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ORLEANS COURT
ROUTE 5 SAFETY
UNDER SCRUTINY
ACCUSED MURDERER
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Convictions, Escape
By TayloR Reed
Staff Writer
By RoBin smiTh
Staff Writer
ST. JOHNSBURY — Town ofﬁcials and a Randolph consulting ﬁrm
this week launched a nine-month
scoping study to design pedestrian
safety upgrades at the intersection of
Route 5 and South Main Street.
An engineer from DuBois & King
NEWPORT CITY — The
man accused of fatally shooting
his ex-wife’s husband in a
planned attack in Brownington
on Monday has a history of violent crimes, court records show.
Jeffrey M. Ray, 51, of Brownington pleaded not guilty to ﬁrst
degree murder in Orleans Superior Court – Criminal Division
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on Tuesday afternoon.
Jeffrey Ray
Vermont State Police say Ray
warned others that he would kill
Rick Vreeland, 53, of Brownington, and carried it out after
provoking a confrontation. Police say Ray was highly intox-
Vermont State Police troopers Cassandra Herbes, left, and Matthew Tarricone
run in the annual Special Olympics Beneﬁt Torch Run down Main Street in St.
Johnsbury Thursday. The off-duty troopers carried the torch from the Green
Mountain Mall to the St. Johnsbury Police Station.
See safety, Page A8
HEALTH OFFICIALS:
WATCH FOR TICKS
See accused, Page A8
Photo by todd Wellington
BARRE, Vt. (AP) — State health
ofﬁcials are urging Vermont residents
to be vigilant in what they expect to
be another active season for diseasecarrying ticks, as reports of Lyme disease have steadily increased.
Forest protection entomologist
Trish Hanson from the state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation told the Times-Argus
(http://bit.ly/1ckQAsM ) people don’t
realize that Vermont has 16 species of
ticks. Only deer ticks can transmit
Lyme disease— a bacterial infection
—to humans.
Erica Berl, an infectious disease
epidemiologist from the Vermont Department of Health, said the prevalence of Lyme disease heavily
depends on how well the deer ticks
that transmit the disease survive the
winter. Deer ticks have a two-year
life cycle and can make it through
cold months.
“It doesn’t matter how bad the
winter is, there’s always going to be
enough ticks to mean that people will
get Lyme disease, and people need to
protect themselves,” she said.
Game warden Robert Sterling
from the Department of Fish and
ST. JOHNSBURY
MIDDLE- AND ELEMENTARY-SCHOOLERS TRY FOR ENERGY EDUCATION
Program Makes Teachers
Out Of Junior High Students
By caleigh cRoss
Staff Writer
What happens to the wind when it’s not blowing?
Where does it go?
Four middle-schoolers posed this question to a class of
alert third-graders in a special science class at the St.
Johnsbury School Thursday morning. The class was the
last in a series of six one-hour lessons on solar and wind
power presented by the middle-schoolers to the school’s
two third-grade classes.
Orrin Olmstead, Colin Lee, Olivia Brimmer, and Lucas
Masure are part of Teens Reaching Youth (TRY), the
UVM Extension’s partnership with the Vermont Energy
Photo by cAleigh croSS
Education Program (VEEP). 12 TRY teams were selected Leaning up against a classroom wall, Olivia Brimmer, 13, and Lucas Masure, 14, wrap up the onefrom around the state to participate and to educate hour ﬁnal lesson of this year’s TRY program.
younger students at their schools. Olmstead, Lee, BrimThe ﬁnal lesson on Thursday involved hands-on, interac- paper cup, ﬁrst empty, then ﬁlled with washers. The
mer, and Masure were accepted as a TRY team.
tive activities in which third-grade students, guided by record number of washers lifted by the student-built
The program aims to teach younger students basic conTRY mentors Olmstead, Lee, Brimmer, and Masure, de- windmills was 20.
cepts of energy, with a focus on science and engineering.
signed and built windmill blades in an attempt to raise a
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See Ticks, Page A8
BALSAMS GRAND RESORT CONSTRUCTION COULD BEGIN BY LATE SUMMER
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House to the left of the Dix House.
The goal is to ﬁle an application with
the county planning board, who have
never before seen such a project in terms
of size and scope, in a month or so, he
said.
“There needs to be some changes to the
zoning,” said Tranchemontagne. “As it
stands today, we can’t rebuilt the hotel
under the current zoning. We’re hoping to
create a redevelopment district, and that
needs to go through a review and approval
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A week after the bill to boost ﬁnancing
for the redevelopment of The Balsams
Grand Resort was signed into law, developers met with the Coos County Planning
Board and are now projecting construction
to begin by late summer.
To date, more than 100 people have put
deposits on the new condominiums to be
built and residents asking about jobs can
visit the resort’s web site and send a note
to the development team, project
spokesman Scott Tranchemontagne said
Thursday.
On Wednesday, developers went before
county planners for a pre-development
conference, which drew about 50 people,
and gave an overview of the project that
focused on the lake village plan, Nordic
hot baths and spa features, renovations of
the Hampshire, Dix and Hale houses and
constructing the new Lake Gloriette
NATION
By RoBeRT Blechl
Staff Writer
by the county planning board.”
A few months ago, developers were
aiming to break ground by June 1, but,
owing to the Balsams ﬁnancing bill that
took a little longer than expected to pass
and permits yet to be obtained, the start of
construction has been pushed back to later
this summer.
When the big work will begin depends
on when the permits are received, he said.
Construction for the ﬁrst phase of redevelopment, which includes a new hotel and
conference center and expansion of the
Wilderness Ski Area with additional ski
lifts and trails, is expected to take 12 to 18
months.
“Clearly, we want to be open, if we can,
for the 2016-2017 ski season,” said
Tranchemontagne.
While winter is challenging, the goal is
to refurbish the existing Hampshire, Dix
and Hale houses through the cold months
and possibly advance other construction
Vermont Governor Signs
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Maine Lawmakers Delay Vote On
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OBITUARIES
RALPH BENJAMIN DEVEREAUX
Please join us for a graveside committal service for
Ralph Benjamin Devereaux
at the Welcome O. Brown
cemetery, 1 West Street, Barton, Vt. on May 30, 2015 at 1
p.m.
Come share your memories and stories with family
and friends at a reception immediately following the service at the family camp on
Willoughby Lake.
Coutts-Moriarty Camp in Derby Line offering
free food this summer for children
Coutts Camp in Derby Center is participating in the Summer Food
Service Program for Children. Funded by the United States Department
of Agriculture, the program is designed to ensure that children who rely
on free or reduced price meals during the school year continue to have
adequate nutrition throughout the summer. Meals will be provided to all
children without charge.
For additional information, contact Annie Brueck at 802-673-5638.
Wednesday night storms cause outages
in Orleans, Essex counties
EVELYN RAMSDELL CAMPBELL
Evelyn Ramsdell Campbell, 95, of Lyndonville, died on Nov. 17,
2014. A committal service will be held Tuesday, June 2, 2015, at 10 a.m.
in the Lyndon Center Cemetery. All are welcome to attend.
ARVILLA (EVELYN) GRENIER
1931-2015
There will be a graveside service, for the friends and family of Arvilla
(Evelyn) Grenier, April 8, 1931- Nov. 1, 2014, beloved wife of Phillip
Grenier. It will be held at St Elizabeth Catholic Cemetery in Lyndonville,
Vt. on June 4 at 1 p.m.
JANET LOUISE HALLEY KUNZ
1929-2015
Janet Louise Halley Kunz, a
native of West Newbury, Vt.,
who traveled to Texas and Seattle before settling back in her
hometown to raise a family, died
at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 25, at
St. Johnsbury Health and Rehabilitation Center. The cause of
death was cancer. She was 85.
Mrs. Kunz was born on Sept.
30, 1929, in Woodsville, N.H.,
daughter of Rebecca Eastman
Merryman Halley and James
Alexander Halley. She was
raised in the village of West Newbury, Vt., in a house by a brook
then called “Wee Hoosie,” and later moved to a 245-acre farm on a
West Newbury hillside overlooking the New Hampshire mountains.
Thinking of her childhood in a memoir, Mrs. Kunz wrote, “(My)
Mom had a huge vegetable garden and we raised nearly everything
we ate. What with raising beef, pork, chickens and turkeys we had
about everything we needed. It seems like we were always either
working in the garden, canning food or working in the hay field.
That was the part I liked best…”
Mrs. Kunz played basketball in high school, attended Burlington
Business College, and in 1951 moved to El Paso, Texas, to live with
her brother and enter the work force. Later in the 1950s she worked
in New Haven, Conn., for the assistant to the president of Yale University. She subsequently moved to Seattle, Wash., where she married Dave Harley Kunz and had two sons. Her family moved back
to West Newbury in 1972. Mrs. Kunz spent the 1970s and early
1980s as a legal secretary before retiring. After her husband Dave
passed away in 1997, Mrs. Kunz moved to a home apartment in
Wells River, Vt. In her later years she maintained avid friendships
with community members, playing Mahjong, quilting, and making
crafts.
Mrs. Kunz was predeceased by her parents; her husband; and her
brother, Gordon Alexander Halley. Survivors include two sons, Ben
Kunz and his wife Betsy Kunz of Cheshire, Conn., Sam Kunz and
his wife Cami Carter of Orono, Maine; three grandchildren; nephew
David Halley of Los Osos, Calif.; niece Linda Johansen of Corvallis,
Oregon; sister-in-law Virginia Kunz of Great Falls, Mont.; and her
network of close friends who shared her love of Mahjong and crafts.
She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Newbury,
Vt., and the Grange in Auburn, Wash.
A memorial service will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at
West Newbury Congregational Church, Tyler Farm Road, West
Newbury, Vt. A reception for friends and family will follow at the
church hall. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made
to Norris Cotton Cancer Center, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon,
N.H, 03756.
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Storms caused scattered outages in Orleans and Essex counties, including an overnight outage that hit the international communities of Derby
Line and Stanstead, Quebec.
The border outage occurred at 11:48 p.m. Wednesday, as the power
feed from Hydro Quebec cut power to 460 customers in Derby Line, according to the Vermont Electric Cooperative outage web page.
It affected hundreds more on the Quebec side of the border, Quebec
residents said. The power returned at 3:15 a.m. Thursday.
Other outages hit Wednesday afternoon in the Newport Center, Troy
and Lowell area during a thunderstorm.
Customers in Guildhall and Maidstone lost power as well Thursday.
Another outage occurred at noon Thursday during another thunderstorm, affecting 14 VEC customers in Lowell.
False alarm forces NCUHS
evacuation during spring concert
NEWPORT CITY — A false alarm forced the evacuation of North
Country Union High School Wednesday evening, including all those in
the auditorium attending a spring concert.
The ﬁre alarm at the school went off at 8:45 p.m., forcing the evacuation
of concert-goers and the performers, city ﬁre chief Jamie LeClair said
Thursday.
They gathered outside while ﬁreﬁghters determined that the alarm was
caused by a faulty heat detector in A wing, where the auditorium is located,
LeClair said. There was no problem or property damage caused by the
false alarm, he said.
Once the cause was identiﬁed, ﬁreﬁghters stopped the alarm and allowed everyone to back into the building, and the concert continued,
LeClair said.
Shumlin OKs Newport State
Airport’s name change
COVENTRY — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the transportation
bill into law, including the change in name of the Newport State Airport.
The airport will be known as the Northeast Kingdom International Airport, a name proposed by the airport users committee and supported in an
online poll.
The name won’t ofﬁcially go into effect until later this fall, when the
Federal Aviation Administration completes the publication of the new
name and call letters.
Vermont Aviation Director Guy Rouelle has said that the name change
will be celebrated with a new sign at the airport when the ribbon is cut on
the runway extension and other improvements sometime in mid- to lateOctober. The runway extension work began last week.
Effort to sell bakery for $75, essay,
and recipe falls ﬂat
WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont bakery owner’s effort to sell
her business for $75, an essay and a cupcake recipe has fallen ﬂat.
Vermont Public Radio reports Carole Keleher also needed to raise
$22,000 through Facebook to compensate for equipment she was leaving
behind at the Mix Cupcakerie and Kitchen in Waitsﬁeld, as well as the
PUBLIC MEETINGS
ConCord
School board, Monday, June 1, 6
p.m., Dickson Gymnasium. Public
input, principal’s report, board business, executive session if needed.
Coventry
Village school board, Monday,
June 1, 5:30 p.m.
danville
School board, Monday, June 1, 6
p.m., school library. Administrative
reports, ﬁnancial, public input, new,
old, other business, executive session – personnel.
derby
Planning commission, Monday,
June 1, 7 p.m., municipal bldg. Review the bylaw, other business.
Guildhall
School board, Thursday, June 4,
6 p.m., elementary school. Public
input, principal’s report, board business, executive session if needed.
littleton
School board, Monday, June 1,
5:30 p.m., high school music room.
Business report, old, new business,
policies, committee reports, superintendent’s report, executive session if needed.
lunenburG
School board, Tuesday, June 2, 6
p.m., Gilman Middle School. Public input, principal’s report, board
business, executive session if
needed.
lyndon
School board, Monday, June 1,
5:30 p.m., Lyndon School. Principal’s report, CNSU report, ﬁnance,
other.
newark
School board, Tuesday, June 2, 5
p.m. Finance, principal’s report,
other business, anticipated executive session – principal’s contract.
St. JohnSbury
School board, Monday, June 1, 6
p.m., band room. Reports, presentations, public input, executive session if needed.
Sutton
School board, Wednesday, June
3, 6 p.m. Finance, principal’s report, ﬁeld trip procedures, roof update, community picnic, other,
anticipated executive session – negotiations.
waterford
School board, Wednesday, June
3, 6:30 p.m. Public input, teacher
presentation, principal’s report,
board business, executive session if
needed.
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Damaris Drummond of Dreambroker Industries, which was helping
Keleher market the idea, said she received 85 applications and recipes
from all over the country and beyond.
Drummond says the money will be refunded and Keleher will try to
sell the business “in a more conventional way.”
Governor signs bill ending Vermont
vaccine exemption
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed
into law a hotly debated bill that ends the state’s philosophical exemption
for families who don’t want to have their children fully vaccinated.
House Bill 98 — dealing with a range of health care subjects — was
amended in the Senate in April to add the elimination of the exemption.
That set off about three weeks of intense debate that ended with the House
voting for the change in the ﬁnal week of the legislative session. Hundreds
attended a public hearing on the issue at the Statehouse.
Shumlin says he signed the bill because he believes a law passed three
years ago to make it slightly more difﬁcult to get the philosophical exemption did not do enough to increase vaccination rates.
Burlington Marathon issues statement
on shortage of medals
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The People’s United Bank Vermont City
Marathon is apologizing for not having enough medals for ﬁnishers on
Sunday.
Peter Delaney, race director for Vermont City Marathon, issued a statement on the event’s website saying during the ordering process the quantity of 2-person relay medals and marathon medals was reversed, leaving
the event with not enough medals for marathon ﬁnishers. He says, it is as
unacceptable to him as it is “to all who were shortchanged at their ﬁnish
line celebration.”
The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/1Fho43y ) that Delaney notiﬁed runners in an email that those who ﬁnished the marathon
more than ﬁve hours after it started will be getting a medal as well as a
hat or shirt.
Armed, masked man robs Springﬁeld store
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Police say an armed man wearing a mask
robbed a convenience store in North Springﬁeld.
No one was hurt in the robbery at the Irving store just after 7:30
Wednesday night.
Police say the man pointed a handgun at the cashier, demanded money
and ﬂed.
There were no customers in the store at the time.
WCAX-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1dzSCXs ) that the suspect is described
as being about 5-feet-8-inches tall, with a slender build and dark hair. He
was wearing an animal mask and a green hooded sweat shirt with a word
“RICE” printed on the front. No customers were present at the time and
no one was hurt.
Boston still has snow piles – and
they’re ﬁlled with trash
BOSTON (AP) — Snow piles from the record-setting New England
winter are lingering in the Boston area, even as the weather turns summer-like.
A 75-foot-high snow mound in Boston’s Seaport District has been reduced to a three-story pile of dirt and trash — including bicycles, trafﬁc
cones and even half a $5 bill — that remains encrusted in solid ice.
Department of Public Works Commissioner Michael Dennehy tells The
Boston Globe the vile pile is “a science experiment waiting to happen.”
Crews have been working for six weeks to clean away the trash as it
breaks free from the mound. So far, they have pulled out 85 tons of debris.
Dennehy says the pile will be around for weeks, even as the air temperature hits 80.
The Numbers
POWERBALL (Wednesday)
8-15-34-53-59; Power ball: 23 Power Play: 2
DAILY PICKS (Thursday)
day draw — Pick 3: 9-0-5; Pick 4: 9-5-0-4
evening draw — Pick 3: 6-5-9; Pick 4: 5-2-6-2
Local Forecast
Today: Mostly sunny and pleasant. Valley highs in the lower
80s. Light and variable winds,
becoming light south.
Tonight: Mostly clear early, then
partly cloudy. Lows the mid to
upper 50s. Light winds, variable
to south.
Tomorrow: Increasing clouds.
With a rising chance of showers
and thunderstorms during the afternoon. Valley highs again in
the lower 80s. South to southwest winds 10 to 15 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Extended Forecast:
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy
with showers and thunderstorms
likely. Lows in the low to mid
50s.
Sunday: Cooler with a chance
of showers, mainly in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in the
mid 60s.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s.
Monday: Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid to upper 60s.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 40s.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy. Highs
again in the mid to upper 60s.
Daily Weather Highlights
High pressure will ridge down from
the north today, providing pleasant conditions. Lower humidity will be accompanied by mostly sunny skies and light
winds. A gusty southwesterly breeze will
bring the humidity back tomorrow
though, only for it to get kicked out again
by a rising chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. The cold
front responsible will sweep through
from the northwest tomorrow night,
bringing much cooler conditions on Sunday, with highs in the 60s, and just a bit
warmer on Monday, thanks to cool high
pressure the will move in from Ontario.
A slow warm-up will continue on Tuesday as that high drifts to our east, merging with the large high pressure cell over
the western Atlantic, and turning our
winds to southerly., says Lawrence
Hayes of the Fairbanks Museum
weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Partly Cloudy
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .85
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .65
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Maximum this date (1978) . . . . . . .92
Minimum this date (1970) . . . . . . . .29
HUMIDITY
64%
DEWPOINT
55
WINDS
11 mph, 17 max . . . . . . . . . . . . .WNW
BAROMETER
30.06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rising
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.11 in.
Total for Month . . . . . . . . . . . .1.95 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3.03 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . . . . .5:09 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:23p.m.
Length of day . . . . . . .15 hrs. 14 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0
To date since July 1 . . . . . . . . . .8352
To date last year . . . . . . . . . . . . .8445
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LOCAL
DOG MTN. DOCUMENTARY
AIRS SUNDAY ON NPR
LI COMMENCEMENT PREPARATION
Excerpt from a new documentary about Dog Mountain
in St. Johnsbury are scheduled to air this weekend on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
The program broadcasts Sunday on Vermont Public
Radio from 5-6 p.m. The documentary is called “Dog
Mountain: A Love Story.”
It was produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister,
who operate Long Haul Productions, a not for proﬁt. The
married couple live near Three Oaks, Minn., and discovered Dog Mountain several years ago while driving in
Vermont.
“’Dog Mountain: A Love Story’ is the tale of Vermont
artist Stephen Huneck and his wife Gwen, and their labor
of love: the leash free sanctuary for dogs and their owners
that the couple literally carved from a mountainside just
outside St. Johnsbury,” Collison said.
More information is available at longhaulpro.org,
where the documentary can be downloaded. The website
includes a virtual tour of Dog Mountain and the famous
Dog Chapel.
Dog Mountain is a popular destination for canine-loving tourists. It is located off of Spaulding Road in St.
Johnsbury.
Photo by dAnA grAy
Workers arrange tent posts on Robert K. Lewis Field at Lyndon Institute Thursday morning. The tent will shelter the high school’s
graduation ceremony on Sunday at 11 a.m.
LITTLETON HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCES TOP GRADUATES
Littleton High School announced
its top four graduates for the Class of
2015: Valedictorian, Grace Cote;
Salutatorian, Nicholas Walsh; and
sharing Third Highest Honors, Yu
Chun Cheng and Aleigha Langtange.
Cote, daughter of Dennis and
Anne-Marie Cote, spends her time
and energy on her academic studies
and numerous other projects. She is
a member of the National Honor Society and has received various academic awards during her time at
LHS, including Littleton High
School academic awards in French,
Teacher Education, Graphics and
Chorus. She has also been the recipient of the Harvard Prize Book
Award and the National Choral
Award.
Cote has participated in the Littleton School District music program
activities, playing ﬂute and piccolo,
since fourth grade. She auditioned
and sang in the NH All State SATB
Choir this year, and in the NH All
State Women’s Chorus her junior
year. She also was involved with the
LHS Players, acting or providing
music for several musicals and
Shakespearean plays.
Cote has volunteered over 500
hours of community service during
her four years of high school with organizations such as Littleton Regional Hospital and Littleton Public
Library. She especially enjoys serving her parish, St. Rose of Lima
Catholic Church in Littleton and has
been an altar server there for many
years. Cote uses her musical abilities
in the parish choir, singing or playing
her ﬂute or guitar, and is also a cantor
once or twice a month, leading song
with an accompanist for the weekend
Masses. She has helped to teach the
third grade class in the Religious Education program for the past three
years.
Cote’s special interests are in
Catholic philosophy and theology,
humanities, languages, music, writing, and teaching. She will continue
her studies at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, studying
Humanities and Catholic Culture,
after which, she plans to teach.
Salutatorian Nicholas (Nick)
“Mayo” Walsh, son of Bill and Jennie Walsh, has had perfect attendance
since Kindergarten and has been active in several student organizations
throughout high school. He has been
class treasurer for all four years of
high school. He is also a member of
National Honor Society and serves as
the treasurer of that organization.
Nick has participated in the YMCA
Youth and Government Program
representing Littleton, and this year
he served as the Youth and Government representative for Student
Council. Nick is an enthusiastic
member of Littleton’s Student Athlete Leadership Team (SALT), promoting a lifestyle of respect for self
and others.
Walsh, always passionate about
athletics, is a three-sport athlete. He
Grace Cote, Valedictorian
Nicholas Walsh, Salutatorian
has been a member of the LHS baseball and basketball teams all four
years of high school and a member
of the golf team since his sophomore
year. This year, Walsh was named
captain of the golf team. He is also a
diehard Red Sox fan.
His level of commitment extends
well beyond school and sports, as evidenced by the more than 260 hours
of time that he has volunteered to the
Littleton community during the past
four years.
This commitment to community,
along with a long-time interest in
criminal justice, led Walsh to an internship at the Littleton Police Department this year where, notably,
and perhaps questionably, he volunteered to be tasered. The internship
helped conﬁrm for Walsh that criminal justice is what he will study at
Temple University in Philadelphia
beginning next fall.
Yu Chun “Alex” Cheng, son of
Hoi Hung Cheng and Ming Dong
Zhang, has received Co Third Highest Honors recognition for Littleton
High School’s Class of 2015.
Cheng transferred to Littleton
High School after his sophomore
year and has thrived academically
here. He is a member of National
Honor Society and has volunteered
with the Littleton Public Library, the
Littleton Senior Center and The
Rocks Estate. Despite being at LHS
for only two years, Cheng has become an integral part of our school
and our community.
In his freshman and sophomore
years, Cheng played soccer, baseball
and basketball, but after transferring
to LHS, he chose to focus primarily
on his academic pursuits. He committed himself to a rigorous track of
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) courses
and, earlier this month, received Littleton High School’s Academic Superiority Awards in Mathematics,
Science and Engineering. Alex is
known for his willingness to help his
classmates understand difﬁcult concepts and for perseverance and creativity in problem-solving.
What time Cheng does not spend
studying, he devotes to his family
and working at his family’s restaurant. He is a dedicated individual and
strives for excellence in all that he attempts. He is ﬂuent in Cantonese and
also speaks a little Mandarin.
Cheng will study aerospace engineering at Penn State University in
Harrisburg, Pa. in the fall. His ulti-
mate goal is to work for NASA.
Aleigha Langtange, daughter of
Robert Langtange, III and Bobbi
Lyndes-Langtange, has received CoThird Highest Honors recognition for
Littleton High School’s Class of
2015.
Langtange has completed a twoyear course of study in the Health
Technologies program at the Hugh J.
Gallen Career & Technical Center
and is an avid student of the social
sciences. She has been a member of
Yu Chun Cheng,
Third Highest Honors
Aleigha Langtange,
Third Highest Honors
the YMCA Youth and Government
Program, representing Littleton, for
the last four years.
Langtange is a two-sport athlete,
participating in both softball and ﬁeld
hockey (for which she was named co
captain her senior year). She has truly
excelled in her sports endeavors.
Langtange made First Team All-State
for Field Hockey in 2012, 2013 and
2014, and Second Team All-State in
2011 for Field Hockey and in 2012
for Softball. She was also one of
twenty-three girls named to the New
Hampshire Twin State Team for
Field Hockey this year. Langtange
was recognized in 2013 as the Caledonian-Record’s Athlete of the Year
for Field Hockey.
Outside of school, Langtange has
kept herself busy with a job and volunteering within the Littleton Community with White Mountain Mental
Health, Littleton Public Library and
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where she will major in forensic psychology and minor in pre-law.
Graduation schedule
Joanne C. Melanson, principal of
Littleton High School, announced
the commencement schedule for the
graduating Class of 2015. All activities will be held in the Littleton High
School gymnasium.
On Tuesday evening, June 2 at 7
p.m., the seniors will be participating
in Senior Celebration. The students
will be presenting readings and
songs, and at the conclusion of the
evening there will be a slide show
presentation.
On Thursday evening, June 4 at 7
p.m., Class Night exercises will be
held. A presentation of scholarships
and awards will be made by Principal
Melanson and guests.
Graduation exercises will be held
on Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m.
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Todd M. Smith, Publisher
OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
A High Class Trip
The senior class at Proﬁle High School spent four years raising
$8,000 to fund a four-day class trip to an upstate New York ranch.
They were within two weeks of taking that trip when their principal, Courtney Vashaw, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
The next day, May 21, the class voted unanimously to donate all
their hard-earned money to help Vashaw with medical expenses.
“It was a unanimous decision to do what we can to help her,”
explained senior Erica Seely. “She has always been there for us no
matter the circumstances and we wanted the opportunity to be there
for her.”
The trip, the seniors understood, was off. But it was an easy decision, they all said, for a selﬂess educator who has always espoused and evinced selﬂessness, charity and community.
Their easy call is inspiring to thousands as an obvious attestation
of Ms. Vashaw’s success in molding such kind and altruistic human
beings. More importantly is the power and strength we’re sure Ms.
Vashaw will draw from the deeply loving gesture of these remarkable kids.
Dick Polman
Bernie
Sanders is
bad news
for Hillary
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders insists, “We’re going
to do better than people think.”
I agree.
Granted, a 73-year-old socialist (he prefers the western
European term “democratic socialist”) is a long shot to wrest
the 2016 nomination from
Hillary Clinton. But he’s a
skilled rhetorician who can
make her life miserable for the
next 14 months, like a gnat
buzzing her ear. Sanders has a
long-established following, especially among upscale white
liberals who are weary of the
Clintons and wary of Hillary’s
Wall Street ties. He’s the antithesis of the packaged candidate, whereas Hillary is
consultant-heavy and perpetually being repackaged.
Only 8.8 percent of Democrats support Sanders, but that’s
enough to put him in play. He
raised $1.5 million in his first
24 hours as an official candidate, which is more than what
Ted Cruz or Rand Paul or
Marco Rubio tallied in their
initial forays. And he’s outspokenly specific on issues where
Clinton is vague. He wants to
kill the Keystone pipeline (she
won’t say); he wants to expand
Social Security (she won’t
say); he wants to kill the TransPacific trade pact (she sorta
supports it); he wants to hike
the federal minimum wage to
$15 an hour (she wants a hike,
but won’t name an amount); he
rails against “the billionaire
class” (she doesn’t talk that
way); and his call for campaign
finance reform is buttressed in
practice by small-donor
fundraising (her call for reform
is contradicted by her vacuuming of big donors).
In short, Sanders can be the
“Bulworth” of the Democratic
race. I’m referring to the 1998
movie where Warren Beatty
played Senator Jay Billington
Bulworth, a politician so fed up
with the system that he went
rogue and told impolitic truths.
And Sanders is such an underdog that he can afford to wing
it and say whatever comes into
his tousled head. For instance,
his jab at Hillary the other day:
“When you hustle money
(from fat cats), you sit in
restaurants where you’re
spending – I don’t
know what they
spend – hundreds of
dollars for dinner and
so forth. That’s the
world that you’re accustomed to, and
that’s the world view
that you adopt. You’re not worrying about a kid three blocks
away from here whose mom
can’t afford to feed him…
That type of wealth has the potential to isolate you from the
reality of the world… Hillary
Clinton is part of the establishment.”
Bottom line: Bernie Sanders
- unlike Martin O’Malley, the
ex-Maryland governor who has
to build a constituency from
scratch – could be the catch
basin for Hillary skeptics. If he
performs well in the six scheduled debates, he could easily
draw a sizable number of
protest votes in the early primaries from Democrats who
are restive about Hillary’s
emails, her speaking fees, her
family foundation and her nonspecificity on issues.
And the earliest primaries
are in Iowa and New Hampshire - small states where you
don’t need a bucket of money
and where retail politicking is
most important, the kind of
politicking that Sanders has
long since mastered in smallstate Vermont.
If Sanders gains traction as
the un-Hillary, if Clinton wins
the early primaries by margins
that seem underwhelming…
well, we all know what happens next. The press narrative
becomes “Hillary is vulnerable,” and Democratic insiders
start angsting about the race.
But let’s not get too carried
away. Sanders draws only a
slice of the Democratic electorate (mostly white upscale
liberals), with scant crossover
appeal to blacks and Hispanics.
Also, over time, Hillary will
co-opt many of Sanders’ positions, she’ll vastly outspend
him in the big-state contests,
and by next summer she’ll reel
in most of the wary Dems.
Still, there are reports from
Team Hillary that the campaign
is “frightened” by the Sanders
challenge – “not that he would
win the nomination, but that he
could damage her with the activist base by challenging her
on core progressive positions
in debates and make her look
like a centrist or corporatist.”
In the short run at least, their
fears are totally legit.
©2015 dick PolMAn
In My Opinion ...
THE BUDGET GAP: PART REAL, PART MALARKY
By Tom Pelham
It is important that Vermonters understand the realities and weaknesses
of the so-called “budget gap” approach to the state budget. Unfortunately, the “budget gap” has replaced
the concept of “sustainable spending” that reliably guided Governor’s
Snelling, Dean and Douglas. The
“budget gap” clears a path for higher
taxes while “sustainable spending”
points toward living within our
means. The Joint Fiscal Ofﬁce, the
Administration and the media should
abandon this unreliable and unrealistic portrayal of the state budget
process.
To proﬁle the ﬂaws in the “budget
gap” approach, only three documents
need to be referenced. Readers
should take the time to understand
these documents in order to prepare
for the 2017 “budget gap…..OMG
what can be done?” onslaught by the
legislature, Governor and too often,
the media.
The three key documents are:
Doc # 1 – FY 2016 Budget Gap:
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/appropriations/fy_2016/Other%20Informational%20Floor%20Documen
ts.pdf#page=4
Doc # 2: - FY 2016 Budget Gap
Closure:
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/appropriations/fy_2016/SAC__Gap_Closure_Summary.pdf
Doc # 3: Total Appropriations FY
11 – FY 2016
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/appropriations/fy_2016/5_Year_Appropriations_Summary_051915.pdf
What we can learn from Doc # 1
is this. At the beginning of the most
recent legislative session, reasonable
expectations were that general fund
revenues would be $1,423.3 million
against established state obligations
of $1,536.5 million for a “gap” of
$113.2 million, an amount 8 percent
greater than 2016 expected revenues.
This “gap” encompassed such basic
state commitments as debt service,
transfers to the Education fund, state
employee and teacher pension responsibilities, expanded Medicaid
commitments, among many others.
A “gap” at 8 percent is a clear indictment of the failed ﬁscal policies of
the legislature and Governor over recent years, where state spending
grew at about 5 percent, far exceeding the 2 to 3 percent growth in the
underlying Vermont economy. However, the public relations associated
with an 8 percent “gap” are such that
even an unsustainable 5 percent increase is portrayed as a “cut.”
Doc # 2 proﬁles the legislature’s
failed attempt to address this $113
million “gap”, leaving the heavy lifting for ﬁscal 2017. First, the legislature increased general fund revenues
(aka taxes and fees) by $31.9 million.
This increase, combined with the 2.6
percent or $35.2 million of baseline
growth over ﬁscal 2015, provided the
legislature and Governor with new
general fund revenues of $67.1 million or a 4.9 percent increase for ﬁscal 2016. With 4.9 percent new
money, the legislature and Governor
could sustain their recent history of
spending at close to 5 percent year
over year, though the underlying
economy is growing at less than 3
percent. The higher taxes component
of the “budget gap” solution is a very
real cost shift of the poor ﬁscal management of our statehouse leaders
onto the backs of taxpayers.
Secondly and proﬁled in Doc # 2,
the legislature employed $25.2 million in “one-time funds” to temporarily prop up the 2016 budget.
Continued heavy reliance on “onetime” funds in 2016 will certainly
hinder making the ﬁscal 2017 budget
sustainable, absent of course, more
taxes.
Finally, the legislature and Governor claim they “cut” $56 million
from the budget, also proﬁled on Doc
# 2. Here the truth is tenuous at best
and more likely a bunch of malarkey.
The almost $19 million in “labor savings” and “NonAHS” reductions are
substantially real. Eliminating positions, closing PSAPS, phasing out
Vermont Interactive Television and
state funds to Vermont Public Television are as real to these organizations as the tax increases mentioned
above are to tax payers.
However, the $37 million in reductions at the Agency of Human
Services (AHS) are highly suspect.
The Doc #2 proﬁle leaves the impression that the AHS budget was actually cut. However, one can go to
Doc #3, pages 11 – 17 and see that
AHS departments actually received
a $40.6 million increase in general
funds, or 6.5 percent over ﬁscal
2015. Inclusive of all state funds
(general, education, special, tobacco,
and State Health Care funds) one can
do the math and see that AHS funding was increased from $1.016 billion to $1.064 billion, or $47.9
million or 4.7 percent. Further, federal funds for AHS increased by another $32.5 million.
In the context of such large funding increases for AHS by the Governor and legislature, it’s hard to
understand that the AHS reductions
proﬁled in Doc #2 are as real, for example, as the tax increases placed
upon Vermonters or the real cuts to
state employees or Vermont Public
Television. Many of these reductions
could be “situational” rather than
“structural” in nature, or cost shifts
from general funds to other funds.
Recent reductions in gasoline and
fuel oil prices for example are situational, allowing consumers to spend
less for the same level of beneﬁt. At
AHS there are always situational reductions such as caseloads growing
more slowly than anticipated, federal
funds available to supplant state
funds, etc.
We will know, however, that the
AHS reductions proﬁled in Doc #2
are structural if changes in program
eligibility or beneﬁt levels are ﬁled
with LCAR, the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules
(http://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/detail/2016/39 ). To ascertain
whether the reductions at AHS are
structural or situational, an investigative reporter might seek to match
each of the Doc #2 AHS-reductions
with whether or not the reduction requires LCAR review and approval.
Looking forward to ﬁscal 2017,
the Governor and legislators are hoping for more favorable ﬁscal winds.
The State’s current “ofﬁcial” revenue
estimate projects that general funds
will increase in ﬁscal 2017 by 4.3
percent or $59.6 million over ﬁscal
2016. Cross your ﬁngers! Adding
this baseline increase to the new general fund taxes just agreed to by the
legislature and Governor means ﬁscal 2017 general funds should be up
almost 7 percent or $90 million from
pre-session expectations.
With such an increase on the horizon for the next legislative session,
(and assuming the 2016 AHS reductions are not malarkey) the Governor
and the legislature should readily be
able to eliminate the one-time funds
propping up the 2016 budget, end
any “budget gap” discussion and put
state government back on a sustainable spending course. Should such
not occur, hopefully the media will
no longer be seduced by scary “budget gap” discussions, but rather explore more intensely why our state
leaders can’t manage the state budget
responsibly.
Tom Pelham is a former ﬁnance
commissioner in the Dean administration, tax commissioner in the
Douglas administration, and a state
representative elected as an independent. He served on the Appropriations Committee. He is a co-founder
of Campaign for Vermont.
Reconsideration
vote for Concord
High School
other face in the hall, but someone
that everyone knows. Our school
might be small, but when I walk
down the hall or look around the
room, I see familiar faces looking
back at me. These are the people I
grew up with, and share beautiful
memories with. This is all because
of our small school.
Concord is not only my choice
for academics, but for sports also.
This year I experienced playing
softball and soccer with the high
school team. I played on the varsity team and it was my favorite
season yet. I’m very fortunate to
have played sports with these
ladies and coaches, because I
know all of them and learned
strong leadership skills as an
eighth grader. On both teams I got
the opportunity to play with my
sister. She is a Junior, and in many
schools it is rare to ﬁnd such age
and skill differences on a single
team. But, thanks to our small
school, I got to share this experience with her. I love my school
Letters to the Editor…
Remembering
Miss Dorothy P.
Clark, SJA legend
and author
to the editor:
With the approaching 70th anniversary of the end of World War
II hostilities in The Paciﬁc Theater,
this writer read for the ﬁrst time
the 1946 novel, Before Ever the
Earth, authored by the late and legendary St. Johnsbury Academy
English Department chairwoman,
Miss Dorothy P. Clark, formerly of
2 ½ Main Street, St. Johnsbury.
Her novel addresses themes of
God, eternal life, life in Vermont
between the two world wars, and
the death of a kindly-souled,
young American WWII father and
pilot in the far reaches of the Paciﬁc in 1944. Miss Clark’s religiosity; her New England
humanity and humility; and her intellect permeate the work. Before
Ever the Earth and her later 1953
novel, The Potiphar Picnic, are
available in the shelves of both
The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum and
at the Grace Stuart Orcutt Library
at St. Johnsbury Academy. Well
worth rereading or reading for the
ﬁrst time. For those readers so disposed to cull the treasures of used
books stores (if not a few keystrokes on Amazon.com), her earlier books include Little Joe (1940)
and Peter on the Min (1942).
Though a “Bay Stater” by birth,
and having done her undergraduate
(Wheaton College) and graduate
(Radcliffe College) studies in Massachusetts, nonetheless, Miss
Clark and St. Johnsbury Academy
were intertwined for more than
forty years of her very productive
life in St. Johnsbury, despite her
physical limitations. Our hometown and high school were enriched for many decades by the life
and times of Dorothy Park Clark.
God rest her soul.
Sincerely,
Christopher E. Ryan
Alexandria, Va.
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to the editor:
Dear Citizens of Concord,
I urge you all to reconsider the
vote to close Concord High
School. I strongly feel it was a very
poor choice our community made
to close the High School.
I’m currently an 8th grader at
Concord School and I wish to attend the Concord High School in
the fall. Before the petition to close
our High School, my peers and I
were all ready to plan out our four
high school years at Concord. Now
that we may not be able to have
our school choice, we have no
other choice but to seek elsewhere
for education. Some students are
receiving their wish for school
choice, with Concord High School
closing, but the students who
choose Concord High School as
their ﬁrst choice cannot have that
luxury. At Concord I’m not just an-
See letters, Page A5
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FRANCONIA, N.H.
ADAPTIVE SPORTS PARTNERS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY SEEKING SUMMER VOLUNTEERS
FRANCONIA, N.H. — Tired of the same
old, hum drum summer activities? Looking for
ways to step up your bike rides, paddling outings, golf games, tennis matches and maybe
even try out some new gardening ideas? We’ve
got just the thing! Join us as a volunteer, expand
your outdoor horizons and make lots of new
friends along the way.
ASPNC enriches the quality of life for people of all ages and types of disabilities through
year-round opportunities for sport, recreation
and wellness. Volunteers are essential to our
services and are partnered with participants for
instruction, guiding and support. Families, support organizations and the North Country community also have valuable partnership roles. As
it gears up for the summer season, ASPNC invites interested persons to join our growing volunteer base in assisting us with our warm
weather activities including biking, hiking,
golf, kayaking, tennis, uniﬁed softball and Garden Buddies.
“Rooted in the Community, Reaching out to
all—All disabilities, All sports, All seasons”—
Two younger participants stop for a break on the Littleton Rail this is the motto of Adaptive Sports Partners of
the North Country (ASPNC).
Trail
Enjoying the summer day kayaking on the Moore Reservoir with an Adaptive Sports
participant.
14 at either 10 a.m. or 4 p.m.; all at the ASPNC
ofﬁce at 461 Main St., Suite #7, Franconia,
N.H.
For more information please contact Sue
Tatem, Volunteer Coordinator at 603-823-5232
or [email protected]. Learn more
about ASPNC at www.AdaptiveSportsPartners.org
“It is the core belief of our organization that,
for a person with a disability, to experience the
thrills of the outdoors can be a life-afﬁrming
experience,” emphasizes Sandy Olney, Executive Director of Adaptive Sports Partners, a
501(c)(3) non-proﬁt organization.
New Volunteer Open House will be held:
Wednesday, June 10 at 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, June
BROWNINGTON
ST. JOHNSBURY
ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES AT OLD STONE HOUSE TO
TRAIN PARTICIPANTS FOR PROSPECT HILL DIG
Small groups worked on creating asset maps in the recent Grow It! Community garden workshop. Asset maps are based on sustainable development of communities (in this case, gardens
in communities) based on their strengths and potential.
NVRH HOSTS COMMUNITY GARDENS WORKSHOP
On May 11, community garden
leaders from the Northeast Kingdom met at Northeastern Vermont
Regional Hospital for a spring
Grow It! workshop presented by
Libby Weiland, director of the
Vermont Community Garden Network in partnership with regional
garden expert, Charlie Nardozzi.
Representing eight towns and
multiple community gardens, the
group focused on developing
strategies for growing support
networks for community gardens
and farms. Work incorporated
brainstorming activities, asset
mapping, problem solving and
communication
development
through small and large group activities. Several types of community gardens were represented.
The Community Gardens Project at NVRH features single plots,
assigned to individuals or families
for home and personal use. Also
in St. Johnsbury are the St Johnsbury Community Farm Project
and St J. ALPHA, which grows
food for community use and relies
on volunteers to provide the energy and gardening work. Others
gardeners were volunteers providing for school or community use.
Community Garden Leaders
are always on the lookout for volunteers and garden enthusiasts.
Communal garden projects require a passion for the cause, dedication to the project at hand, and
energy. In addition to gardeners,
they also require program staff,
administrators, carpenters and
builders, fundraisers, community
and volunteer coordinators. The
diversity found in the locale lends
strength to the partnership that is
a cooperative garden.
Although rain prevented a tour
of the NVRH community gardens, Charlie Nardozzi provided
letters
When you go to the polls to vote
on June 16, I urge you to please put
yourself in the students place, and
give us our choice, Concord High
School!
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Cassidy Olden
Concord, Vt.
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very much and I feel that it was a
horrible mistake voting to close it.
To all the Concord voters, please
give our school, Concord High
School, a second chance by voting
to keep it open.
information about soil testing for
the garden, designing gardens and
garden calendars, and information
about types of compost for best
results.
The Vermont Community Gardens Network helps Vermonters
grow their own fresh, healthy
food at school, workplaces, housing sites, churches, child care centers,
workplaces,
and
neighborhoods and in hospital
gardens, community and communal gardens, and communal farms.
Workshops take place at seven locations around the state in both
spring and fall each year, providing an opportunity to garden leaders to network and share ideas,
resources and best practices in a
region.
For more information about the
Vermont Community Garden Network, visit www.vcgn.org.
BROWNINGTON — An archaeology seminar series is
being offered at Old Stone House
Museum to prepare people to become knowledgeable participants in the Big Dig on June 6
and 7, when excavation will
begin to locate the original site
of the Orleans County Grammar
School.
The two story structure was
built on Prospect Hill in 1823 to
serve as the first secondary
school in Orleans County. Until
the Brownington Congregational
Church was built in 1842, the
church services were held on the
second floor. The building was
moved a third of a mile down the
road in 1869 and in recent years
has been known as the Brownington Grange Hall. Voters
agreed at the Brownington Town
Meeting to give the building to
the museum, which plans to
move it back to Prospect Hill,
hopefully in the summer of 2016.
Andrew Beaupre will be offering Introduction to Historical Archaeology seminar series on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings
from 6 to 8, June 2 and 4, leading
up to the dig on the weekend of
June 6 and 7. The course will examine how archaeologists study
the historical period in North
America, with particular focus
on the 19th century to prepare
students for the dig at the school
site. The students will work
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now extinct Brownington town
common.
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holes will be dug to find the four
corners of the building. Diggers
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bell tower which was attached to
one end of the 30 X 40 timber
frame structure. Town Meeting
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two stone vaults built underground for the “necessaries,”
which should be nearby. Prior to
the dig, a volunteer with ground
penetrating equipment plans to
survey the area to look for indications of what lies beneath the
ground.
Beaupre is a Doctoral Candidate in Historical Archaeology at
the College of William and
Mary. He has taught courses
there, at UVM and at Western
Michigan University. He notes
that archaeology for the sake of
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thing of the past. Historical archaeologists use trash to tell the
story of the lost masses of history. The excavation on Prospect
Hill should uncover artifacts that
reveal details about the years that
the school stood on that spot.
“It’s not what you find, it’s what
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GEORGIA, Vt. (AP) — Fireﬁghters have put out a ﬁre on a ﬁshing boat
in northwestern Vermont caused by a lightning strike.
WPTZ-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1SDvl6Y) Richard McGrath, a volunteer
ﬁreﬁghter, came home to see ﬁre trucks parked outside his Georgia home
Wednesday.
Ofﬁcials from the Georgia Fire Department say it appears lightning struck
a tree next to the boat, igniting it. The boat was parked in McGrath’s side
yard with fuel in it from the winter.
McGrath has been a volunteer in the ﬁre service for 37 years.
He says he’ll have to ﬁsh from the shore now, but he’s grateful the storm
did not damage his home, his neighbors’ property or other parts of the neighborhood.
Vermont governor signs
$616 million transportation bill
The measure will provide car decals to young drivers so parents and law
enforcement can more easily identify intermediate license holders. Supporters
say that will help parents and police ofﬁcers determine whether a person is
supposed to be driving with a passenger.
The House overrode LePage’s veto on two other bills, including one that
would require the Department of Education to adopt new science standards
for K-12 students. The Senate must now consider that measure. The Senate
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Public Health Labora- also voted to override two vetoes on Thursday.
tories in Concord are hosting an open house.
The event in the lobby of the Department of Health and Human Services
building Thursday at 1 p.m. is giving visitors the chance to view displays of
NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — The Coast Guard and other agencies are
recent work that highlight the role of the labs in protecting the public health
ﬁnished
cleaning up oily water that discharged into the Piscataqua River earof residents.
this
week.
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Visitors also can tour the laboratories and speak with scientists.
The Coast Guard says the discharge came from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s Ferdinand R. Hassler ship on Tuesday. The
Coast Guard says clean-up concluded on Thursday with assistance from
the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and
NOAA,
LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — A 9,000-square-foot New Hampshire
Enpro. Assessments of the shoreline found no impacts to wildlife.
travel plaza is opening in Londonderry.
The Coast Guard says the cause of the spill remains under investigation.
It features a state liquor and wine outlet store, a 24-hour Red Arrow Diner,
The
Ferdinand R. Hassler and an affected sailboat have both been cleaned.
19 fueling stations, plus a travel center with a 3,000-square-foot convenience
store. The grand opening is being held Thursday afternoon at the plaza, off
of Exit 5 on Interstate 93.
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Coast Guard: NH oil spill clean-up is done
New travel plaza opening in Londonderry
COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont will spend $616 million in the coming ﬁscal year on transportation projects ranging from paving and rail improvements to 34 new highway bridges to be built this year.
Gov. Peter Shumlin joined legislative leaders and other ofﬁcials for a billsigning ceremony at the construction site of a new town bridge in Colchester.
State ofﬁcials say the bridge work will continue a trend that has seen the
number of structurally deﬁcient bridges in Vermont cut by more than in half
HINSDALE, N.H. (AP) — A woman is in critical condition after police
since 2009.
The bill also calls for the state Agency of Transportation to do more to said she fell from a moving car in New Hampshire after an argument with
help improve the quality of the state’s waters. It includes $1.2 million for her husband, who was driving.
Hinsdale police say 34-year-old Tiffany Vigneau fell out of the car Friday
municipal stormwater investments, increased stormwater management on
the state road system, and sets aside money to help towns manage dirt roads. and suffered serious head injuries. She has been put in a medically induced
coma.
Police said her husband, 31-year-old Timothy Vigneau, was operating the
car erratically. He was arrested on charges of felony DUI, reckless conduct
and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license. A judge ordered him
to have no contact with his wife.
MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — Fireﬁghters say about 50 people have been
Timothy Vigneau was arraigned Tuesday and jailed on $50,000 bail. He
displaced in an apartment building ﬁre in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
case was assigned to the public defender’s ofﬁce and scheduled for a June 3
Fireﬁghters say the ﬁre started on a third-ﬂoor porch and spread to the roof hearing. A message was left at the ofﬁce seeking comment.
early Thursday.
WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1FFanhl) one person was taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. Residents said they are staying in a
hotel for now.
Woman ejected from car during
argument in a coma
50 people displaced in
apartment building ﬁre, 1 treated
Van carrying dozens of puppies,
cats, overturns on I-95
Man who disappeared after 2013
indictment found in Jamaica
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — An animal shelter volunteer sustained
minor injuries when a van carrying dozens of puppies and cats overturned
on I-95 in New Hampshire.
WMUR reports (http://bit.ly/1eAuNyX ) that the animals — who, rescuers
said, all appeared to be ﬁne — were being transported between animal shelters in Pennsylvania and Maine.
State police estimate that 50-60 animals were on board.
The New Hampshire Society for the Protection of Animals took the animals to Stratham to be checked out.
Authorities rescue family of ﬁve
that got lost while camping
ROYALSTON, Mass. (AP) — A family of ﬁve from New Hampshire that
went camping in northern Massachusetts got lost in the woods for hours and
endured heavy rain and mosquito bites before being rescued. No one was injured.
Ofﬁcials in Royalston said the two parents and three children ages 3, 6
and 7 went camping Wednesday near Royalston Falls and got lost during an
afternoon hike. Local emergency responders and state police found the family
with the help of police dogs at about 4 a.m. Thursday.
Authorities said the family is from Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. Their
names weren’t released.
Police said family members weren’t able to reach anyone on their cell
phones, which eventually ran out of power. A relative who went to meet the
family Wednesday evening and couldn’t ﬁnd them alerted authorities.
Police: teenage girl made ‘Columbine’
threat to school
BOLTON, Mass. (AP) — A 15-year-old Massachusetts girl has been
charged with making a threat to her school on social media that referenced
the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
Police in Bolton arrested the Nashoba Regional High School student on
Wednesday after receiving a tip about an anonymous post on the social media
app Whisper. The person wrote in the post that she was “gonna pull a
columbine ... before I graduate.”
Two students killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded more
than 20 others in the 1999 Columbine shootings. The two shooters then killed
themselves.
Police say Whisper gave them the GPS location for the threatening post,
and authorities tracked down the girl. Police also seized a handgun that was
properly registered to one of her parents.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The U.S. Marshal’s Service says a man who
disappeared in 2013 after being indicted on sexual assault charges in New
Hampshire has been found in Jamaica.
A warrant was issued for Scott Leblanc of Hancock for failing to appear
in court on 12 aggravated felonious sexual assault charges involving a child
under age 13.
On Tuesday, investigators learned from the U.S. Marshals Foreign Field
Ofﬁce in Jamaica that the 59-year-old Leblanc arrived in Montego Bay from
Toronto, Canada. Jamaican law enforcement ofﬁcers refused Leblanc entry
and returned him to Toronto, where police refused to allow him to stay.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A bill introduced in response to a car crash
Canadian authorities deported Leblanc to n Buffalo, New York, where he
was charged as a fugitive from justice. Leblanc was arraigned Wednesday that killed 15-year-old Brunswick girl last year will become law after lawALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state police are going after drivers
makers overrode Gov. Paul LePage’s veto.
and waived extradition; he awaits his return to New Hampshire.
who
pass stopped school buses.
The Democratic-led House voted 114-32 on Thursday to override the Republican governor’s veto. The Senate supported the measure Wednesday.
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By PhiliP maRcelo
Associated Press
AQUINNAH, Mass. — A
Martha’s Vineyard lighthouse that
is among the most endangered historic landmarks in the U.S. began
its gradual march back from a rapidly eroding cliffside on Thursday.
Powerful hydraulic pistons
inched the 160-year-old Gay Head
Lighthouse about 5 feet at a time
along steel rails lathered with soap,
starting just before noon. By
midafternoon, it had moved more
than 25 feet.
The 52-foot-high, 400-ton
brick-and-mortar structure is expected to arrive at its ﬁnal destination — a concrete pad about 135
feet due southeast — as soon as
Friday.
“We’ve got plenty of time.
We’re not in any rush,” said Jerry
Matyiko, a seasoned mover of
large structures whose crews have
relocated ﬁve lighthouses, including the famed Cape Hatteras Light
in North Carolina. “Preparing it
was the hard part. Moving it is the
easy part.”
Workers spent weeks painstakingly digging under the lighthouse
to lift it a few short feet off the
ground, using dozens of hydraulic
jacks supported by a network of
wood-and-steel beams.
Once in its new home, the lighthouse and the scoured-out land
around it will be restored.
Located on the sparsely populated, western edge of the resort island, Gay Head Light has been a
critical waypoint for mariners
since the peak of the whaling trade
in the 19th century.
Its red-and-white beam can be
seen for almost 20 miles out, warning ships of the coastline and the
treacherous shoal extending about
a half-mile into the water.
Today, the beacon and its dramatic, brilliantly colored cliffside
perch are also a must-see destination for tourists.
Buddy Vanderhoop, a longtime
charter ﬁshing captain whose great
uncle was the lighthouse’s ﬁrst
keeper, was among a handful of locals on hand Thursday to observe
the start of the move.
“That light right here has been
signiﬁcant for me ﬁnding my way
back home on more than a thousand occasions,” he said. “You
know exactly where you are when
you see the red and the white.
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Paula Eisenberg, who has lived
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since 2002, said the beacon has
been a comforting and treasured
part of her time on the island.
“At night, my husband and I can
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of our lives out here and we couldn’t bear the thought of losing it.”
A group of local schoolchildren
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“It’s pretty cool. I thought it
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couple of weeks,” 9-year-old Yossi
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Relocating the lighthouse became an urgent matter after constant landslides caused by ocean
waves and groundwater severely
eroded the cliffs.
The lighthouse is now just 46
feet from the clay-and-sandstone
cliff’s edge. Within two years, advocates feared, it would have been
too close to the edge to move
safely.
“This was a proud symbol of
our maritime heritage,” said Len
Butler, chairman of a town committee overseeing the relocation.
“We couldn’t let that happen.”
The project is being paid for
through donations and grants,
though supporters say they’re still
about $200,000 short.
Richard Pomroy, the project
manager, said they hope to have
the town-owned lighthouse re-lit
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July.
For now, a temporary beacon
has been installed on a simple steel
pole nearby to guide ships to
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Maine Lawmakers Delay Vote On LePage Utility Panel Nominee
By alanna dURKin
Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Maine — Democrats on a Maine legislative panel
said Thursday they need more time
before voting on Gov. Paul LePage’s nominee to a board that regulates utilities in the state, drawing
sharp criticism from Republicans
who accused them of playing politics with the governor’s pick.
The Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee voted 7-6 along
party lines to put off their decision
on whether to endorse Bruce
Williamson’s nomination by the
Republican governor to the Public
Utilities Commission. Legislative
committees typically vote the same
day they hold a public hearing for
a nominee, but delaying a vote is
not unheard of.
Democratic Rep. Mark Dion,
committee chairman, said it’s a
signiﬁcant appointment that
should be considered carefully.
Commissioners serve on the threeperson panel for six years and play
a large role in shaping energy policy in the state.
“We shouldn’t be making key
policy decisions in 10-minute
blocks,” Dion said.
But Republican Rep. Larry
Dunphy called the move “dirty,
rotten, nasty politics.”
“They are posturing,” he said.
“They’re posturing because they
can.”
Williamson, a senior economist
at the Institute for Nuclear Security
at the University of Tennessee’s
Howard Baker Center for Public
Policy, was grilled by the committee for more than two hours. He
told lawmakers he would be a fair
judge who would bring to the commission an expertise of economics
and a passion about the energy and
telecommunication industries.
“As someone who deeply considers the breadth and depth of
markets and their efﬁcient functioning, I have no economic prejudice for clean energy sources or
uses, or communications or water
service solutions,” Williamson
said.
The commission has recently
been at the center of several contentious issues at the Statehouse,
and lawmakers have accused commissioners of bending to the
wishes of the governor.
Dion told Williamson during the
hearing that many lawmakers are
concerned the commission is “not
as objective and has not been able
to preserve its integrity to the level
that it has historically enjoyed.”
Democrats have ﬁercely criticized the PUC’s vote in March to
limit energy efﬁciency funding due
to a typographical error in a law
passed in 2013. They also
slammed its decision in February
to reconsider granting contracts to
two wind projects after LePage
urged the panel to consider proposals from existing resources, such
as nuclear and hydropower, before
approving the wind deals.
Williamson would replace
David Littell, who was appointed
by former Democratic Gov. John
Baldacci. All three commissioners
would then be LePage’s appointees.
The committee has until June 8
to vote on Williamson’s nomination. The full Senate would then
consider his nomination. The Senate is controlled by Republicans.
Hartford Mayor Calls Strategy Meeting In Wake Of Shootings
By PaT eaTon-RoBB
Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. — Hartford is dealing with a spike in violence that has included ﬁve
homicides in two weeks and the
brazen drive-by shooting of a city
minister outside his church.
Mayor Pedro Segarra said he
plans to meet with clergy, community leaders and others Friday to
discuss what more can be done to
address the violence, which comes
after several years of declining violent-crime rates in the city.
“We’re going through a really
bad week, and we can’t let a few
individuals undo the progress that
we’ve had over the past several
years,” Segarra said. “Every time
we lose a young person to violence
it really tears our families and
hurts our community.”
The latest victims were a 23year-old who was shot several
times late Tuesday outside a
bodega the city’s South End, and a
man who was fatally stabbed in a
liquor store Wednesday night.
The Rev. Augustus Sealy was
planting American ﬂags along the
sidewalk outside his church, the
First Church of the Nazarene,
when he was hit by the gunﬁre on
Sunday. Ten minutes later another
man was shot and wounded across
town by shots ﬁred from what police believe was the same car. Police said Thursday the two
shootings are linked.
Jim Le, who owns a car repair
shop across the street from Sealy’s
church and less than a mile from
the Capitol building, said he and
others are frightened.
“I’ve been here since 1997, and
I’ve never seen this before,” Le
said. “In the past two weeks,
there’s been a lot of shootings, a lot
of killings. It’s kind of scary now.”
Hartford, which reported 19
homicides in 2014, already has had
a dozen this year.
Police say unlike the 1990s,
when gang violence was rampant
and there were several years with
more than 30 homicides (55 in
1994), no single factor can be pinpointed for the recent outbreak.
Police said the stabbing was the
result of a dispute over a woman,
and the fatal shooting the result of
an ongoing dispute between two
men. The shooting of Rev. Sealey
remains unsolved.
“Many of these shootings involve young men in poverty who
don’t have jobs and are settling
minor disputes with guns,” said
Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley.
Hartford has been making
progress in recent years, Segarra
said. Homicides have been steadily
declining, down from 33 in 2009.
The city council this week
passed a budget that includes $1.2
million for a summer youth employment program in which the
city works with local companies to
hire Hartford teens. Another
$250,000 was allocated to create a
federal “Promise Zone” in the
North End, designed to help steer
federal money to local education
and jobs programs.
Hartford also has started a citywide youth athletics program and
built two turf baseball ﬁelds for
youth.
“We’re not going to arrest our
way out of this problem,” Segarra
said.
Rev. A.J. Johnson, of the city’s
Urban Hope Refuge church, said it
also is important to spread the
message that police and government can’t solve the problem.
“This is going to have to be a
groundswell,” he said. “Police
can’t be everywhere. Everyone
needs to be accountable. We’re
sick of this.”
BOSTON (AP) — The State Retirement Board in Massachusetts
has awarded a line-of-duty death beneﬁt to the family of a police ofﬁcer who was wounded in a shootout with the Boston Marathon
bombers and died a year later.
The family of Boston Ofﬁcer Dennis Simmonds will receive a
one-time payment of $150,000 under the Retirement Board decision
on Thursday.
Police say Simmonds suffered a head injury when the bombers —
brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — shot at police and
threw homemade bombs in Watertown days after the April 2013
bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260.
Simmons died a year later at the Boston Police Academy gym.
Retirement Board ofﬁcials cited a state medical panel’s report that
said Simmons’ death was probably related to the confrontation with
the bombers.
Scientists: Plastic Waste In
Great Lakes Creates Many Woes
By Wilson Ring
Associated Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. — About
80 percent of human-made debris
found in the Great Lakes is plastic,
ranging from tiny micro-beads
found in cosmetics and clothing
ﬁbers to bottles and plastic wrap,
scientists said Thursday during a
meeting of Great Lakes scientists
being held at the University of
Vermont.
While the big pieces can be
ugly, the smaller pieces can attract
dangerous chemicals, such as pesticides or herbicides, which can
then be eaten by plankton, mussels, ﬁsh or birds, the scientists
said.
“The concern is … these plastics act as a means to move …
toxic compounds into the food
web and into us,” said Sherri
Mason, a chemist who led a
Thursday session on micro-plastics at the 58th Annual Conference
on Great Lakes Research.
The danger of plastic pollution
in the world’s oceans has been
around for some time. However,
the scientiﬁc awareness of the
threat to the Great Lakes is relatively new, only coming to the attention of scientists in the last
several years, said Mason, who
works at the State University of
New York at Fredonia.
During the past couple of years,
Mason and her colleagues have
documented micro-plastic litter —
some too small to see with the
naked eye — in the Great Lakes.
Some of the particles are abrasive
beads used in personal care products such as facial and body
washes and toothpastes. Others
are more traditional litter that
don’t decompose and only gets
broken into smaller pieces.
Some states are making efforts
to control the microbeads. Earlier
this week, Michigan’s two Democratic U.S. Senators, Debbie
Stabenow and Gary Peters, introduced legislation to phase out the
manufacture and sale of microbeads found in household
products. Similar legislation has
been introduced in the U.S.
House.
Thursday’s sessions were for
scientists to bring each other up to
speed on what is being done in different parts of the Great Lakes to
confront the problem. They heard
of efforts to count how much plastic is washing up on beaches in the
U.S. and Canada. They also heard
of efforts to count plastic pieces
ﬂoating in the water of the lakes
and their tributaries and in the sediment on the bottom.
The meeting also gave the scientists the opportunity to trade
techniques and tips as detailed as
the size of mesh that’s most effective when used to skim for tiny
plastics.
“The goal of all of this … is
creating a framework for assessing the risk of these plastics in the
environment,” said Melissa
Duhaime of the University of
Michigan. “So (we’re) thinking
about the risk of exposure to plastics and potentially to toxins, potentially to microbes and what the
implications might be.”
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Pedestrian safety at the intersection of South Main Street and Route 5 in St. Johnsbury is the
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met with the St. Johnsbury Board
of Selectmen and a handful of residents on Tuesday in the Pomerleau Building to outline the effort.
It is being funded with a $25,000
grant.
“This is the ﬁrst public meeting
of what will be a couple more
meetings as the whole thing unfolds,” said engineer Lucy Gibson.
“The primary goal is to develop a
plan for an affordable, safe and
feasible pedestrian crossing. We’re
just getting started on this. We’re
going to be done by the end of the
calendar year.”
DuBois & King will design varied intersection upgrades for review by St. Johnsbury ofﬁcials this
summer. The ﬁrm will ultimately
present a ﬁnal design recommendation, cost analysis and environmental feasibility data.
Possible upgrades include push
button pedestrian lights and a “median refuge” that provides an island between travel lanes. The
study will additionally cast a pre-
liminary eye to future installations
that may include a bike lane from
the pending Lamoille Valley Rail
Trail to downtown St. Johnsbury.
Despite the effort at improved
safety, the Route 5 intersection is
not considered a dangerous trafﬁc
area, Gibson said. Trafﬁc records
show seven crashes and one injury
in ﬁve years.
“That’s actually not a very bad
record at all,” Gibson said. “It’s
not jumping out as a particularly
dangerous intersection for cars.”
It is, however, intimidating for
pedestrians, Gibson said. It presents four travel lanes and high
speeds.
“You’re a little bit on your own
there and it’s not a very friendly
environment,” she said.
Gibson on Tuesday requested
input from town ofﬁcials and audience members.
Mike Welch, a former St. Johnsbury town manager, said past studies considered installing a
roundabout at the intersection. He
suggested DuBois & King review
that option.
“It’s a tough intersection,”
Welch said. “There certainly are a
lot of near misses there.”
Resident Willie Nickerson, a
member of the St. Johnsbury Planning Commission, recommends
closing a northbound lane of Route
5 and a southbound lane in order
to slow trafﬁc, enhance pedestrian
safety and bolster green space.
“Two lanes is more than enough
for the amount of trafﬁc there,”
Nickerson said.
Gibson, the engineer, said Route
5 is a Vermont highway. Changes
to it require close collaboration
with state ofﬁcials, she said.
Gibson reiterated that the scoping study is about intersection
safety, not revamping the Route 5
corridor.
“Our challenge is going to be to
not get too big of an idea and lose
the focus of the project,” she said.
Selectman Kevin Oddy, board
chairman, said the same.
“This is a limited scope project,” he said.
School ofﬁcials, namely School
Director Tony Greenwood, raised
the intersection safety issue a couple years ago and pushed for
change. School ofﬁcials did not attend the project meeting this week.
EMPLOYEES TOLD TO STOP PURCHASING PERSONAL
ITEMS THROUGH BARTON VILLAGE ACCOUNTS
By JennifeR heRsey
cleveland
Staff Writer
BARTON VILLAGE — Municipal employees here have been
told to refrain from purchasing
items for personal use through the
village’s accounts, according to the
interim business manager.
Sanford Miller said he and interim ﬁnance coordinator Karen
Olivieri found two categories of
improper purchasing - staff buying
Keurig K-cups through the village’s account with W.B. Mason
and staff buying tools for themselves through village accounts
with vendors.
In each case, employees reimbursed the village and no theft is
suspected, Miller said.
“We discovered it and put an
immediate stop to it,” Miller said.
Village Clerk and Treasurer
Lucie Gaboriault said she and
other employees bought their coffee through W.B. Mason because
of a discount the company offered.
Gaboriault said she would then bill
the employees for their purchases,
but since they’ve been told it’s not
okay, the practice has come to a
halt.
Gaboriault said she had nothing
to do with the tool orders, which
Miller said were being purchased
by electric and highway crew
workers.
Miller said that village employees told him they engaged in the
practice because items were
cheaper and because it was convenient.
But he also noted that in some
cases, employees did not pay sales
tax as a result of the village’s tax
exempt status.
“In any case, it’s inappropriate.
Employees should not be spending
village time collecting and placing
orders for village employees,”
Miller said, adding that it created a
bookkeeping hassle as well.
Village Trustees Tin BartonCaplin, Nate Sicard and Ryan
Longe were unaware of the practice, Miller said, and were surprised when they learned it was
going on.
“I’m glad that our team has
identiﬁed this practice as problematic and inappropriate and has
taken corrective action to ensure
that it discontinues,” BartonCaplin wrote in an e-mail to the
Orleans County Record Thursday.
Miller said he doesn’t know
how long the practice has been
going on, but said some village
bills had not been paid in so long
that the coffee at least was ordered
and consumed months ago. The
W.B. Mason bill had not been paid
for months, he said.
Miller said he and Olivieri
haven’t been able to dig into the
village’s accounts as much as they
would like due to the fact that they
have been kept very busy just paying the bills. “Literally, bills were
stacking up. In some cases, they
were not even opened,” Miller
said.
Village employees have also not
been shopping around for the best
prices on some ofﬁce supplies,
Miller said.
“We did uncover some instances
where there may not have been
good prices,” he said. For instance,
he and Olivieri questioned a shipment of three-ring binders for a
cost of $41 apiece. With 12 binders
in one order, binders alone cost
about $500, he said.
“Clearly, in that instance, no one
shopped around,” Miller said.
The binders were returned, and
Miller found replacements online
for a cost of $6.70 apiece.
“We’re carefully monitoring
that now,” Miller said. “There’s
much more emphasis on spending
wisely.”
ORMISTON IS BARTON VILLAGE’S NEW FINANCE MANAGER
By JennifeR heRsey
cleveland
Staff Writer
BARTON VILLAGE — This ﬁnancially beleaguered village will
soon welcome its ﬁrst ofﬁcial ﬁnance coordinator as well as new
software that will not only provide
more efﬁcient function, but also
save a cool thirty grand a year.
Trustees announced Wednesday
night that David Ormiston, St.
Johnsbury’s soon-to-be-former assistant town manager, had been
chosen from the ﬁeld of 12 applicants.
Ormiston, who lives in Burke,
will start June 8, for an annual
salary of $55,000, picking up where
interim staff - business manager
Sanford Miller and ﬁnance coordinator Karen Olivieri - leave off.
Trustee Tin Barton-Caplin said
after conducting a skills assessment, Ormiston came out as the top
candidate.
“There was some excitement
with his work he’s done in St.
Johnsbury,” said Trustee Nate
Sicard. “I think his skills will only
beneﬁt Barton.”
Ormiston offered what the village is looking for in skills, work
background and knowledge, said
Trustee Ryan Longe.
The village’s staff and ﬁnancial
practices have been in ﬂux for some
time now, after the trustees eliminated the position of village supervisor, held for years by Brian
Hanson, and declined to renew the
contract of ofﬁce manager Lucie
Gaboriault, who is also the elected
village clerk and treasurer. Gaboriault has since been offered a job in
The TRY lesson activities are
designed to teach students about
aerodynamics and the science behind wind energy using hands-on
activities encouraged to be as
much fun as possible.
“Yes! Yes!” shouted thirdgrader Jack Scrimgeour enthusiastically as his team’s windmill
hoisted two washers into the air.
Elsewhere in the room, shouts of
“Tilt it!” and “Push it!” could be
heard as excited students designed
and then redesigned their windmills.
After their acceptance, the four
teenagers received a full day of
training at Lake Morey, after
which they received lesson materials. They supplemented their
training with at least an hour every
week after school preparing the
materials for each lesson and organizing activities. “Sometimes
they were here until 5 o’clock at
night,” said Allison Clearwater,
who is the TRY team’s mentor in
addition to her role as the seventhand eighth-grade science teacher at
the school. “They learned a lot
about commitment and time management.”
Olmstead, Lee, Brimmer, and
Masure’s career aspirations have
been broadened by the TRY program. Masure, 14, is now consid-
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icated at the time of the shooting.
A blood test 40 minutes after the
shooting revealed a blood alcohol
level of .24 percent, four times the
legal limit to drive, police said.
Judge Timothy Tomasi ordered
Ray held without bail, citing the
offense, risk of ﬂight and history of
violent crimes against family
members.
Public defender Jill Jourdan represented Ray at his arraignment on
the charge Tuesday. She said she
may request a hearing for bail, saying she would ask that he be released into the custody of
responsible family members.
She challenged the extent of the
criminal record detailed by Orleans County State’s Attorney Jennifer Barrett in court on Tuesday.
Ray qualiﬁes for a state-assigned public defender because he
is disabled, unemployed and on
Social Security. He used to work
as a truck driver and mechanic.
Attorney David Sleigh of St.
Johnsbury has been assigned to defend him.
Ray faces up to life in prison
without parole if convicted of premeditated murder.
Court records available Thursday show that Ray has a history of
crimes in multiple states.
In Washington State, Ray was
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as well.
The Balsams closed in 2011,
putting 300 area residents out of
work. A re-opened resort is expected to bring that number of jobs
back and create at least 1,000 jobs
more in the coming years.
As the redevelopment plans advance, Tranchemontagne said,
“Many people have been calling
us, emailing us and writing to us
anxiously awaiting the re-opening
of this resort.”
The resort has a program called
Club Century that allows people to
put down money deposits on a
condominium.
“We have 120 people who have
put down a deposit to be in line to
purchase real estate property when
it is available,” he said. “The response has been tremendous. People desperately want this resort to
come back and be bigger and better.”
Last week, Gov. Maggie Hassan
signed into law Senate Bill 30,
sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Woodburn, D-Dalton.
That law will help ﬁnance the
$143 million ﬁrst phase of project
by allowing the development team,
the ofﬁce formerly held by Sharon
Bickford, who recently retired.
Since then, Miller and Olivieri
have worked closely with village
staff and trustees to get a handle on
the village’s ﬁnances, track bond
money and account for whether it
was spent appropriately, set policies
that are fair to all, and get the village caught up on bills, some of
which were several months past
due.
At their meeting in mid-May,
trustees learned that they would
soon see a full ﬁnancial picture for
the village, after audit checklists for
2013 and 2014 are complete. And
the village is now mostly caught up
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Orrin Olmstead, 15, guides his group of third-grade students
through a windmill test run.
ering a career in education, something he says he hadn’t considered
before teaching science to the
younger grades. Olmstead, Brimmer, and Lee are all looking toward bright futures in health
sciences and the medical ﬁeld, passions that have been solidiﬁed by
the TRY program.
The middle-schoolers aren’t the
only ones the program has beneﬁted, however. The third graders,
in addition to being taught basic
concepts about wind and solar energy, have formed close mentorship relationships with the older
students, something third-grade
teacher Kathy Maire believes to be
invaluable not just to the individual students involved, but also to
the school environment as a whole.
“[TRY] has created a great connection between middle-school kids
and the younger grades,” Maire
said Thursday. “It’s opened their
minds to the possibility that anyone can be a teacher, anytime, anywhere.” Maire added that having
the third-graders look up to them
as leaders has helped the middleschoolers realize their potential as
role models.
The St. Johnsbury School plans
to continue the TRY program next
year. Seventh-grader Olivia Brimmer hopes to participate again,
with Lee, Olmstead, and Masure
pitching in as mentors. The future
looks very bright for both the program and the students themselves.
convicted in 2003 of violating a
domestic violence prevention
order. In 2004, he was convicted of
assault, escape and domestic assault. In 2011, he was sentenced to
four months in prison for domestic
violence, records show.
In 2010, a charge of making
threats, including threatening to
kill, was dismissed.
In Idaho, he faced charges of
domestic assault and drunken driving.
In California, he was convicted
of grand theft in 1980.
In New Jersey, he is currently
wanted on a warrant for failure to
appear and contempt of court.
His ex-wife had an abuse prevention order against him.
vendetta Carried out
Police say Ray confessed to
planning to kill Vreeland and then
shooting him.
Ray lived in Charleston but
moved to a camper at 3003 Pepin
Road in Brownington a month ago,
just hundreds of feet from Vreeland’s home, police said.
Police said he left harassing
phone messages at the Vreeland
home.
The night before the shooting,
police say he drank heavily and
told his daughter he was going to
kill Vreeland.
State police afﬁdavits say that
on the day of the shooting, Ray
drove on Vreeland’s lawn and left
a note saying it was Vreeland’s
move.
Vreeland followed Ray to where
he was living on his daughter’s
property, police said.
Vreeland, unarmed, confronted
Ray, and Ray shot him with a .44
caliber revolver from 10 feet away,
police said. Vreeland died from the
one gunshot to the chest.
Ray’s biological son Johnathan
Ray witnessed the shooting, police
said. Johnathan Ray was living
with Vreeland and his mom
Brenda Vreeland, police said.
Johnathan Ray told police he
tried to wrest the gun from his father but could not, giving Ray a
black eye in the process, police
said.
Ray told police that he blamed
Vreeland for taking his business,
property and children away from
him and for putting him in jail for
two years, according to police afﬁdavits.
Police and the Orleans County
state’s attorney have not said
where Ray got the handgun, where
they found it after the shooting,
and other information, only saying
that it was recovered.
State police sought and received
a search warrant after the shooting
but the warrant and the results of
the search have not been made
public yet.
Police deferred questions about
the gun to the state’s attorney, who
could not be reached for comment
Thursday.
led by ski resort developer Les
Otten, of Maine, to seek a $28 million loan guaranty from the N.H.
Business Finance Authority.
The new law gives the state’s
unincorporated places such as
Dixville Notch, where The Balsams is located, the same kind of
ﬁnancing opportunity available to
incorporated municipalities.
The BFA’s $28 million guaranty
sought for The Balsams is not taxpayer or state money. Rather, the
BFA would issue the bond and a
private bank will purchase the
bond and transfer $28 million to
the BFA, which would distribute
the money to the project. The bond
will be repaid through the assessment revenues collected against
the project assets.
“We’ve begun the process with
the BFA and are exchanging information so they can move through
their application process and consider our loan guarantee request,”
he said. “This is a process that
takes some time.”
The BFA has to take the request
to its board for approval and the request also has to go through the
N.H. Department of Revenue Administration and ultimately to
Governor and Executive Council
for ﬁnal approval.
The Provident Bank has been
lined up to offer the lending.
Meanwhile, other investors continue to show interest, said
Tranchemontagne.
“Since the state spoke so loudly
on SB 30, the response from the
investment community has been
very good,” he said. “For a lot of
investors that was the key part,
giving them comfort in making
their own private investment toward equity.”
At Wednesday’s meeting before
the county planning board were
several people in attendance asking when the project will begin and
jobs will be available, said
Tranchemontagne.
Those interested in employment, whether construction jobs or
positions with the resort once it reopens,
can
visit
thebalsamsresort.com, go to the
contact page and send a note.
“All of that will be kept and put
in ﬁles,” said Tranchemontagne.
The project currently has two
permits before the N.H. Department of Environmental Service,
one seeking approval to pull water
from the Androscoggin River to
feed the snow-making guns for the
resort’s ski area and the other a
wetlands permit.
while people in southern parts of
the state are used to seeing a lot of
ticks.
“Now regularly (in New Haven)
coming in from the woods, I’ll see
a tick on my clothes and it’s not
even a surprise anymore,” he said.
Sterling suggested doing daily
tick checks, keeping grass short in
yards and wearing light-colored
clothing in the woods because it
makes it easier to see ticks.
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Our area’s baseball teams are all winners, with fans
from all over town cheering them on!
BEST OF LUCK
TO OUR LYNDONVILLE TEAMS
SCHEDULE
Date
Saturday30-May
Saturday30-May
Monday 1-Jun
Tuesday 2-Jun
Thursday4-Jun
Friday 5-Jun
Saturday6-Jun
Saturday6-Jun
Saturday6-Jun
Saturday6-Jun
Monday 8-Jun
Tuesday 9-Jun
Wednesday10-Jun
Friday 12-Jun
Saturday13-Jun
Saturday13-Jun
Saturday13-Jun
Saturday13-Jun
Monday 15-Jun
Tuesday 16-Jun
LYNDONVILLE
Brewers
Yankees
Reds
Nationals
BABE RUTH
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Friday 19-Jun
Saturday20-Jun
Saturday20-Jun
Saturday20-Jun
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Monday 22-Jun
Tuesday 23-Jun
Thursday25-Jun
Friday 26-Jun
Saturday27-Jun
Saturday27-Jun
Saturday27-Jun
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Time
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11:00
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2:00
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Monday 29-Jun
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Wednesday1-Jul
Babe Ruth Play- Off Games
5:30
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5:30
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2nd Place
5:30
Championship Game
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LYBS DIRECTORS 2015
JOE ALLARD – VP Senior BR BB/SR BRBB ...........................................(H)535-4520 • (W)802-673-2065 • [email protected]
CLAY BAILEY – VP LLBB ................................................(H)802-626-9560 • (C)802-535-2924 • [email protected]
HOLLY McKEON – VP MLBB ................................................................................................802-473-0522 • [email protected]
PHIL JOYAL – VP LLSB...........................................................................................................802-522-0669 • [email protected]
MIKE SMITH – VP BRSB................................................................................................................................................802-473-0107
NICK HALE – Player Agent, VP Tee-Ball ...........................................................................802-745-7061 • [email protected]
JANINE MITCHELL – Treasurer, VP MLSB ...................................(H)802-626-5065 • (C)802-535-8730 • [email protected]
AMY McCLURE – ............................................................................................................802-535-9645 • [email protected]
KEVIN McCLURE – Uniforms..........................................................................................802-917-4624 • [email protected]
CHIP SANVILLE – ...........................................................................................................802-274-1198 • [email protected]
KEVIN McKEON – Maintenance/Grounds .....................................................................802-535-9115 • [email protected]
MICHELLE SHUFELT – VP/Insurance..........................................(H)802-626-9698 • (C)802-274-8611 • [email protected]
JEN MITCHELL – VP Coach Pitch ....................................................................................802-427-1299 • [email protected]
TIFFANY YOUNG – .................................................................................................................802-274-9062 • [email protected]
JON PRUE – President ..........................................................................................................802-535-2226 • [email protected]
GARY ROYER – ASAP Coordinator/Safety Officer .......................................................(H)626-9951 • (W)473-5358 • (C)274-3529
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BABE RUTH BASEBALL – LYNDON
BREWERS
Duncan D’Olimpio
Mark Liberty
Michael Gaboriault Jr.
Riley Deth
Hayden Christie
Jacob Boivin
Patric Edmunds
Jadin Weed
Dominic Phelps
Sheldon Sanborn
Ty Langtange
Trevor Bassett
Manager:
John Langtange
Coach:
Chris Christie
NATIONALS
REDS
YANKEES
Zachary Willson
Johnathen Simpson
Evan Bollman
Justin Joyal
Alex Newland
Cameron Raymond
Jacob Montgomery
Austin Henderson
Arizon Tobyne
Cameron Fissette
Zachary Tanner
Cordell Willey
Teagan Foley-Rutherford
Chandler Rainey
Manager: Randy Beer
Coaches:
Jarrett Turnbaugh
Buddy Lamothe
Adrian Burrington
Mark Maio Jr.
Mason Leonard
Nigel Waring
Daniel Jones
Hunter Palmieri
Connor McClure
Ethan Sherratt
Drew Dudas
Braden McClure
Tyler Palmieri
Spencer Vinton
Manager:
Sam Matthews
Coach:
Jamie Fournier
Dylan Williams
Tucker Mallett
Jack Steen
Ryan Godfrey
Kaleb Burbo
Ethan Cole-Whitehouse
David Stevens
Lane Freeto
Brendon Utley
Zachary Hinton
Quinn Stevens
Noah Antonucci
Isaac Pike
Manager:
Joe Allard
Coaches:
Paul Walker
Lisa Allard
BABE RUTH SOFTBALL - LYNDON
ATHLETICS
ORIOLES
RED SOX
Larissa Hackett
Trisha Eastman
Jordan Adams
Brianna Short
Alicia Brisson
Michelle Keon
Katey Harris
Colby Zaun
Teagan Wheeler
Kameron Gallant
Tiffany Sanville
Ariel Switser
Erin Gammell
Manger: Kurt Adams
Coaches:
Howard & Tanya Switser
Makaela Stillson
Falicia Lynch
Logan Wales
Shylynn Stewart
Gabrielle Rowell
Cloey Hodgdon
Mariah Kimball
Izabelle Marceau
Autumn Chamberlain
Brittney Caron
Chelsea Sanville
Katelyn Burgess
Amelia Hill
Manager:
Dan Thompson
Coach: Fred Hodgdon
Michelle Lapoint
Cora Chase
Lauren Bora
Madison Murray
Emma Corey
Katlyn Chase
Cortnee Keefer
Sierra Rolfe
Cindy Fournier
Kassidy Dehaven
Cady Austin
Elizabeth Bora
Manager:
Dave Chase
Coaches:
Steve Morale, Dan Ott
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NATION & WORLD
Deﬁant soccer chief resists calls to resign,
pledges to restore trust in FIFA amid scandals
ZURICH (AP) — As deﬁant as ever, Sepp Blatter resisted calls to resign as FIFA president Thursday and deﬂected blame for the massive
bribery and corruption scandal engulﬁng soccer’s world governing body.
“We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time,” Blatter said in
his ﬁrst public remarks on the crisis that has further tainted his leadership
on the eve of his bid for a ﬁfth term as president.
The 79-year-old Blatter insisted he could restore trust in world soccer
after a pair of corruption investigations brought “shame and humiliation”
on his organization and the world’s most popular sport.
“We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged
through the mud any longer,” he said. “It has to stop here and now.”
Despite a tide of criticism and pressure on him to leave, Blatter is
moving ahead with a presidential election Friday that is likely to bring
him another four years in ofﬁce as one of them most powerful men in
sports.
Carter demands options to enhance, speed US
training and equipping of Iraq’s Sunni tribes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders are trying to “ﬁne tune”
U.S. strategy for ousting the Islamic State group from Iraq, focusing on
faster and better training and arming of Sunni tribes whose combat role
is central to reversing the extremists’ advances, senior U.S. ofﬁcials said
Thursday.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaking to reporters while traveling
to Asia, said he told senior military ofﬁcers at the Pentagon this week to
come up with ideas to improve training and equipping, particularly of
the Sunni tribes who complain that the Shiite-dominated government in
Baghdad is dragging its heels on helping them.
“I can’t describe to you what the possibilities are because folks are
looking at them right now,” Carter said.
The scramble for answers comes after Islamic State forces, though
outnumbered, captured the Anbar province capital of Ramadi as Iraqi
forces ﬂed on May 16. Although the White House says those Iraqi forces
were not U.S.-trained, the defeat prompted Carter to make the startlingly
frank public assessment last weekend that the Iraqis lacked “the will to
ﬁght.”
President Barack Obama on Tuesday said it was time for the U.S. to
consider whether it was delivering military aid to Iraq efﬁciently.
In contrast to the failures of the Iraqi army,
Kurdish ﬁghters in Syria on march against IS
BEIRUT (AP) — In contrast to the Iraqi army’s failures, Kurdish
ﬁghters in Syria are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country’s northeast
under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes.
As the Kurds close in on Tel Abyad, a major commercial center on
the Turkish border, their advance highlights the decisive importance of
combining airstrikes with the presence of a cohesive and motivated ally
on the ground — so clearly absent in Iraq.
In Syria, a country now split mostly between al-Qaida-style militants
and forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, the U.S. has found a reliable
partner in the country’s main Kurdish ﬁghting force, known as the YPG.
They are moderate, mostly secular ﬁghters, driven by revolutionary fervor and deep conviction in their cause.
Since the beginning of May, they have wrested back more than 200
Kurdish and Christian towns in northeastern Syria, as well as strategic
mountains seized earlier by IS. Along the way, they have picked up ammunition, weapons and vehicles left behind by Islamic State ﬁghters.
The push has gotten them closer to Tel Abyad, a major avenue for
commerce for the extremist group through which it smuggles foreign
ﬁghters and sells black-market oil to help fund its conquests. The city is
also a key link between Turkey and the northern Syrian city of Raqqa,
the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in its self-declared caliphate.
WORLD BRIEFS
Army chief: Human error at Army lab
probably was not the cause of
mistaken anthrax shipments
Lucrative stints as corporate director,
adviser earned Bush millions, may
invite 2016 scrutiny
WASHINGTON (AP) — During his transition from Florida governor
to likely presidential candidate, Jeb Bush served on the boards of or as
an adviser to at least 15 companies and nonproﬁts, a dizzying array of
corporate connections that earned him millions of dollars and occasional
headaches.
Bush returned to corporate America after leaving the governor’s mansion in early 2007, and his industry portfolio expanded steadily until he
began shedding ties late last year to prepare a run for president.
Executives who worked alongside Bush describe him as an engaged
adviser with an eye for detail.
Yet experts question how anyone could serve so many boards at once
effectively.
“Board of directors and advisory boards are in charge of high-level
oversight,” said law professor Elizabeth Nowicki, a former Securities
and Exchange Commission lawyer. “You cannot possibly do that simultaneously for 10 or 15 entities.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Human error probably was not a factor in
the Army’s mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples to numerous U.S.
government and commercial laboratories in the U.S. and in South Korea,
the Army’s top general said Thursday.
Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, told reporters the problem
may have been a failure in the technical process of killing, or inactivating, anthrax samples. The process in this case “might not have completely killed” the samples as intended before they were shipped, he said.
Odierno said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating that aspect of what went wrong at Dugway Proving Ground,
the Army installation in Utah that sent the anthrax to government and
commercial labs in at least nine states across the U.S. and to an Army
Popular Los Angeles-area beaches closed to
lab in South Korea.
The general said he was not aware that such a problem had surfaced swimming, surﬁng after oil globs wash ashore
previously at Dugway.
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Popular beaches along nearly
“The best I can tell, it was not human error,” he said, adding that nor7 miles of Los Angeles-area coastline were off-limits to surﬁng and
mal procedures had been followed and he is conﬁdent that “nobody is
swimming Thursday as scientists looked for the source of globs of tar
in danger.”
that washed ashore.
The sand and surf on south Santa Monica Bay appeared virtually free
of oil after an overnight cleanup, but ofﬁcials weren’t sure if more tar
Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert
would show up. They planned to assess during low tide at midday.
indicted on bank-related charges
U.S. Coast Guard and state ofﬁcials said samples of tar and water
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced bank-related would be analyzed to identify where it originated, but it could take days
charges against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Thursday, to get the results. Nothing has been ruled out, including last week’s
accusing the 73-year-old Illinois Republican of structuring the with- coastal oil spill that created a 10-square-mile slick about 100 miles to
drawal of $952,000 in cash in order to evade the requirement that banks the northwest off the Santa Barbara County coast.
report cash transactions over $10,000. He’s also accused of lying to the
There is also a reﬁnery and offshore oil tanker terminal nearby, but
FBI.
the Coast Guard did not ﬁnd a sheen from a spill after the tar started to
Each count of the indictment carries a maximum penalty of 5 years accumulate Wednesday.
in prison and a $250,000 ﬁne, according to a statement from the U.S.
No problems with wildlife have been reported, said Sau Garcia of the
attorney’s ofﬁce in Chicago.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
From 2010 to 2014, Hastert withdrew a total of approximately $1.7
million in cash from various bank accounts and provided it to a person
Android’s next version to offer new
identiﬁed only as Individual A, according to the indictment.
In December last year, “Hastert falsely stated that he was keeping the
ways to fetch information, pay merchants,
cash” when questioned by the FBI, the prosecutor’s statement says.
protect privacy
Hastert, a former high school wrestling coach, was a little known lawSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s next version of its Android opmaker from suburban Chicago when chosen to succeed conservative
Newt Gingrich. Hastert was picked after favored Louisiana Congress- erating system will boast new ways to fetch information, pay merchants
man Bob Livingston resigned after admitting to several sexual affairs. and protect privacy on mobile devices as the Internet company duels
with Apple in the quest to make their technology indispensable.
The upgrade will give Android’s personal assistant, Google Now, exHeavy rain eases Texas drought; swollen rivers panded
powers of intuition that may be greeted as a great convenience
and lakes may need weeks to return to normal to some and a tad too creepy for others.
Most of the renovations unveiled Thursday at Google’s annual develHOUSTON (AP) — This week’s record rainfall in Texas eased the
state’s drought and swelled rivers and lakes to the point that they may opers’ conference won’t be available until late summer or early fall,
around the same time that Apple is expected to release the latest overhaul
not return to normal levels until July, scientists said Thursday.
Just weeks ago, much of the state was parched with varying levels of of the iOS software that powers the iPhone and iPad.
The annual changes to Android and iOS are becoming increasingly
drought. But the same drenching rainfall that paralyzed parts of Houston
and swept away a vacation home with eight people inside also offered important as people become more dependent on smartphones to manage
their lives. Android holds about an 80 percent share of the worldwide
relief from a long dry spell.
Many cities were still in danger of ﬂooding as heavy rain from earlier smartphone market, with iOS a distant second at 16 percent, according
to the research ﬁrm International Data Corp.
in the week poured downstream, pushing rivers over their banks.
Both Google and Apple are vying to make their products even more
“There’s so much water in Texas and Oklahoma that it’s going to take
ubiquitous
by transplanting much of their mobile technology into autoquite a while for those rivers to recede,” said Mark Wiley, a National
mobiles
and
Internet-connected televisions and appliances. Google
Weather Service meteorologist in Fort Worth, Texas.
hopes
to
play
a
prominent role in the management of home security and
If normal amounts of precipitation return, rivers will probably drop
appliances with a new operating system called Brillo that will interact
to average levels by the Fourth of July, he said.
with Android devices.
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A11
Indians Scramble For Heat Relief, But Many Still Must Work
By omeR faRooQ
and KaTy daigle
Associated Press
HYDERABAD, India — Eating
onions, lying in the shade and splashing into rivers, Indians were doing
whatever they could Thursday to stay
cool during a brutal heat wave that
has killed more than 1,400 in the past
month.
But some had no choice but to
venture into the heat.
“Either we have to work, putting
our lives under threat, or we go without food,” farmer Narasimha said in
the badly hit Nalgonda district of
southern Andhra Pradesh state.
Meteorological ofﬁcials have said
the heat would likely last several
more days — scorching crops,
killing wildlife and endangering anyone laboring outdoors. Ofﬁcials
warned people to stay out of the sun,
cover their heads and drink plenty of
water. Still, poverty forced many to
work despite the risks.
“If I don’t work due to the heat,
how will my family survive?” said
construction worker Mahalakshmi,
who earns a daily wage of about
$3.10 in Nizamabad, a city about 150
kilometers (93 miles) north of the
state capital of Hyderabad.
Most of the 1,412 heat-related
deaths so far have occurred in
Andhra Pradesh and neighboring
Telangana, where temperatures have
soared to 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit), according to government ﬁgures.
“The rains which have eluded us
for the last couple of years have created serious drought conditions,”
said state minister K.T. Rama Rao in
Telangana, which was carved out of
Andhra Pradesh as a separate state
just last year.
“This is unprecedented … so there
is a little bit of panic,” he said.
“Hopefully the monsoon will be on
time. Hopefully we will receive rain
very, very soon.”
Among the most vulnerable were
the elderly and the poor, many of
REQUEST FOR BIDS
TOWN OF WHEELOCK
To replace the deck and guardrails on Fall Brook Bridge.
Specs may be viewed at Town Clerk’s Office.
Sealed bids must be received no later than 2 p.m., June 9.
Send bids to:
Town of Wheelock – P.O. Box 1328
1192 Route 122 – Wheelock, VT 05851
TOWN OF DANVILLE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
The Town of Danville is seeking proposals for repair work on the town hall clock
tower and base. Work to include: replacing clapboards and corner boards on the
base; replacing flashing over standing seam roofing at the walls; and replacing
wet cellulose insulation on second floor ceiling area.
Sealed bids must be received by 3:00 PM, Wednesday, June 17, 2015 addressed to:
Selectboard Office, Town of Danville, P.O. Box 183, 36 Route 2 West, Danville, VT
05828.
For information contact Mary Currier at 802-684-3426.
We reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
REQUEST FOR BIDS
TOWN OF WHEELOCK
4000 yards 3/4 inch minus sand plus separate quote for
hourly trucking. Sealed bids must be received no later than
2 p.m., June 9.
Send bids to:
Town of Wheelock – P.O. Box 1328
1192 Route 122 – Wheelock, VT 05851
TOWN OF BRIGHTON
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Maurice Barnes, 1348 RTE 105, E. Brighton Road, Island Pond, Vt.
05846, has submitted an application #05-15 requiring a site plan
review for New Construction at LakeSide Camping (Parcel ID# RT 105
E. 06R) Brighton (Island Pond). The request was referred to the
Development Review Board by the Zoning Administrator on May 8,
2015 for a site plan review pursuant to the provisions of Section 505 of
the Zoning Bylaws for the Town of Brighton.
Section 209 of the Brighton Zoning Bylaws require public notice and
hearing thereon.
The Town of Brighton Development Review Board will hold a hearing on
said application on June 15, 2015 at 4:45 pm at the Town of Brighton
offices.
A site visit will take place at subject property at 4:30 pm on June 15,
2015.
A copy of this application and additional information may be obtained
at the Town Clerk’s Office at 802-723-4405.
Pursuant to 24 V.S.A., Sec. 4454(a) (1) C and 4471(a), participation in this local proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take
any subsequent appeal.
Dated at Brighton (Island Pond), Vermont this 27th day of May
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD, TOWN OF BRIGHTON
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
To Provide
WASTE COLLECTION AND
DISPOSAL SERVICES
Town of Derby Recycling Center
3427 US Route 5 – Derby, VT 05829
The Town of Derby, VT is seeking proposals from qualified
contractors to provide waste collection and disposal services
at the Derby Recycling Center. The contract consists of the
following services:
• “Fast Trash” or “Bag Drop” Rubbish Collection Service at
the 3427 US Route 5, Derby, VT Recycling Center on
Saturdays from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.
The contractor selected to perform the services outlined
below shall do so for a period of one year with 2, one-year
renewal options. Consideration of price adjustments shall
occur at the end of each contract year and shall be agreed
upon in writing by the Town of Derby and the contractor. The
contract year shall begin on the date determined by the
Town of Derby Selectboard.
Recycling is currently collected at the 3427 US Route 5,
Derby, VT Recycling Center. The facility’s current hours of
operation are Wednesdays from 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm and
Saturdays from 8:00 am until 1:00 pm. The “fast trash” services would be provided by the contractor on Saturdays
only. Exceptions include Federal and State holidays.
The Town of Derby anticipates that this service has the
potential to generate up to 2 tons of trash weekly.
Proposals shall be submitted to the Town of Derby, 124 Main
Street, Derby, VT 05829 by the close of business, 5:00 pm on
June 8, 2015. For the complete bid package or inquiries
regarding this request for proposal please contact Bob Kelley
of the Town of Derby (802) 766-2017.
whom live in slums or farm huts with
no access to air conditioners or
sometimes even shade-giving trees.
Those who were able avoided the
outdoors, leaving many streets in
normally busy cities nearly deserted.
“With so many people dying due
to the heat, we are locking the children inside,” teacher Satyamurthy
said in Khammam, which registered
its highest temperature in 67 years on
Saturday when the thermometer hit
48 degrees Celsius (more than 118
Fahrenheit).
Cooling monsoon rains were expected to arrive next week in the
southern state of Kerala and gradually advance north in coming weeks.
Until then, volunteers were passing out pouches of salted buttermilk
or raw onions — both thought to be
hydrating. People used handkerAP Photo
chiefs and scarves to block searing Indian fruit vendors wait for customers on a sidewalk in the shade of a tree on a hot summer
winds and stiﬂing air from their
day in Hyderabad, India, Thursday. Eating onions, lying in the shade and splashing into rivers,
faces.
Indians were doing whatever they could Thursday to stay cool during a brutal heat wave that
See heat Wave, Page A12 has killed more than 1,000 in the past month.
NOTICE OF TAX SALE
The resident and non-resident owners, lien holders and mortgagees of lands
in the Town of Barton and the Barton Academy and Graded School District, municipalities located in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont, are hereby
notified that the taxes assessed by the said Town of Barton, hereinafter sometimes referenced as Town; and Barton Academy and Graded School District,
hereinafter sometimes referenced as School, for the years 2013 and 2014, remain either in whole or in part unpaid on the following described land and
premises in said municipalities, to wit:
PARCEL NO. 1:
Name of Taxpayer: JAMES E. BALLARD
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Executor's Deed dated February 8, 2013 and recorded in Book 165, Pages 261-262
of the Town of Barton Land Records from Catherine Thibault-Cote, Executor of
the Estate of Helene B. Thibault, to James E. Ballard.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$368.17
PARCEL NO. 2:
Name of Taxpayer: CHRISTINE M. BEASLEY
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated May 13, 2004 and recorded in Book 126, Page 537 of the Town of
Barton Land Records from Michael J. Hunt and Kimberly A. Hunt to James
Beasley and Christine M. Beasley, the interest therein of the said James Beasley
having been decreed unto Christine M. Beasley by virtue of a Final Order Ancillary to Foreign Divorce issued by the Vermont Superior Court, Family Division
in the matter entitled Christine Beasley vs. James Beasley, said Order being
dated August 14, 2012 and recorded in Book 164, Pages 205-206 of the Town
of Barton Land Records.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$ 424.20
SCHOOL - 2014
$1,475.73
PARCEL NO. 3:
Name of Taxpayer: KIMBERLY S. BRANCHE
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated June 24, 2005 and recorded in Book 133, Pages 387-388 of the
Town of Barton Land Records from Stanley Dunklee to Kimberly S. Branche.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2013
$195.52
TOWN - 2014
$284.74
SCHOOL - 2014
$156.37
PARCEL NO. 4:
Name of Taxpayer: GORDON CHAFFEE & CINDY CHAFFEE
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated April 29, 1998 and recorded in Book 101, Page 318 of the Town
of Barton Land Records from Nicholas Ecker-Racz to Gordon Chaffee and Cindy
Locke, now known as Cindy Chaffee.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$309.69
SCHOOL - 2014
$695.72
PARCEL NO. 5:
Name of Taxpayer: RICHARD GATISON & MICHELLE M. GATISON
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated December 14, 2009 and recorded in Book 155, Page 160-161 of
the Town of Barton Land Records from Douglas R. Scott and Marjorie A. Scott
to Richard Gatison, Michelle M. Gatison and Roland D. Souliere, Jr., the interest
therein of the said Roland D. Souliere, Jr. having been conveyed to Richard
Gatison and Michelle M. Gatison by Quit Claim Deed dated April 27, 2011
and recorded in Book 159, Pages 699-700 of the Town of Barton Land Records.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
SCHOOL - 2014
$1,984.10
PARCEL NO. 9:
Name of Taxpayer: JAMES MORSE
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Quit
Claim Deed dated November 6, 2012 and recorded in Book 164, Pages 527528 of Town of the Barton Land Records from Reginald C. Abbott to James
Morse.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$246.21
SCHOOL - 2014
$338.04
PARCEL NO. 10:
Name of Taxpayer: CORINNA NUTTING
Description of Property:
1982 Skyline Bluebird mobile home, 14' x 64', serial number 0465, located at
2589 Burton Hill Road.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$395.67
SCHOOL - 2014
$404.86
PARCEL NO. 11:
Name of Taxpayer: ALLEN NUTTING & CORINNA NUTTING
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated December 7, 2005 and recorded in Book 135, Pages 576-577 of
the Town of Barton Land Records from John H. Thetford & Associates, Inc. to
Allen Nutting and Corinna Nutting.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$605.17
SCHOOL - 2014
$852.96
PARCEL NO. 13:
Name of Taxpayer: SCOTT A. PRAY & KENDELL OGDEN
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated August 23, 2012 and recorded in Book 163, Pages 755-756 of the
Town of Barton Land Records from Bruce H. Conley and Janice C. Conley to
Scott A. Pray and Kendell Ogden.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$200.77
SCHOOL - 2014
$231.55
PARCEL NO. 14:
Name of Taxpayer: SCOTT A. PRAY & KELLYE D. DOUGLAS
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated June 7, 2008 and recorded in Book 148, Pages 399-400 of the
Town of Barton Land Records from Duncan T. Cullman to Scott A. Pray and Kellye D. Douglas, with the exception of such interest therein as may have been
conveyed by Easement Deed dated August 25, 2008 and recorded in Book 149,
Page 110 of the Town of Barton Land Records from Kellye Douglas to Barton
Village Electric Department.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$1,204.73
SCHOOL - 2014
$2,167.78
PARCEL NO. 15:
Name of Taxpayer: DANIEL ROY & JAMES ROY
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated February 1, 2001 and recorded in Book 110, Pages 7-9 of the Town
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of Barton Land Records from Jeannette Auger to Daniel Roy and James Roy.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
TOWN - 2014
$ 631.09
$2,611.95
SCHOOL - 2014
PARCEL NO. 16:
Name of Taxpayer: PHILIP N. SHEPARD, JR.
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated December 9, 2003 and recorded in Book 124, Pages 443-445 of
the Town of Barton Land Records from Thomas H. Schmidt and Virginia M.
Schmidt to Philip N. Shepard, Jr. and Judith A. Shepard, the interest therein of
the said Judith A. Shepard having been conveyed to Philip N. Shepard, Jr. by
Quit Claim Deed dated February 11, 2014 and recorded in Book 168,Pages
355-357 of the Town of Barton Land Records.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$ 970.42
SCHOOL - 2013
$1,546.91
SCHOOL - 2014
$1,666.62
PARCEL NO. 17:
Name of Taxpayer: HARRY SMITH, JR.
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Quit
Claim Deed dated February 1, 1961 and recorded in Book 51, Page 81 of the
Town of Barton Land Records from Beulah Lurvey to Harry J. Smith, Jr.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$420.50
SCHOOL - 2014
$522.78
PARCEL NO. 18:
Name of Taxpayer: HARRY SMITH, SR.
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated March 12, 1953 and recorded in Book 48, Page 241 of the Town
of Barton Land Records from Bernard R. Gray and Eleanor L. Gray to Harry J.
Smith.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$251.19
PARCEL NO. 19:
Name of Taxpayer: TELEPHONE OPERATING COMPANY OF VERMONT LLC
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Quit
Claim Deed dated October 13, 2009 and recorded in Book 155, Pages 7-10
of the Town of Barton Land Records from Verizon New England, Inc., formerly
known as New England Telephone and Telegraph Company to Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$244.30
PARCEL NO. 20:
Name of Taxpayer: TELEPHONE OPERATING COMPANY OF VERMONT LLC
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Quit
Claim Deed dated October 13, 2009 and recorded in Book 155, Pages 11-14
of the Town of Barton Land Records from Verizon New England, Inc. To Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$215.14
SCHOOL - 2014
$ 51.10
PARCEL NO. 21:
Name of Taxpayer: ALAIN VALLIERES & CINDY L. VALLIERES
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Quit
Claim Deed dated October 31, 2012 and recorded in Book 164, Pages 390391 of the Town of Barton Land Records from Yvan Vallieres and Marie H. Vallieres to Alain Vallieres and Cindy L. Vallieres.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$444.14
PARCEL NO. 22:
Name of Taxpayer: JASON P. WATSON & CAROLINE ANN WATSON
Description of Property:
It being all and the whole of the same land and premises conveyed by Warranty
Deed dated October 4, 2004 and recorded in Book 129, Pages 286-288 of the
Town of Barton Land Records from John H. Thetford & Associates, Inc. To Jason
P. Watson and Caroline Ann Watson, together with the 1970 Skyline mobile
home, serial number 5149, 12' by 60', brown, located thereupon.
AMOUNT OF TAXES
COLLECTOR’S FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS
MUNICIPALITY & YEAR
TOWN - 2014
$683.27
SCHOOL - 2013
$495.58
SCHOOL - 2014
$674.57
And such lands and premises will be sold at public auction at the Barton Town
Clerk’s Office, 34 Main Street, Barton Village, Vermont, a public place within
said municipalities, on the 11th day of June, 2015, as per the following schedule:
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PARCEL NO. 3 - 9:06 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 4 - 9:09 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 5 - 9:12 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 9 - 9:24 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 10- 9:27 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 11- 9:30 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 13- 9:36 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 14- 9:39 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 15- 9:42 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 16- 9:45 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 17- 9:48 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 18- 9:51 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 19- 9:54 A.M.
PARCEL NO. 20- 9:57 A.M.
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unless such taxes respectively assessed against the aforesaid properties, together with costs, interest and fees, shall have been previously paid.
Pursuant to Title 32, Section 5254 (b), Vermont Statutes Annotated, an owner
of property being sold for taxes may request in writing, not less than twentyfour (24) hours prior to the tax sale, that only a portion of the property be sold.
Such request must clearly identify the portion of the property to be sold, and
must be accompanied by a certification from the district environmental commission and the Barton Town zoning administrative officer that the portion identified may be subdivided and meets the minimum lot size requirements. In the
event that the portion so identified by the taxpayer cannot be sold for the
amount of the unpaid tax and costs, then the entire property will be sold to pay
such unpaid tax and costs.
Taxpayers of the Town of Barton and Barton Academy and Graded School District are further advised of their right to have a hearing before the Town of Barton Board for the Abatement of Taxes in accordance with the provisions of Title
24, Section 1535, Vermont Statutes Annotated. Taxpayers wishing to have such
a hearing must contact the Barton Town Clerk to request such a hearing.
Dated at the Town of Barton, Vermont, this 13th day of May, 2015.
ATTEST: Colleen Cloutier, Tax Collector, Town of Barton and Barton Academy
and Graded School District
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Tired feet? Not Her Majesty Despite 8,000 Party Guests
By gRegoRy KaTZ
Associated Press
LONDON — It was a stirring moment Thursday when the military band struck up “God Save
the Queen” and Queen Elizabeth II appeared on
the garden steps of Buckingham Palace next to her
husband, Prince Philip.
She didn’t wave. A quiet smile carried the day.
Then the 89-year-old monarch walked gingerly
down the steps and spent nearly an hour chatting
with some of her 8,000 guests before sitting down
— ﬁnally — beneath the green-and-white awning
of the royal tent for a welcome cup of tea.
The Queen’s Garden Party: It’s a tradition that
started more than 145 years ago with Queen Victoria, and continues today, changed as little as possible despite the modern, screaming metropolis
that now surrounds the extensive, tranquil palace
gardens.
There is more security, true, and the sound of
trafﬁc sometimes intrudes, but the garden party remains a timeless tableau, complete with spice-free
sandwiches (yes, the crust is removed) along with
cakes and tea.
The splendor of the palace, and the presence of
the queen, moves some to tears.
“It was very emotional,” said Valerie Lister,
who was invited to reward more than 40 years
spent on heritage protection projects in Hartlepool,
250 miles (400 kilometers) north of London.
“Our fathers were coal miners,” she said, sobbing slightly and gesturing to her husband Rick.
“And I can’t imagine what they would think to
know their children are here. We’re very lucky to
live in this country.”
The parties are meticulously planned. Guards
gently create a passage for the queen to follow
from the palace steps to the royal tent, and she is
introduced to guests selected at random for a brief
chat.
If the queen ﬁnds it a chore after six decades,
no one would ever know. She handles herself as
gracefully as ever, with no hint of fatigue or boredom.
It’s another matter for the staff: They must pour
about 27,000 cups of tea at each party, and serve
about 20,000 small sandwiches and 20,000 slices
of cake, some topped with the royal seal.
Invitations are coveted, in part because they are
so hard to come by. Guests are nominated by civil
servants, charities, diplomats, the military, and others, often as a sign of appreciation for a lifetime of
devoted work.
Many guests keep their invitations, which are
marked with the queen’s seal, and couples often
pose in front of the imposing palace for keepsakes.
“I think it’s just lovely that she opens her back
garden to so many people,” said Lt. Col. Nicholas
Grace, a ﬁrst time invitee. “She takes her time to
meet as many people as possible. She has a great
way of connecting with the British people.”
Asian Nations Meet To Discuss Rohingya Migrant Crisis
By Jocleyn gecKeR
Associated Press
BANGKOK — Senior ofﬁcials
from across Asia will meet Friday in
Bangkok to tackle the growing problem of desperate people landing on
the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia
and Thailand, as Rohingya Muslims
ﬂee persecution in Myanmar and
poor Bangladeshis crowd onto boats
in the hope of ﬁnding jobs in other
countries.
In the past month, more than
3,000 of them have landed in the
three countries, sparking concerns
about how to help them and how to
stop the ﬂow.
Friday’s meeting will include representatives from 17 countries directly and indirectly affected by
crisis, as well as others such as the
United States and Japan, and ofﬁcials
from international organizations such
as the U.N. refugee agency and the
International Organization for Migration.
The director-general of the IOM,
William Lacy Swing, said on the eve
of the meeting that one important result was already achieved in getting
the countries to agree to talk.
“The other thing that from my perspective would be good, if it’s going
to be meaningful, is to have some
kind of a follow-on mechanism to
make sure the conversation, the dialogue continues on all these questions, including the root causes,” he
said.
The main root cause is seen as the
massive discrimination against minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The government denies the
Rohingya citizenship, making them
effectively stateless. It views the estimated 1.3 million Rohingya living
in dire conditions in western Rakhine
state as illegal migrants from
Bangladesh.
The Rohingya have ﬂed predominantly Buddhist Myanmar and for
years, Southeast Asia has quietly ignored the issue, but the problem
erupted more into the open as Thailand launched a crackdown on
human trafﬁcking earlier this month.
That prompted smugglers to abandon their boats, leaving what aid
groups estimated were thousands of
migrants stranded at sea. Survivors,
including women and children, came
ashore with ﬁrst-hand accounts of
beatings, ransom kidnappings by
trafﬁckers and near-starvation.
Human rights groups have urged
those involved in the talks to ﬁnd a
better way of saving the people still
stranded at sea, and to put pressure
on Myanmar to end its repressive
policies that drive Rohingya to ﬂee.
Swing said a long-term, comprehensive policy has to be put together,
and that no single element by itself is
going to solve the issue. But he said
Myanmar was a key.
“I think Myanmar has to be engaged in any solution involving any
of the groups, absolutely,” he said.
Malaysia and Indonesia agreed
last week to provide the migrants
with one-year shelter. Indonesia says
Rohingya can stay for a year while
Bangladeshis will be repatriated. It is
unclear what happens after a year,
and both countries have called on the
international community to help with
resettlement options.
Thailand has offered humanitarian
help but not shelter. More than
100,000 refugees, mostly from
Myanmar’s other ethnic groups, have
been living in border camps for
decades, and Thailand says it cannot
afford any more.
Russian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Sudden Illness
mained in grave condition Thursday, two days after he was admitted. The Interfax news agency,
citing the hospital’s chief doctor,
said he appeared to be suffering
from pancreatitis and double pneumonia.
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heat wave
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Across the country, teenagers
ﬂocked to water basins and rivers
to cool off. Many adults took
refuge atop woven cots in the
shade.
Newspapers devoted full pages
to covering the heat wave and its
effects, with headlines saying
“Homeless bake in tin shelters” and
“birds & animals drop dead.”
In cities like New Delhi, crowds
of ofﬁce workers gathered around
stalls selling fruit drinks and iced
water, while police ofﬁcers wearing sweat-soaked shirts squinted
into the sun while directing road
trafﬁc.
At the zoo, leopards and tigers
lay panting in the shade until zoo
keepers came by every two hours
with hoses. One white tiger rolled
around in obvious delight while
being sprayed with water. Elephants drank thirstily and lolled in
a pond.
“We are even spraying the reptiles,” Delhi Zoo curator Riyaz
Khan said, noting fans were also
set up to keep enclosures cooler,
while the animals were also receiving glucose in their drinking water.
In the northern Indian states of
Punjab and Haryana, Sikhs distributed free glasses of rose-scented
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$100 million in state funds for New
York City public housing is the latest battleground in the frequently
contentious relationship between
Governor Andrew Cuomo and
Mayor Bill de Blasio.
When the state budget agreement was passed in April, Cuomo
pledged the money for the decaying
New York City Housing Authority
(NYCHA), the ﬁrst state investment into the aging system in
nearly two decades.
He did not designate a use for the
funds. However, NYCHA ofﬁcials
earmarked it to repair damaged
roofs atop 123 aging buildings and
pledged to match the state’s gift,
committing $300 million for roof
repairs over the next three years.
But earlier this month, the state
changed plans and is now directing
the funds to smaller, more qualityof-life repairs like playground
equipment and landscaping. That
move drew an angry reaction from
the City Council, which held an
oversight hearing on Thursday and
demanded that the money be used
for roof repair.
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rain brought temporary relief to
pockets of the nation, including the
southern city of Chennai and the
eastern city of Jharkhand.
Forecasting service AccuWeather described this as the
most intense heat wave in India in
recent years. The death toll for
Andhra Pradesh alone, at 1,360,
was higher than during a 2003 heat
wave when 1,300 died in what was
then a uniﬁed state including both
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Doctors were on alert for heatrelated illness like sun stroke, and
were telling people venturing outdoors to cover their heads and wear
light, loose clothing, said health ofﬁcer Sarojini in the city of Vishakapatnam who goes by one name, as
is common in the region.
Telangana’s school board postponed the start date for colleges for
a week from Monday. The state
also opened centers where cold
water was being served, and
changed the working hours for
rural employment schemes, disaster management ofﬁcial Sada Bhargavi said.
Hyderabad resident Rajaiah,
who goes by one name, was doing
his newspaper delivery route at
dawn to avoid peak temperatures.
“It is difﬁcult to do this work in
this harsh weather, but I have a
family to take care of.”
“Playing politics with the health
and safety of public housing residents, who are living with mold
growth and water leaks, is unacceptable,” said Councilman Ritchie
Torres of the Bronx, who accused
the governor of choosing popular
programs over critical infrastructure
investments in the NYCHA system,
which has more residents than the
city of New Orleans.
De Blasio’s ofﬁce — which will
uphold its commitment to the roof
funding — said that the government “can’t afford to abandon this
plan.”
“After years of federal and state
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A spokesman for the governor
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change in plans will “free up resources for NYCHA to invest in its
capital program.”
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