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i Springfield Jail Would Take Heat Off S. Burlington Windsor, to find out whether Springfield town officials would accept a correctional center in their community. If the idea is accepted by Springfield, officials and legislators from the two communities could work together to convince the Legislature and the administration that new construction in Springfield is the better alternative, Dean said. "Without a decent alternative, we're not going to get anyplace," Dean said of South Burlington's attempts to thwart plans for the addition to the prison. "That facili by JODIE PECK FrM Prau Staff Writer The only hope of avoiding ex- pansion of the South Burlington i correctional center is if Springfield I officials want a new jail built in their community, a Chittenden County legislator said Monday.

Rep. Howard Dean, D-Burling- ton, said construction of a new jail in Springfield has been discussed for some time. Town officials and representatives have been "inter- ested" in the idea in the past, he 1 said. The jail would create as many as 400 jobs for the economically disabled town and could replace the broken-down Woodstock jail, he said. If a correctional center were built in Springfield, expansion of the Chittenden Community Correctional Center could be put off for at least two years, he said.

Rep. John F. Murphy, D-Ludlow, chairman of the Windsor County legislative delegation, will appoint a committee of three Springfield representatives Bruce Lawlor, Timothy Van Zandt and Alice Emmons and Sen. Edgar May, D- ty is going to be built sooner or later in Windsor County. My feeling is, if they want it, do it now.

"Also my feeling is, if Springfield doesn't want it, that Chittenden County won't be in the position to fight (the addition). The story is that 40 percent of the inmates come from Chittenden County," Dean said. Sen. Mary Just Skinner, D-Washington, head of the Senate Institutions Committee, said although she supports the idea of putting a jail in a community that welcomes it, she does not support the idea of swapping the South Burlington expansion for a new jail. A new jail would be too expensive to build and would add astronomical annual costs, she said Monday when contacted by telephone.

Even if a new prison replaced the Woodstock jail there still would be an extra expense of at least $300,000 a year, she said. The largest appropriation in Gov. Richard Snelling's $22.3 million capital budget recommendation was a $4.16 million, 50-bed expansion of the Chittenden Com- munity Correctional Center. About $2.6 million would pay for construction of the addition. The remainder would pay for renovations to the jail and improved security.

South Burlington city councilors twice have voted unanimously against expansion of the center. A citizens committee appointed by the council recommended the state build a new prison in Springfield and make a variety of improvements at the South Burlington jail instead of expanding it. City officials said they were not surprised by the administration's proposal to expand the jail despite city opposition, but said they plan to take their fight to the City Caucus Dates Differ This Year Barre's Fifth Ward By Bob Bannon THOUSANDS OF ASSORTED GLASSES PLATES Who Will Put Brakes On All the Rhetoric? By DON MELVIN Free Prau Staff Writer Burlington's Republican and Democratic caucuses, traditionally held on the same day, will be held a week apart this year due to a missed communication between the city party chairmen. The Democrats will caucus Wednesday and the Republicans will gather to endorse their candidates for city offices Jan. 25.

Burlington voters March 6 will elect seven aldermen and seven School Board members. Candidates can run as independents, but list themselves on the ballot as belonging to a political party only if they win the party's endorsement at the ward caucuses. The caucuses traditionally are held the same day to prevent members of another party from attending a caucus to promote their candidate. Republican City Chairman Frederick Bailey said his Democratic counterpart, Caryl Stewart, telephoned him early in January to suggest a Jan. 18 caucus date.

Bailey said he agreed. When he reported the date to his ward chairmen, however, Bailey said he faced rebellion. They told him, he said, they had formed plans to caucus on the 25th. "They basically told me that I could agree to whatever I wanted with Caryl," but they were sticking with their original date. Bailey said he called Stewart to see if the Democrats would agree to caucus on the 25th, but Stewart already had initiated plans to caucus on the earlier date.

"I apologized to Caryl," he said. Both Bailey and Stewart said they have little fear that members of the other party will try to pack their caucuses. "I won't instigate it," Bailey said. "I think it's a very small risk," Stewart said. The supporters of independent Mayor Bernard Sanders, the third faction in Burlington politics, have' chosen to call themselves the progressive coalition.

That, however, is not a political party, so a caucus endorsement is not needed in order to have the designation placed on the ballot, according to Assistant City Clerk Jeanne Keller. Anyone who choses can be so labeled on the ballot, she said. EACH Study: State Could Face Energy Crisis Alderman William Noyes has announced retirement plans. He will be missed by the news reporters. Noyes was that rarity among city officials a speaker capable of grammatical sentences, carried on to the end rather than being allowed to peter out This was a byproduct, no doubt, of his career as a radio announcer, specializing in news.

But syntax was only one of Bill's strong points. He was one of the most consistently reasonable City Hall luminaries and had a fine habit of cutting off many of the more gaseous rhapsodies of the mayor and aldermen with a well-timed appeal to common sense. With Noyes gone and Richard Cate, once an alderman, now city manager, there may be no one to pull the reins when the heroics get out of control. Next week the city and school budgets will be making their public debut. It looks like a 10-cent increase for the city, a 26-cent increase for the schools.

The public in Barre, bless 'em, won't put up with anything like that. Barre voters play a much stronger role in city government than their neighbors in Montpelier. Barre officials are constantly aware they are working for severe critics. George Rice in Montpelier has moved to Northfield Street and has begun crusading for a more democratic speed limit. The official limit is 25 miles per hour, but if you had to guess the speed limit, you'd probably assume 35.

It's a bad situation, meaning that many motorists get picked off on Northfield Street for "speeding" in a purely technical sense. Better to give the police more meaningful things to do. 837 S. Chomptaln Burlington SALE RESIDENTIAL CARPET Oil, electricity and wood together were the sources of more than 95 percent of the energy used in Vermont in 1981, the report said. Written largely by Benjamin Huffman, former State Planning Office staff member, now an energy planner for the department, the report was produced for the Vermont Legislature under legislative mandate.

Carlton Bartels, department planning director, also contributed. willingness of other states to share supplies, the report said. Although Vermonters cut oil consumption between 1973 and 1981 by 30 percent, roughly double the national rate of decline, Vermont continues to rely on oil for more than half of its energy needs, according to the report. Increased use of electricity and a dramatic rise in the use of wood as fuel have offset the decline in oil consumption in the state, the report said. NOW 14.50 sg.

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Cranford, 17, and Daniel Bour-dreau, 17, both of St. Albans, were injured when their snowmobile collided with a truck on Town Highway 40 about 3 p.m. Monday, state police said. Cranford and Bourdreau were in stable condition at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday night.

Cranford suffered a broken leg and chest injuries, and Bour dreau suffered a fractured knee, she said. Hospital officials said late Monday Bourdreau was being transferred to the Medical Center Hospital in Burlington. Officials said the two vehicles collided nearly head-on at a slight curve in the road. Cranford was driving the snowmobile north and Michael B. Robinson, 26, of South Burlington was driving the southbound truck, police said.

Two recent break-ins at the Heritage buildings, 81 River Montpelier, are the subject of this week's Central Vermont Crime Stoppers alert. Wednesday, Dec. 21, and Monday, Jan. 2, vending machines in the buildings were forced open and quantities of coins were stolen. Anyone with information on this crime or any other criminal activities in the central Vermont area is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 223-5300.

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lAli-U ctrte I last fall that revealed soil and air contamination by a dry-cleaning chemical that is suspected of causing cancer. The school is down the hill from a dry-cleaning plant. The revelation about the air and soil pollution prompted an outcry by parents, who kept their children home from classes. They demanded the school be closed, but school administrators refused to comply. Other property near the plant has been affected by the pollution.

A family whose well was found to be polluted by a number of chemicals has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Uniform Services the dry-cleaning company, the town and the state. Town school directors said they will meet Wednesday with selectmen and health authorities to discuss what to do about the report recommendations. For YouH 0 off lenses 13" COLOR PORTABLE TV off frames performance TEcevrsiON The Associated Press WILLIAMSTOWN A long-awaited state report on the pollution near a Williamstown school, released Monday, said spring runoff could pose health threats, and urged school officials to take steps to protect students. The report, prepared by the state Agency of Environmental Conservation, said chemically contaminated water was flowing under the Williamstown Elementary School and surfacing in a ditch nearby. The danger from the pollution would increase after the snow melts during spring runoff and after heavy rainy periods.

"Based on present information, exposure to this surface water and surfacing ground water is of concern only through repeated skin contact and possibly prolonged inhalation" of airborne chemicals, the report concluded. The agency report contained a list of recommendations, including fencing off the drainage ditch and developing a monitoring plan for checking chemicals in the air and water on school property. It also recommended developing plans to prevent the surfacing of contaminated ground water and the flow of polluted surface water on school property. The recommendations are the result of testing on school pronertv ON ANY COMPLETE PAIR OF EYEGLASSES WITH THIS COUPON Lightweight solid state chassis Weighs only 33 lbs. Automatic Fine Tuning built-in antennas Ik 26995 LARGE SCREEN OFFER EXTENDED TO JAN.

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