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Business
Entrepreneurs get a lift
The small talk turns to margaritas Friday morning during a chairlift ride at Bolton Valley's Timberline Lodge.
Tim McCaffery explains to Virginia Munkelwitz the vexing problem margarita drinkers face: More often than not they lick the salt off of their glass rims well before the drink is finished. Obviously you can't turn the half-full glass over to reapply the salt.
Munkelwitz nods in agreement. Yes, this is a conundrum. McCaffery then moves quickly to his ingenious solution – a hand-held device called The Edge, which re-applies salt to the rim of the upright, half-full margarita glass. (Click link below for complete article.) http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080316/NEWS01/803160403/1002/NEWS01
At 18, this business owner is nobody’s pawn
Don’t call his store a pawn shop.
Eighteen-year-old owner Dan Harris is quick to point out the difference between his store and a traditional pawn shop: “A pawn shop pays 75 percent of an item’s value upfront. Payback is 125 percent.” That is, of course, provided the person pawning the item returns to pick it up. If not, says Harris, the item is for sale. (Click link below for complete article.)
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E-came, E-saw, E-conquered
Tim Beavin is elated over eBay
Tim Beavin doesn't mince words. When the 30-year-old says that many eBay sellers offer online crap and that many eBay buyers are eager to purchase this online crap, he is speaking from experience, with authority, and with a keen eye for marketing.
To prove his point Beavin offered eBay buyers an opportunity to "Buy A Piece Of Crap On Ebay" (Click link below for complete article.)
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At Sur Al Norte, Mexico meets Montpelier
When Cortez' troops marched into the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, they discovered a pyramidal mound upon which were strung 160,000 human skulls, all victims of human sacrifice and displayed as proudly as deer antlers at a hunting lodge. The site must been unnerving to the conquering Spaniards.
The first-time visitor to Sur Al Norte (South to North), located on the Barre-Montpelier Road at the site of the former Bouchard-Pierce Appliance store, may be in for a similar surprise, says Rob Coates, 45, co-owner of the new Mexican import store. (Click link below for complete article.)
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Special Series
Alles ist kaputt! The end of Hitler’s war
Had the war in Europe ended just two weeks earlier, Harry Mazer, then a 19-year-old B-17 waist gunner assigned to the 398th Bomb Group in Royston, England, would be telling a far different story.
Granted it wouldn’t be nearly as compelling as what really happened to him.
On the other hand, more families - those of his seven fallen crewmembers - would have been able to share happier memories over the years.
But in war it’s all a matter of luck, good and bad.
On April 25, 1945, Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau, Germany. That meeting was the death knell for the Third Reich. For Germany the war was over.
That same day, Mazer’s B-17 Flying Fortress, Godfathers Inc., took off from Royston on a routine bombing raid over German-occupied Czechoslovakia. After the June 6, 1944, Normandy invasion, Mazer says, the Army Air Corps bumped up the number of missions a crew was required to fly from 25 to 35.
As luck would have it, this was Godfathers Inc.’s 26th mission. Click link below for complete article.)
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20080128/NEWS/80284937/-1/WW2
From streets to the Winooski
Urban runoff is cause of much of the river’s pollution
Early on a recent Saturday morning while Montpelierites were swapping greenbacks for organically grown greens at the downtown farmers' market, painters down on
Main Street were using a power washer to blast away old paint from a clapboard building. (Click link below for complete article.)
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Friends After All These Years
Winooski River group charts a new, more-active course
What's not to like about The Friends of the Winooski?
The citizens' group has this mission: To reduce pollution in the rivers of the Winooski watershed, and promote wildlife habitat, scenic value and recreational amenity.
The Friends of The Winooski has no enemies - with the exception, perhaps, of those ne'er-do-wells who toss tires in the river or pour oil down storm drains. (Click link below for complete article.)
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Fish takes to water
Winooski River spawns book for Dummerston author
"When you love something, it's natural to want other people to share your interest," says Charles Fish. For Fish, that something is the Winooski River.
"I love the region, and I thought 'why not write about something I love?' Once I started poking around and asking questions, my curiosity about all sorts of things was aroused. I wanted to learn more about the places and things I loved." (Click link below for complete article.)
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Miscellaneous News
On a wing and a prayer
Vermont’s Civil Air Patrol is ever vigilant
Looking down at Sugarbush from the front-passenger seat of the new red-white-and-blue Cessna 182-T is exhilarating. Spectacular. Scary as hell.
A thousand feet below, skiers look like tiny black ants scurrying down spilled sugar trails. Once a year it seems one of those ants takes a wrong turn and gets lost in the frozen forest. (Click link below for complete article.)
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Gospel singers put money where the mouths are
When the Bluegrass Gospel Project wanders on home to The Old Meeting House in East Montpelier Center tomorrow night, it leaves in its wake a 10-city tour of New England that resonates in more than one way. (Click link below for complete article.)
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The sticky matter of posters
Diva the Chihuahua was last seen on Aug. 12, but some of her reward posters are still taped, tacked nailed and stapled in and around town.
Those tacked to power poles pose a hazard to utility workers, whose insulated leather gloves could be torn by a stray staple. Those taped to public and private property violate city ordinances. (Click link below for complete article.)
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O, Death, where is thy sign?
It's been years since Barber & Lanier Undertakers advertised in Montpelier.
But that all changed during the wee hours of Aug. 16 when someone pinched the Barber & Lanier Funeral Home sign that had been hanging in front of the business for 50-plus years. (Click link below for complete article.)
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A marriage made in . . .
It's an anniversary that'll be impossible to forget. The hell you say?
When Inge Angerer, 46, and Jeff Luce, 33, tie the knot this evening during a private ceremony at the East Calais home that they share with their two German shepherds, a parrot and two tailless cats, it will mark the end of five years of planning — and waiting — for a famous/infamous day to arrive. (Click link below for complete article.)
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Buddhist outpost at home in Northfield
In central Vermont, the Path to Nirvana winds its way through the back roads of Northfield, past rusting farm machinery and the occasional tattered Take Back Vermont sign, to the top of Morning Star Lane.
The Trijang Buddhist Institute, once home to the Seitz Dairy Farm, is tucked among 364 acres of open fields, stone walls, ponds and pines and hardwood. The 1800s-era buildings have been transformed – perhaps reborn is the appropriate word given its new occupants. (Click link below for complete article.)
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Talk of the Town/News of the City
Grab a peace of the action
All we are saying is give (ORCA’s) peace (song-writing contest) a chance.
In a nod to the guitar-strumming pacifists of the 1960s, event organizer Kenric Kite has recruited 27 individuals and groups from as far away as Shelburne and St. Johnsbury who promise to prattle peaceful prose from 7 p.m. until it’s over, Thursday at Montpelier’s Langdon Street Cafe.
A peace song-writing contest on Dec. 7, as in Pearl Harbor Day? (Click link below for complete article.)
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The bluegrass is always greener
The band picked, the audience grinned, and in the end Barre’s Good Samaritan Haven came out richer. The Bluegrass Gospel Project’s two sold-out concerts held Friday and Saturday at the 300-seat Old Meeting House in East Montpelier raised more than $7,500 for the Barre shelter, says Peter Nielsen, band manager and chairman of the Old Meeting House.
How much more? (Click link below for complete article.)
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