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Roller derby comes to Derby

by Paul Lefebvre

NEWPORT — A plea agreement to resolve anembezzlement charge against the formertreasurer of the Albany Volunteer FireDepartment has apparently failed.

Judge Robert Bent has allowed JenniferTollman, 34, of Albany to withdraw her guiltyplea that she made at her arraignment two weeksago.

A plea agreement called for the court toimpose a three-year deferred sentence on Ms.Tollman, who is accused of embezzling $6,100from the department from August 2010 to March2011.

Under the terms of a deferred sentence, adefendant’s record is wiped clear if she stays outof trouble and complies with the court’sconditions.

Judge Bent declined Tuesday to answer areporter’s question if he had rejected the pleaagreement that was introduced at Ms. Tollman’sarraignment on September 20.

He did confirm, however, that he had allowedher to withdraw her guilty plea.

Suspicions against Ms. Tollman arose whenshe was unable to provide a report to the firechief on the department’s finances in August2010.

VOLUME 38, NUMBER 41 OCTOBER 12, 2011 EIGHTY-FIVE CENTS

by Joseph Gresser

DERBY — Derby Zoning AdministratorRobert Kelley said Tuesday the permit he issuedfor Good Stuff, a store that sells sex-related itemsand smoking pipes on Route 5 in Derby, wasroutine.

He recognizes that the new store, located onRoute 5 in the building that also houses Roasterscoffee shop, has upset some in town.

But he said there was nothing sneaky aboutthe way the store came to town.

Nevertheless, he said he expects people whooppose the new business coming to Derby toattend the next selectmen’s meeting on Monday,October 17, and voice their objections.

Mr. Kelley’s opinion — that quite a fewtownspeople will attend — is shared by Derbyresident Emily Wheeler, who said she plans topresent selectmen with a petition asking for anamendment to the zoning ordinance that wouldrestrict the places such businesses could belocated.

Ms. Wheeler said she thought the town’sindustrial zone might be suitable for a store likeGood Stuff, but in any case one should not beallowed within 1,000 feet of a school, library,shopping center, or bus stop, she said. “Any placewhere minors might congregate.”

Both Derby residents and people fromsurrounding towns have signed petitions decrying

Good Stuff faces opposition

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by Chris Braithwaite

LOWELL — If Don and Shirley Nelson aremules standing stubbornly in the way of itsindustrial wind project on Lowell Mountain,Green Mountain Power tried to move themTuesday with both a carrot and a stick.

The carrot came by telephone Tuesdaymorning. The utility’s president, Mary Powell,called the Nelsons to say Green Mountain Power(GMP) would buy their 580-acre farm at theasking price of $1.25-million.

The stick arrived by courier Tuesdayafternoon. It was a letter from GMP’s attorneythreatening to sue the Nelsons if they persist inletting “guests” occupy a campsite too close to thetop of the project site to permit blasting. Thedamages GMP would attempt to recover couldeasily exceed $1-million, the letter said, andpunitive damages might also be sought.

“I can take one and a quarter million and run,or be fined a million bucks,” Mr. Nelson said

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Poison Apple, player-coach for the Northeast Kingdom Roller Derby, shows off proper technique and properattitude for the full contact sport. Members of the newly formed league have been practicing at IROC andgetting ready for their public debut in December. Ms. Apple, who has been a derby competitor for more thanfive years, said the all-woman sport allows “people to take a vacation from regular life and feel empowered andstronger.” For a story and more photographs please see page sixteen. Photo by Joseph Gresser

by Bethany M. Dunbar

GREENSBORO — The Highland Lodgeclosed its doors on Tuesday after 57 years inbusiness. The place is for sale.

“We only told our staff yesterday,” saidWilhelmina Smith, one of the owners. “Therewas a lot of crying yesterday.”

She said she is not sure how many peoplewere working on the last day, but in the pastyear 80 people worked at the lodge at varioustimes.

Ms. Smith said the lodge, as a business, hasbeen struggling financially for some time now,and the extended family has been discussingwhat to do for a long time.

Asked if she was relieved or sad, she said,“both.” She has been in mourning for a whileknowing this decision was likely, but at thispoint she is relieved it’s made.

“I have just been through many, many weeksof meeting with the family,” Ms. Smith said. Shesaid they had given themselves until October 3 to(Continued on page thirty-four.)

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The Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) isseeking applications from candidates for a vacantposition on its 12-member board of directors. TheEastern Zone director at large position becamevacant upon the death in July of long-timedirector Bert Lague, who was from Derby Line.

The board of directors will appoint a VECmember to serve in Mr. Lague’s former role untila successor is elected at VEC’s next annualmeeting in May, or at a special election.

VEC is seeking candidates who have theability and time to participate in all monthlyboard meetings and committee activities. Theboard is responsible for setting policy andprovides general operational direction for themember-owned electric distribution utility, whichserves approximately 34,000 members innorthern Vermont. The board of directors meetsin the afternoon on the last Tuesday of eachmonth at VEC’s main office in Johnson.

In order to be considered for appointment,interested VEC members should file anapplication by November 4. Applicants will bereviewed by the director search and selectioncommittee, which consists of three board

members appointed by President Tom Bailey.The committee will review applications and makerecommendations to the full board.

Persons applying for positions must be VECmembers, and may not be employed by thecooperative, and may not in any way be employedby, or have financial interest in, a businessselling electric energy or supplies to thecooperative. Candidates must have a principalresidence in the Eastern Zone of the serviceterritory.

The following towns make up the EasternZone: Albany, Averill, Avery’s Gore, Barton,Bloomfield, Brighton, Brownington, Brunswick,Canaan, Charleston, Coventry, Craftsbury,Derby, Ferdinand, Glover, Greensboro, Guildhall,Holland, Irasburg, Jay, Lemington, Lewis, Lowell,Lyndon, Maidstone, Morgan, Newark, NewportCity, Newport Town, Norton, Sheffield, Sutton,Troy, Warners Grant, Warren Gore, Westfield,Westmore, and Wheelock.

Interested applicants are encouraged tocontact the VEC administrative office at (802)730-1172 to request application materials.Completed applications are due by 4:30 p.m. onNovember 4.

It is expected that the appointment will bemade at the board of directors meeting onNovember 29.

VEC seeks director at large

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Opinion

Energy plan is more top-down arrogance from Montpelierby Senator Peg Flory

If the Shumlin Administration gets its way,Vermonters will soon be paying more for energyand sending energy jobs and money to otherstates and Canada. And the power will be dirtier,particularly in the near term.

Governor Peter Shumlin’s proposed energyplan, fast-tracked for completion by November,would have 90 percent of Vermont’s energy fromrenewables by 2050.

The Vermont Department of Public Serviceunveiled the 400-plus-page report September 14and set an October 10 comment deadline.Apparently Vermonters were supposed to dropwhatever they were doing to examine a hugedocument that could impact Vermonters’pocketbooks and way of life for decades. The“transparency” administration has thrownhundreds of pages of potentially ruinous energypolicy at Vermonters and said “tell me what youthink, but make it quick.”

The report audaciously assumes the state willforce Vermont Yankee to close, or that Vermontcan simply do without the one-third of the state’senergy it provides.

It is one thing to be confident. It is quiteanother to dedicate hundreds of hours ofexpensive state workers’ time to a report thatcould — and indeed should — be irrelevant whenan independent federal judge issues his ruling.

It is also questionable why DPS has chartedthe state’s energy future while our two largestutilities are planning to merge. Wouldn’t it be

better to first gauge the ramifications of thistransaction, then make energy policy for the next39 years?

And, for transparency’s sake, DPS shoulddisclose the cost of preparing this report to date.

Regarding nuclear power, the reportacknowledges that without Vermont Yankee “…asignificant amount of nuclear power will continueto supply baseload energy to the New Englandgrid and will be used by Vermont utilities as wellas the other states for years to come.” We willstill be buying nuclear power — we just won’thave the jobs and revenue.

Without Vermont Yankee, which accounts fora third of the state’s electricity and 70 percent ofin-state generation, Vermont will have to rely onNew England grid power: mostly nuclear andfossil-based natural gas and coal. Buying gridpower on the “spot market” is expensive, likegoing to a convenience store instead of the locally-owned co-op or supermarket. The seeming lack ofconcern about cost is troublesome.

An International Brotherhood of ElectricalWorkers study found that Vermont Yankeeaccounts for 1,200 jobs in the state of Vermontand $100-million in annual economic activity, viawages, tax payments and purchases. It providescompetitively priced, reliable power. These areimportant considerations for consumers andbusinesses that want to stay and expand here.

For 2012 and beyond, the ShumlinAdministration does not have a solid,demonstrable answer for replacing these jobs oreconomic benefits. The administration’s refusal

to reconsider Vermont Yankee, especially in lightof strong safety assessments from the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission, shows theadministration is placing politics aboveVermonters’ pocketbooks and will sacrifice thejobs of many hard-working Vermonters.

Furthermore, Vermont’s utilities will have tobuy more out-of-state power, projected to costmore long-term than Vermont Yankee’s power atpresent. The Department of Public Serviceshould at least make public the cost of thereplacement power, relative to the March powerpurchase agreement provisions Vermont Yankeepublicly offered. But that, too, has been hiddenaway.

As with health care, so with energy: thisGovernor’s approach to problem-solving pandersto special interests without disclosing thesubstantial costs to ordinary Vermonters. Whilea select number of renewable energy powerproviders will profit as the anti-nuclearconstituency is appeased, far more problems arecreated than solved.

Vermonters deserve better.Until we know the future of Vermont Yankee,

the future of our utilities, and understand thenear-term impact to energy costs and jobs frompolicy alternatives, the DPS study should betabled.

Senator Peg Flory of Pittsford representsRutland County in the Vermont State Senate.

To the editor,In the October 5 edition of the Chronicle,

Chris Braithwaite’s opinion piece once againstated his unbridled hatred for the LowellMountain wind turbines. He is certainly entitledto his opinion. But I believe he has crossed adangerous line. He has encouraged otheropponents of the wind turbines to “get in the wayof the blasting crews.” Chris hopes this will buy alittle time. This blatantly encourages people toput themselves in a potentially dangeroussituation. This I feel is irresponsible, especiallyfor someone with the power of the press at hisdisposal. I am asking Chris to retract hisstatement and to apologize for his unthinkingincitement.

Sincerely,Skip BorrellWest Glover

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DANVILLE — Vermont can’t meet its 2012goal for reducing its contribution to greenhousegases, but may, with a great deal of effort, makeits 2028 target. That was part of the messagedelivered to about 30 people who gathered at theDanville School on Thursday, October 6, to discussthe draft of a report on Vermont’s energy future.

Elizabeth Miller, head of the state’s PublicService Department, summarized the 500-pagereport before opening the floor for public comment.

Ms. Miller said the state hoped to lower itsgreenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent comparedto 1990 levels by next year, but that goal won’t bemet. She held out hope that it might be possibleto meet the more stringent 2028 target of a 50percent reduction from 1990 levels.

In her presentation, Ms. Miller showed agraph that plotted a path to the state’s 2050 goalof having 90 percent of its energy come fromrenewable sources. The drawing showed, for thefirst years of the project, a shallow curve directedtoward increased renewables. As 2050approaches, the line takes a sharp path upward.

Ms. Miller explained that new types ofvehicles will need to be developed, and newsystems to provide power for them will have to beput in place before quick progress toward the finalgoal can be made. Once the vehicles and systemsare established, Ms. Miller predicted that progresswill be much swifter.

The emphasis on transportation was due tothe fact that a third of Vermont’s energy use is fortransportation and almost all transportationcurrently runs on fossil fuels.

For Vermonters, transportation costs make upan average of 21 percent of a household budget.

In many cases, people spend more on gettingaround than they do on food, health care oreducation, Ms. Miller said.

Residential needs account for about 29 percentof the state’s energy usage, Ms. Miller said. Thecommercial and industrial sectors account for 37percent, with transportation accounting for about34 percent.

More than half the energy used in the firsttwo categories comes from electricity, Ms. Millersaid, and in Vermont about 48 percent of electricalpower is from renewable sources, including thehydro projects in Quebec.

Ms. Miller also had charts showing that thecost of electricity, when adjusted for inflation, hasheld steady over time, as has the cost of biomassfuels. Other energy sources, though, have seen asignificant price increase.

While the figures seem to suggest thatgenerating more electricity and finding ways toconvert from other fuels to electricity would be theleast expensive course for Vermont, Ms. Millersaid an even less expensive alternative is tobecome more efficient.

Vermont’s current efficiency program costs theequivalent of four cents a kilowatt hour, far belowthe cost of generated power, Ms. Miller said.

She said her department put together the newenergy plan in cooperation with other stategovernment departments and hopes to keep itcurrent by revisiting it every three years.

The present version, which can be found atwww.vtenergyplan.vermont.gov, is only a draft.The Danville meeting was the last of five heldaround the state to gather comments on the plan,but Vermonters are welcome to offer theiropinions by e-mail until November 4.

When the floor opened for comments severalpeople offered their views on large scale windprojects. All were opposed.

Benjamin Luce, a professor of physics atLyndon State College, said solar power would be abetter choice for the state. He criticized thedepartment’s plan for focusing only on Vermontand said a regional approach to energy would bemore productive.

Wind in the Northeast, except for offshoreprojects, is a very limited resource, Mr. Luce said.With its need for large quantities of steel andconcrete, wind power projects have become lesscost effective since 2000, he said. Over the sameperiod, the cost of solar voltaic systems hasdropped, Mr. Luce said.

He said the only really cost effectiverenewable energy sources are geothermal, offshorewind and solar power.

Bob Walker of Brownington asked how thePublic Service Board is able to give utilities theright to begin construction on wind projects beforethe Vermont Supreme Court has decided onchallenges to their permits.

Mr. Walker questioned the state’s apparentstance against developing the state’s potentialhydro power, and said he is worried about theinfluence of corporate cash on recent decisions onplacing wind projects in Sheffield and Lowell.

“We’ve got lots of neighbors who hate eachother over the wind towers,” Mr. Walker said.

He advocated buying more electricity fromHydro Quebec, saying, “Canada is still our bestfriend. There’s an awful lot of power up there.”

Adrian Owens teaches at Sterling College, butsaid he spoke only for himself. He said he liked

Greenhouse gas reduction goal for 2012 won’t be met

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He said he understood why thereport suggests a shift away fromfuel taxes as the means to supportthe state’s roads, but suggested ahefty increase in those taxes mightmove people to reevaluate theirchoices.

European gas prices are neverbelow eight dollars a gallon, Mr.Owen said. Those high prices haveallowed European countries to put ahuge amount of money into publictransportation, he said.

He also thinks it’s a mistake tosacrifice the environment in order toproduce power that can be labeledrenewable. Speaking about GreenMountain Power’s efforts to make upfor the loss of animal habitat inLowell by conserving other parcels,Mr. Owen said statewide or multi-county planning is necessary ratherthan a site-by-site approach.

He suggested that stateplanning ought to look at sites withthe best wind resources, buteliminate pristine habitats from

consideration and concentrateinstead on areas that already haveseen some development.

Mr. Owen suggested that animalhabitats be given a greater weight indecisions on where wind projectsshould be built. He also advocatedpaying everyone affected by a projectand not just the host town andlandowners. Spreading the moneyaround might “mellow out” some ofthe disputes that have arisen overthese projects, Mr. Owen said.

Economist Ann Ingerson, aCraftsbury resident, said one of theprinciple adages of her profession isthat “there is no free lunch.” Onething she found missing from theplan was an examination of thenegative consequences of renewablesources of energy.

Ms. Ingerson said she has spenttime in northern Quebec and, incontrast to Mr. Walker’s statements,found that Hydro Quebec’s damshave had serious impacts on theregion.

Another Craftsbury resident,Steve Wright, welcomed the detailedexamination of Vermont’s energyfuture, but objected to the scantattention paid by the Public ServiceBoard to the value of the

environment when it makesdecisions on whether large scaleprojects should be built.

“We must decide what ourlandscape is worth, and this plan isthe place to start,” Mr. Wright said.

Maureen Hurley, who came tothe hearing from Topsham, broughtwith her a do-it-yourself ethic. Ms.Hurley told of attaching a 400-foot-long coil of black plastic tubing totwo used pieces of plywood, a devicethat soon after, with the help of thesun, was producing household hotwater.

Burying a similar device in apile of wood chips produced hotwater for a year and a half, Ms.Hurley said. In addition to itsenergy yield, the pile also producedexcellent mulch, she said.

Preconceived ideas ought to bediscarded, said Nick Ecker-Racz ofGlover. He suggested that powerlines and even rail lines ought to bebuilt in the median strips ofinterstate highways.

While solar panels might be

costly at present, a state purchase of100,000 units could bring down theprice significantly, he said.

If biomass is to continue to be acritical piece of the state’s energysystem, those who own land that’s inthe current use program need to besure that foresters are working intheir interests and not in theinterests of pulp dealers, Mr. Ecker-Racz said.

Barry Bernstein, a member ofthe Washington ElectricCooperative’s board of directors, saidthat utility companies may notalways promote policies that are intheir, or the state’s, best interests.He pointed out that companiesheavily favored separating therestructuring of the energy industry,a trend that ended when Enroncollapsed. Had the state followedthat path, Vermonters would havebeen “screwed,” Mr. Bernstein said.

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LOWELL — A stop work order imposed onthe Lowell wind project on October 5 could belifted as soon as Wednesday, October 12,according to David Mears, commissioner of thestate Department of Environmental Conservation(DEC).

The state ordered work to stop after thedeveloper, Green Mountain Power, reported thatits erosion control systems had failed to controlrunoff from the four inches of rain that fell on thesite over the weekend of October 1 and 2, saidDorothy Schnure, a spokesman for the company.

The rainfall, she said, “was a little more thanthe systems could handle.”

Since the order was issued, Ms. Schnure said,GMP’s contractors have worked exclusively onerosion control.

“We have made remarkable progress,” Ms.Schnure said. “We hope that sometime relativelysoon we and the Agency of Natural Resources(ANR) can agree that we are protecting theenvironment, and we can get back to roadconstruction.”

Blasting has continued at the site, Ms.Schnure said, “but it’s all related to the stormwater system, and ANR knows exactly what we’redoing up there.”

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The problem, Mr. Mears said, was “seriousenough that we felt we needed to shut down thesite.”

“They need to be more careful inimplementing their sedimentation control plan,”he added.

An engineer who represented the towns ofAlbany and Craftsbury during the permittingprocess said Tuesday that he had predicted just

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“It’s exactly what we told them wouldhappen,” said Geoffrey Goll of Princeton Hydro inRingoes, New Jersey. He warned, he said, “thatthere would be permanent, significant impactwith the installation of these roads.”

“It’s coming to fruition, and the project hasonly been going a month, with 15 months to go.They’re not even to the steepest part of the siteyet, and they’re already having problems.”

Lowell wind

Stop work order could be lifted soon

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Engineer Geoffrey Goll said this photograph of the Lowell wind project site, supplied by his clients, shows a 30-foot-high slope that “has already failed and eroded” along the access road contractors are building to the ridgeline. Mr. Goll said the photos were obtained October 9.

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As of late Tuesday afternoon Mr. Nelson said heand his wife had not decided what to do. GMP’slawyer, Jeffrey Behm, had demanded an answer bynoon Wednesday, October 12. Mr. Nelson said hehad an appointment with his lawyer at 10 a.m. thatmorning.

The farm, which sits high on the eastern slope ofLowell Mountain above Albany Village, has been forsale for years. It was originally priced at $1.5-million, Mr. Nelson said. “But when they startedputting up these damn wind farms, we had to knockthe price down.”

His real estate agent, Dan Maclure, has broughtthe farm up at public meetings to demonstrate thatindustrial-scale wind projects lower area propertyvalues.

But if the farm is for sale, Mr. Nelson saidTuesday, “I sure as hell didn’t want to sell to thembastards.”

This is not GMP’s first attempt to move thecouple — who have proved to be determined andeloquent opponents of the wind project — off theirfarm. Just over a year ago GMP was behind acomplex deal that involved the Vermont Land Trustand the Nelsons’ neighbor and chief advocate forharnessing the mountain’s wind, Trip Wileman.

The land trust would buy the development

rights to the farm using a contribution, expected tobe $250,000, from Mr. Wileman which Mr. Wileman,in turn, would borrow from GMP. A young farmfamily from Brookfield would buy the farm and raisebeef cattle there.

When first asked about the deal, GMPspokesman Dorothy Schnure denied that the utilitywould play any financial role — a claim she latercorrected. Ms. Powell, the GMP president, waschairman of the Vermont Land Trust board whenthe idea of buying the farm was first proposed to itspresident, Gil Livingston.

The deal fell apart when the Nelsons learned ofMr. Wileman’s involvement, and his demand for aright-of-way across the farm.

At any rate, Mr. Maclure said at the time, theoffer of $870,000 fell short of the Nelson’s askingprice. This time, it seems, GMP is prepared to stepinto the open as the buyer, and pay the full askingprice.

Mr. Nelson said he and his wife accepted aninvitation to meet with Ms. Powell and another GMPexecutive, Robert Dostis, at a Stowe restaurant onMonday.

“They tried to get us to say we wanted them tobuy us out,” Mr. Nelson said Tuesday. He said theutility executives brought up another couple wholived close to the project and had opposed itvigorously. They recently sold their home to GMP oran agent of the utility, and moved to a nearby town.

They brought up the woman’s name, Mr. Nelsonsaid, and said she “came to us, and of course we wereglad to buy her out.”

After an hour and a quarter of conversation, Mr.Nelson said, “I shook both their hands and got up

and walked out.”When Ms. Powell called Tuesday morning with

her offer, Mr. Nelson said, she said “you can livethere if you want,” but urged him to respond quickly.

When Mr. Nelson reached Mr. Maclure atCentury 21 Farm & Forest Realty, Inc., the agentsaid he’d already heard from GMP. “He said, ‘Theywant me to go to Colchester and get the money,’” Mr.Nelson reported.

A collection of six small tents and a rough fieldkitchen on the western edge of the Nelson farm isperhaps the opponents’ last hope of stalling — if notstopping — the project.

Mr. Nelson said last week he was asked if hewould host the campsite, and quickly agreed. Theidea was that blasting could not safely go on withpeople so close to the project.

In the letter he sent Tuesday, Mr. Behm, theGMP attorney, said the utility’s contractor plans tostart blasting in the area on October 17 and tocontinue for two or three weeks.

If the Nelsons permitted their guests to remainwithin the 1,000-foot safety zone around the blastsite, he wrote, that could amount to “intentionalinterference with a contract,” which he called “anactionable nuisance.”

Such action could raise the cost of power, thelawyer wrote, and the utility “will vigorously pursuerecovery of all monetary damages in order to protectits customers from a cost increase.”

“We’re trying to do what’s right for all thepeople who supported us,” Mr. Nelson said. “It’s ahard position to be in, I’m telling you.”

“GMP knows if they buy us out, they’ve gotthe green light — and they can use this land formitigation purposes.”

Whatever the couple decides to do, Mr. Nelsonmade one thing clear Tuesday: “I don’t plan onliving under a wind farm.”

Not GMP’s first attempt to move the Nelsons(Continued from page one.)

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’02 TOYOTA TACOMA EXT. CABPICKUP 4X4 - 5 spd. 102,000 miles........$9,800’09 SUBARU FORESTER - auto., loaded .............................................$13,600’07 SUBARU OUTBACK WAGON.........................................................$9,400’06 CHRYSLER TOURING VAN - 84,000 miles, loaded......................$7,900’03 SUBARU BAJA - auto., loaded ..........................................................$7,800’02 TOYOTA TACOMA - 5 spd. ..............................................................$7,995’02 TOYOTA TACOMA 4X4 WITH PLOW - new frame .....................$6,995’02 NISSAN ALTIMA - auto., 4 door ......................................................$4,995’02 SUBARU OUTBACK WAGON AWD ..............................................$4,995’02 SUBARU LEGACY WAGON - auto., loaded ...................................$4,800’00 CHEVY 1/2 TON EXT. CAB PICKUP 4X4 ....................................$4,600

UPCOUNTRY MOTORS

3588 U.S. Route 5, Derby, VT 05829www.vianor.com

• Nokia Tires • Bridgestone Tires • Firestone Tires

766-8092

SATELLITE RADIOS • CAR STEROS

24-HOUR TOWING1-802-274-4721

See us for your car

care needs including

winter tires!

RUSSELL’S SERVICE56 Industrial Park Lane, Orleans (one mile south of Orleans)

754-6670 • Kevin Russell, ManagerHours: Monday–Friday, 8–5

ALIGNMENT SPECIALISTS

We ServiceABS Brakes.

We sell InterstateBatteries!

VERMONT INSPECTIONSTATION – Time for #10

WalkerGuaranteedMUFFLERSCooper &RemingtonTiresSPECIAL PRICESON SHOCKS &STRUTS

Major &Minor Repairs

CARL’SEQUIPMENT, INC.

Sales & ServiceNEW & USED CARS & TRUCKS

Bought & Sold.

Route 5, Barton, VT • 802-525-3662 • For Sales Call “Buzz”

Vermont Inspection Station – #10 Due

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