorate. Late-season riders should be prepared to navigate icy corners, bare spots and water bars at any time,”
said Egan.
Gov. Shumlin bans state
funded travel to Indiana
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has
banned all non-essential state-funded or state-sponsored trips to Indiana because of that state’s new religious-freedom law.
The religious freedom law is causing an uproar in Indiana. Indiana
Gov. Mike Pence said Tuesday that he wants legislation on his desk
by the end of the week to clarify that the state’s law does not allow
discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Shumlin also invited a public-employee union that cancelled a conference in Indianapolis to hold its meeting in Vermont.
In a letter to the AFSCME president, Shumlin said Vermont would
be an ideal place to hold the women’s conference because of the
state’s legacy of promoting equal rights. He says Vermont was the
ﬁrst state to legislate marriage equality “simply because it was the
right thing to do, not because a court mandated it.”
Vt. police identify driver
suspected in cruiser crash
SUNDERLAND, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police say a woman
on her way to catch a ﬂight at the Albany, New York, airport was the
driver accused of hitting a state trooper’s cruiser in Sunderland and
ﬂeeing the scene.
The trooper was on the northbound ramp of a U.S. Route 7 inter-
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HAVERHILL
Tammy Lindquist, 46, of
Woodsville, was arrested March 24
on a Haverhill Police Department
warrant for disorderly conduct and
obstructing a report of a crime. She
was released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to
appear in court May 4.
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Kimberly Butson, 34, of Haverhill, was arrested for simple assault
on March 22, after police responded to a Haverhill residence
for the report of a domestic disturbance. Butson was released on
$500 personal recognizance bail
and is scheduled to appear in court
May 4.
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Kelly Barbeau, 36, of New
Haven, Conn., turned herself in to
the Haverhill Police Department
March 19 on two outstanding
bench warrants. Barbeau was released on $1,500 cash bail on one
warrant and $500.00 personal re-
cognizance bail and is scheduled to
appear in court May 4.
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Derek Thornton, 24, of
Woodsville, was arrested March
19 for being a habitual offender
driving without a valid license and
for breach of bail conditions.
Thornton was released on $2,500
personal recognizance bail and is
scheduled to appear in court May
4. While conducting a search, police said drug evidence was seized.
Further charges are pending.
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Lyndsey Wholey, 27, of
Woodsville, was cited for speed;
Chelsea Pike, 18, of Bradford, was
cited for failing to stop for a red
light; Keith Cunningham, 25, of
North Haverhill, was cited for
driving an uninspected vehicle;
and Alexandra Meisenheimer, 18,
of Woodsville, Haley Coutu, 21, of
Woodsville, and Mary Rose, 71, of
E. Corinth, were cited for violating
snow ban parking.
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Plans to renovate Connecticut River
bridge to be discussed
CHARLESTOWN, N.H. (AP) — A Connecticut River bridge connecting Charlestown, New Hampshire, and Springﬁeld, Vermont, will
be closed for ﬁve days this summer, followed by up to two months
of work with one-lane trafﬁc.
The Eagle Times reports the deck on the Route 11 Bridge will be
redone. Lane closures affect daytime hours; the bridge will be open
to full trafﬁc during non-working hours.
Alternative routes during the ﬁve-day closure include the Church
Street Bridge in Walpole and the Route 12 and 103 Bridge in Claremont.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is planning a
presentation about the work to be done on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
as part of the Charlestown Selectboard’s regular meeting.
Vermont ofﬁcials announce
anti-homelessness effort
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont ofﬁcials are highlighting a
new statewide strategy to reduce homelessness, as well as a $580,000
grant for more low-cost housing in Chittenden County.
Gov. Peter Shumlin and Human Services Secretary Hal Cohen announced on Monday the strategies aimed at a goal of ending child
and family homelessness in the state by 2020.
The ofﬁcials say more than 1,500 Vermonters lack housing on any
given night, and children make up half of all people in emergency
shelters.
Shumlin and Cohen say efforts will be stepped up toward better
coordination of services.
In addition, they announced the grant for 14 new affordable apartments and a way station for homeless people in Burlington.
Trooper cited for DUI
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont state trooper under investigation on suspicion of driving under the inﬂuence of alcohol has been
cited to appear in court on the DUI charge next month.
The state prosecutor said Tuesday that Eric Rademacher of the Rutland
barracks is scheduled to be arraigned on April 13 for events that occurred
on March 2. No other details about the incident have been released.
The state says Rademacher, of Mendon, was placed on paid leave earlier this month.
Rademacher could not be reached for comment. There is no phone listing in his name.
POLICE LOG
The Numbers
Pearsons
change early Monday when a southbound vehicle lost control and
crossed the centerline. The cruiser was struck on the driver’s side rear
door and fender. The trooper wasn’t hurt.
Police say they have determined that 46-year-old Valerie Radford
of Dorset was the driver. Radford, who is currently in Charlotte,
North Carolina, is expected to be charged with careless and negligent
operation and leaving the scene of an accident. Her lawyer says she
is cooperating with police in the investigation.
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Local Forecast
Today: Mostly sunny, but breezy,
and unseasonably cold. Valley
highs in the low to mid 30s. Northwest winds around 10 mph, a gusting to 20 mph.
Tonight: Increasing clouds after
midnight. Lows in the low mid
teens, some cold spots in the single digits. Winds becoming light,
variable to south.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy. Chance
of a morning snow shower, then a
chance of rain showers. Highs in
the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10
mph.
Extended Forecast:
Thursday Night: Cloudy. Showers
likely. Lows in the mid to upper
30s.
Friday: Partly cloudy. Chance for
a rain shower. Highs in the lower
50s.
Friday Night: Becoming cloudy
with a rising chance for rain and/or
snow after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s.
Saturday: Snow and/or rain likely.
Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy.
Chance of snow showers. Lows in
the mid to upper teens.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy. A chance
of light snow or rain showers.
Highs in the mid 30s.
Daily Weather Highlights
this high and a departing ocean
low will maintain the northwesterly
breeze today, maintaining also the
unseasonably cold conditions, despite the sunshine. By tonight, a
warm front will be approaching from
the southwest, bringing the possibility of starkly contrasting high temperatures tomorrow, with 50s west of
the Greens, 40s east, and maybe
only around 40 here in the Northeast
Kingdom, where the front will be last
to arrive. Temperatures could get
well into the 50s region-wide on Friday, but the precise details become
difﬁcult pin down by then, as cloud
cover and the exact position of an
east-west oriented surface boundary
will have large impacts on temperatures and precipitation. A surface low
will develop along that boundary on
Friday night, with some accumulating snow likely to occur into Saturday, at least over the high terrain,
says Steve Maleski of the Fairbanks
Museum weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Cloudy, Flurries
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . .40
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . .28
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . .34
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . .50
Minimum this month . . . . . . . .-18
Maximum this date (1998) . . . .82
Minimum this date (1923) . . . . .-1
HUMIDITY
28%
DEWPOINT
9
WINDS
12 mph, 15 max . . . . . . . . . .WSW
BAROMETER
29.67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Steady
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.06 in.
Total for Month . . . . . . . . .1.35 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . .2.51 in.
SNOWFALL
Past 24 Hours . . . . . . . . . . . Trace
Monthly Total . . . . . . . . . . .16.0 in.
Season Total . . . . . . . . . . .98.9 in.
Season Norm To Date . . . .82.6 in.
Snowpack . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.0 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . .6:29 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . .7:14 p.m.
Length of day . . . .12 hrs. 45 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
To date since July 1 . . . . . . .7457
To date last year . . . . . . . . . .7473
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LOCAL
IRASBURG
SELECTMEN CONSIDER MOVE TOWARD HIRED, NOT ELECTED, TOWN CLERK
Town Clerks Say They Provide Necessary Checks and Balances
By JeNNIfeR heRSey
ClevelANd
Staff Writer
IRASBURG — As the Vermont
Senate considers a bill that would
allow the voters to change elected
town clerks and treasurers to appointed positions, the town of Irasburg is considering doing the same.
The Rev. Brian Fecher, an Irasburg selectman, brought up the idea
at the select board’s March 23
meeting, suggesting that switching
Town Clerk Danielle Ingalls
elected position to a hired one
would help protect her from liability and achieve a more balanced
government.
But some town clerks in Orleans
County would have big problems
with becoming hired employees of
the town, citing the need for checks
and balances within government as
well as the potential for abuse if a
select board member just didn’t
like a particular clerk.
They also don’t like the idea of
taking the democratic process of
the election away from the voters.
Fecher is mum on his reasons for
bringing up the idea, saying that
he’d rather discuss it formally at a
public meeting with the rest of the
board present. He did say that this
has nothing to do with how Ingalls
performs her job, commending her
for her work.
Secretary of State Jim Condos
said it would change the relationship between the select board and
town clerk. “It would put the clerk
in a subservient role to the Selectboard and the Selectboard could direct the clerk on his or her duties,”
he wrote in an e-mail.
Condos wrote, in his opinion, “If
the town clerk is elected independently then they answer to the people [which] provides for more
separation of powers. I do think it
can affect the checks and balances
and could make the position ‘political’ (by that I mean not necessarily
partisan).”
That said, Condos said that deci-
sion lies with the voters in each
town.
Charter Changes
If S.94 passes, the process by
which this sort of change could
occur would simplify, but as of
now, the change would require an
extensive process to institute a
town charter.
Irasburg does not have a charter
and would need one to move away
from the form of government codiﬁed in state statute. That requires
a proposal – from either the select
board or by a petition of 5 percent
of registered voters – followed by
two public hearings, a formal
townwide vote, and approval of the
Legislature.
That sounds onerous, but several
municipalities have taken those
steps successfully. Of course, others have taken all of the steps only
to have voters shoot the idea down.
The bill has the support of the
Vermont League of Cities and
Towns (VLCT), according to its
executive director Steven Jeffrey.
“We believe this is a local issue
that should be determined locally,”
Jeffrey said.
The Legislature has already approved bills that allow voters to
convert elected auditors to a certiﬁed public accountant, and one that
allows listers to be replaced by professional assessors.
Municipal governments are handling large amounts of money, and
jobs like town clerk and treasurer
are becoming more technical, requiring more expertise, Jeffrey
said.
“It’s a big business and there’s a
lot of public money at stake,” he
said.
Jeffrey clariﬁed that VLCT isn’t
saying towns should take this step,
but only that they should be allowed to do so if they wish.
Most recently, the town of Newfane attempted to have a charter allowing the select board to appoint
one person to serve as town clerk,
treasurer and tax collector
In defense of the idea, Selectman
Gary Katz said these positions re-
quire an increasing degree of sophistication and knowledge, and
election offers no opportunity to
vet candidates, according to the
Brattleboro Reformer.
But Town Clerk Gloria Cristelli
told the Reformer the proposal was
drafted to take power away from
the voters and place it in the hands
of the few.
Newfane voters were clear in
their intent on Jan. 22, 2014. They
voted against the change 323 to 68.
A proposal in Colchester suggested that the town manager could
appoint the town clerk and treasurer after vetting credentialed candidates prepared for the “immense
complexity and responsibility of
the positions.”
Barre’s charter allows the voters
at any annual meeting to decide the
town clerk-treasurer should be an
appointed position, while the
elected voters at Brattleboro’s representative Town Meeting are
charged with ratifying or rejecting
the person appointed by the select
board to serve in both positions.
In some towns and cities, the
municipality’s manager does all
hiring and ﬁring.
What Do Clerks Think?
Irasburg Town Clerk Danielle
Ingalls said she can see both good
sides and bad to the proposed
change, depending largely on who
is serving on the select board at any
given time.
Right now, she has a great relationship with the select board, but
for the sake of discussion, she considered what would happen if different people served and she
believed they were doing something not in the best interests of the
town. “I guess there would be some
apprehension,” Ingalls said. “I
would still do what’s right because
that’s the kind of person I am. But
I’d be like, crap, I don’t have a job
now.”
Coventry Town Clerk Cynthia
Diaz agreed. “I would be concerned about the separation of
powers.”
“I would not be in favor of that,”
said Barton Town Clerk Kristin Atwood. “It’s a wonderful system of
checks and balances that we have
now, with the select board and the
town clerk being autonomous, and
the townspeople beneﬁt from that.”
All of the clerks interviewed for
this story agreed that their jobs take
a certain amount of skill and
knowledge, which they bring to the
position as elected ofﬁcials. Some
wondered how a select board
would be better able to determine
the best candidate for a job selectmen have never performed.
“The select board is meant to be
a governing body, but not micromanaging a town,” Atwood said,
noting that the positions are clearly
divided in statutes for a reason.
To run for ofﬁce, someone has to
really want the job, Atwood said,
giving voters a range of passionate
candidates. Plus, she said, an
elected town clerk is accountable to
all voters, not just a 3- or 5-person
board.
If proposed in Barton, Atwood
said she would take the ﬁght to the
voters. “It gives up too much of the
power the voters have right now.
They’re not taking away from the
clerk; they’re taking away from the
voters.”
Derby Town Clerk Fay Morin
agreed. “I’d rather have it be
elected. It gives voters a chance to
vote who they want in the ofﬁce.”
The only beneﬁt Holland Town
Clerk Diane Judd could think of
was that if removed from the position, she’d be eligible for unemployment beneﬁts.
“If they wanted to get rid of you
they could, even if you were doing
your job well,” Judd said. “Two
people could take your job away
from you.”
Judd said she has “an awesome
board,” but “I’m still not sure I
want them to be able to hire or ﬁre
me.”
“It should be the people. It
should be their decision who
should be clerk,” Judd said.
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Selectmen last week at a regular
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health coverage, said Town Clerk
Ben Heisholt. Presently, just two
employees do so, he said.
Heisholt is unsure exactly how
the $100 ﬁgure was ﬁgured.
“It costs a good deal less than the
cost of insuring a person though,”
Heisholt said.
To qualify, employees must ﬁle a
Vermont Department of Labor Declaration of Health Care Coverage
form.
Barnet formerly did not pay a
stipend. The issue arose after inquiries from employees, Heisholt
said.
In other business, selectmen reviewed an insurance claim related
to snow falling from the roof of the
town clerk’s ofﬁce and damaging a
parked vehicle. Damage amounted
to $1,205.
“It was a very heavy snow load,”
Heisholt said.
Selectmen, considering the
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OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
Censor-In-Chief
When President Barack Obama ascended to the presidency,
he promised Americans “An unprecedented level of openness”
in government.
This week the Center for Effective Government released its
annual “Access to Information Scorecard” (see below) and
found the administration is still failing woefully. The report examines the performance of the federal agencies that receive the
most FOIA requests and grades them on criteria like “the timely,
complete processing of requests for information.”
The Center found “Ten of the 15 agencies did not earn satisfactory overall grades, scoring less than 70 out of a possible 100
points” (see table for overall rankings).
It says adherence to the FOIA Act is “uneven and inconsistent
across federal agencies,” even though “A building block of
American democracy is the idea that as citizens, we have a right
to information about how our government works and what it
does in our name.”
Obama is a huge part of the problem and was called out for it
last summer by an un-precedented gathering of the country’s
foremost journalists, editors, news association directors, and
open government proponents. They (40 of them) wrote (in part):
“In many cases, this is clearly being done to control what information journalists – and the audience they serve – have access to… But when journalists cannot interview agency staff, or
can only do so under surveillance, it undermines public understanding of, and trust in, government. This is not a “press vs.
government” issue. This is about fostering a strong democracy
where people have the information they need to self-govern and
trust in its governmental institutions…
Only in the past two administrations have media access controls been tightened at most agencies. Under this administration, even non-defense agencies have asserted in writing their
power to prohibit contact with journalists without surveillance.
Meanwhile, agency personnel are free to speak to others — lobbyists, special-interest representatives, people with money —
without these controls and without public oversight…
The undersigned organizations ask that you seek an end to
this restraint on communication in federal agencies. We ask that
you issue a clear directive telling federal employees they’re not
only free to answer questions from reporters and the public, but
actually encouraged to do so. We believe that is one of the most
important things you can do for the nation now, before the policies become even more entrenched.”
He was either too busy harassing journalists and whistleblowers to read the letter or he ignored it outright. Either way
Obama remains bitterly hostile to openness and transparency.
Read the full letter at http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1253
Letters to the Editor…
Response to
David Coates
To the Editor:
The ﬁrst thing that ought to
be said in response to David
Coates’s opinion piece on state
pensions and retiree beneﬁts
(“Absolutely No End in Sight,”
Caledonian Record 26 March
2015) is that it’s more humane
than many others of its kind. Mr.
Coates asserts that we should
“hold harmless anyone currently
receiving pensions and healthcare beneﬁts.” He does not advocate limitless harm.
That said, I can’t help wondering what sort of retirement
Mr. Coates, “KPMG (retired),”
is able to enjoy as he presumes
to blame “union leaders” for
“keeping Vermont in the red.” I
would guess it’s a tad more lavish than what any unionized
state employee can hope to see.
I would also guess that members
of the Vermont Business Roundtable, on whose behalf Mr.
Coates wrote his piece, would
call my last remark irrelevant.
After all, Mr. Coates worked in
the so-called private sector. He
is not buying his golf balls with
the public’s dime.
The distinction is largely a
sham. It’s based on the same ra-
tionale that screams “socialism”
whenever schoolchildren get
free breakfasts but sees only the
purest form of free-market capitalism when corporations effectively “socialize” their negative
impacts by charging them to
public expense. When a business decides to sweeten its bottom line by downsizing its
workforce or outsourcing its
jobs, who pays for the social
devastation that results? Who
pays the clean-up crews and the
oncologists when industrially
generated carcinogens show up
in the water? When ﬁnancial institutions deemed “too big to
fail” wreak havoc on the economy, who pays to bail them out?
The accounting doesn’t change
just because you can stamp the
ledger sheet “private.”
Earlier this year OXFAM issued a report showing that by
the year 2016, the world’s richest one percent will have more
wealth than the remaining 99.
Even now the world’s richest 80
people have amassed as much
wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion.
Given the power of greed and
the workings of our economic
system, I’m not the least bit
amazed that 80 people should
have managed to grab so much.
See letters, Page A5
In My Opinion…
THE PRACTICAL REALITIES OF TAXATION
By tOm PelhAm
The United States Constitution
says this about Washington D.C.:
“The Congress shall have
power …..to exercise exclusive
Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as
may, by Cession of Particular
States, and the Acceptance of
Congress, become the Seat of the
Government of the United
States……..” Article 1, Section
8, Clause 17
In other words, Congress, including Vermont’s two Senators
and Congressman but excluding
our President, has supreme
power over the governance of our
nation’s capital. Yet, Washington
D.C. has the worst level by far of
income inequality among the 50
states and District of Columbia.
The “gini coefficient” is a
widely used statistical measure
profiling income inequality and
calculated annually by the U.S.
Census bureau. A score of zero
means that all income is equally
distributed while a score of one
means that one person holds all
the income. For 2013, Washington D.C. had the worst score at
.532 and Alaska the best at .408.
Vermont ranked 14th best with a
score of .454 - better than the national average of .481. It seems
that income inequality, while always an issue, is worse in thirty
six other states.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/acs/acsbr13-02.pdf
One reason Vermont has a relatively favorable gini coefficient
is that Vermont does not enjoy a
deep bench of upper income filers. For 2012, the IRS reports
that the national portion of all tax
returns greater than $200,000
was 3.64 percent. As with the
gini score, Washington D.C.
(where it appears lobbying our
Congressmen has its rewards)
had the highest portion of
$200,000+ filers at 6.6 percent
with West Virginia the lowest at
1.76 percent. Vermont stood at
2.59% while our northeast neighbors profiled as follows: New
Hampshire - 3.79 percent, Massachusetts - 5.69 percent, New
York - 4.47 percent, Maine - 2.24
percent, Connecticut - 6.02 percent and Rhode Island - 3.09 percent.
http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOITax-Stats-Historic-Table-2
If in 2012 Vermont had the
same proportion of $200,000
plus filers as the national average, the net gain in income tax
revenues would have been $90.2
million. Vermont is surrounded
by greater wealth but not as
much of it has chosen to reside
here in Vermont.
Further, Tax Department
records show that Vermont’s
upper income filers had a wild
ride through the recent recession.
Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)
for the top 10 percent (those with
AGI greater than $116,270)
dropped from $7.19 billion in
2007 to $5.94 billion in 2009 and
then return and pass the 2007
level in 2013. For the top 1 percent, their AGI dropped from
$2.86 billion in 2007 to $1.42
billion in 2010 and has yet to return to its 2007 level. However,
both these income groups now
pay a higher proportion of the
state’s total income tax, likely attributable to changes in the capital gains exclusion passed in the
2010 budget bill.
For all Vermont taxpayers,
AGI income in 2007 was $16.7
billion and dropped to $15.1 billion in 2009 and then grew to
$17.1 billion in 2013.
Last week Vermont’s House of
Representatives passed a budget
increasing general fund spending
by 4.8 percent, or $67.8 million,
and accomplished this in part by
raising income taxes by $33 million. In the media, there was
much talk about $53 million in
“cuts,” but few found it ironic,
nor did they explain, how a 2016
budget increase of $67.8 million
over 2015 could simultaneously
be cut by $53 million. To many,
a “cut” no longer means a reduction in amount. Now it means a
reduction in hypothetical increases that in reality never existed and were never subject to
any act of the legislature. With
this new logic, legislators can
claim that a budget increase of
say, 8 percent, was actually a
“cut” because the increase might
have been 10 percent. The new
era of “messaging” and “branding” is upon us.
With regard to the $33 million
tax increase, words and deeds
don’t match. VT Digger wrote
this profile of the thinking of
Rep. Janet Ancel, Chair of the
House Ways and Means Committee regarding the tax increase.
“”I think it’s more equitable,”
she said, and makes an already
progressive income tax structure
more so. People at all income
levels itemize deductions, but
they tend to be most valuable for
high earners, Ancel said. As
wages have stagnated for middleincome people, the deductions
have further “skewed” toward
high-income people, who have
seen their wages grow, she said.”
As the Tax Department data
above reveals, the wages (income) of high-income filers stagnated, for some dramatically,
right along with those of the rest
of Vermonters. Further, the tax
bill that Rep. Ancel sponsored
and the House passed is a big hit
to both high income taxpayers as
well as middle income taxpayers.
Those
earning
between
$500,000 and $1 million who
itemize will pay more, amounting to an 11 percent tax increase
and a 19.6 percent increase for
filers who itemize above $1 million. These increases total $7.4
million and will certainly put a
dent in charitable giving as deductions for mortgage interest,
property taxes and medical bills
will take precedence over more
optional charitable gifts.
Further, filers who itemize between $25,000 and $150,000 (it’s
estimate there will be 67,700 of
these) will also feel the tax bite
with increases ranging from 8.4
percent to 9.5 percent and totaling $13.3 million. That’s $13.3
million that Vermont’s middle
class won’t spend on middle
class priorities.
The structural problem here is
clear. With state general fund
spending growing in recent years
at near 5 percent, revenues driven
by underlying economic growth
in the 2 to 3 percent range can’t
keep pace. The result is that legislators and the Governor need
tax increases to plug the gap; this
year and likely next year as another “budget gap” is already
predicted for fiscal 2017. Unfortunately, Vermont is not as well
populated with high income tax
payers as other states. Thus the
pockets of the middle class, including those of state employees,
need to be picked as well to pay
for the budgets of our legislators
and Governor.
Tom Pelham is a former finance commissioner in the Governor Dean administration and
tax commissioner in the Governor Douglas administration. As a
state representative elected as an
independent he served on the Appropriations Committee. He is
co-founder of Campaign for Vermont.
Will Durst
A Bush vs Clinton
Rematch
You might want to stuff your
pants pockets with sand and hang
onto the rail as the ship of state
lurches towards the distinct possibility that the next election to command the helm will be between Jeb
Bush and Hillary Clinton. The
brother versus the wife. Sounds
like a probate lawsuit.
This promises to be a fabulous
development for comedians everywhere, precipitating the resurrection of all our 1992 Bush/Clinton
material. It’s the green thing to do.
Recycling meets nostalgia. Together again for the very ﬁrst time.
A rematch by proxy. Now, if only
we could coax Ross Perot back
into the fray.
If Jeb does win his party’s nomination, it would mean a Bush has
been on their presidential ticket
seven out of the last 10 elections,
which is way past dynasty; now we’re talking
anti-trust legislation. If
Democrats aren’t investigating the possibility of
indicting the Bush Family as a monopolistic cartel infringing on the
Sherman Act, they’re more clueless than we ﬁrst thought. Which
was considerable.
Meanwhile, the GOP is trying to
nip all this dynastic chatter in the
bud by pointing out that Hillary
would be a sequel as well. But a
sequel is not a dynasty. She’s only
the 2nd Clinton to run, which is
different than three candidates
from the same family by one. I
doubt a third Roosevelt could get
elected.
Besides, Hillary is a woman, a
concept Republicans aren’t overly
hip to. The only woman the Tea
Party would nominate is Barbara
Bush. Not as a candidate, as a pro-
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fail to grasp how the ﬁrst
person with a y-chromosome deﬁciency to top a
ticket is a big deal. Nor
do they understand how
disparate the nature is
between the 3rd Bush
and the 1st woman.
The problem is, Jeb has excited
both donors and party regulars.
You keep hearing, “no, no, you
don’t understand, this is the smart
one! He’s takes after mom.” And
isn’t that typical? Finally trotting
out the smart one the third time
around. At least the Dems had the
good sense to send up their smart
Clinton the 2nd time at bat.
Jeb is the guy who famously
said he disagreed with nothing his
brother ever did in the White
House. Of course, when Hillary
was Senator of New York, she
stated she could not believe a sitting president of the United States
would ever lie to her. Arguments
can be made that neither one of
them pays close attention.
The GOP doesn’t realize how
off-putting this whole dynasty
thing is to ordinary Americans.
Our whole system of government
is based on not being a monarchy.
As much as the Bush Family likes
to hold hands with them, we aren’t
Saudi Arabia.
“But Jeb is his own man.” Yeah,
sure. An aide to the Right to Rise
PAC said 21 members advising Jeb
used to work in the Bush 1 or Bush
2 administrations. Who’s he going
to pick as VP, Dick Cheney?
One consolation about this
whole sovereign ascendancy
matchup is whoever wins isn’t
going to need much of an orientation when it comes to ﬁguring out
the lay of the land at the White
House. Look at that, we’re saving
money already.
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State Auditor: Little Monitoring Of Medicaid Spending
By dAve GRAm
Associated Press
MONTPELIER — During the
past decade, Vermont has spent $675
million setting up Medicaid managed-care programs but has done
such a spotty job monitoring them
that they can’t even be audited.
That’s the upshot from a letter
state Auditor of Accounts Douglas
Hoffer sent to lawmakers last week.
It followed up on an internal report
in January by the Agency of Human
Services detailing gaps in answers to
this question: Have the state and federal governments — and taxpayers
— been getting their two-thirds of a
billion dollars’ worth?
Nearly every Vermonter is
touched, or knows someone who is,
by the wide range of programs in
question, Hoffer said in an interview.
“People with developmental disabilities, mental health issues, poor
people who need some assistance,
schools — these are programs reaching an awful lot of Vermonters,”
Hoffer said.
Vermont entered a unique
arrangement with the federal government in 2006 called “global commitment,” in which as long as it
stayed under projected spending
caps, the state would be allowed unusual ﬂexibility in how it spent federal Medicaid dollars.
It was an ideal arrangement for a
state where many politicians and activists wanted to expand health coverage to the uninsured while holding
down costs — Vermont would become a laboratory for health reform.
While those efforts have unfolded, there has been an increasing
focus on government accountability
— checking up on programs to be
sure the money being spent on them
is bringing the desired result. The
latest such effort was a “resultsbased accountability” law passed
last year.
Last summer, then-Human Services Secretary Doug Racine decided
to focus on the state’s unique role as
a Medicaid managed care organization.
Racine left his job in August, but
the review he launched resulted in
the internal January report, which
was obtained by The Associated
Press, showing many instances in
which the tools of government accountability — performance benchmarks and data on whether they
were being reached — did not exist.
“Good performance measures
should be calculated using valid and
reliable data available on a timely
basis,” said the report. Its writers examined practices at the Human Services Agency’s departments: Children
and Families; Corrections; Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living;
Health; Health Access; and Mental
Health.
“(Fewer) than half the departments provided results for their performance measures,” the report said.
The Health Department did so about
90 percent of the time, Mental
Health did so 10 percent and Disabilities, Aging and Independent
Living never did, it said.
Rep. Anne Donahue, R-Northﬁeld, the ranking member of the
House Health Care Committee,
mentioned Hoffer’s letter during
House debate Friday on the state’s
general fund budget for ﬁscal 2016.
That “we don’t have indicators or
we don’t even have targets, let alone
assessing whether we’re meeting
those targets, is pretty startling,”
Donahue said in an interview.
The Department of Mental Health
accounted for nearly 40 percent of
the grants for “managed-care organization investments” in 2014. It got
more than $39 million of $101 million distributed across the Human
Services Agency.
The report said that 80 percent of
the department’s managed-care investments lacked performance targets, which it called “essential to
performance measurement and improvement.”
Deputy Mental Health Commissioner Frank Reed said the department is working to improve
performance measurement. Trying
to predict outcomes, and then com-
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paring actual outcomes against predictions, is difﬁcult in many human
services ﬁelds, but especially when
working with people who suffer
from severe mental illness, he said.
“It’s more challenging. I don’t
want to say it’s impossible but it’s
more challenging,” Reed said.
Susan Wehry, commissioner of
Disabilities, Aging and Independent
Living, said her department has
more robust performance measures
in place than it got credit for in the
internal report. She said that is especially true for a program designed to
help seniors stay in their homes.
Wehry acknowledged that her department has not been able to ﬁnd reliable performance measures for its
programs providing aid to the developmentally disabled.
In his letter to lawmakers summarizing the report, Hoffer said, “The
Department of Corrections and Department (for) Children and Families
had no targets, but did some tracking
of results.”
Hoffer concluded: “My ofﬁce decided not to conduct an audit at this
time because the (Human Services)
internal review disclosed signiﬁcant
issues that would prevent us from assessing whether (Medicaid managed-care) investments had achieved
the purposes outlined” in the state’s
agreement with the federal government.
REGION
BRIEFS
NH Electric Co-op, Liberty customers
to see rate decrease
PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Electric Cooperative and
Liberty Utilities say customers will see their bills decrease, effective May 1.
The change is the result of a decrease in the power rate.
For co-op customers, it comes out to about $23.67 less per month for a
residential member using 500 kilowatts per month. For a customer using
1,000 kilowatts per month, it’s about $47.33.
At Liberty, the reduction will mean a $46 decrease per month for an average residential customer.
The reductions signal an end to a winter period that saw residential bills
increase last fall. The utilities say driving these wide price swings are seasonal
variations in the price of natural gas, used to generate approximately half of
the electricity produced in New England.
Chris Christie planning two-day swing
through New Hampshire
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is planning a
two-day swing through the early-voting state of New Hampshire next month.
The potential Republican presidential contender will be making the trip
on April 14-15.
A spokeswoman for his political action committee says Christie is planning
to meet with community leaders while he’s in town. She says they’ll discuss
important issues facing the country, including entitlement reform.
Christie is then set to return to the state for the New Hampshire Republican
Party’s “First-in-the-Nation Leadership Summit” on April 17.
New Hampshire is seen as an especially important state for Christie. Voters
there tend to be more receptive to moderate candidates than other early states.
He’s expected to kick off a series of town hall meetings there later this
year.
Alcohol campaign started to
‘Live Free and Host Responsibly’
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Liquor Commission has
teamed up with a spirits and wine company to create “Live Free and Host
Responsibly,” to address alcohol consumption.
The commission has created a web page offering tips for responsible serving and hosting, videos with cocktail and mocktail recipes that emphasize
responsible consumption, and guides for lounge and restaurant owners.
The commission has partnered with Brown-Forman to create the yearlong
campaign launched Monday.
The web page will showcase quarterly videos with Tim Laird of BrownForman with instructions on how to make seasonal mocktails and cocktails.
digital forensics company, said Laird is an authority on wines and spirits with more than 20 years of experisearch terms on Tamerlan’s laptop ence in the hospitality industry.
included “detonators,” “transmitter
and receiver” and “ﬁreworks ﬁring
system.” He said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s laptop showed his computer
activity focused heavily on Facebook
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Police in Nashua, New Hampshire, are helping
and a Russian version of Facebook. people who aren’t watching out for their purses and wallets while shopping.
Tsarnaev’s lawyer also told jurors
They conducted a crime prevention campaign over the weekend called
in opening statements that it was “You’ve Been Bagged,” by the police. The department partnered with several
Tamerlan who shot and killed Mas- supermarkets recently to raise awareness for protecting personal property.
sachusetts Institute of Technology The ofﬁcers made contact with over 30 people who left their items unattended
police Ofﬁcer Sean Collier three while shopping. They gave them tips on securing their valuables.
days after the bombings.
Police say it only takes seconds for someone to steal a purse or wallet, and
Prosecutors rested their case Mon- most times, the thief is very nonchalant and will mix in with a crowd, rather
day after calling more than 90 wit- than the typical misconception that they grab the item and run.
nesses over 15 days of testimony,
including bombing survivors who
described losing limbs in the attack.
Jurors saw gruesome autopsy
BOSTON (AP) — The Coast Guard says nine crewmembers have been
photos of the three killed: 8-year-old
Martin Richard, a Boston boy who safely evacuated from a Canadian charter schooner that lost power off the
had gone to the marathon with his New England coast while on route to the Caribbean.
Petty Ofﬁcer Ross Ruddell said the Liana’s Ransom was still adrift and
family; 23-year-old Lingzi Lu, a
graduate student from China who unmanned Tuesday afternoon about 34 miles east of Portland, Maine. He
was studying at Boston University; said there was no immediate plan to tow it.
Two Massachusetts-based Coast Guard boats weren’t able to tow the vesand Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old
sel early Monday because of rough seas. The schooner had reported trouble
restaurant manager.
at about 12:35 a.m. Ruddell said one crewmember ﬂown to a Boston hospital
with a possible head injury was treated and released. Eight others returned
on the boats.
The Halifax-based schooner’s Facebook page says it left Friday for St.
Maarten. It says the 85-foot, steel-hulled vessel was launched in Texas in
2002.
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Defense Rests In 1st Phase Of Boston Marathon Bombing Trial
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BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev rested their case in his federal death penalty trial Tuesday, a
day after they began presenting testimony designed to show his late
older brother was the mastermind of
the 2013 terror attack.
The defense admitted during
opening statements that Tsarnaev
participated in the bombings. But
Tsarnaev’s lawyer said he was a troubled 19-year-old who had fallen
under the inﬂuence of his radicalized
26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who
died following a shootout with police
days after the bombings.
Prosecutors and Tsarnaev’s
lawyers will give closing arguments
April 6. The jury is expected to begin
deliberations the same day.
The defense has made it clear
from the beginning of the trial that its
strategy is not to win an acquittal for
Tsarnaev, now 21, but to save him
from the death penalty. Three people
were killed and more than 260 were
injured when two pressure-cooker
bombs exploded near the ﬁnish line
April 15, 2013.
If the jury convicts Tsarnaev — an
event that seems a foregone conclusion because of his lawyer’s admission — the same jury will be asked
to decide whether he should be executed or spend the rest of his life in
prison.
During its brief case, the defense
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site analyst who showed that Tsarnaev was at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
when
Tamerlan purchased components of
the two bombs used in the 2013 attack, including pressure cookers and
BBs.
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examiner testiﬁed that Dzhokhar’s
ﬁngerprints weren’t found on any of
the marathon bomb components, but
Tamerlan’s were.
Elaina Graff said Tamerlan’s
prints were detected on two pieces of
cardboard that came from one of the
bombs used at the marathon and on
a piece of paper found inside a backpack used to carry a bomb.
Graff said prints belonging to both
brothers were found on another
bomb recovered from the scene of a
gun battle with police days after the
marathon attack. That bomb, which
was not detonated, consisted of explosive powder and fuses packed inside a plastic container with a fuse
protruding from the lid.
While being cross-examined by
Assistant U.S. Attorney William
Weinreb, Graff said it can be difﬁcult
to ﬁnd ﬁngerprints at bombing sites.
“Due to the extreme temperature and
force in an explosion, it is not unusual to not ﬁnd ﬁngerprints on
items,” Graff said.
Also testifying for the defense
Tuesday was a computer expert who
said Tamerlan Tsarnaev did Internet
searches on bomb components in the
weeks before the attack.
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Democrat O’Malley Hits GOP Support For Indiana Law
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BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Likely
Democratic presidential candidate
Martin O’Malley says it’s “shameful” for Republicans to support an Indiana law that critics see as legalizing
discrimination against gays and lesbians.
The former Maryland governor
criticized 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls while in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Several have
expressed support for the law, which
prevents the state from restricting the
ability of people and businesses to
express their religious beliefs. Opponents say the law will allow businesses to refuse service to people,
based on sexual orientation.
O’Malley said Republican support
for the law reﬂects a fundamental dif-
ference between the two parties. Democrats, he says, want more people
to participate fully in society.
“I think it’s shameful that presidential candidates in this day and age
would try to give cover to a law that
is sweeping across a lot of Republican-governed states,” he said, and
that would “give license to the discrimination of gay and lesbian people.” He said: “It’s not who we are as
a country.”
Struggling with a backlash against
the measure, Indiana Gov. Mike
Pence said Tuesday he now wants
legislation on his desk to clarify that
the new law does not allow discrimination.
About 20 states have similar laws.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush applauded Pence for signing the law
and said it is not discriminatory.
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Ben Carson, a possible Republican
candidate, also commended Pence’s
signing of the law.
O’Malley pointed to actions taken
in Maryland during his governorship
that raised business participation
among minorities and women, legalized gay marriage and made it easier
for immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.
O’Malley is traveling to early voting states seeking to build support for
a possible 2016 bid as Democrats
consolidate around former Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She’s expected to announce her candidacy in coming weeks.
O’Malley’s visit to New Hampshire, his second this month, included
a Tuesday morning speech to a business crowd, private meetings and an
event with young Democrats. His
but our state troopers, kindergarten
teachers, snowplow drivers and—
horror of horrors—the elected leaders
of their beleaguered unions.
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N.H. HOUSE BUDGET SLASHES AID TO LOCAL SCHOOLS
By PAUl hAyeS
Staff Writer
Community
Change
Lancaster
($750,000)
($750,000)
Haverhill
Littleton
($599,503)
Northumberland($554, 413)
Colebrook
($435,203)
($353,773)
Lisbon
Whitefield
($335,276)
($195,698)
Stratford
Bethlehem
($179,696)
Jefferson
($83,206)
Stewartstown ($78,208)
($49,531)
Bath
Lyman
($35,296)
Landaff
($24,534)
Monroe
($21,247)
($14, 148)
Pittsburg
State Total: ($32,963,340)
% Change
-21%
-18%
-16%
-21%
-22%
-21%
-18%
-23%
-14%
-17%
-14%
-10%
-26%
-19%
-7%
-40%
-6%
NORTH COUNTRY — Local communities will be among the hardest hit by school
spending cuts in the proposed House budget.
The House will vote today on a budget that
slashes state adequate education aid in 2017,
with 23 communities — including Haverhill
and Lancaster — facing a maximum
$750,000 reduction.
If approved the budget moves on to the
Senate.
Superintendents for SAU 23, which includes Haverhill, and SAU 36, which includes Lancaster, predicted staff and program
cuts would be required if the House budget
plan were approved.
“It would affect us signiﬁcantly,” said SAU
36 Superintendent Dr. Harry Fensom.
“The picture is looking pretty gloomy,”
*Figures not available for Carroll, Easton, Franconia, Sugar Hill. Inforsaid SAU 23 Superintendent Dr. Donald Lamation provided by Daniel Barrick, NH Center for Public Policy Studies
Plante.
The House plan would have the greatest
impact on communities in poorer, rural areas
of legislation, Senate Bill 228, would fund 2017 state
in northern and western New Hampshire, where sig- adequacy aid at $25 million over the House level.
niﬁcant tax hikes would be unpopular and, for many,
While the budget battle rages on in Concord, local
un-affordable.
school ofﬁcials pointed to a more troubling, long-term
That’s true in Haverhill and Lancaster, where be- trend in education funding.
tween 40 and 50 percent of students receive free and
reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty.
“The picture is looking pretty
Other local communities that would experience
signiﬁcant decreases in state aid under the House plan
gloomy.”
are Littleton (-$599,503), Northumberland (— SAU 23 Super,
$554,413), Colebrook (-$435,203), Lisbon (-$353,
773) and Whiteﬁeld (-$335,276), according to inforDr. Donald LaPlante
mation provided by Daniel Barrick of the New
Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.
As a result, school districts serving these commuFensom and LaPlante said state legislators continue
nities would have to make painful cuts to staff and to downshift education costs onto the school districts
programs in order to balance the budget, LaPlante and local taxpayers, and that the trend was becoming
said.
unsustainable, particularly in the rural North Coun“You can’t pass on a $750,000 tax hike, so you try.
have to reduce costs somehow,” said LaPlante.
“Taxpayers get mad at us, probably because we’re
That’s particularly true in the cash-strapped North the people they can look in the eye, but the fact of the
Country. In the White Mountains Regional School matter is they need to go to the legislators,” Fensom
District there has been little appetite for increased said. “The legislators aren’t creating the revenue
spending, as multiple proposals to build a new voca- streams to fund schools, or infrastructure, or health
tional school and renovate the existing high school and human services, or other necessary departments.
have fallen short, and this year an unsuccessful at- They’re not doing their job.”
tempt was made to remove $817,000 from the budget.
Meanwhile LaPlante plans to raise the issue of conIf the House budget version survives the senate, solidating SAU 23 schools into a single school disthen SAU 36 would be forced to consider cuts, and trict, in order to consolidate purchasing,
electives such as art and music would be at risk, Fen- administrative and other costs, when the full SAU 23
som said.
board meets tonight.
“It would be pretty destructive for our district,” he
“We have to start doing something,” said LaPlante.
said.
“If the state imposes draconian measures we’ll have
However the Senate budget writers are expected to little choice.”
lessen the blow and undo some House cuts. One piece
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Traditional pre-K includes half
day sessions lasting 2.5 hours on
four weekdays in the morning or
afternoon. Students enrolled in
morning sessions may ride a bus to
school but require retrieval at
noontime, and students in afternoon sessions require delivery to
school but can ride a bus home.
Despite changes, parents may
select a traditional half day pre-K
program next year. School ofﬁcials
suspect most will opt for full day
sessions though, citing the fact parents triggered pre-K expansion.
Ingrid Reade, the supervisory
union’s early education coordinator, said preliminary pre-K enrollment projections for 2015-2016
show 30 students in Danville, 30 in
Barnet, and a 10-15 in Peacham.
Costs are unclear but further information is scheduled to be available
later this month, she said.
“We’ll know a lot more soon,”
she said.
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ate studies from Southern New
Hampshire University and a doctorate in education from the University of Vermont, began her
career as an elementary school
special education teacher in St.
Johnsbury, where she also worked
in reading and assessment.
When she was in the running for
the job in early March, she said the
SAU 36 district faces a challenge
with declining enrollments and increasing budgets and one of her
goals is to ﬁnd ways to be cost-ef-
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him to be able to walk up the
snowbank and to the front of my
cruiser.”
Laliberte was unable to perform
ﬁeld sobriety tests and posed a
safety hazard for trafﬁc, Ferrier
Funding ﬂows from school
budgets and state sources like the
pre-K expansion grant, which covers full day pre-K for 4 year old
children from low income homes.
It is unclear how many children
qualify under the grant in Barnet,
Danville and Peacham.
Reade said a full day lesson plan
is under development. The pre-K
day though will include instruction, snacks, recess, lunch, and afternoon quiet time.
Full day pre-K was driven by
parent input voiced via vehicles
like an annual survey, Reade said.
“Something that comes up over
and over again is that they love the
pre-K program and would like it to
cover more hours,” she said. “My
hope is to accommodate everyone’s needs.”
Judy Ross, the Peacham School
principal, is cheering pre-K expansion.
“I think it’s a plan that’s time is
correct,” she said. “It’s time for
this. It is a natural progression
from our original program. It provides a structured setting with pro-
gramming. It also provides a really
important service to families. It
provides really consistent care.”
The purpose of pre-K is to primarily build social skills, Ross
said. It marks an essential period in
childhood development, as do teen
years, she said.
“This is speciﬁc for their physical, emotional and neurocognitive
needs,” she said.
Kerin Hoffman, principal at
Danville School, said full day preK means more instruction, intervention, arts, and enrichment.
That’s all good, and families recognize it, she said.
“The parents who have registered so far have overwhelmingly
chosen the full day option, so
we’re excited for the support of
our expanded program,” she said.
“Students who spend a year, hopefully two, in a full day pre-K will
be better prepared socially and academically for kindergarten, and
that readiness will continue to have
a positive effect throughout their
years in school.”
ﬁcient without affecting student
outcomes.
Fensom, of Newburytown,
Mass., began as superintendent in
December 2009.
Although he stayed in the job
for ﬁve years, Fensom was ofﬁcially brought in as an interim superintendent, with the intention to
stay just six months. But in the following years, searches for permanent superintendents were not
successful and he remained interim
SAU 36 superintendent for half a
decade.
“It’s a good place to work,” Fensom said of SAU 36.
Fensom said he will continue to
work in education, but intends to
work at a district that is closer to
his home.
During the next few months,
prior to ofﬁcially becoming superintendent on July 1, Anastasia
plans to attend SAU 36 school
board meetings, he said.
SAU 36, which has a current
total enrollment of about 1,222
students, represents the towns of
Dalton, Lancaster, Whiteﬁeld, Jefferson and Carroll and includes
Jefferson Elementary School, Lancaster Elementary School, Whiteﬁeld Elementary School, White
Mountains Regional High School
and North Country Class.
said.
He was placed under arrest and
taken to the state police barracks
for processing.
In the afﬁdavit, Ferrier wrote
that Laliberte said he drank four or
ﬁve beers and two or three shots
and had taken two different medications intended to treat anxiety.
Laliberte said he had been
drinking at the Tavern in Derby on
Route 5, Ferrier said.
A blood alcohol test showed he
had a blood alcohol test of .196
percent at 9:41 p.m.
His vehicle had minor damage
and was towed from the scene, police reported.
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ahead on the project.
“They can put a shovel in the
ground,” Donegan said.
Still under review is the project’s updated ﬁnancial picture or
business plan, Donegan said.
Stenger and partner Ariel Quiros
must have DFR’s approval of the
updated business plan to use any
new investments they obtain.
Donegan said that any new investments raised for AnC Bio Vermont will have to go into an
escrow account until her department’s review is completed. She
could not say when that would be.
“I am very pleased,” Stenger
said.
“We are out on the market again
and we are able to welcome the
large number of investors who are
waiting for this. We have a great
reputation and great projects.
Dozens of investors are waiting for
this,” Stenger said.
Patricia Moulton, secretary of
the Agency of Commerce and
Community Development, said
Tuesday that she knew a decision
had been made about AnC Bio
Vermont at DFR but that there is
additional review being done.
“It certainly was our hope that
the private placement memorandum would be approved,” Moulton said.
Newport City Mayor Paul Monette said late Tuesday that he is
“thrilled the Department of Financial Regulation has given Bill
Stenger the go-ahead to begin construction of AnC Bio Vermont
along with allowing the recruitment of new investors.”
“This project is key in the redevelopment of Newport and our
economic future. A diverse economy is vital in the success of a
community and I know Newport is
on the right track,” said Monette.
“I have the utmost conﬁdence that
this project along with the Main
Street Renaissance block will be
completed.”
Stenger and Quiros, who own
the former Bogner plant where
they plan to build the $70 million
AnC Bio Vermont facility, can
now use the 80 percent of necessary investments already in hand to
begin construction.
They are also demolishing the
Spates Block on Main Street to
make way for the Renaissance
Block, a commercial and hotel
building timed to go up in tandem
with AnC Bio Vermont. Stenger
said he wants to submit business
plans to the state for the Renaissance Project later this year, get
approval and raise investments in
time to break ground in 2016.
Review and Delays
Susan Donegan, director of
the Vermont Department of
Financial Regulation.
The AnC Bio Vermont project
went on hold last summer when
the Vermont Agency of Commerce
and Community Development and
Stenger agreed that the business
plan and private placement memos
needed to be updated in the fastpaced bio tech market. The EB-5
approval from the state had been
updated in 2012, but needed to be
updated again.
“They can put a
shovel in the ground,”
Donegan said.
Meanwhile federal review of
EB-5 projects had slowed as the
industry expanded nationwide. In
2006, there were only 35 EB-5
projects in the country. Now there
are more than 700, Stenger said.
One of the time-consuming
parts of the review was the requirement of an extensive independent
market analysis of the products
and services that AnC Bio Vermont
would supply. The analysis, which
took six months to complete,
paints a strong picture of the adult
stem cell research and clean
rooms’ marketability.
Stenger had expected to break
ground last fall but the state review
was not complete.
Meanwhile, in February, the
agency signed an agreement with
DFR to make sure AnC Bio Vermont and other EB-5 projects
comply with securities regulations.
DFR picked up the review of the
AnC Bio Vermont project midstream, Donegan said.
Q Burke
Another Stenger-Quiros project,
Q Burke Resort’s expansion and
its new lodges, is still under review
by Donegan’s department, she
said.
Until the private placement
memorandum for the Q Burke
project is approved, Quiros and
Stenger cannot attract more investors or spend any existing EB5 investments. Developers can use
their own money to continue construction, Donegan said.
“We look at ﬁnancial projections for projects in an operating
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wrong back at home.”
Later in the day Vermont Adjutant General Steven Cray echoed
the same sentiment when talking
about his own two children. “The
kids serve, and I do believe that
they serve,” he said. “They served
along with my wife during the
many deployments that I have had
during my career. And it has made
an impact on them. They serve
knowing - or not knowing maybe
- what I was doing for the state and
the country. And I think that unknown was the big deal. What is
dad doing? And why is he doing
it? And why is it for so long?”
“When a family member puts on
the uniform, the whole family
serves,” said Katherine Long, a
veteran advocate speaking on behalf of United States Senator
Patrick Leahy.
“I know a month doesn’t really
represent the kind of service that
you go through,” said Stephanie
Albaugh of Operation Military
Kids, the organization that put this
celebration together. “But at least
it’s a chance for us to heighten that
awareness and show you how
much we appreciate for all that you
do all the time.”
Whereas military personnel are
relocated frequently and moving
can result in both academic and
social challenges for the children
of military personnel…
Among the families attending
the celebrations were the Haggetts
of Lyndonville. Caitlin, 11, and
Brooke, 8, have a father who is
nearing retirement from the military. They came to the event with
their mother Carolyn, who is a
member of the National Guard.
It has been ﬁve years since
they’ve had a parent on deployment, but the girls continue to be
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Brooke where to stand on the
House of Representatives to
hear a peculiar echoing sound
phenomenon.
affected by their family’s afﬁliation with the military. “You missed
out on our talent show because you
were away!” said Brooke, referring to an event just last week that
Carolyn was unable to attend due
to her military duties.
Caitlin has memories of when
her dad was away on his last deployment. “It was really hard because I started to miss him,” she
said. “It felt like FOREVER!”
Carolyn’s husband was also
away on deployment for the birth
of each of the girls. “He met
[Caitlin] for two weeks when she
was six months old. He came
home when she was a year old.
And he didn’t meet [Brooke] until
she was eight months old,” he said.
“We expected that he would be
home when she was about four
months old, so we thought that
would be pretty good. And then
they were extended indeﬁnitely the
day before he was supposed to
come home from Iraq.”
The family has lived at Fort
Campbell in Kentucky, Fort Wainwright in Alaska, and now in Vermont. It’s a place where the
approximately 2,000 school-aged
mode,” Donegan said of DFR’s responsibility to review any project
before it, not just AnC Bio Vermont. The review is similar to how
securities are reviewed for stock
markets, she agreed.
The department also looks at
how the funds are described,
whether projects are moving along
as predicted, and if money is being
used as projected, she said.
“There needs to be adequate disclosure about material facts associated with the project,” Donegan
said.
Stenger said that all EB-5 projects in Vermont will have investment funds held in escrow until
DFR completes its ﬁnancial review, or until the investor has
what’s known as I-529 approval
from the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service.
“We think this level of review
will only create stronger projects
and make the state’s EB-5 Regional Center more competitive in
a marketplace that has seen immense growth over the last few
years both nationally and here in
Vermont,” said Stenger, who is
president and partner with Quiros
of Jay Peak Resort.
In 2008, the state’s EB-5 Regional Center only had Jay Peak
Resort projects to review. Now
there are more than a dozen projects across the state.
AnC Bio Vermont
As proposed, AnC Bio Vermont
will be a state-of-the-art biotech
facility manufacturing medical devices, pioneering adult stem cell
therapy to cure disease, and operating clean rooms for research and
development, Stenger said.
The recently completed market
analysis was conducted by Frost
and Sullivan, a market research
ﬁrm specializing in multiple industries including health care. Their
study indicated that the market for
the company’s products and services will be more than $4 billion by
the year 2020.
In addition to the projected
2,300 direct and indirect jobs the
facility is promised to create, the
taxes generated by the new campus and its employees will inject
much-needed funds into Newport,
Stenger said.
“With the rapid expansion of
EB-5 centers across the country, it
has become an incredibly competitive marketplace,” continued
Stenger.
“To be able to say to a potential
investor that Vermont is one of
only two places where the state has
close oversight, and policies and
procedures for all projects to adhere to makes us stand out and
gives the investor a greater sense
of security,” Stenger said.
military kids are scattered all over
the state.
Whereas, regardless of their
grade, military children entering
a new school system must adjust
to different, possibly incompatible
curriculums, become acquainted
with new surroundings and form
new friendships…
Today the girls regularly attend
camps in Vermont specially designed to bring military children
together. “I think it certainly is difﬁcult in the civilian world, if a parent is deployed or if I’m at a
training or whatever, for people to
understand,” Carolyn said. “And I
think that’s where the camps really
come in. They can turn to the person next to them and just be like,
‘What do you do when your mom
or dad is gone?’”
A grant program that lets children try something new while a
parent is on deployment led the
Haggetts to connect with another
local military family. During one
deployment, Carolyn used the
grant to take Caitlin to karate
classes. She was in uniform when
she took Caitlin to class. Across
the room, another family was
using their grant for karate as well.
Rita Durgin and her sons had
just sent their father off on deployment the week before, too. For
Rita, seeing someone in uniform
was a comfort. “My son was like,
‘Look Mom! Someone in uniform,
someone in uniform!’ We just
started talking and now we’re best
friends.”
And so the activities for military
kids end up creating connections
and touchstones for their parents as
well.
Now therefore be it resolved by
the Senate and House of Representatives that the General Assembly designates April 2015 as
the Month of the Military Child in
Vermont.
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Tiny Songbird Tracked Across 1,700 Miles Of Open Ocean
By WIlSON RING
Associated Press
MONTPELIER — A tiny songbird that summers in the forests of northern North America
has been tracked on a 1,700-mile, over-theocean journey from the northeastern United
States and eastern Canada to the Caribbean as
part of their winter migration to South America,
according to a new study.
Scientists had long suspected that the blackpoll warbler had made its journey to the
Caribbean over the ocean, but the study that
began in the summer of 2013 when scientists
attached tracking devices to the birds was the
ﬁrst time that the ﬂight has been proven, according to results published Wednesday in the
United Kingdom in the journal Biology Letters.
“It is such a spectacular, astounding feat that
this half-an-ounce bird can make what is obviously a perilous, highly risky journey over the
open ocean,” said Chris Rimmer of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, one of the authors.
In the summer of 2013, scientists tagged 19
blackpolls on Vermont’s Mount Mansﬁeld and
18 in two locations in Nova Scotia. Of those,
three were recaptured in Vermont with the
tracking device attached and two in Nova Scotia.
Four warblers, including two tagged in Vermont, departed between Sept. 25 and Oct. 21
and ﬂew directly to the islands of Hispaniola or
Puerto Rico in ﬂights ranging from 49 to 73
hours. A ﬁfth bird departed Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina, and ﬂew nearly 1,000 miles before landing in the Turks and Caicos before
continuing on to South America.
On their return journeys north, the birds ﬂew
along the coast.
The warblers, known to bulk up by eating insects near their coastal departure points before
heading south, are common in parts of North
America, but their numbers have been declining. “Now maybe that will help us focus attention on what could be driving these declines,”
Rimmer said.
Knowing how the blackpoll warblers migrate helps scientists know more about the implications of changing climate, said Andrew
Farnsworth, a research associate at the Cornell
Lab of Ornithology who specializes in migration biology and was not involved in the study.
“What happens if birds aren’t able to fuel
sufﬁciently to make this kind of ﬂight because
of habitat fragmentation and habitat loss in
New England or the Canadian Maritimes?”
Farnsworth said. “How much energy do they
need and if they don’t get it, what happens?”
A number of bird species ﬂy long distances
over water, but the warbler is different because
it’s a forest dweller. Most other birds that winter in South America ﬂy through Mexico and
Central America.
in this May 2014 photo released by
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Buying
Gold, Silver
Diamonds
Estate Jewelry
Eastern Avenue
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
(Next to Star Theatre)
802-748-2933
Black Cyan Magenta Yellow
Wood • Pellet • Gas
Sales • Service
& Installation
Chimney
Cleaning & Lining
603-444-1188
Service 603-991-8415
Sales
758 Meadow Street
Littleton, New Hampshire
Next Door to Chutters
Wood • Gas • Pellet Stoves
Fireplaces
Over 35 Years Experience
Twin City Plaza
1284 US Rt. 302, Barre, VT 05641
802-476-4905 • 1-800-677-4905
Peter L’Esperance
CALL: 802.748.8121