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Volume 123
No 10 No 5569 August
2, 2007 Thursday
Morrisville, VT 05661
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Elmore Book Exchange |
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by Paul Fink
The Elmore Book Exchange, located next to The Elmore Store, in the
Elmore Town Hall on Route 12, was started with a simple goal in
mind: To encourage reading. The exchange is open Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays (from 10:00 in the morning until 2:00) for
the rest of the summer and possibly into next fall. The space behind
the meeting room was renovated, cleaned, and is now run by a local
book club that includes members Lynda Worth, Anita Morris, Ruth
Wesolow, and Kathy Crypel. The book club had the idea for the book
exchange and volunteered to do all the work involved.
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The Elmore Book Exchange
offers anyone something to do on a lazy, sunny day. Above:
volunteers Kathy Krypel and Linda Worth show off the sign in front
of the Elmore Town Hall. Fink photo |
Click here to check out the new
Lamoille Restaurant Guide |
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Jersey Heights Expansion Plan |
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by Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISVILLE – Landowner Howard Manosh and Engineer Sam Rugianno
appeared before the Morristown Development Review Board last
week to introduce plans for an additional 44 units to be
constructed on 40 acres at the Jersey Heights development.
Thursday night’s hearing was the first in what both the
applicant and town zoning officials believe will be many
meetings on the plan, which will require local zoning permits as
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Stowe Home Invaders Arrested on I-89 |
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by Mickey
Smith
STOWE – Two Lamoille County residents were lodged in jail after not posting bail
following a Monday night, July 30, burglary spree.
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The Hutchins
building, on Hutchins Street in Morrisville, in the early minutes of the fire
Friday morning shortly after midnight. Francis Favreau photo |
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Arson Claims Downtown Rehab Project |
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by Mickey Smith
MORRISTOWN – Since two questionable fires badly damaged it eight
years ago, the condemned Hutchins Street building, owned by J.B.
McKinley, has sat dormant.
This past February
Dan Kresky entered the picture, looking to rehabilitate the
building to the point of being able to gain funding to purchase
it for a business plan he has been developing for 10 years.
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The morning after the
Hutchins Street fire. The building was subsequently demolished,
hauled away and the site leveled. Francis Favreau photo |
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New Traffic Pattern for Village |
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by Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISVILLE – The concerns of some village residents has led to a
trial change in the traffic pattern onto one road in the residential
area of Morrisville Village. Within a few weeks’ time, northbound
commuters will no longer be able to skirt around the line at the
village traffic light by cutting back onto East High Street, from
Route 100.
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Lamoille
County Pet Care |
The Lamoille County
Field Days midway offered thrills and amusements for young fair
goers last weekend. See additional Field Days photos inside.
Noyes photo |
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Vermont: Rural Paradise?
Lamoille County, we aren’t in Kansas any more! Maybe we residents are being
naive not locking our cars and doors. Are we living in the past, in a sort of
psychological rose-colored bubble reinforced every day by the Public Relations
vision of Vermont as a rural paradise that should be preserved for tourists?
What am I talking about? Well, we’ve had some pretty unusual and serious crime
in Lamoille County, perhaps starting in the ‘90s with the Scoville and Peters
murders (neither are closed cases). Examples continued through this past week
with a bold downtown arson and an even bolder daytime impersonation of police
and burglary in Stowe. Think of it, you find some very unlikely looking guy in
your house, he says he’s the police, and then calmly steals your home defense
gun! Gentlemen, that is in-your-face bold. It’s the kind of story that should be
an email about weird Miami or LA crime.
In several of these cases and others, the shock that local folks have been
suspected as perpetrators is the factor uppermost in our minds. After all, we
think, these crimes do happen any place, occasionally, it’s the knowledge that
it may have been someone we know, someone we see on the sidewalk, who is
sufficiently warped to have committed such a crime that’s the real kicker.
But, of course, the moment passes and we forget our shock until the next time.
And then there’s that old and powerful rationalization we all make, “It can’t
happen to me.”
Well, folks, with more than a shred of bitterness, I can attest that it can
happen to me. This week, someone, probably a Lamoille County resident, burned my
building on Hutchins Street in Morrisville. Given the fact there was a late
night movie that evening at the Bijou, Bones was busy two houses away, and the
building’s tenant was watching the building until midnight, it’s quite clear
some local carefully picked his or her exhilarating moment alone with a match.
Yep, it’s entirely possible to be victim in Lamoille County. It’s a feeling I
now share with those who came before me. Luckily, mine was not a case of bodily
injury or abuse. No one lost their health or life, but lots of people lost my
formerly easily won trust.