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Elsa Eckhardt
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Education, Seniors
Image & Identity
By tayloR REED
Staff Writer
By lEah caREy
Staff Writer
ST. JOHNSBURY — The village
Wednesday was abuzz with a bevy of intellectual salons.
Residents met for forums at Fairbanks
Museum & Planetarium, Grace Methodist
Church and North Congregational Church
to discuss nine local social issues identiﬁed
Over 75 people gathered at the Fairbanks Museum to discuss how people inside St. Johnsbury see their town and how
they think people outside the town perceive it. The session, “Image & Identity
of St. Johnsbury,” frequently addressed
questions of how the town brands and
See Education, Page A8
Jill Remick
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See Image, Page A8
Barbara Hatch
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ST. JOHNSBURY
150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR
SCHOOL PLANS PREK COORDINATOR HIRE
LOCAL BELLS TOLLED IN MASSIVE PEACE CELEBRATION
Caledonian Details St. Johnsbury’s
Response To Civil War’s End
By tayloR REED
Staff Writer
ST. JOHNSBURY — St. Johnsbury School is poised to
hire a new part time administrator.
The position, an early childhood education coordinator,
will be funded entirely by a state grant for universal
prekindergarten, which begins July 1 in St. Johnsbury, a year
ahead of its state-mandated initiation date, said Superintendent Ranny Bledsoe. Universal pre-K provides 10 weekly
hours for 35 weeks to 3- and 4-year-old children.
Bledsoe said the early childhood coordinator would primarily manage pre-K grants. The job pays $20,000 annually.
“We really need this position next year,” Bledsoe said.
Funding for it is available through the 2015-2016 ﬁscal
year. Bledsoe is already looking for grants to continue it another year.
“Working on sustainability is always the challenge with
grants,” she said. “We would not plan to fund it with taxpayer funds but would look at a range of other possible resources.”
The early education coordinator is not the only new employee Bledsoe is angling for. She plans to hire a behavior
See hire, Page A8
By Dana GRay
Staff Writer
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Photo By dANA GrAy
Jeremy Benton, of St. Johnsbury, walks Wednesday between the Caledonia County
Courthouse and America, a monument to St. Johnsbury men killed ﬁghting in the
Civil War. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Confederate army’s surrender
at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The monument, crafted in Italy for $5,000
and dedicated in 1868, notes the names of 80 men who were killed in action or who
died as a result of wounds suffered in battle during the four-year war.
he newspaper was known simply as ‘The Caledonian’ during the
1860s, when the Civil War was fought and won by the north, comprised of hundreds of local men.
For the past four years the country has marked many 150-year anniversaries related to the four-year war that began in 1861. Today is among the
most signﬁcant of the war-related dates as 150 years ago the Confederate
army, under the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Union
army and its leader, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The event took place at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
The Caledonian’s edition following the April 9, 1865 surrender noted
many stories related to the war, but among the more interesting was the
account of St. Johnsbury’s celebration in the aftermath of Lee’s surrender.
Below is a portion of the story copied from our archives. With descriptive
19th Century newspaper style, the narrative shows a sense of unity, pride,
relief and celebration by a community far removed from the war’s ﬁghting
but not its impact. A momument located in the town’s Courthouse Park
lists 80 names of St. Johnsbury men who died in the war.
Included in the text is a description of a cofﬁn draped with a Confederate
ﬂag that people paraded through town before burying it somewhere near
the corner of Main and Central streets. Peggy Pearl, director of the St.
See civil War, Page A8
LITTLETON
LYMAN
POLICE IDENTIFY
OVERDOSE VICTIM
MOM COMMITTED TO STATE PSYCHIATRIC UNIT
Pleaded Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity To Murder Of Son, Assault On Daughter
By RoBERt BlEchl
Staff Writer
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. — Agreeing with
a psychiatrist that she remains a danger to herself
and others, a Grafton Superior Court judge on
Wednesday committed the Lyman mother charged
in the death of her son to the state’s secured psychiatric unit.
In February, Patina R. Welch, 29 , who has a history of mental illness and who heard voices and
saw a gunman that wasn’t there when she jumped
out the window of her home last year with her fourmonth-old twins, pleaded not guilty by reason of
insanity to the second-degree murder of her son for
Photo By roBert BLeChL
dropping him on the ground and landing on top of Patina Welch was committed to the state’s secured
him and to the ﬁrst-degree assault of her daughter, psychiatric unit Wednesday after the judge agreed she
who suffered a serious brain injury.
remains a danger to herself and others.
TODAY: Cloudy with
periods of rain
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VOL. 177, NO. 207
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Entertainment. . . . . . . B7
For the Record . . . . . . A2
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . A4
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controlled.” –Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
No More Playing Nice: California Names,
Shames Water Wasters
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Bystander Video Of South Carolina Shooting
Fuels Outrage Despite Officer’s Murder Charge
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Wounded As A Slave, Died Free:
Revelation About Woman’s Death
At Appomattox Takes Center Stage
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REGION
LITTLETON, N.H. — Police are now investigating the
circumstances that led to a suspected accidental drug overdose in an apartment Tuesday night, the ﬁrst reported overdose of the year in Littleton.
On Wednesday, police identiﬁed the victim as 43-yearold Edward T. Sawyer.
At about 8 p.m. Tuesday, ofﬁcers responded to 830
Union St., Apt. 5, after receiving a request for a welfare
check.
Sawyer was found inside, deceased. There was evidence
of extensive drug use, said Littleton Police Chief Paul
Smith.
Police conclude Sawyer died during the day Tuesday.
See ID, Page A8
NATION
By RoBERt BlEchl
Staff Writer
After Wednesday’s hearing to determine if she
still poses a danger, Welch was committed to an
initial ﬁve-year term at the psychiatric unit in Concord.
Her case will be reviewed every ﬁve years and
a ﬁnding of dangerousness would commit her to
another ﬁve-year term, potentially up to life. If not
deemed a danger, she would be released.
During Wednesday’s hearing, the state, represented by assistant N.H. Attorney General Stacey
Pawlik, pointed to the March 18 report by psychiatrist Albert Drukteinis, who concluded Welch has
schizo-affective disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder and said
when she jumped out the window she had been
hearing voices.
Citing Drukteinis, Pawlik said Welch poses a
See committed, Page A8
Tsarnaev Guilty On All Charges
In Boston Marathon Bombing
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Vermont House Narrowly
Defeats Teacher Strike Ban
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FOR THE RECORD
OBITUARIES
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to focus and buckle up
KATHERINE I. BOONE
Katherine Boone of St. Johnsbury died on Wednesday, Jan. 21,
2015 at the age of 89.
A Memorial Service will be held in her honor at the Union Baptist
Church, located on Rt. 5 south of St. Johnsbury, this Friday, April 10,
2015, at 2 p.m. with Pastor Paul Powers presiding.
Memorial gifts may be given in her memory to either St. Johnsbury
Health and Rehab Center, 1248 Hospital Dr., St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
or Union Baptist Church, 932 US Rt. 5, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819.
Sayles Funeral Home is helping the family with arrangements.
STANLEY TUCKER
1951-2015
Stanley Tucker, 63, of Derby Line, Vt., passed from a
battle with cancer on April 7, 2015.
He was born to Stanley & Georgia (Lawrence) Tucker
in Lebanon, N.H. on July 8, 1951. He graduated in 1969 from Hartford
High School. He was currently employed by Vermont Electric Co-Op.
He retired from the US Army after serving over 20 years as a Master
Sergeant in Special Forces and also served in Delta Force.
He will be missed by his many great friends from around the world.
Stan had a love for ﬂy ﬁshing and enjoyed traveling around the world
ﬁnding his favorite ﬁshing streams. He found his favorite ﬁshing
stream in Vermont, Montana, Northern California, British Columbia
and Chili. Stan spent many hours tying ﬂies for his ﬁshing trips.
He leaves behind his two sons, Jason Tucker of Cornish, N.H. and
Scott Tucker of Hartland, Vt. He had three sisters Ellen Rogers of
South Royalton, Vt., Patti Shaw of Randolph, Vt. and Nancy Harmon
of Milton Vermont. He had ﬁve grandchildren, Jordon, Kayla, Jacob,
Rozlyn, and Zackery.
There will be a celebration of life at Knight Funeral Home in White
River Jct., Vt. on Saturday April 11, 2015, from 1 to 3 p.m. with presentation of military honors at 3 p.m..
Condolences may be expressed to Stanley’s family in an online
guestbook at www.knightfuneralhomes.com.
POLICE LOG
STATE — ST. JOHNSBURY
Michael Place, 54, Newport,
was in a one vehicle accident on I91 north in Waterford on Friday.
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Ann Scherber, 42, St. Johnsbury, was taken into custody for
driving with a criminally suspended license in Lyndonville on
Monday.
Card of Thanks
Many thanks to my family,
friends, and neighbors for
the phone calls and all the
beautiful cards I received
for my 80th birthday
card shower. It was
very special and I will
treasure them forever.
Fondly,
Dorothy Lynaugh
ST. JOHNSBURY
John Priest, 39, St. Johnsbury,
was cited for DUI on Saturday.
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An iPhone was located and
turned into the St. Johnsbury dispatch on Saturday. The owner may
claim the phone with proper identiﬁcation at the St. Johnsbury police department dispatch.
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NEWS BRIEFS
Editor’s Note: All information is
from Caledonia Superior Court documents.
Joshua Patneaude, 33, Barnet,
pleaded guilty to unlawful trespass by
looking in the window of the residence at 92 Anderson Street occupied
by Jennifer Jones, 35, and Joel Tremblay, 38, on Jan. 6 in Barnet and was
ordered to pay a $250 ﬁne plus and
$285 in court surcharges.
William P. Conron, 55, New
Canaan, Conn., pleaded not guilty by
waiver to drunken driving on Interstate 91 in Barnet on March 20 at
3:44 p.m. and was released on conditions.
An arrest warrant was issued on
April 2 for Jacki Hammond, 30,
Hardwick, after she failed to appear
in court for Calender Call on a charge
of disorderly conduct. Bail was set at
$150.
A charge of disorderly conduct by
ﬁghting against. Richard Yu, 21, St.
Johnsbury, was dismissed by the state
on April 2.
Dawn Bourdeau, 51, Greensboro, pleaded not guilty to drunken
driving on Route 15 in Hardwick on
March 19 at 11 p.m. and was released
on conditions.
Matthew G. Desrochers, 28, St.
Johnsbury, pleaded guilty to driving
with a suspended license on Concord
Avenue in St. Johnsbury on Jan. 15
and was ordered to pay a $300 ﬁne.
Joshua Chase, 23, St. Johnsbury,
pleaded not guilty to possession of
narcotics and transportation of drugs
into a detention facility on Jan. 4 and
was released on conditions.
Larry E. Clark, 54, Wheelock,
pleaded not guilty to careless or negligent operation of a motor vehicle
and driving with a suspended license
on Route 16 in Hardwick on Feb. 19
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and was released on conditions.
Jeremy S. Gilman, 24, Danville,
pleaded not guilty to drunken driving
on Memorial Drive in Lyndonville
on March 20 at 1:30 a.m. and was released on conditions.
Sean C. Drucker, 44, Danville,
pleaded guilty to drunken driving on
Route 2B in St. Johnsbury on March
17 in exchange for a sentence of 1-3
months on administrative probation
and $307 in ﬁnes and court surcharges.
Keith Taylor, 36, Lyndonville,
pleaded not guilty to violating conditions of release by calling Meagan
Taylor, 27, on Dec. 28, 2014, and was
released on conditions.
An arrest warrant was issued on
April 6 for Jason Blodgett, 36, Lyndonville, after he failed to appear for
an attorney or appear hearing on a
charge of drunken driving. Bail was
set at $100.
Charges of interference with access to emergency services and cruelty to a child against Frank A. Gray
Jr., 43, St. Johnsbury, were dismissed
by the state on April 7.
Nicholas D. Barbour, 33, Burke,
pleaded no contest to simple assault
by slapping Stacie Barbour on Nov.
6, 2013 in West Burke in exchange
for a one year deferred sentence. A
charge of domestic assault was dismissed by the state as part of the plea
agreement.
A charge of driving with a suspended license against Brian Carleton, 47, Hardwick, was dismissed
by the state on April 7.
Caitlin A. Pearsons, 24, St.
Johnsbury, pleaded guilty to drunkendriving - second offense in exchange
for a sentence of 2-9 months, all suspended except for 60 hours and $652
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As ‘spring fever’ closes in, now’s the time to remind drivers and
passengers about the dangers, the laws, and some resources regarding
“distracted driving.”
Distracted driving now outpaces alcohol as the leading cause of
death for teen drivers in the United States. According to the National
Safety Council, half of all teens will be involved in a car crash before
graduating from high school. Mile for mile, teenagers are involved
in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers. Eighty percent of all fatalities include unbelted, improperly restrained or unhelmeted drivers and riders (National Highway Trafﬁc Safety
Administration). Talking on a cellphone – even hands-free, increases
crash risk four times; texting increases the crash risk eight times.
In Vermont, all drivers are prohibited from texting and handheld
phone use while driving. Those under 18 may not use a portable electronic device while driving.
New Hampshire’s law goes into effect this July. Handheld cellphone use is prohibited for all drivers and wireless device use is prohibited for all drivers under age 18. Text messaging or the use of two
hands to type on or operate an electronic or telecommunications device is prohibited for all drivers.
It takes more than laws to solve the problem. Research shows that
kids who learn about the dangers of alcohol and drugs at home are
up to 50 percent less likely to use these substances than kids who
don’t learn about such dangers from their parents. Department of
Health and Human Services researchers advise parents about the importance of early and frequent discussions with children and teens
concerning one’s judgment, skill, and choices behind the wheel. Two
interactive websites relating to both parents and teen drivers offer a
host of resources for consideration: driveithome.org and impactteeendrivers.org. This message is brought to you by Lyndon Rescue – Caring for the Kingdom.
200 Vermont businesses
line up behind carbon tax
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Supporters of a Vermont carbon tax
say they’ve signed up the owners of more than 200 mostly small
business owners who are advocating for the change.
At a news conference on Wednesday, ofﬁcials from businesses
ranging from Ben & Jerry’s to Champlain Orchards to Seventh Generation spoke of the beneﬁts of imposing a tax on carbon emissions
and using the money for energy efﬁciency and for tax cuts elsewhere.
Prospects for a carbon tax look slim this year as the Legislature
enters the ﬁnal six weeks of its 2015 session. But supporters say
they’re hoping to build momentum for a push next year.
Meanwhile, Matt Cota of the Vermont Fuel Dealers’ Association
says a carbon tax would be a bad idea and would hurt businesses especially along the Connecticut River.
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MEGABUCKS PLUS (Wednesday)
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Local Forecast
Today: Cloudy, with morning
snow showers mixing with rain
and tapering off, then a rising
chance of rain showers late.
Highs in the lower 40s. Winds
becoming south to southeast 5 to
15 mph.
Tonight: Cloudy with rain likely.
Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy and
breezy with scattered rain showers, and possibly a rumble of
thunder. Highs in the low to mid
50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15
mph and gusting to 25 mph, becoming south.
Extended Forecast:
Friday Night: Scattered evening
rain showers. Lows in the mid
30s.
Saturday: Scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 40s.
Saturday Night: Clearing. Lows
in the mid to upper 20s.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s.
Sunday Night: Becoming partly
cloudy late. Lows in the lower
30s.
Monday: Increasing clouds.
Chance of afternoon showers.
Highs again in the mid 50s.
Daily Weather Highlights
Precipitation will largely back off
this morning, but cloudy and cool
conditions will persist, as we remain
on the cool side of a strong warm
front that will be approaching from
the southwest, and spreading rain in
from that direction late today and
tonight. Steady rain is then likely
tonight. The warm front will be to our
north by tomorrow, when temperatures should become brieﬂy more
mild, amidst scattered showers.
Even a rumble of thunder will be
possible tomorrow, as the system’s
cold front approaches. That will
knock temperature back for Saturday, with some lingering showers,
mainly in the mountains. High pressure will then take ﬁrm control on
Sunday, with highs well into the 50s,
and with those milder temperatures
sticking around, despite some
shower chances early next week,
says Lawrence Hayes of the Fairbanks Museum weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Cloudy
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . .45
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . .19
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . .32
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . .65
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . .11
Maximum this date (1945) . . . .77
Minimum this date (1977) . . . . . .9
HUMIDITY
26%
DEWPOINT
10
WINDS
8 mph, 10 max . . . . . . . . . . . .SSE
BAROMETER
30.28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Falling
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00 in.
Total for Month . . . . . . . . .0.57 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . .0.76 in.
SNOWFALL
Past 24 Hours . . . . . . . . . .0.00 in.
Monthly Total . . . . . . . . . . . .4.9 in.
Season Total . . . . . . . . . . .98.5 in.
Season Norm To Date . . . .84.0 in.
Snowpack . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . .6:15 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . .7:24 p.m.
Length of day . . . . .13 hrs. 9 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
To date since July 1 . . . . . . .7665
To date last year . . . . . . . . . .7643
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LOCAL
ST. JOHNSBURY
DERBY LINE VILLAGE
BARBER SHOP OWNER INDICTED ON FEDERAL DRUG CHARGE CLERK/TREASURER TO STEP DOWN NEXT MONTH
Voters Elect New Trustee, New Water Commissioner
By toDD WEllInGton
Staff Writer
The owner of a St. Johnsbury
barber shop has been indicted by
federal authorities for conspiring
to distribute heroin and cocaine out
of her Concord home.
Elysia S. Conley, 27, was arrested by on March 10 and pleaded
not guilty to a felony charge of
conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
United States District Court
Conley is the owner of the now
closed Modern Divine Barber
Shop located at 77 Concord Ave.
in St. Johnsbury.
Barber equipment can still be
seen through a window inside the
the shop and its distinct red, white
and blue barber pole still marks its
location. But the shop’s once
prominent “Modern Divine” sign
has now been taken taken down
and a small paper sign in the window advertises the space for rent.
“Available immediately,” reads
the sign. “1 or 2 Station Hair Salon
or Barber Shop.”
According to court documents,
the Vermont Drug Task Force arrested Conley in July of 2014 for
selling heroin and narcotics out of
the shop. But police did not ﬁle
charges against her after Conley
agreed to cooperate with investigators looking into the distribution of
hard drugs in Caledonia County.
The barber shop drug bust was
referenced by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christina E. Nolan in her
March 12 motion for Conley to be
held on pre-trial detention.
“The defendant did not appear
in court on this charge,” wrote
Nolan. “She indicated she would
cooperate with law enforcement
following the citation, but ultimately returned to drug trafﬁcking,
as evidenced by the grand jury indictment.”
According to the indictment referenced by Nolan, Conley told police in January that she was selling
up to $800 worth of drugs per day
for a drug ring that operated out of
her home at 130 Victory Road in
Concord.
Three other members of the alleged ring were arrested after Conley tipped authorities off to a
planned drug shipment from Concord to Chittenden County on Jan.
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As a result of the tip suspects
By RoBIn SmIth
Staff Writer
FiLe Photo
The now closed Modern Divine Barber Shop in St. Johnsbury.
Steven Miller, a.k.a “Shawn,” 30,
of Brooklyn, N.Y., Jenna Gonyo,
29, of Colchester, Vt. and Cleveland London, a.k.a. “Bleez,” 22, of
Brooklyn, N.Y. were arrested for
conspiracy to distribute heroin.
“The defendant
poses an incurable
flight risk and
danger to the
community,” wrote
Assistant U.S.
Attorney Christina
E. Nolan
Authorities later recovered a
handgun, 250 bags of heroin and
approximately 2.5 grams of crack
cocaine during a search of Conley’s residence. Another 64 grams
of heroin, 14.8 grams of powder
cocaine and 27.6 grams of crack
cocaine were found hidden in a
black SUV that was stopped by
state police on Interstate 89 in
Bolton as part of the investigation.
Conley was initially ordered detained by United States District
Court Judge John M. Conroy after
Nolan argued in her detention motion that Conley was a dangerous
ﬂight risk.
“The defendant poses an incurable ﬂight risk and danger to the
community,” wrote Assistant U.S.
Attorney Christina E. Nolan in her
motion for detention on March 12.
“It appears that the defendant committed the instant federal heroin
trafﬁcking offense while she had
three separate pending state
cases/citations.”
In addition to the arrest for selling heroin out of her barber shop
Nolan also referenced drunk driving driving charges against Conley
in August of 2014 and January of
2015 and a narcotics conviction in
2011.
“The defendant was on state
probation for a 2014 motor vehicle
offense when she committed the
instant federal drug trafﬁcking offense,” wrote Nolan. “There is
simply no reason to believe that
the defendant would comply with
federal release conditions when
she has continuously ignored stateimposed conditions. Moreover, the
defendant has a history of heroin
addiction and may test positive for
drugs. This would enhance the justiﬁcation for pretrial detention.”
But Judge Conroy later reversed
his detention order and released
Conley after her attorney, Richard
C. Bothfeld of Burlington, argued
his client was in need of drug treatment.
“Defendant was accepted at
Maple Leaf Farm, a residential
drug program in Underhill, Vermont,” wrote Bothfeld in his motion for reconsideration. “At this
time Defendant is on a wait list for
a bed, but it is expected a bed will
be available shortly. Defendant’s
family or friends will assume responsibility for her transport to
Maple Leaf.”
Conroy released Conley on
March 26 subject to conditions of
release.
Conley was scheduled to appear
in Caledonia Superior Court Monday for a pretrial hearing on unrelated state drug charges Monday
and a jury draw on Tuesday. But
Judge Robert Bent postponed both
hearings after Conley failed to appear on Monday. Ofﬁcials say
Conley did not appear because she
is in drug rehabilitation.
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about the status of the Elm/Main
streets water project, the Caswell
Avenue sidewalk project and relationship with U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
The water project is not quite
complete but it will be audited
when it is, trustees and Booth
said.
The engineers will be back to
fix the road where culverts were
installed, to finish roadside work
and make sure everything is
working before the one-year warranty expires in the fall, trustees
said.
The project came in under bid,
but the final cost will have to be
tallied, including the funding
input from Town of Derby.
International Water is drilling a
new well and is expected to add
Beebe to its system, which would
reduce the cost per Derby Line
user, trustees said.
The sidewalk project, delayed
because of rights of way and approval needs, is in line to be built
this year, Trustee Roland “Buzzy”
Roy said.
The engineers say that they
hope to begin construction Aug. 1
and be done in a month, with a
final date of Oct. 1, Roy said. He
has asked them to move the project ahead a month and be done
earlier.
Beadle, a former CBP officer,
said that there has been a change
in leadership at the local ports and
the village has not had a meeting
with the new leadership yet.
He did not know if a road divider that was put at the top of the
hill near Brown’s Pharmacy
would be put back there.
HIGH-TECH
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Kim Doolan
Sharon Booth, who has been
clerk and treasurer for two years
in this small border village, announced she will step down next
month because she is moving out
of the area.
Booth is also tax collector and
delinquent tax collector.
Booth planned to submit her
resignation Wednesday, kicking in
a 10-day window set by statute for
the trustees to post notice of the
pending vacancy.
Re-elected trustee Keith Beadle
said that the board of trustees can
either appoint someone to fill out
the last year of Booth’s term or
call a special election for village
voters to elect a new clerk/treasurer.
He asked the nearly two dozen
voters at the meeting what they
preferred but did not get a definitive answer.
The village altered its charter in
the past so that a new clerk/treasurer can live outside of the village. However, Beadle said that
the trustees would prefer to see a
village resident elected or appointed to the position.
Voters asked if anyone had expressed interest in the position.
Beadle said that someone has
approached the trustees, but he
did not name that person.
Beadle said the trustees would
get clarification of the rules for
conducting a special election for
clerk, whether the village should
invite members of the Derby
Board of Civil Authority to assist
in conducting and counting bal-
lots as suggested by former village clerk Karen Jenne.
Booth was elected over Jenne
two years ago.
The village operations will not
stop, trustees said, since Booth
will stay in her job for another 30
days.
Also Tuesday, voters by voice
vote elected a new trustee.
Voters
elected
Lindsay
Brainard to a three-year term. He
ran unopposed
Beadle won election by voice
vote over Richard Creaser to finish the last year in trustee Ralph
Miko’s term in office.
Miko had already announced
that he would be resigning effective Tuesday due to illness and the
need to move out of state. He
apologized for not being able to
finish his term. He earned praise
from fellow trustees and applause
from voters.
Creaser was elected without
opposition to the important village position of water commissioner, replacing long-time
commissioner Gilles Blais who
was not present and said he would
not run again.
As commissioner, Creaser will
serve with the trustees on the governing board of the private International Water Company, which
serves Derby Line and Stanstead,
Quebec. He also would be expected to attend many trustees’
meetings and learn the details of
the water system.
The voters filled other village
positions and approved the
$127,607 needed in property
taxes to run the village.
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Todd M. Smith, Publisher
OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
Silly Move
On Monday St. Johnsbury Superintendent Ranny Bledsoe said
she wanted to move her ofﬁce from the school to a posh $1,500
suite far away from town. Hers is a growth industry, she thinks, and
her taxpayer-funded quarters are cramped and wanting for feng
shui.
Plus, she says, it’s not easy to be in such close proximity to the
people she manages.
We certainly understand that last part. On a daily basis we have
to manage ad designers, account reps, distributors, carriers, reporters, editors, techies, number crunchers, layout artists, customer
service agents, customers, clients, and managers for all of the
above. The latter group doesn’t always like we have to say, or when
we have to say it. So it might be nice for all parties if we could
manage from afar… maybe someplace with a warmer climate.
There are a couple problems with this. First, absentee management is ineffective management. We don’t think you can (or should
want to) lead troops from far behind the front lines. Second, and
perhaps more importantly, we are constrained by the economic realities of doing business in stagnant (even shrinking) markets.
Dr. Bledsoe might not realize that she is subject to these same
market realities, but she is. Her claim, “Won’t cost anything” seems
pretty tone deaf to us.
But that’s not why we really don’t like her proposal. For that we
ask of her: 1) How does your proposed move improve student outcomes and 2) How does it save taxpayers money?
We’re pretty sure the answer to both questions is… it doesn’t.
Editor’s note: Today marks the 150th anniversary of the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Confederate army to Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, leader of the Union army. The following narrative
comes from The Caledonian newspaper celebrating the unofﬁcial
end of the Civil War.
The Caledonian Editorial ~ April 14, 1865
Lee Has Surrendered
These three words ﬂashed over the wires last Monday and electriﬁed the country as no other words ever did. And why? Because
they are equivalent to three other words expressing our hopes and
prayers for the last four years: The Rebellion Crushed! Our government, tried by the severest test to which any government ever
was, or can be put, has come out triumphant. Treason is suppressed,
and the great principle that “all men are created free and equal,” is
no longer a lie in our Declaration.
It is conceded on all hands that with the surrender of Lee’s army
ceases all armed resistance to the government by any great body of
men. It is believed [Gen. Joseph E.] Johnston will either surrender
or disperse his army; for it must be remembered that Gen. Lee was
commander-in-chief of all the Confederate armies, and would he
surrender one and command the other to ﬁght on? His correspondence with Gen. Grant indicates his desire for the restoration of
peace.
Peace! How can we write that word? But yesterday our government waging the most gigantic war ever known, and the marshaled
hosts of both armies engaged in most dreadful strife and carnage,
and today the proud army of the Rebellion surrendered and peace
at our very doors! The transition is too sudden and too vast to be
comprehended. The mind cannot take it in; neither can pen or
tongue do it justice.
While gratitude, honor and glory belong to Lieutenant Gen.
Grant and every ofﬁcer and soldier under him who have contributed
to this mighty result, we must not forget Him who has guided our
armies, and led our Nation through this sea of blood to the glorious
haven of peace. “Glory be to God in the highest and on earth
Peace!”
Ron Paul
IRS,
Congress
hold our
liberty in
contempt
This week the Justice Department announced it would
not charge former Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) official
Lois Lerner with contempt of
Congress. Some members of
Congress requested that Lerner
be charged with contempt after
she refused to testify at a congressional hearing investigating her role in denying or
delaying the applications for
tax-exempt status of “tea
party” and pro-limited government organizations.
Cynics might suggest it is
not surprising that a former
government official would
avoid prosecution for refusing
to tell Congress about how
federal employees abused their
power to help the incumbent
administration. These
cynics have a point,
but the problem goes
beyond mere partisanship. Government officials
are
rarely
prosecuted for even
the most blatant violations of
our liberties. In contrast, federal prosecutors routinely pursue criminal charges against
whistleblowers. For example,
the only American prosecuted
and imprisoned in relation to
the government’s use of torture
was whistleblower John Kiriakou!
While some officials like
Lois Lerner who find themselves at the center of a highprofile scandal or partisan
dispute can expect harsh treatment from Congress, this is the
expectation, not the rule. Executive branch officials usually
receive deferential treatment
from members of Congress. I
recall one hearing on government surveillance where a repSee contempt, Page A5
Letters to the Editor…
Adding a note
about Proﬁle
meeting
To the Editor:
I would like to add a note to the
earlier letter about the recent Proﬁle
School meeting (“Moderator displays poor judgment” Mar. 28-29,
2015).
The moderator, using “his own
form of parliamentary procedure”,
held a special vote. The choice was
either continue the meeting with the
article closed for discussion, or allow
additional people to speak.
I mention this because the writer
of the letter was not in the room at the
time, so might easily have missed it.
John Colony
Sugar Hill, N.H.
Dangerous
chemicals
To the Editor:
It is with much amusement that I
received a note from the electric
company, explaining their policies
regarding herbicide use to maintain
their power lines. They are expected
to notify the public by newspaper
and radio when, where and what they
will be spraying in the area. In addition, private landowners were given
the opportunity to request a personal
notiﬁcation when spraying was to be
done around their property. The note
was ﬁnalized with the governmental
agency to be contacted if further information was needed. That agency
was the Vt Department of Agriculture.
The irony of this notiﬁcation is
that we are surrounded by herbicide
spraying at least twice during the
growing season. All the massive
amounts of corn grown around us requires usually a pre-emerge spray
and a post-emerge spray of herbicides. Since these ﬁelds are close to
homes, it seems bizarre that the electric company should have to notify
the population, but big farms who
use many more chemicals neither
have to identity nor tell their neighbors what they are using.
The effects of herbicide drift, i.e.,
chemicals ﬂying into the air and
being transported for even miles, is
common knowledge. Scientiﬁc
American, in 2012, states “pesticide
drift is an insidious threat to human
health as well as to wildlife and
ecosystems in and around agricultural and even residential areas where
harsh chemicals are used to ward off
pests. The biggest risk from pesticide
drift is to those living, working or attending school near larger farms
which employ elevated spraying
equipment or crop duster planes to
apply chemicals to crops and ﬁelds.
Children are especially vulnerable to
these airborne pesticides, given that
their young bodies are still growing
and developing.”
Another common term, volatilization, states that pesticides can continue to evaporate into the air for up
to several days after spraying.
I suggest we need stronger controls on herbicide spraying, i.e., notifying neighbors and schools when
herbicides are being sprayed.
Also, the volatilization of chemicals from manure pits should be limited by injecting the manure into the
soil, minimizing public exposure to
the thousands of tons of chemical
wastes, including formaldehyde, antibiotics, and dead material which is
also placed within the manure pits.
An alternate method could be composting instead of blowing it into the
air, so chances of it entering into unaware nostrils and causing sickness
may be minimized.
The next time you are driving your
car on Rte 105 and notice the inten-
sity of the wind, please remember
that there may be other substances
being carried in the Vermont “fresh
air”.
Amy Cochran
Montgomery, Vt.
Service calls
To the Editor:
All technicians, whether they
work for fuel, TV, computer, telephone, or electric companies, and
have to kneel down or bend over to
work, should either wear extra long
tailed T-shirts or suspenders for their
jeans. Otherwise, the sight is not
pretty. You all know what I mean. If
I have to sign my name, I’ll probably
never get another service call.
Bob Sargent
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rep. Young thinks
you’re undertaxed
To the Editor:
As the Vermont House works to
correct years of overspending, last
week it passed House Bill 489. The
bill is expected to raise $33 million
in new “revenues” from Vermonters
for the 2016 ﬁscal year. House members that are quoted in media stories
often avoid the word “taxes.” I guess
they think that if they don’t use the
“t-word”, their constituents might not
notice.
The new legislation will affect
80,000 Vermonters who itemized deductions on their tax return. Deductions that are allowed when you ﬁle
your Federal tax return will be
“capped” on your Vermont tax return. This will limit the tax deductions that you currently use to reduce
your Vermont taxable income. And,
of course, when your tax deductions
are capped, your taxable income increases, and your Vermont state income taxes will rise.
Deductions that Vermonters item-
ize include mortgage interest, property taxes, state income taxes, certain
medical expenses and charitable contributions. It remains to been seen
whether Vermonters will purchase
less expensive homes since their
mortgage interest deductions will be
limited and whether the real estate
market will be negatively impacted.
Also, whether Vermonters contribute
as much to charity, since deductions
taken for contributions will also be
capped is another open question.
The short term beneﬁts for state
government of raising taxes is obvious. It uses the new “revenue” to balance its budget. I am more concerned
about the longer term impacts on
Vermont’s economy. States with
higher tax rates are not attractive to
businesses that might otherwise
move here and create new jobs (and
new tax payers). In addition, individuals who have high incomes that will
be subject to higher tax rates, will be
less likely to move here. Finally,
businesses and high income earners
that live here now, are more likely to
move away. Businesses and individuals who have capital, often move
themselves (and their capital) to
states with lower tax rates. Think
New Hampshire or Florida, where
state income tax rates are 0%!
Representative Sam Young is the
only member of the Vermont House
from Orleans County who voted for
House Bill 489. It will be interesting
to see how Bobby Starr and John
Rodgers vote when this legislation
comes before the Vermont Senate.
The tax policy coming out of this
legislative session is exactly the
wrong way to encourage new business, to attract new residents and to
keep businesses and high income
earners here in the state. Will the last
tax payer to leave Vermont please remember to turn out the lights?
Paul Decelles
Newport, Vt.
In My Opinion…
DOUBLING DOWN ON JOB CREATION
Since its inception in 2007, the
Vermont Employment Growth Incentive program (VEGI) has encouraged companies to relocate to or
grow in Vermont, translating into
good-paying jobs for Vermonters. In
the eight years since the program
was launched, companies approved
for VEGI have created 3,038 new,
full-time jobs, added $187 million in
new payroll, and made $495 million
in capital investments in Vermont.
All this incremental economic activity has generated almost $30 million
in new revenues to the State. In fact,
the companies receiving VEGI incentives have exceeded their economic projections by an average of
175 percent and the revenue return
is 288 percent higher than projected.
What makes VEGI unique from
incentives offered by other states is
that it is entirely linked to job creation. VEGI dollars only goes to
qualiﬁed companies if they create a
speciﬁed number of jobs and increase payroll. The company (be it
new to Vermont or an existing one
with a new growth opportunity)
must prove that this growth would
Livable Wage – currently
not have occurred without
$13 an hour. This will
the incentive. If the commake the program more efpany does not meet perfective in regions of the
formance and job creation
state where starting wages
requirements, the incenand the cost of living may
tives are not paid.
be lower than they are in
The VEGI program has
been a success for Ver- By Gov. PEtER other regions. To further
drive economic opportunimont and Vermonters, and
ShumlIn
ties in those regions, I am
I am proposing we double
down on its job creation potential also proposing we remove a cap that
with several changes that will help limits enhanced VEGI incentives to
create more employment opportuni- regions of the state with lower inties around the state. The proposals comes and higher unemployment.
Next, we will enhance the incenare designed to enhance the program
while maintaining the integrity and tive for manufacturers and high-tech
important controls that earned VEGI employers, the cornerstone of innoa “best-in-the-nation” rating from vation in Vermont. Manufacturers
Good Jobs First, a national policy and high-tech employers account for
more than 11 percent of our workresource center.
We are proposing to improve force and they provide high-paying
VEGI in a few ways. First, we will jobs with good beneﬁts, all while
make the VEGI program more ac- bringing new revenue to our state.
cessible to businesses in all parts of We need to do all we can to encourthe state. At present, the only jobs el- age these companies to grow right
igible for the incentive are new hires here in the Green Mountain State,
that meet the VEGI Wage Threshold and the proposal I have laid out
– 160% of the Vermont minimum would provide an enhanced incenwage. I am proposing we tie the tive to these sectors whose growth is
VEGI wage threshold to the state’s critical to Vermont’s economic fu-
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Lastly, we will encourage more
training for new employees. I am
proposing a new program that
would encourage VEGI recipients to
use some of their incentive to provide training for new employees.
This proposal will allow businesses
that have been approved for VEGI
and are enrolled with a state-approved training program, to use
some of their VEGI incentive early
on for training costs. The company
still must create the required new
jobs and payroll, but instead of receiving the incentive incrementally
over ﬁve years, the company will receive one payment to help defray the
costs of training early on. This gets
more new employees trained sooner
without any additional cost to the
state.
The VEGI program has been a
success for Vermont and Vermonters. It’s a program that works but it
can work better. If we’re successful
in improving the program, it will
give a boost to businesses that are
creating jobs and economic opportunity in every corner of the state.
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WIFE TRIES TO TAKE BLAME IN CHILD PORN CASE
LOCAL
By RoBIn SmIth
Staff Writer
ABOVE: CALEX ambulance workers, St. Johnsbury ﬁreﬁghters and State Trooper Shawn McGarvin work to extricate
Miranda Buck, 19, of St. Johnsbury, from her wrecked vehicle. Buck was transported to NVRH for minor injuries following a two vehicle crash on Memorial Drive in St. Johnsbury just before 10 a.m. Wednesday. According to Trooper
McGarvin, Buck’s 2004 Buick collided with the rear of a 1997 Chevy Cavalier driven by Danny Austin, 64, Lyndonville.
Austin was not injured. Both operators were wearing seat belts. The Buick sustained front end damage while the
Chevy sustained rear end damage. No one was ticketed (PHOTO BY JAMES JARDINE). BElOw: Vermont State
Police Trooper David Roos speaks with William Mitchell, 49, of Concord, off Route 2 in East St. Johnsbury early
Wednesday. Mitchell’s 2004 Ford truck rests on its side in the background while St. Johnsbury Assistant Fire Chief
Will Rivers stands ready to guide trafﬁc. The trooper said his investigation continues to determine who was actually
driving the truck. Based on conversations with three people, including Mitchell and Stephen M. Rich, 44, of Jefferson,
N.H., the trooper said the crash is being blamed on black ice (PHOTO BY DANA GRAY).
LETTERS Contempt
Continued from Page A4
TO THE EDITOR
resentative actually apologized to
a government official because
Congress had the gall to ask that
official to testify about the government’s ongoing surveillance
of the American people.
In contrast, private citizens
called before Congress are harangued and even bullied. Congress should stop using the
hearing process to intimidate private citizens and start using it to
intimidate those government officials who are threatening our
liberty. For example, Congress
should continue to investigate the
IRS’s ongoing attempts to silence
organizations that work to advance free markets and individual liberty.
My Campaign for Liberty organization has had to battle an
IRS demand that it hand over
personal information regarding
some of its top donors. The IRS
is either ignoring, or ignorant of,
the numerous precedents protect-
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ing the right of organizations like
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agency to revoke an organization’s tax-exempt status if that
organization sends out a communication to its members or the
general public mentioning a candidate for office by name sixty
days before an election or thirty
days before a primary. By preventing groups from telling their
members where candidates stand
on issues like Audit the Fed and
repeal of the PATRIOT Act, this
anti-First Amendment regulation
benefits those politicians who
wish to hide their beliefs from
the voters.
Since the IRS’s power stems
from the tax system, the only
way to protect our liberty from
this agency is to eliminate the tax
NEWPORT CITY — The wife
of a man accused of possessing
child pornography is facing charges
that she tried to take the blame herself, and then kicked a police detective and resisted arrest, according to
court records.
Prison inmates helped police develop the case, according to the Vermont Attorney General’s ofﬁce.
Kerissa Allen, 22, of Barton,
pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony
obstruction of justice and three other
charges of providing false information to police, simple assault on an
ofﬁcer and resisting arrest, according to records in Orleans Superior
Court – Criminal Division.
Kerissa Allen, wife of convicted
child molester William Allen, was
freed after entering her plea. Judge
Timothy Tomasi released her on
conditions that she have no contact
with children under the age of 18
and not have any access to the Internet through any device.
She is a cook with the Barton
Senior Center.
Police detectives say that she
downloaded child pornography ﬁles
as directed by her 29-year-old husband, afﬁdavits show. William Allen
is in prison for lack of $250,000 bail
after pleading not guilty to charges
of possessing child pornography.
But the investigation also revealed that police were concerned
that Kerissa Allen may have taken
photographs of children because she
has babysat young children, police
said.
William Allen is already on the
Vermont Sex Offender Registry for
life after his 2005 conviction for
lewd and lascivious conduct with a
child in Essex County. Earlier in
code. Promising to end the IRS is
a popular applause line for politicians wishing to appear as champions of liberty. This week, John
Koskinen, the current IRS commissar, responded to these cries
to end the IRS by pointing out
that shutting down the IRS would
deprive Congress of the revenue
needed to fund the welfare-warfare state. Koskinen has a point.
Congress cannot shut down the
IRS until it enacts major reductions in all areas of government
spending.
Politicians who vote for warfare abroad and welfare at home
yet claim they want to shut down
the IRS should not be taken seriously. Freeing the people from
the IRS’s tyranny is one of the
best reasons to end the welfarewarfare state and return the federal
government
to
its
constitutional limitations.
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Raymond said he showed Kerissa
Allen the copy of the letter her husband wrote to her. When Raymond
said he explained that the child
pornography on the computer predated her presence in the home,
“Kerissa Allen’s eyes ﬁlled with
tears.”
She admitted she was not responsible, “she was just doing this as a
scheme to try and get William Allen
out of jail by convincing us that she
was the only one downloading the
child pornography,” Raymond
wrote.
Raymond said he and another detective found another letter in the
home also directing her to lie.
That’s when the investigating ofﬁcers got a call from the prison,
where corrections ofﬁcials had discovered that she was reading stories
about child pornography to her husband over the phone, according to
Raymond.
“We asked Kerissa Allen about
reading William Allen these stories
and she admitted doing this and advised they would both masturbate,”
Raymond said. The stories were in
an envelope next to her bed.
When Raymond said she told
them she babysits minors, Raymond
said he was immediately concerned
that she had photographs of children
on her smart phone.
She grabbed her phone and began
manipulating it, Raymond said, as if
she was deleting something.
They fought over the phone, with
Kerissa Allen kicking Raymond in
the thigh, he said.
She fought with Raymond and
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by William Allen show graphic sexual abuse of children as young as
toddlers by adults.
If convicted on all charges he is
facing, William Allen could get up
to 60 years in prison.
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The case developed when inmates in Northern State Correctional Center in January alerted the
attorney general’s ofﬁce that
William Allen had confessed to sexual assault on a minor and also that
he was going to force his wife of
less than a year to take the blame for
his own downloading of child
pornography. The inmates had
copies of letters that William Allen
was sending to his wife to get her to
take the blame, police said.
One of the inmates involved said
he is the father of four children and
has “a real issue” with people who
victimize children, according to the
afﬁdavit of Detective Matthew Raymond of the Vermont Internet
Crimes Against Children division of
the AG’s ofﬁce.
Raymond met with Kerissa Allen
on April 1 at her home in Barton, he
said.
In his afﬁdavit, he described how
she tried to take the blame for downloading child pornography. “She advised that she had been the one who
was solely responsible …”, Raymond said.
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No More Playing Nice: California Names, Shames Water Wasters
By FEnIt nIRaPPIl
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
California is done with gentle
nudges and polite reminders to
deal with its devastating drought.
State regulators are naming and
shaming local water departments
that have let water wasters slide
— and forcing agencies to slash
water use by as much as a third.
They say it’s necessary as California reservoirs, and the snow on
mountains that is supposed to refill them, reach record lows.
The drought has no clear end in
sight, but it’s up to hundreds of
local agencies, from small irrigation districts to the city of Los
Angeles, to make sure California
has enough water to get through
it.
Since Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency last
year, they’ve largely taken a soft,
educational approach to curtail
water use. That’s no longer
enough, he says.
In response, state regulators
have drafted plans that show how
much each community has conserved and assign mandatory
water reduction targets. A third of
the water departments must make
the deepest 35 percent cuts because they have high water use.
“It’s going to require some
major changes in how those communities think about, use and
manage their water, but it is pos-
sible,” said Heather Cooley of the
nonprofit Pacific Institute.
The excuses cities have given
for pitiful conservation, including
hot weather and earlier cutbacks,
are no longer a free pass.
That means Los Angeles —
which has a million more people
than it did 40 years ago, but uses
the same amount of water —
would have to cut its use by a
fifth.
Ways to meet these ambitious
targets can include carrots such as
rebates for ripping up lawns and
sticks that include fines for water
waste and increased rates for
overconsumption.
Those who don’t meet the targets or take steps to conserve face
$10,000-a-day fines if they don’t
adopt new water restrictions or
change rates as demanded by the
state, although regulators have
been wary of using similar powers before.
State officials say residential
conservation through turning off
the sprinklers, taking shorter
showers and doing less laundry is
the most effective way to boost
statewide water supplies in a
drought, even though residents
use less than a fifth of California’s surface and groundwater
supplies.
Not all cities were at risk of
running out of water and didn’t
feel the same pressure to conserve. Some had enough water in
local storage to weather the
drought. Other local elected officials risked the wrath of constituents for hiking rates or
imposing far-reaching restrictions.
“If it’s the state telling them
what they have to do, that takes
the heat off of local officials,”
said Ellen Hanak, a water expert
at the Public Policy Institute of
California.
The new strategy is a result of
Brown’s executive order to
change water consumption.
Brown met privately for three
hours Wednesday with representatives from water agencies, agricultural
interests
and
environmental groups.
“The challenge here, aside
from getting the water, is to
merely collaborate together and
not try to blame other people and
point fingers,” Brown told reporters as the meeting ended.
The toughest hurdle for this
new strategy is getting people
who haven’t been conserving
over the last few years to suddenly make drastic cuts. Water
agencies are not getting any
money to hire water cops or acquiring any authority to turn off
taps.
Hitting customers in the wallet
is an effective way of bringing
change: Santa Cruz and the San
Ramon-Dublin area slashed water
use more than 30 percent after
slapping big fines on residents
who went over water limits.
Bigger bills may not be enough
to motivate the owners of mansions on the hills overlooking San
Diego. They are served by California’s top water guzzling
agency, the Santa Fe Irrigation
District.
Jennifer Parks, a spokeswoman
for the district, said the agency
plans to finally fine offenders and
is willing to ration if necessary.
In some communities, drastic
cuts could threaten the local economy. The man-made oasis of
Palm Springs, in the desert, attracts thousands each year to
dozens of lush golf courses, hotels and verdant landscapes, but
now faces a mandate to cut water
use by 35 percent, or 2 billion
gallons, over nine months.
“There is nothing like it we’ve
ever had to face in terms of how
we live our lives,” said Craig
Ewing, the board president of the
Desert Water Agency which
serves Palm Springs.
The board previously rejected
increasing water rates as water
use rises, but Ewing says the state
mandates will likely force the
agency to reconsider. Four years
into the drought, it will now ramp
up water waste enforcement, particularly for guests using vacation
homes, and communities are ripping up grass in favor of droughttolerant shrubs and bushes.
“It will be a new welcome,
rather than acres of green lawns,”
Ewing said.
Governor, Advocate Seek Answers In Utah Inmate's Death
By mIchEllE l. PRIcE
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's
governor called for answers
Wednesday in the death of an inmate whose dialysis providers
failed to show up for treatment.
A few hours after the governor's statement, the corrections
department said that inmates have
complained before about dialysis
providers not showing up for appointments.
Gov. Gary Herbert's office
called the situation tragic.
"It is unacceptable the inmates
did not receive the medical care
they needed when they needed it,"
Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter said in a statement. "The
governor has called for a full investigation by the Dept. of Corrections Law Enforcement
Bureau, so we can fully understand what went wrong, who was
responsible and determine the ap-
propriate actions to make sure it
never happens again."
Earlier Wednesday, Herbert
told KSL Radio that inmate's
death is "hard to comprehend."
"I would expect even the inmate themself would say, 'I'm
supposed to have a treatment.
Where is the guy? Why is he not
here?' " Herbert said.
Tony Yapias, who directs the
advocacy group Proyecto Latino
De Utah, said he has called the
governor's office to ask for a full
investigation. Yapias told The Associated Press it is an issue of
concern to his group if a Latino
dies as a result of inadequate medical attention or supervision.
The nonprofit Disability Law
Center and Americans Civil Liberties Union of Utah said Wednesday called for changes and
accountability at the prison to
avoid a similar incident.
The ACLU may consider a lawsuit in the incident, but it must
find out first if there was deliber-
ate indifference in failing to give
the inmates dialysis, said ACLU
Utah Legal Director John Mejia.
A medical examiner will autopsy Estrada's body, but it appeared he died Sunday of an
apparent heart attack related to
kidney failure, the Utah Department of Corrections said.
Officials are still trying to figure out if anyone tried to contact
the missing dialysis providers and
when they might have done so,
department spokeswoman Brooke
Adams said Wednesday.
Adams said some staff members were aware the technicians
did not show up, but the department is still investigating what action, if any, they took and why.
"There was an obvious breakdown in communication," she
said in an email.
Kathy Wilets, a spokeswoman
for the University of Utah's health
care system, said the system has
provided dialysis services and
other medical services to the
prison for about 14 years
Technicians with Sandy-based
South Valley Dialysis, a University of Utah medical clinic, were
scheduled to arrive at the prison
Friday and Saturday did not show
up. South Valley is one of 17 dialysis clinics the hospital system
operates in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada.
A phone number for the clinic
was disconnected Wednesday. A
message left at a number listed for
the director of the hospital's dialysis program was not returned
Wednesday afternoon.
Technicians with the South Valley clinic have been traveling to
the prison in the Salt Lake City
suburb of Draper to treat inmates
for about seven years.
Dr. Richard Garden, the
prison's medical director, told the
Deseret News in 2008 that the
prison switched to the on-site hemodialysis because it saved
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WORLD BRIEFS
Bystander video of South Carolina shooting
fuels outrage despite ofﬁcer’s murder charge
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police ofﬁcer who claimed he killed an unarmed black man in self-defense
has been ﬁred after being charged with murder, the city’s mayor announced Wednesday after a video exposed him ﬁring eight shots from a
safe distance at the ﬂeeing 50-year-old man.
The mayor also announced that he has ordered enough body cameras
so that every uniformed ofﬁcer wears one in North Charleston.
Protests began within hours of the murder charge against 33-year-old
Michael Thomas Slager, a ﬁve-year veteran of the city’s police force.
“I have watched the video. And I was sickened by what I saw. And I
have not watched it since,” Police Chief Eddie Driggers said.
He was interrupted by chants of “no justice, no peace” and other
shouted questions that he and the mayor said they could not answer.
Iran sends navy vessels to waters near Yemen,
raising stakes amid Saudi-led campaign
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Iran dispatched a destroyer and another
naval ship to waters off Yemen on Wednesday, raising the stakes amid
a Saudi-led air campaign targeting Iranian-backed Shiite rebels ﬁghting
forces loyal to the country’s embattled president.
The Iranian maneuver came as the U.S. deepened its support for the
Saudi-led coalition, boosting weapons supplies and intelligence-sharing
and carrying out the ﬁrst U.S. aerial refueling mission of coalition ﬁghter
jets.
The Iranian warships were sent to the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait
as part of an anti-piracy campaign to “safeguard naval routes for vessels
in the region,” Iranian Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari was quoted as saying by the English-language state broadcaster Press TV.
Securing navigation in the narrow strait was a key reason for the
Saudi-led air and maritime blockade that began after Yemen’s internationally recognized president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, ﬂed the country two weeks ago as the rebels closed in on Aden, Yemen’s
second-largest city where he was based.
The ﬁghting has pitted forces loyal to Hadi against the Shiite rebels,
known as Houthis, and allied military units who back ousted President
Ali Abdullah Saleh. Critics say Shiite powerhouse Iran backs the
Houthis, though both the Islamic Republic and the rebels deny any direct
military assistance.
Senate creating secret encyclopedia of US spy
programs following Merkel eavesdrop disclosure
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to get a handle on hundreds of sensitive, closely held surveillance programs, a Senate committee is compiling a secret encyclopedia of American intelligence collection. It’s part
of an effort to improve congressional oversight of the government’s
sprawling global spying effort.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein launched the review in October 2013, after a
leak by former National Security Agency systems administrator Edward
Snowden disclosed that the NSA had been eavesdropping on German
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone. Four months earlier, Snowden
had revealed the existence of other programs that vacuumed up Americans’ and foreigners’ phone call records and electronic communications.
“We’re trying right now to look at every intelligence program,” Feinstein told The Associated Press. “There are hundreds of programs we
have found … sprinkled all over. Many people in the departments don’t
even know (they) are going on.”
Feinstein and other lawmakers say they were fully briefed about the
most controversial programs leaked by Snowden, the NSA’s collection
of American phone records and the agency’s access to U.S. tech company accounts in targeting foreigners through its PRISM program. Those
programs are conducted under acts of Congress, supervised by a secret
federal court.
But when it comes to surveillance under Executive Order 12333,
which authorizes foreign intelligence collection overseas without a court
order, there are so many programs that even the executive branch has
trouble keeping track of them, Feinstein said. Many are so sensitive that
only a handful of people are authorized to know the details, which complicates the management challenge.
Afghan soldier opens ﬁre and kills 1 American,
wounds 2 US troops before being shot dead
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan soldier shot and killed a
U.S. soldier and wounded two others Wednesday before being shot dead,
the ﬁrst so-called “insider attack” to target NATO troops since they
ended their combat mission at the start of the year.
The shooting happened after Afghan provincial leaders met a U.S.
Embassy ofﬁcial at the compound of the Nangarhar provincial governor
in the city of Jalalabad. All U.S. Embassy staff were accounted for and
safe, the diplomatic mission said.
“Right after the U.S. ofﬁcial had left, suddenly an Afghan army soldier opened ﬁre on the U.S. soldiers who were present in the compound,”
said Afghan Gen. Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, the police chief for eastern
Nangarhar province
The American troops returned ﬁre, killing the Afghan soldier, whom
Sherzad identiﬁed as Abdul Azim of Laghman province.
The motive for his attack was not immediately known and no group
claimed responsibility for the assault. In past attacks, Taliban insurgents
have been known to wear Afghan police or military uniforms to stage
attacks on the international troops. Others have opened ﬁre apparently
on the own accord, like an Afghan soldier who last year killed Maj. Gen.
Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranked U.S. ofﬁcer to be slain in combat
since 1970 in the Vietnam War.
Conditions turn dire after Islamic State group
militants overrun Palestinian camp in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — When hundreds of Islamic State militants muscled
into the Yarmouk refugee camp last week and planted their black ﬂags
amid the charred, blown-out buildings, it was the latest trial for the remaining Palestinians who for two years have endured a suffocating government siege, starvation and disease.
The dire situation in the camp appears certain to deteriorate as the extremist group looks to consolidate its hold and establish a presence near
the heart of the Syrian capital.
It is a high-stakes ﬁght whose outcome may determine the direction
of the civil war around Damascus, where President Bashar Assad has
maintained a ﬁrm grip despite the presence of thousands of rebels in surrounding suburbs.
“The situation is catastrophic. There is barely food and water, and the
only functioning hospital has long run out of medication,” said a resident
of the camp who communicated by writing on condition of anonymity
Wednesday because of safety fears.
Heavy clashes continued in the camp, a week after extremists from
the Islamic State group burst in from the Hajar Aswad district south of
Damascus. They had settled in that area after being pushed out of regions
east of the capital by Islamic rebels last year.
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2016 GOP candidate Paul
won’t say if an abortion ban
should include exceptions
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand
Paul, a newly declared Republican presidential
candidate, is dodging a central question about
abortion: What exceptions, if any, should be
made if the procedure were to be banned?
In an interview with The Associated Press on
Wednesday, Paul would not say if his opposition
to abortion rights includes an exception in cases
of rape, incest or risk to the life of the mother.
“The thing is about abortion — and about a lot
of things — is that I think people get tied up in
all these details of, sort of, you’re this or this or
that, or you’re hard and fast (on) one thing or the
other,” Paul said.
In the past, Paul has supported legislation that
would ban abortion with exceptions, while at
other times, he’s backed bills seeking a broader
bar on abortion.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Paul told the
AP that it’s his conviction that “life is special and
deserves protection.”
Wounded as a slave, died free:
Revelation about woman’s
death at Appomattox takes
center stage
APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — A Civil War
cannonball that ripped through Hannah
Reynolds’ master’s cabin made her a footnote of
misfortune, the lone civilian death at the Battle
of Appomattox Court House. She died a slave at
60, hours before the war to end slavery unofﬁcially came to a close.
A century and a half later, Reynolds’ story is
being rewritten: Newly discovered records show
that she lingered for several days — long enough
to have died a free woman.
This new historical narrative has made
Reynolds, along with Confederate General
Robert E. Lee and Union Gen. Ulysses Grant,
one of the central ﬁgures in commemorative activities marking Lee’s surrender at Appomattox,
Virginia, starting Wednesday. Friday night, a eulogy in period language will be delivered over a
plain wooden cofﬁn representing Reynolds’ remains, a 100-member gospel choir will sing spirituals and 4,600 candles will be lit to represent
the slaves in Appomattox County who were
emancipated by Lee’s surrender to Grant, his
Union counterpart.
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The Reynolds story has also inspired some
soul searching in this rural county in Virginia’s
tobacco belt where black and white students were
taught in separate schools more than a century
after Lee’s farmhouse surrender and where discussions of race are approached delicately, if not
at all.
“It’s hard to bring up. It’s even harder to get
an honest and open discussion of it,” said Joseph
Servis, an advanced placement U.S. history
teacher at Appomattox High School. His students
wrote essays drawing on their own experiences,
black and white, with race.
Surprise! Utah man dons polo
shirt, ends at table
with Obama
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Last week, 26year-old Lance Futch donned a white polo shirt
and drove to Hill Air Force Base for what he believed was a chance to be in the audience during
a news conference with a "senior White House
ofﬁcial."
Instead, he found himself sitting at a small
table just one seat away from President Barack
Obama.
"If I had known it was my commander in chief,
I deﬁnitely would have been wearing my blues,"
said the national guardsman, referring to the Air
National Guard's dress uniform.
Futch said he was shocked but honored when
the senior ofﬁcial turned out to be Obama.
"That's just amazing," said Futch, describing
the experience of talking with not only Obama
but U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop
and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.
The White House had asked Lehi-based company Vivant Solar to send a representative with
military afﬁliation to the base during Obama's
visit last week.
The company chose Futch, who designs solar
cells and is serving his fourth year in the Utah Air
National Guard.
Futch, an Orem resident, said the president
personally asked him questions about Vivant
Solar and whether solar energy is a career opportunity for veterans.
He told the president that it's a growing industry and a great opportunity for a stable career path
after the military.
"We're always going to have a sun," Futch told
the AP on Wednesday.
At the Hill Air Force Base, Obama announced the
expansion of solar energy training programs from
the current three military bases to a total of 10.
By DavID KlEPPER
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York
state is making an unprecedented
investment in care for people with
Alzheimer's disease, setting aside
$50 million in the next two years
to expand respite care, support
groups and other services for
those with the condition and their
loved ones.
It's the single largest amount
committed to Alzheimer's patients
and their families by any state, according to the New York State
Alzheimer's Association Chapters.
Alzheimer's disease is the sixth
leading cause of death in the
United States and the only one of
the top 10 causes of death that
cannot be prevented or cured.
More than five million Americans
currently live with the disease. It's
also devastating to the spouses,
children and other relatives who
act as caregivers.
Suzanne Campbell's husband
Bill was diagnosed 10 years ago,
a year after the Brooklyn couple
married. She kept working full
time at her human resources job
while caring for Bill, now 72. The
emotional, physical and financial
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money and was safer for the public
than driving inmates to the clinic
several times a week.
The prison made the switch after
an inmate escaped and fatally shot
a prison guard in 2007 while being
escorted to a doctor's appointment.
Garden had been put on leave
while the department investigates,
Adams said. "Given the magnitude
of this situation, that was appropriate to have him on leave while we
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tolls grew quickly.
"It consumes your life," she
said of the disease, which also
claimed her mother's life two
years ago. "It's a monster... and
it's unmerciful. It was clear I
needed help. I was really starting
to crack up."
Campbell called a national 24hour helpline — 800-272-3900 —
which offers information on the
disease and connects callers with
community services. She joined a
support group for people caring
for a relative with Alzheimer's.
"It's practical advice: where do
you buy supplies? How do you
manage care? How do you deal
with certain behaviors?" she said.
"It's also a place where you can
talk about feelings."
In addition to funding the
helpline and support groups, the
money will pay for training, community outreach and respite care
so family members looking after
someone with Alzheimer's get an
occasional break.
Another chunk of the money
will pay to expand centers around
the state that diagnose and treat
those with Alzheimer's and other
forms of dementia.
The funding is intended to save
money in future years by helping
those with Alzheimer's stay in
their homes — and out of far
more costly medical facilities.
"It's a wise investment of taxpayer money, an unprecedented
investment in family caregivers,"
said Bill Ferris, legislative director for AARP New York.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed
the increase, which was included
in the state budget approved by
lawmakers last week.
"This funding," Cuomo said in
a statement, "will give hard-working New Yorkers who are also
caring for a loved one with
Alzheimer's the training, education, and much-needed support
services. Taking on this responsibility can be a full-time job in itself, and this program will allow
these caregivers to care for themselves, as well."
Campbell still works full time
and has hired in-home workers to
help care for her husband when
she can't. She lauded the increased state funding and said
more money must be put toward
treatment research too, so that
others may be spared her husband's fate.
"We lost our future," she said,
adding that she has no regrets.
"He changed my life. He's the best
thing that ever happened to me."
try to get to the bottom of what
happened here and where the communication failures were and what
happened," she said.
Estrada had been in prison since
August 2005 on a rape conviction,
Adams said. He was scheduled to
be paroled on April 21.
Estrada was from Mexico and
believed to have been in the country illegally, Adams said. He would
have been turned over to the U.S.
Marshals Service when his sentence was complete, she said.
Randall W. Richards, a lawyer
who represented Estrada in 2005,
did not return messages seeking
comment Tuesday and Wednesday.
It was unclear if Estrada had an attorney at the time of his death.
Six other male inmates had been
waiting for dialysis treatment and
were taken to a hospital for evaluation. Four of them were treated
and returned to their cells Tuesday,
Adams said.
Adams did not have details
about how long the four admitted
to the hospital went without dialysis treatment. The other inmates'
identities were being withheld for
privacy reasons, she said.
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by a steering committee of residents. The issues included transportation and tourism, building
strong neighborhoods, senior citizens, energy and food and land use,
image and identity of St. Johnsbury,
education, youth and creative economic opportunity, housing, and
community gathering spaces.
The event is part of the ongoing
“Community Visit” process in St.
Johnsbury being sponsored by the
Vermont Council on Rural Development. The goal is to identify
pressing social issues and establish
task forces to address them.
The development council on
May 12, tentatively, will appear in
St. Johnsbury again to literally post
on a wall the problems and suggestions from Wednesday’s forums.
Citizens will vote to identify the top
issues and form task forces.
The forums Wednesday began at
2:30 p.m.
More than 35 people attended the
senior citizen discussion at North
Congregational Church.
The group identiﬁed assets like
Catamount Arts, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury
Athenaeum, Rural Community
Transportation, meals on wheels,
The Good Living Senior Center at
the St. Johnsbury House, and the
Osher lifelong learning program.
The group also identiﬁed four
primary problems: communication,
housing, safety, and transportation.
“I’m not a weak man,” said resident Charles Bjorklund, who wears
a beard and wool hunting jacket.
“I’m a big man but I am afraid to
walk the streets at night.”
Brent Beck, who lives in Waterford, worries about downtown
safety too.
“A little concern I would have is
the clientele on Railroad Street,” he
said.
St. Johnsbury, additionally, could
use an extended health care facility,
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markets itself.
The meeting started with identifying the town’s image assets,
which included: historic architecture, cultural institutions, recreational opportunities, natural
beauty, location at the crossroads
of two major highways, proximity
to ski areas, sense of community,
places for children to play and diversity of the economy (including
manufacturing, tourism, and agriculture).
While a variety of challenges
were identiﬁed, the issue that got
the most focus was Depot Square
and a general perception that the
town is less safe than it once was.
When one woman identiﬁed drug
dealing on her street as a disturbing issue, facilitator Ted Brady
asked how many people in the
room felt that drugs were a signiﬁcant issue. Most of the people in
the room raised their hands.
“Our youth need a reason to stay
Beck said. People move away for
lack of it, he said.
Sgt. Lester Cleary from the St.
Johnsbury Police Department said
myriad residents are concerned
about the plethora of social services
in St. Johnsbury.
“We are smothered in services,”
he said citing resident input. “We
have every state agency represented
here in St. Johnsbury.”
He also said rents in St. Johnsbury are too high. They rival rent in
Williston, for example, he said.
“There simply isn’t the economic
base to warrant those kinds of rents
here,” Cleary said.
Maurice Chaloux, a local realtor,
said housing affordability is a problem. His father, for example, saved
his entire life for a comfortable retirement but was denied an apartment at a local senior housing
facility because he had slightly too
much money, Chaloux said.
“Everything can’t be subsidized,” he said. “There is a lot of
subsidized housing in this area.”
Chaloux has considered constructing senior housing condos
here but cannot “solidify” the demand. Suitable lots exist like the
site of the razed “Yankee Traveler
Motel” on Portland Street, he said.
“But I’m not at a stage in my life
where I want to lose a million bucks
on a project,” Chaloux said.
Susan Aiken from Susan Aiken
Real Estate said St. Johnsbury posts
high demand for senior housing.
Her company manages Colonial
Apartments on Railroad Street.
“We’re full,” Aiken said of the
complex. “We’ve been full for 3
years. We could ﬁll another building. I get calls every day. What we
need for St. Johnsbury is another
Colonial, or maybe two.”
Other people talked about transportation. Scoop Dunn, for example, said St. Johnsbury needs a
public transportation option that
travels to cities like Burlington.
He also said there’s too much
negative thinking in St. Johnsbury.
“I think St. Johnsbury has got a
in the area and a reason to be part
of the area,” said community
member Sue Cherry. “Our drug
problem is symptomatic of the
youth feeling hopeless.”
During the solutions phase of
the meeting, several people suggested that codes be enforced more
aggressively at the Depot Square
building. Doing so would make it
less desirable for the owner to continue it as a “blighted property.”
“You can’t get rid of the building, you can’t get rid of the people,
but you can get rid of the landlord,” said one townsperson.
Jody Fried continually brought
the focus back to coming up with
a vision for the community and
working from there.
Selectman Jamie Murphy
agreed. “We need to come up with
a vision, go out there and shop for
the big investor that we need, and
not put our town on standstill until
we ﬁnd that person.”
More easily implemented suggestions included replacing the
welcome signs coming into town,
keeping the town website updated
lot more to offer than people think,”
he said.
The forum lasted 1.5 hours.
Like the senior citizen discussion, the education forum at North
Church attracted more than 35 people. They highlighted assets like St.
Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury
School, Caledonia School, Cornerstone School, Good Shepherd
Catholic School, Lyndon State College, Community College of Vermont, early childhood services,
lifelong learning programs, Catamount Arts, and diversity.
Resident Tara Holt said, “Much
of it is diversity of economy and not
cultural or racial.”
Jamie Ryan, an Academy employee, said, “The list of assets is
pretty impressive. How can we as a
community deﬁne ourselves with
those assets?”
The group furthermore said a
lack of parent input in education is
problematic.
“When I was on the school board
we barely had any parents participating,” said resident Werner Heidemann, a former “frustrated”
member of the St. Johnsbury
School Board of Directors.
He’s concerned about education
costs too.
“We don’t worry enough about
the affordability,” Heidemann said.
“The state cannot afford these kinds
of costs that we do in this state. We
want to have all the best for our
children but can we support it?”
Other forum goers took aim at
The Caledonian-Record newspaper.
Resident Mike Moriarty, principal of Hazen Union School in
Hardwick, charged the newspaper
with blasphemy. The MerriamWebster dictionary deﬁnes blasphemy as “Great disrespect shown
to God or to something holy/Something said or done that is disrespectful to God or to something holy.”
Another forum goer said she canceled her subscription to the newspaper after voters repeatedly
defeated Johnsbury School’s 2014
budget.
NEWPORT CITY
STUDENT LANDS REAL JOB FROM MOCK INTERVIEW
By JEn hERSEy clEvElanD
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — Each year,
seniors at North Country Career
Center participate in mock interviews that will decide whether they
complete their two-year programs.
But this year, a mock interview
turned into a real job for one student.
“I wasn’t actually expecting them
to tell me that I got the job today,”
said Brianna Moulton, just after she
was hired to work as a licensed
nursing assistant at Derby Green by
director of nurses Lisa Bohlman.
Moulton had applied for the job
– the real one – and had already
taken part in two interviews for it.
Then, as it happened, she was interviewed by Bohlman for the mock
interview day.
“I like taking care of people. I
like helping them. I like giving
back,” Moulton said of her reasons
for entering this ﬁeld.
Jose Batista, who directs the cooperative education program with
Carol Trembley, said about 120 students would be interviewed over
two days by 30 business people who
volunteer their time.
This is the 22nd year of the interview day rite of passage at the career center, Batista said.
“They know it’s a valuable piece
for these kids when they graduate,”
he said.
Each student brings a portfolio of
their work, including resumes and
letters of reference, which is also
used to gauge their preparedness for
the job market.
Batista said the career center has
required portfolios for about 10
years, placing the school ahead of
the game in implementing new standards for education statewide.
Upstairs in a futuristic looking
lab, Matt Duncan, a student in the
fairly new mechatronics and robotics program, was being interviewed
by Robert Guyer of Metal Flex.
To do this job, Guyer said, Dunmore frequently, and a “blue light” can would have to be versed in insystem that would immediately strumentation and real-time
summon police at the push of a software applications, robotics and
button.
biomedical systems. He might be
The session ended with feedback from the visit team.
Facilitator Brady said that this
was the ﬁrst visit meeting he’d
ever facilitated with three select
board members in attendance.
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Johnsbury,” he said. Of those, he
continued, only a small number interventionist and a family outbring a “negative image” on the reach coordinator if a proposed “Extown. “I would bet those people panded Prekindergarten” program is
probably do not out number you approved by the state of Vermont.
The program would provide fullsitting in this room. A town of
day
pre-K to low income 4-year7,500 lets, at times, a very small
olds.
The cost of additional staff is
number of people deﬁne it.”
“Your internal perception of unclear but Bledsoe said grants
yourself is very much more fraught would cover it.
She is developing a budget.
than our external perception of St.
“The
pre-K expansion grant will
Johnsbury. … It’s got great art,
great just about everything,” said allow us to hire support staff for 4Christopher Kaufman-Ilstrup of year-olds, including behavior interthe Vermont Community Founda- ventionists and family outreach
tion. “You are one of the best
towns in Vermont, no doubt about
it.”
Civil War
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Johnsbury History & Heritage
Center said she has never heard
that the cofﬁn ever resurfaced but
suspects the remnants of the empty
cofﬁn signifying the death of the
Confederacy have long-since
eroded.
The Caledonian
April 9, 1865
St. Johnsbury Jubilant.
The Town in a Blaze of Glory
When the glorious news was received here
on Monday morning that Gen. Lee had surrendered the main army of the Southern Confederacy to Gen. Grant, there seemed no limit
to the demonstrations of joy by our people.
All the bells clanged for the good tidings, cannons were fired, steam whistles were sounded
and young America paraded the streets with
dinner bells, horns, drums and whatever
would resound to physical effort of wind or
muscle; and probably it was not half an hour
after the official dispatch arrived before
everybody within the limits of the village, and
many from other villages, were thronging our
streets, exchanging congratulations and indulging in certain demonstrations decidedly
damaging to hats and also to the vocal organs. Later in the forenoon a procession of
young ladies paraded the streets bearing
aloft the starry banner and singing
My country tis of thee,
Sweet land of libertyOf thee we sing.
After dinner the celebration was continued. The cavalry company came out in force
under charge of Sergt. Carr, and were soon
joined by a squad of cavalry from the East Vil-
the rebel flag was thrown on the ground and
trampled to the dust by the entire procession,
which then moved on through the town.
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The story continues with a description of a festive and illuminated town at night. It also notes
what could have been a deadly part
of the celebration.
“In addition to what we have chronicled,
there were large bonfires on Main and Railroad streets, and large cannon on the hills on
either side were belching forth thunder if not
death; and it came very near being the latter.
About 8 o’clock the old democratic gun on
Harris’ hill burst into a thousand fragments,
and strange to say but one man was hit, and
he only had the back of his hand peeled a little. If the stories of those who helped fire this
gun are true, they should have all received
some severe scratches as a reminder of their
outrageous recklessness.”
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to set the terms of surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
In conjunction with a major event at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, the
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commemoration. The bells will ring first at Appomattox at 3:00 p.m. on April 9, 2015. The
ringing will coincide with the moment the historic meeting between Grant and Lee in the
McLean House at Appomattox Court House ended. While Lee’s surrender did not end the
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After the ringing at Appomattox, bells will reverberate across the country. Churches, temples, schools, city halls, public buildings, historic sites, and others are invited to ring bells
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Photo By JeNNiFer herSey CLeveLANd
Brianna Moulton was offered a job as
an LNA during her “mock” interview.
working on submarines, x-rays, or
autos on any given day.
Duncan showed Guyer projects
he’s completed as part of his studies,
including a motorcycle.
“Did Orange County Choppers
come to check out your design?”
Guyer joked.
Another project involved using
environmentally friendly materials
to construct a mug without losing
insulation. “I thought that was pretty
interesting,” Duncan said.
While sitting at a desk isn’t his favorite activity, Duncan said he
would certainly do desk work, but
“I want to get out and experience
everything, work with my hands,
get dirty a little bit.”
Duncan said he plans to study
mechanical engineering, and Guyer
asked if he’d considered Clarkson
University. Guyer was impressed
when he learned that Duncan has
been accepted and will attend there
in the fall.
Duncan spoke about his hobbies
and interests, saying his most important accomplishment this year
was obtaining a 4.0 GPA.
Asked to deﬁne success, Duncan
eschewed money and material
goods for a good family life. Guyer
said he thought Duncan would be a
good ﬁt for the company.
Downstairs in the career center
administration ofﬁces, Maylynda
Fairgrieve and Nicole Therrien were
nervously waiting for their interviews. “So scary,” Fairgrieve said.
“I’d like to run away, except we
won’t get our completers,” Therrien
whispered.
Seeing the angst written all over
their faces, instructor Dan Ross
checked out their portfolios, pronounced the girls over-achievers,
and said they had nothing to worry
about.
And once Fairgrieve got rolling
during her interview with Steve
Hurd, director of cardiopulmonary
services at North Country Hospital,
it was clear she was a professional
who would aptly do her job as an
LNA.
Fairgrieve is already licensed and
worked as a candy striper at the hospital. She also took part in a clinical
at Bel-Aire nursing home, where
she learned a lot.
Hurd said the average patient is
getting heavier and harder to move
and asked if Fairgrieve knew safe
techniques to move people. She
does, but would need to be trained
on mechanical lifts, as she was not
yet old enough to use them during
her clinical.
When asked why she is entering
this ﬁeld, Fairgrieve said, “I like
helping people. It sounds clichéd,
but it’s true.”
And she does not like seeing
other LNAs failing to give people
proper care. “I think every person
deserves to be treated with respect
and care,” she said.
That’s something she learned as
a patient as well, after being bucked
from a mule in Montana and rupturing her spleen. She really noticed
the quality – or lack thereof – in the
nursing care she received, especially
when it came to personal privacy.
She and Hurd shared a good laugh
over the “privacy” afforded by a
thin curtain between two beds.
Fairgrieve will go to college at a
Native American reservation
school, where she will also learn alternative healing techniques.
Hurd and Fairgrieve connected
over their disdain at this year’s sugaring season. Aside from the
weather, “all the animals are eating
up the lines,” she said.
Hurd asked why he should hire
her.
“I believe I’m very qualiﬁed,”
Fairgrieve said. “I could easily
prove that to you.”
Hire
coordinators,” Bledsoe said. “These
positions will support our plan for
providing additional targeted support in the early years, in particular
4-year-olds, in order to accelerate
social and academic growth so that
students are on track by grade four.”
In all, the St. Johnsbury School
Board of Directors budgeted for 80
pre-K pupils in 2015-2016 at a cost
of about $3,000 per student. Pre-K
will be offered at the town school
and private day cares that 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. The two
home-based providers are Theresa
Stevens on Fenoff Circle and Colby
Clagg on Sunset Drive.
Bledsoe enthusiastically supports
pre-K expansion because it addresses the local and state problem
of children entering school unprepared. Schools and Vermont are
using best practices “to really pump
resources into children when they’re
young, to really put some extra energy into 4-year-olds,” she said.
ID
ing New Hampshire and other
states, said Smith, who added the
Littleton community and police department will not tolerate drug dealing.
“We’re committed to getting the
job done with the resources we
have and we’ll utilize state and
county and also municipal police
departments to help us,” he said.
“We proved that in the Millette investigation.”
Michael Millette, 54, of Littleton, remains in Grafton County jail
on felony charges of drug possession with the intent to distribute,
and recently unsealed court documents link him to last year’s two
overdose deaths.
“These investigations do take a
long period of time and resources,”
said Smith. “We have the expertise.
We just don’t have the personnel at
the level I feel is appropriate to support these drug investigations.”
Many burglaries, thefts and assaults in the Littleton community
are drug-related, he said.
“This is just mirroring the numbers we are seeing for the state,”
said Smith. “Littleton is not immune.”
Welch did not speak during
Wednesday’s brief hearing. Her
public defender, James Brooks, did
not contest the ﬁndings in the report
and said Welch agrees to the court
order committing her to the secured
psychiatric unit.
Per N.H. statute, Welch is eligible
to petition the court for release before her ﬁve-year commitment is
up, said Pawlik.
Welch jumped out the secondstory window shortly before 5 a.m.
June 18, when Trevor McGuire, the
father of the twins, heard her
screaming outside their house at 310
Quebec Road and found the fourmonth-old twins on the ground, according to the police report.
In her statement to police, Welch
said there were men in her room
who were trying to get her and she
went out the window - about 15 feet
above the ground - to bring her children, whom she held by the wrist, to
safety.
But she didn’t realize the roof
was wet and she slipped, she told
police. Welch said she heard three
men whispering in the house and
saw a man pointing a gun at her
from behind a chair.
According to the afﬁdavit for arrest, Welch told police “they’re
coming to get me” and she wanted
to kill herself, and made an attempt
to drown herself in a nearby pond.
McGuire, who placed the 911
call, told police that for several years
Welch has suffered from mental illness and “was running from something that wasn’t there.” He also told
ofﬁcers she began taking new medication about a week or two before
the incident, had been “acting sick”
and “hearing voices” and “goes into
another world and thinks people are
trying to hurt her.”
Welch’s twin daughter is currently in the custody of McGuire’s
sister, Cori Elliott.
In a written statement submitted
for Welch’s plea hearing in February, Elliott said the girl is recovering
and doing well, but it is hard to say
if she will have any long-lasting or
recurring issues related to her brain
injury.
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lage. Meanwhile the ladies, misses and children had been gathering at the town hall
preparatory to a march through the village.
Some school boys, who knew their intentions,
thought this procession would be an excellent
escort for a little affair which they proposed
to throw to as sort of episode or “side show”
to the original program. So, when the procession was ready to move, preceded by a
band of martial music, came four boys bearing a coffin on which was painted in large
white letters, “Confederacy.” This casket was
draped with the rebel flag, and was followed
by the procession of young ladies bearing the
Stars and Stripes; the company of cavalry
bringing up the rear, and the whole under the
direction of Col. Charles F. Spaulding as chief
marshal. This remarkable funeral cortege
marched to a grave dug in front of Hutchinson
& Corser’s, where, without a “funeral note,”
the empty box was lowered into the ground.
The young ladies then sung “The Star Spangled Banner,” and “Glory Hallelujah!” when
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His body will undergo a full autopsy and toxicology test.
“If we ﬁnd anyone is criminally
responsible for this individual’s
death, we will prosecute them to the
fullest extent of the law,” said
Smith.
Sawyer’s death follows the overdose deaths of two other Littleton
men late last year.
Littleton is not immune to the rising use of heroin and opioids plagu-
Committed
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continuous risk for violence, both to
herself and others, and has experienced suicidal ideation.
Her history of mental illness and
treatment dates back to when she
was 13, said Pawlik, and the paranoia and auditory hallucinations accelerated after 2003 when she ﬁrst
became pregnant.
Although Welch is now is taking
medication and responding well to
treatment at the psychiatric unit, she
still hears voices telling her to hurt
herself and still suffers from delusions, anxiety and paranoia, said
Pawlik.
“She is more stable at this point,
according to Dr. Drukteinis, but the
issues have not completed resolved,” she said.
Those conditions have been with
her for 15 years, said Pawlik, who,
citing the report, said some chronic
psychiatric disorders cannot completely resolve.
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MASSACHUSETTS
Tsarnaev Guilty On All Charges In Boston Marathon Bombing
By DEnISE lavoIE
AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges
Wednesday in the Boston
Marathon bombing by a jury that
will now decide whether the 21year-old should be executed or
shown mercy for what his lawyer
says was a crime masterminded by
his big brother.
The former college student
stood with his hands folded, ﬁdgeted and looked down at the defense table in federal court as he
listened to the word “guilty” recited on all 30 counts against him,
including conspiracy and deadly
use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those counts are
punishable by death.
The verdict, reached after a day
and a half of deliberations, was
practically a foregone conclusion,
given his lawyer’s startling admission at the trial’s outset that Tsarnaev carried out the terror attack
with his now-dead older brother,
Tamerlan.
The defense strategy is to try to
save Tsarnaev’s life in the upcoming penalty phase by arguing he
fell under Tamerlan’s evil inﬂuence.
The two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that exploded
near the ﬁnish line on April 15,
2013, killed three spectators and
wounded more than 260 other people, turning the traditionally celebratory home stretch of the
world-famous race into a scene of
carnage and putting the city on
edge for days.
Tsarnaev was found responsible
not only for those deaths but for
the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police ofﬁcer
who was gunned down days later
during the brothers’ getaway attempt.
“It’s not a happy occasion, but
it’s something,” said Karen Brassard, who suffered shrapnel
wounds on her legs and attended
the trial. “One more step behind
us.”
She said Tsarnaev appeared “arrogant” and uninterested during
the trial, and she wasn’t surprised
when she saw no remorse on his
face as the verdicts were read. She
refused to say whether she believes
he deserves the death penalty, but
she rejected the defense argument
that he was simply following his
brother’s lead.
“He was in college. He was a
grown man who knew what the
consequences would be,” Brassard
said. “I believe he was ‘all in’ with
the brother.”
Tsarnaev’s lawyers left the
courthouse without comment.
In the penalty phase, which
could begin as early as Monday,
the jury will hear evidence on
whether he should get the death
penalty or spend the rest of his life
in prison.
Defense attorney Judy Clarke
argued at trial that Tsarnaev was
led astray by his radicalized
brother, telling the jury: “If not for
Tamerlan, it would not have happened.” She repeatedly referred to
Dzhokhar — then 19 — as a “kid”
and a “teenager.”
Prosecutors, however, portrayed
the brothers — ethnic Chechens
who moved to the United States
from Russia more than a decade
ago — as full partners in a brutal
and coldblooded plan to punish the
U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries. Jihadist writings, lectures and
videos were found on both their
computers, though the defense argued that Tamerlan downloaded
the material and sent it to his
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brother.
Tamerlan, 26, died when he was
shot by police and run over by his
brother during a chaotic getaway
attempt days after the bombing.
The government called 92 witnesses over 15 days, painting a
hellish scene of torn-off limbs,
blood-spattered pavement, ghastly
screams and the smell of sulfur and
burned hair.
Survivors gave heartbreaking
testimony about losing legs in the
blasts or watching people die. The
father of 8-year-old Martin
Richard described making the agonizing decision to leave his mortally wounded son so he could get
help for his 6-year-old daughter,
whose leg had been blown off.
In the courtroom Wednesday,
Denise Richard, the boy’s mother,
wiped tears from her face after the
verdict. The youngster’s father,
Bill Richard, embraced one of the
prosecutors.
In Russia, Tsarnaev’s father,
Anzor Tsarnaev, told The Associated Press in recent days that he
would have no comment.
The others killed in the bombing
were Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Chinese graduate student at Boston
University, and Krystle Campbell,
a 29-year-old restaurant manager.
MIT Ofﬁcer Sean Collier was shot
to death at close range days later.
In a statement, Collier’s family
welcomed the verdict and added:
“The strength and bond that everyone has shown during these last
two years proves that if these terrorists thought that they would
somehow strike fear in the hearts
of people, they monumentally
failed.”
Some of the most damning evidence at the trial included video
showing Tsarnaev planting a backpack containing one of the bombs
near where the 8-year-old boy was
standing, and a confession
scrawled inside the dry-docked
boat where a wounded and bleeding Tsarnaev was captured days
after the tragedy.
“Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop,” he wrote.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers barely crossexamined the government’s witnesses and called just four people
to the stand over less than two
days, all in an effort to portray the
older brother as the guiding force
in the plot.
According to defense testimony,
phone records showed Dzhokhar
was at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth while his brother
was buying bomb components, including pressure cookers and BBs.
Tamerlan’s computer showed
search terms such as “detonator”
and “transmitter and receiver,”
while Dzhokhar was largely
spending time on Facebook and
other social media sites. And
Tamerlan’s ﬁngerprints, but not
Dzhokhar’s, were found on pieces
of the two bombs.
Clarke is one of the nation’s
foremost death-penalty specialists
and an expert at keeping her clients
off death row. She saved the lives
of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and
Susan Smith, the South Carolina
woman who drowned her two children in a lake in 1994.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers tried repeatedly to get the trial moved out of
Boston because of the heavy publicity and the widespread trauma.
But opposition to capital punishment is strong in Massachusetts,
which abolished its state death
penalty in 1984, and some polls
have suggested a majority of
Bostonians do not want to see
Tsarnaev sentenced to die.
The 12-member jury must be
unanimous for Tsarnaev to receive
a death sentence; otherwise the
penalty will be life behind bars.
During the penalty phase, Tsarnaev’s lawyers will present socalled mitigating evidence to try to
save his life. That could include
evidence about his family, his relationship with his brother, and his
childhood in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and later in
the volatile Dagestan region of
Russia.
Prosecutors will present socalled aggravating factors in support of the death penalty, including
the killing of a child and the targeting of the marathon because of the
potential for maximum bloodshed.
Dan Collins, a former federal
prosecutor who handled the case
against a suspect in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India,
said Massachusetts’ history of opposition to capital punishment will
have no bearing on the jury’s decision about Tsarnaev’s fate.
“When you ask people their
opinion of the death penalty, there
are a number who say it should
only be reserved for the horriﬁc
cases,” he said. “Here you have
what is one of the most horriﬁc
acts of terrorism on U.S. soil in
American history, so if you are
going to reserve the death penalty
for the worst of the worse, this is
it.”
Liz Norden, the mother of two
sons who lost parts of their legs in
the bombing, said death would be
the appropriate punishment: “I
don’t understand how anyone
could have done what he did.”
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2015. Specification are available
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Report: New England should do
more to nurture manufacturing
BOSTON (AP) — New England can reclaim its title as a manufacturing hub by working together to nurture the development of the advanced manufacturing industry.
That’s the conclusion of a new report being released Wednesday by
the nonpartisan New England Council.
The new advanced manufacturing sector bears little resemblance to
the shipyards and textile mills that dotted the region’s landscape in the
19th and early 20th centuries.
Instead it requires more technologically savvy workers to produce
highly precise, customized components with complex designs — including those needed in the defense, aerospace and biotechnology ﬁelds.
The report says the nurturing of the advanced manufacturing sector
will also require coordination between government, schools and industries to ensure there are enough skilled workers to ﬁll the needed jobs.
The report says New England’s six states should collaborate to support the industry.
Winooski approves paid parking program
WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) — The Winooski city manager say a plan for
paid on-street parking downtown will likely be put in place in mid-May.
The city council on Monday approved the resolution for paid parking
at a rate of $1 per hour.
The Burlington Free Press (http://bfpne.ws/1Fiz9Re) reports that the
paid parking would be near the Winooski River on the southern part of
the city, Maple and Mansion streets in the northern end, Hood Street to
the east, and Mayo Street on the west.
Paid parking will be enforced between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday
through Saturday, except on Maple, Mansion, Hood and Mayo streets.
City Mayor Seth Leonard says “This is where parking everywhere is
going.”
Vermont police looking for
armed man in home invasion
COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — Police are looking for a man with a gun
who forced his way into a home and took cash from the resident in
Colchester, Vermont.
Police said the incident happened in the Westbury Trailer Park on
Tuesday afternoon. It wasn’t immediately known if anyone was hurt.
The suspect is described as white, slim build, average height with
brown hair, and wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt.
I-89 bridge construction in Waterbury begins
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Agency of Transportation
says construction is getting underway on two Interstate 89 bridges near
the Exit 10 interchange in Waterbury and commuters should expect delays during peak travel times.
Starting Monday trafﬁc on I-89 will be reduced to one lane in each
direction near Exit 10 while crews begin replacing two bridge decks.
Also starting Monday, the southbound on-ramp to the interstate will
be closed from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Southbound trafﬁc will be detoured to
Middlesex via U.S. Route 2.
Work on both bridge decks is scheduled to be completed before the
end of the just-beginning construction season.
Carrying a big stick: Store clerk
ﬁghts off would-be robber
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police say a store clerk in Manchester, New Hampshire, used a large stick to chase off a knife-wielding man
demanding cash and later confronted him again outside the store.
Police said Abdul Chaudary at the AMT Market raised the stick over
his head and the man ﬂed without any cash Tuesday night. He continued
to chase the man outside and even struck him once. Chaudary’s friend
called 911.
A few minutes later, the man returned and Chaudary went out to confront him. Police arrived at about the same time and arrested the man,
identiﬁed as 34-year-old Leo Rochon of Manchester.
Rochon was being arraigned Wednesday on charges of attempted robbery and falsifying evidence; it wasn’t immediately known if he had a
lawyer.
Police: Mayor performed CPR
on Ayotte aide after arrest
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A police report says Manchester’s
mayor performed life-saving measures on his longtime friend and former
state director for New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte for a possible drug
overdose hours after the man was charged in a prostitution sting.
The Manchester police report says Mayor Ted Gatsas went to David
Wihby’s home to check on him after learning he was arrested Friday.
Gatsas went to Wihby’s bedroom and saw he was having trouble breathing and his lips were blue. Gatsas called 911.
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INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES
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Green Mountain Power Corporation, 2152 Post Rd Rutland, Vermont 05701 has applied for a
permit from the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to apply herbicides. All herbicides will be
applied by ground-based, hand-held equipment. This notice constitutes a warning to residents
along the right-of-way that water supplies and other environmentally sensitive areas near the
right-of-way should be protected from spray and that it is the resident’s responsibility to notify
the contact person of the existence of a private water supply near the right-of-way. The contact
person at GMP is Jarod Wilcox, Transmission Arborist, (802) 770-3231. Further information may
also be obtained from Plant Industry Division, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, 116 State Street,
Montpelier, Vermont 05620-2901, telephone (802) 828-2431.
Green Mountain Power, 2152 Post Rd Rutland, Vermont 05701 has applied for a permit from
the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to apply herbicides. All herbicides will be applied
selectively to cut stumps, or stems and foliage. This notice is to inform residents along the
right-of-way that water supplies and other environmentally sensitive areas near the right-ofway should be protected from an application. It is residents’ responsibility to notify the contact person of the existence of a private water supply near the right-of-way. The contact person at Green Mountain Power is Jarod Wilcox, Utility Arborist toll-free 1-888-835-4672.
Further information may also be obtained from Plant Industry Division, Vermont Agency of
Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602-2901; (802) 828-2431.
Operations will commence on or about May 25, 2015 using one or more of the following herbicides: Garlon 4 Ultra (triclopyr), Escort XP (metsulfuron methyl), Polaris (imazapyr), & Rodeo
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Operations will begin on or about May 25, 2015 using the following herbicides: Garlon® 4
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Lines:
Town(s):
Maintenance involves select sections of GMP distribution* lines in:
Wells River-Ryegate
Bay Street-Comerford
St.Johnsbury-Gilman
St.Johnsbury-Lyndonville
Fairbanks Morse Tap
Barker Ave. Tap
Marshfield-Comerford
Marshfield-Hardwick
McIndoes Falls-Ryegate
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St.Johnsbury, Waterford, Barnet
St.Johnsbury, Waterford
St.Johnsbury
St.Johnsbury
St.Johnsbury
Danville, Peacham, Barnet
Hardwick
Barnet, Ryegate
CALEDONIA COUNTY: Barnet, Danville, Groton, Kirby, Lyndon, Peacham, Ryegate, St.
Johnsbury, Stannard, Walden, Waterford, Wheelock
ESSEX COUNTY: Concord, Granby, Guildhall, E.Haven, Lunenburg, Victory
*Treatment is limited to select areas in the distribution line right-of-way. Distribution lines
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cue breathing until ﬁreﬁghters arrived and took over. Police asked Gatsas
why he thought Wihby overdosed and he mentioned the arrest.
Wihby is recovering; Gatsas declined to comment. The 62-year-old
Wihby resigned from Ayotte’s staff after his arrest.
New Hampshire considers banning
chocolate as bear bait
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The public is getting a chance to weigh in
on proposed charges to bear and moose hunting in New Hampshire, including banning the use of chocolate as bait for bears after four bears
were found dead last fall due to a chocolate overdose.
The Fish and Game Department is holding a public hearing Wednesday night in Concord to discuss the proposals. Necropsy and toxicology
reports conﬁrmed the bears died of heart failure caused by theobromine,
a toxic ingredient in chocolate.
The other proposal would reduce the number of permits available in
the annual moose hunt lottery from 124 to 105. Ofﬁcials have been
studying the winter tick and other threats to the health and productivity
of the state’s moose population.
Stopped driver gives police name
associated with ID theft
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police say a driver stopped in Manchester, New Hampshire, gave a name associated with an identity fraud
report in 2013.
The man told police he lived in Somerville, Massachusetts, but a
trooper determined the Massachusetts license photograph didn’t match
the driver. The trooper contacted Somerville police and learned about
the identity fraud case. A person matching that name phoned by police
indicated he wasn’t on a motor vehicle stop with a New Hampshire
trooper.
Police identiﬁed the driver as 44-year-old Raymond Stefanelli of
Atkinson after learning he was heading to a correctional facility to pick
up a girlfriend.
Stefanelli was arraigned Tuesday on driving after suspension and disobeying an ofﬁcer; he also faces charges in Massachusetts. It was not
immediately known if he had a lawyer.
Louisiana Gov. Jindal hires N.H. operative
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has made
his ﬁrst New Hampshire hire as he prepares for a presidential bid.
Henry Goodwin, the former communications director for Walt Havenstein’s (HAV’-ehn-styn’s) gubernatorial bid, is joining Jindal’s new political organization, the American Future Project, as a top
communications adviser. He will lead the organization’s New Hampshire
efforts and help with national communication. Jindal, a second-term
governor, will be in New Hampshire next weekend for a cattle call of
presidential hopefuls hosted by the New Hampshire Republican Party.
He visited New Hampshire in the fall to campaign with Havenstein.
Most other prominent Republican contenders have already hired at
least one staffer to lead their New Hampshire efforts. Jindal also recently
hired staffers in Iowa, the ﬁrst caucus state.
Some communities looking
at hosting pumpkin festival
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Now that the Keene City Council has voted
down holding its annual pumpkin festival this year, several other communities are looking at the possibility of hosting it.
The council last week rejected a permit for the festival after alcohol-fueled
violence last year led to injuries, property damage and more than 100 arrests.
A Nashua group called Great American Downtown has expressed interest
in hosting the event. Director Paul Shea said the city’s downtown area lends
itself very well to great community events. He said he’s reached out pumpkin festival organizers, but hasn’t heard back yet.
Ruth Sterling, the organizer of the festival, said she’s received invitations
from several New Hampshire cities and one in Massachusetts.
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Vermont House Narrowly Defeats Teacher Strike Ban
By DavE GRam
Associated Press
MONTPELIER — With last
fall’s ﬁve-day strike by teachers in
Vermont’s best-paying school district fresh in mind, a Vermont
House dominated by usually laborfriendly Democrats on Wednesday
narrowly defeated a ban on teachers’ strikes.
The House voted 73-70 against
an amendment that contained the
crux of an underlying bill: a ban on
both teachers’ strikes and the imposition of contract terms by school
boards.
The vote may not be the ﬁnal
word, however. Republicans said
they would push for reconsideration of the issue on Thursday, and
Wednesday’s tally showed they
might have a chance to bring in
some of the six House members
who were absent, or push some of
those who were on the fence but
voted no to switch.
Freshman Rep. Martin LaLonde,
D-South Burlington, scene of the
ﬁve-day strike in October, proposed the amendment that would
have banned strikes and contract
impositions and set up a special
seven-member task force to study
the implications of the change for
future teacher contract talks.
“In the end, what did the strike
accomplish?” LaLonde, who also
serves on the South Burlington
School Board, asked during the
House debate. “It deﬁnitely caused
a serious drop in community support for the district’s teachers.”
It also boosted their raises over
three years from about 7 percent to
about 8 percent.
Backers of a strike ban said Vermont would be joining 37 other
states that had banned teachers’
By WIlSon RInG
Associated Press
MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter
Shumlin is urging the maker of an
antidote used in drug overdoses to
address its rising costs and give
Vermont a break on the expense in
the interest of saving lives.
Shumlin said Wednesday that
the cost of the drug naloxone has
gone from $113 per 100 doses last
month to $183 as of Tuesday.
Naloxone is used to reverse the effects of opioids — drugs derived
from opium, including heroin.
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The governor released a letter
delivered Wednesday to Jack
Zhang, CEO of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc., that urges the
company to offer Vermont something similar to the $6 per dose rebate provided in New York.
The letter asks Zhang to help
Vermont “by preventing naloxone
from being priced out-of-reach for
our many public safety and health
ofﬁcials at this critical time in the
nationwide ﬁght against heroin
abuse.”
Ofﬁcials at Amphastar, of Rancho Cucamonga, California, did
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uted in the state and have been
used about 190 times to reverse
overdoses. Advocates say it has no
major side effects other than opioid-withdrawal symptoms and
does not create a high.
New Hampshire also is increasing access to naloxone. Last
month, safety ofﬁcials started a
training course for police ofﬁcers
to administer the drug. Ofﬁcers
who successfully complete the
course will receive the new license
level of “law enforcement
provider.”
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The afternoon featured heavy
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“There were people that support
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Others spoke passionately of the
need to stand with teachers and
with organized labor.
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process,” said Rep. Barbara
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Critics also said the damage
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of the work stoppages against more
than 5,000 contract agreements
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