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Volume 123
No 10 No 5569 July
19, 2007 Thursday
Morrisville, VT 05661
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Centennial Library to Receive New Roof |
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by Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISVILLE – The Morristown Centennial Library will receive a new
roof next month. The bids are in and the Library Trustees and the
Morristown Selectboard have selected Hutchins Roofing Company, of
Barre, to install a 50-year asphalt shingle roof at a bid cost of
$28,525. Last March, Town Meeting voters approved spending up to
$30,000 on the library roof project.
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Common Acres Provides
Recreation Once Again |
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by Mickey Smith
Looking for a new identity, Gene Leon, the new owner of what was formerly known
as Common Ground Amusement Park, has re-opened the summer recreation park and
campground as Common Acres Campground Recreational Park.
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Job Foreman Bob Bovat and Selectman Fred Martin meet daily to go over details of
Wolcottıs new town office project. Bovat is overseeing private contractors as
well as a 10-man crew from the St. Johnsbury Correctional Center. He aims to
have the project complete by October 1. This week the crew finished up work on
the roof a project that took some extra time due
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New Wolcott Offices This Fall |
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by Amy Kolb Noyes
WOLCOTT – If all goes as planned, the Town of Wolcott will have
a new, and vastly expanded, town office building by October. A
town-employed job foreman, a local contractor and a prison work
crew are combining efforts to transform the old School Street
school building into a municipal office building and a new home
for the Wolcott Historical Society. The job is already well
underway.
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Former
Catamount Chrysler Dealer CHARGED WITH FRAUD |
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The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont
stated that Sean Johnson, age 41, formerly an accountant in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, who moved to Vermont about two years ago, was
charged July 17, Tuesday, by a federal Grand Jury with 15 counts of
wire fraud. An arraignment has not yet been scheduled.
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Lamoille
County Pet Care |
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First Update on Morristown Ancient Roads |
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By Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISTOWN – Steve Rae has spent the first half of
2007 plugging away at identifying Morristown’s “ancient roads.”
This week he gave his first progress report to the selectboard,
including five recommendations on how to proceed with the
project.
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Things look this way to me Editorial by J.B. McKinley
Employers There is Hope
Here’s a
different perspective on an oft discussed subject. Have you ever asked a
business owner, “how it’s going?” and had him or her immediately go off on a
long diatribe about not being able to get good help? Well, personally, I can’t
count the times this subject has arisen within my hearing. Of course, we
probably all listen with half an ear and nod our agreement. Or, maybe we are in
a new employee search and have our own horror stories to share.
OK, so
what’s the new angle? It’s this, there are young people out there who are
qualified, ambitious and even pretty d____d hardworking. Don’t believe me? I
have proof.
Here at
the News & Citizen, as well as in a dozen or so businesses around Morrisville
and the county, Upward Bound has currently scattered high school juniors to
their internships. These are students who are college bound and trying to get a
real world look at potential careers. I can’t speak for the other businesses,
but our young man is bright, polite, and ready and willing to learn and work.
But,
beyond even Upward Bound, we have had a second young man – all on his own
initiative – come by the office and arrange an internship! Now that, to me, is
impressive. Certainly I would not have done such a thing at his age, nor would
more than a handful of people I’ve ever known. He, too, is talented, can write
and is enthusiastic.
Regardless
of whether either of these two interns decides to make a career in journalism,
they will be good employees.
So, there
it is, my two cents added to the pot of that oft-heard polemic – there is hope.