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IRASBURG
ST. JOHNSBURY
VOTERS TO DECIDE
CONSTABLE POWER
PARTY HEADS CANCEL 2015 CAUCUS
By Jennifer Hersey Cleveland
Staff Writer
IRASBURG – Voters at Town Meeting will be asked for
the second year if they wish to prohibit the constable from
exercising law enforcement authority.
Last year, voters re-elected constable Brien Lemois Jr.
and declined to strip him of law enforcement authority.
On Monday evening, the select board spoke with
Lemois, who has completed his part-time ofﬁcer training
and ﬁeld service requirement at his own expense, about
what his service to the town would encompass if he were
to actively police the town.
Lt. Walt Smith, Vermont State Police Derby barracks
commander, had hoped to attend as well, but was unable.
Lemois said he’s in no position to offer full-time policing
services to the town and sees his role as assisting the two
law enforcement agencies that patrol Irasburg, the state police and the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department.
“It was because of a party that wasn’t inter- Johnsbury.
“It’s not a big deal,” he said. “It’s okay. It’s
ested in doing it, so I decided we didn’t need it
going to work out ﬁne.”
anyway,” Bostic said.
Caucus attendance was down recently, he said.
When asked if Democrats represent the uninThis year may spell the end of a decades old
Last
year, for example, it drew fewer than the 30
terested
party
Bostic
said,
“I
didn’t
say
that.”
political tradition in St. Johnsbury.
people
needed to pen the 30 required signatures
The annual town caucus to nominate candiwas
because
of
a
party
that
“It
on
candidacy
petitions, he said.
dates for elected ofﬁce, an event sponsored
South, the Democratic committee chairman,
wasn’t interested in doing it, so I
jointly by local Democrats and Republicans, was
canceled this year. Ofﬁce seekers now must col- decided we didn’t need it anyway.” was not available Tuesday or Wednesday but
Conrad Doyon, a decades long Democratic comlect a blank petition from the town clerk and
mittee member and a former chairman, addressed
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Don
Bostic
gather signatures from 30 registered voters by
the cancellation. Doyon was not involved in cauJanuary 26 in order to gain ballot placement in
Bostic though later said he aimed to devise cus decision making this year but said the comMarch at annual town meeting.
caucus
plans with Bob South, chairman of the mittee determined the event was unnecessary.
Caucus typically occurs in early January.
“They didn’t think there would be any need of
Caledonia
County Democratic Committee, but
Don Bostic, chairman of the Caledonia County
Republican Party, was tight-lipped about the can- South did not answer or respond to repeated tele- it,” he said.
Doyon is dispassionate about caucus. He said
phone calls.
cellation.
Bostic is unconcerned about a caucus-less St.
See Caucus, Page A6
By taylor reed
Staff Writer
LYNDONVILLE
See Constable, Page A6
LSC JOURNALISM PROGRAM TOP-RANKED NATIONALLY
By JaMes Jardine
Staff Writer
VERMONT
CAREGIVERS WHO FAIL TO REPORT
CHILD ABUSE COULD FACE FELONY
By dave GraM
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Any caregiver who knows a child
is in danger of abuse but doesn’t report it could face a felony
charge carrying a 10-year penalty under pending state legislation.
House and Senate judiciary and human services committees were given details of the bill by legislative staff on
Wednesday. The legislation comes in response to the 2014
deaths of two toddlers who had been under state supervision.
Vermont currently has a mandatory reporter law, which
makes it a misdemeanor for certain professional groups like
teachers and nurses to fail to report suspected child abuse.
The bill would broaden the reporting requirement to include anyone having custody, charge or care of a child and
would toughen the penalty. Mandatory reporters currently
can face up to a $500 ﬁne or a year in jail for failure to report
signs of abuse.
See abuse, Page A6
Lyndon State College has once again been recognized nationally for its outstanding journalism
program. This year, NewsPro annual survey of
college electronic journalism programs earned
Lyndon State College a tie for sixth place in the
nation.
Last year, the program was ranked 10th in the
same survey.
All of the other Top Ten schools in the
NewsPro Survey ranking are at least 10 times the
size of Lyndon State College.
NewsPro article stated, “The Electronic Journalism Arts Department at 1,400 student Lyndon
State College in Lyndonville, Vt. had a strong
showing for the second straight year - and, like
the Missouri School (university of Missouri),
was favored for its in-the-trenches approach to
teaching.”
According to a release from Lyndon State College, “The program has won more than 80 regional and national awards in the last 10 years.”
Meaghan Meachem, an Assistant Professor at
Lyndon State and a graduate of the LSC program,
says the news room at LSC “is as real world as
you can get.” The LSC news program covers the
news in 14 towns. Students learn how to ﬁnd stories and build relationships with sources.
Meachem said the students “deﬁnitely cover
CourteSy Photo
LSC students Ronald Kauffman and Taylor Young report from Vermont Democratic
Party headquarters, election day 2014.
the accidents and ﬁres,” adding “they learn how
to practice safety and how to listen to the police
scanner.” Meacham says students “learn how to
be a little bit picky” and pick out the more serious
incidents to cover.
Meacham said the LSC program has a very
high retention level of students and the journalism “numbers are strong,” at approximately 60
students. She says the program brings together
20 students who all work together to put together
a nightly newscast.
Meacham estimates 90 to 95 percent of the
graduates gets jobs in their program.
Sean Siciliano is a 2013 LSC grad who works
at WPRI television station in East Providence,
See lsC, Page A6
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Eldridge wrote that he also needs to meet
with the town’s ﬁre and police chiefs.
Calls placed to Eldridge Tuesday and
Wednesday were not immediately returned and
it is undetermined how large an alternative
treatment center in Littleton would be and how
many patients would be served. It was also undetermined if the company is looking at other
potential locations in the North Country.
On Dec. 19, the N.H. Department of Health
and Human Services began soliciting requests
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LITTLETON, N.H. — Main Street is being
looked at by a Maine medicinal marijuana ﬁrm
as a possible site for an alternative treatment
center.
Wellness Connection of Maine, which
opened in 2011 and operates four licensed dispensaries in Maine, is responding to New
Hampshire’s requests for applications for medicinal marijuana treatment centers and is looking at repurposing the building at 42 Main St.,
owned by Darius Gray and the former location
of the Mill River Furniture outlet.
In an email to the town, Bill Eldridge, a consultant for Wellness Connection, a charitable
trust that would be the operator of the alternative treatment center, said one of the state’s requirements is that the facilities chosen by the
state meet the zoning requirements of municipalities.
Eldridge, in his email, wants to conﬁrm if the
building is a suitable location in terms of zoning and is scheduling a meeting Friday with the
zoning ofﬁcer for a walk-through to determine
if there is anything that needs to be addressed
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Staff Writer
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OBITUARIES
RONALD GROVER BERLACK
1994-2015
Ronald Grover Berlack was
born on April 21, 1994 in Winchester, Mass., and died in a skiing accident in Soelden, Austria,
on Jan. 5, 2015. He was a warm,
kind, and caring young man, in
addition to being an accomplished ski racer and a member
of the U.S. Ski Team.
Ronnie was adopted at birth
by his parents, Cindy Wright
Berlack and Steve Berlack of
Franconia, N.H. At the age of
two (in 1996), Ronnie and his
family embarked on an 18-month sailing trip from America to the
British Islands, Norway, and Sweden.
Having already been exposed to skiing on Cannon Mountain, N.H.,
Ronnie skied often that winter in the French Alps, as his family lived
near Chamonix. By the time Ronnie was three, he had sailed in the
North Atlantic, the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea, and
the majority of the Norwegian coast.
This long trip taught him two important lessons: to make friends
fast when you meet kids your age; and to be able to sleep anywhere.
Both of these skills served him well in the ski racing world.
At the age of ﬁve, Ronnie moved with his family from Sudbury,
Mass., to Franconia. He attended Lafayette Regional Elementary
School and ski raced with the Franconia Ski Club. As a 10-year-old,
his ski race training was moved to Burke Mountain Academy, where
his father, Steve, was (and still is) an alpine ski coach.
In addition to his skiing accomplishments, Ronnie was an exceptional soccer goalie, good tennis player, a ferocious road and mountain
biker, and a solid offshore sailor.
He graduated from Burke Mountain Academy with the class of
2012 and was a post-graduate student-athlete the next year, also at
Burke. He was named to the U.S. Ski Team development squad in the
spring of 2013, and was renamed again in the spring of 2014.
Ronnie knew he was fortunate to have many excellent coaches,
teachers, and other adult role models who fondly remember the
wattage he brought to everything he did. These people helped him
shape his life and reach his goals.
The avalanche that took Ronnie’s life also took the life of his close
friend and teammate, Bryce Astle, 19, of Sandy, Utah. The two skiers
died together doing what they loved.
Ronnie was a determined, funny, and kind young man. He will always be remembered for his ability to see how he could move his life
in a positive direction, in spite of his weaknesses.
Surviving Ronnie are his parents, his sister Carolyn, numerous
aunts, uncles, cousins and his dog…all who loved him dearly.
A celebration of his life will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 3:15
p.m. at the Lyndon Institute Auditorium, Lyndon Center, Vt.
Memorial donations may be made in his name to the Friends of Mt.
Eustis Fund, PO Box 29, Littleton, NH 03561. www.mteustis.org.
Mount Eustis is a ski hill being reopened to offer “donation only” skiing and riding to local youth and their families in the greater Littleton,
N.H. area.
Memorial donations may also be made to the Ronnie Berlack
USSA Development Team Scholarship C/O Trisha Worthington , One
Victory Lane, Park City, UT 84098 www.ussa.org. The USSA Development team is a fee based athletic program. This will help fund
named athletes in need of ﬁnancial support. To send a private note of
condolence to the family go to www.RossFuneral.com.
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ROY A. CHASE
1942-2015
Roy A. Chase, 72, of Danville,
passed away at his home after battling a lengthy illness on Jan. 12,
2015 surrounded by his family.
He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
on Aug. 9, 1942, the son of Carroll
and Katherine (Sanville) Chase.
He married Edith Ann Willson on
Feb. 3, 1968 in Walden, Vt. In 1971,
Roy and his wife Edith built their
ﬁrst home on the Willson property in
Danville where they still reside.
Roy had a passion for motorcycles, going to antique car shows,
snowmobiling, go-kart racing, bowling, card playing and spending time with
his two dogs, Pebbles and Daisy, while watching Nascar.
He is survived by his wife Edith, three sons, Donald Chase and his wife
Nancy of Milton, Richard Chase and his wife Becky of Newport, N.H., and
Terry Chase of Danville, one daughter Trudy Harran and her husband Steve
of Danville, one sister, Dorothy Starin and her husband Martin of Austin,
Texas, two brothers, Wayne Chase and his wife Jean of Passumpsic, and Raymond Chase and his wife Ellen of Lyndonville, ﬁve grandchildren, Laura,
Kyle, Maranda, Cory, Alicia, one great grandchild, Zoey, and several nieces
and nephews.
He was predeceased by his parents, an infant brother, Jimmy, and by a
niece Karen Thresher.
A graveside service with full military honors will be announced at a later
date in the spring.
In lieu of ﬂowers memorial contributions may be marked in Roy’s memory to the: Norris Cotton Cancer Center North, 1080 Hospital Drive, St.
Johnsbury, VT 05819, OR, to the Danville Congregational Church, 87 Hill
St., Danville, VT 05828.
Pearson’s Funeral Home Located at 70 Church St. in Lyndonville is in
care of the arrangements.
JANICE A. LAROSE
1954-2015
Janice A. Larose, 60, of Barton,
Vt., passed away on Jan. 12, 2015 at
her home. She was born on Aug. 28,
1954 in Sacramento, Calif. to Raymond Daigle and the late Jeanne
(Deamer) Daigle. In 1981 she married Clarence “Buzzy” Larose. Janice was currently secretary for Carl’s
Equipment in Barton where she
worked for over 20 years. She enjoyed going to the family camp on
Crystal Lake and traveling to Maine
for summer vacations. She enjoyed
making crafts-stained glass, Christmas wreaths, Christmas gifts, and attending ceramic classes. Janice was very
friendly, always willing to lend a hand, and was very kind-hearted. She loved
her family and always put them ﬁrst.
She is survived by her husband Clarence “Buzzy” Larose of Barton, Vt.,
by her children: Christopher Larose of Newport Center, Vt., and Monica
Larose of Burlington, Vt., by her grandchildren: Dylan Poginy, Kayana
Larose, Kaylene Larose, and Kaydriene Larose, by her father, Raymond
Daigle of Connecticut, and by her siblings: Michael Daigle and his wife
Meghan of Connecticut, Robert Daigle and his wife Debbie of Connecticut,
John Daigle and his wife Pam of Connecticut, Brian Daigle of Florida, Susan
Brousseau and her husband Richard of Connecticut, Kathy Blake of Connecticut, and Linda Petricola and her husband Dennis of Connecticut, and
by several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 at the
Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, 12 Elm St., Barton. Friends
may call at the funeral home on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 from 1 p.m. until
the hour of the funeral. On-line condolences at curtis-britch.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral
Home, locally family owned and operated.
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Today: Clear except for a few patches
of high clouds. High temperatures in
the low to mid 20s. Light south winds.
Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a
chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows in the low to mid teens.
Winds continuing light from the south.
Tomorrow: Cloudy early with snow
showers likely, giving way to scattered
clouds by afternoon. Early highs from
the mid teens to around 20. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, occasionally
gusting to 25 mph.
Extended Forecast:
Friday Night: Scattered clouds. Lows
around 10 below.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the
low to mid teens.
Saturday Night: Partly to mostly
cloudy. Temperatures steady or rising
from the low to mid teens.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of
light snow or rain. Highs in the mid
30s.
Sunday Night: Cloudy. Chance of
snow or rain. Lows around 30.
Daily Weather Highlights
Weak high pressure remains overhead today, so apart from a few periods
of high clouds, skies will remain clear,
with temperatures reaching into the low
to mid 20s, thanks to the combination of
sunshine and light south winds. Clouds
will be on the increase tomorrow night,
ahead of a cold front, with a rising
chance of snow showers. The front will
sweep through from the northwest on tomorrow, bringing snow showers and
possibly squall, mainly in the morning,
and then steady or falling temperatures
in the afternoon, along with gusty northwest winds. That will lead to another unseasonably cold day on Saturday,
although it should be more calm. After
that, an abrupt warm-up appears likely
for Sunday, so much so that any light
snow could segue into a wintry mix,
which, itself, will be part of coastal storm
that’s likely to at least graze us on Sunday night and into Monday., says Chris
Bouchard of the Fairbanks Museum
weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Mostly clear
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .16
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .-20
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . . . . .-2
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . . . .-22
Maximum this date (1995) . . . . . . .61
Minimum this date (1957) . . . . . . .-32
HUMIDITY
61%
DEWPOINT
2
WINDS
1 mph, 3 max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W
BAROMETER
30.24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Falling
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00 in.
Total for Month . . . . . . . . . . . .1.11 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.13 in.
SNOWFALL
Past 24 Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.0 in.
Monthly Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.5 in.
Season Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45.6 in.
Season Norm To Date . . . . . . .38.1 in.
Snowpack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.3 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . . . . .7:20 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . . . . .4:34 p.m.
Length of day . . . . . . . .9 hrs. 13 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
To date since July 1 . . . . . . . . . .3594
To date last year . . . . . . . . . . . . .3853
* calculated for the day before yesterday
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RUSSELL A. WILSON
1920-2015
Russell A. Wilson,
94, died Thursday,
Jan 8, at Woodridge
Nursing Home in Berlin.
He was born Nov. 2, 1920, in
St. Johnsbury, the son of Augustus and Janet Wilson.
He lived most of his life in
Lyndonville, and was graduated
from Lyndon Institute in 1939.
He was a World War II veteran,
serving as a cryptographer in the
U.S. Army Air Force from October 1942, to February 1946.
He was employed for 10 years by Vermont Tap and Die, and for
3 years in the Lyndonville Savings Bank. From 1957 to 1985, he
worked for the Vermont American Corp.
For many years, he was a member of the Lyndonville Military
Band and the St. Johnsbury Town Band. He was a past president
of the Lyndonville Rotary Club and a member of the Lyndonville
Congregational Church, where he served as chair of the Deacons
Committee.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia C. Wilson, his daughter,
Elizabeth Slayton; son-in-law, Thomas K. Slayton, and grandson,
Ethan Augustus Slayton and his wife, Shawna S. Slayton.
He was predeceased by his parents and by his brothers, Edward
and Leslie T. Wilson.
A memorial service will be held at the Lyndonville Congregational Church at 2 p.m. on Jan, 31, 2015 with interment to follow
in the Lyndon Center Cemetery with full military honors at a later
date.
Pearsons Funeral Home Located at 70 Church Street in Lyndonville, Vt. is in care of the arrangements.
NEWS BRIEFS
Vermont deer hunters bagged
higher than average count
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Fish and Wildlife ofﬁcials
say the successful deer season underscores the health and stability of
the animal’s population in the state.
Deer biologist Adam Murkowski says hunters took a total of 13,590
deer — an increase over the last three years’ averages.
The count includes deer harvested during archery, riﬂe and muzzleloader seasons and the 1,652 bagged during youth weekend.
Murkowski says deer biologists are still assessing information gathered on age, sex, antler characteristics and overall health of more than
1,000 deer taken during the two-day youth hunt and riﬂe season.
Ofﬁcials say a ﬁnal report on the hunt 2014 hunt will be available
early next month.
Author threatened over
‘Satanic Verses’ to speak in Vermont
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The author Salman Rushdie who
lived for years under a death threat after his 1988 book “The Satanic
Verses” drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders is going to be
speaking at the University of Vermont.
The Wednesday talk by Rushdie was planned long before last
week’s attack by Islamic extremists killed 12 at the French satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack has since been claimed by the
Yemen-based group Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Rushdie is scheduled to speak about his 1990 children’s book,
“Haroun and the Sea of Stories.” He is expected to address the attacks
on Charlie Hebdo.
UVM ofﬁcials wouldn’t discuss security arrangements. But people
planning to attend are being told that as with some campus events,
bags and coats will be checked.
Leahy: No more tax write-offs for
corporate wrongdoing
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy has
introduced legislation to end a practice in which companies found to
have engaged in wrongdoing can write off the punitive damages they
must pay as a business expense.
Leahy says companies now enjoy a tax break when they are forced
to pay punitive damages after being found to have engaged in wrongdoing.
It’s not the ﬁrst time Leahy has tried to pass a No Tax Write-Offs
for Corporate Wrongdoers Act. He did so as well in 2011, after a mine
accident in West Virginia and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Leahy says ending the tax deduction for punitive damages could
result in about $335 million in additional government revenues over
the next 10 years.
Former ﬁreﬁghter sentenced to
probation on embezzlement
BARRE, Vt. (AP) — The former president of the local ﬁreﬁghters
union in Barre, Vermont, has been sentenced to probation and community service after pleading guilty to embezzling several thousand
dollars from the organization.
Jeffrey Cochran, a lieutenant with the Barre City Fire Department,
was accused of converting money for his own use between Oct. 1,
2012, and Jan. 9, 2014. The 35-year-old Cochran had been president
of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 881 in Barre.
The Times-Argus reports Cochran, who was sentenced Tuesday,
pleaded guilty on Dec. 30. He’s been ordered to pay the money back.
Police began investigating Cochran in January 2013 after being
told that union money may have been misused.
Trial starts for man accused
of crash that killed teen
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) — The trial has started for
a Vermont man accused of causing a crash that killed a 17-year-old
girl in Rutland in 2012. Alex Spanos pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Carly Ferro.
Police say the 26-year-old Spanos of Rutland was inhaling chemicals before his car went into a parked car, pushing it into Ferro, a
pedestrian who had just walked out of the store where she worked.
Two other vehicles were hit and two passengers in Spanos’ car were
injured.
Police found aerosol cans and alcohol at the scene.
The Rutland Herald reports Spanos’ lawyer said in opening statements the prosecution’s proof that Spanos knew the risks of passing
out while hufﬁng rested on the credibility of a passenger who changed
his story multiple times.
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NO HUNTING ACCIDENTS REPORTED IN 2014
ST. JOHNSBURY
By JaMes Jardine
Staff Writer
Photo By toDD Wellington
St. Johnsbury ﬁreﬁghter Troy Darby sweeps up debris following a two-car crash at the intersection of Hospital Drive and Breezy Hill Road in St. Johnsbury Wednesday evening. State
Police said Ashley Whitcomb, 24, of St. Johnsbury was northbound on Breezy Hill when her
2007 Subaru Impreza collided head-on with and oncoming 2002 Toyota Camry driven by
Robert Hartwell, 62, of Lyndon at 6:55 p.m. No injuries were reported. Police said the crash
occurred as Whitcomb was attempting to turn left onto Hospital Drive. Whitcomb was issued
a civil ticket for failure to yield.
BARNET
TRANSCANADA VALUATION LIKELY COURT BOUND
By taylor reed
Staff Writer
TransCanada Hydro Northeast’s lawsuit against the town of
Barnet over assessed property
values may be courtroom bound.
The parties convened Monday
in St. Johnsbury at Vermont Superior Court, Caledonia Division,
for a brief status conference. The
energy giant is suing Barnet over
the assessed values of Comerford
Dam and McIndoe Falls dam in a
case that has already included
mediation.
“We’re now waiting for an answer from TransCanada on our
latest offer,” said Barnet Selectman Dylan Ford. “If they say no
we will probably go to court.”
Ford is not overly optimistic
about reaching a settlement. She
said Barnet and TransCanada are
“quite far apart” in negotiations
and an agreement would require
much compromise.
TransCanada is suing Barnet
over the $41.5 million assessment
assigned to Comerford Dam and
the $5.09 million assessment assigned to McIndoe Falls dam.
The properties were valued at
$33.7 million combined before a
state-sponsored 2010 reappraisal
conducted by George Sansoucy
of Lancaster, N.H.
In addition to Barnet, TransCanada appealed the $29 million
assessment on Moore Dam in
Waterford, which was formerly
valued at $21 million.
In related business, TransCanada in December settled a
long-standing lawsuit with the
town of Vernon. The Vernon dam
was assessed at nearly $40 million but TransCanada said it was
worth just $21 million.
The parties each compromised
about $10 million and agreed to a
$30.5 million assessment. The
value is fixed for 5 years, and
Vernon need not reimburse excess taxes paid by TransCanada
based on the dam’s $40 million
assessment from 2010 versus the
adjusted value, according to the
settlement.
A TransCanada spokeswoman
in December when asked about
the settlement’s implications for
Barnet and Waterford said, “TransCanada is pleased that an agreement was reached after amicable
and productive discussions with
the town of Vernon and the
state…The Barnet and Waterford
appeals are similar cases to the
town of Vernon’s given each of
the towns rely on the same appraisal report prepared for the
state of Vermont. TransCanada
intends to keep the line of communications open with those
towns under appeal with the overall goal of working with them
until there is an equitable resolution.”
Despite the fact that thousands of
men, women and children roamed
the Vermont woods with loaded
guns in 2014, there were no reported
hunting accidents last year.
Chris Saunders, head of hunter
safety for the Vermont Fish and
Wildlife Department, said there
were no injuries reported in the state
involving the misuse of a ﬁrearm.
This is not the ﬁrst year Vermont
has had with no hunting accidents;
the last was in 2012. A hunting accident as deﬁned by the Vermont
Fish and Game department refers
speciﬁcally to a ﬁrearm accident.
Saunders cites two major factors
which he believes contribute to the
good track records; increased hunter
safety and increased use of blaze orange clothing for hunting.
“Just about every hunter has attended a hunter safety education
course,” said Saunders.
He said since hunter safety
classes were mandated by Vermont
state law in 1997, hunting accidents
have declined.
He also said there are fewer
hunters in the woods. Years ago,
there might have been 100,000
hunters; currently there are about
65,000 Vermont resident hunters
and about another 5,000 out of state
hunters, said Saunders.
Hunting safety has improved dramatically, according to Saunders,
with 30 to 40 shooting accidents a
year in the 1950s and 1960s.
The accident-free hunting season
CourteSy Photo
Jessica Booth ﬁres a .44 magnum revolver as hunting safefty instructor Jeff
Houde, of Lyndon, looks on. Women now make up half of hunter safety courses.
is welcome news for sportsmen and
women.
“I think it’s great,” said Tom
Moore, president of Caledonia Forest and Stream Club in St. Johnsbury. He credits the safety results
with better training and more frequent shooting practice. The forest
and stream club has multiple shooting ranges.
The club has grown a great deal
with over 600 members in 2013
compared to a total membership of
350 a few years ago. One of the reasons for the growth is a substantial
increase in the number of women
members.
Moore added that the national 4H program for young men and
women offers a number of hunting
safety courses and hunting camps.
He said those hunting programs
sometimes include overnight camping activities and attract more young
people to the sport.
Local Vermont Fish and Game
Warden Dennis Amsden called the
state’s latest safety record “outstanding.” He credited hunter edu-
cation classes and the instructors
who teach them as the reason.
Jeff Houde is a local instructor
Amsden mentioned by name. He
has spent nine years volunteering to
teach others how to safely use
ﬁrearms.
Operating out of hunter safety
ranges on the property of Linwood
Smith in St. Johnsbury, Houde was
involved in teaching 997 students
hunter education classes in 2014.
The students came from all over
Vermont and from New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and even Florida. Houde said
ﬁve students from Massachusetts
came up for a day course and all ﬁve
were from China. The students were
e-mailing photos back home to
China of themselves shooting.
Houde said everyone can beneﬁt
from knowing how to use a ﬁrearm.
He points out there were 31 rabies
incidents in Vermont last year and a
hiker or hunter or anyone else enjoying the outdoors may want to
have a ﬁrearm for self-defense, to
shoot a rabid animal.
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OPINION
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
No Such Privilege
In an attempt to reconcile her big-government vision with economic reality, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan asked state
agencies to make proposals for ways they might operate more efﬁciently.
State departments submitted their ideas on Dec. 1.
Since then our friends at the Concord Monitor have ﬁled three
separate public record requests under New Hampshire’s Right to
Know law.
Hassan, who claims to be all-transparent-all-the-time, has rejected each request as they’ve come. She’s claiming “executive
privilege,” which is not a power lawfully or Constitutionally
granted to the Governor in the “live free or die” state.
For whatever reason, Hassan thinks the very public business of
running government is none of the public’s business. As the Monitor argued in its latest request for the records, “We contend that
honesty and transparency are exactly what the public deserves…
Given the importance of the state budget and its importance on the
people of New Hampshire, we feel the argument for disclosure
couldn’t be stronger… With all due respect, these records are the
people’s records, not private documents that should be shrouded in
government secrecy.”
Agreed on all counts. Whatever Hassan is hiding, we hope it’s
worth her new reputation for hypocrisy and opacity.
Michael
Reagan
Quarterbacking
Congress
I’m not a huge fan of John
Boehner.
But now that he has both
houses of Congress to work
with, let’s give him a chance to
move the Republican offense
down the field to the end zone.
After fighting off a challenge to his speakership this
week, Boehner has held on to
his job as the starting QB of the
GOP’s legislative team in
Washington.
Boehner and his Boys of
Winter have a lot of hard work
to do for the next two years, on
and off the field.
But thanks to six years of
fumbles by Obama at home
and away, and Republican victories in the midterm elections
last fall, the GOP is looking
like the team to beat in 2016.
The Republican position in
Congress is stronger than it’s
been in decades.
Boehner has the largest majority — 246 to 188 — in the
House since Truman was president. And the Senate is solidly
in Republican hands with a 54seat majority.
It’s now or pretty much
never if Republicans hope to
retake the Oval Office and reverse the damage done to
America by Team Obama.
But before QB Boehner even
thinks about which legislative
play to call first — “Keystone
— 686 Pump F-Stop, on two”?
— he and his party need to do
some cheerleading for their
own team.
Boehner has been badly
roughed up by everyone since
2011. The liberal media mock
him.
The conservative media
have booed him unmercifully
and he was almost sacked by
some of his own teammates for
being a wimpy conservative or
a stooge of Obama.
But Boehner and the Republican House he has presided
over deserve credit for a miraculous accomplishment that few
people, even Republicans,
know about.
Thanks mostly to the House,
Congress has actually reduced
federal spending for the last
two years.
The cuts are nowhere near
what they should be — $3.60
trillion in 2011 to $3.54 trillion in
2012 to $3.45 trillion in 2013.
But it’s an important turnaround. It’s the first two consecutive years of federal
spending cuts since 1953. Republicans should be tooting
their own horn about that
spending drop from coast to
coast, because the liberal
media sure aren’t going to do
it.
Meanwhile, Boehner’s game
plan for the next two years is
nothing new or complicated.
The people of America want
the Congress to work — and
get to work.
They want it to pass legislation that will create jobs and
opportunity for Americans.
It’s up to Congress — and
QB Boehner — to make that
happen by pushing through
laws to kill ObamaCare, cut
taxes, cut spending budgets,
slash regulations and repeal
legislation (like ObamaCare)
that harms the economy.
If President Obama wants to
veto everything a Republican
Congress passes, fine.
Let him become known as
the obstructer in chief. Let
Americans see that he’s the one
whose policies need to be rejected in 2016.
Boehner and his conservative Congress have to be careful, however. They need to
approach the Washington political “game” the way Ronald
Reagan did.
My father looked at the legislative process in Washington
like it was a football field.
He knew that if you move
the ball 10 yards at a time,
you’ll eventually get to the end
zone and you’ll accomplish
something.
He knew politics is always a
work in progress. It’s the art of
negotiation.
Boehner and the Republican
Congress don’t need to do
everything this week or all at
once.
The worst thing QB Boehner
could do is to start throwing a
bunch of Hail Mary passes into
the end zone. He should move
the ball 10 yards at a time.
If he plays it right, Republicans will score their TD and
win the Super Bowl — the
presidency of the United States
in 2016.
©2014 MiChAel reAgAn
Letters to the Editor…
Scam alert
To the Editor:
Over the past 18 years and 3
months (since October, 1996) global
warming as measured most accurately by satellite remote sensing
systems is 0. Flat line. It’s dead. Our
children have grown up without
knowing a single day of global
warming!
In the meantime atmospheric
CO2 has increased from 360 ppm to
400 ppm - a 10% increase in atmospheric CO2 over the same time that
there was no global warming. There
is no disagreement about these numbers. But the doomsayers and the
UN cannot afford to admit that their
weapon, CO2, was not any agent for
temperature change. This is a
decades old premeditated swindle.
Huh? We were supposed to trip a
catastrophe at 350 ppm where temperatures would skyrocket out of
control, the ice caps would melt, the
oceans would rise, the polar bears
would die and we’d have total life
extinction. We had to hurry out to
bulldoze the ridges and erect those
fab “renewable” energy machines to
protect our planet. So what if they
drove people out of their homes, poisoned the land in Mongolia, stripmined the mountains of Alaska and
sterilized all marine life in Bristol
Bay.
Ah yes, now we have the Warm
War.
That catastrophe bit was just a
very bad computer simulation. Catastrophic Man-Made Climate
Change is a complete ﬁction meant
to scare the crap out of us. And justiﬁcation to spend an estimated 1 trillion dollars/decade over the past
three decades on the simulations
and, of course, the spin.
parently not, due to the recent articles in the local papers. It is online
learning for grades 6-12. Seems like
even the local school boards have
never heard about it.
Many beneﬁts are had by online
learning for students:
1. One on One teaching for each
students. Helping them to understand subjects thoroughly. 2. Can
choose from 100 courses to study.
All approved by the Dept of Ed in
NH. 3. Students can learn at their
own pace. No interference from
other students. 4. Can graduate at an
earlier age with the required credits
approved from the Dept of Ed in
NH. Student can even get College
credits while studying thru VLACS.
5. Can learn anytime, anywhere
from any computer or device. As
easy as logging onto an email account. 6. Student earns credit for
each course taken. Approved by the
Dept of Ed in NH. 7. FREE FOR
ALL NH STUDENTS IN
GRADES 6-12.
Given the technology of the present day, young people already know
about IPads, Kindles, etc. With the
direction of technology moving forward, our students life have to move
forward also. Give our students
grades 6-12 the opportunity to advance with this program to learn online from the privacy of their home.
So again, I ask, Why haven’t the
school boards in this area even considered online learning for students
grades 6-12? And hence, close the
mortar and brick schools of yesteryear. It is time to move forward with
education, instead of staying stagnant with the way it is now.
To the Editor:
Another question i would like to
VLACS established in 2007 and put forward. With the high unemapproved by the Dept of Ed in N.H. ployment rate and high poverty rate
Has anyone ever heard of this? Ap- in Coos County, how long will it be
We have not heard the end of it.
Just ask our politicians and watch
how heated they get exclaiming
we’re doomed if we don’t get on
with renewables and carbon taxes.
“This is urgent; everybody knows
this, and its past time to go over it.
We have to be clean”. Why do they
get so mad? Because with no global
warming and climate devastation,
their tax money and subsidies should
equal zero. Do not believe “climate
scientists” who have degrees in social studies, political studies, English
or economics.
At a time when we have clean,
abundant and cheap baseload energy
sources, do not let your governor
and legislature and our elected federal ofﬁcials commit us to unnecessary, destructive renewables and
their energy poverty where we must
pay the costs for both those unreliable and intermittent systems and
their full-time backup that is the only
source we need. CO2 gloom and
global warming doom are dead. It
was propaganda. We are not poisoning the planet. They are preparing to
steal your money.
The UK and Germany have been
railroaded into this dual energy charade. Economists estimate that 30%
of homes in the UK can only afford
to heat a single room and many of
these are the elderly. Families of 2.3
million children right now must
choose between heating and eating.
Jim Sawhill
Kirby, Vt.
Virtual Learning
Academy
that all schools close due to nonfunding from the public?
Look up the information for yourself. Go to vlacs.org.
Kathy Videtto
Stewartstown, N.H.
Freedom of the
press in France
and the U.S.
To the Editor:
We join the rest of the world in
mourning the brave staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, gunned down
by religious fanatics for defending
freedom of the press.
Meat industry fanatics in the U.S.
have devised a more subtle means of
stiﬂing freedom of the press. The
states of Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, and
Utah have enacted “ag-gag” laws
that impose criminal penalties on investigators seeking to expose animal
abuses and safety violations in factory farms.
According to an Associated Press
report in yesterday’s papers, four
members of an animal protection organization were charged with violating Utah’s ag-gag law. They sought
to document the daily transport of
thousands of pigs from the infamous
Circle Four factory farm in Cedar
City (UT) to the Farmer John
slaughterhouse in Los Angeles.
Ag-gag laws are clearly unconstitutional and are being challenged in
federal courts. Assaults on press
freedom need to be confronted
wherever they rear their ugly heads,
even when they assume the legitimacy of a state law.
Clyde Raftsburger
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Jason Stanford
Jihad and right-wing
extremism not
so different
Since 9/11, 34 people have been
killed in America by Islamic jihadist
terrorists.
Wait, did I say Muslim terrorists?
I meant right-wing extremists.
For some reason, we’re better at
recognizing threats from outside the
castle walls than from within. I’m
not saying that radical Islamic terrorists are not a threat to American
lives and western civilization. After
9/11, only a fool would not recognize Al Qaeda as a clear and present
danger to our national security.
Since then, the Southern Poverty
Law Center says right-wing extremists have killed more people in this
country than have Islamic terrorists.
Why then do we habitually consider
those terrorists as aberrations?
Why do we not see that our country is being attacked from within by
right-wing extremists?
Case in point: Paris. With all the
attention focused for good reason on
the terrorist attack in Paris, we forgot
to worry about attack in our own
backyard when a presumably homegrown terrorist bombed an NAACP
ofﬁce in Colorado. What happened
to those folks at Charlie
Hebdo was an atrocity, but
paying heed to that terrorist attack is not a reason to
ignore the terrorist attack
within our own borders.
It’s not just the NAACP
bombing. It’s also three
militia members who were arrested
in January for plotting to bomb the
Atlanta police station, the murder at
a Kansas City mosque in December,
and the right-wing extremist who
shot more than 100 rounds at government buildings the same month
in Austin, which is where the software engineer ﬂew his Piper Dakota
into an IRS building in Austin not
too long ago.
It’s the couple from the Bundy
Ranch who killed three people, including two police ofﬁcers, before
shooting each other in Las Vegas last
June.
It’s the neo-Nazi who shot and
killed three people at a Kansas Cityarea Jewish community center last
April.
It’s the white power musician
who murdered six people in a Sikh
temple in Wisconsin in 2012.
It’s Dr. George Tiller being murdered while sitting in a church pew
in Wichita in 2009.
It’s more attacks than anyone
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could be expected to remember unless they were
no longer described as
isolated incidents committed by lone gunmen,
deranged individuals, and
loners.
It’s terrorism.
Like Islamic terrorism, rightwing domestic terrorists use violence to stop people from doing
things they ﬁnd morally objectionable. They want people to be too
scared to perform legal medical procedures, to observe a religion they
don’t like, or to perform basic government functions such as collecting
taxes.
A major impediment to Americans understanding that they are
under attack from Americans is that
a wing of the political party controlling our legislative branch agrees
with some of the views of these
right-wing extremists. Until we
wrap our minds around the fact that
the Republican Party is home to radical views, we can’t see that this extremism has metastasized in some
cases as violence.
There is nothing inherently unAmerican about holding these
views. Our country started as a tax
protest, after all. But just as the Muslim community condemns violence
by Islamic radicals, we—all of us—
must recognize and condemn violence done in the name of politics.
Instead, some conservative pundits criticized the Department of
Homeland Security in 2009 when it
warned of the dangers posed by domestic terrorists motivated by rightwing extremism. And when the FBI
issued a threat assessment for 2013
saying domestic terrorists posed a
greater danger to the country than Islamic terrorists did, some criticized
it as political correctness run amok.
We won’t stop bombings by conﬁscating guns. And we won’t stop
them by outlawing right-wing extremism as Germany banned the
Nazi party. This is America. We
have the freedom to think whatever
foolishness comes into our heads. A
little less hyperbole about the tyrannical federal government might be
nice on the part of our elected ofﬁcials, but expecting politicians to
speak responsibly is another foolish
thought.
The ﬁrst step is admitting we
have a problem. It would be idiotic
to say that Islamic terrorists pose
Americans no threat. Maybe it’s
time to not act like idiots by ignoring
a similar if not greater threat from
domestic terrorists.
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France cracks down on ‘defending terror,’ sends
aircraft carrier to help US ﬁght IS militants
PARIS (AP) — France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack
down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and those glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the Middle East to
work more closely with the U.S.-led coalition ﬁghting Islamic State militants.
Authorities said 54 people had been arrested for hate speech and defending
terrorism since terror attacks killed 20 people in Paris last week, including
three gunmen. The crackdown came as Charlie Hebdo’s deﬁant new issue
sold out before dawn around Paris, with scufﬂes at kiosks over dwindling
copies of the satirical weekly that fronted the Prophet Muhammad anew on
its cover.
President Francois Hollande, speaking aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to members of the military, said the situation “justiﬁes the presence of our aircraft carrier.”
One of the Paris gunmen had claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group,
while two others said they were backed by Yemen’s al-Qaida branch. France
is already carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.
A top leader of Yemen’s al-Qaida branch claimed responsibility Wednesday for the Charlie Hebdo massacre that left 12 dead at the paper, saying in
a video the massacre came in “vengeance for the prophet.” The newspaper
had received repeated threats previously for posting caricatures of Muhammad.
Ohio man arrested in FBI operation
on charges of plotting to attack US Capitol
WORLD BRIEFS
to suffer over the longer term if these problems are not quickly and decisively
addressed,” said a report Wednesday by agency watchdog Nina E. Olson.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen says budget cuts are forcing the agency
to reduce taxpayer services and other functions. The number of audits will
decline, technology upgrades will be delayed and the agency might be forced
to shut down and furlough workers for two days later this year, Koskinen
said.
Pummeled by US-led airstrikes, Islamic State
group loses ground in symbolic battle for Kobani
BEIRUT (AP) — With more than a thousand militants killed and territory
slipping away, the Islamic State group is losing its grip on the Syrian border
town of Kobani under intense U.S.-led airstrikes and astonishingly stiff resistance by Kurdish ﬁghters.
It is a stunning reversal for the Islamic State group, which just months ago
stood poised to conquer the entire town — and could pierce a carefully
crafted image of military strength that helped attract foreign ﬁghters and
spread horror across the Middle East.
“An IS defeat in Kobani would quite visibly undermine the perception of
unstoppable momentum and inevitable victory that IS managed to project,
particularly after it captured Mosul,” said Faysal Itani, a fellow at the Atlantic
Council, referring to the militants’ seizure of Iraq’s second-largest city during
its blitz into Iraq from Syria last summer.
It would also rob the group of a “psychological edge that both facilitated
recruitment and intimidated actual and potential rivals, as well as the populations IS controlled,” Itani said.
In September, Islamic State ﬁghters began capturing some 300 Kurdish
villages near Kobani and thrust into the town itself, occupying nearly half of
it. Tens of thousands of refugees spilled across the border into Turkey.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say an Ohio man has been
arrested in a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol and kill government ofﬁcials
inside the building.
A criminal complaint charges 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell, of
Green Township, with attempting to kill ofﬁcers and employees of the United
States.
Cornell, also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, was arrested Wednesday
as he took control of a ﬁrearm during an undercover FBI operation.
Oklahoma plans ﬁrst lethal injection
It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer. The FBI says the public
since botched execution
was never in danger and he never made it to Washington.
The complaint alleges that an FBI informant began supplying agents with
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma plans to resume executions
information about Cornell last year.
Thursday after botching its last one and will use the same three-drug method
as a Florida lethal injection scheduled for the same day.
The drug mixture begins with the sedative midazolam and includes the
GOP House votes to overturn Obama’s
same drugs used in Oklahoma’s botched execution of Clayton Lockett, who
immigration actions, expose many
writhed on the gurney and moaned after he’d been declared unconscious.
His execution in April was the ﬁrst time Oklahoma had used midazolam as
immigrants to deportation
the ﬁrst in a three-drug combination, but attorneys for the state say a failed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shunning a White House veto threat and oppointravenous line and a lack of training led to the problems with Lockett’s
sition within their own party, House Republicans approved legislation
lethal injection, not the drugs.
Wednesday to overturn President Barack Obama’s key immigration policies
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said the state Department of Corand expose hundreds of thousands of younger immigrants to expulsion from
rections “has responded with new protocols that I believe, prayerfully, will
the U.S.
provide them more latitude in dealing with exigent circumstances as they
The 236-191 vote came on a broad bill that would provide $39.7 billion
arise.” His ofﬁce has successfully defended Oklahoma’s new protocol in fedto ﬁnance the Homeland Security Department through the rest of the budget
eral court.
year, legislation that lawmakers of both parties said was sorely needed to pay
Oklahoma also has increased by ﬁve times the amount of midazolam it
for counterterrorism, cybersecurity and other priorities at a moment when
plans to use to mirror the exact recipe that Florida has used in 11 successful
the Paris terror attacks have underscored dire threats.
executions.
Democrats accused Republicans of putting that money at risk by attaching
But midazolam also was used in problematic executions last year in Ariveto-bait amendments on immigration, and some Republicans voiced the
zona and Ohio, where inmates snorted and gasped during lethal injections
same concern. But House GOP leaders and most of their rank and ﬁle accused
that took longer than expected. Four Oklahoma death row inmates asked the
Obama in turn of reckless and unconstitutional actions on immigration that
U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt their executions. They argue that
had to be answered.
the midazolam won’t properly anesthetize them before the second and third
“This executive overreach is an affront to the rule of law and to the Condrugs are administered, creating a risk of unconstitutional pain and sufferstitution itself,” said House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. “The people
ing.
made clear that they wanted more accountability from this president, and by
our votes here today we will heed their will and we will keep our oath to protect and defend the Constitution.”
8 inmates, 2 ofﬁcers killed when prison bus
But Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., who chairs the Congressional Hispanic
skids off icy West Texas road, hits train
Caucus, said the Republicans were simply pandering to the far right.
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Eight inmates and two corrections ofﬁcers died
Wednesday when a prison bus skidded off an icy West Texas highway, slid
IRS cutting taxpayer services just as health law
makes ﬁling federal returns more complicated
WASHINGTON (AP) — Filing a federal tax return is about to get more
complicated for millions of families because of President Barack Obama’s
health law. But they shouldn’t expect much help from the Internal Revenue
Service.
Got a question for the IRS? Good luck reaching someone by phone. The
tax agency says only half of the 100 million people expected to call this year
will be able to reach a person.
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down an embankment and collided with a passing freight train, authorities
said.
The overpass on Interstate 20 was slick with ice Wednesday morning when
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus left the roadway in Penwell,
just west of Odessa, according to Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson.
An earlier accident on the I-20 overpass may have contributed to the prison
bus losing control, Donaldson said.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice conﬁrmed the 10 deaths in a
statement, adding that four prisoners and one corrections ofﬁcer were injured.
“It’s as bad as you can imagine,” Odessa Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief
Kavin Tinney told the Odessa American newspaper. “In 32 years it’s as bad
as anything I’ve seen.”
Ranch owned by Ted Turner seeks
New Mexico permit to import
endangered black-footed ferrets
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A more than half-million-acre ranch
that straddles the New Mexico-Colorado border and is owned by media
mogul Ted Turner has asked for permission to import black-footed ferrets.
The highly endangered carnivores have struggled across the Great Plains,
and the Vermejo Park Ranch wants to bolster their numbers as part of a recovery program spanning 12 Western states.
It will be up to the New Mexico Game Commission to clear the way for
a permit for the ranch during a meeting Thursday.
Biologists at the ranch have been working for years to recover the species.
This marks the ﬁrst time they have to jump through an extra hoop of review because of a regulatory change involving the importation and release
of carnivores on private land in New Mexico.
Oil has fallen by more than half despite record
consumption. Where did it all come from?
NEW YORK (AP) — The world burns enough oil-derived fuels to drain
an Olympic-sized swimming pool four times every minute. Global consumption has never been higher — and is rising.
Yet the price of a barrel of oil has fallen by more than half over the past
six months because the globe, experts say, is awash in oil.
So, where did all this oil come from?
The Earth has been accumulating oil and natural gas for about a billion
years or so. Humans have been drilling and burning crude and gas in signiﬁcant amounts for only the last 156 years, since the 1859 birth of the oil industry in Pennsylvania.
So, even when oil prices spiked earlier this decade amid worries that oil
supplies would soon run low, scientists and oil companies knew there was
plenty available. It wasn’t so much a question of how much oil and gas was
left in the earth’s crust, but whether we could ﬁgure out how to squeeze it
out and make money doing so.
Model who claims Bill Cosby drugged, sexually
abused her meets with police to pursue charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A model who claims Bill Cosby drugged and
sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion met with Los Angeles police on
Wednesday to pursue criminal charges against the comedian over the 2008
incident.
An attorney for Chloe Goins said after the meeting that his client is the
ﬁrst woman accusing Cosby of sexual misconduct whose case may fall
within the statute of limitations. More than 15 women have accused Cosby
of sexual misconduct, including several who say the comedian drugged and
raped them in incidents dating back at least four decades.
Goins did not speak during a press conference Wednesday. Her attorney,
Spencer Kuvin, said she came forward after hearing about other women describing abuse by Cosby and realizing she might have a valid criminal case.
An email to Cosby’s attorney, Marty Singer, was not immediately returned.
Kuvin declined to discuss what Goins told detectives but restated her allegations that Cosby drugged her at a 2008 event at the Playboy Mansion.
Goins does not know what happened while she was blacked out but Kuvin
says she awoke to ﬁnd herself naked and Cosby over her.
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By roBert BleCHl
Staff Writer
WHITEFIELD, N.H. — The
iconic Village Gun Store, a downtown landmark for four decades
and campaign stop for generations
of presidential candidates, is inching toward new ownership to take
it into the next generation of gun
enthusiasts.
“It’s not a done deal until the
closing, but it’s in the process of
happening and we’re 99.9 percent
sure it’s going to happen,” Sandy
Holz, who owns the store with her
husband, Stan, said Tuesday. “It’s
just taking a little slower than expected, but everything looks good.”
The announcement of a prospective new owner comes after uncertainty last year that the store could
close for good if no one wanted to
take it over after Stan’s and Sandy’s
retirement.
In June, the Holz family, including daughter, Leah, held a recordsetting 40th anniversary sale, billed
as the “last anniversary sale” because of their plans to sell the business or close it if they could not ﬁnd
a buyer.
As the transaction is being ﬁnalized, Village Gun Store is temporar-
ily closed and will remain closed
for the rest of January, with an expected reopening in February.
It will reopen under the Village
Gun Store name, said Sandy Holz.
Holz declined to name the new
owner, but said he is a young military veteran from central New
Hampshire whose family has been
in the gun business.
“We couldn’t have picked a better person,” she said. “He has been
trying for almost a year to make this
happen.”
And for at least the ﬁrst month
after it reopens, Holz said her husband will work with the new owner.
“Stan will have a large hand in it
because he wants it to succeed after
putting his life into it,” she said.
“We expect [the new owner] to continue in the same kind of business
plan, with Stan mentoring.”
The new owner’s plan is to take
the gun store into the future and
make the business a way of life,
said Sandy.
The closing is expected by the
end of January, she said.
“We are really excited and hopeful it will continue,” she said.
Stan and Sandy opened the Village Gun Store in June of 1974 in
the bagel shop space next door to its
current location at 4 King Square.
The year prior, looking for a
change of pace, they had moved
from New York to the North Country, where they had vacationed.
Through the decades, they saw
changes in the gun business.
In the 1970s, Village Gun Store
customers were mostly men buying
riﬂes and shotguns for hunting.
But through the years, the store
began selling more handguns along
with riﬂes and a larger share of its
customers are women.
Word of mouth and regular discounts have helped drive sales.
Owning a small business, however, often means much paperwork
and long hours and Stan and Sandy
found plenty of both.
With retirement, Sandy said she
and Stan, who live in Whiteﬁeld,
will have a luxury they haven’t experienced for many years - free
time.
The new owner will inherit a
store inventory that currently runs
about 700 ﬁrearms that include
new, used and collectibles as well
as accessories and ammunition.
Business since the 1970s has
only gotten better, she said.
“It’s gone up every year for 40
years,” said Sandy. “It’s a very solid
business and it draws people from
a three-hour circle.”
time will tell if its absence impacts
local politics.
Caucus was a St. Johnsbury tradition reaching back “forever,”
Doyon said. Its sole purpose was
to ensure a candidate for each
elected position, he said.
“There was a time when it was
hard to get anybody to run for ofﬁce and positions were left blank,”
Doyon said. “The caucus system
has worked very well because it
did ensure the positions were
ﬁlled.”
Caucus attendees would nomi-
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nate a candidate and then sign a
candidacy petition. Ofﬁce seekers
who did not attend gathered signatures themselves.
School Director Bruce Corrette
went to his ﬁrst caucus more than
45 years ago and is upset by its
cancellation this year.
“In my memory, they’ve been
going on a long time,” Corrette
said. “I can remember going to
vote at caucus in ‘68, and it had
been going on then for a while.”
The event typically drew a
crowd of at least 50 Democrats and
Republicans, he said. Caucus created a one-stop-shop for candidacy
by providing a nomination and a
signed petition, he said.
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R.I. The station is a CBS and Fox
news station. He says, “I had a
great experience at LSC.” He adds
that he works with staff who graduated from other college journalism programs and ﬁnds many of
them “have no knowledge of the
business.”
Siciliano is the technical director of multiple news programs. He
summarizes the LSC program by
saying, “LSC is set apart from any
program in the country. The LSC
journalism program covers real life
issues.”
Another LSC graduate, Suzanne
Proulx, who works for WMUR television station, located near Binghamton, N.Y., is a producer for
weekend and evening news. She
says the LSC program, “helped me
immensely,” adding, “I most deﬁthey’d paid him to complete the nitely would recommend LSC.”
She said since graduating from
work.
Kearse was ordered to pay the LSC, she’s had an opportunity to
Murphys $7,347.66 in restitution. compare her training to other news
According to Field’s afﬁdavit,
Kearse didn’t ﬁnish work on one
home and failed to notify homeowners that he is required to post
either a $50,000 bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Attorney General’s Ofﬁce, as required
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by the registry.
Field, aware of Kearse’s convic- rations that seek approval to apply
tions, started seeing “Kearse Con- for a registration certiﬁcate to opstruction” signs on lawns in May. erate an alternative treatment cenShe stopped by homes and busi- ter.
nesses in Newport, Charleston and
Deadline for the RFAs is Jan.
Barton to inquire whether Kearse 28.
had been up front about his convicNew Hampshire’s medicinal
tions and to ﬁnd out whether he marijuana law, which passed in
was properly bonded for the work. 2013, is aimed at easing the pain
When Field asked Kearse, he of those with debilitating diseases
said he was permitted to do con- and helping those with terminal illtracting work as long as he notiﬁes ness ﬁnd a measure of comfort that
the attorney general’s ofﬁce about traditional medicines can’t prowhat he was doing.
vide.
Janet Murnane, director of the
For obtaining the marijuana, the
Consumer Assistance Program at law allows for controlled alternathe attorney general’s ofﬁce, told tive treatment, or distribution, cenField that Kearse was not in com- ters.
pliance with the rules.
A maximum of four alternative
Homeowner Gregory Abbott Sr. treatment centers are allowed in
of Lake Road in Newport said he the state, one for each geographic
hired Kearse to power wash his area, Michael Holt, administrator
building and stain his decks. Ab- of DHHS’s Therapeutic Use of
bott said they had shaken hands on Cannabis Program, told the White
the $400 deal and had no contract. Mountain Record in December.
Jean Morris of Center School
Road in Charleston said Kearse
ﬁrst started work on her home in
the summer of 2013 replacing clapboards and painting her house. She
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when he put them on the house.
He said he could respond to calls
Morris said Kearse owed her eiand
investigate, and then turn what
ther three gallons of paint or a rehe
ﬁnds
over to the investigating
fund for $150 as well, but that he
hadn’t made good on that promise agency.
“We won’t get involved in cases
since early July.
he’s
initiated,” Smith said during a
Morris said she’d paid Kearse
phone
interview Wednesday.
$3,000 by check for the current
Sheriff Kirk Martin agreed. “If
work being done on the other side
they choose to have him respond to
of her house.
Field was unable to contact other complaints, he’s responsible for his
building owners, including James own investigations.”
Smith said that if the townspeoBullard of Water Street in Barton
ple
do not prohibit Lemois from exand the owners of Wok N Roll, a
ercising
law enforcement authority,
Chinese restaurant under constructhey
should
still call 911 if they
tion in Newport.
want the assistance of the state police or sheriff’s department.
The state police will not dispatch
for the Irasburg constable, Smith
said, and will treat policing as busiforce trauma to the head and neck, ness as usual no matter what occurs
skull fractures and broken vertebrae. at Town Meeting.
Second-degree murder charges have
Smith said in the event that a vibeen ﬁled against Dezirae’s stepfa- olent or otherwise serious crime is
ther and Peighton’s mother in the ﬁrst called in to Lemois, they won’t
two cases. Both have pleaded not leave people hanging. “We won’t
guilty.
involve ourselves in town politics,”
Too much emphasis on reuniting he said, a sentiment that Martin
children with their families, heavy echoed.
social worker caseloads and absent
On Monday, Lemois said he
communications among agencies wanted it made known at Town
were contributing factors in the Meeting that if people want him to
deaths, according to the November
respond, they will need to call him
ﬁndings of a special state panel.
directly.
Lawmakers launched a separate
He said he will be able to decide
inquiry, with a special legislative
on a case by case basis what to recommittee hearing from more than
600 people in hearing testimony and spond to and what to pass along to
a different agency. For instance, he
written comments.
can respond to people riding fourwheelers on town roads, but people
CONTRACTOR GUILTY OF SECOND FRAUD
Plea Deal Includes Jail Time, Restitution For Homeowners
By Jen Hersey Cleveland
Staff Writer
NEWPORT — A contractor who
got a deferred sentence on a felony
count of home improvement fraud
a year ago lost that deal when he
pleaded guilty to another felony
count of the same Tuesday in Orleans Superior Court-Criminal Division.
Defendant Paul Kearse Jr., 34, of
Newport also pleaded guilty to a
count of violating the terms of the
home improvement fraud registry
and two counts of driving after suspension – all misdemeanors.
If he’d gone without legal trouble for the two years of sentence
deferment, Kearse would have seen
the ﬁrst felony wiped from his
record. Instead, he admitted that
the new conviction violated the
terms of his probation and was sentenced in that docket as well.
His total sentence is two to three
years, suspended except 30 days to
serve in jail on weekends. He starts
his sentence Feb. 13. He must comply with the home improvement
fraud registry and make full restitution across all dockets.
This type of behavior is damaging to the community, Judge Timothy Tomasi said, “and it’s
happened before.”
“So let’s turn a page, let’s comply with the registry, let’s not make
promises you can’t keep, and let’s
not see you back here again,”
Tomasi said.
Kearse had already paid former
victims John and Roni Murphy
more than $7,000 in restitution last
January for failing to complete
work on their roof. While restitution has not been determined in the
new case, victim Thad Beebe told
Deputy State’s Attorney Jim Lillicrap that he got a $13,250 estimate
to ﬁnish the replacement of his
roof.
Kearse quoted Beebe $9,950 for
a standing seam metal roof in August 2013, and accepted $6,350
from him as a down payment and
then another $3,000 for building
supplies, according to court
records. Beebe reported the fraud
two days after Kearse’s ﬁrst home
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A violation under the new language could bring a 10-year prison
term and/or a ﬁne of up to $20,000.
The new provision would expand
those required to report to include a
baby sitter or a grandparent who
watches a child for the weekend,
said Sen. Richard Sears, D-Bennington and chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
“If a baby sitter allows her
boyfriend to rape the child and does
nothing about it, then she could be
charged,” he said in an interview.
He added that lawmakers are in
the very early stages of considering
the 43-page bill and that changes are
improvement fraud conviction on
Jan. 22, 2014.
Kearse said he had only two
payments left for another victim.
He will remain on probation
until all restitution is paid.
Kearse, who has operated under
business names Maple Leaf Framing and Construction, and more recently Kearse Construction and
Peak Rooﬁng, was arrested on a
warrant Nov. 17, 2014, after failing
to return calls from both a Newport
City Police ofﬁcer and a state
trooper over several months.
According to the afﬁdavit ﬁled
with the case, Kearse is suspected
of defrauding customers of more
than $54,000 in just the cases investigated by the state police.
New Charge
In mid-September, Kearse
stripped Beebe’s roof and applied
an underlayment, and then failed to
show for the next several weeks.
Eventually, Kearse returned
Beebe’s calls and agreed to complete the roof by the end of October
2013. He prepped the roof, but did
not return until November, when
the rooﬁng supplies were delivered.
Kearse didn’t have money to reimburse the people who made the
delivery and persuaded Beebe to
pay the $3,000 fee for delivery and
materials, Lefebvre wrote.
Lefebvre contacted Kearse, who
promised to ﬁnish the roof by the
end of March. Kearse sent an email to Beebe thanking him for his
patience and explaining that he’d
had “tons” of professional and personal setbacks. He asked him for
30 more days to complete the roof.
On March 9, Beebe told Kearse
he was clearly uninterested in ﬁnishing the job and asked for his
money back. Kearse did more
work, but did not complete the
project.
Attempts to reach Kearse were
unsuccessful, and in the interim,
Lefebvre learned that Field was
searching for Kearse as well to arrest him for several new offenses.
Registry Violation
In the original case, Kearse was
convicted of leaving Derby couple
John and Roni Murphy without a
roof during winter months after
likely as it winds its way through the
legislative process.
Luke Martland, chief of the Legislative Council, the Legislature’s
research and bill-drafting staff, told
lawmakers the legislative language
was designed to hold accountable
those who know of but fail to report
child abuse. He also said there are
cases in which one family member
is reticent to provide information
against another.
The possibility of a 10-year
felony charge “may provide an inducement for them to cooperate in
the investigation,” Martland said.
Two-year-old Dezirae Sheldon,
of Poultney, died in February from
blunt force trauma to the head, and
15-month-old Peighton Geraw, of
Winooski, died in April of blunt
Its disappearance will impact
local politics, Corrette said.
Resident Dave Timson is even
more passionate about the caucus
cancellation.
“This is bull crap,” he said. “We
need some transparency. There
needs to be more input from taxpayers and the caucus is a good
forum for that.”
Timson on Wednesday was attempting to contact South, the
Democratic committee chairman,
and had already spoken to Bostic,
the Republican committee chairman. Timson said it would be upsetting to discover caucus was
canceled because Democrats were
unavailable, as Bostic said.
CourteSy Photo
Electronic Journalism Arts major Alex Farnsworth reporting on
Vermont’s 2014 election day results.
people and ﬁnds she was better
“My hats off to all the hard
prepared. She said when she ﬁrst working students, faculty and staff
stated a job for a news station, “I for making this happen,” LSC
knew what to do.”
President Joe Bertolino said.
Main
The North Country is one geographic area, and in terms of the
law, is deﬁned as Coos, Carroll and
upper Grafton counties, he said.
“By doing that, it makes the
populations areas roughly the
same,” said Holt.
The treatment center licensing
fee for each of the three non-North
Country regions is $80,000.
“The geographic area in the
north was reduced in half, to
$40,000, with the thinking the
North Country needs to be incentivized,” he said.
Once the applications are received, DHHS will consider the
geographic locations and eventually select applicants, said Holt.
Within 10 days of selection, the
applicant would need to pay a portion of the $80,000 or $40,000 and
within 90 days of selection the applicant is required to submit a registration application.
There is nothing in the rules that
mandates a speciﬁc size for a treatment center, he said.
A qualifying medical condition
under the law includes cancer,
glaucoma, AIDS, muscular dystrophy, Crohn’s disease, agitation of
Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury or disease,
traumatic brain injury, or other injuries that signiﬁcantly interfere
with daily activities as documented
by the patient’s provider.
Severely debilitating or terminal
medical conditions include
chemotherapy-induced anorexia,
constant or severe nausea, persistent muscle spasms, seizures, wasting syndrome, and severe pain that
has not responded to previously
prescribed medication or surgeries.
Advocates of medicinal marijuana say it will also help stimulate
the appetites of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and reduce
the unpleasant side effects.
Qualifying patients, who are
prohibited from using cannabis in
public or while operating a vehicle, are allowed to possess up to
two ounces of marijuana.
Constable
should call the state police when
there is an active break-in taking
place.
“I want to keep this in the realm
of having the tools to do this correctly,” Lemois said.
Selectmen Brian Sanville and
Brian Fecher questioned Lemois
about his level of training and experience. Lemois said he’s just as
qualiﬁed as any other part-time certiﬁed ofﬁcer, but Fecher said he
doesn’t have the training piece that
those on the job would have.
“You didn’t take the physical
part,” Sanville said, adding that he’s
sure that part would be required if
Lemois were to, for instance, apply
for a deputy sheriff position.
Lemois said he did his on the job
training, a requirement for certiﬁcation, with the Fair Haven Police
Department and said he’s willing to
“give” them more hours to get more
experience.
“I did have to draw my weapon
once. It was pretty hairy,” Lemois
said.
Lemois said the chief in Fair
Haven would hire him if he lived
nearer to the area. But he said the
experience has taught him to know
when to ask, “Do I pull this trigger?”
Lemois said there were “no takers” locally for that portion of the
training. The local police still have
a certain idea of what a constable is
and their response to him is part of
the “backlash from Vezina and
Teddy Miller. It’s kind of given that
a bad name,” Lemois said, referring
to Barton Constable Romeo Vezina,
who recently died, and the former
constable of Island Pond, who was
known for writing lots of tickets to
bring revenue to town.
So far, no local police will allow
him to ride along on patrol to get
hours because they are worried
about liability, Lemois said.
“With you acting like a law enforcement ofﬁcer around here, you
are a liability to the town,” Sanville
said. If Lemois shot someone, who
is going to get sued, Sanville asked.
“The town and me,” Lemois
said. He said he would be covered
under the town’s policy with the
Vermont League of Cities and
Towns (VLCT).
Lemois said he would suggest
adopting policing policies from the
VLCT, and would want a camera
system, or “silent witness,” to avoid
a situation like “Ferguson.”
Lemois said he’s already made
two DUI stops. One, he stopped
and the state police responded. The
other was a guy coming back from
the emergency room with an eye
problem. He said he made him park
his vehicle and get a ride.
Lemois paid for his own training,
which required 50 hours at the police academy, 150 hours of elective
courses, and 80 hours of on the job
training, although Lemois said he’s
completed far more hours than necessary.
When ﬁrst elected in 2013,
Lemois told the selectmen he had
been a law enforcement ofﬁcer in
New York, a claim the Orleans
County Record found to be untrue.
The constable’s ofﬁce is not
funded in Irasburg.
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New Issue Of Charlie Hebdo Sells Out Quickly
By elaine Ganley
and JaMey Keaten
Associated Press
PARIS — Parisians lined up
Wednesday to empty the newsstands of the ﬁrst issue of Charlie
Hebdo, a week after Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper’s ofﬁce, and French justice
ofﬁcials began cracking down by
arresting dozens of people who
gloriﬁed terrorism or made racist or
anti-Semitic remarks.
The editors of the publication
again put a caricature of the
Prophet Muhammad on the cover,
and it quickly sold out by early
morning around the capital and
elsewhere, with long lines and
scufﬂes at kiosks. Disappointed
buyers were told to come back
Thursday when more of the increased print run of 5 million
copies will be available.
A leader of Yemen’s al-Qaida
branch ofﬁcially claimed responsibility for the attacks by two gunmen that left 12 dead at the weekly
publication, saying in a video
posted online that the slayings
came in “vengeance for the
prophet.” The newspaper had received repeated threats for lampooning Muhammad.
A third attacker killed ﬁve other
people, bringing the total number
of dead in the Jan. 7-9 spasm of violence to 17 before all the gunmen
died in police raids.
On alert for new attacks, France
deployed thousands of police and
soldiers around the country, and
they moved to quash any racist remarks or praise for terrorists.
The scale of security measures is
raising questions in some quarters
about whether some freedoms will
be impinged upon.
At least 54 people were arrested
for hate speech or other acts insulting religious faiths, or for cheering
the men who carried out the attacks.
The new issue of Charlie Hebdo
features the prophet, a tear rolling
down his cheek, holding a placard
that says “Je Suis Charlie.” The
saying has swept France and the
world, with the irreverent newspaper being embraced as a symbol of
freedom of speech.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls
held up his copy after the weekly
Cabinet meeting — but strategically placed his hand over the
prophet’s face.
Muslims believe their faith forbids depictions of the prophet, and
some reacted with dismay — and
occasional anger — to the new
cover. Some who had supported
Charlie Hebdo after the attacks felt
betrayed and others feared the cartoon would trigger yet more violence.
Defending his caricature of the
prophet on the latest cover, cartoonist Renald Luzier argued that
there should be no exceptions to
freedom of expression.
He said when the weekly was
threatened before, the reaction was
often: “Yes, but you shouldn’t do
that (publish cartoons of Muhammad). Yes, but you deserved that.”
“There should be no more ‘Yes,
but,” he insisted.
In Turkey, a court in a southeastern city ordered a ban on access to
websites showing the cover of
Charlie Hebdo’s new edition after
a lawyer ﬁled a petition saying it
would endanger public order, the
state-run Anadolu News Agency
reported.
The issue was banned in Senegal, in west Africa, and the
spokesman for the Brussels prosecutor’s ofﬁce, Laurens Dumont,
said four shops in one neighborhood were threatened in one Brussels neighborhood if they sold it.
Egypt and Iran condemned the
“provocative” publication. Egypt’s
top Islamic authority, Dar al_Ifta,
had warned against publishing the
cover after its content became
known Monday.
President Francois Hollande,
speaking aboard the aircraft carrier
Charles de Gaulle to members of
the military, said he was sending
the warship to the Middle East as
part of the ramped-up effort to ﬁght
terrorism. The situation “justiﬁes
the presence of our aircraft carrier,”
Hollande said.
France is already carrying out
airstrikes over Iraq as part of an international coalition ﬁghting the Islamic State group.
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, one of al-Qaida central’s most
active afﬁliates, posted an 11minute video on the group’s Twitter account. A top commander,
Nasr al-Ansi, warned of more
“tragedies and terror” in the future.
Al-Ansi said AQAP “chose the
target, laid out the plan and ﬁnanced the operation.” He said the
radical Yemeni-American cleric
Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed
in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in
September 2011, had arranged the
attack.
But a high-ranking French intelligence ofﬁcial told The Associated
Press that French authorities see
the claim as “opportunistic,” and
that AQAP appears to have served
as an inspiration — not an orchestrator — of the attacks. That account coincided with U.S.
intelligence ofﬁcials who said they
have no evidence AQAP coordinated the attack or knew of it in advance. All three ofﬁcials spoke on
condition of anonymity because
they weren’t authorized to discuss
classiﬁed matters publicly.
The brothers Cherif and Said
Kouachi, behind the Charlie Hebdo
massacre, had told survivors they
were sent by al-Qaida in Yemen.
Amedy Coulibaly, the third gunman who killed a policewoman and
four people at a Paris kosher supermarket, had pledged allegiance to
the Islamic State group, normally a
bitter rival of al-Qaida.
French police say as many as six
members of the terror cell may still
be at large, including a man seen
driving a car registered to the
widow of one of the gunmen. Ofﬁcials say the widow is now in
Syria. There has been no word on
the whereabouts of the driver or the
car.
Since the attacks, France has deployed 10,000 troops and 120,000
AP Photo
People browse a newsstand advertising "We don't have any more Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, France,
Wednesday. Charlie Hebdo's deﬁant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris on Wednesday,
with scufﬂes at kiosks over dwindling copies of the paper fronting the Prophet Muhammad.
security forces around France, an
area the size of Texas, to protect
sensitive sites, including Jewish
schools and synagogues, mosques
and travel hubs.
Police were detaining anyone
who shows even verbal support for
terrorism or racism and anti-Semitism. Scores of mosques have been
attacked in the past week.
The 54 people arrested included
four minors, and several already
had been convicted under special
measures for immediate sentencing. Inciting terrorism can bring a
ﬁve-year prison term — or up to
seven years for inciting terrorism
online.
Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, a
popular and controversial comic,
was brieﬂy detained and ordered to
trial in February on charges of justifying terrorism. He has repeated
convictions for racism and antiSemitism, and most recently called
himself “Charlie Coulibaly” in a
Facebook post, mixing the names
of the newspaper and the market at-
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France already has laws on the
books against hate speech, especially anti-Semitism in the wake of
the Holocaust. However, the Justice Ministry laid out new rules to
prosecutors and judges for rounding up those who defend the Paris
terror attacks or speak against religions.
Education Minister Najat Vallaud Belkacem expressed deep
concern about the failure of students in some schools to honor the
minute of silence held this week.
“Schools are on the front line.
They will be ﬁrm in sanctioning,”
she said.
The failure of some students to
join in the national effort to tackle
terrorism underscores the malaise
in poor suburbs, usually with populations with roots in Arab countries and on the margins of
mainstream society and living with
a sense that their own religion has
been stigmatized.
The surviving employees of
Charlie Hebdo produced the new
issue while working out of borrowed ofﬁces.
The French Culture Minister
Fleur Pellerin has promised 1 million euros in “emergency” ﬁnancing to the weekly, although it was
not clear when the funds would be
released. It was also unclear
whether, even with ﬁnancing, the
Charlie Hebdo staff would publish
on a weekly basis as in the past.
The weekly cost 3 euros ($3.55).
The publication’s comeback also
is being backed by the Digital Innovation Press Fund, which was
created by Google and a French
publishing trade group in 2013.
The fund is contributing 250,000
euros (about $295,000) to the publication, according to its managing
director, Ludovic Blecher.
“It is an exceptional answer to
an exceptional situation,” Blecher
said Wednesday. “Our fund is dedicated to help the press.”
Google holds one of seven seats
on the fund’s board.
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Questioning Of Prospective Jurors Begins Today In Tsarnaev Trial
By denise lavoie
AP legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON — Prospective jurors
who made it through the ﬁrst round
of cuts in Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s
federal death penalty trial face individual questioning as the second
phase of jury selection begins
Thursday.
More than 1,350 people were
called to court last week to ﬁll out
lengthy juror questionnaires. Tsarnaev’s lawyers and prosecutors
were due to submit a list of jurors
both sides agree should be excused,
but that number was not immediately released publicly Wednesday.
When individual questioning begins Thursday, Judge George O’Toole Jr. will do most of the
inquiry, but the judge has said Tsarnaev’s lawyers and prosecutors will
NOTICE TO THE VOTERS
OF BETHLEHEM SCHOOL DISTRICT
be allowed to ask some follow-up
questions.
Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of carrying out twin bombings near the
ﬁnish line of the 2013 marathon.
The blasts killed three people and
injured more than 260.
On Wednesday, O’Toole rejected a bid by Tsarnaev’s lawyers
to suspend jury selection because
of the potential impact of last
week’s terror attacks in Paris.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that
the French terror attacks had placed
the marathon bombings “at the
center of a grim global drama.”
They said delaying jury selection
for at least a month would allow
some time “for the extraordinary
prejudice ﬂowing from these
events — and the comparison of
those events to those at issue in this
The Lafayette Regional School District operates under the non partisan ballot system for the
election of school officials: a Moderator for a term of one year; and one School Board Member
from the preexisting district of Sugar Hill for a term of three years.
The School District Clerk will prepare the ballots and all candidates for office shall file their declarations of candidacy or petitions of nomination with the School District Clerk between the
dates of January 21 to January 31, 2015.
Blanks for candidates will be furnished by the School District Clerk, or White Mountains School
Administrative Unit #35, 260 Cottage Street, Suite C, Littleton, New Hampshire.
Amy Venizia, Clerk
Lafayette Regional School District
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OF LANDAFF SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Town of Hardwick received $350,000 from the State of Vermont for a grant
under the Vermont Community Development Program. A public hearing will be
held at Memorial Building, 20 Church Street on 2/5/2015 at 5:30 to obtain the
views of citizens on community development, to furnish information concerning
the range of community development activities that have been undertaken under
this program, and to give affected citizens the opportunity to examine a statement
of the use of these funds. The VCDP Funds received have been used to accomplish
the following activities:
The Lamoille Housing Partnership and Housing Vermont requested VDCP funds in
the amount of $350,000 to help fund the rehabilitation of the Maple Street Apartments in Hardwick. The project commenced in September of 2013 and was completed in November of 2014. The project consisted of Life Safety and Code
upgrades; new sprinkler system and fire alarms; insulation and windows; new
kitchens and bathrooms; new siding, roofing and exterior painting. New water and
sewer lines were also installed.
Information on this project may be obtained from and viewed during the hours of
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Should you require any special accommodations please contact Brittany Cote at
802-472-6120 to ensure appropriate accommodations are made. For the hearing
impaired please call (TTY) #1-800-253-0191.
Legislative Body for the Town of Hardwick
The Landaff School District operates under the non partisan ballot system for the
election of school officials: A Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, for a term of one year;
one School Board Member for a term of three years.
The School District Clerk will prepare the ballots and all candidates for office shall
file their declarations of candidacy or petitions of nomination with the School
District Clerk between the dates of January 21, and January 31, 2015.
Please be aware the election of School District Officials for 2016 will take place at
the Landaff Town Meeting, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
Blanks for candidates will be furnished by the School District Clerk, J. Denise
Cartwright, Landaff; or White Mountains School Administrative Unit #35, 260
Cottage Street, Suite C, Littleton, New Hampshire.
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Landaff School District
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The Bethlehem School District operates under the non partisan ballot system for the
election of school officials: a Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, for terms of one year; Two
School Board Members for terms of three years.
The School District Clerk will prepare the ballots and all candidates for office shall file
their declarations of candidacy or petitions of nomination with the School District Clerk
between the dates of January 28, 2015 and February 7, 2015.
Blanks for candidates will be furnished by White Mountains School Administrative Unit
#35, 260 Cottage Street, Suite C, Littleton, NH 03561
Lisa Pelotte, Clerk
Bethlehem School District
public. Legal analysts said that
both prosecutors and Tsarnaev’s
lawyers will be looking to get a
snapshot of the life experiences and
attitudes of prospective jurors
when they are questioned individually.
“It’s hard to pigeonhole particular types of jurors. It’s going to
case — to diminish.”
In a brief written ruling, O’Toole
said his review of jury questionnaires “has so far conﬁrmed, rather
than undermined, my judgment
that a fair and impartial jury can
and will be chosen to determine the
issues in this case.”
The questions asked on the 28page jury forms has not been made
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trees and brush. They also encourage low-growing shrubs and trees which will crowd tall-growing species and, thus,
minimize the use of herbicides. The application of herbicides may start as early as April 1. Requests to utilities for
notice by mail, however, must be made by February 15.
The Public Service Board requires Vermont utilities to carry out vegetation management techniques which allow
maintenance of electrical systems in a cost-efficient manner.
The types of herbicide treatment used to maintain vegetation on utility rights-of-way include the following applications:
stump, injection, basal, soil, and foliar. These are the commonly used methods; your local utility may use other methods.
Landowners have the right to request that a utility apply herbicide treatment on cut stumps only or that a utility refrain from
applying herbicide. In the latter case, the landowner has to pay the utility an administrative fee. Only electric utility rightsof-way that have tall-growing tree species with the potential of threatening the electric utility system are treated.
Utilities advertise by radio and newspaper prior to herbicide applications on all lines. Utilities typically treat rights of way
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V.E.L.C.O. (Vermont Electric Power Company). These markings are not found on every utility pole. However, by
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Trial starts for man accused
of war crimes in Bosnia
THuRSDAY, JANuARY 15, 2015
The break-ins included a pawn shop, an auto consignment store, an eye
store, pet store, and pizzeria. Some items were taken.
Police said they found a utility truck parked near a restaurant containing a
cash register taken from the break-in at the pizzeria. An investigation also
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Bosnian war crimes suspect living in Verto clear disabled vehicles from the road as quickly as possible so that small showed the vehicle had been stolen and used in a commercial burglary in
mont is on trial in federal court.
Bedford. Police said security cameras were able to capture images of possible
If convicted, 55-year-old Edin Sakoc could be deported. Prosecutors allege problems don’t cause major tie-ups.
suspects. Detectives are still trying to determine if all of the incidents are reSakoc lied about being involved in war crimes against a Bosnian Serb family
Vermont National Guard to send
lated.
in 1992 when he came to the United States.
helicopter and 4 to southwest
The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/17H82WQ) attorneys
Man in pickup crash with children
played videotaped testimony of a man who said two men kidnapped his niece
COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont National Guard is planning to
accused of driving drunk
and killed two other female relatives. Prosecutors allege Sakoc was one of send a helicopter and four soldiers to help perform border security operations
the men.
along the U.S. border with Mexico.
GILMANTON, N.H. (AP) — Police have accused a man of crashing his
Sakoc’s lawyer said the alleged accomplice is the person who is guilty.
The guard says the Lakota helicopter will be used near Tucson, Arizona. pickup truck in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, while driving drunk and with
Sakoc is charged with lying to immigration ofﬁcials when he entered the
Soldiers from separate detachments will split the 90-day mission. The sol- two children in the vehicle.
United States in 2001 and lying again when he applied to become a natural- diers will be providing aerial support to Department of Homeland Security
Police found the truck rolled over onto its roof and blocking a road Friday
ized citizen in 2007.
ground units during security operations.
night, with no one inside.
WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1wZwrN4) police later identiﬁed the
Vermont, USDA announce $16M
Frozen pipe bursts, closes medical
driver, 40-year-old Michael Delloiacono and found him at a home down the
to clean Lake Champlain
road. They said the children, ages 11 and 7, were in the truck with him at the
ofﬁce building
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and ofﬁcials
PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Speare Memorial Hospital’s medical ofﬁce time of the crash.
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have announced $16 million in fed- building has been closed after a frozen pipe burst and caused water damage
There were no serious injuries.
eral funds to help clean up Lake Champlain.
Delloiacono
was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, conto the ﬂoors and furniture.
The funding is part of more than $370 million in federal spending on about
duct
after
an
accident
and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Speare Memorial at Boulder Point is in Plymouth and is home to the hos110 projects nationwide as part of a new USDA Regional Conservation Part- pital’s afﬁliated practices, including an orthopedics and sports medicine It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer.
nership Program.
clinic, primary care, eye care and physical therapy.
Elderly Maine man saved from ﬁre by his dog
Shumlin made cleaning up Lake Champlain a priority in his inaugural adThe Citizen reports White Mountain Eye Care & Optical is expected to
dress last week.
PLEASANT RIDGE PLANTATION, Maine (AP) — A 73-year-old rereopen as early as Friday, but the rest of the building will remain closed for
Vermont and New York will share the $16 million to improve water quality cleanup and repair for up to three weeks.
tired builder in Maine is crediting his Brittany Spaniel with saving his life.
and land sustainability.
Herbert Hingley says "Babe" woke him up by jumping on him and pawing
The orthopedics, primary care and physical therapy practices have reloRunoff from farms, wastewater treatment plants and developed properties cated to the hospital for now.
at his face to get him out of bed. He says he awoke early Wednesday to disare among the primary sources of phosphorus, which is blamed for toxic
cover his house as on ﬁre in Pleasant Ridge Plantation.
algae blooms in the lake.
Fire Chief David Robinson tells the Morning Sentinel that Hingley has
132 marijuana plants seized from home
Among other things, the project announced Wednesday will use modeling
trouble
hearing, and couldn't hear the smoke detectors going off.
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police say they’ve seized 132 marijuana
to target conservation practices and an extensive monitoring network to as- plants from a home in Rochester, New Hampshire, and they’ve made an arBingham Fire Chief Scott Lawyerson says ﬁreﬁghters struggled to get
sess if the practices are effective.
enough water to the scene to bring the ﬁre under control as the temperature
rest.
dipped to minus-20.
Police
said
52-year-old
David
Bock
of
Rochester
has
been
charged
with
State expands roadside assistance
The blaze destroyed the house but Hingley survived along with Babe and
manufacturing a controlled drug. He was being held on $25,000 cash bail; it
to Spaulding Turnpike
nine
other hunting dogs he keeps in a kennel outside.
wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is expanding its roadside
Police said they visited the home Monday night. The plants were found in
assistance program to include the Spaulding Turnpike from Portsmouth to various stages of maturity, from small seedlings to fully grown plants. Police
Rochester.
also seized growing equipment, including lights and fertilizer.
sense of whether this juror is the
Beginning Wednesday, the state’s Department of Transportation will add
right juror to hear this case,” said
Business break-ins reported in Manchester
a service patrol truck for the turnpike during the morning and afternoon comformer U.S. Attorney Donald
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, Continued from Page A9
mutes. The service already exists on Interstate 95.
Stern. “The stereotypes that
Drivers who experience relatively simple problems such as a ﬂat tire, dead say there’s been a rash of burglaries at businesses overnight and they’re come down to speciﬁc answers to lawyers and some jury consultants
battery or running out of gas will get assistance from the truck. The goal is searching for suspects.
speciﬁc questions and getting a use I don’t think really apply in this
case.”
Frank Libby, a former federal
prosecutor who is now a Boston
defense attorney, said individual
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questioning helps lawyers on both
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“As a prosecutor, you want to
have somebody who is adult,
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grown-up, had some experience in
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property situated at 6 Mitchell Road, Thornton, NH.
life, perhaps has some ups and
Located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and within easy driving time to
downs, someone who understands
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that actions have consequences,
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2.2 miles to Mitchell Road and the auction site.
ing tough decisions,” Libby said.
Terms of the Sale: Fifteen minutes prior to the auction prospective bidders must
“From the defense side, you cerpresent to the mortgagee or its agent a deposit in the amount $10,000. (Tentainly
want to ﬁnd the maverick,
Thousand Dollars) in cash, certified check or other form of tender acceptable to the
the mustang, somebody who’s not
mortgagee. The balance of the successful bid must be paid within 45 (forty-five
days).
averse to going his or her own way
Please Note: The mortgagee reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.
and standing their ground,” he said.
Sale per order of: Union Bank, 263 Dells Road, Littleton, NH 03561 where the
The judge has said he expects to
original mortgage instrument may be examined.
question about 40 prospective juInspection: One hour prior to the auction if permitted.
rors each day until enough people
For additional information contact: Thomas Pancoast, Esq., 603-444-7764, Counsel
have been qualiﬁed to move to the
For the Mortgagee, Littleton, NH, 603-444-7764 or Auctioneer, Archie Steenburgh,
ﬁnal phase of jury selection, when
603-989-5361.
both sides will be allowed to elimPRIOR TO THE AUCTION PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS SHOULD MAKE ANY AND
ALL SUCH INVESTIGATION AS THEY DEEM APPROPRIATE.
inate a certain number of jurors
All information furnished is believed to be correct but no warranties are
without stating a reason. Each side
expressed or implied.
has 20 such peremptory challenges.
Archie H. Steenburgh & Joshua W. Steenburgh
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Cub Cadet 7305 4WD w/loader, cab, 1014 hrs
Int Cb Cadet 185 w/loader,
mower deck, 3pth roto tiller
Int Cub Cadet 154 low boy w/blade
Ford 8N
New Eagle 30 gal truck mount
air compressor Honda powered
Smartquip compactors
Power Trail 4” water pump
New Q/A forks
New Q/A 66” brush grapple
New Q/A 66”, 72”, 78”, 90”
high volume buckets
New Q/A mounting plates
New Gentec hyd thumb
50,000#
New X36 manual thumb
FARM EQUIPMENT &
ATTACHMENTS
JD 916 8’ disc mower
w/finger conditioner
NH 163H 17’ hyd fold tedder
Woods SB60 3pth 60” snow blower
Woods RM660 72” finish mower
JD 690 brush hog
Eurospand VAS203 fert spreader
Kubota BX2750 snow blower attachment
3pth 5’ box blade
SKIDSTEERS
2006 Bobcat T140 track loader,
1250 hrs
Gehl 3410
TRAILERS
2001 Challenger 6x12 enclosed
Come Taste our Treats!
at the Grindstone Cafe, Lyndonville
January 17th from 10am to 3 pm
MISC.
Patu 355 grapple loader
forwarder w/winch
2008 Magnum light plant
18.4 x 30 ice chains
Delta DC-380 planer
Craftsman radial arm saw
Reliant dust collection system
2 – Delta air cleaners
New 12V winches 4500#
& 10000#
TERMS: CASH, GOOD CHECK OR CREDIT CARD W/3% FEE • 6% SALES TAX • NO BUYERS FEE
LUNCH BY WRIGHTS CATERING
There will be many more items included in this sale.
AUCTIONEERS: C W GRAY & SON’S INC. East Thetford, VT
EAST THETFORD, VT • VT LIC # 128 • 802-785-2161 • 802-296-5806
SALE SITE Jan 23, 24 & 25
WEB: www.cwgray.com • EMAIL: cwgray@valley.net • ALSO: www.auctionzip.com
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