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When is the Campbeltown Courier going to stop using the term "A Campbeltown Man" for someone who has just moved here, committed crimes elsewhere and when it goes to court user his Campbeltown address to describe him as Campbeltown Man? Wee Toon Man!
It's an insult to real Campbeltown men

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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Steve B.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
By: Steve Boorstein
I was 52 years young and an expert skier, but it didn't keep me from being blindsided by a 200-pound snowboarder ... at least that's what must have hit me. And the person did not even stop!
After waking from being knocked out cold--and taking my first-ever toboggan ride down the mountain--the Doc conveyed the bad news: a dislocated shoulder, four cracked ribs, a floater in my left eye (that I still have eight years later) a whiplash and, unbeknownst to me or the Doc at the Vail emergency room, I'd also suffered a dissection in my right carotid artery, that had not been detected!
It took about 3 months for the ribs and shoulder to heal, which is about the same time it took for the unidentified "flap" or dissection to narrow my carotid and form a clot in the artery. Five mini-strokes later--after driving lost for hours on the Denver highways--I limped into the Boulder emergency room and declared, "I think I'm having a stroke!" Disoriented by the affect of the TIA's, I was still thinking that I was too young and healthy to have a stroke!
Here's the thing ... I had zero risk factors; I wasn't diabetic, hypertensive, overweight, a smoker, a drinker or even predisposed to heart disease. I had zero plaque and my cholesterol was low. I ate well, slept well and exercised everyday. As it turns out, if you are a stroke in waiting, being active or even athletic will not necessarily prevent the attack--and being active may actually cause a dissection that can lead to stroke, as it did mine and thousands of others! Read on ...
It can sneak up on the unsuspecting and surprise even the well-informed, but Stroke's biggest targets are the oblivious: the people that don't know, that don't believe, and that can't even fathom the possibility that they could be a "stroke in waiting." I was one of them and I didn't know the signs or the acronym "FAST." But I do now!
After a crazy night in the ER, hoping the Heparin blood thinner would keep me from a major stroke, I was finally called for my procedure: a supposedly routine stent insertion up through the femoral artery to my carotid to "press" the clot into the wall of the artery, hence reopening blood flow. But it turns out that I really was too healthy! Because I had no plaque "coating" the carotid, it treated the stent as an "invader," violently shaking the clot, releasing pieces to my brain. I yelled out that my left side felt cold, like rippling water, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in recovery.
"How Are You Feeling?"
... my Doc asks, as I awake from the sedative ... "I have the worst headache ever!" She started laughing out of relief that I could actually speak, but I didn't share her excitement. I later learned that I was paralyzed on the left side; had lost my vision on the left side; could not add 2+2, read a book, or tie my shoe ... but I took it all in stride, knowing that I'd do whatever it took to get better!
What I Learned: Do you have a couple of hours?
Most stroke survivors work everyday to get better--and it's an uphill battle, as we all know. We may make incredible strides one day and then falter the next, and then pick ourselves up to do it all again. But here's the twist and the beauty: whether we realize it or not, the extraordinary effort we put forth to recover will pay off "in spades" for many years to come. Let me explain ...
If you can recover or even improve, be it from paralysis, cognitive damage, the inability to walk or tie your shoe, then you will have accomplished something monumental! And you should be incredibly proud, so pat yourself on the back and take a bow. You have reinvented yourself, again!
Now, take this incredible effort and apply it to every challenge you face, be it personal or professional: break down every step and apply the same steely focus and expectation to every undertaking, no matter the size or importance! If you can come back from stroke, then you can do almost anything! And don't be surprised if you surpass your pre-stroke accomplishments in some ways. I did.
Moving Forward: Philosophically
It can take years to recover ... and maybe even a lifetime. We will have to put forth extraordinary effort to do the simplest, most basic things. And, as most of us have to realize, we will have to compromise and adjust our expectations more than once. And, what once seemed so important and meaningful before has little or no relevance now. Life is elastic, just like our re-forming brain.
Eight years later, after relearning the fundamentals of, well, everything ... I ski and play tennis better than I ever did before; I can drive and ride my bike (not in the street); I am more patient and empathetic with people; I never stress the small stuff; and I am not as hard on myself or others as I used to be.
Keeping Positive
I believe that if we are strong and willful before our stroke, we will be strong and willful in recovery. It's all about the attitude. If we can maintain a sense of humor--even after a year of trying to tie our shoes--then we have a much better chance of long-term recovery. We must put it all out there, even if, at the time, we can't fully understand why.
A Quick Anecdote that Speaks a Thousand Words
I walk into the hospital gift shop to hand deliver my new book, Different Strokes, which I explain to the elderly volunteer. We chat about the book and she checks me out from behind the counter.
"I have a friend that had a stroke," she says, "and he's just starting to walk again, so he's doing pretty well!" I assume that most senior citizens have experienced stroke on some level and know something. I look at her, believing she must see the error in her words ... but she does not. I don't fault her at all, as she's never had a stroke. I lean over the counter and earnestly share my practiced response to such an inaccurate and naive statement. I want her to understand how debilitating and depressing stroke can be--and how looks can deceive.
"You know," I say, "a stroke survivor can stand before you on their own two feet, speak, and appear 'normal,' and still be incapable of holding a job, remembering a phone number or finding their home from five blocks away!" She paused and then smiled apologetically. "Thank you for sharing, I had no idea. You look so healthy and alive ..."
Believe it ... or Not
I would not give back my stroke, even if I could; even with my continued deficits and fading memory. Why? Because of the things I've learned, the people I've met and the way I now look at the world!
Steve Boorstein * Different Strokes * http://www.survivingstroke.com
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Hope College has captured its fifth consecutive Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) men's golf championship.
Hope College has captured its fifth consecutive Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) men's golf championship.
With a come-from-behind effort, coach Bob Ebels' Flying Dutchmen finished 13 strokes ahead of Olivet over the course of the eight-tournament season. Hope did not move into first place until the seventh tournament of the year. The Flying Dutchmen won four of the year's tournaments outright, tied for first in another and were second in three others.
As league champions, Hope has earned a berth in the NCAA Division III championships to be held next spring. It will be Hope's third consecutive trip to nationals, the fifth since 2000 and the ninth in school history. The Flying Dutchmen finished 18th at last year's nationals.
Hope has won the MIAA championship 14 times with eight of them coming over the past nine years. Coach Ebels has guided Hope's golf fortunes since 1991.
This string of MIAA titles ties the conference record for consecutive championships won by a school. Olivet won five straight titles from 1978-82.
For the second time in his career, senior Tommy Yamaoka of Zeeland, Mich. (Zeeland East HS) captured MIAA medalist honors by averaging 73.5 strokes over the season's eight tournaments. Yamaoka was also the conference medalist as a freshman (2004). As a sophomore he was second in the seasonal standings and as a junior was fourth. Over 32 league tournaments in his career, he maintained a 73.3 strokes average.
Yamaoka and senior teammate Matt Lapham of Brighton, Mich. (Brighton HS) earned All-MIAA first team honors four consecutive years. They become part of an elite group of only seven MIAA golfers to achieve that distinction. The only other Hope golfer to be All-MIAA four times was Eric Wohlfield from 1998-2001.
Lapham tied for second place in the seasonal standings with a 73.6 strokes average. Lapham was the conference medalist as a junior (2006), was third as a sophomore and sixth as a freshman. Over 31 league tournaments in his career, he also maintained a 73.3 strokes average.
Senior Ryan Sheets of Saline, Mich. (Saline HS) received All-MIAA second team honors by finishing eighth in the seasonal standings with a 76.6 average. It marked the third year he has been All-MIAA having received second team honors as a junior (2006) and first team recognition as a sophomore.
Other players contributing to Hope's march to the MIAA championship included senior Steve Martindale of Midland, Mich. (H.H. Dow HS), junior Donald Kring of Williamsburg, Mich. (Traverse City St. Francis HS), and junior Donald Scholten of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian HS). Martindale played in all eight tournaments and place 13th in the seasonal standings with a 78.8 strokes average. Kring played in six tournaments, averaging 78 strokes while Scholten played in two with an average of 75 strokes.
Other members of this year's team included freshman Chris Ansel of Zeeland, Mich. (Zeeland East HS), sophomore Josh Jelenek of Laingsburg, Mich. (Laingsburg HS), junior Dan Oumedian of Jenison, Mich. (Jenison HS)and sophomore Steve Strock of Grandville, Mich. (Grandville HS).


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Ishbel McWhirter: Scrutiny and Revelation
A 90th Birthday Retrospective
Exhibition: 11 January – 26 March 2017
Burgh House is delighted to announce the opening of a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Hampstead-based artist Ishbel McWhirter. Showcasing works spanning from the 1940s to the present, the exhibition will be the first comprehensive survey of her work across seven decades. Coinciding with McWhirter's 90th birthday, it will celebrate her achievements as an artist. Charting her stylistic developments, personal relationships and singular sensitivities, it aims to communicate what makes McWhirter so distinctive and unique as a 20th century artist.
McWhirter's career began in the early 1940s when she was a student at AS Neill's progressive boarding school, Summerhill. Neill's liberating influence cultivated McWhirter's strong instincts for figurative drawing and human behaviour, which were heightened during the war when the school was evacuated from Suffolk to the dramatic mountains of Snowdonia. By her late teens, McWhirter had developed a bold and distinctive style. In 1943, at the age of seventeen, she exhibited at a Summerhill exhibition where she was 'discovered' and hailed by the BBC as a rising star. The following year, she had her first solo exhibition in Bond Street shortly after which her work came to the attention of Viennese artist Oskar Kokoschka. Moved by the psychological charge and graphic dexterity of McWhirter's early drawings, Kokoschka invited the young artist to become his pupil in London.
For the next eight years, McWhirter regularly visited Kokoschka's home to show him her work and discuss matters ranging from technique to the human condition. Kokoschka honed McWhirter's skills at scrutinising the physical and emotional qualities of a subject simultaneously and championed the revelatory powers of her depictions. In the introduction to her second solo exhibition at the Starling Gallery in 1948 he wrote, "I see my pupil Ishbel moved by curiosity. She pictures her heroines with a serene remoteness, lovely restraint, and the strangeness of the designers of the white funeral vases of ancient Greece." Kokoschka had a long-lasting impact on McWhirter and regularly wrote her heartfelt letters. McWhirter continued Kokoschka's quest to penetrate the inner cores of her subjects, writing that "every portrait painter wants to do more than simply imitate features – to search beneath the skin to discover what the facial lines mean".
McWhirter has been prolific in her studies of people. Having begun her career drawing her mother, aunt and grandmother, she went on to produce portraits ranging from street children to cultural figures such as curator and writer Edward Lucie-Smith, actress Tilda Swinton and psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. McWhirter's sitters have frequently commented on the disarming experience of being studied. Arts broadcaster Judith Bumpus wrote, "it is almost as if the artist were intentionally lifting some intolerable burden in order to reveal, and even on occasion restore, a spirit which is still tender and vulnerable under the social mask."
McWhirter's approach to landscape is equally evocative. The panorama of the Menai Strait and Snowdonia recurs throughout her work as an area where she has had an emotional connection since her infancy and currently owns a studio.
Ishbel McWhirter was born in 1927 and lives and works in Hampstead, London and Anglesey, North Wales. Solo exhibitions have included the Arcade Gallery, London (1945), the Hampstead Art Cellar, London (1961) and the Oskar Kokoschka Archive Museum, Vienna (1990). Ishbel McWhirter also has work in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and has been included in various group exhibitions including ICA, London (1954), where she exhibited with artists including Lucien Freud, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland, and the V & A, London (1984), where she contributed to an exhibition of 20th century watercolours.
A simultaneous exhibition in the Peggy Jay Gallery, featuring large-scale paintings, including works for sale, will run from 18th January-5th February 2017.
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A dazzling "jewel-box" collection of over 20,000 stars can be seen in crystal clarity in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The young (40 million year old) cluster, called NGC 1818, is 164,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The LMC, a site of vigorous current star formation, is an ideal nearby laboratory for studying stellar evolution.
In the cluster, astronomers have found a young white dwarf star, which has only very recently formed following the burnout of a red giant. Based on this observation astronomers conclude that the red giant progenitor star was 7.6 times the mass of our Sun. Previously, astronomers have estimated that stars anywhere from 6 to 10 solar masses would not just quietly fade away as white dwarfs but abruptly self-destruct in torrential explosions.
Hubble can easily resolve the star in the crowded cluster, and detect its intense blue-white glow from a sizzling surface temperature of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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TWD don't run on Mavericks Mac
First i am sorry for the bad english because i'm a french guy
So i download the new Mac OS Mavericks on my Macbook and The Walking Dead don't run.
It's really strange because when i played before Mavericks the game works perfectly ...
So any people have the same thing on his Mac or anyone know how I can play?
Thanx you
I just found out The Wolf Amongst Us won't run under Mavericks either.
Something about an unknown developer. Surely there must be a way to get round this security.
I just tried Walking Dead and it won't run anymore either.
It seems The Walking Dead will not play under OS X Mavericks. That sucks...
I get an error screen right away, it won't even load.
The Wolf Among Us was a Gatekeeper issue though. I disabled the security and it started and played just fine.
This fix won't work for TWD though.
I have just sent this e-mail to support@.
Hi there,
I would like to report that The Walking Dead does not run on Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. It crashed instantly.
I've recently bought TWD and I thoroughly enjoyed season 1. I wanted to continue season 2, but since my upgrade to 10.9, that's a no go.
I've read some disturbing things on the support forum, things like: "It doesn't run on Mavericks. Though luck to you." I'm really fond of Telltale and I've bought lots of your games, and have never been disappointed. If TWD will never run on Mavericks, I will be gutted.
My hopes are one of two things will happen:
A) you will realise that, since the upgrade to Mavericks is free and easy, loads of Mac users will upgrade, and you will be flooded with unhappy customers. You will fix this issue. You will make me happy again. I mean: I've just cut of someone's leg with an axe after several tries, I can't just leave it there.
you will reimburse me if A is not an option. I'll donate the money to the Red Cross if you do. I don't care about the money, I care about the game. This solution is not a solution anyways, please reread A.
My admiration for Telltale has taken a blow. Please fix this issue.
Mac users who upgraded are like the walking dead. One, two, even five, you can handle. But more are coming. Watch your six.
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"Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies."
I was the same! Before updating my mac the game worked perfectly. I can still open up the game, but the color and quality severely diminished.
I honestly would not have bothered upgrading to Maverick if I knew this would happen...
Wow, I wish I had known this would happen before updating.. You're right neither game will start for me.
Actually, it's working fine on steam for me now. Not sure what was going on earlier.
not working for me either, i just updated last night and bought TWD today to find it doesn't work... not happy at all
This bothers me a great deal. I somehow understand that TWD does not (yet) run on Mavericks. I'm expecting an update, though.
But as a Mac user you're still able to buy TWD, but Telltale neglects to mention that it doesn't work on Mavericks. This is totally wrong. It's the very, very least they could do.
I was almost tempted to check the "This comment contains spoilers" checkbox, because Telltale really spoiled my weekend with this.
not working for me either, i just updated last night and bought TWD today to find it doesn't work... not happy at all
I've sent the following e-mail to Apple blogger John Gruber (Daring Fireball):
Hi John,
Lemme get this out of the way: I'm a huge fan of DF. Nice job.
I've discovered a major downside to free and easy OS upgrades: unsupported software. I've recently bought "The Walking Dead" from Telltale Games. A few days ago, I've upgraded to Mavericks (free and easy) and now The Walking Dead does not work anymore.
I somehow understand that. The game was released in its entirety before Mavericks was in the picture. But you're still able to download and buy the game without any warning. Maybe it's time they changed the term 'Minimum System Requirements' to 'Minimum and Maximum…'
Support from Telltale is woeful. Basically it's "tough shit, we only support up 'till 10.8". But I'm reading and hearing buyers who found out their OS isn't supported after they bought the game.
Are you hearing similar things? Vendors neglecting to provide an update for software, despite users massively adopting the new OS? I've demanded a refund, but they do not respond to my email.
Anyway: I think a lot of vendors, especially game studios, will be in trouble lest they make sure Mavericks users do not buy their outdated software.
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Sent an email directly to support a week ago.
No response.
Not holding out much hope.
They've lost me as a customer until this is fixed.
Shame, was a great game.
Guess I can still follow season 2 story on you tube.
its so wrong to take my money so easily but not return emails and ignore the issue is just plain wrong.. i just want a refund so I'm doing it through paypal.
Guys, can I just say that I upgraded to mavericks and it runs just fine? Steam version. Maybe mavericks isn't the issue.
I'have got the same problem ; I just buy TWD and I'can't play ... WTF ?
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I believe that Mavericks is indeed the issue for the Telltale Store version (as it was working just fine before I upgraded and, unlike for TWAU, disabling Gatekeeper does not change anything), though the Steam version appears to be working.
Guys, can I just say that I upgraded to mavericks and it runs just fine? Steam version. Maybe mavericks isn't the issue.
So the Steam version of The Walking Dead works fine under Mavericks, but the Telltale version crashes?
That is just weird.
The good new is, that it seems to be just a code signing issue. I have posted an awkward workaround, and hope TTG fixes it.
I received this email.
Dear T,
A reply has been made to your ticket. Below are the ticket details.
Hi T,
I apologize for the inconvenience. If you are playing on OS 10.9, we are currently looking into this issue. We hope to have more information on this soon.
Thank you,
Yeah, while I can appreciate possibly not having a game update for Mavericks, not having a warning on the site that it's not working is completely unacceptable, particularly as I bought nearly a week after Mavericks was released.
This is really poor business practice and not a particularly good way to engender trust in TTG. I do hope an update to let me try this game on Mavericks is out soon. Can we get an ETA on a fix?
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The Mac 10.9 issue for The Walking Dead has been fixed. Un-installing the previous version and re-installing the latest version from the Telltale Website will fix the issue.
Yay! Well done telltale. My faith is restored.
Just bought TWD and it doesn't work on os x 10.9
Season 1 or Season 2?
Further please post the information from the crash report.
Please also follow the instructions to run the TWD Support Tool and post the download link to the resulting "TWD_support_data_mac.zip" to your next reply in this thread.
try right-clicking and run it, that's how you circumvent unknown sources, to my knowledge.JordyLicht posted: »
I just found out The Wolf Amongst Us won't run under Mavericks either. Something about an unknown developer. Surely there must be a way to get round this security.
Ok here we go!
It should finish eventually. Just let it sit until it's done.
The game silently downloads about 40MB of updates at the beginning, which can take a few minutes. I can see some of the files in the temp folder, so it's definitely not done yet.
Please start the game again and let it run in full screen until its done.
Ok here we go! http://www.sendspace.com/file/m4uuf7


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Evan S. Connell Jr., a literary iconoclast whose writings as a novelist, poet, essayist and historian won the admiration of critics and a cult-like following of discerning readers with books on subjects as eclectic as Midwestern provincialism, the medieval Crusades and Gen. George Custer's last stand, has died. He was 88.
Connell, who had been in failing health in recent years, was found dead Thursday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. The cause "was just old age," said his niece, Donna Waller.
Called "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers" by novelist and critic Joyce Carol Oates, Connell wrote the bestselling novels "Mrs. Bridge" (1959) and "Mr. Bridge" (1969), whose protagonists were portrayed by Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman in the 1990 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge."
Connell was also known for his nonfiction, which ranged across continents and centuries, examining historical moments like Custer's ignominious defeat in the 19th century Indian Wars in "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn" (1984). That book was a surprise bestseller, adapted for a television miniseries, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize.
The novels and Custer book were among the most accessible of his works, which also included "The Alchymist's Journal" (1991), the imagined diaries of seven pre-Renaissance alchemists, and "The Aztec Treasure House" (2001), a collection of vividly detailed essays about alchemists, astronomers and explorers.
His last book was the short story collection "Lost in Uttar Pradesh" (2008), which Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin called "a vivid metaphor" for a career that was at times brilliant, frustrating and mysterious.
Making his debut as a novelist in the same time period as Philip Roth and John Updike, Connell earned comparisons to those writers with "Mrs. Bridge," the story of a lonely and conventional Kansas City, Mo., housewife whose material wealth conceals a life of quiet desperation. Wallace Stegner pronounced it "a hell of a portrait."
Like much of his other fiction, it was semi-autobiographical, set in Connell's hometown. Born in Kansas City on Aug. 17, 1924, Connell was the son and grandson of physicians. He was a pre-med student at Dartmouth, which he attended from 1941 to 1943, but ultimately decided against following in his elders' footsteps. This did not please his father, whom Connell described as "a rather severe man."
"He was concerned that I would never be able to make a living at this kind of thing," Connell, in a 2000 interview with the Associated Press, said of writing. "It was a justifiable concern, I think. I grew up in a home where there was no music, no interest in any of the arts."
He dropped out of Dartmouth and joined the Navy, training as an aviator at a base near Albuquerque, where he fell in love with the vastness of the West. After completing his military service, he studied painting on the GI Bill and traveled, living in France during the 1950s and writing for the Paris Review.
He moved to San Francisco in 1954, and three years later Viking published his first book, "The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories."
He initially wrote "Mrs. Bridge" rather conventionally, with about 15 chapters, but it was rejected by numerous publishers in part because it lacked a climax. That was his intention, Connell said, because "our lives do not reach a dramatic climax in the way that books usually do. Most of us just go on day to day through major and minor trials and defeats. And finally time runs out."
He restructured the novel as a series of 117 vignettes, which paint a devastating portrait of a woman puzzled by the emptiness of the small world she inhabits. The novel was "one of the very few written since World War II that clearly deserves to be called, as it has been, a masterpiece," William H. Nolte wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Connell followed the same theme and structure a decade later in the companion novel, "Mr. Bridge." Some critics found it darker and more satirical than the first novel because the main character, Mrs. Bridge's joyless lawyer husband, was far less likable than his wife.
Despite the success of the "Bridge" novels, Connell held a number of odd jobs to get by. He delivered mail, read gas meters and was a counselor at an unemployment office. In his exceedingly dark 1966 novel "The Diary of a Rapist," the main character is working in an unemployment office when he goes crazy.
"He always wrote about what he was interested in," his niece said, "not what would make money."
In 1984, three years after he told Publishers Weekly that he was "just barely" able to support himself, his novelistic book on Custer was released to wide acclaim and some controversy for its unflattering portrayal of the general as a man who hungered for fame and was rendered sterile by gonorrhea.
Larry McMurtry, in a 2008 appraisal of Custer scholarship for the New York Review of Books, said Connell's work was "one of the few masterpieces to concern itself with the American West" and particularly noteworthy for its descriptions of the character of the Native Americans.
Unlike Custer, Connell shied from publicity. He did not give readings or teach college courses, hated crowds and was loath to be photographed. He did not own a phone until he was 50 and took his television out of the closet only for football games.
A lover of women who never married, he was "a very shy man who lives inside himself … inside his own mind," actress and singer Gale Garnett, a longtime friend and former girlfriend, told The Times in 1991.
He won a number of honors for lifetime achievement, including the $100,000 Lannan Literary Award in 2000 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2010.
"We believe he's one of the most important postwar American writers," Patrick Lannan of the Lannan Foundation told the Associated Press in 2000. "To be that good in fiction, nonfiction and poetry is really … remarkable."
Connell, who left San Francisco for Santa Fe in 1989, is survived by a sister, Barbara Zimmermann, of Houston; a nephew; and two nieces.


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Recently for class I had to experience Lolita in its three most popular forms — the original 1958 novel by Vladimir Nabokov and the two film adaptations, the 1962 version directed by Stanley Kubrick and the 1997 version directed by Adrian Lyne.
The 1958 novel doesn't really need any introduction from me. It's considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, with one of the most controversial characters and storylines in literary history. I read it for the first time last year (review found here) and wasn't surprised that Robertson Davies once wrote that the 'them is not the corruption of an innocent child by a cunning adult, but the exploitation of a weak adult by a corrupt child.'
The protagonist and narrator, the pathetic Humbert Humbert, is so clever and funny that you're momentarily willing to put his transgressions in the background and go along for the ride. Momentarily, of course.
1962 Film
The 1962 film by Kubrick was an interesting one. It starred James Mason as Humbert, Sue Luon as Lolita, Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze and Peter Sellers as Claire Quilty. The screenplay was attributed to Nabokov (and he actually got an Oscar nomination for it), but in reality it was mostly re-written by Kubrick and James Harris. Nabokov published his version of the script separately in 1974.
The 1962 Lolita was a product of its time, unfortunately, meaning it was heavily held back by censors. Needless to say, Kubrick is no prude (one only has to watch Eyes Wide Shut) to know that, but his version of Lolita was very tame, with almost none of the sexual innuendos littered throughout the novel — in fact, there was very little physical contact between Lolita and Humbert, the scenes often fading to black before anything happens.
Kubrick in fact said that if he could have done it again he would have emphasised the erotic aspect of the novel with the same weight Nabokov did, and that if he knew censors were going to be so tight he might not have made the film at all.
I liked the 1962 film a lot. I wouldn't say it's one of Kubrick's best efforts but considering what he had to work with I think it was a splendid effort. The film managed to capture both the tortured soul of Humbert and his cunning. Obviously, it was impossible to replicate nuances of the book, but Kubrick came closer than I could have imagined.
I don't know if this is a complaint, but Quilty was given a much bigger role in the film than the novel, which threw me off a bit. He didn't really feel like a character that deserved more screen time in the book, but I guess because Sellers played him Kubrick decided to give him free reign to do his impersonations.
The other thing was Sue Lyon's Lolita. It was a good performance but she looked too old to be the target of a paedophile. I thought she could have easily passed for 18, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing.
1997 Film
This one, directed by Adrian Lyne (who was at the helm of 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal and later, Unfaithful) was made at a much more liberal time, so it was more explicit in the eroticism. It was also more faithful to the original as Stephen Schiff, the first time screenwriter who penned the script, lifted a lot more dialogue directly from the book and had more voiceovers from Jeremy Irons (who interestingly also voiced the audio book version of the novel).
On the other hand, this was a completely different film that didn't capture any of the black comedy of the novel. It's beautifully shot, with long, sweeping scenes and this tender, moody tone. As some critics pointed out, Lyne seemed to have missed the point of the novel, creating a pure tragedy that's all emotional torture and no fun.
I think it's unfortunate that people will always inevitably compare adaptations and 'remakes' with what has come before it. It's human nature, I suppose, but is it entirely fair? Why can't we judge them as separate and distinct works of art?
I didn't really enjoy the 1997 version, but I could definitely appreciate the aesthetics of it. Jeremy Irons is always good to watch on screen, and Dominique Swain showed so much promise in her first role — what ever became of her?
But anyway, I found it interesting that a lot of my classmates found the subject matter difficult to digest. They weren't able to read and enjoy the book because mentally they could not separate the fiction from the reality and repulsion of paedophila. Stylistically, many also thought Nabokov was overrated, too clever for his own good and a bit of a one trick pony (at least in this book). They thought maybe, and there's probably sliver of truth in this, that the book has done so well because of the subject matter as opposed to the masterful writing. I dunno. I'm still mightily impressed by the man's wordplay and the confidence with which he can weave sentences in a language that's not his first.
Will Lolita ever be remade again? I assume it will be, eventually. Maybe someone like Roman Polanski or Woody Allen would be a good choice to direct a movie about paedophila?


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A heavy police presence was called out to a residence on West 1oth Street on Thursday afternoon after a call came in involving a possible sexual assault.
According to the Sioux Falls Police Department the incident began earlier Tuesday at the Rushmore Motel where the suspect assaulted his former girlfriend.
The woman then returned to her home in the 900 block of West 10th Street. The suspect followed her into the home were he sexually assaulted her, said police spokesman Sam Clemens.
The suspect kept the woman confined to the home until Thursday morning when she was able to flee to a local hospital, where she reported the sexual assault. The suspect then sent a message to the woman saying that he was going to harm himself because she had called the police.
After a brief standoff a SWAT team and police negotiators were able to convince the suspect to leave the residence without incident. At that time the suspect was arrested on rape and assault charges.


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Wall Street Journal (Tao Jones):
At the age of 93, actor Mickey Rooney has passed away. As his many lengthy eulogies have made abundantly clear, his was a life of stratospheric highs and humiliating lows. He was one of the biggest stars in the world as a teen; he fell into bankruptcy and irrelevancy as an adult. He reinvented himself and rebounded. He crashed and burned. Few lives have had as many epic twists and turns, making his obituaries obsessively engrossing reading.
But there's one thing the newspapers have generally danced past, and it happens to be the role that has cast the longest shadow out of a career of thousands: His performance as Mr. I.Y. Yunioshi in the classic 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
In the decades since the film was released, Rooney's portrayal of Yunioshi — taped eyelids, buck teeth, sibilant accent and all — has become one of the persistent icons of ethnic stereotype, brought up whenever conversation turns to the topic of Hollywood racism. The depiction has prompted widespread protests whenever the film is screened; Paramount, the studio behind "Breakfast" has now acknowledged Yunioshi as such a toxic caricature that its canonical "Centennial Collection" DVD release of the film includes a companion documentary, "Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective," which features Asian American performers and advocates in conversation about the role's lasting cultural impact and the broader context of Asian and other racial stereotypes in entertainment.
Six years ago, after four decades of stolidly defending the role, even Rooney himself finally expressed some regrets, stating in an interview that if he'd known so many people would be offended, "I wouldn't have done it."
Would that he hadn't. The spectre of Yunioshi continues to haunt Hollywood and Asian America today. Rooney's broadly comic performance, repurposed from his early vaudeville days into the brave new world of the cinema, is the godfather of the "Ching-Chong" stereotype that continues to rear its yellow head today — as the recent "Colbert Report" flap underscores. Though I wasn't a supporter of the tactics or stated objectives of the #CancelColbert campaign, the point made by the activists behind it is a valid one: Racially stereotypical images are problematic even when presented as progressive satire, because many who see them won't understand the context and will laugh for the "wrong reasons."
And even when laughed at for the right reasons, they're problematic. As many have pointed out in the wake of that campaign, the mainstreaming of these images has the unfortunate side effect of making them seem safe for public consumption…so long as their intent isn't to "harm." The danger of allowing intent to be the sole arbiter of whether something is acceptable can be seen most obviously in the depictions of another marginalized American population — ironically, the one whose interests were drowned out in the wildfire aftermath of the #CancelColbert campaign: Native Americans.
Last Friday, an image of an incredibly awkward encounter between a Cleveland Indians fan and a Native American protester went viral. The photo, taken by Cleveland Scene staff writer Sam Allard, shows the fan in a plastic feather headdress and grotesque "Chief Wahoo" makeup, face to face with an expressionless demonstrator, a member of the Apache Nation.
Allard quotes the unrepentant Clevelandite as proclaiming that his costume wasn't racist: "It's Cleveland pride, that's all it's about." But the fact that he and hundreds of thousands of other sports fans still shamelessly refuse to acknowledge the offensiveness of such depictions, even when staring a real, live Native American in the face, shows that that isn't all it's about.
Racial mascots like the Indians' Chief Wahoo aren't something to be proud of; they're a lingering disgrace. They serve to dehumanize a people who've been subjected over the span of America's existence and beyond to an innumerable series of abuses and betrayals. They bury some of the worst aspects of our nation's history under piles of printed polyester and plastic gimcrackery. They encourage new generations of young Americans to believe that racialized imagery is acceptable and appropriate, just so long as it's being used for fun, for laughs, for entertainment….even when the subject of that imagery is not the one having fun, laughing or being entertained.
It took Mickey Rooney 40 years to regret his role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," but he had little leverage to redress it even if he'd wanted to. He couldn't change his filmed performance or ban its distribution. As an entertainer, it is a permanent part of his legacy. Maybe the biggest part: Most of his movies, from the Andy Hardy series to his partnerships with Judy Garland, have largely passed into the category of quaint, half-remembered nostalgia. But "Breakfast," with the luminous Audrey Hepburn at its center, has not. And even those who decry the PC police can't deny that Rooney's performance, the one that has likely been seen by more people than any other, is the most unpleasant and uncomfortable part of an otherwise classic film.
Sports teams like the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins have a luxury that Rooney didn't have as an entertainer. They control how they're depicted; they own their brands. Which means it's fully within their power to eliminate the ugly trappings of racial mascotry from their corporate identities and merchandising.
And while they may pay a short-term price for doing so, the long term benefits more than outweigh it: They will have removed a set of cancerous growths from the face of our popular culture, and established new legacies for their franchises, marked by goodwill, grace, humility and sensitivity. That would be something to truly make their fans proud. That's what it's "all about."
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I-15 and CA-76 work-arounds don't always work
Lilac Road turns into a dirt road at the Indian reservation
Mike Madriaga 2:12 p.m., June 24
It's no secret. San Diego beer is a cut above; something to both enjoy and celebrate. Everybody in the imbibing community says it, hundreds of bar and restaurant owners profess it in words and with the beer running through their taps, but is any business owner out there willing to go all the way and put it all on the line by offering only San Diego beers at their venue in a big way? I'm happy to say that, with the recent soft opening of a new venue, the answer is now yes.
Young entrepreneurs Beau Schmitt and Kyle Chaykowski established the newly open San Diego Brew Project inside 57 Degrees (1735 Hancock Street, Five Points). It's mission is to provide exposure to all of our county's 60-plus brewhouses while giving visitors a wide-ranging taste of everything the San Diego craft beer scene has to offer. I had a chance to visit before their official debut and, as someone who has made a living professing love for local beer and adoration of those who produce it, I was extremely impressed with the shrine to America's Finest ales and lagers these guys have erected.
San Diego Brew Project essentially offers patrons a scaled down local craft beer festival any time they wish to partake. Thirty-one different brewing companies' wares were on tap when I came in, many from nanobreweries that receive very little if any exposure beyond their own tasting rooms. There are varying reasons for this, but in many cases, bar and restaurant owners aren't willing to take a chance on a company that's either unknown or has a spotty reputation. This leaves such companies in a tricky spot as the only opportunities for them to get in front of drinkers at that point is to somehow lure them into their tasting rooms or engage them at festivals and events. San Diego Brew Project changes all that.
On my visit, I could have had proven five-star beers like Ballast Point Sculpin IPA or AleSmith Speedway Stout, but instead, my trusty photographer and I combined our efforts, selecting a pair of taster flights that, when combined, included ten beers from the likes of little guys including Prohibition Brewing Company in Vista, Wet 'N Reckless in Mira Mesa, Mad Lab Craft Brewing in Otay Mesa, Poor House Brewing Company in North Park, and On-The-Tracks Brewery in Carlsbad. To find one of any of these breweries' beers on tap would be a rarity, but to have them all available in one place is unheard of. I tip my hat to Schmitt and Chaykowski because, quite frankly, this is gutsy. But it falls right in line with their passion for San Diego beer and drives home the authenticity of that amour.
The tasting bar takes up one half of the expansive circular bar in the center of the building. Currently, beers are only servable in taster-sized glasses but as soon as a license is approved by the City of San Diego (any day now) full pints will be available. Beers are also for sale in bottles. Like the taps, the packaged beer includes selections from smaller operations like Aztec Brewing Company, Mother Earth Brew Co. and Oceanside Ale Works, with product scheduled to hit shelves from Hillcrest Brewing Company and Stumblefoot Brewing Company as soon as both begin bottling their beer.
New furniture has been installed around the bar and off in the southwest corner of the building where walls will be demolished so a pair of floor-to-ceiling garage doors can be installed, and offer guests a view of the airport and the downtown skyline. They also have big plans for the venue's fenced-off parking lot, one of the neighborhood's largest. Two-to-three times a year, that space can be used to host philanthropic events. Already, Schmitt and Chaykowski are working with local craft beer industry Susan G. Komen 3-Day team Beer For Boobs to host a fundraiser festival. Additionally, they are working with local craft beer enthusiast venture Brews Up to start an artisanal suds education program, and hope to hold meet-the-brewer homebrewing classes hosted by local brewers who are known for having gone from being residential tinkerers to professional beermakers.
Even with all that next-level foresight, Schmitt's paramount goal is basic. He wants people to know when they sit down and order something at San Diego Brew Project, that anything they're drinking comes from someplace within a 40-minute drive of his establishment. He and Chaykowski even went to the work of putting together a three-ring binder filled with one-page descriptions of every brewery in San Diego County. No place in San Diego offers such a level playing field for all of our region's players (and otherwise would-be players). This business is a great idea that's been executed exceptionally well, and I can't remember encountering a new craft beer spot I've been this excited about in years.
NOTE: All photos by Tyler Graham.


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Microsoft has launched Silverlight 3 and Expression 3. In conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio, Silverlight and Expression offer a collaborative development and design environment that simplifies the process of delivering engaging user experiences.
"Silverlight and Expression fill a clear need in the marketplace for a complete end-to-end solution that makes it easy for development teams to work together effectively, from concept to deployment, to create the types of rich interactive experiences today's users expect," said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft. "In a record amount of time, we've gone from being the industry newcomer to achieving a remarkable rate of industry adoption, rapidly delivering capabilities such as SketchFlow and IIS Smooth Streaming that are unmatched by other vendors. With more than 6 million developers with .NET programming skills worldwide and a platform that delivers a rich user experience at some of the lowest costs possible, Silverlight ubiquity is a matter of 'when,' not 'if.'"
Microsoft is introducing several features in Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 that enable development teams to create RIAs and media applications with capabilities not offered by competitors, including the following:
- Expression SketchFlow provides development teams unrivaled capabilities to rapidly prototype applications and take their ideas from concept to reality.
- Out of Browser. Silverlight 3 provides the seamless ability to add out-of-browser, connected and disconnected scenarios for cross-platform applications, radically improving the productivity and capabilities over traditional RIAs.
- IIS Smooth Streaming. As part of Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Media Services and combined with Silverlight 3, IIS Smooth Streaming enables the industry's first HDTV-quality (1080p) video experiences with rich interactivity for both on-demand and live video.
Silverlight 3 also delivers hundreds of features and controls that increase development team productivity, including 3-D and hardware graphics acceleration. Combined with continued innovation in world-class tools for development teams in Expression 3, which builds on and complements the strengths of Visual Studio and works with Windows Server, the global Web community is now empowered to create cutting-edge RIAs and media experiences.
A full list of the new features and capabilities in Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 is available here.


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As of the press deadline early on January 29, more than 2.6 inches of precipitation had fallen at the Camp Jackson sno-tel reporting station in the Abajo mountains since the storm hit on January 27.
With the latest storm, Camp Jackson has already received more snow pack than in an average year. Snow totals generally build through early April.
Lewis Black reports that wind gusts in Blanding on January 28 were in excess of 40 miles an hour.
The second surge of the storm hit hard on Monday evening, resulting in the closure of all three highways leading out of Monticello. Vehicle accidents on Highways 191 and 491, combined with a number of vehicles that were stuck on minor roads throughout the area, created dangerous conditions. Road crews reported fighting through drifts as high as eight feet tall.
The rate of snowfall, combined with blizzard conditions and massive drifts, was simply too great for the hard working road crews to keep up.
About 20 percent of the students at Monticello High School did not make it to school on Monday. Many bus routes did not run, but the schools remained open.


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By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — By the time fuel oil hit the record high price of $147 per barrel this summer, telephones were ringing off their hooks at local fuel vendors' offices. Customers were clamoring for "pre-buy" contracts, looking for a way to lock into a price of $4 per gallon of heating fuel or more and pay for a winter's worth of oil up front.
Now, though, fuel oil prices have dropped to under $60 per barrel this week and prices for heating fuel have fallen by 30 percent or more. With the price for No. 2 fuel oil at some local companies coming in this month at around $2.80 per gallon, those same customers are likely wishing they'd left their phones on the hooks.
But customers, it turns out, aren't the only ones who locked in at high prices this year — their vendors did, too.
"We were kind of forced into it by the customers," admitted Mike Bordeleau, the owner of Bridport-based Mike's Fuels. In July, Bordeleau was on the fence about offering pre-buy contracts — reluctant, he said, to have his own customers lock into prices that were $1.50 or $2 per gallon higher than last year.
Skyrocketing prices, though, made some customers anxious to buy early in case prices climbed even higher over the course of the winter. What's more, speculators on Wall Street — Matt Cota of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association (VFDA) named Goldman Sachs as an example — were calling for oil prices to hit $200 a barrel, which could result in heating oil priced at $6 or $7 per gallon.
"There was a panic across the Northeast," Cota said.
So, when Bordeleau was able to offer a pre-buy contract at $3.99 a gallon, almost 20 percent of his customers — around 500 out of approximately 2,700 households — jumped at the offer.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — They came from all walks of life and from all corners of the county on this clear May day, to strike up a singular voice of compassion for a woman who was drawing her last breaths during the annual season of renewal.
They respectfully gathered around Cynthia Hodgson's bed, gazed upon her lovingly, and eased into a rendition of the spiritual, "There's A Light."
Mrs. Hodgson couldn't acknowledge those serenading her, and she didn't have to. As the group watched and sang, her breathing slowed, then stopped completely.
"She just eased on," said her son, Will Porter, who was among the family members present at her bedside. "It was almost like she relaxed right away."
Family members are convinced Mrs. Hodgson's final moments on Earth were made more peaceful by Wellspring, a group of Hospice Volunteer Services singers who offer to serenade those nearing the end of their lives.
For almost four years now, the group has been sharing song as a source of comfort for hospice patients struggling with the pain, fear and anxiety that can come with a terminal illness or advanced age.
Priscilla Baker is Wellspring's coordinator. She was with the group when it began rehearsing in 2004 and gave its first "patient sing" in 2005.
She noted how Wellspring has grown from a rather casual collection of seven or eight people to an association of almost 30 avid singers devoted to the cause. Practices, conducted the first and third Tuesday of each month, draw upwards of 16 singers.
Since she serves as program director for Volunteer Hospice Services, Baker is able to offer Wellspring's services to clients who might feel soothed by music.
MIDDLEBURY — What does a "downward dog" tunnel have to do with fighting hunger?
Plenty, if Otter Creek Yoga owner Joanna Colwell and one of her yoga students have anything to say about it.
Acting on a suggestion from Lila McVeigh, who has regularly practiced yoga with Colwell, Colwell is hosting a whimsical yoga class this week for pre-school-age children and their parents. While the class is free, she and McVeigh are suggesting parents bring a donation of $10 or non-perishable food items for the food shelf at the Helping Overcome Poverty's Effects (HOPE) agency on Boardman Street.
As it turns out, Colwell's yoga studio is one of several businesses chipping in to stock local food shelves this fall. And requiring a food donation for a food shelf is popular with other events, as well.
Across town, the Middlebury branch of the Chittenden Bank is participating in the company's Share the Bounty initiative. Their three-month-long food drive, which started last month, will also be contributing donations to a local food shelf.
Other businesses and events in the county supporting area food banks include:
• Screening of "The Fragrant Spirit of Life" documentary film. Organizers of the Dec. 2 event in Bristol said donations of canned food will be accepted.
• Hypnosis Works at 52 Liberty St. in Bristol. A group hypnosis session on Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. is free with a non-perishable food donation for the food shelf or a $3 donation to Heifer International.
• The Cool Yule kick-off event in Bristol on Dec. 5. The lighting of the bandstand and memory tree on the town green, which will also feature seasonal songs by school choruses, will include a food collection for Bristol's food bank.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Soapworks officials hope to move the growing business from its current Exchange Street headquarters to a building on Industrial Avenue that will double the company's production space and allow it to potentially double its workforce during the next two years.
Vermont Soapworks President Larry Plesent launched the manufacturing company in 1992 in a 1,700-square-foot farmhouse in Brandon. A steady increase in business prompted Plesent to look for larger accommodations, which he found in 1996 in the Neri business incubator building at 616 Exchange St. Vermont Soapworks initially occupied around 2,500 square feet in the 31,000-square-foot structure, but has gobbled up additional space during recent years as production demands have grown. The company now occupies 10,000 square feet of production space and 1,000 square feet of retail space in the Neri building.
But once again, Vermont Soapworks finds itself at an enviable crossroads. Now producing hundreds of soap-related products that it markets to thousands of firms, stores and lodgers in 43 countries, the company has been growing at a rate of 25 percent per year. It again needs more room.
"Now we have totally outgrown our space here," Plesent said, watching some of his 26 workers trim bars from large soap blocks, pack products into huge boxes and tend to the small store that offers locals and tourists a sample of Vermont Soapworks' wares.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — The latest director of the Northlands Job Corps center in Vergennes plans to improve students' experience and academic achievement at the MacDonough Drive campus through better discipline, and to tackle a long-standing issue for the federal job-training program: recruiting more Vermonters.
After taking over this past summer, Tony Staynings, 55, first had to deal with a hospital stay for health problems, and now he is back on track in his mission of improving the center for his employer, the Kentucky firm Rescare Corp.
Staynings said his top focuses are improving employment prospects and job skills for the center's roughly 230 economically disadvantaged students from around New England.
The son of a British Army sergeant major, Staynings is an accomplished long-distance runner who competed in two Olympics and described himself as "like a drill instructor with a sense of humor."
"I like to have fun. I want the students to have fun," he said. "I want the kids to know that education should be and can be a fun experience for them. But I also make it very clear there are rules. You have to be responsible and accountable for what you do."
As well as longstanding prohibitions on drugs, alcohol and violent behavior, rules now include requiring passes to wander the campus during daytime classroom hours and banning "public displays of affection," which Staynings said are not acceptable in the workplace, and therefore not at Northlands.
"We're training these folks to be ready for the workplace, (teaching) what we call employability skills, social skills," he said.
RIPTON — Folks who live near a river will tell you there's something comforting about listening to the gentle gurgle of water as it meanders down a country mountain.
But folks like Carol McKnight also know that a meandering river can suddenly hop its banks and turn into an angry, destructive freight train. After having seen the Middlebury River do just that on Aug. 6 and shear more than 10 feet from the backyard of her Ripton village property in the process, McKnight doesn't sleep as soundly during a rainstorm.
"I'm feeling extremely anxious," McKnight said on Tuesday, as she walked around the exterior of her beautiful home in the heart of the Ripton village. The home was surrounded by a gushing moat only three months ago during a devastating flood from which some areas of Addison County are still recovering.
"I'm very concerned," she said.
McKnight and her neighbors immediately downstream, Rick and Molly Hawley, are now seeking guidance and help in shoring up the river banks along their shrinking property to ensure their homes don't wind up cascading down to East Middlebury on some future rain-soaked day.
And McKnight and the Hawleys stressed that it is in the town of Ripton's best interest to see the banks reinforced and the Middlebury River redirected into the channels it has abandoned over time at the whim of Mother Nature. Town officials acknowledged mounting evidence that the next cataclysmic flooding event could result in the river not only taking out the McKnight and Hawley properties, but gushing over Route 125 and into the three municipal properties that define Ripton Village: the town office building, the community house and the 1864 Ripton United Methodist Church.
SUDBURY AND WHITING — Plans for a tri-town school merger in Leicester, Whiting and Sudbury were derailed Monday, after voters in Sudbury defeated a measure 54-44 that would have allocated $7,000 to a planning fund for the potential community school.
Of the three towns, only Sudbury voted against the merger and planning funding — and in fact, Whiting and Leicester voted overwhelmingly in favor of moving forward with the community school.
"The message was quite clear that due to the economic conditions, this was not a time to even spend $7,000 to study the proposal of a joint school merger," said Cathy Smid, a Sudbury resident and volunteer on the committee investigating the merger.
Whiting voters approved $6,000 for the planning effort Monday night 41-8, and last week voters in Leicester unanimously approved a $12,000 contribution to the fund.
Monday's nearly two-hour meeting at the Sudbury Town Meeting House, on the other hand, was marked by heated debate.
"There were many people who came to the meeting who had already made up their minds," said Sudbury school board Chair Stephen Roberts.
Roberts said that he tried to make clear at Monday's meeting that this month's vote would not definitively determine whether or not the three towns would build the proposed community school. Monday's votes were the first in a potential three-vote process. Had all three towns agree to move forward with the merger, residents would have participated in a governance vote this winter to establish a joint school district.
Finally, all three towns would have been asked to approve large bond votes for the new school in a year's time.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury resident Robin Scheu has responded to many challenges in her career as a bank executive, school board director and leader of various nonprofits.
All of her experience will come in handy as she gets ready to tackle her latest challenge — jumpstarting the local industrial/manufacturing economy as the new executive director of the Addison County Economic Development Corp.
The ACEDC board recently picked Scheu to succeed the organization's most recent executive director, Jamie Stewart, who left earlier this fall to take a similar job in Rutland.
Scheu is the past manager of the Addison County Solid Waste Management District, former interim director of the Middlebury Area Land Trust and the former chairwoman of the Mary Hogan Elementary School board. Prior to those jobs, she spent 16 years as a banker, with Bank of Boston and then at Bank of Vermont (now Keybank), running a commercial lending division, and retail divisions. She most recently ran her own consulting business.
"I think I have a broad range of experience that I can bring to bear on the job," Scheu said.
She knows it won't be an easy job. Addison County's industrial/manufacturing economy has sustained some tough body blows during the past few years. Standard Register closed, and the up-and-coming business (Connor Homes) that has taken its place on Route 7 South has had to substantially trim its workforce in recent months in light of the sagging economy.
Specialty Filaments also closed, though it reopened under new ownership as Monahan Filaments. Ancient Graffiti and CPC of Vermont are other Middlebury enterprises that have closed their doors during the past year. And personal care products manufacturer Autumn Harp last week announced it was moving 160 jobs from Bristol to its plant in Essex.
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