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WILLISTON Landfill forum trashes waste plan VERMONT, 2B SPORTS ONLINE A look back and photos from Little Leaguers' Dominican Adventure en tfie in i ji ii i pyw. imm Hurltnat Tuesday, June 5, 2007 A Local Custom Serving Vermont for 180 years www.burlingtonfreepress.com 50 cents BA-DA-BOOM A drum takes flight on 1-89 ED SHAMY, IB Jfree Jixm Key Dates 1857 Volunteer fire As members of the Ethan Allen Club celebrate the 150th anniversary of the private social club, they are also contemplating the club's future. Al-Qaida: Americans were killed Video shows soldiers1 ID tags, credit cards -V. UKsksS: vs- 1 11.1 1S By Kim Gamel The Associated Press BAGHDAD Insurgents linked to al-Qaida issued a video Monday claiming they killed all three U.S. soldiers captured in an ambush last month.

"They were alive and then dead," a said during a sequence of images that included the military IDs of two Americans still missing. The nearly 11-minute video by an al-Qaida front group, the Islamic State of Iraq, offered no proof that the soldiers were killed and buried. The U.S. military insisted the massive manhunt south of Baghdad will go on. "We condemn the tactics used by these terrorists, and are using all means available to pursue those responsible," said Brig.

Gen. Kevin Bergner, the chief military spokesman in Baghdad. "We continue to search and hope that our two missing soldiers will be found alive and in good health." The video, posted on a militant Web site, included grainy black-and-white footage said to have been taken during the May 12 pre-dawn ambush. It also showed credit cards, money and other personal items the militants called "booty." A headline said: "Bush is the rea- See IRAQ, 6A department, Ethan Allen Engine Company No. 4.

1 896 Paid fire department replaces volunteers, and volunteer department continues as a social organization, Ethan Allen Club, on Nov. 11. 1 879 Club gets a home at 131 College St. 1 905 John Henry Peck house at 298 College St. purchased for a clubhouse for $30,000.

An addition with banquet hall, pool billiards, and a bowling alley cost $13,164. 1905 Club considers consolidating with Algonquin Club 1921 Club faces financial hardship. The Elks Club offers to buy the club property and merge memberships, which is rejected. 1931 Wives of members may use bowling alley from 2 to 4 p.m. 1958 Membership: 508 1971 Clubhouse burns on Dec.

5. 1972 Present-day clubhouse opens on Nov. the construction cost was $500,000. 1982 Membership: 515 1988 Club allows women in for lunch with members. City councilman unsuccessfully trys to deny liquor license based on gender discrimination.

University of Vermont President Lattie Coor gives up membership, and Sen. Patrick Leahy resigns an honorary membership. Club votes against allowing female members. 1 990 First female club member, Marcia De-Rosia, admitted June 23. 1 992 Scholarship program founded.

2007 Membership at 140, including 15 widows of deceased members and five female members. GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press Ethan Allen Club members play cribbage in Burlington last month. Clockwise from left are Larry Walsh of Burlington; Jim Heald of South Burlington; Janet Thomason of Shelburne; and John Crabbe of Shelburne. For Ethan Allen Club future is serious business At 150, private salon struggles to define 21st-century role By Leslie Wright witnessed several milestones over as a volunteer fire departmen i- ti rc i 1 1 rr i a 11 A i as a volunteer fire department, Ethan Allen Co. No.

the course of four decades, from re rrez i'ress jiujj wruer Hideaways offer senators respite Secret offices provide Leahy, others with Capitol Hill escape Engine 4, in 1857. When Burlington enlisted professional firefighters, the volunteers wanted to keep their bond, and the engine company became a social club. The club met at various locations around the city, and in 1905 bought a three-story brick Colonial on College Street. The home was outfitted with a bowling alley, and a full-time chef was on duty to serve lunch and dinner. The club was a hub for movers and shakers in the business community the early membership See CLUB, 6A placing the clubhouse after a fire in 1971 to allowing female members in 1990.

Now, Stackpole is president of an organization that is celebrating its 150th anniversary and contemplating its future. The club that survived prohibition in the 1920s, food rationing in the 1940s, fire in the. 1970s and pressure to admit women in the '80s might be facing it's biggest, challenge yet its own relevance in the 21st century. Hey day The Ethan Allen Club started out When pediatrician J. Ward Stackpole moved to Burlington, he got word that joining the Ethan Allen Club was de rigueur for an upstanding businessman in the community.

And that was businessman. Women were not allowed to join the prestigious Burlington social club. "I came here in 1962 and I was told, Tou have to join the Ethan Allen he recalled. "There were 450 members and a waiting list to get in." The semiretired pediatrician has By Darlene Superville The Associated Press WASHINGTON When Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy wants privacy, he heads down one of the Capitol's marbled hallways and through a locked door next to a hulking, white marble statue.

Then, through another locked door, into a hideaway secure from the bustle outside. Many of the 100 senators have these coveted, hard-to-find nooks scattered around the Capitol, a cherished perk on top of their official suites in the nearby Senate buildings where the staff works and constituents drop in. Hideaways have been popular places for legislative deal-making even a little monkey business, too. One senator drew on his roots as a pilot and designed his hideaway space as a cockpit, where he donned a telephone headset to communicate with ground control his staff across the street. See HIDEAWAY, 6A LEFT: The John Henry Peck house at 298 College shown here about 1903, was built tn 1834 and purchased by the Ethan Allen Club for a clubhouse in 1905.

The Colonial brick structure burned on Dec. 5, 1971 and was replaced by the current clubhouse less than a year later. RIGHT: Ethan Allen Engine Co. No. 4 volunteer fire department assemble In downtown Burlington.

ii a -'J if Nil ft i ft BURLINGTON HDI5COVER Ml, PIATT V'J White House cutting climate monitoring HIGHLIGHTS FROM HIGH SCHOOL SPRING SPORTS Another win for Essex softball Essex, Mount Mansfield and BFA-St. Albans advance in the Division I soft-ball tournament Mount LlFESTIVAL JAZZ FEST TODAY IN LIVING: Today's calendar of events. ONLINE: For complete coverage, including full schedule, slide shows and video of the festival, plus blogs, bios and streaming audio, go to www.burling-tonfreepress.com. VIDEO: See our Web site for a video from the concert for Big Joe. By John Heilprin The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the United States is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.

A confidential report to the White House, obtained by The Associated Press, warns that U.S. scientists will soon lose much of Melting ice would wreak havoc, U.N. predicts, 3A their ability to monitor warming from space using a costly and problem-plagued satellite initiative begun more than a decade ago. Because of technology glitches and a near-doubling in the original $6.5 billion cost, the Defense Department has decided to downsize and launch four See CLIMATE, 6A lansfield on pitcher Erin ry's no-hitter over Col- while Cham- ALISON REDLICH, Free Press Missisquoi's Danielle Magnant races to first base as Essex's Stephanie Eide makes the out during the fourth Inning Monday. Jblain Valley wraps up a baseball win over Burlington.

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