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SPOTLIGHT
Sunday
PEKING ACROBATS
They defy gravity with displays of
contortion, flexibility and control;
juggling dexterity and incredible
balancing feats. 7 p.m. Paramount
Theatre, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-
0570, paramountvt.org.
Westside fire
A fire Wednesday damaged
an auto repair business in
West Rutland. A2
Town meeting
Catch up on late results. A3
Girls semis
Division III girls basketball
semifinals are tonight in Barre,
weather permitting. B1
HOT SPOT
By PATRICK MCARDLE
STAFF WRITER
A school administrator from Cali-
fornia has accepted an offer to be
the next superintendent of Rutland
City Public Schools.
Adam Taylor, executive direc-
tor and regional superintendent
of schools for pre-kindergarten
through adult for the West Contra
Costa Unified School District in
Richmond, California, will succeed
Mary Moran.
Dick Courcelle, president of the-
city School Board, said Taylor was
recommended to the board after a
“fair and thorough process.”
“The feedback we received from
Adam’s visit (on Feb. 26 and 27)
was (that) he is an energetic and
dynamic leader,” Courcelle said.
“He’s passionate about the success
of students. He’s had exceptional
experience working in the Califor-
nia educational system.”
Richmond is close to San
Francisco. With snowstorm warn-
ings pending Wednesday, Courcelle
joked that Taylor had probably
never had to cancel a school day
because of snow.
He said Taylor had accepted a
verbal offer to take over as super-
intendent but has not yet signed a
contract.
Taylor did not immediately
return a call to his office in Califor-
nia on Wednesday.
Once in Vermont, Taylor is
expected to work with Moran and
Rutland City school administra-
tors to create a smooth transition.
Courcelle said the transition will
take place over the summer school
vacation.
After spending more than 15
years as superintendent, Moran
announced in October she would
retire at the end of the current
school year.
Calif. man is city superintendent
A WINTER ENCORE
ROBERT LAYMAN / STAFF PHOTO
Snow begins to cover the landscape Wednesday evening, including this farm off West Road in Ira, as a nor’easter moves into the region. Story, page A3.
By GORDON DRITSCHILO
STAFF WRITER
A medical examiner testified
Wednesday that Leo Branchaud’s
injuries were among the worst she
has ever seen.
The testimony was part of the
second day of the trial in Rutland
criminal court of Thomas Velde,
and the state rested at the end of
the day. The case could go to the
jury today — defense attorney Wil-
liam Cobb indicated he will not
need a full day to present his case.
Velde, 42, is charged with gross
negligent driving with death result-
ing, leaving the scene of a crash and
impeding a public officer in the
death of 57-year-old dairy farmer Leo
Branchaud in Tinmouth in 2016.
Both sides agree that Velde hit
Branchaud with a truck, but the
defense argues the crash was a
tragic accident rather than the
result of criminal negligence.
J u r o r s h e a r d t e s t i m o n y
Wednesday that Velde had been
drinking during the hours lead-
ing up to the crash, the manner
in which he had been driving just
minutes before he struck and killed
Branchaud, and what Branchaud’s
injuries said about the crash.
Thestateshowedvideoofthecrash,
during which Velde leaned along the
defense table in order to see, and
displayed photos from Branchaud’s
autopsy, during which Velde looked
down and stroked his chin.
The video, taken by a security
camera on Branchaud’s farm, does
not show the moment of impact,
but shows Velde’s truck enter-
ing the frame just after hitting
Branchaud and shows Branchaud’s
shoes, knocked off by the force of
the impact, landing in the driveway.
The truck then stops and a fig-
ure, obscured by trees but identi-
fied by police as Velde, gets out and
Velde jury hears of drinking, fatal injuries
By SUSAN SMALLHEER
STAFF WRITER
PITTSFORD — A 181-
181 tie between the two top
selections in a three-way
race for a seat on the Pitts-
ford Select Board will be
settled with a special elec-
tion later this month.
To w n C l e r k H e l e n
McKinlay said Wednesday
that neither Alicia Malay
nor Susan Markowski had
conceded the race. She
said election workers on
Tuesday night counted the
ballots three times after the
apparent tie emerged.
McKinlay said the town
uses individual ballots that
are fed into a scanner or
tabulator. So far, neither Mar-
kowski nor Malay has asked
for a recount, she said.
The special runoff elec-
tion is slated for March 27
at the town office. Polls will
be open from 7 a.m. to 7
p.m., the town clerk said.
Incumbent Jane Cornell
ame in third with 49 votes.
McKinlay said she had
never dealt with a tie elec-
tion before. But Will Sen-
ning, director of elections
and campaign finance for
the Vermont Secretary of
State’s office, said election
ties are not unheard of.
“Unofficially? I think
I heard in the office this
morning there are three
ties,” said Senning, noting
the ties could be either in
elections or ballot issues. “It
happens at least once a year.”
According to the state web-
site, candidates have until
March 11 to withdraw from
a race, and any special runoff
election must be warned by
March 13, with the election
held no earlier than 15 days
after Town Meeting and no
later than 22 days.
Markowski is no stranger
to elective office in Pitts-
ford. She has been on the
Otter Valley Unified Union
School Board for eight
years, and she said if she
wins the runoff election,
she would resign from
the School Board seat but
remain involved in two
school committees, includ-
ing teacher negotiations.
“I was very surprised
at the tie and very disap-
pointed,” said Markowski,
adding that friends and
family had called her
TOWN MEETING 2018
Special election to
break Pittsford tie
AP FILE PHOTO
Nikolas Cruz, indicted Wednesday in the Parkland, Fla. school massacre, is willing to plead
guilty to 17 counts of murder if prosecutors do not seek the death penalty, his lawyer said.
By CURT ANDERSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT LAUDERDALE,
Fla. — Florida school
shooting suspect Nikolas
Cruz was formally charged
Wednesday with 17 counts
of first-degree murder,
which could mean a death
sentence if he is convicted.
The indictment returned
by a grand jury in Fort Lau-
derdale also charges the
19-year-old with 17 counts of
attempted murder for the
Valentine’s Day massacre at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland in
which 17 people died and
more than a dozen others
were wounded.
Cruz’s public defender
has said he will plead guilty
if prosecutors take the
death penalty off the table,
which would mean a life
prison sentence. Prosecu-
tors have 45 days to decide
whether they want to seek
the death penalty.
James and Kimberly
Snead, the couple who
gave Cruz a home after his
mother died late last year,
testified before the grand
jury. James Snead and the
couple’s attorney, Jim Lewis,
wore silver “17” pins to honor
the victims of the shooting.
The couple is “trying to
do the right thing” and is
mourning along with the
rest of the Parkland com-
munity, Lewis said.
“We’ll let justice take its
course at this point,” Lewis
Teen indicted: 17 murder counts
See Trial, Page A8
See Tie, Page A8
See Counts, Page A8
See Taylor, Page A8
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A2 Rutland Daily Herald Weather / Local / State Thursday, March 8, 2018
West Rutland firefighters respond to a fire Wednesday morning at Frank and Joe’s Auto & Truck Repair on Clarendon Avenue.
By KATE BARCELLOS
STAFF WRITER
WEST RUTLAND — No
one was injured when fire
broke out Wednesday morn-
ing in the rear of Frank and
Joe’s Auto & Truck Repair
at 839 Clarendon Ave.
Firefighters responded
to the call from dispatch at
7:45 a,m.
“It was pretty intense,”
Fire Chief Joe Skaza said .
“We were lucky to catch it
as quick as we did. Another
10 minutes and it would
have been well on its way.”
He said West Rutland
firefighters contained the
blaze to owner Mike Tymin-
ski’s office and suppressed
it in about a half-hour with
the help of Rutland Town
firefighters, who arrived for
mutual aid and support.
‘We had it knocked down
pretty quick,” Skaza said.
“They did a really quick,
aggressive job to contain
the fire.”
Fire officials didn’t know
for sure what caused the
blaze, but Skaza said it
originated in the furnace
area of the building.
Firefighters said all of
Tyminski’s tools were safe
and the damage to the
building was limited to the
rear left-hand corner.
Skaza said when the fire-
fighters pulled in, there was
heavy black smoke through-
out the building,
“If this had been at night,
we would have been in real
trouble,” the chief said.
Tyminski, who hadn’t
been in his shop for more
than a month for health
reasons, said he’d have
to close temporarily for
repairs.
“Thankfully, its mini-
mal compared to what
it could have been,”
Tyminski said. “That’s the
godsend, there.”
Though no one was
injured, Tyminski’s two
cats, Louie and Lena, were
inside his office during the
fire. Louie was recovered
and was sent to the vet-
erinarian for examination,
but Lena was nowhere to be
found.
“My only concern is my
cat,” owner Tyminski said.
“I know, it sounds stupid,
but they haven’t been out-
side since I trapped them.
They’ve been living inside
like babies.”
katelyn.barcellos
@rutlandherald.com
Fire at Westside business contained
Woman accused of domestic assault
FAIR HAVEN — A local woman is charged with domes-
tic assault, according to Fair Haven Police.
Police said Marsha A. Barber, 59, injured someone dur-
ing an altercation on Route 4A on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said Barber was cited to appear in Rutland crimi-
nal court at a later date.
Fair Haven man charged with assault
FAIR HAVEN — A local man was charged with assault
following a domestic dispute Tuesday.
Fair Haven police said they arrested Charles G. Porcella,
40, for first-degree aggravated domestic assault and inter-
ference with access to emergency services.
He was arraigned Wednesday in Rutland criminal court
and held for lack of $5,000 bail.
Police said they responded to a domestic dispute call
on Main Street in Fair Haven at around 6:30 p.m. and
learned that Porcella had choked the victim and then
taken a phone to prevent a call for help.
Suspect in slaying was on furlough
ROYALTON — Authorities say a Vermont man suspected
of fatally shooting his estranged wife was on furlough after a
domestic assault conviction last month.
The Valley News reports Frank Sanville, 70, was moni-
tored by a “high-risk unit” from the Corrections Department
prior to a Sunday shooting that killed Wanda Sanville, 48.
He has been hospitalized after being injured in a
struggle with Wanda Sanville’s brother after the shoot-
ing, police said. Sanville has been under police guard at
Gifford Medical Center, but has not yet been charged in
connection with the shooting.
Bill Soule, district manager of the local Probation and
Parole office, said Sanville was intensively supervised while
serving his sentence through the state’s furlough program.
11 arrested after border crossing
DERBY LINE — The U.S. Border Patrol said 11 people,
including five children, were apprehended after they
crossed into the United States on a sidewalk by a library
that serves people from both Vermont and Quebec.
In a statement, the Border Patrol said that during the
early morning hours of March 3, two vehicles drove on the
sidewalk by the Haskell Free Library, which straddles the
border between Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Que-
bec. The sidewalk is left open so locals can use the library.
The vehicles then got onto Interstate 91 where they
were stopped by border agents.
Of the 11 individuals taken into custody, seven were
Romanian and four were French.
There was a similar incident on Feb. 27 involving a
single vehicle carrying five Romanians.
Referendum opposes F-35 fighters
MONTPELIER — Opponents of a plan to base 18, F-35
fighter jets at the Burlington International Airport hope
the results of a nonbinding referendum will prompt the
Air Force to change those plans.
On Tuesday, 55 percent of Burlington voters cast ballots
in favor of asking the City Council to request that the Air
Force cancel its decision to bring the jets to Burlington
to replace the aging F-16 fighter plans now used by the
Vermont Air National Guard.
— Staff and wire reports
Heating Degree Days
Yesterday: 36
Total since July 1, 2016: 5872
Last Year 5478
Local Data Notebook Night Sky
Sunday
Snow
35/20
Saturday
Snow
35/23
Friday
Snow
34/22
Monday
Snow
37/24
In 1913, in spite of a mild winter, severe winter
cold made its brief and only visit a little more
than a century ago on this date. Temperatures
fell to -23 in St. Johnsbury, and -36 in Bloom-
field, the coldest March temperature on record.
However, it was also the last day to remain
below freezing as temperatures in the 50s and
60s caused rapid melting, ice jams, and floods.
New First Qtr. Full
Day’s Length : 11 hours, 33 mins
Sunrise Sunset
5:50 p.m.
6:16 a.m.
March 17 March 24 March 31
Tonight: Snow. 25
A
strongcoastallowisovertheGulf
of Maine this morning while a
much weaker lowis locatedover
the eastern Great Lakes.An trough of
low pressure extends across our area
and connects these two circulations.
The coastal low will slowly drift into
Maine this afternoon and begin to
decay. As large-scale lift diminishes,
steadysnowacrossVermontwilltaper
to snow showers.The snow showers
will gradually become more focused
along the western slopes of the Green
Mountains tonight and Friday, with
additionallightaccumulationspossible.
Just the chance of a few light snow
showers will exist more generally.
Another storm developing over the
western Atlantic on Friday will pull the
low over Maine out to sea on Friday
night.However,pulses of energy in the
moist flow around theAtlantic low will
keepthechanceformountainshowers
over the area through the weekend.
All eyes then turn to developing storm
lifting northeastward from the Caro-
linas, potentially brushing portions of
New England with another round of
accumulating snow early next week.
March 8
Looking to the left, or north of due
west this evening near 7:30 p.m., a
vertical string of three moderately
bright stars marks the constellation
Andromeda. From the middle star,
look for two fainter stars to its right,
and then a smudge of light. This is
the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest
neighboring galaxy, 2.5 million light
years away.
The Forecast
Record Temperatures
Record High: 61/2012
Record Low: -14/2007
Yesterday High / Low: 35/22
Average High / Low: 39/20
Year Ago High / Low: 41/4
Last Qtr.
March9
Today: Snow. 35
Almanac
Forecast Discussion
Moonrise : 12:03 a.m. Moonset: 10:09 a.m.
In Brief
LOCAL / STATE
By KATE BARCELLOS
STAFF WRITER
WEST RUTLAND —
Sarah Merrill, principal at
the West Rutland School
for three years, has been
offered a position as prin-
cipal of her former high
school in Arlington.
William Bazyk, superin-
tendent of the Battenkill
Valley Supervisory Union,
s a i d We d n e s d a y t h e
Arlington District School
Board offered Merrill
the position at Arlington
Memorial High School on
Feb.27, pending negotia-
tions on the contract.
Merrillsaid she would
make a decision by the end
of this week.
“Sarah is natural fit for
AMHS and has strong
roots in the community,”
Bazyk said. “I would be
surprised if an agreement
was not come to.”
Bazyk worked alongside
Merrill in her 12 years at
both Manchester Elemen-
tary School and Middle
School, and described
her as an ideal candi-
date for the Arlington
position.
“I always watched her
from afar as she rose to be
one of the most effective
principals in Vermont,”
he said. “I was thrilled to
see her application come
across my desk to become
the principal of the high
school she attended and
the town she still resides
in.”
Merrill said West Rut-
land’s students, faculty,
and community have
become much more than
just a workplace for her
in her years as principal.
“This place has become
my second home,” she
said. “This decision is
not an easy one to make,
that’s for sure.”
When she first became
a principal, Merrill said
she dreamed that some-
day, somehow she would
be a leader in her home-
t o w n , t h o u g h v a c a n t
school principal positions
are few and far between.
“You never know when
these opportunities are
going to come,” she said.
“I had always thought
that at some point in my
career, I would go back.”
Merrill said that before
she heard about the avail-
able position in early Feb-
ruary, she had no intention
of leaving her job in West
Rutland, and even applying
for the new position took
serious soul-searching.
“West Rutland is an amaz-
ing school,” she said. “This
school has brilliant staff
and is an amazing, support-
ive community that works
really well together.”
Merrill, who was born
in Arlington and educated
in the town’s schools, said
assuming a leadership role
in her hometown would
be her way of showing her
gratitude.
“I have a lot of pride in
Arlington,” she said. “For
me, taking this position
would be about giving
back to the community
that played a key role in
shaping my personal and
professional paths in my
life.”
Merrill said one of the
greatest aspects of the
Arlington and the town
school system is that they’re
a “multi-generational,”
society: families often settle
down in the area, raise their
own children, and continue
a tradition of town pride.
“The school is the hub
of the community,” she
said. “People I went to
school with, their kids are
in those schools now. If you
attend a concert, play or
athletic event, you can see
generations of families sup-
porting Arlington students.”
Merrill described the
Arlington schools as being
very progressive in their
teaching methods and
educational resources. If
she accepts the position as
principal, Merrill said she
would look forward to using
those assets to benefit her
new students and staff.
Merrill said Arlington is
never far from her heart
and her mind, inspiring her
work as an educator and
her dreams for her future.
“Its the intangibles that
you can’t describe, but you
know they exist,” Merrill
said. “There’s just some-
thing about them.”
West Rutland principal offered Arlington job
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Rutland Daily Herald
Local / State
Thursday, March 8, 2018
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The second big, blustery storm
to hit the Northeast in less than a
week brought wet, heavy snow
Wednesday and into today. Even
though Vermont was expected
to see “lighter and fluffier”
accumulations, many schools
were canceled today as a pre-
caution and the state issued a
warning to motorists.
In Vermont and in the region,
the nor’easter closed schools,
postponed high school playoff
games (see page B3) and shut
down businesses and govern-
ment offices. Thousands of
flights were grounded in the
Northeast, and the storm raised
fears of another round of fallen
trees and electrical outages as it
made its way up the East Coast.
It also produced “thunders-
now,” with flashes of lightning
and booming thunder from the
Philadelphia area to New York
City.
The National Weather Service
issued a winter storm warning
into Thursday morning from
the Philadelphia area through
most of New England. Forecast-
ers said areas west of the Inter-
state 95 corridor could easily get
more than a foot of snow, with
some places in northwestern New
Jersey expected to receive up to
2 feet.
In Vermont, Kristin Carlson, a
spokeswoman for Green Moun-
tain Power, said Wednesday after-
noon that the utility was prepared
to respond to the storm.
“When the snow is lighter and
fluffier, it does not cause as many
outages,” she said. “It’s the wet,
heavy snow that really weighs
down the trees and branches and
really causes significant outages.”
GMP crews were ready and
deployed around the state, Carl-
son said.
S h e r e p e a t e d t h e c a u -
tions issued by the Vermont
Department of Public Safety
about driving safely or staying
off the roads if possible.
She added this was not only
important for the safety of driv-
ers, but because many outages
during severe winter storms
were caused by driver’s going
off the road and hitting utility
poles.
Vermont’s DPS repeated
some tips that many Vermont-
ers have seen frequently this
winter, like checking on neigh-
bors and keeping heating vents
free of snow. The messages have
gone out repeatedly due to the
repeated heavy snows.
Asked if that could affect the
GMP crews, Carlson said one of
the worst seasons for outages
was actually July, rather than in
the winter.
“Our teams are prepared,
they’re trained and this is what
they do,” she said. “They’re well
ready to respond when there’s
an outage for our customers.
They all know that’s our top
priority as a company.”
Also in the Rutland area, the
decision was made Wednesday
to close schools in Rutland City,
the Addison-Rutland Supervi-
sory Union and other districts
for today.
Storm prompts preparation and caution
By SUSAN SMALLHEER
STAFF WRITER
BRANDON — Voters
were in a generous mood
on Town Meeting Day,
approving all funding
requests and re-electing the
full slate of town officials.
“Everything passed and
we’re happy with that,”
Town Manager David Ather-
ton said Wednesday.
He said voters approved
the $3.1 million town bud-
get, 444-178, and also gave
the town the authority to
issue a bond of up to $1.4
million to rebuild Park
Street, which is a portion
of Route 73 in downtown
Brandon. The bond vote
passed 489-123.
Atherton said construc-
tion work on Park Street, a
wide road lined with Colo-
nial homes and inns, prob-
ably wouldn’t begin until
2019 at the earliest.
“We’re still working on
other funding options,” he
said. “The bond vote was
a public confidence vote
to support the project. We
don’t know how much we’ll
really have to bond for.”
The state has already
given the town a $309,000
grant to pay for the storm-
water/wastewater section of
the project, and the entire
rebuilding project was
prompted by the Agency
of Transportation’s plans
to repave Route 73. One of
the missing pieces is how
much it will cost to put in
new water lines, Atherton
said.
In Brandon, the water
district is run independent
of the road, through the
Brandon Fire District.
Atherton said it was
possible the local share of
rebuilding the road would
be small enough that a
bond issue wouldn’t be
required.
“It depends on where
we’re sitting, but I think the
local share won’t be based
on property taxes, but on
user fees, but I can’t speak
for water,” he said.
Of the $3.1 million town
budget, $2.5 million will
be raised by local taxes,
which will result in property
taxes going up 2.6 percent.
Total budget expenditures
increased 4 percent.
Voters also approved
spending $100,000 on pav-
ing for town roads, 517-105.
Re-elected to the Select
Board were Seth Hop-
kins (1-year term), Brian
Coolidge (1-year term) and
Tracy Wyman (3-year term).
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Brandon passes
Park Street plan
Races decided in
Fair Haven voting
FAIR HAVEN — Vot-
ers in Australian balloting
decided a pair of contested
races on Tuesday.
Jay M. Brown (279 votes)
and Jake Helm (249 votes)
were elected to one-year
seats on the Select Board,
beating out Bonnie Rosati
(209 votes).
John Lulek secured a vic-
tory over Patrick W. Frazier
in a race for the two remain-
ing years of a three-year seat
on the Select Board, 224-156.
Voters also approved a $2
million dollar town budget
on Tuesday, a 4 percent tax
increase from last year.
Voters also approved a
$75,000 worker's compensa-
tion budget that increased
by 93 percent due to an
accident last year.
Select Board Chairman
Bob Richards said two town
employees were injured
when a waterline trench col-
lapsed, driving up the cost
of worker's compensation
for the next several years.
Voters also approved an
article that allows $50,000
of the total $183,184 in the
FY 16-17 Highway Fund be
allocated toward the DPW
Equipment Replacement
Fund Reserve.
F a i r H a v e n v o t e r s
approved all articles, includ-
ing $78,210 to support the
Fair Haven Public Library,
and $27,340 to support the
Fair Haven Rescue Squad
Voters also OKd a five-
year tax-exemption for the
Eureka Lodge starting on
July 1, and ending in 2023.
Budgets OK’d
in Mount Holly
MOUNT HOLLY — Vot-
ers approved everything on
the Town Meeting Day bal-
lot, including a $1.3 million
town budget that was up 3.4
percent over last year.
The new town budget,
which includes a highway
budget and a general bud-
get, is expected to raise the
town portion of property
taxes 3.1 percent.
Voters approved the
$356,000 highway portion
of the town budget 181-37,
and the general budget of
$463,000 by margin of 178-
47. Both figures represent
the portion of those respec-
tive budgets that will be
raised by taxes.
Voters also approved
spending $92,000 on the
highway department’s
equipment fund, which
includes the lease payment
for the town grader.
Elected to the Select
Board was Mark Turco.
Elected to the School Board
were Robert Herbst to a
three-year term and Brigid
Faenza to a one-year term.
Kelly Tarbell was elected
to a three-year term on the
Union 39 School Board.
Most Vt. school
spending passes
Nearly every school
budget in the state was
approved on Town Meet-
ing Day, according to the
Vermont School Boards
A s s o c i a t i o n a n d t h e
Vermont Superintendents
Association.
In all, 142 school dis-
tricts had their budgets
approved.
Only five districts saw
budgets fail: Alburgh,
Cabot, Fletcher, Green
Mountain Unified and
North Hero.
Twenty districts will vote
on their budgets in the
coming months.
Two districts had not
submitted results at press
time.
Voters in Proctor
approve budgets
PROCTOR — In addi-
tion to approving a $1.35
million town budget on
Tuesday, voters approved a
7.7 percent increase in their
highway maintenance bud-
get totaling $457,253.
Select Board Chairman
Bill Champine last month
attributed the increase to
more town paving, as well
as new siding for the town
garage. He also said the
board is in the process of
setting up an account for all
future maintenance work.
Town Manager Stan Wil-
bur said the plan is to finally
get to overdue road main-
tenance projects, including
paving Warner Avenue,
Charles Street, Beech Street,
Loop Street, Reynolds Street
and Curtis Street.
Voters on Tuesday also
authorized the Select
Board to enter into tax-
stabilization contracts with
property owners for periods
not to exceed five years.
“This all started when the
West Street Market closed
last summer,” Wilbur said.
“It was the last store in
town. We need to provide
incentive for people to
expand, or for people to
come in.”
Proctor voters approved
$13,148 for all articles, includ-
ing $1,000 to the Pittsford
Food Shelf and $3,600 to the
Rutland Area Visiting Nurse
Association and Hospice.
In the only contested
election, Judy Frazier won
the two-year seat on Select
Board over Champine by a
vote of 177-77.
Proctor residents voted in
favor of the Quarry Valley
Unified Union School Dis-
trict’s $16.5 million budget,
which approves education
spending of $15,690.28 per
equalized pupil.
PHOTO BY JON OLENDER
Herb Kuendig asks a question of Pittsfield firefighter Caleb Hawley during debate over
purchasing a new pumper truck at Pittsfield’s annual town meeting Tuesday. The truck
was approved.
By KATE BARCELLOS
STAFF WRITER
FAIR HAVEN — New
Town Manager Joe Gunter
and his wife Bree are fall-
ing for Fair Haven less than
a month after taking office
and launching into budget
season.
“This is where I’m going to
park,” Gunter said. “I chose
this job because the com-
munity is in a good spot right
now. There’s good economic
development, you know
people by name. You know
their children. You get back
to acommunitywhere people
care.”
Gunter said getting to
know everyone is going to
be the biggest challenge, but
local government remains his
passion.
“It’s dorky,” he said. “The
personal connections you
make with folks, though,
that’s what drives this job. You
really get to see what people
do on the ground, and that’s
rewarding.”
Gunter said he’s excited
to be a part of a town with so
much potential.
“There are so many assets,”
Gunter said. “This park and
the downtown are huge
assets, I’d love to develop that.
The Air Park is a huge asset,
and I could see the old train
depot as an asset, too.”
Gunter said he’s already
hard at work with the town,
helping to organize a neigh-
borhood revitalization com-
mittee, upgrade the 30-year-
old water treatment facility
and manage grant applica-
tions for road paving with
help from Jonas Rosenthal,
Fair Haven’s interim town
manager.
“I’m going to have him
here until March 13 to help
me get through this,” he said.
“My worst fear is not filing
somethingontimethatneeds
to be. I don’t want to be the
guy who forgot to file that $16
million grant.”
Growing up in Wyandotte,
Michigan, Gunter said he
learned a lot of his skills from
his father before starting his
own heavy-equipment repair
company. called Night Owl
Fleet Services.
“I was a diesel mechanic,”
Gunter said. “I sort of inher-
ited a skill, but I couldn’t
work and go to school at the
same time. So, at night after
school I’d travel around with
my van full of tools.”
After earning a bachelor’s
degree in international rela-
tions from the University of
Michigan, Gunter graduated
with a master’s degree from
Northeastern University.
Gunter also holds a munici-
pal emergency management
certificate from FEMA and
served for two years in the
United States Peace Corps
in Togo, Africa. While there,
Gunter wrote and managed
grant proposals for the Peace
Corps, USAID,and European
NGO’s, as well as a rural
Togolese health clinic, bring-
ing health services to 900
villagers, most of whom were
women and children.
Gunter served as a grant
specialist from 2009-12 for
the National Institutes of
Health in Rockville, Mary-
land, where he managed
grants ranging from $700,000
to $1.2 million.
For just over a year after
that, Gunter was a senior
program executive officer
for the Zabul Reconstruction
Team in Zabul, Afghanistan,
where he spearheaded infra-
structure development and
led a $13 million program
improving roads, potable
water systems and helping
to establish democratic local
governments.
“That was one of my favor-
ite jobs,” Gunter said. “Some
people didn’t like Americans,
but most people could see
development happening and
they could see their children
were safer.”
Gunter also worked for
AmeriCorps in Washington,
D.C., managing $1.1 billion
in annual grant money. He
also ran AmeriCorps’ $1.5
million AARP literacy pro-
gram for 10,000 students,
grades K-3, and managed
their $65 million City Year
initiative, providing tutoring
and resources for 20,000 stu-
dents in some of the poorest
schools in the U.S.
Most recently, Gunter was
the town administrator for
Northwood, New Hampshire,
for 2 1/2 years, until he was
terminated by the select
board last fall. While there, he
acquired nearly $1 million in
grants toward park improve-
ments, elementary school
tutors, bridge repairs and
refurbishing the town hall.
Gunter’s Fair Haven
employment contract is
guaranteed until Feb. 19,
2021, with a six-month pro-
bationary period and an
annual salary of $72,000.
Fair Haven’s new manager puts down roots
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A4 Rutland Daily Herald Editorial Thursday, March 8, 2018
COMMENTARY
ROBERT R. MITCHELL, General Manager
DAVID R. MOATS, Editorial Page Editor Emeritus
STEVEN M. PAPPAS, Editor
ROGER CARROLL, Managing Editor
ROBERT W. MITCHELL, Editor and Publisher (1942-1993)
D
eciding whether and where to
go to college is difficult for all
students. For some, staying
close to home is the best choice. For
others, leaving their home state is
ultimately the better option.
I’m concerned the Vermont Leg-
islature, which has a 50-year history
of supporting grant portability, is
considering eliminating it.
The grant program provides
vital financial aid to low- and
medium-income Vermont-
ers, like I was. Without the
grant program, Logic Supply, the
company I co-founded, would not
exist today. So, I’d like to share my
experience.
I knew I wanted a degree in inter-
national business and a career in
IT. With a Vermont state grant, I
attended an accredited American col-
lege in Switzerland and Northeastern
University in Boston. While at NU, I
did a co-op in Paris at Alcatel and in
Amsterdam at AT&T. After a stint in
Tennessee, I relocated to The Nether-
lands where I worked for WorldCom
and met my husband, Roland. All
told, I speak three languages fluently
and have nearly 20 years of interna-
tional business experience working
with my customers who were Fortune
500 companies from Philips to FedEx
— all thanks to Vermont Student
Assistance Corporation and grant
portability.
As a result, I was well-prepared
to start and grow Logic Supply. In
choosing our headquarters, like many
Vermonters, I wanted to come home.
And I knew that Vermont was ready
for our high tech business. Today,
we are a rapidly expanding global
computer hardware manufacturer
with offices in South Burlington, The
Netherlands and Taiwan. We employ
more than 100 Vermonters, with a
total global workforce of 130 people
and we continue to hire. Without my
years studying and working abroad,
Logic Supply would simply not exist.
Should we legislate limiting learn-
ing opportunities in order to keep
our taxpayer dollars at Vermont
colleges and universities? I say, no;
instead, we should be creating
opportunities and great jobs.
In 1990, my father, Charlie,
told my mother, Sue, “If we
tell Lisa she can’t leave, she’ll
resent us later and probably leave
Vermont anyway.”
With this in mind, we ask the Leg-
islature not to force financially dis-
advantaged students to stay if their
educational interests lead them else-
where. Economically disadvantaged
Vermonters face enough hurdles
already. Instead of adding more bar-
riers, let’s feed the fire that is driving
them towards a college education.
Our state economy benefits from
the varied skills and talents our stu-
dents acquire when attending their
chosen academic programs in their
preferred environment. When stu-
dents are happy, they’re more likely
to succeed academically and con-
tribute to the Vermont and national
economy.
My Mom and Dad always kept the
porch light on when they knew I was
on my way back. As I pulled into the
driveway in Barre after a long trip, I
used to look over the city and take a
deep breath; I was home. I’m asking
the Vermont Legislature to support
our students even if they leave, and
“keep the porch light on” so they can
find their way home again, too.
Lisa Groeneveld is co-owner/founder of
Logic Supply and lives in South Burlington.
Don’t force students to stay
O
nce again communities
around Ver mont were
unabashed in their efforts
to send strong messages to local
and state officials, as well as lead-
ers in the Trump administration.
On Tuesday, Vermont residents
from 35 towns voted overwhelm-
ingly in favor of nonbinding reso-
lutions seeking climate solutions.
W hat wa s unique wa s t hat
while the overall message was
the same, each community that
took up the cause put their own
touch on the wording to either
single out recipients (including
President Trump) or highlighting
local efforts toward reducing the
carbon footprint.
The exact wording of each reso-
lution varied, but all the resolu-
tions acknowledged the severity
of climate change.
The common threat was the
charge to the state: meet the
goals for 90 percent renewable
energy. It also urged “a fair and
equitable transition off fossil
fuels.”
The majority of the resolutions
also demanded a ban on any new
fossil fuel infrastructure, such as
natural gas pipelines. In many
towns the resolutions passed
unanimously, and every resolu-
tion passed where it was on the
agenda or ballot. In Montpelier,
the resolution passed via Aus-
tralian ballot, 1,715 to 500. In
Brattleboro, the margin was even
larger, 910 in favor, 180 opposed.
The towns include: Arlington,
Bennington, Bethel, Brattleboro,
Bristol, Burlington, Calais, Corn-
wall, Dorset, Dummerston, East
Montpelier, Greensboro, Guil-
ford, Huntington, Lincoln, Man-
chester, Marlboro, Marshfield,
Monkton, Montpelier, Peacham,
Peru, Plainfield, Putney, Sharon,
Stowe, Shaftsbur y, Strafford,
Thetford, Tunbridge, Wardsboro,
Weston, Williston, Woodbury and
Worcester.
It was a very Vermont mandate.
“There was literally no debate
about t he resolut ion and it
passed overwhelmingly, 116 to
1,” said Stuart Blood of Thet-
ford. “That’s probably because
the thread of climate change was
woven throughout the meeting.
Thetford suffered the most dam-
age of any community in the state
from the July 1, 2017, flooding.
We got hit with almost $5 million
in damage to our public infra-
structure, not counting damage
to private property.”
Beg inning la st November,
organizers with 350Vermont and
other groups drafted resolutions
town by town and collected the
required signatures to get their
resolutions warned for Town
Meeting Day.
Not sur pr isingly, Ver mont
youth were involved in the efforts
to pass the resolution in many
towns. Social media and Front
Porch Forum were used to spread
the word about the initiative, and
people interested in the resolu-
tion were not just urged to sign
petitions but also to understand
the process by which activism
works, and understand better the
success stories that have accrued
over the years.
This resolution, like many
resolutions that get introduced
on Town Meeting Day, is advisory
and non-binding, but historically
town resolutions have influenced
the Legislature and can even
have an impact on the national
level.
According to 350Vermont orga-
nizers, several towns are already
planning their next steps.
Climate change and the goals
associated with living better and
with having less of an impact by
migrating away from fossil fuels
are issues worthy of our atten-
tion — and our collective voice.
The votes of these 35 towns is
yet another demonstration of
Vermonters’ concerns about the
environment and our role in it.
We should continue to be mind-
ful of our footprint, and how —
at any level — our activism can
play a role to that end. They are
decisions not just for today, but
for many generations to come.
Strong messages
W
hat happens to
U.S. politics after
Donald Trump? Do
wesnapbacktonormal,ordo
things spin ever more widely
out of control?
The best indicator we have
so far is the example
of Italy since the
reign of Silvio Ber-
lusconi. And the
main lesson there is
that once the norms
of acceptable behav-
ior are violated and
once the institutions
of government are
weakened, it is very
hard to re-establish
them. Instead, you
get this cycle of
ever more extreme
behavior, as politicians com-
pete to be the most radical
outsider. The political center
collapses, the normal left/
right political categories cease
toapplyandyouseetheriseof
strange new political groups
that are crazier than anything
you could have imagined
before.
If the United States follows
the Italian example, by 2025
we’ll look back at Trump
nostalgically as some sort of
beacon of relative normalcy.
And by the way, if America
follows the Italian example,
Trump will never go away.
Silvio Berlusconi first came
to power for the same reasons
Trump and other populists
have been coming to power
aroundtheworld:Voterswere
disgusted by a governing elite
that seemed corrupt and out
of touch. They felt swamped
by waves of immigrants, frus-
tratedbyeconomicstagnation
and disgusted by the cultural
values of the cosmopolitan
urbanites.
In office, Berlusconi did
nothing to address Italy’s
core problems, but he did
degrade public discourse
with his speech, weaken the
structuresofgovernmentwith
his corruption and offend
basic decency with his Bunga
Bungasexpartiesandhisgen-
eral priapic lewdness.
In short, Berlusconi,
like Trump, did nothing to
address the sources of public
anger, but he did erase any
restraints on the way it could
be expressed.
This past weekend’s elec-
tions in Italy were dominated
by parties that took many of
Berlusconi’s excesses and
turned them up a notch.
The big winner is the popu-
listFiveStarMovement,which
was started by a comedian
and is now led by a 31-year-
old who had never
held a full-time job.
Another winner
is the League, led
by Matteo Salvini,
which declined to
effectively distance
itself from one of its
former candidates
who went on a
shooting rampage
against African
immigrants. Ber-
lusconi, who vowed
to expel 600,000
immigrants, is back and is
nowconsideredamoderating
influence. The respectable
center-left party, like center-
left parties across Europe,
collapsed.
Italy is now a poster child
for the three big trends that
areunderminingdemocracies
around the world:
First, the erasure of the
informal norms of behavior.
As Steven Levitsky and Dan-
iel Ziblatt argue in “How
Democracies Die,” democ-
racies depend not just on
formal constitutions but
also on informal codes. You
treat your opponents like
legitimate adversaries, not
illegitimate enemies. You tell
the truth as best you can. You
don’t make naked appeals
to bigotry. Berlusconi, like
Trump, undermined those
norms. And now Berlusco-
ni’s rivals across the politi-
cal spectrum have waged
a campaign that was rife
with conspiracy theories,
misinformation and naked
appeals to race.
Second, the loss of faith
in the democratic system.
As Yascha Mounk writes in
his book “The People vs.
Democracy,” faith in demo-
cratic regimes is declining
with every new genera-
tion. Seventy-one percent
of Europeans and North
Americans born in the 1930s
think it’s essential to live in a
democracy, but only 29 per-
cent of people born in the
1980s think that. In the U.S.,
nearly a quarter of millenni-
als think democracy is a bad
way to run a country. Nearly
half would like a strongman
leader. One in 6 Americans
of all ages support military
rule.
In the Italian campaign,
we see the practical results
of that kind of attitude. Vot-
ers are no longer particu-
larly bothered if a politician
shows dictatorial tenden-
cies. As one voter told Jason
Horowitz of The Times:
“Salvini is a good man. I like
him because he puts Italians
first. And I guess he’s a fas-
cist, too. What can you do?”
Third, the deterioration
of debate caused by social
media. At the dawn of the
internet, people hoped free
communication would lead
to an epoch of peace, under-
standing and democratic
communication. Instead,
we’re seeing polarization,
alternative information
universes and the rise of
autocracy.
In Italy, the Five Star
Movement began not so
much as a party but as an
online decision-making
platform. It pretends to
use the internet to create
unmediated democracy,
but as La Stampa’s journalist
Jacopo Iacoboni told David
Broder of Jacobin: “In real-
ity, the members have no
real power. In reality, there
is not any real direct democ-
racy within M5S, but a totally
top-down orchestration of
the movement.”
In Italy, as with Trump
and his Facebook campaign,
the social media platform
seems decentralizing, but it
actually buttresses authori-
tarian ends.
The underlying message is
clear. As Mounk has argued,
the populist wave is still ris-
ing. The younger genera-
tions are more radical, on
left and right. The rising
political tendencies com-
bine lavish spending from
the left with racially charged
immigrant restrictions from
the right.
Vladimir Putin’s admirers
are surging. The center is
still hollowing out. Noth-
ing is inevitable in life, but
liberal democracy clearly
ain’t going to automatically
fix itself.
David Brooks is a columnist
for The New York Times.
The chaos after Trump
Lisa
GROENEVELD
Commentary
David
BROOKS
Observer
The New York Times said in
an editorial:
P
oliticalleadersarecapri-
cious. Some can be
shortsighted.
Andsomearesheer
lunkheaded-ness.
President Donald
Trump hit the
trifecta last week
when he encouraged the
House speaker, Paul Ryan,
to scrap startup money for
an additional rail tunnel
between New York and New
Jersey, a project essential to
the economic health not only
of those two states but of the
entire country.
Worse yet, the president’s
action bore no relation to
objective analysis of the
region’s infrastructure
needs. Accounts in The
Times and The Washington
Post said he did it to spite
the Senate Democratic
leader, Chuck Schumer of
New York, whose sin is fail-
ure to fall in lockstep with
Trump on a variety of issues.
This is foolishness.
Republicans and Democrats
alike broadly agree on the
essentiality of the so-called
Gateway tunnel, described
by many officials as the most
urgently needed infrastruc-
ture project anywhere in
the United States. It will not
come cheap, with $11 billion
required for the
first phase and an
estimated $19 bil-
lion more needed
to finish the job.
“People get fright-
ened by the cost,” said John
Banks, president of the Real
Estate Board of New York.
“But the alternative is worse.”
Existing tunnels under the
Hudson River are more than
a century old and stressed
by damage from Hurricane
Sandy in 2012. Losing one
of those tubes would greatly
reduce train capacity, to
devastating effect. With the
metro region said to account
for about 10 percent of the
national economy, it doesn’t
take a seer to appreciate that
such a blow would be, to bor-
row from Trump when he’s
in high dudgeon, a disaster.
It was bad enough that in
2010 then-Gov. Chris Chris-
tie of New Jersey killed a
predecessor to the Gateway,
a project known as ARC,
or Access to the Region’s
Core. That decision hit the
same trifecta. The Obama
administration, graced with
the good sense to make a
top priority of a new tunnel
across the Hudson, agreed
informally to have Washing-
ton split the initial costs with
New Jersey and New York.
When officials from both
states met with Trump in
September, they were led to
believe he was fully on board
with a similar funding plan.
That commitment grew
shaky in December, when
an administration official
expressed grave doubts.
Now Trump seems intent on
plunging a dagger through
the project’s heart by pressing
Ryan to eliminate $900 mil-
lion for Gateway in a House
spending bill expected to be
voted on this month.
It is but one instance
among many of the president
showing zero concern for
the region and the city that
created his wealth and his
reputation. More than most
states, New York and New
Jersey are adversely affected
by his 2017 tax legislation, by
his anti-immigrant rhetoric
and by his lack of interest in
helping his hometown’s ail-
ing mass transit system.
Trump’s tunnel vision
Verbatim

A5
Local / State
Conservation Camps
MONTPELIER — Ver-
mont Fish & Wildlife
Department will offer
Green Mountain Conserva-
tion Camps for ages 12-14
this summer at Lake Bomo-
seen in Castleton and Buck
Lake in Woodbury.
The one-week camps,
open June 17 through Aug.
17, focus on Vermont’s wild-
life and outdoor skills.
Tuition is $250 for the
week, includes food, lodg-
ing and equipment.
Online applications and
information are available at
www.vtfishandwildlife.com.
Variety Show
WEST RUTLAND — The
ninth annual West Rutland
Variety Show will begin at 3
p.m. Sunday, March 11, at
West Rutland Town Hall, 35
Marble St.
The event showcases local
talent to raise money for
The Dodge House, a tran-
sitional housing program
for veterans, both male and
female, who are experienc-
ing homelessness.
Tickets at $8 for adult; $5
for seniors/children (under
age 12); $20 family. Call
438-2490.
Free tax help
Free tax assistance is
offered by Rutland AARP
TaxAide volunteers, certified
by the IRS, through April 18
for seniors and low-to-middle
income younger taxpayers.
Taxes are done by appoint-
ment only. Call 775-8220, ext.
106; leave a message if no one
answers.
Please leave only one mes-
sage; sometimes it takes three
or four days for scheduler
to call you back to make an
appointment.
Woodworking class
Craig Angstadt, former
industrial arts teacher,
professional woodworker,
kitchen and bath designer,
will hold a woodworking
class for beginners from
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays
through April 2, at The
MINT - Rutland’s Maker-
space, 112 Quality Lane,
Rutland.
Class is limited to five stu-
dents; $200 members, $300
nonmembers, includes all
materials.
For more inforamtion,
call 772-7087 or visit rut-
landmint.org.
Dual-artist exhibit
Paintings by Hannah
Sessions and sculptures by
Joe Lupiani will be shown
March 10 through April 21,
with the artists’ reception
scheduled for 6 p.m. Fri-
day, March 23, at Castleton
Bank Gallery, Center Street
in Rutland.
Titled “From Farm and
Field” the variety of works
on display from noon to
6 p.m. Thursday through
Saturday.
For more information,
email oliver.schemm@
castleton.edu.
Wellness Week
The Community College
of Vermont’s center in Rut-
land center invites the public
to Wellness Week from April
2 to 6.
Monday, April 2, 6 to 7:30
p.m. – “Resilience: The Biol-
ogy of Stress and the Science
of Hope” film and discussion.
Tuesday, April 3, 6 to 7:30
p.m. – Learn to be healthy
and safe from the most com-
mon diseases.
Wednesday, April 4, 6 to
8 p.m. – Learn about the
permaculture movement
designed to mimic nature,
rebuild soil microorganisms,
reduce the use of pesticides
and build resilient food
systems.
Thursday, April 5, 6 to
7:30 p.m. – Discussion about
how the Rutland region sup-
ports survivors of domestic
violence.
Friday, April 6, 8 a.m. to
noon – Wellness Walk and
tour the CCV second floor
with health and wellness
information on display.
Looking for artists
BRANDON — To become
an exhibiting member of
Brandon Artists Guild com-
munity of 40-plus Vermont
artists and artisans, exhib-
iting at the Guild Gallery,
visit bit.ly/2uOToIL. Apply
by Wednesday, March 21,
for April 7 jury.
Vt. maple weekend
Vermont Maple Sugar
Makers’ Association is part-
nering with local brewer-
ies, distilleries, restaurants,
hard cideries, inns and
B&Bs to host the annual
statewide maple celebra-
tion Saturday and Sunday,
March 24 and 25.
visit www.vermontmaple.
orgEmail: amandav@ver-
montmaple.org
Veterans Ski Day
BERLIN — Veterans
Count Vermont is hosting
a Ski Day from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. Sunday, March 11, at
Sugarbush Ski Resort in
Warren.
The first 75 veterans will
receive a free lift ticket, and
are eligible for discounted
ski rentals. Adaptive Ver-
mont will assist anyone who
needs help skiing, especially
our disabled veterans.
Preregistration is recom-
mended by emailing ean-
dersen@eastersealsvt.org.
To sponsor a veteran,
$150 will cover their ski
pass, rentals and a meal
while they are on the
mountain.
visit goo.gl/LZuKZC.
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develop outdoor skills through hands-on learning experiences.
Wednesday, Feb. 21
10:23 a.m. Car accident,
Library Avenue.
10:57 a.m. Theft, Library
Avenue.
11:17 a.m. Agency assist,
Granger Street.
11:23 a.m. Check wel-
fare, Merchants Row.
11:48 a.m. Drugs, South
Street.
12 p.m. Sick animal,
Allen Street.
12:21 p.m. Citizen assist,
Seabury Street.
12:34 p.m. Found prop-
erty, South Main Street.
12:36 p.m. Found prop-
erty, Evelyn Street.
Baxter Street.
12:47 p.m. Motor vehicle
complaint, Washington
Street.
1:09 p.m. Property dam-
age, Regency Manor.
1:09 p.m. Citizen dis-
pute, West Street.
Nichols Street.
1:52 p.m. Burglar alarm,
Belden Road.
2:04 p.m. Traffic hazard,
North Main Street.
Court Square.
2:35 p.m. Vandalism,
South Main Street.
3:18 p.m. Burglar y,
Engrem Avenue.
3:19 p.m. Burglar alarm,
South Main Street.
3:30 p.m. Juvenile prob-
lem, Library Avenue.
4:23 p.m. Theft, Howe
Street.
pute, South Street.
6:01 p.m. Theft, Church
Street.
pute, Cottage Street.
6:11 p.m. Directed
patrol, Shopping Plaza
Road.
7:07 p.m. Directed
patrol, Convent Avenue.
7:22 p.m. Lockout,
North Main Street.
7:43 p.m. Theft, Lincoln
Avenue.
7:56 p.m. Directed patrol,
Rutland City.
lem, Library Avenue.
10:38 p.m. Alcohol
offense, Scale Avenue.
Shopping Plaza Road.
11:08 p.m. Intoxication,
Wales Street.
Hopkins Street.
Thursday, Feb. 22
12:08 a.m. Burglar alarm,
Bellevue Avenue.
2:45 a.m. Citizen assist,
Cottage Street.
South Main Street.
6:04 a.m. Directed patrol,
Rutland City.
6:05 a.m. Directed patrol,
Rutland City.
7:09 a.m. Found property,
West Street.
7:27 a.m. Release con-
ditions violation, Gibson
Avenue.
Lincoln Avenue.
8:38 a.m. Lockout, Tem-
ple Street.
11:09 a.m. Threats made,
Howe Street.
11:29 a.m. Burglar alarm,
Perry Lane.
1:45 p.m. Agency assist,
Granger Street.
1:52 p.m. Littering,
Strongs Avenue.
2 p.m. Agency assist, Mer-
chants Row.
Wales Street.
3:37 p.m. Check welfare,
Howe Street.
lem, West Street.
4:28 p.m. Check welfare,
South Street.
4:37 p.m. Disorderly,
Woodstock Avenue.
5:28 p.m. Stray animal,
West Street.
6:08 p.m. Fraud, Church
Street.
7:43 p.m. Medical assist,
Pleasant Street.
8:14 p.m. Suspicious
activity, Griswold Drive.
CITY POLICE LOG
FROM LEFT: ANDREW, SNOWMAN, JERRY
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and his father Jerry flank their completed snowman at their home in South Wallingford last week.
Rich Kirn and Rod Went-
worth, fisheries biologists
with the Vermont Depart-
ment of Fish & Wildlife,
prepare to examine trout
from the Dog River. The
department recently was
awarded the 2017 Sport
Fish Restoration Outstand-
ing Project Award by
the American Fisheries
Society.
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By ZEKE MILLER
and JONATHAN LEMIRE
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Donald Trump once
presided over a reality show
in which a key cast member
exited each week. The same
thing seems to be happen-
ing in his White House.
Trump’s West Wing has
descended into a period of
unparalleled tumult amid
a wave of staff departures,
yet the president insists it’s
a place of “no Chaos, only
great Energy!” The latest
to announce his exit is
Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief
economic adviser, who had
clashed with the boss over
trade policy.
Cohn’s departure has
sparked internal fears of an
even larger exodus, raising
concerns in Washington
of a coming “brain drain”
around the president that
will only make it more dif-
ficult for Trump to advance
his policy agenda.
“Everyone wants to work
in the White House,”
Trump said during a news
conference Tuesday. “They
all want a piece of the Oval
Office.”
Vacancies abound in
the West Wing and the
broader Trump administra-
tion, with some jobs never
filled and others subject
to repeat openings. The
position of White House
communications director
is soon to be empty again
after the departure of its
fourth occupant, Hope
Hicks.
“They are left with vacan-
cies atop of vacancies,” said
Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas of
the Brookings Institution
who tracks senior-level staff
turnover. Her analysis shows
the Trump departure rate
has reached 40 percent in
just over a year.
“That kind of turnover
creates a lot of disruption,”
she said, noting the loss of
institutional knowledge and
relationships with agencies
and Congress. “You can’t
really leave those behind
to your successor.”
One White House official
said there is concern about
a potential “death spiral” in
the West Wing, with each
departure heightening the
sense of frenzy and expedit-
ing the next.
“You have situations
where people are stretched
to take on more than one
job,” said Martha Joynt
Kumar, director of the
White House Transition
Project.
She cited the example
of Johnny DeStefano, who
oversees the White House
offices of personnel, pub-
lic liaison, political affairs
and intergovernmental
affairs. “Those are four
positions that in most
administrations are each
headed by an assistant to
the president or a deputy
assistant,” Kumar said.
Tr u m p ’s m e r c u r i a l
decision-making practices,
fears of being drawn into
special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia investiga-
tion and a stalled legisla-
tive agenda are keeping
top-flight talent on the
outside.
“Most of all, President
Trump hasn’t demon-
strated a scrap of loyalty to
current and former staff,
and everyone knows it,”
said Michael Steel, a former
aide to onetime Gov. Jeb
Bush, R-Fla., and ex-House
Speaker John Boehner,
R-Ohio.
Trump acknowledged
that he is a tough boss,
saying he enjoys watching
his closest aides fight over
policy.
“I like conflict,” he said
Tuesday.
Since his days on the
campaign, Trump has
frequently and loudly com-
plained about the quality
of his staff, eager to fault
his aides for any mishaps
rather than shouldering
responsibility.
Hope Hicks’ departure
will leave a gaping hole in
the president’s inner circle.
She served as both media
gatekeeper and confidante.
A number of other aides
have expressed worry about
the legal implications —
and steep bills — they could
face if ensnared in Muel-
ler’s probe. It has had a
chilling effect on an already
sluggish White House hir-
ing process, according to
officials, and there is wide
concern that working for
Trump could negatively
affect career prospects.
Meanwhile,hopesforsignifi-
cant governing achievements
in the coming years, along the
lines of the tax cuts passed in
December, are growing fleet-
ing, as Republicans face a
daunting electoral environ-
ment this fall.
Trump staff exits lead to concerns
AP PHOTO
White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, speaks to
reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press
briefing room at the White House, in Washington.
By HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON — A
stinging internal investiga-
tion finds “failed leadership
at multiple levels” at the
Veterans Administration
during the Obama admin-
istration that put patients at
a major hospital at risk. It’s
another blow to current Sec-
retary David Shulkin, who
also served at the agency
then and now is fighting to
keep his job.
The 150-page report
released Wednesday by
the VA internal watchdog
offers new details to its pre-
liminary finding last April of
patient safety issues at the
Washington, D.C., medical
center.
Shulkin acknowledged to
reporters that the problems
were “systemic,” but said he
was not aware of the issues
at the Washington hospi-
tal. He pledged wide-scale
change across the VA.
Painting a grim picture
of communications break-
downs, chaos and spending
waste at the government’s
second largest department,
the report found that at least
three VA program offices
directly under Shulkin’s
watch knew of “serious, per-
sistent deficiencies” when
he was VA undersecretary of
health from 2015 to 2016.
But it stopped short of say-
ing whether he was told
about them.
Shulkin, who was elevated
to VA secretary last year by
President Donald Trump,
told government investiga-
tors that he did “not recall”
ever being notified of
problems.
Among the changes he
promised — unannounced
audits of its more than
1,700 medical facilities from
health experts in the private
sector, immediate hiring to
fill vacancies at local hospi-
tals and plans in the com-
ing months to streamline
bureaucracy and improve
communication.
Shulkin pointed specifi-
cally to VA medical centers
in the New England,
Arizona and Washington
D.C. regions that needed
improvements to address
patient safety. “Not to act
when you identify systemic
failures I think would be
negligent,” he said.
Shulkin has been strug-
gling to keep a grip on his
job since a blistering report
by the inspector general
last month concluded that
he had violated ethics rules
by improperly accepting
Wimbledon tennis tickets
and that his then chief of
staff had doctored emails to
justify his wife traveling to
Europe with him at taxpayer
expense.
He also faces a rebellion
among some VA staff and
has issued a sharp warning
to them: Get back in line
or get out. “I suspect that
people are right now mak-
ing decisions on whether
they want to be a part of
this team or not,” he said
last month.
The latest IG investiga-
tion found poor accounting
procedures leading to tax-
payer waste, citing at least
$92 million in overpriced
medical supplies, along with
a threat of data breaches as
reams of patients’ sensitive
health information sat in
1,300 unsecured boxes.
No patient died as a
result of the patient safety
issues at the Washington
facility dating back to at
least 2013, which resulted
in costly hospitalizations,
“prolonged or unnecessary
anesthesia” while medi-
cal staff scrambled to find
needed equipment at the
last minute, as well as delays
and cancellations of medical
procedures. The report also
noted improvements made
at the Washington facility
since the IG’s first report
in April, when Shulkin
replaced the medical cen-
ter’s director and pledged
broader improvements.
Still, VA inspector general
Michael Missal cautioned of
potential problems without
stronger oversight across
the VA network of more
than 1,700 facilities.
“Failed leadership at
multiple levels within VA
put patients and assets at
the DC VA Medical Center
at unnecessary risk and
resulted in a breakdown of
core services,” Missal said.
“It created a climate of com-
placency ... That there was
no finding of patient harm
was largely due to the efforts
of many dedicated health
care providers that over-
came service deficiencies
to ensure patients received
needed care.”
In the report, Shulkin
responded that he had
expected issues involving
patient harm or operational
deficiencies to be raised
through the “usual” com-
munication process, origi-
nating from the local level
and regional office to VA
headquarters in Washing-
ton — and that it apparently
didn’t happen.
While the IG did not
make specific conclusions
on whether Shulkin actually
was warned by direct subor-
dinates, it broadly faulted an
“unwillingness or inability of
leaders to take responsibility
for the effectiveness of their
programs and operations,”
and cited a “sense of futility”
at multiple levels in bring-
ing about improvements.
“It was difficult to pin-
point precisely how the
conditions described in this
report could have persisted
at the medical center for so
many years,” Missal wrote.
“Senior leaders at all lev-
els had a responsibility to
ensure that patients were
not placed at risk,” he said.
Shulkin has maintained
White House support
despite the travel contro-
versy. He has acknowledged
some mistakes in the han-
dling of the trip and said
he relied too much on
the judgment of his staff
to ensure full compliance
with travel policies. He has
since said he reimbursed
the $4,000 plane ticket for
his wife. His chief of staff,
Vivieca Wright Simpson,
has left the agency.
Watchdog: VA leadership put patients at risk
AP PHOTO
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin attends a news
conference at the Washington Veterans Affairs Medical
Rebecca L. Adams
BRANDON — Rebecca
Lois “Becky”
Adams, age
8 7 , d i e d
M o n d a y ,
M a r c h
5 , 2 0 1 8 ,
a t P o r t e r
Hospital in
Middlebury.
Mrs. Adams was born
in Florence on March 24,
1930. She was the daughter
of Ethel (Palmer) and Her-
bert Clark Sr. She grew up
in Breese Mills and gradu-
ated from Brandon High
School, class of 1947.
In addition to the fam-
ily farm, Becky worked for
many years as a cashier and
bookkeeper at the Brandon
A&P, Grand Union and
IGA. She was an Avon Rep
for 25 years. In earlier years,
she was a 4-H leader for the
Arnold District 4-H Club.
She had been a member
of the Neshobe Sports-
man Club and belonged to
Brandon American Legion
Ladies Auxiliary Unit #55.
She retired in 1997.
Becky was an enthusi-
astic volunteer for The
Nature Conservancy. She
enjoyed cooking and danc-
ing and was an avid reader.
She loved spending time
with her grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
Surviving is her hus-
band, Harold Adams, of
Brandon, whom she mar-
ried in Florence on Sept.
7, 1947; three sons Ken
Adams (Barb), of Platts-
burgh, NY, Dan Adams
(Kristie), of Pittsford,
and Steve Adams (Mary),
o f M a n c h e s t e r ; t w o
daughters Linda Adams
(Stephen), of Goshen,
and Cindy Carswell, of
Middlebury; her brother,
Gilbert Clark (Kathy), of
Proctor. She loved her
nine grandchildren, 12
great-grandchildren, sev-
eral nieces, nephews and
cousins.
She was predeceased by
her sister, Eva Torres; and
two brothers Robert Clark
and Herbert Clark Jr.
Special gratitude is owed
to Melissa Fox from VNA.
The funeral service will
be held on Sunday, March
11, at 3 p.m. at the Miller
& Ketcham Funeral Home
in Brandon.
Friends may call at the
funeral home on Sunday,
March 11, from 1:30 p.m.
until service time at 3 p.m.
The graveside commit-
tal service and burial will
take place at a later date in
Pine Hill Cemetery.
Memorial gifts, in lieu of
flowers, may be made in her
memory to Brandon Area
Rescue Squad, P.O. Box
232, Brandon, VT 05733.
Shirley M. Maslack rites
P O U LT N E Y — T h e
funeral service for Shirley
M. Maslack, 90, who died
Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, was
held Wednesday, March 7,
at St. Raphael’s Catholic
Church.
The Rev. Lourduraja
Simeone officiated.
A reception followed at
the parish hall.
Arrangements were by
Roberts-Aubin Funeral
Home.
David M. Scott
WEST RUTLAND —
David M. Scott, 88, of
Brownsville, TX, and West
Rutland, VT, passed away
on Feb. 13, 2018.
He was born Jan. 3, 1930.
He was predeceased by
his wife, Patricia J. Scott;
father, Henry, and mother,
Frieda Scott.
Survivors are his daugh-
ter, Pam Blanchard, son-in-
law Jay Blanchard, grand-
sons Dustin and Brock
Blanchard, daughter-in-law
Katie Richards Pelle, along
with two wonderful great-
grandchildren Hannah
and Ryan Blanchard.
Also surviving are his sis-
ter-in-law Eileen Colarell,
of NY, Vinny and Deb
Colarell, Kristen and Tim
Mason and daughter, of
NC, along with Kim and
Rob Jullian and the twins,
of NJ.
There will be a memo-
rial service this summer
in Rochester, VT, then he
will join his wife to play
cribbage.
Chele H. Ward III
PROCTOR — Chele
Henry Ward III, 59, died
Wednesday, March 7, 2018,
following a brief illness.
He was born June 1, 1958,
in Montgomery, Alabama,
the son of Katherine and
Chele Ward II.
He graduated in 1976
from Robert E. Lee High
School.
Mr. Ward was employed
as a carpenter and cabinet
maker at several construc-
tion companies building
many Rutland area houses.
He was an avid fan of the
Alabama football team and
NASCAR driver #4 Kevin
Harvick, and he enjoyed
woodworking.
Survivors include three
daughters Heather, Ashley
and Kathy; a son, Chele
Ward IV; his mother, Kath-
erine Wilson, of Thomas-
ville, Alabama; two sisters
Rebecca and Kimberly, of
Alabama; his caregivers
Perry and Ann Tuttle, of
Proctor.
He was predeceased by
his father in 2014.
Arrangements are by
Aldous Funeral Home.
Burnham F. Martin
CHITTENDEN — A
celebration
of the life
of Burnham
Ford “Bur-
nie” Martin,
beloved hus-
band, father,
grandfather,
friend, musician, outdoors-
man and businessman, will
be held at The Church of
the Wildwood, 347 Holden
Road in Chittenden, Ver-
mont, at 12 noon, on Sun-
day, March 11, followed by a
refreshments and a musical
gathering.
His ashes will be distrib-
uted eventually by close
friends and family in places
of beauty and special
memory. A summer musi-
cal gathering will be held as
well, with date and time to
be arranged.
Burnie passed, after a
wonderful and happy life,
at age 84, on March 5,
2018, at his home in Chit-
tenden, Vermont, attended
by loved ones. He will be
remembered with hearts
full of gratitude and love
by his wife, Donna, his chil-
dren Bill, Rebecca, Doug
and Chuck, his son-in-law,
Jeff, his daughters-in-law
Kristen and Erin, his grand-
sons Wyatt and Charlie, his
granddaughter, Maisy, his
grandchildren by marriage
Jason, Darrah and Christy,
and his five great-grand-
daughters by marriage
Kayli, Ashlynn, Brooklyn,
Alyssa and Sydney.
Born in Ohio, Burnie
began his business career
at his father’s firm, Martin-
Metcalf. He graduated
from Dartmouth College
as a member of the class of
1956 and went on to enjoy
a successful real estate
career, creating the first real
estate company in the Kil-
lington/Pico area, Martin
Real Estate, in 1964. This
became Martin Associates,
which he ran together with
Charlie Wise and Walter
Findeisen until his retire-
ment. He participated in
the “JCs” Junior Chamber
of Congress in Ohio, and
was active with the Rutland
County Board of Realtors,
and Chamber of Com-
merce. He also served on
the Sherburne Volunteer
Fire Department.
Burnie chose a 200-year-
old farmhouse in Sher-
burne, Vermont, when he
moved to Vermont, where
he could share his love of
the outdoors with his wife
and raised their children
in what he called “a good
place to be from,” eventu-
ally moving into a custom-
built dream home in
Chittenden, in his 70s. He
loved to bring out the best
in people, and made the
most of every occasion. He
will be widely remembered
for his love of family, music,
the out of doors, kindness,
ingenuity, integrity, contem-
plative conversation and
happy, joking fun.
Burnie was always known
to be whistling and hum-
ming, strumming the uku-
lele, mandolin or banjo,
enjoying a sunbeam or a
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He also sang annually at
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occasion, wherever he hap-
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The family wishes, at
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doctors, health care, home
care and hospice workers
who have aided Burnie’s
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Kroger s NY .50 1.9 14 26.23 -1.78 -4.4
MarvellTch NA .24 1.0 74 23.69 +.12 +10.3
McDnlds NY 4.04 2.7 26 152.38 +1.18 -11.5
Merck NY 1.92 3.5 20 54.47 +.17 -3.2
MicronT NA ... ... 11 53.97 +.23 +31.3
Microsoft NA 1.68 1.8 68 93.86 +.54 +9.7
Mondelez NA .88 2.0 23 43.58 -1.99 +1.8
Neovasc g NA ... ... ... .22 +.03 -63.3
Netflix s NA ... ... ... 321.16 -4.06 +67.3
Nvidia NA .60 .2 59 241.84 -.32 +25.0
ParkHot n NY 2.20 8.2 ... 26.81 +.66 -6.7
Penney NY ... ... 10 3.59 -.17 +13.6
PeopUtdF NA .69 3.5 22 19.92 +.02 +6.5
Pfizer NY 1.28 3.6 14 35.93 +.05 -.8
ProctGam NY 2.76 3.5 21 79.16 -.86 -13.8
RiteAid NY ... ... ... 1.80 -.10 -8.6
SearsHldgs NA ... ... ... 2.42 -.04 -32.4
SiriusXM NA .04 .7 36 6.47 +.11 +20.7
Skyline AM ... ... ... 23.50 +1.37 +82.9
SnapInc A n NY 3.28 18.2 ... 18.02 +.01 +23.3
SwstnEngy NY ... ... 5 4.16 -.24 -25.4
Square n NY ... ... ... 50.72 +1.12 +46.3
StanBlkDk NY 2.52 1.6 22 156.63 +3.14 -7.7
TJX NY 1.25 1.5 20 82.63 -1.76 +8.1
Tegna NY .28 2.2 7 12.77 -.20 -9.3
TexInst NA 2.48 2.3 30 108.56 -1.13 +3.9
3M Co NY 5.44 2.3 30 235.57 +1.91 +.1
TimeWarn NY 1.61 1.7 16 95.00 -.12 +3.9
Twitter NY ... ... ... 35.76 +1.33 +48.9
UnilevNV NY 1.43 2.7 ... 53.58 +.59 -4.9
USSteel NY .20 .4 27 45.69 +1.16 +29.8
UtdTech NY 2.80 2.1 23 130.93 -.68 +2.6
VailRsrt NY 4.21 1.9 46 216.81 +3.23 +2.0
VerizonCm NY 2.36 4.8 7 48.84 -.05 -7.7
Vodafone NA 1.77 6.2 ... 28.63 +.07 -10.3
WalMart NY 2.08 2.4 20 87.74 -1.32 -11.1
WsteMInc NY 1.85 2.2 39 85.30 -.52 -1.2
WeathfIntl NY ... ... ... 2.66 -.02 -36.2
WellsFargo NY 1.56 2.8 13 56.60 -.47 -6.7
Weyerhsr NY 1.28 3.7 30 34.28 +.05 -2.8
XL Grp NY .88 1.6 ... 55.75 -.16 +58.6
Xerox rs NY 1.00 3.4 37 29.83 -.21 +2.3
Zynga NA ... ... 92 3.67 +.12 -8.3
26,616.71 20,379.55 Dow Industrials 24,801.36 -82.76 -.33 +.33 +18.92
11,423.92 8,744.36 Dow Transportation 10,408.88 -26.64 -.26 -1.92 +12.27
778.80 647.81 Dow Utilities 664.80 -4.88 -.73 -8.10 -3.06
13,637.02 11,324.50 NYSE Composite 12,707.01 -13.76 -.11 -.80 +11.00
7,505.77 5,769.39 Nasdaq Composite 7,396.65 +24.64 +.33 +7.15 +26.71
2,872.87 2,322.51 S&P 500 2,726.80 -1.32 -.05 +1.99 +15.40
2,001.48 1,673.30 S&P MidCap 1,920.42 +3.43 +.18 +1.04 +12.29
29,760.60 24,131.40 Wilshire 5000 28,285.72 +1.11 ... +1.77 +15.15
1,615.52 1,335.03 Russell 2000 1,574.53 +12.33 +.79 +2.54 +15.26
52-Week Net YTD 12-mo
High Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg
Money & Markets
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New
in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security
at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distrib-
uted. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at
least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
Stock Market Indexes
21,000
22,000
23,000
24,000
25,000
26,000
27,000
S M
O N D J F
24,200
25,020
25,840
Dow Jones industrials
Close: 24,801.36
Change: -82.76 (-0.3%)
10 DAYS
2,400
2,500
2,600
2,700
2,800
2,900
S M
O N D J F
2,640
2,720
2,800
S&P 500
Close: 2,726.80
Change: -1.32 (flat)
10 DAYS
Interestrates
The yield on the
10-year Treasury
note fell to 2.88
percent on
Wednesday.
Yields affect rates
on mortgages
and other con-
sumer loans.
Net 1Yr
Treasuries Last Pvs Chg Wk Mo Qtr Ago
4.50
4.25
3.75
1.38
1.13
.63
Prime
Rate
Fed
Funds
3-month T-bill 1.68 1.67 +0.01 s s s .73
6-month T-bill 1.87 1.86 +0.01 s s s .80
52-wk T-bill 2.04 2.04 ... t s s 1.00
2-year T-note 2.25 2.25 ... t s s 1.33
5-year T-note 2.65 2.65 ... r s s 2.05
7-year T-note 2.81 2.82 -0.01 s s s 2.52
10-year T-note 2.88 2.89 -0.01 s s s 2.52
30-year T-bond 3.15 3.15 ... s s s 3.12
Net 1Yr
Bonds Last Pvs Chg Wk Mo Qtr Ago
Barclays Glob Agg Bd 1.88 1.87 +0.01 r s s 1.68
Barclays USAggregate 3.17 3.17 ... r s s 2.68
Barclays US Corp 3.75 3.75 ... s s s 3.35
Barclays US High Yield 6.16 6.20 -0.04 s s s 5.63
Moodys AAA Corp Idx 3.88 3.91 -0.03 t s s 3.98
10-Yr. TIPS .74 0.75 -0.01 s s s .48
Last
6 Mo Ago
1 Yr Ago
USD per British Pound 1.3895 +.0005 +.04% 1.3085 1.2201
Canadian Dollar 1.2932 +.0031 +.24% 1.2144 1.3420
USD per Euro 1.2403 -.0002 -.02% 1.2003 1.0568
Japanese Yen 106.07 -.14 -.13% 108.65 114.05
Mexican Peso 18.7371 +.0035 +.02% 17.6767 19.4707
6mo 1Yr
Majors Last Chg %Chg Ago Ago
Israeli Shekel 3.4572 +.0007 +.24% 3.5250 3.6736
Norwegian Krone 7.8272 -.0007 -.55% 7.7483 8.4526
South African Rand 11.8483 -.0005 -.59% 12.8302 12.9614
Swedish Krona 8.2471 -.0005 -.41% 7.9361 9.0060
Swiss Franc .9437 -.0037 -.35% .9526 1.0135
Europe/Africa/Middle East
Australian Dollar 1.2797 +.0008 +.06% 1.2453 1.3177
Chinese Yuan 6.3261 +.0148 +.23% 6.5006 6.8983
Hong Kong Dollar 7.8361 +.0025 +.03% 7.8131 7.7646
Indian Rupee 64.956 +.147 +.23% 63.991 66.632
Singapore Dollar 1.3149 -.0012 -.09% 1.3411 1.4112
South Korean Won 1068.32 +5.90 +.55% 1128.49 1150.61
Taiwan Dollar 29.27 +.07 +.24% 30.05 30.88
Asia/Pacific
Foreign
Exchange
The dollar fell
versus the yen
and British
pound, but rose
versus the euro
and Swiss franc.
The dollar also
rose versus the
Mexican peso.
GOLD
$1,326.00 -7.60
SILVER
$16.43 -.29
CRUDE OIL
$61.15 -1.45
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By MARLEY JAY
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks
are sinking Wednesday as
investors worry that more
protectionist trade policies
are on the way. Gary Cohn,
the top economic adviser to
President Donald Trump,
resigned after he opposed
the administration’s planned
tariffs on imports of steel and
aluminum. Trump also sug-
gested the U.S. could impose
penalties on China as part of
intellectual property disputes.
Industrial companies like
Caterpillar and Boeing are
taking some of the worst
losses. Retailers are sinking
after weak results and a dis-
appointing annual forecast
from discount chain Dollar
Tree and energy companies
are falling with oil prices.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index
fell 15 points, or 0.6 percent,
to 2,712 as of 2:20 p.m. The
Dow Jones industrial average
declined 238 points, or 1 per-
cent, to 24,645. The Nasdaq
composite slid 8 points, or 0.1
percent, to 7,363.
Stocks have been lower
all day and fell further after
Trump said the government
is “acting swiftly on intel-
lectual property theft.” The
U.S. Trade Representative is
investigating whether Chi-
nese intellectual property
rules are “unreasonable or
discriminatory” to American
business.
The Russell 2000 index
of smaller-company stocks
added 5 points, or 0.3 per-
cent, to 1,567. It’s fared better
than the S&P and Dow over
the last week as the compa-
nies on that index are far
more U.S.-focused and would
stand to lose less from a flare-
up in global trade tensions.
TRADE: Cohn, the direc-
tor of the National Eco-
nomic Council, was known
to oppose the tariff plan,
which has also drawn criti-
cism from Republicans in
Congress. Trump has been
resisting calls to reverse his
stance.
“He was seen as a key
proponent of free trade to
balance some of the other
more protectionist-type
advisers in the administra-
tion,” said Keith Parker,
U.S. Equity Strategist for
UBS.
Industrial companies face
the prospect of both greater
expenses due to higher met-
als costs and restricted sales
overseas if other nations
respond with tariffs on U.S.
goods. Aerospace company
Boeing lost $4.01, or 1.1
percent, to $344.91 and
construction equipment
maker Caterpillar gave up
$3.54, or 2.3 percent, to
$150.21. Farm equipment
maker Deere shed $2.55, or
1.6 percent, to $155.96.
TARIFF TARGETS: In
response to steel and alumi-
num tariffs, the European
Union has proposed tariffs
on items including motorcy-
cles and bourbon. Jack Dan-
iel’s maker Brown-Forman
sank after CEO Paul Varga
said his company “could be
an unfortunate and unin-
tended victim” of more hos-
tile trade. He also said the
company has been selling
more lower-priced liquors
in Europe, and that strategy
leaves it more vulnerable to
the effects of tariffs.
The company also fore-
cast a smaller-than-expected
annual profit and its stock
dropped $3.14, or 5.6 per-
cent, to $52.90 Tuesday.
Motorcycle maker Harley-
Davidson slid 72 cents, or
1.6 percent, to $43.61.
THE QUOTE: Parker
said the tariffs could reduce
corporate profits by about
$10 billion. While that
might have a substantial
impact on certain compa-
nies, he said it’s far smaller
than the boost corpora-
tions will get from the tax
cut that was signed into law
in December. However he
said steps against China
could, and retaliation by
the Chinese government,
could raise the cost of items
including phones, technol-
ogy goods, and clothing.
“The risk is that given
China policy and actions
that there could be some-
thing specific placed on
Chinese goods, which
would potentially lead to a
retaliatory action,” he said.
While most investors
interpreted the depar-
ture of Cohn as a loss,
Parker said his resignation
might keep some of the
administration’s protec-
tionist plans in check when
combined with criticism
from Republicans in Con-
gress and the generally neg-
ative stock market reaction.
D O L L A R T R E E
STUMPED: Discount
retailer Dollar Tree’s fourth
quarter results disappointed
investors, and so did its
forecasts for the current
year. It tumbled $16.58, or
15.9 percent, to $87.78.
Competitor Ross Stores
lost $5.30, or 6.6 percent,
to $75.21 following its
report, and Dollar Gen-
eral fell $4.42, or 4.7
percent, to $89.02. Other
companies that make and
sell consumer goods and
household products were
generally lower.
OIL: Benchmark U.S.
crude dropped $1.48, or
2.4 percent, to $61.12
a barrel in New York
after the Energy Depart-
ment reported that U.S.
oil production rose last
week. Brent crude, used
to price international
oils, fell $1.45, or 2.2 per-
cent, to $64.34 a barrel
in London. Exxon Mobil
tumbled $2.48, or 3.3 per-
cent, to $73.70 and Hess
lost $2.39, or 4.9 percent,
to $46.09.
BONDS: Bond prices
edged higher. The yield on
the 10-year Treasury note
fell to 2.87 percent from
2.89 percent.
METALS: Metals prices
gave back some of Tuesday’s
gains. Gold fell $7.60 to
$1,327.60 an ounce. Silver
slid 29 cents, or 1.7 percent,
to $16.49 an ounce. Cop-
per lost 2 cents to $3.14 a
pound.
OVERSEAS: Germany’s
DAX rose 1.1 percent
and Britain’s FTSE 100
gained 0.2 percent while
the French CAC 40 added
0.3 percent. Asian markets
started flat but losses wid-
ened in the afternoon.
The Japanese Nikkei 225
dropped 0.8 percent while
South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.4
percent. The Hang Seng of
Hong Kong sank 1 percent.
CURRENCIES: The dol-
lar dipped to 105.94 yen
from 106.21 yen. The euro
edged up to $1.2408 from
$1.2405.
Stocks sink as Trump economic adviser departs
AP FILE PHOTO
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange.
By KEN THOMAS
and LISA MASCARO
WASHINGTON — Two
members of President
Donald Trump’s Cabinet
suggested Wednesday that
Canada and Mexico might
escape new tariffs on steel
and aluminum, a potential
bargaining chip in North
American trade talks that
heeds the “surgicalapproach”
advocated by House Speaker
Paul Ryan.
“The president indicated
that if we can work something
out with Canada and Mexico
they will be exempted. It’s
not inconceivable that oth-
ers could be exempted on
a similar basis,” Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross told
reporters. He said earlier
on CNBC that the president
has “indicated a degree of
flexibility.”
Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin said the adminis-
tration was “definitely going
to end up” with the across-
the-board tariffs Trump is
seeking — 25 percent on
steel imports, 10 percent on
aluminum. “But, again, there
will be a mechanism where,
to the extent that the presi-
dent wants to give waivers,
the president can do that,”
Mnuchin told Fox Business.
White House spokes-
woman Sarah Huckabee
Sanders said the White
House was “on pace for an
announcement” on the trade
penalties “at the end of this
week.”
Business leaders expressed
alarm about the potential
economic fallout from the
tariffs Trump is pursuing,
with the president and CEO
of the U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce raising the specter of
a global trade war. That sce-
nario, Tom Donohue said,
would risk the economic
momentum from the GOP
tax cuts and Trump’s rollback
of regulations.
“We urge the administra-
tion to take this risk seriously,”
he said, and opt against the
tariffs.
Trump has said they’re
needed to preserve the
American industries and pro-
tect national security, but he
also has tried to use them as
leverage in the current talks
to revise the North Ameri-
can Free Trade Agreement,
negotiated under President
Bill Clinton.
“We’re cautiously optimis-
tic on NAFTA,” Mnuchin
said. “This is part of those
discussions. But assuming
we get the new NAFTA deal
done, they will be exempted.”
White House adviser Jared
Kushner and staff from
the State Department and
National Security Council
planned to meet Wednesday
with Mexico’s president and
foreign minister in Mexico
City.
Trump also signaled other
trade actions could be in the
works. In a new tweet, the
president said the “U.S. is
acting swiftly on Intellectual
Property theft.” His trade
representative is investigat-
ing whether China’s rules are
“unreasonable or discrimina-
tory” to American business.
Findings from that review,
and possible reflationary
actions, are expected to be
announced in the coming
weeks.
Congressional Republicans
and industry groups, warning
of the economic fallout, are
pressing the president to nar-
row his plan, but he appears
unmoved. “Trade wars aren’t
so bad,” he said Tuesday,
adding that the U.S. has long
been “mistreated” in trade
deals.
Hours later, Trump eco-
nomic adviser Gary Cohn,
who has opposed the tariffs,
announced his plans to
depart the White House.
Ryan, R-Wis., called for a
“more surgical approach”
that would help avert a
trade war. Added Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky.: “We are
urging caution,” McConnell
said.
Canada, Mexico may dodge new tariffs
AP PHOTO
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined from left by, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers,
R-Wash., and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meets with reporters following a
closed-door Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill Tuesday as they face how to deal
with President Donald Trump’s impending trade tariffs.
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