Annual town meeting March 5

Annual Town Meeting Warning

The legal voters of the Town of Whiting, Vermont, are hereby warned and notified to meet at the Town Hall, in said Whiting, Vermont, on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, immediately following the school meeting to transact the following business.

ARTICLE I	To elect a Moderator for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE II	To receive and act upon the report of the Town Officers.
ARTICLE III	Will the town elect the Officers as required by law in the following order"  A. Select Board for 3 years  B. Lister for 3 years  C. Auditor for 3 years  D. Collector of Delinquent Taxes  E. Library Trustee for 3 years  F. Library Trustee for 2 years  G. Road Commissioner  H. First Constable  I. Second Constable  J. Town Juror
ARTICLE IV	Will the Town give the Delinquent Tax Collector the power to collect the delinquent taxes?
ARTICLE V	Shall the town authorize the Treasurer to collect real property taxes to the Treasurer on or before December 2, 2013, because the 1st is a Sunday (POSTMARKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED)?
ARTICLE VI	Will the town appropriate $325,821.00 expenses and indebtedness of the town of which $67,133.06 will come from taxes?
ARTICLE VII	To transact any nonbinding business deemed necessary and proper when met.

SELECTBOARD: Chair Ellen Kurrelmeyer,

Steve Quenneville and Bob Wood.

Annual school district meeting March 5

Whiting Town School District Warning

The legal voters of Whiting Town School District are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Town Hall in Whiting, Vermont, on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at 7:15 p.m. to transact the following business.

ARTICLE I	To elect the necessary School District Officers: a. A Moderator. b. A school district Treasurer for a term of one year. c. A Town school director for a term of three (3) years. d. A Town school director for a term of two (2) years. e. A Town school director for the remaining year of a (2) year term.
ARTICLE II	To receive and act upon the report of the School District Officers.
ARTICLE III	To see if the voters of the Whiting Town School District will appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Fifty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-eight Dollars ($557,888) necessary for the support of its schools for the year beginning July 1, 2013. The amount of such sum to be raised by taxes to be offset by special education revenues, state aid and other incomes.
ARTICLE IV	To see if the Whiting Town School District will authorize its Board of School Directors to borrow money in anticipation of the receipt of taxes to meet the obligations of the Whiting Town School District as approved under Article III.
ARTICLE V	To transact any other business proper to be done when met.
Dated at Whiting Vermont, this 14th day of January, 2013.
Received and recorded January 25, 2013 Grace Simonds, Clerk Whiting Town School Dist.	WHITING SCHOOL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Carol Brigham, Chair (2014) Rebecca Bertrand, Clerk (2013) Elizabeth Curran (2013) Kelly Lu (2015) Cady White (2013)

At sunset on Feb. 17, 2013

Looking east toward the Green Mountains - now red-violet - at dusk on Feb. 17, 2013.

Announcements 'widget'

I just finished programming the Announcements thingamabob you see at the top of the rightmost column of this site. (Not sure of these technical terms. It might be more of a doohickey than a thingamabob.) It was programmed in JavaScript, and, as I am not especially confident of my ability to program in JavaScript, I cannot promise at this point that it will work correctly. I can promise that if your web browser does not support JavaScript (most offer this support, though some people turn it off), it will not work for you.

What it SHOULD do is provide the current date and a few announcements, including scheduled local meetings, office hours, etc.

If you would like me to include an announcement for a function of your organization or agency in this whatchamacallit, just let me know through thunt@gmail.com (also let me know what sort of notice you would want to give people in advance of the date of the function - a day, a week, a month...).

Oh, wait. There's one other thing: I believe I can make an announcement clickable. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it would work. So, if you have a website related to your organization or the function you wish to announce, be sure to let me know so I can try to send some web traffic your way.

Whiting Sestercentennial Resolution

The text of a draft concurrent legislative resolution congratulating Whiting on its upcoming sestercentennial (250th) anniversary is included in the Annual Report of the Town and School District, Whiting, Vermont, January 1 to December 31, 2012. A copy of the resolution has been incorporated into this website (Click Here). Whiting celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding charter on August 6, 2013.

First trip to Kenyon Arena

Yesterday was our first visit to a Middlebury College hockey game at Kenyon Arena. We had a wonderful time watching the Middlebury Panthers defeat the Trinity College Bantams in a NESCAC conference battle. Middlebury College's sprawling athletics complex is impressive, though we certainly would have been grateful for increased visitor parking close to the buildings. (It was a long, cold, dark walk back to the car after the game.)

Much of yesterday's game was played in front of the Trinity net.

With the victory, the Middlebury Panthers (10-8-2 overall, 9-3-2 in conference) extended their winning streak to four games and moved into a second-place tie with Williams College in the NESCAC standings. Middlebury's next two games are a home-and-home series with Williams. Middlebury hosts on Friday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m., and then travels to Williams the next day. Bowdoin (17-2-1 overall, 7-2-1 conference) is in first place in the NESCAC.

Much of the hockey game was played on Trinity's end of the ice. While the 3-2 final score does not indicate it, the Panthers dominated play for most of the game, and outshot the opposition, 38-14. In a surprisingly scoreless second period, Middlebury controlled the puck nearly from start to finish and outshot the Bantams 13-1. Far less surprising were tactics employed by Trinity to avoid a blowout loss. The visitors piled up 43 minutes in penalties, including two misconducts and a bench unsportsmanlike conduct after complaining that a Middlebury shot found its way into the Bantam goal through a hole in the side of the net that magically healed immediately afterward. Middlebury was whistled for five minor penalties in the contest.

Panther players wore special "camo" jerseys during the game, in an effort to increase awareness and raise funds for the Wounded Warrior Project.

(Oh, by the way, hot tea, wonton soup and the excellent dinner combinations at Magic Wok Chinese restaurant provided the perfect post-hockey warmup.)