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2011 HGTV Dream Home Comes to StoweBy Andrew Martin
STOWE – Home and Garden Television’s annual Dream Home sweepstakes is coming to Lamoille County. Every year the popular cable television network holds a show in which it builds a Dream Home and then gives the house away in a nationwide sweepstakes. For the 2011 edition of the show the town chosen for the site of the Dream Home was Stowe. The 2011 Dream Home will be built on Spruce Peak near the Stowe Mountain Resort. The home will have three bedrooms, including a master bedroom, a guest bedroom, and a dorm-like bedroom for children. It will also include three and a half bathrooms, a large kitchen, two large family or living rooms, and several outdoor porches and patios that provide great views of the surrounding mountains. “It’s [the Stowe site] a spectacular place and the perfect location for our 15th anniversary home,” said HGTV Dream Home Planner Jack Thomasson. The Stowe Dream Home was designed by local architect Paul Rousselle, of Stowe, who has done work for the Stowe Mountain Resort before. According to Rousselle, “Thomasson was very impressed with the Stowe area and thought that the mountains where the home would be built were alluring. Still Questions on Reggae Festivalby Mickey Smith
Lamoille County Sheriff Roger Marcoux Jr. said his department has been notified the Vermont Reggae Festival organizers are not planning to pursue a public assembly permit for the festival which is planned to be held at the Lamoille County Field Days site in Johnson, on August 13, 14 and 15. “This opened the door for them to not work with us,” said Sheriff Marcoux. He said it puts emergency services, including the Lamoille County Sheriff's Department, Newport Ambulance Service and Johnson Fire Department, in a difficult situation. A public assembly permit is required for gatherings of over 2,000 people. As part of the permit process, the organizers were being required to work out strategies with those departments, which could include contracting for additional services. Mike Paradee, executive director of Newport Ambulance Service, said his department has an obligation to the towns with which they contract, including Johnson. Their Johnson station is located across the road from the Field Days site. News and Citizen 
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by Andrew Martin
The State of Vermont has decided to open a portion of Elmore State Park for public use in sugar making. Thursday, July 15, the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation issued a press release stating that the Elmore State Park would become another example of state owned land that has recently been opened for syrup production. “I am pleased that we are able to offer this modest expansion of the Department’s new maple sugaring program this year,” said Sarah Clark, Commissioner of the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. “Maple sugaring is a sustainable use of our forests and is an important and highly visible component of Vermont’s working landscape and cultural heritage.” The area of the park chosen for maple syrup production is a 72 acre site on the southwest side of the park that lies off the Elmore Mountain Road. While that section of the park does not have road frontage, the state does have a right of way to the area across private land. The 72 acre stand of trees consists of 71% sugar maple and 7% red maple. The site within Elmore State Park is one of several that have been designated by the state for possible public use. The decision to open those sites was based partly upon the Vermont Legislature recently directing the state parks to open more land for public use. If an applicant is granted permission to sugar on the Elmore site it will become the fourth sugaring operation site on state land and forest. In 2009, the state entered into agreements with sugarmakers for sites in Groton, Mt. Mansfield, and Okemo. NNA Honors Noyes
by Mickey Smith
Noyes earned third place honors in NNA's Better Newspaper Contest in the Best Business, non-daily division, circulation less than 8,000 for the story she wrote detailing Monster energy drink's attempt to force Rock Art Brewery to stop using the name “Vermonster” for one of their beers brewed in Morrisville. “...The News & Citizen has been judged by its peers among other entrants and selected to join the roll of this year's award-winning newspapers in these national contests. Winners reflect the high quality of publications represented by the association,” read the notification letter from NNA Contest and Awards Committee Chair Jeff Farren. |