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A judge has ruled in favor of
Eric Jackson’s request that he be
released from prison so he can
move in with his mother while he
awaits trial on 18 criminal charges
pending against him.
Jackson, 27, was shot multiple
times last year by state police after
he rammed their cruisers during a
Eric Jackson
high speed pursuit. He is now paralyzed from the waste down and is being held in the medical unit at Southern State Correctional Facility in
Springﬁeld.
Caledonia Superior Court
But a ruling on Tuesday by Judge Robert Bent - along
with key support from the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) - clears the way for Jackson to be released
into home detention within a few weeks.
“Eric’s going home,” said Jackson’s defense attorney
David Sleigh of St. Johnsbury on Wednesday. “We expect
somewhere in the neighborhood between 2-4 weeks. All
the conditions of the court’s home detention order will be
complied with and all the physical requirements that the
department will require for medical furlough will be met
and Eric will be out.”
Bent’s ruling to grant home detention was the ﬁnal
piece Jackson needed for release but it would have been
meaningless without support from the DOC because Jackson is already serving an unrelated prison sentence on
prior convictions.
But Sleigh secured a promise from DOC that they
would place Jackson on medical furlough in the commuSee Jackson, Page A8
SUPERIOR COURT
SEARCH WARRANT IN
MURDER CASE REVEALS
RIFLE, MORE AMMO
By RoBin Smith
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY – State police
found live rounds, a riﬂe and boxes
of shotgun shells after they arrested
Jeffrey M. Ray of Brownington, accused of shooting and killing his exwife’s husband, Rick Vreeland, on
Memorial Day.
Ray, 51, pleaded not guilty May
26 to ﬁrst degree murder, accused of
Jeffrey Ray
carrying out a vendetta against Vreeland, 53, who lived within walking distance of Ray on Pepin
Road in Brownington. Ray is being held without bail and if
convicted faces 35 years to life without parole in prison.
State police said Ray was drunk at the time he shot Vreeland once with a handgun, a Ruger .44 magnum Super
Blackhawk, at 10:20 a.m. May 25 at 3003 Pepin Road. The
gun had ﬁve live rounds and one spent round, police said.
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NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP GRADUATES FIRST CLASS
Evidence-Based Program
Reduces Injuries, Increases
Maternal, Child Health
By JEnnifER hERSEy clEvEland
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — Toddlers rarely have the
occasion to don mortarboards, but on Tuesday
evening, ﬁve toddlers and their moms became the
very ﬁrst graduates of the Nurse-Family Partnership in Vermont.
Naturally, because they are 2-years-old, the children immediately removed their caps, at times tossing them to the ﬂoor, aghast at the perceived
indignity.
The program, offered in this area through Caledonia Home Health Care, pairs women in their ﬁrst
pregnancies, who meet certain income eligibility
guidelines, with nurses in maternal and child programs. Nurses provide home visits on about a
weekly basis throughout the pregnancy and up
until the child’s second birthday.
“The path to parenting is a rocky road, one that’s
hard to maneuver alone,” said Lorna Corbett, the
program’s supervisor for the Central Vermont region.
The moms who committed to this program Aubrey Keith, Brianna Bergh, Anna Fickett, and
Erica Mayhew - will carry the skills they’ve
learned throughout their lives, Corbett said.
Toddler graduates are Dakota Durocher, Keith’s
Photo by Jennifer herSey ClevelAnd
Lila Blais keeps her mortarboard on just long enough for a photo during her graduation from the Nurse-Family
Partnership program, through Caledonia Home Health Care, at Cornucopia in Newport City Tuesday. From left
are Lila, her grandmother Holly Buck, her twin sister April Blais, and their mom Anna Fickett.
son; Sky Bergh; Zoria Mayhew; and April and Lila celebration,” she said.
Blais, Fickett’s twin daughters.
Indeed, blowing bubbles was the central activity
Ann Giombetti, the administrator of the Vermont of the event, which took place at Cornucopia in
Nurse Home Visiting Program, made herself very Newport City, right up there in importance alongpopular with the younger graduates. “I just wanted
to start out with a few bubbles, because this is a
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NORTH COUNTRY
BLACK MAG’S SANBORN FIGHTS ON THROUGH APPEAL
By RoBERt BlEchl
Staff Writer
Craig Sanborn, owner of the Black Mag gunpowder manufacturing plant that exploded in 2010
and killed two men, is now attempting to shake off
his 10- to 20-year prison sentence for manslaughter
through an appeal to the N.H. Supreme Court.
The high court is scheduled to hear oral arguments June 18 and will likely issue a ruling either
afﬁrming or overturning Sanborn’s Coos Superior
Court conviction some time next year.
In 2013, a Coos jury found Sanborn, 65, of Maidstone, guilty of manslaughter for recklessly engaging in the manufacture, production and storage of
explosive material that resulted in the May 2010 explosion and ﬁre that killed Donald Kendall, 56, of
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promised to make it a temporary ﬁx and gave a
closing date in early 2018, according to Frank
Reed, deputy commissioner of the Department of
Mental Health.
Reed said that as that deadline draws near, the
Legislature is taking steps to address the need and
he conﬁrmed that the NKHS plan was one under
consideration.
“The process is just beginning,” said Reed.
He said a law passed in the 2015 legislative session directs the secretary of human services to
consider all proposals in the broadest context and
issue a report on his ﬁndings to several committees
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Ever since Tropical Storm Irene ﬂooded Waterbury in 2011 and made the 50-bed state hospital
unusable, the Department of Mental Health has
been looking for ways to replace that capacity to
care for patients with acute psychiatric needs. Part
of the solution came on line in June of 2014 when
the state opened a brand new 25-bed facility in
Berlin. Other patients have been diverted to the
Rutland Regional Medical Center or the private
Brattleboro Retreat. Since 2013, high-risk patients
have been housed at temporary seven-bed facility
in the front yard of the state police barracks in
Middlesex. In the face of local opposition to the
Middlesex unit when it was proposed, the state
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Colebrook, and Jesse Kennett, 49, of Stratford, at the
plant in Colebrook.
In a case that saw more
than 30 witnesses for the
state take the stand, Coos
prosecutors argued Sanborn knew how to make his
Craig Sanborn plant safe, but was motivated by greed and did not
use any money from a
$300,000 advance he received from a manufacturing contract to implement safety measures.
In June 2014, Sanborn’s attorney, Mark Sisti,
claimed the credibility of a material witness for the
state is in doubt because the witness allegedly embellished his military record and Sanborn is therefore is entitled to a new trial.
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By todd WEllington
Staff Writer
BLOOMFIELD — The state’s search for a new
permanent psychiatric treatment facility could
come to an end on a large south-facing woodland
parcel in a small Essex County town of 261 residents.
DW Bouchard, executive director of Northeast
Kingdom Human Services, said his agency has a
proposal on the table to build and operate a secure
16-bed residential treatment facility on a 729-acre
parcel on the Bloomﬁeld Ridge currently owned
by Allen Bouthillier.
REGION
Wheelchair Bound Eric
Jackson Gets Court Approval
To Live At Home While
Awaiting Trial On 18 Charges
By BRad USatch
Staff Writer
The witness, Giovanni Brus, who had been the
principal of the larger, Florida-based gunpowder
ﬁrm with which Sanborn had entered into a manufacturing contract, gave trial testimony stating that
Sanborn was aware his Colebrook plant had been
deﬁcient in size, scope and safety standards.
In addition to questioning Brus’ credibility, Sisti
also argued Brus was “evasive” about the gunpowder Sanborn was manufacturing for the Florida
company being involved in at least three other accidents.
Sisti’s motion to overturn the conviction, however, was denied in August 2014 by Coos Judge
Peter Bornstein, who ruled the defendant is at fault
for failing to obtain Brus’ military service record
before trial and said the evidence on which Sanborn
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SHARON ELAINE HUNTINGTON
“NANA”
Feb. 23, 1944 – May 22, 2015
Sharon Elaine Huntington formerly of Barton, Vt., passed away
peacefully surrounded by her family in Newport. She was born in
Troy, N.Y. to Ralph and Elizabeth
DeCota. Sharon enjoyed crocheting, crafts, bingo and going to yard
sales. She loved to feed the birds
and other small creatures. She had
a great appreciation for ﬂowers
and all of God’s landscape. But her
greatest joy was found spending
time with her family. Sharon will
be remembered by her selﬂess acts
of kindness and dedication to the
Lord. She is predeceased by her father and mother; Ralph and Elizabeth DeCota of Stillwater, N.Y.,
her husband; James Huntington, of
Barton, Vt., son-in-law, Dennis Lizotte, and grandson, Michael Lizotte and nephew Heath DeCota. She is
survived by her brother, Greg DeCota and wife Myrna of Alaska; her
nieces, Cathy Darrow and husband Mike, Becky DeCota, Heidi DeCota
and nephew, Danny DeCota and his partner Kim Coombs, all of New
York and her many children: Pamela Lizotte and husband Michael
Sargeant of Essex, Tina Bowen and partner, Rick Biladeau of Newport,
Kimberley Small and husband Gary of Newport Center, Debbie Bianchi
and husband Sean of Derby Line, Tammy Huntington and partner Andre
Brosseau of Glover, Carrie Helfant and husband John of Brookﬁeld,
Naomi Bryant and partner Sam Seney of Barton.
She is also survived by several grandchildren: Cassidy Villeneuve and
husband “Duffer,” Ashley Bowen and Fiance’ Weston Brisco, Kristen
Bowen, Jeremy Lucas, Amber Huntington and partner Shane Robitaille,
Meghan Royer and husband Drew, Courtney Bianchi and Fiance’
Matthew Etheze, Chelsea and Garrett Bianchi, Alishia Cleveland and
husband Lance, Tyler Goad and Fiance’ Jenna Betts, Brandon Huntington, Nikia, Kylie, Grace, James and Caleb Helfant, Rebecca, Hannah,
Alec, Charlie and Paisly Bryant; and great-grandchildren: Skyler Lizotte, Natasha Bianca and Cody Villeneuve, Angel Brock and Olivia
Lucas, Arrianna Sprowl and Abigal Botella, Gabreil Huntington, Daniel
Royer, and Berkley Etheze. Sharon will be sadly missed by all who
knew and loved her. We are comforted to know that she is home at last
with our Lord, Jesus Christ Almighty. “Years are but seconds in
Heaven,” see you in a second Mom.
MAIDSTONE — Vermont State Police are on the look-out for
a red Honda Fit with New Hampshire license plates that was involved in a crash in the area of 771 Route 102 in Maidstone. Police
said the crash occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m. on June 3. Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information that may lead to
the identification of the operator is asked to contact state police at
802-748-3111.
Bull free after falling into
metro Atlanta well, taking nap
Zeek, above, is a 3-year-old neutered male cat that is loving and great with humans, dogs and other cats. Gunner,
below, is a 3-year-old lab mix that is great with other dogs,
cats and humans. To adopt Zeek or Gunner, ﬁll out an application at www.riversideanimalrescue.org or call the
shelter at 802-892-5300.
1927-2015
Rosamond Elsie Mary Phillips
of St. Johnsbury passed away at
the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Saturday night,
May 30, 2015 at the age of 87.
She was born in St. Johnsbury
on Aug. 7, 1927, the daughter of
Hollis and Norma Belle Tillotson
Phillips.
She was predeceased by her
brother Hollis.
Graveside services are scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m. June 5,
2015 at the Grove Cemetery in
East St. Johnsbury. Anyone wishing to attend is welcome.
Sayles Funeral Home is assisting with funeral arrangements.
ORANGEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The world’s tallest cow has died
on a farm in northern Illinois after holding the record for less than
a year.
Pat Hanson tells The (Freeport) Journal-Standard
(http://bit.ly/1Q4xKIW ) that her 6-foot-4 Holstein, called Blosom,
died May 26 on her farm near Orangeville, just south of the Wisconsin/Illinois border.
Hanson says she’s not sure what was wrong with Blosom, but
that she had the 13-year-old Holstein put down after two veterinarians said they couldn’t save her.
Hanson says Blosom was buried in her favorite pasture, with
her head facing east toward the farm.
Guinness anointed Blosom the world’s tallest cow last August.
Although she’s no longer alive, the 2,000-pound cow maintains
that title and will appear in the 2016 edition of the Guinness World
Records book.
New Chinese restaurant’s
name: I Don’t Know
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — There’s a new Chinese restaurant
in Rochester. The name? I Don’t Know.
Seriously, the I Don’t Know Chinese Restaurant recently opened
in the western New York city. Owner Jessie Dong tells the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester (http://on.rocne.ws/1K98JYg )
that said she came up with the unusual name because whenever
she would ask her three children what they wanted to eat, their response would be: “I don’t know.”
Dong said when it came time to name the new restaurant, her
family didn’t know that either, hence the name I Don’t Know.
Dong is a native of Guangdong province in China and now lives
with her family in the town of Greece, a Rochester suburb.
Axel is an energetic 2-year-old that weighs about 62 pounds.
He is affectionate and knows some obedience commands.
Axel would love to be the one and only pet in your home.
He’s house trained. Ester is a very petite and very sweet girl.
She has lived with other cats and dogs and loves to be snuggled. She is 2 years old. Find them and more at Pope Memorial Frontier Animal Shelter, 4473 Barton Orleans Road
Orleans, 802-754-2228. All animal from Pope Memorial
Frontier Animal Shelter are spayed/neutered, up to date on
vaccines, treated for internal and external parasites, health
checked and ﬁtted with a microchip.
SERVICES
MILLARD “JOE” NEWELL
The family of Millard “Joe”
Newell, April 9, 1937 - Nov. 13,
2014, invite all family and friends
to his burial service, Saturday,
June 6, at 11 a.m. at the New Saint
Johnsbury Center Cemetery.
There will be a motorcycle escort of family and friends travelling from Nashua, N.H., to bring
Joe home to rest next to his wife
Cecilia.
Following a brief graveside
service, there will be a gathering at
the American Legion, Route 5.
POLICE LOG
STATE — BRADFORD
Michelle Santos, 29, Newbury, was cited for drunken driving after
police responded to a car crash on Route 5 Newbury on May 31 at
12:13 a.m. Santos was not injured but her 2010 Volkswagen Jetta sustained severe damage. Santos is scheduled to appear in Orange Superior Court to answer the charge on June 17.
STATE — ST. JOHNSBURY
Kristi Rivers, 27, Albany, Vt., was cited for driving with a suspended license on Interstate 91 in Lyndon on June 1 at 3:45 p.m..
Rivers is scheduled to answer the charge in Caledonia Superior Court
on July 6.
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Jamie Cates, 20, Barnet, was cited for drunken driving, driving
with a suspended license and attempting to elude police on Route 122
in Wheelock on June 1 at 9:41 p.m. Cates was released into the custody of a sober adult and scheduled to appear in Caledonia Superior
Court to answer the charges on June 22.
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Kristen Pierce, 26, Jay, was cited for driving with a suspended license on Old Center Road in St. Johnsbury on May 7 at 10:30 a.m.
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FAIRBURN, Ga. (AP) — A bull that fell into a metro Atlanta
well has been freed after taking a nap during the rescue effort.
Abel Ambrosio Lopez told WSB-TV the bull fell through rotten
wood that was covering a well on his property in Fairburn, south
of Atlanta.
Lopez says he assumed the 3-year-old, 1,500 pound bull named
Boy jumped a fence and took off, and was surprised to find it lying
in the well.
Local media reported that crews used a backhoe to dig a bigger
hole so the animal could walk out. But the bull decided to take a
nap and didn’t immediately leave once he was able to.
Lopez has said the bull seems to be OK. He said he estimated
that the hole could be up to 12 feet deep.
Blosom, the world’s tallest cow,
dies in northern Illinois
ROSAMOND ELSIE MARY PHILLIPS
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Passumpsic Community
Baptist Church
(American Baptist)
Sunday Worship Services
at 10:15 a.m.
Card of Thanks
I would like to thank everyone
for the cards, gifts and coming
to my 90th Birthday Open
House. You made it very
special.
God Bless everyone. It was a
beautiful day in the Lord.
Cecil Williams
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North Pole won’t block pot sales
NORTH POLE, Alaska (AP) — North Pole residents can put
marijuana on their Christmas list next year.
The city council in North Pole, Alaska, rejected a measure Monday that would have banned marijuana dispensaries. Marijuana became legal in Alaska in February, and sales begin next year.
The
Fairbanks
Daily
News-Miner
reported
(http://is.gd/j1UWFE ) even Santa Claus — yes, that’s his real
name — testified in favor of selling pot in this Christmas-themed
town, where light poles resemble candy canes.
Claus said he is medical marijuana patient, and he’d like to buy
pot in North Pole instead of making the short drive to Fairbanks.
Some worried how others might perceive North Pole if marijuana dispensaries are allowed. But one council member noted
North Pole already allows the sale of alcohol, cigarettes and guns.
Local Forecast
Today: Areas of valley fog early, then
mostly sunny and warmer. Highs in
the low to mid 70s. Light winds, becoming south 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: clear to start, then some high
clouds. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
Light south winds.
Tomorrow: Increasing clouds, with a
rising chance of showers or a thunderstorm, mainly in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. South to southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
Extended Forecast: Friday Night:
Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers early
with a thunderstorm possible, then showers diminishing. Lows in the lower 50s.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid
60s. Saturday Night: Mainly clear and
cool. Lows around 40. Sunday: Partly to
mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 70s.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 50s. Monday: Becoming mostly
cloudy with a rising chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
Daily Weather Highlights
Pleasant weather lies in store for
today, as high pressure now nearly overhead slowly drifts off the coast, allowing
for lots of sunshine and for the development of a southerly breeze, all of which
will combine to provide us with the
warmest day we’ve had so far this week.
The chance for showers - and perhaps
for a thunderstorm - will be on the rise
tomorrow, as a cold front that’s now over
Ontario moves in. Tomorrow’s front will
mark the leading edge of strong and cool
high pressure that will dive out of
Canada, yielding northerly breezes and
highs on Saturday that will be cool for
the season, despite the sunshine. As
that high pressure starts to drift eastward
on Sunday, more sunshine and southerly
winds will combine to get temperatures
back on track. Unsettled and wet
weather then appears likely to take over
on Monday and Tuesday, as low pressure moves in from the Great Lakes,
says Lawrence Hayes of the Fairbanks
Museum weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Mostly clear
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .65
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .42
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Maximum this date (1919) . . . . . .101
Minimum this date (1944) . . . . . . . .30
HUMIDITY
41%
DEWPOINT
41
WINDS
5 mph, 7 max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S
BAROMETER
30.17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Steady
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Trace
Total for Month . . . . . . . . . . . .1.43 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.40 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . . . . .5:05 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . . . . .8:28 p.m.
Length of day . . . . . . .15 hrs. 22 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
To date since July 1 . . . . . . . . . .8402
To date last year . . . . . . . . . . . . .8477
* calculated for the day before yesterday
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LOCAL
CONCORD ANNOUNCES TOP SENIORS DANVILLE ANNOUNCES TOP SENIORS
Emily Harran
Kendra Darrell
Concord High School has announced Emily Harran as valedictorian and Kendra Darrell as salutatorian.
Valedictorian Emily Harran
Harran is the daughter of Kathy and Clay Gordon
of Concord, Vt. and Michael and Candi Harran of
Danville, Vt.
Emily played four years of basketball , one year
of softball, and one year of soccer. She is a member
of the National Honor Society and Upward Bound.
She attended the Early College Program at Lyndon
State College her senior year.
She will be attending Barton College in Wilson,
North Carolina for criminal justice and criminology.
Salutatorian Kendra Darrell
Kendra Darrell is the daughter of Patty Matte and
Fred Pogmore of South Kirby, Vt. and Kevin and
Ann Darrell of St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Kendra plays soccer, basketball and softball for
Concord. She is a member of National Honor Society and the Athletic Council. This year Darrell attended Lyndon State College as part of the Early
College Program.
She will be attending Johnson State College for
Early Childhood Education.
Q-BURKE, NORTHWOODS JOINING FORCES
Programs To Fuse Recreation, Conservation, Education
By BRad USatch
Staff Writer
EAST BURKE — A pair of Northeast Kingdom
institutions are teaming up to bring fun and educational programs to area children and visitors alike.
At its mountain bike season kick-off party on Saturday, Q Burke Resort will ofﬁcially announce its
collaboration with the NorthWoods Stewardship
Center to bring a series of mountain bike camps,
conservation-themed programs to the mountain this
summer.
The two organizations will combine forces to
offer two weeks of Mountain Bike Camps for ages
8–14, as well as programs focused on area wildlife
and natural history. The NorthWoods Conservation
Corps will also ﬁeld a Burke-based crew to work
for ﬁve weeks on trails and habitat projects in the
greater Burke area.
Jessica Sechler, marketing manager for Q Burke
said the resort has been teaming with Northwoods
for a couple of years now on one-time programs like
an adventure camp this past President’s Day weekend that drew 50 children.
“That started a conversation about how we could
do more with each other,” said Sechler. “They already have the infrastructure built-in in terms of
staff knowledge and the curriculum, so why not
connect and help make us both successful as we
move forward. We want to help connect children to
nature.”
Northwoods executive director Carol Moore said
she has been talking with Q Burke president and
CEO Ari Quiros for about a year and said he was
receptive to an expanding partnership between the
organizations. Moore said operating at the mountain
gives the East Charleston-based Northwoods an opportunity to reach a broader audience with their programs, whether it be school groups from Caledonia
County or visitors to the resort itself.
For Q Burke, the partnership allows the resort to
See Q-Burke, Page A8
Danville School announced the valedictorian and
salutatorian for the Class of 2015. Celine Larose has
been named valedictorian, and Jake Boudreau has
been named salutatorian.
Valedictorian Celine Larose has held herself to a
high academic standard throughout her high school
career. She has excelled in advanced and AP coursework and has consistently received praise from her
teachers for working diligently to challenge herself.
She has a passion for science and is interested in pursuing a career in medicine.
Her science teacher, Dr. Stacy Edgar, highlighted
Larose’s presence in her courses. “I love having Celine in my science classes,” she said. “She lights up
my classroom with her natural curiosity, drive and
unique sense of humor. I will miss having her around
next year as I am certain her absence will be palpable;
but I am also certain that her passion for science, her
inquisitive nature and her ability to laugh often will
take her as far as she wishes to go. I wish her all the
best in forging ahead on her next journey.”
Larose has been a very involved member of the
Danville School community. She is a member of the
National Honor Society and currently serves as vice
president, served as secretary and vice president of
student council, and has served as vice president of
the International Club. She was selected as the
school’s ambassador for the Hugh O’Brien Youth
Leadership Conference in 2013. Larose has also
served as the yearbook’s editor and business manager
and was an integral part of Danville’s recognition in
the Jostens Yearbook Excellence Award. A student
athlete, she has played varsity soccer each of her four
years in high school.
An invested member of the community, Larose has
also given her time through many charitable efforts
with her church. Last year she traveled to New York
with some classmates to spend her Thanksgiving
break at Covenant House helping to feed those in
need.
Larose will attend Castleton State College next
year and will major in biology. Her energy and dedication to her studies and to the community in Danville
will be greatly missed. There is no doubt that these
traits will carry her to continued success in college
and beyond.
Salutatorian Jake Boudreau
Jake Boudreau has taken opportunities to explore
the college environment while completing his senior
year in high school. Through Vermont’s Dual Enrollment program, he attended courses at Lyndon State
College while ﬁnishing course work at Danville
School. Throughout his high school career, Boudreau
challenged himself through AP courses and summer
coursework.
A three season athlete, Boudreau has been a crucial
part of each team’s success and was invited to the Vermont Youth Sports Leadership Conference his sophomore year. Boudreau has participated in varsity
soccer all four years and served as team captain this
year. On the basketball team he served as an integral
part of the team’s success in winning the 2014 Division IV State Championship and was team captain
this year. Boudreau has also played lacrosse throughout his high school years and has helped the lacrosse
program at Danville grow each year.
Boudreau lives on his family’s dairy farm and has
Celine Larose
Jake Boudreau
worked to grow the family business by helping in development and running of the annual Great Vermont
Corn Maze (he may have given you a hint from a
bridge if you appeared lost at some point). Boudreau
will attend the University of Vermont next year and
plans on a double major of Animal Science and Community Entrepreneurship. His ultimate goal is to return home to run and expand the family farm and
business.
Boudreau’s math teacher and basketball coach
Jason Brigham said, “Jake Boudreau is a wonderful
blend of intelligence, humor, wit, dependability, and
spontaneity. He has an incredible work ethic coupled
with an eye for detail, but at the same time, is always
willing to provide levity to any situation. Jake is
someone the entire school community, his family, and
friends should be extremely proud of and serves as a
perfect example of the ideal Danville graduate. Needless to say, he will be missed greatly.”
The Danville School’s graduation is June 13 at 2
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Todd M. Smith, Publisher
OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
NEKHS’ Wild Plan
Northeast Kingdom Human Services wants to partner with the
state to build a 16-bed secure psychiatric residential facility in
Essex County, according to a recent article on VTDigger.org.
The report, by Morgan True, says NEKHS “…wants to eventually build a ‘social services campus’ that would provide a wide
array of services in Essex County on a 729-acre property in Bloomﬁeld.” The human services leviathan already contracts with the state
to provide a bottomless litany of social and mental health services.
Here are a few highlights from the report:
— The proposed facility would accept 16 psychiatric patients
“who don’t need acute care, yet aren’t ready to return to their community, due to legal issues or treatment needs.”
— The facility would be “secured,” that is, the 16 residents are
under lock and key. A security facility, perhaps staffed by the Essex
County Sheriff’s Department, would be built alongside the psychiatric facility.
— The facility would serve as a “transitional home” for the 16
inmates until the state creates some other facility for them in 2018.
There is no mention of what would become of the Bloomﬁeld facility when its sixteen inmates are relocated three years hence.
— The Bloomﬁeld location is currently of interest because “Middlesex residents [initially opposed] the seven-bed temporary residential facility located next to the Vermont State Police barracks,
and last summer a patient escaped for a brief period during a community outing.”
— The NEKHS proposal calls for $7 million to be spent to build
the facility.
— Their preliminary estimates suggest that the secure residential
facility alone would need 70 full-time equivalent employees to
manage the 16 inmates.
— It costs $1 million per patient per year to be housed at the
Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital, which opened last July. According to NEKHS, care could be provided in Bloomﬁeld facility
to patients with “similarly complex high needs” for a cost of
$500,000 per year. That comes to $8 million a year for the 16 inmates.
— If the 16 inmates require medical services, the closest hospital
is 15 miles away in Colebrook, New Hampshire.
— NEKHS executive director D.W. Bouchard believes that there
would be therapeutic beneﬁts of the property’s natural beauty. The
plan calls for hiking and biking trails that would be for patients and
the public.
We concede that psychiatric patients who need a secure facility
have to be housed somewhere. But the only thing we’ve ever seen
NEKHS do well is expand their empire… and salaries for their
bloated staff. We don’t think this facility is necessary, belongs deep
in the woods, or would be run efﬁciently or well by NEKHS.
In My Opinion…
IT’S TIME FOR AN
INDEPENDENT
ETHICS COMMISSION
again this fall beVermonters deserve
cause this issue is so
good government - and
very important. But
that includes an open and
is that enough? No.
transparent government!
The time has
We are proud of our
come for Vermont to
State and our collective
enact a clear law
ability to overcome any
difﬁcult issue we may By Jim condoS regarding ethics,
conﬂicts of interencounter. As Vermonest, and ﬁnancial
ters, when we see a
problem, we know we can ﬁx it disclosure for our elected ofﬁthrough hard work and a dose of cials.
Just in the last few years, Vercommon sense. We expect the
monters have heard allegations
same of our government.
Vermont’s
constitution of ethical issues about the Gov(Chapter 1, Article 6) states that ernor, Attorney General, legislathe power is “derived from the tors, candidates, and municipal
people, therefore, all ofﬁcers of ofﬁcials. These complaints cross
government, whether legislative all party lines. The Secretary of
or executive, are their trustees State’s ofﬁce receives calls aland servants; and at all times, in most every week about municia legal way, accountable to pal ofﬁcials, alleging conﬂicts of
interest and other ethically susthem.”
The public’s access to open pect actions. With no authority
and transparent government is for the Secretary of State to investigate or enforce these comkey to our democracy.
This sacred trust must not be plaints, these citizens come
taken lightly. We must either re- away from the process feeling
store that accountability or risk frustrated, helpless and increasVermonters’ faith in our ability ingly cynical.
The time has come to create
to govern.
Over the last four years, I an independent ethics commishave traveled to over 30 loca- sion to address complaints from
tions around Vermont explain- the Legislative, Executive, and
ing our Open Meeting and Municipal sections of governAccess to Public Records laws ment.
Vermont is one of only three
on my “Got Transparency?”
tour. Several hundred Vermon- states nationwide without an
ters have heard my call for more Ethics Commission. The 2012
transparency in government and Center for Public Integrity rankhow that leads to increased ac- ing of the states had Vermont
countability. I’ll be on the road
See Ethics, Page A5
In My Opinion…
LET’S SNATCH VICTORY FROM THE JAWS OF DEFEAT
By BRUcE liSman
Our governor has declared the
legislative session a victory for
Vermonters. I disagree; it represents further evidence of a government not listening to its
citizens. There are many ways a
government can fail its people but
usually only one result: the people
will pay.
The Administration offers a
narrative that presumes Vermonters might believe nearly $60 million in new taxes, increased
general fund spending of nearly 6
percent in an economy that is
growing at less than 3 percent is a
victory.
Education costs are another
critical budget item where voters’
pleas for spending restraint went
largely unanswered. Instead of
credible, concrete measures to address education spending, politicians created a constitutionally
dubious scheme which introduces
further complexity and further
distorts an already opaque system.
To top it all off, they postponed
$25 million in tax hikes by using
one-time funds, lost $200 million
for Vermont Health Connect investments (this would have received a pass if not for the
Auditor’s examination), built in a
$10 million shortfall due to increased Medicaid caseload and do
not plan for $50+ million in revenue losses from expired Tobacco
Settlement funds and well-advertised federal Medicaid funding
cutbacks. The inevitable result of
persistent budget mismanagement
is more unpredictability and re-
duced capacity to invest in strategic initiatives.
The governor has the political
awareness to understand what
voters are concerned about. The
Legislature has the ability to respond with legislation. But this
Administration’s incompetence
has turned good intentions into
destructive policy. A public
groundswell for spending restraint
and more transparency has
bizarrely been met with increased
taxes and complicated new mandates.
follow from a more diverse and
vibrant economy which creates
jobs and opportunities for all to
raise their standard of living.
Vermonters deserve a competent, accountable government that
makes economic growth our top
priority, and spends our tax
money wisely.
Feel-good slogans and poorly
executed programs must be replaced by a clear mission and
measurable outcomes.
Here are some examples of initiatives I’ve recommended to un-
The governor has the political
awareness to understand what
voters are concerned about. The
Legislature has the ability to
respond with legislation. But this
Administration’s incompetence
has turned good intentions into
destructive policy.
Voters know what politicians
don’t—there’s a better way. They
know economic growth is the best
tool to grow the middle class and
they know education and good
jobs offer the best hope for the
poor.
Genuine, sustainable prosperity
can’t be bought with government
spending. And more equitable
outcomes across the state won’t
materialize from legislative fiat.
Instead, economic growth and
shared prosperity will naturally
derpin durable growth in
Vermont.
• A strategic plan with a strategic budget, including long-term
capital spending, will minimize
budget surprises and unpredictable tax decisions.
• Knowing our large employers
– an effective calling program
will enable us to understand their
needs and build a long-term partnership.
• Prioritizing our small businesses – meeting with them and
learning what they need in order
to grow and thrive.
• Enhancing our workforce development efforts – a universal
budget, with clear performance
standards, and streamlined program management are needed.
• Our institutions of higher education are home to 42,000 students – an active approach that
provides more internship, apprenticeships, and recruitment will
guide them to a future here.
• Intellectual capital resides in
Vermont – converting ideas to
patents and then to commercial
products creates entrepreneurs
and jobs. UVM’s highly regarded
efforts can help unlock this potential.
• Laser focus on comprehensive economic development activities. The Agency for Commerce
and Community Development
needs a new name and a more focused approach to developing an
economy here. We must replace
bureaucratic overlap and duplicative efforts with an efficient and
responsive agency.
Vermont has much to be proud
of and much to build on—it’s not
too late to snatch victory from the
jaws of defeat. Let’s leave the
politicians behind and forge
ahead.
Bruce Lisman is a resident of
Shelburne. He is an advocate for
a Vermont economy that is robust,
dynamic and vibrant to ensure
shared prosperity for all Vermonters – so that every Vermonter can
be economically secure and prosper. For more policy ideas, visit
www.BruceLismanVT.com.
In My Opinion…
LOOKING BACK AT THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By REp. maRK higlEy
Dear Constituents and fellow
Vermonters,
This Legislative Wrap-Up includes some of the bills that passed
this session with little commentary
here.
This session started with a $133
million budget shortfall. The ﬁx
was with $56M in cuts and funding changes. $30M new General
fund revenue including: 6 percent
sales tax on sugary soft drinks; 9
percent tax on vending machine
sales; Current Use program
changes; income tax changes including, eliminating deduction for
state and local income taxes; allowing wages to be garnished for
any Vermont delinquent taxes.
$1.8M fee revenue and $25M in
one time resources.
H.361 an Education Bill that attempts to address a quality education while reducing operating
costs. Merging districts into 900pupil Pre-K-12 districts, average 2
percent growth in district spending
statewide in 2017 and 2018 (based
on per-pupil spending). For those
districts that don’t vote to
merge, the Agency of Education, with approval of
State Board of Education,
will create a merger plan
that will go into effect in
2020. There was an original provision that required any
new education mandates would be
funded from the States General
Fund budget, that failed to make it
into the ﬁnal version.
H.35 Water Quality Bill for improving the quality of state waters.
The bill will raise about $10M
from Vermont sources. A Clean
Water Fund was created with a
revenue source to include a .2 percent surcharge on the Property
transfer tax. Other fees include:
Farm certiﬁcation fee of, $? small
farm (deﬁnition and fee for a small
farm not ﬁnalized), $1500 medium
farm, $2500 large farm per year;
tax on commercial feed, non-agriculture fertilizer, pesticides. Increases in existing and new fees
for a number of DEC (Dept. of Environmental Conservation) permits. There are 7 new Agriculture
employees and 13 new ANR
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(Agency of Natural Resources) employees hired
to help with this clean up
effort.
S.139 The Health care
bill. The Governor had
originally proposed a
$90M pay roll tax package which,
in the end, the House and Senate
only approved a $3.2M package
which included a 33 cent tax increase on cigarettes and raises
taxes on other tobacco products.
The Governor has stated that if a
change-of-circumstance function
at VT Health Connect is not operational by May 31, 2015, the state
will transition to the Federal exchange or hybrid.
H.40 The Energy Bill. A new
RESET (Renewable Energy Standard and Energy Transformation)
program was developed. It creates
a path for construction of 400
megawatts of renewable energy in
the next 17 years. There were
some initial concessions regarding
renewable energy projects. There
will now be minimum setbacks
and towns will be able to impose
screening requirements for solar
projects also, towns that host energy projects will get automatic
party status in Public Service
Board dockets.
A number of bills: Foresters will
now have to be licensed, through
the OPR (Ofﬁce of Professional
Regulation), before practicing in
Vermont; By the 2017 election
cycle you will be allowed to Register to Vote on the day of election,
at the polling location; The philosophical exemption for vaccinations will no longer be allowed
starting July 1, 2016; A paid sick
leave bill past the House but
stalled in the Senate.
These are just a few bills that
past this year. If you would like
more information or would like see
how your representative voted on
these and other bills you can
search the Vermont State web-site
at: legislature.vermont.gov. A good
source for Statehouse news is online at: vtdigger.org. You may also
contact
me
at:
[email protected] or 802744-6379.
Rep. Mark Higley serves the Orleans- Lamoille House district.
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Caledonia Superior Court
Editor’s Note: All information is
from Caledonia Superior Court documents.
Jason S. Brown, 33, St. Johnsbury, pleaded not guilty to driving
with a license suspended for drunken
driving on New Boston Road in Lyndon on April 28 at 6:20 p.m. and was
released on conditions.
Jonathan P. Welch, 22, Northﬁeld, Vt., pleaded guilty to transportation of marijuana into Northeast
Regional Correctional Facility on
April 20 in exchange for a sentence
of 4-6 months to serve concurrent to
a sentence already in execution and
$147 in court surcharges.
Caleb E. Cassidy, 25, Lyndonville, denied violating probation
by failing to perform 100 hours of
community service, possessing alcohol and using illegal drugs.
George E. Woods, 42, Hardwick,
pleaded not guilty to two felony
counts of violating an abuse prevention order by calling Rebecca Woods,
42, from jail on March 8 and having
Pamela Yandow send a Facebook
message to Rebecca Woods on
March 16 and was held for lack of
$1,000 bail.
Wade Whitehouse, 32, Cabot,
pleaded not guilty to two counts of
providing false information to a po-
lice ofﬁcer on Feb. 17 in St. Johnsbury and was released on $500 unsecured appearance bond.
Michael A. John, 20, St. Johnsbury, denied violating probation by
failing to complete the reparative
board and failure to continue his education.
Tiffany Clark, 35, Johnson,
pleaded not guilty to drunken driving
on Route 14 in Hardwick at 9:19
p.m. on May 22 and was released on
conditions.
Cynthia Jean Before-Corrow,
23, Shefﬁeld, pleaded not guilty to
drunken driving on Industrial Parkway in Lyndonville at 5:29 p.m. on
May 15 and was released on conditions.
A charge of excessive speed
against Thomas O’Brien, 55,
Williamstown, Vt., was dismissed by
the state on June 1.
Miguel A. Aponte, 26, St. Johnsbury, pleaded not guilty to driving
with a license suspended for drunken
driving - third offense, resisting arrest
and providing false information to a
police ofﬁcer on Portland street in St.
Johnsbury on April 10 at 3:42 a.m.
and was released on conditions.
Thomas J. Antonucci, 18, Lyndonville, pleaded guilty by waiver to
an amended charge of negligent op-
eration of a motor vehicle on Pine
Ridge Circle in Lyndonville on
March 23 at 6:23 p.m. and was ordered to pay $1,297 in ﬁnes and court
surcharges with $500 suspended if
Antonucci completes the safe driving
program.
Michael S. Lussier, 32, Greensboro, pleaded guilty to driving with
a suspended license on Route 15 in
Hardwick on April 17 in exchange
for a sentence of 59-60 days to serve
on the work crew.
Timothy Patterson, 29, Hardwick, pleaded guilty to bad checks by
passing a $350 check to Jennifer
Crum, 44, for wedding photography
services in exchange for a sentence
of 0-90 days all suspended with probation and 25 hours of community
service. Patterson was also ordered
to pay $350 restitution to Crum and
$147 in court surcharges.
Mathew R. Wiltse, 22, Barre,
pleaded guilty to transportation of
drugs into Northeast Regional Correctional Facility on Sept. 22, 2014
and was ordered to pay $262 in ﬁnes
and court surcharges.
A charge of drunken driving
against Cheryl A. Carvajal, 38, Bulverde, Texas, was dismissed by the
state on May 27.
Ethics
should be empowered to adopt a
code of ethics and to fairly and impartially ﬁeld complaints from the
public to determine if a violation
has occurred in the areas of conﬂict of interest, campaign ﬁnance,
or ﬁnancial disclosure. This Ethics
Commission must also have the
authority to enforce those laws.
This will require a budget and a
small staff to be effective, but
these investments will be a small
price to pay for a more accountable
government and a place where affected Vermonters can seek redress.
This is not a new issue – in fact,
I have spoken on this topic many
times over the last ﬁve years. I
often hear that we are a small state
and are not affected by such things,
but frankly, that is not good
enough. Recent events are more
than enough bear out the need for
an ethics commission once again.
By and large, we are served well
by our dedicated public servants.
The vast majority of our elected
state and local ofﬁcials are trustworthy, dedicated and passionate
individuals who want to do the
right thing. However, corruption
can exist, and in small doses it can
Continued from Page A4
with an overall grade of D+, in
large part because we do not have
an authoritative ethics commission
or the required ﬁnancial disclosures existing in nearly every other
state. Vermont can and must do
better!
A focus on Ethics should include: a clear deﬁnition of conﬂicts
of interest, required ﬁnancial disclosures by all candidates and
elected ofﬁcers, and establishing
an independent Ethics Commission. This independent body
By BRad USatch
Staff Writer
ST. JOHNSBURY — The town
school is devising a new mission
statement and, for once, plans to
abide by it.
“None of the other mission statements have ever gotten traction,”
Superintendent Ranny Bledsoe said
Monday during a regular meeting
of the St. Johnsbury School Board
of Directors.
It is common to revise mission
statements every couple of years,
she said. St. Johnsbury School’s
current version is from 2010-2011,
she said.
It states, “The mission of our educational community is to challenge and support members to be
respectful, caring, lifelong learners.
We will do this by measuring
growth and providing diverse learning opportunities needed to meet
academic, environmental, and social challenges equitably.”
The statement though was
shelved and has not driven the
school, Bledsoe said. The new mission will loom larger, she said.
The pending revision will include faculty input and consideration of former mission statements.
The statement will also incorporate
be just as corrosive to our democracy as any prominent scandal, undermining the public trust.
Will establishing an ethics committee suddenly provide government a moral compass? Certainly
not, but it will be a step in the right
direction and will shine a brighter
light on better transparency and accountability.
It’s about time we move Vermont forward – let’s ﬁx this!
Jim Condos is Vermont’s Secretary of State.
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job now.
“I’m spending a lot of my time
on pre-K and I’m really looking
forward to someone taking that
over,” Bledsoe said.
Universal pre-K begins in St.
Johnsbury next ﬁscal year. It provides all 3-4 year children with 10
weekly hours of pre-K for 35
weeks.
Administrators expect about 80
students in the program. Universal
pre-K will be available at the town
school, 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 Passumpsic, Little Dipper Doodle Children’s Center in the St. Johnsbury-Lyndon
Industrial Park, New Beginnings
Child Care Center on Memorial
Drive, Theresa Stevens on Fenoff
Circle, and Colby Clagg on Sunset
Drive.
Additionally, St. Johnsbury
School next ﬁscal year will offer
“expanded pre-K.” The program
provides a full day of pre-K for 4year-old children from low income
homes.
Administrators expect about 70
students in the expanded program.
WEBSITE DETAILS VERMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE HIKING, BIKING TRAILS
By WilSon Ring
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. — People
interested in getting outdoors in
Vermont and New Hampshire this
summer have a new online tool for
learning about trails for hiking,
biking, canoeing, horseback riding
and other activities.
The new Trail Finder website allows residents and visitors to
search for trails by town, trail
name or any of 15 outdoor activities, such as backcountry skiing
and snowshoeing, ofﬁcials said
Wednesday. There are 289 trail
areas on the free website, which
has interactive maps, high-quality
graphics, information on difﬁculty
levels and other details, they said.
“A lot of what’s in here are the
small local town trails that you
might not know exist. So you wake
up in the morning and say, ‘I
would like to take my dog on a
hike to a waterfall.’ And you can
search for that,” said Russell
Hirschler, the executive director of
the Upper Valley Trails Alliance,
which developed the website along
with the Vermont Department of
Forests, Parks and Recreation and
the Center for Community GIS, a
digital mapping company based in
Farmington, Maine.
Unlike many trail programs or
apps that are created with input
from users, the trails featured on
the Trail Finder website are built
with the permission of landowners
and trail managers, organizers
said.
“Anything in Trail Finder means
that it’s been vetted, is a place that
the public can go and walk, ride a
bike,” said the Alliance’s trails director, John Taylor. “We have motorized vehicle use in here as
well.”
Chipman Hill, in Middlebury,
Vermont, for example, has an elevation about 360 feet above the
town’s center, offers wonderful
views and is good for walking,
hiking and mountain biking along
a 5.1-mile trail, the Trail Finder
website says. Sugar River Recreational Rail Trail, in Claremont
and Newport, New Hampshire,
boasts a picturesque 9.7-mile
riverbank path good for riding motorized vehicles, biking, hiking and
horseback riding, it says.
AP Photo
Jehn Taylor, Trails Programs Director for the Upper Valley Trails Alliance, demonstrates the
newly revamped, state-wide Trail Finder program at the ofﬁce of the Vermont Department of
Forests, Parks and Recreation in Montpelier, Wednesday.
The website evolved from a site
begun by a Burlington group.
While the site can help people
learn about the difﬁculty of a po-
tential hike and offers photos from
“We want to help ﬁt people to
the trail, it’s not going to replace the right trail system,” he said.
trail guidebooks anytime soon, “It’s not going to have all the detail
Taylor said.
a guide has.”
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New England scientists to study
critical plankton species
ORONO, Maine (AP) — The National Science Foundation is awarding
a group of New England institutions $1.1 million to collaborate on a project
about the abundance of a critical plankton species in Northeast oceans.
The University of Maine, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, University of New Hampshire, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East
Boothbay, Maine, are working on the three-year project.
UMaine ofﬁcials say the study will seek to better understand the physical
and biological processes that control the abundance of a plankton species
that is a key piece of the Northeast’s oceanic food web. The species is about
the size of a grain of rice and it is the primary food item for everything from
herring to the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Anthem partners with
College for America
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The nation’s second largest health insurer
is partnering with the College for America at Southern New Hampshire University to offer employees associate’s or bachelor’s degrees at no cost.
The agreement announced by the college and Anthem on Tuesday expands
a pilot program begun in 2013 by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
New Hampshire. The new beneﬁt will be available to 55,000 Anthem employees who work 20 or more hours per week and have been employed for
at least six months.
The online, competency-based College for America has no traditional
classes, instructors or grades. Instead, students work through material at their
own pace and are evaluated on their mastery of skill areas.
Remains of Korean War POW
to be buried in Exeter
EXETER, N.H. (AP) — The remains of a New Hampshire soldier who
died after being wounded and taken prisoner during the Korean War are being
buried in his hometown of Exeter with full military honors.
A service for Army Cpl. Elmer Richard is scheduled Wednesday at St.
Michael Church on what would’ve been his 85th birthday.
Richard’s remains — identiﬁed through his brother’s DNA — arrived
Monday. A military honor guard carried the ﬂag-draped casket into the funeral home.
Richard was part of an anti-aircraft artillery unit ﬁghting near the Chosin
Reservoir in North Korea. On Nov. 29, 1950, elements of the unit were overwhelmed by Chinese ﬁghters. On Dec. 2, Richard was reported missing in
action. His family later learned he was captured and died that December from
battle wounds and dysentery.
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sentenced to at least nine years in prison for causing a crash that killed a Vermont couple and their unborn fetus says he shouldn’t be held ﬁnancially liable
for their deaths.
The Valley News reports (http://bit.ly/1G53rLN) a lawyer for Robert
Dellinger, responding to lawsuits from the victims’ families, said the inﬂuence
It also says his chain of command should have advised him about the deof prescribed medications and the fact Dellinger was “being pursued” by anpartment’s policy that ofﬁcers cannot accept gifts from the public.
other vehicle indicates the damages may be others’ fault.
The panel suggested instituting annual ethics training, improving internal
Prosecutors said the 54-year-old Dellinger was trying to kill himself when
investigations and updating the department’s 20-year-old regulations.
he drove across a highway median in Lebanon in 2013 and smashed into an
A judge has taken Goodwin’s case under advisement.
SUV, killing 24-year-old Amanda Murphy, who was 8 months pregnant, and
her ﬁance, 29-year-old Jason Timmons.
Dellinger was a senior vice president and chief ﬁnancial ofﬁcer at PPG
Industries Inc. when he left in 2011 because of health problems.
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — State police say they’ve recovered over
600 stolen jewelry items from the home of a Vermont man who’s been jailed
since last month on three burglary cases.
James Myers, an inmate at the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility,
has been charged with receiving stolen property. He’s scheduled to be in
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man has pleaded not guilty to
Washington District Court on July 15.
Police said they found the items during a search warrant at the 40-year- assault, robbery and abuse of a vulnerable adult.
old Myers’ home. They said about 35 of those pieces of jewelry totaling more
Police say 28-year-old George Burch attacked and robbed his 92-year-old
than $1,300 were taken from a home in Jericho in November.
landlord Saturday in Montpelier. They say Burch then robbed a Walmart
Myers has been at the jail since May 6 on several burglary charges.
Sunday and is suspected of attempting to rob a convenience store the same
Rosanna Chase of the Vermont Public Defender’s Ofﬁce conﬁrmed she day.
is representing Myers. She declined to comment on the case.
Burch was arraigned Monday in Washington County Superior Court.
Court papers show he urinated on the elderly woman’s bedroom ﬂoor and
told her not to call for help as he looted her room. Police say he stole $500.
Burch’s lawyer argued against holding him in jail saying he isn’t a ﬂight
risk and has no prior criminal record.
The judge denied that and set his bail at $5,000. Burch is due back in court
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos is later this month.
calling for the establishment of a state ethics commission to review complaints about conﬂicts of interest, the ethics of public ofﬁcials and ﬁnancial
disclosures.
Condos issued an opinion column on Wednesday saying his ofﬁce gets
calls almost every week about municipal ofﬁcials, alleging conﬂicts of inCHESTERFIELD, N.H. (AP) — Police in the town of Chesterﬁeld, New
terest and other ethically suspect actions.
Hampshire, have identiﬁed the body of a woman recovered from the ConHe says his ofﬁce has no authority to investigate or enforce against such
necticut River and say foul play is not suspected in her death.
problems, and the people complaining often ended up feeling frustrated and
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said the medical examincreasingly cynical.
iner used dental records to identify the woman as 66-year-old Mary Ann
Condos, who is in his third two-year term as secretary of state, says that
Merrill. Lt. David Walsh said authorities had been searching for Merrill
along with an ethics commission, the Legislature should pass a clear law desince she disappeared on April 23.
scribing what constitutes unethical behavior in areas of ethics and conﬂicts
An autopsy determined that Merrill drowned.
of interest.
REGION BRIEFS
600 stolen items found in home
Vermont man charged with
robbing his 92-year-old landlord
Vermont secretary of state
calls for ethics commission
Police identify body of woman
found in Connecticut River
Driver dies in crash, passenger injured
FERRISBURGH, Vt. (AP) — A driver has died in a crash and a passenger
has suffered a leg injury in Ferrisburgh, Vermont.
State police say 55-year-old Dana Phillips of Vergennes was driving north
on Route 7 Tuesday night when the car traveled off the road and struck several culverts before coming to a rest.
Phillips died at the scene. Police said the passenger, 37-year-old Joseph
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A panel investigating a disputed inheri- Mischik of Monkton, suffered a minor leg injury.
tance has found that a police sergeant in New Hampshire breached the deThe case is under investigation.
partment’s code of ethics and duty manual.
The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1IbwnRE) Tuesday’s report
says Sgt. Aaron Goodwin violated the code by not refusing Geraldine Webber’s offer to leave him $2.7 million in stocks and real estate upon her death.
The panel says it believes Goodwin met Webber after she contacted police
and that he began to visit her regularly. It says he should have refused her as
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A former Fortune 500 executive
soon as she made the offer and notiﬁed his supervisor.
Panel: Police ofﬁcer should have
refused $2.7M inheritance
Former exec says he has
no ﬁnancial liability in deaths
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jobs, help new home buyers
NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed into
law an economic development bill that enhances job creation incentives and
helps ﬁrst-time home buyers with closing costs, among other provisions.
The governor signed the bill Wednesday at the Northﬁeld manufacturing
plant of Darn Tough socks, where company ofﬁcials say they're expecting
to add 300 new jobs in the next ﬁve years.
The job creation portion of the bill allows companies to get tax credits
while paying slightly lower wages than currently required if they expand in
parts of Vermont with higher-than-average unemployment.
Help with closing costs for ﬁrst-time homebuyers is expected to address
the often heard complaint that companies looking to grow are often told by
prospective hires that housing in the area is unaffordable.
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GUARD BUSTED IN HEROIN CASE OVER
RELATIONSHIP WITH INMATE’S FIANCEE
By RoBERt BlEchl
Staff Writer
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. —
Police had a suspicion a Grafton
County corrections ofﬁcer might
be involved in the delivery of
heroin to an inmate after seeing his
uniform at the inmate’s residence
during a drug bust and noting he
posted bail for the inmate’s ﬁancee
who was also charged with heroin
possession, according to unsealed
court documents in the case.
Monitored telephone calls and
video surveillance allegedly showing the ofﬁcer taking heroin from
his sock and slipping it under a jail
cell door led to the indictments
against corrections ofﬁcer Michael
A. Barata Jr., 28, of Wells River,
who faces three Class B felony
counts of prohibited delivery of articles, one Class B felony count of
conspiracy to deliver and one special class felony of possessing a
controlled drug.
Barata and Chantelle Paradise,
24, who has yet to be indicted in
the case, were arrested March 27.
According to the afﬁdavit for
search warrants, unsealed May 28
at Haverhill District Court, Haverhill police observed a Grafton
County Department of Corrections
uniform shirt at the 30 South Court
St., Woodsville residence of Anthony Gillcrist, 31, and Paradise,
Gillcrist’s reported ﬁancee, during
a drug bust March 12.
Barata was at the residence that
day and had contact with Haverhill
police, Grafton County Sheriff’s
Department Det. Frederic James
wrote in the afﬁdavit.
The investigation found that
Paradise had or has some form of
relationship with Barata, stated
James.
On March 12, Gillcrist, charged
with drug possession and intent to
sell and unable to post cash bail,
was taken to Grafton County jail
for conﬁnement.
Paradise, too, had been taken to
jail on charges of heroin possession, but was released March 22 on
$2,000 cash bail posted by Barata.
On March 24, House of Correc-
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Ray’s blood alcohol level was
four times the legal limit of .08 percent to drive shortly after he was arrested, police said.
He confessed to the shooting
after he waived his Miranda rights,
police said.
Ray’s son Johnathan, who lived
with Vreeland and his mother, Ray’s
ex-wife Brenda Vreeland, told police that he saw Ray shoot an unarmed Vreeland once in the chest
with the handgun while Ray was sitting in his pickup truck. Police said
Johnathan Ray said he tried to wrestle the gun away from Ray, giving
him a black eye and cuts.
In new details from police afﬁdavits used to get a search warrant,
Ray was being taped by police as he
rambled on while being treated at
North Country Hospital in Newport
City:
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nity if Bent approved the home detention request.
Bent’s decision allows Jackson
to move in with his mother Stephanie Jackson of Lyndonville
- despite being convicted of assaulting her in the past. But Bent,
in his decision, said he wasn’t concerned about Jackson re-offending
against his mom.
“He has 2004 and 2005 convictions for assault on his mother,”
wrote Bent in his order. “He has
since lived with his mother and she
has testiﬁed she is not scared of
him. The court does not conclude
he poses a threat to her at this
time.”
According to the decision, Jackson’s paralysis and other injuries including severe nerve damage in
his arm - convinced the judge
Jackson was also not likely to ﬂee
prosecution or be a danger to the
public once released.
“The evidence is substantial that
Mr. Jackson poses little to no risk
of ﬂight and further he poses little
to no risk to engage in external
criminal activities because his mo-
tions staff found a quantity of contraband in the form of a white
powdery substance folded in paper
and inside a box of playing cards
in a jail cell occupied by inmate
Wayne Keough, said James.
Between March 12 and March
26, Gillcrist placed roughly 80
calls to Paradise and in the calls
“there is repeated slang and code
talk about wanting, needing and
getting contraband [and] these
calls further identify that Ofﬁcer
Michael Barata would be assisting
and getting this contraband from
Paradise to Gillcrist while he is
working shifts,” wrote James.
Jail staff had been aware of the
prior relationship between Barata
and Paradise, and Barata was to be
assigned to units other than where
Gillcrist was housed, said James.
Surveillance video during the
two-week period in March allegedly show Barata having oneon-one contact with Gillcrist.
Monitored phone calls also indicate heroin withdrawals and feelings of sickness by Gillcrist, who
on one day told Paradise “I feel
like s**t … the last two days I felt
really bad” and on another asked
her, “Can you help me out big
today?”
On March 22, James said camera surveillance shows Barata “approaching Gillcrist’s cell. Barata is
seen acting suspicious, looking
around and stopping in front of the
cell door then kneeling to the
ground at which point it appears he
removes something from his sock
and then slides it toward the door
before kicking it under. In the
video, I can see that there is a
shadow of an item under the door
and then it is retrieved from
within.”
On March 24, James said Paradise is seen driving into the front
jail parking lot. “Barata runs out to
see her at her vehicle, approaching
her on the passenger side, then returning into the jail,” he wrote.
On March 27, Barata visited
Paradise’s brieﬂy before he drove
to jail for his shift, said James.
Upon entering the jail that day,
Barata was informed he was not
under arrest, but was advised of his
Miranda rights.
When authorities told him they
have a search warrant, James
wrote that Barata admitted “he had
a quantity of drugs secured in his
sock” and also admitted he had
pre-arranged with Paradise to pick
up the heroin at her house and the
day before had gotten additional
heroin from her for personal use
and had obtained heroin from her
in the past.
According to the afﬁdavit,
Barata told authorities “it was Gillcrist and Paradise who introduced
him to heroin and it was Paradise
who had asked him to get the
heroin into the House of Corrections for Gillcrist.”
During Paradise’s March 30 arraignment at Haverhill District
Court, James told the judge Paradise is three months pregnant, was
using heroin and there was concern
for the fetus.
The amount of “white powder
substance” found at Paradise’s 30
S. Court St. apartment on March
12 was “signiﬁcant,” said James,
and totaled about 60 grams or, in
street vernacular, “six ﬁngers.”
The suspected drug was not the
traditional brown heroin, he said,
but “white heroin” mixed with fentanyl, a narcotic pain reliever.
According to the afﬁdavit for arrest for Gillcrist, Haverhill police,
during the drug bust at the Gillcrist-Paradise residence, found
marijuana as well as several white
bags of suspected heroin, a digital
scale, and two handwritten ledgers
with what appears to be documentation of transactions that reﬂect
the initials of people and how
much was paid or owed.
The investigation into Paradise
and Barata was conducted by the
Grafton County Sheriff’s Department, Haverhill Police Department
and N.H. Attorney General’s Drug
Task Force.
Grafton County Sheriff Doug
Dutile has said no other corrections ofﬁcers are implicated in the
case and Barata is believed to have
smuggled the heroin to one inmate
only.
“Hell of a thing to take another
man’s life … Didn’t want to, gonna
pay the rest of my life … Gotta live
with that the rest of my life, hopefully they execute me … I just killed
somebody.”
Ray also said that “Richard confronted me, started hitting me” and
“Knows not ﬁrst degree, wasn’t
planned just defended himself,” according to afﬁdavits.
Ray ﬁrst told police that his son
and Vreeland attacked him with a
stick ﬁrst, knocking him out on the
ground, and then he got up and got
the gun out of the truck and shot
Vreeland, police said.
But later, police said that, when
told that his son was telling a different story, Ray changed his story,
saying he intended to and did shoot
Vreeland.
Jonathan Ray and others said
they had heard Ray repeatedly say
he would kill Vreeland, blaming
him for the loss of his property,
business, children and for putting
him in jail for two years when Ray
violated an abuse prevention order,
police said.
The search of Ray’s property also
revealed a gun belt with 23 live
rounds for the Ruger and another
loose 13 live rounds, a Winchester
30-30 model 94, a box of 12 shotgun shells, a box of .410 shotgun
shells and three live riﬂe rounds, according to the results of the search
warrant.
Police also seized a composition
notebook and multiple correspondences to and from Ray.
In the request for a search warrant, state police Detective Sgt.
Todd Baxter said Orleans County
Deputy Sheriffs Dustin Horne and
Johnathan MacFarland were the
ﬁrst to arrive and take Ray into custody after someone called 911 following the shooting.
They found the handgun on the
front passenger seat of Ray’s truck,
with the front passenger door open,
Baxter said.
bility is so restricted,” wrote Bent.
“Mr. Jackson’s record of convictions and supervision history
would ordinarily preclude serious
consideration for home detention.
The crimes for which he is charged
are primarily burglary crimes although there is assaultive conduct
against the pursuing police ofﬁcers
which would weigh against release
if the court believed Mr. Jackson
still had the capacity to engage in
violent conduct - however it does
not believe he has such a residual
physical capacity.”
Bent did, however, have a big
concern about Jackson’s girlfriend
- Gina Truszkowski - who currently lives with Stephanie Jackson
at her Charles Street home in Lyndonville. Truszkowski, according
to Bent, has been mentioned in police reports ﬁled with the court
about Jackson’s alleged burglaries
in Orange and Caledonia counties.
Bent concluded that living with
Truszkowski might lead Jackson to
re-engage in substance abuse and
made her moving out of Stephanie
Jackson’s house a condition of his
home detention approval.
Sleigh said Wednesday that
process is already underway.
“I’ve spoken to Gina,” said
Sleigh. “She understands the restrictions. She’s gonna start looking for housing.”
Jackson, who has a lengthy
criminal record, is charged with
multiple crimes including a series
of burglaries throughout Caledonia, Essex and Orange Counties as
well as aggravated assault on police ofﬁcers. He also has a history
of criminal activity in the state of
Maine.
In May of 2014 Jackson was living on furlough in the Caledonia
County community under the supervision of the Department of
Corrections when he escaped his
probation ofﬁcers after testing positive for drug use.
According to court documents,
Jackson then went on a crime spree
that ended with him ﬂeeing police
in a stolen Jeep for 13 miles and
ramming the state police cruisers
operated by Sgt. Denis Girouard
and Tpr. Seth Loomis. The troopers opened ﬁre hitting Jackson 13
times. An investigation by the attorney general’s ofﬁce concluded
the troopers were justiﬁed in ﬁring
their weapons. Both have returned
to duty.
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by Feb. 1, 2016.
Bouchard stressed that at this
point plans are very preliminary,
but his broader vision sees the creation of a therapeutic human services campus that would include
transitional housing for patients not
requiring secure residential care,
and cooperative educational opportunities for local colleges. Bouchard
said the secure residential facility
would be the ﬁrst phase of the project and would include a permanent
police sub-station, perhaps staffed
by the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. He said he expects that
phase one alone would require up
to 70 full-time employees, but if
fully realized, the campus could
some day employ “a couple hundred.”
NKHS is a local non-proﬁt
agency that works with the state to
provide social services as well as
mental health and drug counseling
services. Bouchard said the Bloomﬁeld parcel is just one possible location, but he likes the site because
of its intrinsic therapeutic value.
“I’m not wedded to that site, but
I am wedded to the concept,” said
Bouchard. “We already have a need
for a facility like this in the Northeast Kingdom. We could meet not
only our needs, but the larger needs
of the state. And I would like to see
it in a place like Essex County because of the need there for economic development.”
Paulette Routhier is the assistant
town clerk for Bloomﬁeld. She conﬁrmed that Bouchard had brought a
proposal before the town selectmen
at their last meeting on May 18, but
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side hiding under the table and
dropping meatballs on the ﬂoor.
Abbie Montgomery, manager of
maternal/child programs for Caledonia Home Health Care and the
local program supervisor, served as
mistress of ceremonies, presenting
roses to the two nurses who work in
Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties, Julie Kuk and Jen Morrison.
Giombetti said she and Sally Kerschner of the Maternal and Child
Health Division of the Department
of Health have been working since
2010 to get the national program
going in Vermont, which started in
2011 with the local program as well
as one serving Franklin and Lamoille counties.
With newer programs popping up
in Rutland, Windham/Windsor, and
Central Vermont, there are now 220
mothers who are clients in Vermont,
Giombetti said.
Funding through the Affordable
Care Act ﬁnally got the program up
and running in Vermont, Kerschner
said. “We’ve so enjoyed working
with home health in this area and
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bases his motion is “simply not material” to the case.
In his order, Bornstein states Sisti
was able to effectively cross-examine the witness concerning his educational background and military
service and effectively challenge his
credibility during closing arguments,
even without the military record and
a subsequent letter regarding it.
The judge said Brus’ proﬁle for
the court that summarizes his military service record “tends to corroborate at least some of the claims
[and] not impeach them.”
Bornstein also added, “In this
case, there is no evidence the prosecutor knowingly used false testimony to obtain a conviction.”
In January, after a separate jury
conviction in a separate case in federal court in Maine, Sanborn was
sentenced to 28 months in federal
prison on a felony count of wire
fraud and required to pay $300,000
in restitution for federal grant fraud.
That sentence will be served consecutively, after Sanborn is paroled
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offer a broader range of programs
without having to develop its own
expertise from scratch.
More speciﬁcally, Sechler said
this summer will offer two children’s biking adventure camps.
One she said is for kids more ﬂuent
on a bike who already know how
to ride but want to take it too net
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said she couldn’t gauge local reaction one way or another at this
point.
“It’s very new to the town,” said
Routhier. “I know there have been
some people coming in to look over
the proposal and it sure has caused
a lot of discussions.”
Routhier said taxes on the parcel,
which includes over 100 acres technically owned by the town, but subject to a permanent, transferable
lease, amounted to about $5,713 in
2014, which was down about $700
from the previous year. Routhier
said she did not know what, if any,
tax consequences could result from
the potential development.
According to vtdigger.org, DMH
originally pegged the cost of a new
residential treatment center at just
over $11 million. The NKHS business plan came with an estimated
$7 million price tag, but Bouchard
said he would be meeting with engineers this week and expects that
ﬁgure to rise. And rather than the
estimated $1 million-per-year it
costs to house a patient at the new
facility in Berlin, Bouchard said he
believes NKHS can provide the
same level of security and treatment
for about half the cost.
Where will the savings come
from?
“There are certain expectations
that come with a state-run facility
that we would not have to confront,” said Bouchard.
That thought has former EssexOrleans state senator and current
Essex County State’s Attorney
Vince Illuzzi worried.
Illuzzi said his only familiarity
with the proposal comes from being
contacted by the press, and said his
concerns are based more as a former policy-maker than as a current
prosecutor.
“I guess the only way they could
save money through [NKHS] is
through bypassing having it staffed
by state employees,” said Illuzzi.
“One thing I can say about the state
facility is that the well-trained and
fairly well-paid staff does a great
job with special needs patients. If
you attempt to hire people at or near
minimum wage with little or no
beneﬁts, yeah you can save some
money, but in the long run you get
what you paid for.”
Addressing both security and
compensation concerns, Bouchard
said the ﬁrst line of defense is a
well-trained staff.
“It is certainly our intention to
have well-paid people working
there,” said Bouchard. “We would
actually be working very hard to
make sure our staff were quite welltrained. The agency I run has been
providing very high-quality services for over 50 years.”
For the NKHS plan to come to
fruition, Bouchard said the agency
will need to enlist the support of the
Department of Mental Health, and
ultimately the Legislature which
will need to approve the decision.
He also hopes to garner local support as ultimately the project would
have to navigate the Act 250
process.
“It’s really very early on, and ﬁrst
we have to see if the state wants to
go down this road,” said Bouchard.
“We’ll be looking for as much support as we can get. I do know there
has already been interest shown by
a number of people in the state. The
challenge will be to get that interest
to coalesce in a timely fashion and
to get everyone to the same place at
the same time, but that is the task
we are now undertaking.”
Cornucopia,” she said.
“Young mothers are often seeking information to guide them
through pregnancy amidst complicated and stressful family and social
lives,” a press release from the program states. “Family and spousal
support is often absent, the young
women are facing ﬁnancial stress,
housing insecurity, lack of transportation, and some are working to
complete high school, their GED, or
college.”
“The program has exceeded our
expectations on every level,” said
Dr. Breena Holmes, director of Maternal and Child Health for the
Health Department. “First-time
mothers are very open to advice and
guidance and the nurses, the mothers, and these communities have invested in the future success of these
children.”
Extended families attended the
graduation with the moms and toddlers, which is one sign of the program’s successes.
The program is the brainchild of
Dr. David Olds and its ability to improve outcomes for families has
been shown time and again through
randomized, controlled trials of
three large, multi-racial populations
in Elmira, N.Y., Memphis, Tenn.,
and Denver, Colo.
When compared against control
groups who did not participate in the
program, the clients showed a 48
percent lower incidence of child
abuse and neglect, a 56 percent reduction in visits to the emergency
room for accidents and poisonings,
a 67 percent reduction in behavioral
and intellectual problems at age six,
and 35 percent fewer hypertensive
disorders of pregnancy.
Children showed half as many
language delays at 21 months, and
women showed better outcomes in
their health and employment, with a
20 percent reduction in the number
of months on welfare.
Fathers are helped by this program as well, although the moms
are the ofﬁcial clients. In one study,
there was a 69 percent increase in
the father’s presence in the household.
The program’s trials and claims
have been evaluated by independent
think tanks like the RAND Corporation, which found that for every
dollar invested in enrolled families,
society is saved up to $5.70 in longterm costs.
on his N.H. manslaughter sentence.
Sanborn, who in the mid-2000s
launched a munitions plant in
Brownville, Maine, was convicted
by a federal jury for defrauding the
town of Brownville out of $300,000
in Community Development Block
Grant money by providing false and
fraudulent invoices for equipment he
never received.
In that case, federal prosecutor
Gail Malone ﬁled a pre-sentencing
memorandum with the U.S. district
court stating that Sanborn, after
being under indictment, hid income
that could be used to pay off his
restitution to the government by directing it to his wife’s company and
had repeatedly lied to state and federal ofﬁcials.
A pre-sentencing report in the federal case assigns Sanborn a total net
worth of nearly $765,000 and that
report does not include several hundred thousand dollars he received
through November 2013, when he
was sentenced for manslaughter, for
work he did as a consultant for Colt
Industries, wrote Malone.
The government interviewed
Dirigo Innovations President Al
Raychard, who told the government
he held the contract with Colt and
had hired Sanborn for consulting
services, wrote Malone.
“[Sanborn] asked Mr. Raychard
not to pay him directly for his services, but to route all payments
through his wife’s company, NEKWKS,” she stated.
Malone said Sanborn “structured
his Dirigo payments to go through
his wife’s company rather than directly to himself. The only fair inference from these facts is that
[Sanborn] intentionally structured
the payment to his wife’s company
to avoid showing income himself.”
On Wednesday, Donald Clark, of
the U.S. attorney’s ofﬁce in the U.S.
District Court for the District of
Maine, said he is not aware of any
additional charges pending in the
U.S. district court against Sanborn or
charges pending against anyone else
relating to the income-hiding ﬁndings in the pre-sentencing memorandum.
To date, the $300,000 in grant
fraud restitution has not been paid,
but Sanborn has 20 years and 28
months to pay it, if it is not paid beforehand or otherwise settled, said
Clark.
level and get proper instruction in
riding on expert-level trails. The
other is geared more toward beginners who need formal instruction
in when to use speed, how to go
into a turn and other skills to prepare them for a terrain park environment. Sechler said registration
information should be available at
skiburke.com by the end of the
week.
Moore said that the partnership
will start this summer with individual one-week programs, the plan is
for the mountain to become another base for a “full-blown” summer camp program in 2016.
Lifts open this Saturday at 10
for mountain bikers or people just
looking for a scenic ride. The season kick-off party will feature
food, drink and free entertainment
by The Hornitz from 3-6 on the
bikers’ edge patio.
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Source: Knife-wielding man
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discussed ‘beheadings’
After a six-month transition, the new law will
end the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone
records, moving instead to a system of case-bycase searches of records held by phone companies.
The existence of the program, in place since
shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was perhaps the most startling secret revealed by former
NSA contractor Edward Snowden, because it so directly affected the privacy of Americans. It was the
first Snowden disclosure published by the journalists with whom he shared documents, and it landed
with a thunderclap.
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exile in Russia to avoid prosecution in the U.S., his
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President Barack Obama signed Tuesday night.
“It’s being talked about like it’s the Declaration Demonstrators chant during health care rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington in
of Independence or something,” said Robert Deitz, March. The Supreme Court could wipe away health insurance for millions of Americans when
a former NSA lawyer. “These adjustments are mar- it resolves the latest high court ﬁght over President Barack Obama’s health overhaul.
ginal.”
BOSTON (AP) — A knife-wielding man killed
by the terror investigators who had him under surveillance was confronted because he had purchased
knives and talked of an imminent attack on “boys
in blue,” the FBI said Wednesday.
Usaama Rahim plotted for at least a week to attack police, the FBI said in a complaint against
David Wright, who was arrested the same day
Rahim was shot to death. On Wednesday, Wright
was ordered held on a charge of conspiracy with
intent to obstruct a federal investigation.
The FBI said the two men bought three fighting
knives and a sharpener on or before May 26, and
that Rahim told Wright on Tuesday that he would
begin trying to randomly kill police officers in
Massachusetts.
Faced with an imminent threat, the anti-terror
task force of FBI agents and Boston police confronted Rahim on a sidewalk and fatally shot him
when he refused to drop his knife, authorities said.
Authorities moved swiftly Wednesday to manage perceptions of the shooting, which killed a
TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) — A charter bus takblack man whose family is well-known among
ing
Italian tourists to Niagara Falls collided with a
Muslims and African-Americans in Boston.
tractor-trailer Wednesday morning on an eastern
Pennsylvania highway, killing the bus driver and
two others on the bus and leaving four people in
critical condition, authorities said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The surveillance law
The crash occurred on Interstate 380 in the
enacted this week stands as the most significant Pocono Mountain region as the bus, which decurb on the government’s investigative authorities parted from New York, was about a quarter of the
since the 1970s. But it’s practically inconsequential way to its first destination.
in the universe of the National Security Agency’s
The mangled front end of the bus was upright on
vast digital spying operations, a technical overhaul the highway but wedged into the side of the tracof a marginal counterterrorism program that some tor-trailer, which was sheared in half. The cab of
NSA officials wanted to jettison anyway.
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quickly lose their insurance, said
Nicholas Bagley, a health law expert at the University of Michigan
and a supporter of the law known
as “Obamacare.”
“The consequences of a government defeat here are so extraordinary and sweeping,” he said.
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THURSDAy, JUnE 4, 2015
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Clinton to urge states to expand early voting
the truck came to rest on its side in the woods next to the road, one of
its axles torn off.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to call for an early voting period of at least
It appeared from a wide swath of grass scraped away in the median
Continued from Page A10
that the tractor-trailer was southbound when it crossed over the divided 20 days in every state in an effort to expand access to voting across the nation.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign said Wednesday she will be speaking out against
highway and into the path of the northbound bus. State police said a second tractor-trailer was involved
restrictions in several states and backing a longer period of early voting across the nation.
voting
but they were still investigating what led to the accident.
The
former
secretary of state is set to address a historically black university in Houston, Texas SouthMonroe County coroner Robert Allen, who confirmed the three deaths, said there were 17 people
aboard the bus. Italian tour operator Viaggidea said there were only 16: 14 passengers, a tour guide and ern University, on Thursday.
Democrats have filed legal challenges to voting changes pushed by Republican lawmakers in the presa driver.
idential battleground states of Ohio and Wisconsin. Clinton is expected to denounce similar efforts in
North Carolina, Texas and Florida.
Clinton has criticized a 2013 Supreme Court ruling striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece’s prime minister entered a showdown with creditors on Wednesday in
Brussels, where each side would present proposals in the hope of reaching a deal to unlock bailout loans
and save the country from financial disaster.
Justice Stephen Breyer, on the history where the court has taken
Some officials dampened expectations of a breakthrough Wednesday, even though Greece is running
other hand, has said Scalia’s ap- away a beneﬁt from so many peoout of cash and faces debt repayments as soon as Friday.
proach is too limiting because a ple.
But French President Francois Hollande said the talks were at least heading in the right direction: Continued from Page A10
Fifteen years ago, the Supreme
law’s words sometimes are not
“We are some days, not to say some hours away from a possible agreement.”
law in Congress failed.
clear enough to resolve a case, es- Court confronted a case involving
Greece has been negotiating for four months with its creditors over what budget reforms it should
The current dispute turns not on pecially when read in isolation. what Justice Sandra Day O’Conmake to get the 7.2 billion euros ($8.1 billion) in loans that are left over in its bailout fund. Wednesday’s
some great constitutional question Context matters, and the real- nor called “perhaps the single
meetings are part of a string of high-level diplomatic efforts to bring the negotiations to a successful
but a matter of statutory interpre- world consequences of a law are most signiﬁcant threat to public
end.
tation — or what the words of the part of that context, Breyer has health in the United States.”
Ahead of his meeting with Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker, Greek leader Alexis Tsipras
law mean. This case comes down said.
The issue was whether the Food
stressed the need for compromise.
to the meaning of four words —
Another factor that may be at and Drug Administration had the
“established by the state” — in a work is the effect a decision could authority to regulate cigarettes as
law of more than 900 pages.
have on the court’s reputation, a means to reduce tobacco use
One school of thought holds said Thomas Keck, a political sci- among children, as the Clinton adthat the court should look only at ence professor at Syracuse Uni- ministration asserted in regulations it issued in the mid-1990s.
SALTON CITY, Calif. (AP) — Once-bustling marinas on shallow water in California’s largest lake a what Congress actually wrote into versity.
Tobacco companies said the
That kind of institutional confew years ago are bone-dry. Carcasses of oxygen-starved tilapia lie on desolate shores. Flocks of eared the law, not what it might have intended.
cern seemed to affect Chief Justice regulations exceeded the FDA’s
grebes and shoreline birds bob up and down to feast on marine life.
“When the court is interpreting John Roberts’ decision to cast the power. The court divided sharply,
An air of decline and strange beauty permeates the Salton Sea: The lake is shrinking — and on the
a text like it’s doing in this case, deciding vote to uphold the health 5 to 4, and O’Connor wrote the
verge of getting much smaller as more water goes to coastal cities.
San Diego and other Southern California water agencies will stop replenishing the lake after 2017, then it really is not in the business law in 2012, Keck said. Had that majority opinion agreeing with the
raising concerns that dust from exposed lakebed will exacerbate asthma and other respiratory illness in of looking at consequences,” said case gone the other way, it would companies. Despite the seriousa region whose air quality already fails federal standards. A smaller lake also threatens fish and habitat Ronald Cass, the former dean of have “pulled the court even further ness of the problem, she wrote,
the Boston University law school. into political conﬂict,” he said. In Congress never granted the FDA
for more than 400 bird species on the Pacific flyway.
Many of the more than 10,000 people who live in shoreline communities cherish the solitude but now “If you have a result that seems to that scenario, ﬁve Republican-ap- the power the administration
feel forgotten. The dying lake must compete for water as California reels from a four-year drought that be a bad one, that’s for the politi- pointed justices would have struck claimed.
cal branches to say, not for the down the Democratic president’s
Nine years and two presidents
has brought sweeping, state-ordered consumption cuts.
signature domestic achievement later, Congress gave FDA the exJulie Londo, who moved to Salton City after visiting in 1986 from Washington state, hopes for help court to say.”
The idea that Congress never during his re-election campaign. plicit authority the court said was
for the periodic, rotten odor from the lake that keep residents inside on hot, fly-filled summer nights.
would have created a system that
The unrelenting lawsuits from missing in 2000.
The stench in 2012 carried more than 150 miles to Los Angeles.
was essentially designed to fail, by Republican opponents should put
The analogy is imprecise, but
making health insurance unafford- the court on notice that its reputa- the case and its consequences pose
able to so many people the law tion could be at stake again in a similar questions, Bagley said.
presumably was intended to help, political ﬁght, Keck said.
“Do you draw from that story
ZURICH (AP) — In one tumultuous week, world soccer’s governing body was plunged into a cor- is irrelevant, Cass said.
No one knows how these con- that the democratic process
ruption scandal, top officials were arrested, new investigations were launched, and Sepp Blatter was reOn the court itself, Justice An- siderations are weighing on the worked,” Bagley asked, “or that
elected as president, only to stun everyone by saying he was quitting.
tonin Scalia is the most voluble justices in the back-and-forth of we could have saved a lot of lives
On Wednesday, Blatter’s staff gave him a standing ovation.
proponent of the view that it’s not majority and dissenting opinions in the meantime if the court had
As ripples of the scandal reverberated from Europe to Africa to the Middle East, the embattled pres- his job to correct Congress’ bad now making their way around the allowed the rule to go into effect?”
ident showed up for work at FIFA’s gleaming headquarters in Zurich, where FIFA spokeswoman Delia work. “Garbage in, garbage out,” courthouse. But there are few
Fischer said he met with staff and received their applause.
he has said.
comparable examples in recent
On May 27, Swiss police raided a luxury Zurich hotel on the eve of FIFA’s annual conference and arrested seven soccer officials. They were among 14 current and former
sports and marketing officials indicted by U.S. authorities on bribery,
vote-rigging and other corruption charges.
ST. JOHNSBURY CEMETERY
In a separate investigation, Swiss authorities seized documents at
FIFA headquarters in their probe into the bidding contests for the
The Kirby Selectboard will be holding a hearing on June 22, 2015 at 8:00
ASSOCIATION
2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments.
p.m. at the Kirby Town Clerk’s Office to consider discontinuing Town HighThe 2015 Annual Meeting of the St. Johnsbury Cemetery
way #8 known as Brookside Spur; Town Highway #33 known as
Association will be held Thursday, June 11, 2015 at the
Steve Houghton’s Drive; and Town Highway #34 known as Emery
Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery Chapel at 4:00 PM to elect officers
Drive. They will first conduct site visits on June 22, 2015 as follows:
for the coming year and to transact any other business
• Emery Drive at 7:00 p.m.
that may come before the meeting. All lot owners are eli• Brookside Spur at 7:30 p.m.
gible and invited to attend.
• Steve Houghton’s Drive at 7:45 p.m.
Dianne Rolfe, Secretary
All are welcome to attend both the site visits and the hearing.
Greek prime minister defends bailout proposal
Insurance
Calamity looms at California’s largest lake as
water transfers to coast accelerate
A week after corruption crisis began, Blatter gets a
standing ovation from FIFA staff
NOTICE – TOWN OF KIRBY
ST. JOHNSBURY SCHOOL DISTRICT
2015-2016 SCHOOL YEAR
PRE-KINDERGARTEN & KINDERGARTEN
SCREENINGS & REGISTRATION
Pre K Screenings
Mon., June 8th • 8:00 - 3:00
Wed., June 10th • 8:00 - 3:00
By Appointment Only
Kindergarten Screenings
Thu., June 11th • 8:00 - 3:00
Fri., June 12th • 8:00 - 12:00
By Appointment Only
If your child will be three, four, or five by September 1, 2015, he/she is eligible for the St. Johnsbury Pre-Kindergarten Services (3 and 4 year
olds)/Kindergarten program (5 year olds). Please call Lorie 748-8912 to
schedule an appointment. Students presently in the 4 year old Pre-K program are automatically enrolled.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District (NEKWMD) will be holding
two public meetings to receive comments on our draft Solid Waste
Implementation Plan (SWIP). The first meeting will be held at 7pm on Tuesday,
June 9, 2015 at the Lyndon Public Safety Building, Training Room located at 263
Church Street, Lyndonville, VT 05851. The second meeting will be held at 6pm on
Thursday, June 18, 2015 at the NEKWMD office located at 224 Church Street,
Lyndonville, VT 05851. Copies of the draft SWIP can be obtained at the NEKWMD
office located at 224 Church Street, Lyndonville, VT; Monday through Friday from
8am - 4pm.
NOTICE OF TAXPAYERS
TOWN OF WATERFORD
INVITATION TO BID
Dishwash Room Renovation
Derby Elementary School
907 Elm Street – Derby Line, VT
General contractors are invited to submit a bid proposal for renovation of the Dishwash room.
The project consists of removal and replacement of all wall and
ceiling finishes and electrical and plumbing upgrades to accommodate new dishwashing equipment to be installed by others.
A pre-bid meeting and site visit is scheduled for June 8th at 8:00
a.m. at the Derby Elementary School, 907 Elm St., Derby Line, VT
05830.
Bid documents can be attained at the Derby Elementary School
by contacting: Craig Ellam, Foreman of Maintenance at 802873-3162 ext 105 or E.H. Danson Associates, PLLC at 802-7545239. Bids are due by 3:00 pm, June 19, 2015.
The Derby School Board reserves the right to reject any and all
bids.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Northeast Employment and Training Organization, Inc. (N.E.T.O.) located in
Newport, Vermont and serving Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties, is considering making an application to Rural Development (RD), U.S. Department
of Agriculture for a Section 533 Housing Preservation Grant in the amount of
$150,000.00. The purpose of these funds will be to assist very low-income
homeowners with grants for weatherization and energy conservation improvements to their homes. A public hearing will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday,
June 22, 2015 at the N.E.T.O. office located at 147 Citizens Road, Derby,
Vermont to obtain views of citizens and to furnish information concerning the
range of activities to be undertaken under the program, the impact to any historical and archaeological resources that may be affected by the project and to
give affected citizens the opportunity to examine the Statement of Activities.
Copies of the Statement of Activities for the project are available at the N.E.T.O.
office located at 147 Citizens Road, Derby, Vermont during the hours at 8:00
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday or may be obtained by calling
802-334-7378. Written comments on the proposed Statement of Activities and
the use of USDA Rural Development Housing Preservation Grant funds will be
accepted by N.E.T.O. until Tuesday, June 23, 2015.
Agreeably to the provisions of Title 32, Vermont Statures Annotated, Section
4111, notice is hereby given that the undersigned listers within and for the Town
of Waterford have this day completed the abstract of individual lists of persons,
co-partnerships, associations and corporations owning taxable property in said
town on the first day of April 2015; that they have this day lodged the same in
the office of the Clerk of said town for inspection of taxpayers; that on the day of
June 22 -24, between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM, the undersigned lister’s
will meet at the Town Clerk’s Office in Waterford, said town, to hear grievances of persons, co-partnerships, associations and corporations aggrieved by any
of their appraisals by the acts of such listers, whose objections thereto in writing
shall have been filed with them as prescribed by stature, and to make such corrections in said abstract as shall upon hearing or otherwise be determined by
them; and that unless cause to the contrary be shown, the contents of said abstract
will, for the year 2015, become the grand list of said town and of each person, copartnership, association or corporations therein named.
Given under our hands at Waterford, VT, in the County of Caledonia, this 2nd day
of June 2015.
Edwin Allen, Howard Remick, Marcia Martel
Listers of the Town of Waterford, VT
TOWN OF SUTTON
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Notice is hereby given in accord with 32 V.S.A. § 4111 that the listers within
and for the Town of Sutton have June 4, 2015 completed the abstract of
individual lists (abstract) of property owners as of the first day of April,
2015.
The listers have this same day lodged the abstract in the office of the clerk for the
inspection of taxpayers.
On June 19, 2015 from 5:00PM to 7:00PM and on June 20, 2015 from
9:00AM to 11:00 AM the undersigned listers will meet at the Sutton Town
Offices, 167 Underpass Road, Sutton, VT to hear appeals of taxpayers aggrieved by actions of the listers from whom timely grievances have been
received.
To be timely, such grievance MUST BE IN WRITING (POST MARKS NOT ACCEPTED) by the close of business day on June 18, 2015.
At the close of grievance hearings, the listers shall make such corrections in the
abstract as were determined upon hearing of otherwise.
Unless cause to the contrary is shown, the contents of said abstract will, for the
tax year 2015, become the Grand List of the Town of Sutton of each taxpayer
names therein.
Signed at Sutton, in the County of Caledonia this 04 day of June, 2015.
Listers of the Town of Sutton:
Paul Lane – Mary Gray
This notice is being posted at the Sutton Town Clerk’s Office; Sutton Fire Department; Spencer’s Service Garage and the Burke Post Office on June 4, 2015.
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NOTICE
TOWN OF SHEFFIELD
The Select Board of the Town of Sheffield is requesting quotes for the replacement of the roof on the municipal building at 37 Dane Rd. in
Sheffield.
Specifications and scope of job information is available from the Town
Clerk – Phone: 802-626-8862, Fax: 802-626-0424, email:
[email protected], mail: PO Box 165, Sheffield, VT 05866-0165
The Select Board reserves the right to reject any and/or all quotes for any
reason(s).
PRESCHOOL SCREENING
FOR TROY RESIDENTS
If you have a child who will be 3 or 4 on or before
September 1st,and you are interested in a screening or
enrolling your child in preschool, you are invited to attend
our annual screening. Screenings will be at the Early childhood Program in Westfield site on June 3 or 4.
To make an appointment, please call Miranda
At Troy School at 988-2565.
We look forward to seeing you!
PUBLIC NOTICE
INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES
Selective Vegetation Control
Vermont Electric Cooperative, 42 Wescom Road, Johnson, Vermont 05656 has been
issued 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 notification 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 inform the contact person of
the existence of a private water supply near the right-of-way. The contact person
at VEC is Sara Packer, Manager of Forestry, (802) 730-1104, or 1-800-832-2667
(ext. 1104). Further information may also be obtained from the Vermont Agency
of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05620-2901, telephone (802)
828-2431.
Operations will commence on or about June 29, 2015 using one or more of the
following herbicides: Escort® XP or Patriot (metsulfuron methyl), Krenite® S (fosamine
ammonium), Arsenal® Powerline™ or Polaris (imazapyr), Rodeo® (glyphosate) and
Garlon® 4 Ultra (triclopyr).
Maintenance will be conducted on the following transmission lines in the following
towns:
Lines:
Town(s):
Highgate to South Alburgh Substations
Highgate, Swanton, Alburgh,
Enosburg to Richford Substations
Enosburg, Berkshire, Richford
Derby to West Charleston Substations
Derby, Charleston
Maintenace will be conducted on select portions of distribution lines in the following towns:
Town(s):
Albany, Glover, Sheffield, Wheelock
Huntington, Richmond
Alburgh, South Hero
Jericho
Brighton, Morgan, Warrens Gore
Montgomery, Berkshire, Enosburg,
Cambridge
Richford, Sheldon
Coventry, Newport Town, Irasburg
Troy, Westfield, Jay
Derby, Morgan, Holland, Charleston
Westford, Essex, Milton
Fairfax, Fletcher, Fairfield, Georgia
Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc.
42 Wescom Road
Johnson, VT 05656
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THURSDAy, JUnE 4, 2015
NEW HAMPSHIRE FUGITIVE WANTED IN DEATHS OF PARENTS CAUGHT IN FLORIDA
By lynnE tUohy
Associated Press
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A
man who made the U.S. Marshals
Service’s most-wanted list after
being charged with killing his parents and setting their New Hampshire house on ﬁre last year was
captured Wednesday at a Florida
hotel where he was living and
working, authorities said.
Investigators had sought 39year-old Matthew Dion since
March 2014, when the bodies of
his parents — Robert, 71, and
Constance, 67 — were found at
their Manchester home. Authorities ruled that the ﬁre was arson
and the deaths were homicides.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeffrey
White said Dion was captured just
after 10 a.m. Wednesday at a hotel
in Orange Park, Florida, which is
about 15 miles south of Jacksonville. White said Dion, who
was doing construction work and
painting at the hotel, initially gave
police a different name when he
was apprehended, then told ofﬁcers, “You got me.”
The arrest came after a recent
media campaign in Georgia and
Florida that generated tips, including a signiﬁcant one Tuesday night
that led authorities to the hotel.
“He was hiding in plain sight,”
Manchester Assistant Police Chief
Nick Willard said.
Dion’s name was added to the
U.S. Marshals Service’s 15 Most
Wanted List in April. He was considered armed and dangerous,
though White said he was not
armed at the time of his arrest.
Death certiﬁcates ﬁled in Hillsborough County Probate Court
show that the Dions were strangled
with a wire on March 19, 2014.
The medical examiner’s report
said they died within minutes and
listed their deaths as homicides. Investigators concluded the March
24 ﬁre at their home was intentional.
Dion was charged with two
counts of second-degree murder
and arson in September. He also is
charged with three counts of possession of child pornography. Investigators sifting through the
charred home found evidence linking Dion to the material, authorities said.
The search for Dion had focused
in and around Florida. Investigators said he has extensive back-
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ground and familiarity with the
southeastern region of the country.
Manchester detective Sgt. Joe
Mucci, a lead investigator in the
deaths of the Dions, said in the past
that Matthew Dion was capable of
living under the radar.
“He’s a very tech savvy, computer person,” Mucci said. “He’s
very intelligent. He could do whatever he sets his mind to at this
point.”
Mucci said Wednesday that he is
packing to head to Florida to question and bring Dion back. He said
he did not know whether Dion had
waived extradition.
Matthew Dion
AP Photo