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Volume 123
No 10 No 5569 June 21, 2007 Thursday
Morrisville, VT 05661
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Deal
Connects Morristown Bog with Joe’s Pond |
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On Tuesday this week the Vermont chapter of The Nature Conservancy
and Stowe Land Trust (SLT) closed on a deal to conserve nearly 30
acres of bog, wetland and agricultural land. Located in Morristown
this project connects the state of Vermont’s Morristown Bog Natural
Area with Joe’s Pond, and is the first direct partnership between
the two conservation organizations. Linking these two important
natural areas provides contiguous habitat for wildlife and a much
needed buffer to this unique bog community. The property which is
owned by Andre and Marthe Valcour will be protected by conservation
easement, a legal agreement that protects the land from development.
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Fit & Healthy $25,000 Grant |
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by Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISVILLE – How fit and healthy are the residents of the Lamoille
Valley, and what can be done to improve the community’s overall
health and fitness levels and prevent obesity? Those are questions
the Fit & Healthy Council of Lamoille Valley has set out to answer.Continued
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Click here to check out the new
Lamoille Restaurant Guide |
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Lamoille Union Graduation |
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by Mickey Smith
HYDE PARK – Sunny skies and the occasional very welcome cool breeze greeted
graduates as they marched across the outfield of the softball field in front of
throngs of happy family and friends. |
The whole congregation of Lamoille Union's graduation ceremony. Smith photo |
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Hats are swept off at
PA's 159th commencement.
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Peoples Academy Class of 2007 |
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by Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISVILLE – The Peoples Academy Class of 2007 has witnessed
great joys and deep sorrow. Thursday evening, June 14, at
Peoples Academy’s 159th Commencement Exercises,
memories were shared from across the spectrum. Yet the jubilant
atmosphere befitting a high school graduation was not tempered.
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Lamoille
County Pet Care |
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Traveling Nurse Charged With Diverting Narcotics |
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by Mickey Smith
MORRISVILLE – A “traveling nurse,” assigned to Copley Hospital,
was charged Monday, June 18, in Vermont District Court in Hyde
Park with “diverting” a syringe containing Fentanyl from an
operating room cart and replacing it with one containing water.
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Things Look This Way to Me
Editorial by J. B. McKinley
Continuing Beauty
If you have
listened to Roland Lajoie and I Tuesday mornings, or read this paper for the
past month or so you have probably noticed several mentions of tree planting and
beautification efforts being undertaken in and around Morrisville Village. Well,
is that going to be it for the foreseeable future, or will beautification
continue and expand? If so, where – and when. We’ve got an idea or two for the
future.
Of course, more remains to be accomplished with
Morrisville’s treescape. Then there is the Oxbow Park which could benefit from
strategic plantings, if for no other reason that erosion control. But, our idea
here at the paper, is what about Clark Park?
For those not in the know, Clark Park was/is a 12-14
acre parcel of land donated to Morrisville in 1902. The town finally noticed the
donation 10 years later. By the mid-1920s, this paper (briefly known as the
Morrisville Messenger) called for improvements at Clark Park. By the time these
were being considered much of Clark Park was washed away in the 1927 Flood. A
photo of part of the park in the aftermath of the flood can be viewed under the
table glass at Deb’s Place, as you grab a bagel some morning.
Clark Park is a stone strewn, potholed parcel of
land situated between the back of the Bourne’s Inc. offices, the hydroelectric
plant and the sewage plant. It has possibilities as a recreation spot. It’s just
a suggestion, but a wooded getaway that will be a stone’s throw from the bypass
and a two minute stroll from Main Street ought to be at least within the area
under the spotlight as we all consider Morrisville’s continuing beautification.
And, there’s a big plus, we don’t have to buy trees to plant there!