This "elegant retirement living" development is still being considered by the town and doesn't yet have the necessary approvals. "Coming to Middlebury" (well, maybe) - In a full-page ad on the back of the summer 2005 issue of Middlebury Magazine (the college publication), Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community says something called "The Lodge at Otter Creek" is "coming to Middlebury, Fall 2006." Don't get out your wallet just yet. And for those of you running the AC while a family member darts into the store – you’re not gonna die of heat prostration in Vermont, so please just turn the car off and roll down the windows. Cell phone users running their engines while in a parking space to have a conversation ought to just hang up and drive, or turn off the engine and talk. Idling Engines - While we’re on the subject of unnecessary pollution and oil usage, since when was it OK to idle your car while you're talking on the phone - or just to keep cool on a hot day? At a time when motor vehicles - especially pickup trucks and SUVs - are primary contributors to dangerous climate change/global warming, people idling their engines are only making things worse. I bought a Newton electric mower from DR Power in Vergennes. Let the meadows bloom! And if you have to cut, get an electric mower. Yet many Vermonters insist on having giant lawns and cutting them obsessively. Obsessive Mowing- The world is heating up and running out of oil, and the small engines used on lawn mowers are big greenhouse-gas polluters. There's no place for that kind of thing in a rural areas such as ours, and the town should hold a public cermony in which it destroys the camera. Not only is it bad policing, it stinks of 1984. Video Vulture - The Bristol Police Department has a surveillance camera allowing the cop shop to oversee large parts of the Bristol downtown without even leaving their desks.
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