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Volume 123     No 10 No 5569         September 20,  2007 Thursday                           Morrisville, VT 05661                        Web Edition

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Dog Lovers Form Rescue Group

by Amy Kolb Noyes
WOLCOTT – Nearly 30 dog lovers spent part of Sunday afternoon in the Wolcott Town Hall, September 16, brainstorming ways to help stray and abandoned dogs that are largely considered beyond help. Amy Touchette, of Wolcott, and Ben Edwards, of Johnson, organized this first meeting of the yet-to-be-named animal rescue group. The two shared a vision of finding homes for dogs that would otherwise be euthanized. The very next day after the organizational meeting, Touchette said she was contacted and placed her first canine client. Continued on Page 2

Cocaine Dealers Sentenced

by Amy Kolb Noyes
HYDE PARK – Last week, two brothers who came to Lamoille County from New York City were sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison for selling cocaine in the Morrisville/Stowe area. Dennis Smith, 20, and Leon Williams, 23, both pled guilty to multiple charges. Continued on Page 2
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Cutting the "ribbon" at the Forestry Building Open House. Smith photo

 
GMTCC Saws Open Forestry Building

by Mickey Smith
HARDWICK – For the Green Mountain Technology and Career Center’s Forestry program, a simple ribbon cutting with ordinary scissors wouldn’t “cut” it. As the official opening of the first phase of the tech center’s on–going construction project, students from the Forestry class used a cross Continued on Page 2

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Theresa and Arthur Breault were surprised to see the changes employees made to the store in their absence. The Breaults were away from their store for over four months due to a spring vacation disrupted by serious medicalissues for Arthur.     Noyes photo

Arthur’s Welcomes Back Arthur & Theresa

by Amy Kolb Noyes
MORRISVILLE – Employees of Arthur’s Department Store had a big surprise for their bosses when Arthur and Theresa Breault returned to work this week. They had rearranged portions of the store, including a complete overhaul of the women’s department – even including some minor demolition. The Breaults were extremely pleased with the surprise, saying the store looked twice the size as when they left. Continued on Page 2

Cotnoir’s “Still Coming Along”
by Mickey Smith
JOHNSON – Two months after having her right arm pinned under the hood of her car, Judie Cotnoir knows she has a long road to go and is still unsure if she will be able to keep her right arm. Continued on Page 2

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Things Look This Way to Me

Editorial by J.B. McKinley

What If the Flip Side is Worse?

 

About a day after Governor Jim Douglas walked out of my office having chatted with my two reporters and myself on his Set the Agenda tour, I chanced to think what might happen if his tour is only partially successful. Keep in mind that he said much of what he’s hearing from folks is about the need to cut spending and seriously address a wide range of urgent and large problems.

What if the Legislature does decide this lawmaking season to table global warming seminars, anti-tail docking legislation, picking a new state bacteria (no, I’m kidding), or impeaching the President? What if they put their heads together and decide to build affordable housing, put everyone on a great health insurance plan, fix every bridge and road and fund higher education at a level close to that of other states? The sheer scope of even one of these fixes is wallet flattening.

Just think of the money the Legislature will spend if it gets serious! The vaults full, the piles, hills, mountains of cash or IOUs it will take to fix our problems is almost beyond imagination for anyone but a legislator. Governor Douglas, on reflection, I have to say I applaud the agenda I think you are trying to propose, but there is this one bid Catch – the bill for it all.

So, for once in this column, I have something to propose. Governor, at the same time you are begging folks to come to grips with the problems, ask them to find reasonable, incremental, affordable ways to do so. Ask them to sketch plans that have been thoroughly examined with an eye to what may be affected down the road a few years. The way I see it we’ve had quite a long run of major laws that have been excessively sweeping in scope in the past decade and a half. Here’s the challenge for the Legislature do something useful without spending money, or very much money? Let them sit at the table this winter and lay out a satisfying lunch for everyone, not a banquet feast for the future that leaves all of us serfs working even harder next year to fund the next lawmakers’ bacchanalia.