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DANVILLE
ST. JOHNSBURY
Poetry Is The Point PRINCIPAL DENIES
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SEASON NEARS
By LEah CarEy
Staff Writer
2 CHARGES OF
EMBEZZLEMENT
I
t’s not often that you hear an ode
to a cicada. Or about the day that
God invented bluegrass music.
Those were just two of the many topics on tap Thursday night at the
Athenaeum, at the ﬁrst of three poetry
slams highlighting this year’s PoemTown St. Johnsbury event.
A poetry slam is a competition in
which poets recite their own compositions and judges award points. But as
opposed to the high school Poetry Out
Loud competition proﬁled in these
pages last month, where recitation is serious business, the slam is all in fun.
“It takes all the heaviness out of the
‘art’ of poetry,” said event emcee Geof
Hewitt. “It’s joyful.”
Hewitt, who lives in Calais, is the
“slam poet laureate” of Vermont and he
is an expert at providing everyone with
a raucously good time. As he keeps reminding everyone, “The point is not the
points. The point is the poetry.”
The rules of the slam are pretty simple: the poet shall perform original work
only, without props, costumes or musical accompaniment. They have a threeminute time limit, with a 10-second
grace period. The judges grade on a
zero (don’t quit your day job) to 10
(your poem and performance blew my
socks all the way to Toledo) scale.
By tayLor rEED
Staff Writer
ST. JOHNSBURY — The town
school is calling all parents of 3and 4-year-old children.
Information and registration
sessions for the district’s new universal prekindergarten program are
scheduled on April 27 during two
time slots and on May 13 during
two time slots. Eligible students
include all children who will be 3
or 4 years old by Sept. 1.
“It’s a big jump in the amount of
offerings we’ll have for our 3- to
4-year-olds,”
Superintendent
Ranny Bledsoe said Monday during a regular meeting of the School
Board of Directors.
The April 27 information and
registration sessions are 1-2 p.m.,
and 6-7 p.m. at St. Johnsbury
School. The May 13 sessions are
12-1 p.m., and 6-7 p.m. at the
school.
Universal pre-K provides all 3and 4-year-olds with 10 hours of
weekly pre-K for 35 weeks annually. School directors budgeted for
80 students at about $3,000 a tot.
Parents who cannot attend the
information and registration sessions are urged to speak with their
child care provider for more information about pre-K. Details are
also available by emailing Dawn
Powers at [email protected].
Universal pre-K is coming to St.
Johnsbury a year ahead of its mandated start date of July 1, 2016. It
will be provided at the town school
and at certain day care centers.
The centers are ABC & LOL
Child Care Center on Memorial
Drive, Cherry Street Playcare on
Cherry Street, Head Start on Lincoln Street, Kids of the Kingdom
Learning Center and Pre School in
Barnet’s Passumpsic Village, Little
Dipper Doodle Children’s Center
in the St. Johnsbury-Lyndon Industrial Park, and New Beginnings
Child Care Center on Memorial
Drive. There are also two homebased providers in Theresa Stevens
on Fenoff Circle and Colby Clagg
By JaMES JarDinE
Staff Writer
PHOTO BY LEAH CAREY
Poetry slam winner Bill Biddle tells the crowd about his ofﬁce mate, a
See Poetry, Page A6 woman who he never sees.
ST. JOHNSBURY — A former Danville
School principal denied charges Monday in
Caledonia Superior Court that he embezzled
school fundraiser
money.
Ed Webbley,
60, entered not
guilty pleas to two
counts of embezzlement; one of
the counts is a
felony because of
the value of the alleged theft.
He is accused of
PHOTO BY JAMES JARDINE
opening a school
Webbley
Edwin
safe on Feb. 15
at
arraignment
and taking $360 in
cash and $1,230 in
checks. The act was recorded on a security camera installed by the school, state court records.
Vermont State Police were alerted to the alleged crime by Caledonia Central Supervisory
Union Superintendent Dr. Matthew Forest. Det.
Sgt. Kelley Clark stated in her afﬁdavit that on
See Embezzle, Page A6
LANCASTER
INDICTMENTS RACK UP FOR KELLEY COUPLE IN CUSTODY CASE
Scott Kelley Now Indicted For Interference With Custody, Witness Tampering
By roBErt BLEChL
Staff Writer
LANCASTER, N.H. — Two days after he
was apprehended in Atlanta, Scott Kelley,
husband of the woman charged with ﬂeeing
with her 8-year-old daughter in 2004 during
a custody dispute with her previous husband,
was indicted for witness tampering and interference with custody.
For a decade, he had been a fugitive from
See Pre-K, Page A6
justice.
The indictments handed up Friday and issued Monday at Coos Superior Court charge
Scott Kelley, 50, formerly of Whiteﬁeld, with
a Class B felony count of unlawful interference with custody and two Class B felony
counts of tampering with a witness. He was
also indicted on two Class A misdemeanor
counts of unlawful interference with custody.
Authorities allege that between November
2004 and September 2005 he acted with
Genevieve Kelley to take Mary Elizabeth
Nunes, the biological daughter of Genevieve
Kelley and her ex-husband, Mark Nunes,
from New Hampshire with the intent to conceal her from Mark Nunes, who at the time
had lawful physical custody of her.
Authorities say Scott and Genevieve Kelley tampered with a witness by purposely removing Mary from the state in violation of a
Coos Superior Court order requiring
See Kelley, Page A6
Scott Kelley
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may need a law saying who should handle an investigation when the attorney general is the target.
In his complaint, Toensing alleges Sorrell took
campaign contributions from private lawyers and
later, as the state’s top lawyer, joined them in a lawsuit against 29 oil and gas companies. Seven Days reported this month that Sorrell met with
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Attorney General William
Sorrell on Monday rejected a request by a Republican
Party ofﬁcial that Sorrell appoint an independent
counsel to investigate his political practices and
whether he violated campaign ﬁnance laws.
The attorney general, whose ofﬁce oversees enforcement of campaign ﬁnance laws, defended his
campaign practices and said in an interview with The
Associated Press that he was “not about to waste a lot
of taxpayer money responding to his call for an independent counsel.”
Brady Toensing, vice chairman of the state Repub-
lican Party, accused the Democrat in a letter dated
April 19 of “long-term and chronic ﬂouting” of the
laws. Toensing attached a four-count complaint to the
letter, pointing to what he called illegal activities by
the attorney general during the 2012 and 2014 campaigns.
The complaint was based on reporting by Seven
Days, a Burlington newspaper, and by The New York
Times. It alleges possible violations of anti-bribery
laws, illegal coordination between a Sorrell campaign
and a super PAC, failure to report legally required detail on campaign expenses, and improperly using state
resources.
Sorrell denied any wrongdoing.
Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, said Monday the circum-
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mont law that bars public ofﬁcials from seeking or
accepting gifts with the understanding that they will
result in an ofﬁcial action favorable to the donor.
Sorrell said he had been advised by his staff and
the state Agency of Natural Resources to select Baron
& Budd as one of the law ﬁrms that the state would
partner with in the suit.
“It’s unfortunate that there are questions about
whether there was undue inﬂuence,” Sorrell said. “I
know there was no undue inﬂuence.”
The complaint also alleges Sorrell’s 2012 campaign improperly coordinated activities with a super
PAC set up to help Sorrell beat back a primary challenge by Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J.
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THE RECORD • TuESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015
FOR THE RECORD
OBITUARIES
JOHN CHARLES DALY
1946-2015
John Charles Daly, 69, of St.
Johnsbury, Vt., died on April 19,
2015, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center due to complications from a recurrence of cancer.
He leaves his wife of 46 years,
Denyse (Lanctot), son Sean and
his companion Laura Campbell
of Brandon; daughter Megan and
her husband Jack Farmer of
Crofton, Md.; sister Lynn
Rickard and her husband Walter
of Edison, N.J.; sister Elizabeth
Daly Levinson and her husband
Dr. Martin of Moorestown, N.J.; in-laws Donna and Jim Ferguson of
Amityville, N.Y.; Mary Bailey of Danville, Jane and Patrick DeWitt of
Lansing, Mich.; nieces and nephews: Tricia (Rickard) and Rob Landel,
Susie (Rickard) and Fred Kinch, Jack and Cristina Rickard, John Levinson, Kaitlyn Levinson, Dana Ferguson, JG Ferguson, Ian Bailey, Ross
Bailey, Brett Almasi, and Kayla DeWitt; and many grand-nieces and
grand-nephews. He was pre-deceased by his parents, John and Ethel
(Pat) Daly; and his brothers-in-law Dr. James T. Bailey and J.P. Lanctot.
John was born on March 14, 1946, in Flushing, N.Y., the son of John
and Ethel (Pat) Daly. He grew up in the Bayside area of Queens, N.Y.,
attending Catholic schools and graduating from Francis Lewis High
School in 1964. He graduated from Lyndon State College in 1968. While
at LSC, he met his wife Denyse and they were married Aug. 10, 1968.
John had a long career in sales in the telecommunications ﬁeld, working for Motorola for over 17 years and then as a founder of his own business. After retiring, he was one of the original volunteers for the St.
Johnsbury Community Justice Center. He was a parishioner of Corpus
Christi and was a member of many civic and fraternal organizations.
John had a lifelong passion for learning; he was an avid reader and
loved history, politics and trivia. He never shied away from a spirited
debate. He was very proud of his Irish heritage, and celebrated all things
Irish. He was a self-taught and accomplished cook. He had an appreciation for the arts and he liked to draw. He loved watching football, baseball and golf. He loved the natural beauty of Vermont and ﬁshing, and
while a New Yorker at heart, he made the Northeast Kingdom his home.
He maintained a wonderful attitude about life, and truly enjoyed the
simple pleasures – spending time with family and friends, a good meal,
and his pets. Above all, he was a devoted husband, father, son and
brother who cherished his family.
Visiting hours will be held at Sayles Funeral Home on Thursday, April
23, from 6 to 8 p.m.
A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. John the Evangelist Church,
46 Winter St., St. Johnsbury, on Friday, April 24, at 11 a.m.
Memorial contributions could be directed to either The Good Shepherd School, 121 Maple St., St. Johnsbury, VT 05819; or to “Norris Cotton Cancer Center North,” 1080 Hospital Dr., St. Johnsbury, VT 05819.
Memories and condolences may be shared privately at
www.saylesfh.com. The Sayles Funeral Home is located at 525 Summer
St. in St. Johnsbury.
LOUISE (CANNON) DEIGNAN
Louise (Cannon) Deignan, R.N.,
died Friday, April 17, 2015, in St.
Johnsbury, Vt., where she had made
her home for the past 13 years. She
was 84 years of age. She was the
wife of William Deignan who died
in June 1996.
Born in Lowell, Mass., she was
one of six daughters of the late Peter
Cannon and the late Lillian (LaBelle) Cannon.
Louise was a registered nurse
earning a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Lowell State
College in 1973, and a Master of Science degree in community health nursing from Boston University School of Nursing in 1980.
Among other endeavors in her nursing career she practiced Community
Health Nursing in the greater Boston area in the early 1980s.
After the death of her husband William in 1996, she made her home in
St. Johnsbury, where her daughters resided, and returned to her career at St.
Johnsbury Health and Rehab Center on a part-time basis from 2005-2007.
Mrs. Deignan was a sports enthusiast and enjoyed following the Boston
Red Sox and the New England Patriots. She also took interest in the issues
taking place in the U.S. Congress and how the legislators voted. Mrs.
Deignan was a member and communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church
in St. Johnsbury.
Mrs. Deignan and the late Wm. Deignan were the parents of their beloved
daughter, Mary Lou Deignan, who died in October 2003 and their beloved
son Terrance Deignan who recently passed away.
She is survived by four of her six children: Wm. Deignan Jr. and his wife
Linda of Tewksbury, Mass., Jayne (Deignan) Willman, R.N., and her husband Scott of Barnet, Vt., Timothy Deignan and his wife Virginia of Tyngsboro, Mass., Kathleen (Deignan) Beausoleil and her husband Stephen of
St. Johnsbury, Vt.; daughter-in-law Susan Deignan of Chelmsford, Mass.;
13 grandchildren: Julie; Melissa; T. J., Coleen and Michael; Matthew,
Meaghan, Mollie and Melanie; Alicia, Brittanie and Kylie; 10 great-grandchildren: Joseph, Hayley and Shayley; Aliyah and Winnie; Landon, Hunter
and Kiara; Colton; and Jace; also by many nieces and nephews.
Louise is also survived by her last sister, Mrs. Lillian (Cannon) Annis
and her husband Norman of Center Harbor, N.H., and a brother-in-law
Robert Gilmore of Florida.
She was the sister to the late Mrs. Ruth (Cannon) Stuart, Mrs. Irene (Cannon) Matthews, Mrs. Evelyn (Cannon) Shea, and Mrs. Claire (Cannon)
Gilmore.
Her funeral Mass will be celebrated in St. Johnsbury this Thursday afternoon, April 23, at 2 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church. Cremation will
follow with burial at a later date at the St. Mary’s Cemetery in Lowell, Mass.
The family will receive friends at the Sayles Funeral Home on Thursday
from noon to 1:30 p.m. prior to the Mass.
Memories and condolences may be shared privately at
www.saylesfh.com. The Sayles Funeral Home is located at 525 Summer St.
in St. Johnsbury.
NORMAND ROLAND HAMEL
MRS. SYDNA EDDY
1932-2015
Mrs. Sydna Eddy of Waterford passed away at home Sunday, April
19, 2015, at the age of 82.
She was born in Kearney, N.J., on Aug. 9, 1932, the daughter of
G. Frederick and Elsie (Rowland) Rogers. She served in the U.S.
Army during the Korean War as an Operating Room Specialist.
Mrs. Eddy was an educator in Westﬁeld, N.J., teaching Earth Science and High School Biology. She enjoyed traveling abroad, volunteering and was involved in her community. She also loved children
and animals.
She was predeceased by her ﬁrst husband of 27 years, Waldron W.
Holck. She is survived by her husband of 27 years, Keith C. Eddy of
Waterford; a sister Irene Sharples of Conroy, Texas; daughter Pamela
DelFranco (Michael) of Edison, N.J.; son Eric Holck of Los Angeles,
Calif.; two grandchildren, Daniel P. Johnson, Kimberly Hardin (Glen
Alvenus); two great-grandchildren, Samantha and Nicholas Alvenus.;
six step-children, and their families.
Memorial services will be held at the Lower Waterford Congregational Church of Wednesday, April 22, at 11 a.m. with the pastor the
Rev. Ann Hockridge ofﬁciating.
In lieu of ﬂowers, please send memorial contributions to the
ASPCA.
Memories and condolences may be shared privately at
www.saylesfh.com.
ELLA J. REXFORD
1931-2015
Ella J. Rexford of St. Johnsbury passed away Friday, April
17, 2015. She was 83 years old.
She was born on Nov. 21,
1931, in Morristown, N.J. She
was the daughter of Russell and
Elgie ( Paddleford) Williams.
Ella attended St. Johnsbury
Academy and graduated in 1949
from Lyndon Institute. In 1950
she married Reginald Rexford.
Ella loved life, family and
friends. She had hobbies that included horses, and later camping with her husband Reg. She always liked to read and knit. She was
a member of the Red Hat Club and the Women’s Club.
She is survived by her three daughters: Wanda Waugh and her husband William of Lyndonville, Linda Pilotte and her husband Doug of
Lyndonville, Paula Carpenter and her husband Ken of St. Johnsbury;
one step-brother, George Andrews and his wife Evelyn of Glen Ellen,
Calif.; one sister, Marion Gero of St. Johnsbury; 11 grandchildren:
Matthew, Alexander and his wife Marisa, Karen, Lisa, Mandy, Chad
and his wife Ashley, Meagan and her husband Sam, Carrie and her
husband Geremy, Andrew and his wife Erica, Kenneth Jr. and his wife
Khadizhat, Tara and her husband Matt; 16 great-grandchildren and
two great-great-grandchildren.
She is predeceased by her husband Reginald Rexford in 1999.
Visiting hours will be held Friday, April 24, from 4-6 p.m. at Pearsons Funeral home.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m. with
Mr. John Sleeper ofﬁciating.
In lieu of ﬂowers memorial contributions may be marked in Ella’s
name to the: Canterbury Inn Activity Fund, 46 Cherry St., St. Johnsbury, VT 05819.
Pearsons Funeral home located at 70 Church St. in Lyndonville is
in care of the arrangements.
1943-2015
Normand Roland Hamel, 72, of
Tyler Way, Bath, N.H., went to
meet his Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ on Sunday, April 19, 2015.
He passed away peacefully at his
home, surrounded by his family,
after a long courageous battle with
cancer.
Normand was born in Marlborough, Mass., on April 3, 1943, to
Normand J. and Alice M.
(Borowski) Hamel. He was a graduate of Marian High School in
Framingham, Mass. Normand
owned and operated the Phillips 66 service station in Marlborough.
On Aug. 10, 1974, he married Jacqueline J. “Jackie” O’Day. Together,
they moved to Bath. He worked for Hugh J. Gallen Motors in Littleton
and Gilford Marina. Normand was a self-employed logger with his
friend Hank Bernat, operating as Bernham Loggers. They built their own
logging truck and operated the business for 13 years. Normand was then
employed at Equity Publishing in Orford, N.H., and later worked at
Upper Valley Press in Bradford, Vt. For a time, he operated his own print
shop from his home, printing stationery, business cards and envelopes.
Normand was a communicant of St. Joseph Catholic Church,
Woodsville, N.H., and was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Littleton, N.H. He enjoyed his corvettes, scuba diving, boating on his cabin
cruiser “The Seven Day Weekend” on Lake Winnipesaukee for years,
snowmobiling, and motorcycling with his son, Jason, and friends. Normand attended the Blessing of the Bikes in Columbia, N.H. He liked
going to the fairs, horse racing, camping and meeting friends at Hampton
Beach. Normand enjoyed wildlife in his yard and around the area and
spending quality time with his family and friends.
Normand is survived by his wife of 40 years, Jacqueline J. “Jackie”
Hamel of Bath; a son, Jason A. Hamel and companion Amanda Hull of
West Swanzey, N.H.; a granddaughter, Melenie F. Peters, whom he loved
dearly; a brother, Richard G. Hamel of Marlborough, Mass.; a brotherin-law, Joseph P. O’Day and wife Fay of Grifﬁn, Ga.; a niece; several
cousins; and his cat “Onyx.”
Calling hours will be on Wednesday, April 22, from 6-8 p.m. at Ricker
Funeral Home, 1 Birch St., Woodsville, N.H.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be on Thursday, April 23, at 10 a.m.,
at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 15 Pine St., Woodsville, with Father Alan
Tremblay ofﬁciating. Burial will be at a later date in the Bath Village
Cemetery, Bath.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Joseph Catholic Church,
21 Pine St., Woodsville, NH 03785.
For more information or to offer an online condolence, please visit
www.rickerfh.com.
Ricker Funeral Home & Cremation Care of Woodsville is in charge
of arrangements.
DONALD ELLIOTT MEEK SR.
Donald Elliott Meek Sr., age 76, passed away at home in Deland, Fla.
with his wife and dear friends at his side after a three-year battle with
cancer.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Ruth (Willigar) Meek; son
Donald Jr. Vt; granddaughter Samantha Sylain (Jared), Fla.; grandson,
Timothy Vt.
He was predeceased by parents Edwin and Agnes Meek, brothers
Edwin and Robert; sister,Muriel.
Don was one of Jehovahs Witnesses since 1968. Memorial Services
will be at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah witnesses Mersers Fernery Rd, Deland, Fla. May 9 at 2 p.m. Email condolences to
[email protected].
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MARY MAXINE PITTS
1986-2015
Mary Maxine Pitts
of Houghton Ridge,
died unexpectedly on
Friday, April 17, 2015
at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center,
Lebanon, N.H.
Maxine was born
on June 12, 1986 in
Gulfport, MS., to
David Eugene and
Kathy Irene (Darling) Pitts, Sr. She graduated from Blue Mountain Union
School, Class of 2004.
Maxine worked at the Grafton County Nursing Home as a nurses’ aide
for eight years and most recently was employed at the St. Johnsbury Health
and Rehabilitation Center where she worked in the activities department.
Maxine truly loved life and caring for her daughter, Lilly, her nephews,
family and her dogs. She loved the water, whether she was kayaking, boating or swimming. She enjoyed camping, traveling, watching a good movie
and partying.
She is survived by her parents, Dave and Kathy Pitts, Sr. of Groton, Vt;
her husband, James Cleverly of St. Johnsbury, Vt; her daughter, Lillian
“Lilly” Poulen of St. Johnsbury; two brothers, Shawn Lee Pitts of Groton
and Michael Scott Pitts of Freedom, NH; three step-brothers, Gregg Pitts
of Mobile, Al., David Pitts, Jr. of Benton, N.H. and William Dwayne Pitts
of Woodsville, NH; and several aunts, uncles, nephews, cousins and
friends.
A celebration of Maxine’s life will be held on Saturday, April 25 at 5
p.m. at Groton Town Hall.
For more information or to offer an online condolence, please visit
www.rickerfh.com. Ricker Funeral Home & Cremation Care of
Woodsville is assisting the family with arrangements.
ARLENE B. STANLEY
1934-2015
Arlene B. Stanley passed
peacefully into the arms of the
Lord on April 18, 2015, at her
home in the care of her family.
Arlene was born on Jan. 5,
1934, to Henry and Florence
(Goyette) Vachon in West Berkshire, Vt. She attended school in
Berkshire, and later in Brownington and Shefﬁeld where her family
settled on the farm.
On March 26, 1954, she married John Stanley and they started
their married life in his home town
of Victory, Vt. In 1960 they moved to Concord where they settled into
their cherished home and raised their two children, Susan and Steven.
Arlene started her working career at St. Johnsbury Glovers. Later, while
she raised her family, she cooked for the hot lunch program at the Concord
School. After her children were grown, she worked for Burndy Manufacturing and Laramee Products. In later years, after retirement she logged
many hours as a volunteer at NVRH at the auxiliary gift shop.
Arlene was an active member of her community, and especially of the
Concord Community Church where she was a faithful member. Countless
hours were spent organizing events, maintaining the building, and preserving an active congregation and church life. She held many ofﬁces
within the organization over the years.
Also, Arlene and John were members of Moose Lodge #1779. Arlene
helped organize and was an instructor for a Strong Living Exercise program.
For years they gardened together, canning, preserving, and sharing their
bounty with family, friends and community. She enjoyed baking, family
dinners, braiding rugs, her ﬂower gardens, and back road foliage rides with
John.
She was predeceased by her son Steven, her parents, her brother Roger,
and sister Jeannette. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, John (P.O.
Box 357, 05824); her daughter Susan Langmaid (Alan) of St. Johnsbury;
her grandchildren, Jeff Langmaid (Erin Hicks) of St. Johnsbury, and Kelly
Richardson (Sterling) of Albany, Vt. She is also survived by her sisters,
Rose Ashe of Lancaster, Mass., and Irene Cheney (Louis) of Peacham,
Vt.; as well as many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at the Concord Community Church on
Saturday, April 25, at 11 a.m. with the Reverend Ann Hockridge ofﬁciating, refreshments to follow. There will be no calling hours. A committal
service will follow at a later date at the Concord Community Cemetery.
Memorial donations can be made to the Concord Community Church,
P.O. Box 292, Concord, VT 05824.
Sayles Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Local Forecast
Today: Mostly cloudy with rain
likely through midday, then
showers tapering off. Highs in
the low to mid 50s. Winds from
the southeast, at 5 to 15 mph
and early, then becoming west
5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Variable clouds.
Chance of a shower. Lows in
the mid 30s. Winds becoming
south around 5 mph.
Tomorrow: Some early sunshine, then becoming mostly
cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the low to mid 50s.
South to southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
Extended Forecast:
Wednesday Night: Mostly
cloudy with showers of rain or
snow likely. Lows in the low to
mid 30s.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy. Rain
or snow showers likely early,
then rain showers likely. Highs
in the mid 40s.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy.
Chance for rain or snow showers. Lows around 30.
Friday: Mostly cloudy. Widely
scattered showers of snow or
rain early, then of rain by afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain or snow
showers. Lows in the lower 30s.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with
widely scattered snow or rain
showers. Highs in the mid to
upper 40s.
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NEWPORT MAN GETS 2.5-15 YEARS FOR BURGLARY WITH WEAPON
By roBin SMith
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — Boredom
and bravado led a young man to
break into vehicles and garages at
homes at Memphremagog Views
last winter, and it wasn’t the ﬁrst
time, authorities said.
When he was caught ﬂeeing with
a stolen handgun on March 22,
2014, police said Glen Boule told
them he was going back to jail for
years.
Last week, Boule, 22, of Newport
City, pleaded guilty in Orleans Superior Court – Criminal Division to
multiple burglary charges, grand larceny and using a weapon during the
commission of a crime.
Judge Timothy Tomasi sentenced
him to 2.5 to 15 years in prison.
Corrections ofﬁcials said they
wanted Boule to serve a longer sentence, at least six years to 15 or more
years, because his crimes keep escalating in seriousness since the ﬁrst
time he ran afoul of the law.
In testimony April 15, probation
ofﬁcer Lisa Levesque said Boule has
a 76 percent likelihood of reoffending when released.
Boule is also facing unrelated
charges of sexual assault involving a
12-year-old girl, records show. Police say he had sex in February 2014
with a girl who told him she was 16
years old. He pleaded not guilty and
was held without bail. The sexual assault charge carries a penalty of not
less than 10 years in prison and up
to life.
These charges do not ﬁgure in the
sentence handed down last week. He
has a criminal record that includes
felony unlawful mischief, unlawful
entry to an occupied dwelling, multiple violations of probation, petty
larceny, simple assault and retail
thefts.
In court last week, Boule’s mother
April Churchill testiﬁed for the defense, saying her son left school in
ninth grade and needed special education. He never had a job.
She called Boule a follower, saying “other people have inﬂuence on
him.”
“He knows right from wrong,”
she said, “but he goes with the ﬂow.”
Marlene Hughes, Boule’s teacher
and education case manager in
prison, said Boule reads at the elementary level and needs step-bystep guidance to perform some tasks.
She saw improvement the ﬁrst time
she worked with him, but the second
time, when he was sent back to
prison, she said he had regressed.
Assistant State’s Attorney Chris
Moll said Boule has undiagnosed
tremors in his hands and suffered
from several disabilities.
Moll asked Hughes if she thought
that Boule would try to show off, to
demonstrate bravado with other inmates who did not have disabilities.
She said she thought that was true.
Moll told the judge that Boule is
acting out to impress others, with
that escalating over time from misdemeanors to property crimes, including a crime involving a weapon.
The need for bravado is overriding
his understanding of right and
wrong, Moll said.
Moll said that gives the state no
choice but to seek to incarcerate
Boule to protect the public. Hopefully, Moll said, Boule would be able
to continue his education while in
prison.
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By toDD WELLinGton
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A St. Johnsbury man has been accused of head-butting his wife during
an argument over who would let the
dog out.
Shane Hedding, 24, pleaded not
guilty to a misdemeanor charge of
domestic assault and was released on
the condition that he not harass or reside with Christina M. Hedding, 30,
and that he schedule an appointment
with a substance abuse screener
within 10 days.
According to an afﬁdavit ﬁled by
St. Johnsbury Police Ofc. Chad
Grant, Christina Hedding went to po-
lice headquarters at 12:23 p.m. on
April 15 and told investigators that
her husband had left her with a
swollen and bruised forehead during
an argument at their home at 48 Eastern Ave. the previous day.
“My husband Shane Hedding -nI were ﬁghting about his back hurting
him,” wrote Christina Hedding, in a
sworn written statement she gave to
police. “He has a very mean pit bull
that I can not handle so I asked him
to take her out and he started yelling
at me and calling me names. He then
got up and used his chest and weight
to pin me against the TV then I
pushed him away from me and he
grabbed my throat. I then pushed him
away then we went back to face to
face ﬁghting then he head-butted
me.”
Grant said he could see black and
blue marks on the left side of
Christina Hedding’s forehead and a
“redded purple mark” on her left eyelid.
Shane Hedding told police that his
wife had ripped his shirt and headbutted him several times during the
argument and that she “end up with
a knot on her forehead from it,”
wrote Grant in his report.
If convicted on the charge Shane
Hedding faces a possible sentence of
up to 18 months in prison and a
$5,000 ﬁne.
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Todd M. Smith, Publisher
OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
Revisionist History
Among the hacked Sony emails, now posted on WikiLeaks in their
entirety, is an exchange between Sony CEO Michael Lynton and documentarian Henry Louis Gates Jr.
While making a documentary called “Finding Your Roots,” the pair
discusses a request by Ben Afﬂeck to hide the fact that one of the Oscarwinner’s ancestors was a slave-owner.
It’s hard to understand why Afﬂeck would try to hide inconvenient
but ancient facts about his family’s history in the ﬁrst place. The irony
of the situation is that by lying – in a self-obsessed cover-up to guard
his public image – he looks like a far bigger boob than he otherwise
would have.
But more startling is the decision by Lynton, Gates and PBS to oblige
Afﬂeck’s ludicrous request.
Gates wrote, “For the ﬁrst time, one of our guests has asked us to
edit out something about one of his ancestors – the fact that he owned
slaves. Now, four or ﬁve of our guests this season descend from slave
owners, including Ken Burns. We’ve never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He’s a megastar. What do we do?”
To which Lynton makes calculated replies – “I would take it out if
no one knows, but if it gets out that you are editing the material based
on this kind of sensitivity then it gets tricky… because it may get out
that you made the change and it comes down to editorial integrity.”
Gates, a famous scholar and Harvard-based academic, then points
out “It would embarrass him and compromise our integrity. I think he
is getting very bad advice … Once we open the door to censorship, we
lose control of the brand.” And in a later email, “To do this would be a
violation of PBS rules, actually …”
Then, with eyes wide open, they omit the information about Afﬂeck.
That dumb decision will, appropriately, cost Afﬂeck, Gates, Lynton and
PBS their credibility.
In My Opinion…
HELPING VERMONTERS
SUCCEED
By GoV. PEtEr ShuMLin
It’s no secret that the economic recovery across America
has been felt most by those with
higher incomes. For working
families in America, the recovery
has been slow to take root. And
for those ﬁghting to get into the
middle class, the recovery has
been almost non-existent, with
many still struggling. Vermont is
not immune to this nationwide
trend. That’s why I am ﬁghting
hard to make sure that we have
an economy in Vermont that
works for every single Vermonter, not just those at the top. This
week we took two important
steps toward that goal.
April 14th marked Equal Pay
Day in America – the date that
symbolizes how far into this year
women must work to make up
for the extra money men earned
in the previous year. Nationwide,
women earn only 78 cents to
every dollar men do. Vermont
does better than most, but at 83
cents to the dollar, the gap for
Vermont women is still too wide.
We’ve taken steps in Vermont to
reduce the wage gap and help
women succeed in the workplace
by passing an Equal Pay Act,
prohibiting employers from retaliating against employees who
inquire about co-workers’ wages,
preventing
discrimination
against a mother who nurses a
child at work, and permitting an
employee to request a ﬂexible
work arrangement. While these
steps have yielded good
progress, we need to do more to
ensure women have the same opportunities to succeed in the
workplace as men do. We need
equal pay for men and women to
be not just the law but the reality.
That’s why I stood with the
Vermont Commission on
Women to launch the Vermont
Equal Pay Compact in Vermont.
Modeled after a similar initiative
in Boston, the Vermont Equal
Pay Compact asks signing employers to commit to at least
three concrete steps to help close
the wage gap between men and
women. Some examples include
improving strategies in compensation and promotion, hiring, negotiations, wage transparency,
performance evaluation, and
workplace culture. I was proud to
make the State of Vermont the
ﬁrst employer to sign on to the
Compact and to stand with businesses like Main Street Landing
and Vermont Energy Investment
Corporation in Burlington, the
Alchemist in Waterbury, and Red
Hen Baking Company in Middlesex that also signed. I hope
more Vermont employers will
sign on to this initiative that will
help boost wages for Vermont
women, improve economic security for women and their families, and make progress towards
the overdue right of equal pay for
men and women.
This week we also took another important step to help
working Vermont families by
supporting an effort in the legislature to pass earned sick leave
legislation. Most Vermonters
agree that if you’re sick you
shouldn’t be faced with the decision to either go to work and put
others at risk or miss work, sacriﬁce your paycheck, and potentially lose your job. In Vermont
we know that many employers
agree that employees should
have time off when they are sick
or have to care for sick family
members. Many companies already provide fair earned leave
policies. But some do not, and
their workers face this difﬁcult
and unfair dilemma.
The difﬁculty has always been
turning the principle of earned
sick leave into workable legislation that balances in a thoughtful
way the rights of workers with
the needs of businesses. In the
past, I have been skeptical of
proposals that did not do enough
to recognize the costs and burdens to businesses this legislation
might create. This year, I am encouraged by a new earned sick
bill being championed by Reps.
Tristan Toleno from Brattleboro
and Sarah Copeland-Hanzas
from Bradford that I think goes a
long way toward striking the
right balance for employers and
employees.
Being business owners themselves, Reps. Toleno and
Copeland-Hanzas have crafted a
bill that doesn’t place unfair burdens on those businesses that already offer earned sick leave to
their employees while also putting in place sensible reforms to
ensure up to 60,000 working Vermonters who currently lack this
protection can take care of themselves when they are sick without risking their job. The new
proposal earned my support because it exempts employers that
already have good policies, provides more ﬂexibility regarding
how other employers meet the
earned sick time requirements,
and ensures that there are signiﬁcant waiting periods and reasonable accruals, while requiring
this important protection be
available to more Vermont workers.
Combined with our efforts to
raise the minimum wage, boost
Vermonters’ wages through job
training programs, make college
more affordable and accessible,
and control skyrocketing health
care and property tax costs that
are eating away at Vermonters’
paychecks, these equal pay and
earned sick leave policies will
help extend the economic recovery to those who have not yet felt
it. Together we must make Vermont’s economy work for every
single Vermonter.
In My Opinion…
ADVOCATE FOR A VULNERABLE CHILD
By LinDa arMirotto
Recently I heard the author and
political scientist Dr. Robert Putnam speaking on New Hampshire
Public Radio. He was discussing
his new book, Our Kids: The
American Dream in Crisis. He
learned through his research that
poor children tend to lead stressful,
isolated lives. Their family dynamic is often unstable, led by a
single parent whose education
often ended with high school or
even before. Unlike better off children, who tend to have numerous
adults in their lives reaching out to
them to stay in school and go to
college, poorer kids have few, if
any, reliable, responsible adults to
mentor them. They are unaware of
opportunity and possibility, and
their learned reluctance to trust
anyone only serves to make them
more vulnerable. Dr. Putnam concluded his remarks by observing
the deleterious change in Americans’ perception of who, exactly
are “our kids” when considering
ways in which society is advancing. The term seems no longer to
be a collective which includes
every child, no matter his circumstances.
So what does “our kids” mean
in New Hampshire? Is the concept
restricted to only those children
who are favored with loving, nurturing homes? What about those
other kids, somewhat unseen, but
nevertheless all around us: the little girl in your grandson’s kinder-
garten class who always looks
kind of dirty. The short-tempered,
frazzled young mother and two
kids in front of you in the grocery
store checkout line, angrily subtracting items from her order when
she discovers she does not have
enough money to pay for everything. The teenager you seem to always see walking alone in the
middle of the day, your unconscious vaguely noting, “shouldn’t
he be in school?” Aren’t these “our
kids” too? Indeed, yes—these are
our most vulnerable kids, children
whose lives are often informed by
chaos, uncertainty, and despair.
The parents of these young people are often not far removed from
childhood themselves—they were
recently our kids. They may be
burdened by substance abuse issues. Perhaps their own formative
years were rife with violence and
neglect, and they have lived marginalized by past trauma and resulting mental illness. Because of
the dysfunction they themselves
may have grown up with, they may
never have learned how to be good
parents. These families are sometimes homeless, often jobless, with
little expectation of a better life.
Their children may be removed
from their care because the extent
of family dysregulation has made
the home too dangerous for the
children to remain, an action of last
resort which is traumatic for all involved. These, our kids, are the
most impoverished members of
our society, largely invisible until
a crisis forces them into the light.
It has been my experience, however, that most of these unfortunate
folks truly love their children, and
wish to do right by them. As a
Court Appointed Special Advocate
(CASA), also referred to as a
Guardian ad Litem (GAL), I have
become acquainted with a number
“our kids.” It has been my honor to
represent in Family Court brave
children whom, through no fault of
their own, must cope with having
their lives upended, examined, and
restructured by adults they do not
know nor have any reason to trust.
I am a wholly independent voice
which, in conjunction with professional service providers, seeks to
contribute positive intervention
into the lives of both parents and
children. I visit my clients
monthly, get to know them, their
extended families, and the additional caring adults who might be
mobilized to offer support and encouragement as the parents work
to correct the conditions which led
to the state’s involvement in their
lives. I devote approximately four
to seven hours per month to attending meetings and compiling information for the court. I then present
to the judge both in person and in
the form of a quarterly written report my impressions of the
progress achieved towards the goal
of stabilizing the family and returning the children to the unsupervised care of their parents.
But foremost, I believe CASA
volunteers extend dignity, respect,
and, most importantly, hope to
people unused to the ordinary
kindnesses many of us are lucky
enough to take for granted. We invite the disenfranchised to dare to
believe that have a place in our society, that they matter. Of course,
not every outcome is a happy reuniﬁcation of parent and child.
Sometimes the parents are simply
unable to pull their lives together
enough to meet the needs of their
children. For these kids, the hoped
for outcome is adoption into a safe
and loving home. Regardless, I
know that my involvement was
meaningful, and I feel certain that
“my kids”, our kids, will remember me as the lady who cared
enough to volunteer her time on
their behalf, that someone cared
enough to see them.
You, too, can become that someone in a child’s life. Learn more
about becoming a CASA volunteer
advocate. Visit www.casanh.org,
email [email protected] or call
800-626-0622. CASA volunteers
speak on behalf of the best interests of the state’s abused and neglected children who have come to
the attention of the court through
no fault of their own. Since its inception, CASA has advocated on
behalf of nearly 10,000 children.
Linda Armirotto lives in Barrington, N.H. with her husband,
three dogs, one cat and 11 chickens. She has been a CASA volunteer advocate for four years.
Ann Coulter
We need an ankle
bracelet for the
New York Times
Usually liberals have the decency to wait a few months after
one of their rape fantasies collapses to start citing the case as
“unresolved” — it was a tie, the
game was rained out, we’ll never
know what happened.
But with the apocryphal University of Virginia gang rape, lefties
started in right away with the “I
guess we’ll never know what happened” rewrite.
Just last week, the Columbia
Journalism Review released the results of a months-long investigation into Rolling Stone’s story
about a violent fraternity gang rape
at UVA. As you will recall, the
CJR found that the magazine had
based its entire story on the delusions of one girl, who freaked out
every time the alleged reporter,
Sabrina Rubin Erdely, tried to conﬁrm a single fact.
As the CJR described the reporter’s investigative technique:
“Erdely asked Jackie for introductions to friends and family. She
asked for text messages to conﬁrm
parts of Jackie’s account, for
records from Jackie’s employment
at the aquatic center and for health
records. She even asked to examine the bloodstained red dress
Jackie said she had worn
on the night she said she
was attacked.”
So as you can see,
Erdely is a tough-minded
journalist, who went the
extra mile to nail down
the truth. Yes, she
ASKED for all this stuff.
And what did she get? Only
this: Jackie produced her freshman-year suitemate who “conﬁrmed” — in the words of the CJR
— “that in January 2013, four
months after the alleged attack,
Jackie had told her that she had
been gang-raped.”
Which part of Jackie’s story
does that corroborate? A few
weeks ago, I claimed to have been
raped by a unicorn to see if I could
get Charlottesville chief of police
Timothy J. Longo to open a case
on my unicorn attack, just as he
did on Jackie’s gang rape. So according to Rolling Stone, I have
about a million corroborating witnesses: everyone who read my column.
We know Jackie claimed to
have been gang-raped! That wasn’t
the part that required conﬁrmation.
Michelle Goldberg summarized
the CJR’s report for the Nation
magazine, saying, “After all this,
it’s still not clear whether Jackie,
the woman at the center of the
Rolling Stone story, is a complete
fabulist or a true rape victim who
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confused and exaggerated
some elements of her
story.”
Not clear to whom?
People with brain injuries? Some random
Kardashian?
Similarly, one of Columbia’s crack investigators said:
“What happened to Jackie that
night is a mystery.”
Yes, it’s a total mystery! Jackie
might have had a pizza. She might
have drafted more fake texts from
her fake boyfriend. She might have
gone for a walk or written poetry.
In fact, the only thing we know
beyond a scintilla of a doubt about
that night is that Jackie was not
gang-raped at a fraternity party,
which happens to be the only relevant fact about “what happened to
Jackie that night.”
The New York Times’ Charles
Blow wrote a column on the CJR
report, suggesting that although
this “one particular case” of a fraternity gang rape had been “shown
to have ﬂaws,” the “overall condition that it illustrated holds true.”
If the overall condition is true, I
have a top-shelf idea for liberals:
Next time, you guys should produce one of the real cases. I think
it would make your argument
stronger.
Always the last to know, Blow
also defended Obama’s nonsense
claim that 1 in 5 college women
will be raped by citing a Washington Post “Fact Checker” from May
1, 2014, which merely called the
ﬁgure “problematic” — a resounding conﬁrmation of the statistic, as
far as Blow was concerned.
Unfortunately for Blow, about
six months after the Post’s fact
check, that rating got downgraded
to “utter B.S.,” when Eric Holder’s
Justice Department released a
study of nearly the past decade of
crime statistics, ﬁnding that 0.61
percent of college students are victims of sexual assault, not 20 percent. That makes it .03 in 5, not 1
in 5.
In another six months, the Times
will pretend to have missed the entire CJR report and go back to citing the UVA fraternity gang rape
as proof that we are in the midst of
a college rape epidemic.
At least Erdely has the excuse of
being a not-terribly-bright, standard lefty with all the usual prejudices, who wanted to write bad-ass
journalism at Rolling Stone and
ended up producing worthless
crap.
The New York Times is the
“newspaper of record”! It publishes “the ﬁrst draft of history”!
It’s the gold standard of journalism!
The Washington Post isn’t a fair
newspaper, but it isn’t constantly
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NEW ENGLAND
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Police continue to look for black vehicle that was in the area of South
Street when the shooting happened.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Attorney General’s Ofﬁce in Vermont
Anyone with information about the shooting should contact the Springﬁeld
has formally adopted the regulations implementing a state law requiring the Police Department at 802-885-2113.
labeling of food produced with genetic engineering.
Rare falcon ﬁnds residency on
Vermont became the ﬁrst state to require the labeling in 2014.
After months of public outreach and comments from producers, retailers
Vermont nuclear smokestack
and consumers, and after approval by the Legislative Committee on AdminVERNON,
Vt.
(AP) — A rare falcon has found a permanent home on a
istrative Rules, the attorney general’s ofﬁce formally ﬁled the adopted rule
nuclear
power
plant
smokestack.
with the Secretary of State’s Ofﬁce on Friday, to take effect July 1, 2016.
at
Vermont
Yankee Nuclear Power Station have played an acEmployees
Attorney General Bill Sorrell said with the formal adoption of the rule,
the state is giving ample time for food manufacturers and retailers to prepare tive role in creating and maintaining a home for peregrine falcons, the Brattleboro Reformer reported (http://bit.ly/1yK5Wlk). The falcon is listed as
for the law to take effect.
state-threatened in New Hampshire, and Vermont has roughly 40 pairs across
Young professionals to pitch ideas
the state.
Employees of the now-closing plant became aware of the falcons in 2009
for growing Vermont’s economy
after receiving a call from a New Hampshire Audubon biologist. Employees
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Young professionals are being invited to the received permission from management to install a nest box on the smokeState House to share their ideas about how to grow Vermont’s economy and stack, built by Steve Skibniowski, a longtime Yankee employee who now
young workforce.
serves as a consultant at the plant. Audubon experts sent him the plans for a
The event on Tuesday is hosted by Lt. Gov. Phil Scott and the Lake Cham- wooden box with an open front and a special perch.
plain Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Skibniowski said they installed a camera, allowing them to keep track of
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Poetry
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The Friendship House in Bethlehem, N.H., is looking to expand its treatment services by offering
and Intensive Outpatient program.
BETHLEHEM, N.H.
TREATMENT CENTER EXPANDS OUTPATIENT SERVICES
By PauL hayES
Staff Writer
BETHLEHEM, N.H. — As the
region copes with the scourge of opiate drug use, the Friendship House is
poised to expand treatment options
into the local communities.
Friendship House, a drug and alcohol treatment center operated by
Tri-County CAP, will soon offer an
Intensive Outpatient program, which
will allow people to live at home but
still receive residential program-style
counseling, education and oversight.
The key word is “Intensive.” Typical outpatient treatment is one hour
a week. But Intensive Outpatient is
10 hours a week of group and individual counseling. There is also drug
testing and other accountability
measures.
The Friendship House is beeﬁng
up its outpatient services at a time
when the use of opiate drugs – particularly heroin – has reached epidemic proportions across the state.
“It’s a catastrophe,” said Kristy
Letendre, Director of the Friendship
House. “People are dying everyday.”
Friendship House will staff the Intensive Outpatient program with
three Licensed Alcohol and Drug
Counselors (LADCs), two full-time
and one part-time. They are in the
process of making the ﬁnal hire.
Once it’s up and running, the Intensive Outpatient program will be
offered through Friendship House
and its ﬁve satellite ofﬁces to clients
in Carroll, Coos and Grafton counties.
It comes at a time of great need.
Friendship House receives up to
75 referrals each day from people
seeking services. There is currently a
four to six week wait for its 28- and
90-day residential treatment programs. The wait for existing (not intensive) outpatient services is even
longer, up to six months.
The majority are people seeking
treatment for opiate addiction, Letendre said.
“Years ago it was mostly alcohol.
Today about 90 percent of our admissions are for opiates, speciﬁcally
heroin,” she said. “The switch occurred over the last four years and it
was a dramatic change.”
REACHING OUT
The North Country has long
needed an Intensive Outpatient program, Letendre said.
It was ﬁnally made possible
through federal funding, including
the state’s Medicaid Expansion program, which was approved earlier
this year and extended coverage to an
additional 35,000 residents.
Those funds will subsidize enrollment and transportation costs for Intensive Outpatient treatment.
The transportation funding is key,
Letendre said.
“Most of these people don’t have
a license or access to a vehicle,” she
said.
The program will be rolled out
later this year, and will begin at
Friendship House in Bethlehem and
a satellite ofﬁce in Woodsville. It will
eventually be expanded to other
satellite ofﬁces in Colebrook, Groveton, North Conway and Tamworth.
Up until now, the only way to access this level of treatment was
through a residential treatment program, but for some people an outpatient program is more appropriate,
Letendre said.
“A lot of clients come through the
judicial system, and we’re trying to
get across to judges that just because
a person has an addiction, that
doesn’t mean they need a cookie cutter sentence,” she said. “We need to
assess them and send them to the appropriate treatment.”
GROWING NEED
Intensive Outpatient isn’t the only
growth area for Friendship House.
They want to increase capacity for
residential drug and alcohol treatment, from 18 to 30 beds, while continuing to maintain another 12 beds
for a court ordered impaired driver
program.
They also plan to implement
trained recovery coaches, to provide
better support after residential treatment. The recovery coach program
is slated to begin in August.
“That recovery piece is what’s
been lacking for years and years,”
said Letendre.
Friendship House is expanding its
services as the state battles an unprecedented heroin epidemic. Locally there have been notable
overdose deaths and high proﬁle arrests. Meanwhile Gov. Maggie Hassan has appointed a Drug Czar
(Senior Director for Substance Misuse and Behavioral Health John
Wozmak) to coordinate a statewide
response.
These developments have put
more pressure on the state’s drug
treatment centers.
And those centers can only offer
treatment to those who seek it out,
Letendre said.
“Often times we’ll get calls from
a mother or father saying ‘My son
needs help,’” she said. “But unless
they’re ready to receive the help it
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Only when they’re ready to ask for
the help, that’s when we see positive
changes.”
THE PATH TO TREATMENT
Friendship House restricts its 28and 90-day residential drug and alcohol treatment programs to New
Hampshire residents ages 18 and
older. They cannot have a history of
violent offenses. Those not meeting
income eligibility guidelines for state
and federal aid must pay the full program cost.
Potential clients are screened and
interviewed. Friendship House staff
considers if they are appropriate for
residential treatment.
“We need to know if a person can
get everything they need out of the
program. We need to make sure
mental health issues are taken care of
before you come into the program.
That’s one of the biggest things,” said
Letendre.
They are also checked for criminal
backgrounds.
“We can’t harbor anybody running from the law here,” Letendre
said.
Those entering residential treatment must have a physical examination done within 30 days of
admittance.
Detox is highly recommended but
not required. Friendship House does
not administer drug-assisted detox
such as Suboxone or Methadone.
“It’s a conditional acceptance, the
ﬁrst 72 hours they are in stabilization,” said Letendre. “We monitor
their vitals, their withdrawal, and determine if they are able to handle it.”
“If it’s a crisis situation where it’s
not safe, we would bring them to a
local hospital to help with that
process. We would hold their bed.”
“But that doesn’t happen often.
Most people ﬁght through it. Most
people are medically cleared.”
The residential treatment programs focus on more than drug use.
“You don’t just come in and are
treated for your substance abuse,”
said Letendre. “We’re looking at
‘Why are you in this situation?’
We’re trying to get all the key players
around the table and work so that
they have an individualized service
plan that addresses everything, so
they can obtain sustainable, longterm recovery.”
That recovery often begins when
people hit bottom and their life becomes unmanageable. In many cases
that realization occurs when they
land in legal trouble.
But no matter the circumstances,
for addicts in need of help, the ﬁrst
step towards recovery can be the
hardest, Letendre said.
“No one wants to admit ‘I’m an
addict.’ No one wants to say those
words,” she said. “The toughest point
throughout the whole thing is making
the phone call.”
For more information on Friendship House or to seek out treatment
visit www.tccap.org/aod_friendship_house.htm or call (603) 8692210.
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on Sunset Drive.
Beyond universal pre-K, the
state of Vermont may approve “expanded prekindergarten,” which
would offer a full day of pre-K to
low income 4 year olds. The program will be available in St. Johnsbury next ﬁscal year if approved,
Bledsoe said.
She stresses the importance of
strong support for young children
in order to promote learning in
later years. She said students often
enter school unprepared.
“You really need to get kids
very early,” Bledsoe said.
And these are not some high-falutin judges, either. On this
evening, they are the ﬁrst ﬁve audience members who walked in
the room, meaning that this reporter was immediately conscripted as a judge.
When asked “What qualiﬁes
you to be a judge?” the judges answers ranged from “I looooove poetry” to “Because I run poetry
programs but know nothing about
poetry.”
In tonight’s slam, there are eight
competitors and two rounds,
meaning everyone will have two
opportunities to share their work.
And there’s a role for everyone
else in attendance as well, according to Hewitt. “Your job as an audience is to inﬂuence the judges,”
he said. “That inﬂuencing can take
the form of any common bodily
sound you can make. So a lot of
time there’s groaning, sometimes
there’s booing, sometimes you’d
think the score is way too high and
you might want to hiss.”
Hewitt himself did a lot of booing and hissing as he tabulated the
scores after each recitation. At one
point, seeing a set of scores that he
deemed far too low he commented,
“This is a non-alcoholic event. But
we’re going to have some booze
for this one.” After a pause with no
discernible response from the audience he continued, “Let me say
that again – you’re probably going
to have some boos for this one!”
On this night the poems range
from whimsical to heartbreaking,
dealing with the aging process
(“20/20 vision is a thing of history
/ hitting the toilet bowl an 8 in 10
victory,” Dave Stauffer), to an exploration of the Biblical character
Noah (“Are we scummy, scheming
pack / The last hope of the world?
Embezzle
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Feb. 15 Forest said Webbley took
$1,500 out of the Danville School
safe.
Clark reported that on Feb. 9 and
Feb. 10, Co-Principal Kerin Hoffman discovered money was missing
from the safe. Forest reported that
over the last couple of months,
small to medium increments of
money was missing. Safeguards
were put in place to determine the
problem, including the installation
of a security camera on Feb. 11.
After school ofﬁcials learned on
Feb. 16 that $1,500 had gone missing, Forest checked the camera
video and saw Webbley access the
safe on Feb. 15 at 11:59 a.m. According to the police afﬁdavit, the
video shows Webbley taking money
out of a blue bank bag and putting it
in his pocket.
Along with cash and checks
stolen from a blue bank bag, Webbley allegedly stole $51 in cash from
a white envelope belonging to the
Kelley
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Genevieve Kelley to return Mary
to New Hampshire so she could
undergo an in-patient evaluation
ordered by the court.
Genevieve Kelley’s defense
team, headed by attorney Alan
Rosenfeld, of Colorado, is arguing
Genevieve Kelley ﬂed with her
daughter because she believed the
daughter was being sexually
abused by Mark Nunes.
After investigations by two
agencies, the claims of abuse were
not substantiated and Mark Nunes
was never charged.
Scott Kelley is scheduled to be
arraigned at 8:30 a.m. May 11 at
Coos Superior Court, a week after
Genevieve Kelley is arraigned on
her new indictments.
Genevieve Kelley, who had
originally faced a single Class B
felony count of unlawful interfer-
Sorrell
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Donovan. Toensing said former
presidential candidate and governor, Howard Dean, who appointed
Sorrell in 1997, “provided strategic advice” to both Sorrell and the
PAC, Citizens for Justice and Fairness. Dean’s “role with both entities allowed (the PAC) to make
improper coordinated expenditures
with the Sorrell Campaign,”
Toensing said.
By law, super PACs must oper-
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Contestant Lee Ferry contemplates whether the Biblical character Noah was a righteous man.
” Lee Ferry), to a message left on
a dentist’s answering machine
(“They know they forgot to ﬂoss
when they must / A price they must
pay and endure all this fuss,” Jerry
Johnson).
At the end of two rounds, there
was a tie between slammers Mike
Farrand and Bill Biddle. Each was
armed with a third poem for just
this possibility.
Both of the competitors had recited to great acclaim during the
evening.
Farrand’s ﬁrst poem was what
he called a “word poem,” composed by making a list of all the
rhymes for a single sound and then
using them to create a poem that
began:
Did you hear the one about the
tycoon
Who had a craving for macaroons
And so he chartered a balloon
All the way to Cameroon?
Biddle’s ﬁrst poem, “To My Ofﬁce Mate,” was a recounting of his
relationship with a colleague who
is on an opposite schedule, so they
never see each other:
Your f***-me heels and crimson
boots lean akimbo on each other
As if antsy, knock-kneed women
in them had to pee
They teeter underneath the
blackboard on which we scrawl
Arch knife-keen literary jargon
Left to perplex the people who
clean,
As much as to conﬁrm to one
another that we’ve been there.
In the end, Biddle bested the
competition and came out the
champion of the evening.
There was a second poetry slam
Saturday at Washburn Tattoo, and
on Thursday there will be a slam at
7 p.m. at the Kingdom Taproom.
As part of the PoemTown project, there are also poems by local
poets hanging at locations around
town. You can see winner Bill Biddle’s poetry at both The Artful Eye
and Caplan’s Army Store. Runnerup Mike Farrand’s poetry is on display at Washburn Tattoo.
student council. The money was
stolen from a faculty member’s
school mailbox.
State police executed a search
warrant at Webbley’s residence on
Pope Brook Road in Danville.
Among items seized by police was
a white envelope marked “Student
Council” that was empty. The
empty envelope was found by police in the cab of Webbley’s pickup
truck.
Money Reappears
As the investigation progressed,
though, the money mysteriously
reappeared in the safe. On March 5,
Forest told Clark that school employees found $360 in cash and
$1,230 in checks in the safe. The
money was loose in the bag and the
white envelope it was originally in
was missing. Forest told Clark that
March 5 was the ﬁrst time the
money in the safe had been veriﬁed
since Feb. 16.
Webbley was placed on administrative leave on Feb. 17 and gave his
resignation on March 2. Hoffman
was promoted to “interim head of
school” on the same day.
Webbley earned $94,000 annually plus beneﬁts and started the job
at the beginning of this ﬁscal year.
Webbley is also a former St. Johnsbury Academy employee, where he
taught English and coached
wrestling from 1997-1995. Webbley, for three years during that time,
coached Forest, a former Academy
wrestler. Webbley formerly worked
at Vergennes Union High School. In
2011, he was named principal of the
year by the Vermont Principals’ Association.
The Danville School is currently
searching for a candidate to ﬁll
Webbley’s position, Superintendent
Forest is conducting the candidate
search and the school hopes to hire
a new co-principal sometime this
summer, for the start of the new ﬁscal year.
Webbley is represented by St.
Johnsbury attorney David Sleigh.
Following his arraignment Webbley was released on pre-trial conditions; he must not enter Danville
School and not be employed in a position where handling money is required.
ence of custody, was also indicted
Friday on additional charges that
include two Class B felony counts
of witness tampering and two
Class A misdemeanor counts of
unlawful interference with custody.
Her trial is tentatively scheduled
for May, though it is uncertain if
trial will proceed in that time
frame in light of her new charges.
Coos County Attorney John McCormick and Rosenfeld could not
be reached for comment about the
status of the case Monday afternoon.
Scott Kelley was taken into custody Wednesday after he arrived at
Atlanta on a ﬂight from Costa
Rica. Mary Nunes, now 19, had
been with him on that ﬂight and
continued to another destination.
The U.S. Marshals Service would
not conﬁrm where.
Scott Kelley, a former
Woodsville High School teacher,
remains in Georgia pending extra-
dition to New Hampshire.
Genevieve Kelley, a former
family practice physician from
Whiteﬁeld, turned herself into
Coos authorities in November with
the intent to face trial and, said her
attorneys, to seek treatment for her
10-year-old son who has cystic ﬁbrosis.
According to court documents,
Genevieve Kelley and Mark
Nunes went through an “acrimonious divorce” in 1998 that involved child visitation and custody
rights.
Authorities say Scott and
Genevieve Kelley took Mary
Nunes to Colorado in 2004 then
disappeared, likely to Central
America. During a hearing on the
Genevieve Kelley case in March,
McCormick said there were hits on
the passports of Scott Kelley and
Genevieve Kelley in Central
America on Nov. 6, 2004, and indications of entry into Honduras.
ate separately from a candidate’s
campaign.
Dean did not immediately respond to a message left at his home
or an email to his ofﬁce. Sorrell denied any wrongdoing, saying that
the ﬁrst he knew of a PAC campaign ad on his behalf was when a
reporter called to ask him about it.
The complaint also alleges Sorrell failed to report all legally-required detail on campaign
expenditures. But Sorrell, who has
been re-elected every two years
since 1998, said he has taken the
same approach for expenditures in
past campaigns, as other candidates have, and no one has questioned this practice.
In addition, the complaint accuses Sorrell of improperly using
state resources and failing to report
a campaign contribution. It refers
to a joint appearance with Dean
Corren, an unsuccessful 2014 candidate for lieutenant governor, outside a Burlington gas station to
highlight high gas prices.
Sorrell said he participated in
the event as part of his consumerprotection work as attorney general, not as a political candidate.
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Shaken by feared drowning of hundreds, EU
leaders struggle for response to migrant crisis
MILAN (AP) — Shaken by the feared drowning of as many as 900 people
in the latest Mediterranean tragedy, European leaders struggled Monday for
an adequate response in the face of unremitting migrant ﬂows and continued
instability in Libya that has given free rein to human trafﬁckers.
Even as the search continued for victims of the weekend disaster, coast
guard ships rushed to respond to new distress calls on the high seas — two
off Libya and a third boat that ran aground near Greece.
Decrying what he called an “escalation in these death voyages,” Italian
Premier Matteo Renzi urged Europe to put the focus on preventing more
boats from leaving Libya, the source of 90 percent of migrant trafﬁc to Italy.
“We are facing an organized criminal activity that is making lots of money,
but above all ruining many lives,” Renzi said at a joint news conference with
Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat. He compared their activity to that of
slave traders of centuries past, “unscrupulous men who traded human lives.”
The European Union foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, said this
weekend’s appalling human toll — which, if veriﬁed, would be the deadliest
migrant tragedy ever — had “ﬁnally” fully awakened the European Union
to the evils of human trafﬁcking.
US warship heading to Yemeni waters prepared
to block Iranian weapons shipments
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stepped-up response to Iranian backing of
Shiite rebels in Yemen, the Navy aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt,
is steaming toward the waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other
American ships that are prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying
weapons to the Houthi rebels.
The deployment comes after a U.N. Security Council resolution approved
last week imposed an arms embargo on the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi
rebels. The resolution passed in a 14-0 vote with Russia abstaining.
Navy ofﬁcials said Monday that the Roosevelt was moving through the
Arabian Sea. A massive ship that carries F/A-18 ﬁghter jets, the Roosevelt is
seen as more of a deterrent and show of force in the region.
The U.S. Navy has been beeﬁng up its presence in the Gulf of Aden and
the southern Arabian Sea in response to reports that a convoy of about eight
Iranian ships is heading toward Yemen and possibly carrying arms for the
Houthis. Navy ofﬁcials said there are about nine U.S. warships in the region,
including cruisers and destroyers carrying teams that can board and search
other vessels.
The ofﬁcials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ship movement on the record.
Saudi-led airstrikes, powerful blasts
ﬂatten houses in Yemeni capital
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi-led airstrikes hit weapons caches held by
Iran-backed Shiite rebels, touching off massive explosions Monday in
Yemen’s capital that killed at least 19 people and buried scores of others
under the rubble of ﬂattened homes.
The U.S. Navy, meanwhile, has dispatched the aircraft carrier USS
Theodore Roosevelt toward the waters off Yemen to join other American
ships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the rebels,
U.S. ofﬁcials said.
After the coalition airstrikes, mushroom clouds rose over the mountainous
outskirts of Sanaa, where the arms depots are located. The Fag Atan area has
been targeted several times since March 26, the start of the air campaign
against the rebels known as Houthis.
“It was like the doors of hell opened all of a sudden,” said Mohammed
Sarhan, whose home is less than 2 kilometers (1 mile) from the site. “I felt
the house lift up and fall.”
The blasts — among the most powerful in Sanaa since the airstrikes began
— deposited a layer of soot on the top ﬂoors of buildings in the Yemeni capital and left streets littered with glass. Anti-aircraft ﬁre rattled in response.
South Carolina newspaper wins Pulitzer for
reporting on the deadly toll of domestic violence
WORLD BRIEFS
shockwaves through her quiet community.
Judge Darold McDade handed down the term for Megan Huntsman, who
told police she was too addicted to methamphetamine to care for more children.
Huntsman, 40, pleaded guilty to six counts of murder in February. She
said in court papers she wanted to take responsibility in the deaths.
The judge gave her the maximum sentence — at least 30 years and up to
life in prison. A parole board will decide her release date later.
The sentence brings closure to a case that shocked residents of Pleasant
Grove, the mostly Mormon community where Huntsman stored her babies’
tiny bodies for more than a decade. Pleasant Grove is about 45 miles south
of Salt Lake City and has a population of 35,000.
could have been prevented.
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both won investigative
reporting prizes, the Times for an examination of lobbyists’ inﬂuence on state
attorneys general, the Journal for detailing fraud and waste in the Medicare
payment system.
The Times’ coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa won Pulitzers
for international reporting and feature photography, and the St. Louis PostDispatch was honored in the breaking news photography category for its imWashington Post reporter jailed in Iran faces 4
ages of the racial unrest touched off by the deadly police shooting of Michael
Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
charges, including espionage, says his lawyer
The Washington Post took the national reporting prize for exposing secuTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Washington Post reporter jailed for nearly nine
rity lapses that spurred an overhaul of the Secret Service.
months in Iran faces charges of espionage and three other crimes, his lawyer
revealed Monday following her ﬁrst in-depth meeting with the journalist.
The Post, citing a statement from defense lawyer Leila Ahsan, said Jason
Federal agents charge 6 from Minnesota with
Rezaian also faces charges of “conducting propaganda against the establishtrying to join Islamic State group in Syria
ment,” ‘’collaborating with hostile governments” and “collecting information
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Six Minnesota men have been charged with about internal and foreign policy and providing them to individuals with materrorism in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday, the latest Westerners ac- licious intent.”
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ahsan described the journalist
cused of traveling or attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State
as being in good spirits and health, but said his continued detention alongside
group.
The six, whom authorities described as friends who met secretly to plan other inmates and a lack of access to outside media has taken a toll on his
their travels, are accused of conspiracy to provide material support and at- well-being.
Ahsan’s comments were the ﬁrst conﬁrmation of the exact charges Rezatempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The
complaint says the men planned to reach Syria by ﬂying to nearby countries ian faces.
Post Executive Editor Martin Baron said in a statement that Ahsan’s meetfrom Minneapolis, San Diego or New York City, and lied to federal investiing with Rezaian on Monday lasted 90 minutes and was conducted in the
gators when they were stopped.
Charged are brothers Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21, and Adnan Abdi- presence of an ofﬁcial translator. Baron said the charges, which he described
hamid Farah, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, as “ludicrous,” carry a maximum penalty of 10 to 20 years in prison.
19; Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19; and Guled Ali Omar, 20. All are SomaliAmericans, authorities said.
California appeals court rules against
“These were focused men who were intent on joining a terrorist organization,” Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said at a news conference
higher water rates for big users
Monday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Orange County appeals court ruled Monday
The six were arrested Sunday in Minneapolis and San Diego and are that San Juan Capistrano’s tiered water-rates are unconstitutional, potentially
scheduled to make initial appearances in federal court on Monday.
dealing a blow to agencies statewide that have used the pricing structure to
encourage people to save water.
The 3-0 ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeal upholds a Superior
Some Muslims, activists cast suspicious eye on
Court judge’s decision that found that charging bigger water users incremenfederal effort to stem homegrown radicalization tally higher rates violates a voter-passed law that prohibits government agenMISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Sameer Mohiuddin grew more confused cies from charging more than the cost of a service.
The ruling comes shortly after Gov. Jerry Brown issued drought orders
by the second as panelists speaking at his Southern California mosque trumthat called on local water agencies to implement tiered water pricing to help
peted a new national initiative to prevent violent extremism.
Mohiuddin, 39, is an American citizen, longtime Californian and a vice save water. About two-thirds of water districts in the state use tiered water
president at a technology company. His wife was born and raised in Orange pricing, and the ruling was being closely watched to see how it might apply
County, and they have three children. Why, he wondered, do his family and beyond the appellate court, which is only binding in Orange County.
San Juan Capistrano charged nearly four times as much per unit of water
others like his even ﬁgure into the conversation?
“Day in and day out we’re trying to build a community, saying you’re part for the highest users to encourage conservation. Residents complained the
and parcel of the American fabric. You are an American citizen. I raise my higher rates were arbitrary and unfair.
“We feel vindicated and feel the constitution was upheld,” said attorney
girls and say they have the same rights as others,” Mohiuddin said. “The fact
is, when you’re going to come present a program and say it’s specially geared Benjamin Benumof, who represented San Juan residents. “It’s one for the
to prevent growing extremism in the Muslim community, you’re by default record books.”
Under the ruling, tiered pricing would be perfectly legal, but it would have
saying my community is more predisposed to extremism. It sets people off.”
Mohiuddin’s confusion typiﬁes what many Muslims in Southern Califor- to be tied to the cost of the water, the court said.
San Juan Capistrano’s 2010 rate schedule charged customers $2.47 per
nia and across the United States have felt since the Obama administration
last fall announced a program called Countering Violent Extremism — billing unit — 748 gallons, or 100 cubic feet — of water in the ﬁrst tier and up to
it as a community-driven initiative to tackle terrorism and militant recruitment $9.05 per unit in the fourth.
The city failed to show how those costs were tied directly to more expenby preventing radicalization from taking root — and said it was being tested
sive sources of water, the court ruled.
in Los Angeles, Boston and Minneapolis.
“Nothing in our record tells us why, for example, they could not ﬁgure out
Local law enforcement ofﬁcials have been doing such outreach for years.
But now that federal ofﬁcials are putting their stamp on it, the program is the costs of given usage levels that require City Water to tap more expensive
creating suspicion among American Muslims and others who fear it is pro- supplies, and then bill users in those tiers accordingly,” the court wrote.
Benumof had argued that the tiered structure violated Proposition 218, a
ﬁling disguised as prevention and worry it could compromise civil liberties
1996 state law, because the highest rates exceeded the cost of delivering the
and religious freedoms.
water.
After the state Superior Court declared San Juan Capistrano’s rate structure
Utah woman gets up to life in prison in deaths of invalid
in 2013, the city ﬂattened its tiers and tied charges more directly to
6 newborns whose bodies were found in garage water costs while it awaited the appellate court decision.
Tiered rate structures reduce water use over time by up to 15 percent, acPROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who pleaded guilty to killing six
cording
to a 2014 study at the University of California, Riverside.
of her newborn babies and hiding their bodies in her garage was sentenced
NEW YORK (AP) — The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for an examination
of the deadly toll of domestic violence, while The New York Times collected
three awards and the Los Angeles Times two.
The Seattle Times staff took the breaking news award for its coverage of
a mudslide that killed 43 people and its exploration of whether the disaster to up to life in prison Monday in a case that drew national attention and sent
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