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Sunda, October 10, 2005 The Sunday Rutland Herald The Sunday Time' Argu Local State Vermont Digest Towns race weather with paving jobs By GORDON DRrTSCHILO You cant have a lot of moisture on the Staff Writer road when you pave and still get a good Excessive rain and cold weather are product. It can affect vour bond from the forcing towns to rush to finish their paving pavement youre lav ing down to the pave-projects before winter conditions grind ment below. them to a halt. Meteorologists at the Fairbanks Museum For the last few weeks it has held things in Sl Johnsbury said last week it has been up, said Ron Gray, a regional construe- the wettest October on record as a tion engineer for the Vermont Agency of noreaster created from the remnants of Transportation, in an interview Friday. Hurricane Wilma blanketed the state with By the Book Parker launches bid for governor By ROSS SNEYD The Associated Press RICHMOND Democrat Scudder Parker launched his bid for governor Saturday, a full 53 weeks before voters cast their ballots, with a full-throated denunciation of the three-year record of incumbent Republican Gov.

Jim Douglas. Before several hundred cheenng partisans in the restored West Monitor Bam, one of a pair of iconic former dairy barns in the valley east of Richmond, Parker and his supporters lashed out at what they described as Douglas' dismal record of accomplishments on issues from energy planning to health care reform. They say Mr. Douglas has a high favorability rating, Parker said. This is not surprising.

Mr. Douglas works very hard trying to be liked. Parker, a former state senator from Caledonia County who recently served as chairman of the Democratic Party, compared the Douglas administrations accomplishments to little more than the feel goodJell-O salads common to a potluck picnic. You cant spend four years eat-ingJell-O salad, he said. A long list of Democratic luminaries and friends and acquaintances of the 62-year-old former preacher sounded similar themes, reflecting a pent-up sense among the party that Douglas has coasted during his first term-and-a-half.

Democrats frequently lambaste Douglas for attending to politics by showing up for ribbon-cuttings and other events large and small. Former Gov. Madeleine Kunin even made a joke of it as she stood at the podium looking out at the crowd gathered in what once was a hayloft before the historic bam was restored. The governor shows up at every event. Im surprised hes not here, she said, drawing a laugh.

We need a governor that shapes events that shape our lives. Police arTest man after alleged attack The Associated Press BRATTLEBORO A threatening phone call to police allowed them to track down a man accused of attacking a woman with an ax then trying to run her over in a car. Detective Mike Gorman said Thomas Houle 45), phoned 5)1 1 on Friday to provoke a situation. Officers used, the 5)11 system to track Houle to a home on Tyler Street, The police departments special response team entered and anested Houle without incident after a three hours standoff, CapL Steve Rowell said. Houle allegedly attacked a woman with an ax and a knife.

When she jumpied from the car he was driving, he allegedly tried to run her down. She was taken to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital where she was treated and released. Houle was chaiged Friday with attempted murder, aggravated domestic assault and unlawful restraint. He was being held in Southern Vermont Correctional Facility in Springfield on a $25,000 bond. Search resumed for teen missing since 2004 The Associated Press ENOS BURG Police have begun searching again for a teenager who has been missing since 2004.

Using trained dogs and dozens of officers, people began combing through Montgomery and Berkshire looking for Brianna Maitland, who was 17 when she disappeared in March 2004. The search was not because there had been any new information uncovered, but because they wanted to comb through the forested region before snow made it difficult or impossible until spring. Police, using cadaver-sniffing dogs among other tools, planned to search for two days looking for remains or other evidence, said state police Jocelyn Stohl, who commands the Rockingham barracks and is a leader of the search. There were 44 people and 17 dogs involved. Police do not know whether Maitland is dead or alive and the presence of cadaver-sniffing dogs should not indicate any conclusions have been drawn, said state police Lt Brian Miller.

She was last seen leaving the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, where she worked as a dishwasher, on March 19, 2004. Her abandoned car was found the next day. She was 17 at the time and would be 19 now. She lived in Sheldon. Miller said the possibility that she was a victim of foul play increases the longer she does not contact friends or family.

No suspects have been developed. Long-running dispute in facing deadline The Associated Press MONTPELIER A long-running zoning and development dispute is getting closer to a deadline and some city officials worry it wont be resolved by then. There has been a debate about a 95-acre parcel known as Sabins Pasture, whose owners want to sell the land for development. But many in the city have tried to develop a plan that would preserve open space and the city nas until May 25 to come up with a new plan or revert to zoning that would permit as many as 600 houses. The Planning Commission has been working on a new zoning plan, but members of the City council warned that if a proposal isnt submitted soon there wont be enough time for required public hearings.

Mayor Mary Hooper and Councilor Nancy Wasserman said they were concerned over the pace of the commissions work. The Hanning Commission said it would not be ready to submit its draft to the City Council by December, as the council had requested. The Planning Commission is pi? nning a new zoning designation that would incorporate bonuses for conservation, offer density tradeoffs and evaluate the positive and neg ative impacts of a development. Photo by Albert J. Marro Carolyn Shattuck at work on a new pop-up book for which she is known.

Book illustration has grown in popularity among artists in recent years. Carolyn Shattuck brings her story art to the Chaffee By GORDON DRITSCHILO Staff Writer Carolyn Shattucks life is an open book. Several open books. The Rutland artist gave a talk on book illustration at the Chaffee Art Gallery on Saturday. Book illustration, which has grown in popularity among artists in recent years, is the creation of three-dimensional art works as simple as a stitch-bound collection of prints or as ornate as an accordionlike collection of pop-up works.

They can be really complicated in terms of getting everything to work, Shattuck said. Shattuck, who had long worked as a painter and printmaker, said she started making books Seven or eight years ago. I thought it was time to get off of printmaking and devote myself to making books," she said. I did that for three years. I started by telling stories that were them up.

The result was a small collection of prints that looked like a normal book, Another creation she showed off was a book of prints in the shape of dragonfly wings. A dragonfly body popped out of the center of the book when it was opened- Shattuck said there are a number of resources for those interested in book illustration. Book art has absolutely exploded in the last four or five years, she said. We have a book artists guild with 90 members in northern Vermont. The UVM library has the best artists book collection in New England.

You can go up there and make an appointment and spend hours going through all the structures. Shattuck will teach a class on book illustration at the Chaffee in November. Contact Gordon Dritschilo at gordon.dritschilorutlandherald.com. personal to me. As an artist, you can get sidetracked and forget why youre making art.

With books, I never had any intention to sell them. It was a way to tell stories about my life. Her work, arranged on a table at the comer of the gallery, included a folding depiction of the American flag, a book that folded out into a carousel-like star formation with each section depicting a different part of a wedding she attended arid another with abstract and representational depictions of the house she grew up in. After a few years, Shattuck said she took up printmaking again, but still had a number of old prints she never sold or exhibited. She decided to recycle them after a class on a particular kind of stitch binding in New York.

I cut them up, she said. It was very brave, but also very fun. You start seeing compositions in i new light when you cut (See Parker, Page D8) First turns, first lines Year-plus political campaigns now the norm Vermonters dont want to hear about the next election now. There will be plenty of time for politics next year. Vt.

Gov. James Douglas land speculation. Sucn short campaigns, though, are now just a quaint memory. With the 2006 election more than a year away, active cam- Eaigns are under way for the f.S. Senate, U.S.

House and governor. Analysts say the longer campaigns are here to stay. Gone are the days when you can spend 14 on a campaign or sit on your back porch and wait for the voters to come to you," said Luke Albee, former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and a campaign adviser to several Democratic candidates.

If you are a candidate who has not run statewide before, it is important that you get out early and get around the state, he said. By CHRISTOPHER GRAFF The Associated Press MONTPELIER Tom Salmons campaign for governor in 1972 was short and very sweet. The Democrat didnt even decide to run until July, after attending the Democratic National Convention in Miami. I sat there in the delegation. I was a McGovern delegate, and listened to the leadership of the Democratic Party committed to tilting windmills against what seemed to be the almost certain re-election of President Nixon, recalled Salmon, That very night I made up my mind that I was going to make the effort despite the odds.

The odds were strongly against him. It was late to start a campaign; Salmons only previous statewide campaign, a 1970 race I 1 for attorney general, had been a disaster, and the Republicans had two strong candidates vying for the nomination. But Salmon won, thanks in part to divisions within the Republican Party and to Salmons proposals to provide property tax relief and to slow Photo by Albert J. Marro John Grizzly Puchalski, right directs skiers and snowboarders onto the K-1 Express Gondola on Saturday. Killington Ski Resort opened Saturday after an early season storm provided plenty of snow for good conditions.

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