Friday, July 17, 2015
News to Know July 4, 2015
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NOTE: Be sure to check out the paving plans in the last article
Below you will find:
PARADE IN PERSON OR VIA ORCA
U-32 2015 GRADUATION ON LINE !
QUARRYWORKS PERFORMANCES ARE FREE !
PUBLIC HEARING RE US 302 BICYCLE / PEDESTRIAN STUDY 7/6/15
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
JULY 1ST CHANGE
DO GOOD FESTIVAL INCLUDES O.A.R.
BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL
TIMELY TAX BILLS, NEW PAVING ON TAP FOR BERLIN
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Today from 1pm - 4pm admission is free at the Montpelier Pool out on Elm Street
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There will 40 food and craft vendors too! Bring your family downtown for this fun community festival celebrating our Nation’s
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PARADE IN PERSON OR VIA ORCA
http://orcamedia.net - for the parade scroll through their
list to "Misc"
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U-32 2015 GRADUATION ON LINE !
ORCA Media also captured the U-32 graduation
http://orcamedia.net - "2015 Graduations"
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QUARRYWORKS PERFORMANCES ARE FREE !
Have you been to a QuarryWorks performance out in Adamant?
It's time to call and reserve your complimentary tickets! Always a fun time.
This year they present:
"Baker
Street
"Rapunzel" - Children's Production of the Brothers
Grimm Fairy Tale
"The Trip to Bountiful
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The Berlin Highway Department has a position open with an
application deadline of July 10th. Details and application: http://www.berlinvt.org/
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PUBLIC HEARING RE US 302 BICYCLE / PEDESTRIAN
STUDY 7/6/15
There will be a public hearing on the Draft Final Report of the US
302 Bicycle/Pedestrian Study on Monday, July 6 at 7:00 PM at the Berlin Elementary School . The public is urged to attend.
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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
The Berlin Emergency Management Team meets on Thursday, July 9th
at the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department at 6:30pm . Are you interested in
joining this team as they plan and prepare for emergencies in our town?
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JULY 1ST CHANGE
In addition to hands free only use of phones while operating
motor vehicles, there is now no use of phones at stop lights .... it is okay to
pull off the travel portion of the road (except not on the interstate) or to be
stopped in a parking lot to use it though.
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DO GOOD FESTIVAL INCLUDES O.A.R.
The Do Good Fest has come back for a second year at National
Life. This event is sponsored by National Life, The Point, Seven Days,
Montpelier Alive and the National Life Group Foundation. This is a family
friendly event but please leave your dogs at home. Gates open at 2:30 and the festival gets under
way at 3pm with children's
activities. Music on the main stage starts at 4pm . There will be food
trucks, a beer tent, and a nonprofit village for area charitable organizations
to share their messages. The parking fee is the only admission charge
which is $10 per car before 5pm and $20 per vehicle after 5pm . All parking proceeds will benefit the Branches of Hope
Cancer Patient Fund. There is parking for 2,000 cars at National Life but
you're certainly welcome to park elsewhere and walk in.
On Stage
4-4:30 - Patti Casey and Colin McCaffrey
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BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL
The Barre Heritage Festival has a variety of events taking place
from July 22nd through July 26th. Saturday, July 25th is when the parade
kicks off at2pm and the fireworks
are at 9:15pm . Lots of great musical entertainment including Native
Tongue with a street dance on Saturday night from 8pm - 11pm (they'll take a break during
the fireworks). Don't miss the Bathtub Race, Fiddle Show, and Car
Show. Take the time to check out the VermontGranite Museum 7:30 -10 is the annual Barre
Rotary Breakfast and Saturday afternoon is a chili eating competition.
Much, much more... so take a moment to look at the website. http://barreheritagefestival.
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TIMELY TAX BILLS, NEW PAVING ON TAP FOR BERLIN
Times Argus Pub. 7/1/15 by David Delcore
The Select Board, which was unable to set the tax rate until the end of August last year, took care of that bit of business during a special meeting this week, putting the town on track to return to a familiar quarterly billing schedule that was abandoned out of necessity a year ago.
A backlog inherited by the company that now handles assessing duties for the town prevented the board from setting the tax rate until after the first installment would have been due on Aug. 15 last year. That one-time problem has been resolved and the town’s growing Grand List was lodged in time for the board to set the tax rate when it met on Monday for the fiscal year that starts today.
Though the town is still awaiting school tax information from the state, bills are expected to be in the mail well before July 15.
Thanks to growth in the Grand List — a figure equal to 1 percent of the value of all the property in town — the municipal portion of the tax rate will actually drop slightly, from 47.06 cents to 46.295 cents per $100 assessed property value.
The Grand List increased from $4,751,687 to $4,841,761. That $90,074 bump reflects the addition of more than $9 million in assessed property value in the past year.
In addition to setting the tax rate, board members opened and awarded recently solicited bids for paving.
S.T. Paving Inc. of
All or parts of six roads — most of them in Riverton — will be paved as part of a project estimated to cost roughly $57,000.
Due to the favorable bids, Road Commissioner Tim Davis said he would recommend the board consider adding all or parts of three streets — Evergreen Drive, Highland Avenue and Partridge Farm Road — off the Barre-Montpelier Road, to the newly awarded contract.
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