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PUBLIC NOTICE
BULLETIN BOARD
STATE OF VERMONT
SUPERIOR COURT
PROBATE DIVISION
Washington Unit
Docket No.: 21-PR-00640
In re ESTATE of
GERALD LAWRENCE DUNHAM
Notice To Creditors
To the Creditors of:
Gerald Lawrence Dunham,
late of East Calais, Vermont
I have been appointed to administer
this estate. All creditors having claims
against the decedent or the estate must
present their claims in writing within
four months of the first publication
of this notice. The claim must be
presented to me at the address listed
below with a copy sent to the Court.
The claim may be barred forever if
it is not presented within the four (4)
month period.
Dated: July 28, 2021
Signed: Gary Dunham
c/o Claudia I. Pringles, Esq.
32 Main St. #370
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: (802) 223-0600
Email: cpringles@pringleslaw.com
Name of Publication: The WORLD
Publication Date: July 28, 2021
Vermont Superior Court
Washington Unit (Probate Division)
65 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602
STATE OF VERMONT
SUPERIOR COURT
PROBATE DIVISION
Washington Unit
Docket No.: 526-9-20Wnpr
In re ESTATE of
ELIZABETH PITTIS-MOFFITT
Notice To Creditors
To the Creditors of:
lizabeth Pittis-offitt,
late of Warren, Vermont
I have been appointed to administer
this estate. All creditors having claims
against the decedent or the estate must
present their claims in writing within
four months of the first publication
of this notice. The claim must be
presented to me at the address listed
below with a copy sent to the Court.
The claim may be barred forever if
it is not presented within the four (4)
month period.
Dated: July 28, 2021
igned rew Pittis-offitt
c/o Claudia I. Pringles, Esq.
32 Main St. #370
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: (802) 223-0600
Email: cpringles@pringleslaw.com
Name of Publication: The WORLD
Publication Date: July 28, 2021
Vermont Superior Court
Washington Unit (Probate Division)
65 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602
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Seriously Addressing Homelessness: What Is One To Do?
• • •
By Morgan W. Brown
First, it is essential to understand how the current crisis
concerning homelessness and related matters far predates the
current covid-19 pandemic, where there have been large numbers
of persons living unhoused and are, once again, being
abandoned to reside on the streets, underneath bridges or in
the woods and so on.
This was how it had been well before the pandemic hit our
region. It continues to this day and will only get much worse
if something real is not done to seriously address these and
related matters.
As such, among other dangers encountered by persons living
unhoused on a routine basis, these individuals and families
remain quite vulnerable to being institutionalized under
the powerful authoritarian thumb of the state (read: government,
including at the municipal level) and its agencies or
departments in its various regressive and most costly forms or
otherwise succumbing to grave illness and disability or even
resulting in their death.
Either that or local, county, state or federal governments
feign concern, however otherwise mostly exercise deliberate
indifference, oftentimes citing a lack of funds and resources
as being the problem.
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CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
I-89 Bridges 37S and 38S Berlin
TRAFFIC IMPACT: Flaggers will be present at the Southbound on and
off ramps at Exit 7 to slow traffi c entering the work zone.
Motorists will encounter a lane reduction in the Northbound and
Southbound lanes of the interstate. Travel will be reduced to one lane of
travel within the construction zone.
Traffi c has been switched to the crossovers on the interstate. This
pattern will remain in place throughout the construction season, into
the Fall.
Width restrictions will be in place on both the Northbound and
Southbound lanes of travel. Northbound will be restricted to 18 feet,
and Southbound will be restricted to 13 feet.
A speed reduction of 55 mph is in place, and fi nes are doubled for
speeding within the construction zone.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES: Work on Bridge 37S will consist of
grading the approaches and installation of bridge rail. No traffi c impacts
are anticipated on Crosstown Road next week.
Paving of the bridge deck on Bridge 38S has been completed (see
photo above), and traffi c has been switched to the newly built portion
of the bridge so that the remainder of the existing bridge deck can be
removed and replaced.
The contractor will begin the process of saw cutting the bridge deck
today and the process of removing the asphalt from the bridge deck will
begin tomorrow (7/23).
Demolition of the bridge deck will continue throughout the week next
week. Flaggers will be present at both Southbound on and off ramps at
Exit 7 in order to slow traffi c entering the construction area.
LOCATION: The town of Berlin on Interstate 89. Bridge 37S spans
Crosstown Road. Bridge 38S spans Vermont Route 62.
PROJECTED COMPLETION: Fall 2021
CONTACT INFORMATION: Natalie Boyle
Phone - 802-855-3893 Email - nboyle@eivtech.
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They Named it ‘Grand’ for a Reason.
By G. E. Shuman
If you are like me, there are places and
adventures in the world that you would
like to see or experience, but that for some
reason or other you haven’t been able to.
Little things like holding down a job, paying
the bills, and raising kids seem to get in the way of most
of us being able to do those ‘extra’ things that we would love
to do. I’ve never been hang gliding, scuba diving, or motorcycle
racing, but I still intend to. (Please don’t tell my wife
that I said that.)
Words have been my thing for as long as I can remember,
but I learned from something Lorna and I experienced a few
weeks ago that there are some things that simply defy an accurate
description. Words just don’t always cut it, at least the
words that I know don’t. It dawned on me during that experience,
that this is likely the reason people who do or see some
super thing cannot always seem to relate that experience to the
rest of us, at least not to the point that we truly understand
what it was that they experienced.
For family reasons unrelated to the point of this column,
Lorna and I had the great pleasure of spending a few days with
her late dad’s wonderful wife Olivia, at Olivia’s home in
Arizona. While there, we took a two-day trip. We had never
been to the Grand Canyon and Olivia thought that we should
see that enormous natural wonder. Boy, was she ever right!
A few days into our visit we started on our little excursion
north and did visit the canyon. When we first approached the
site and viewed that massive, beautiful part of God’s creation,
I was pretty much dumbfounded. I hope my mouth didn’t
actually hang open, but it might have. If it did, I hope no one
took a picture of that.
I do know that I stood there on that precipice, (behind a
sturdy guardrail, of course. I’m not stupid) and could not find
words fit to describe what my eyes were seeing. I really could
not. I simply repeated AMAZING! AMAZING! AMAZING!
over and over, with a few exclamations of AWESOME!
mixed in.
Yes, the experience was truly amazing, but, as I said, the
words of man, in English or likely in any other language, have
no ability to truly describe that Grand Canyon, or probably
many other things that God has created on our Earth to proclaim
His great majesty and power.
You know, life is short, and riddled with labor, trials, and
many other things that consume the short time we are allotted
here. I hope you will love your family every day that you
have, do good to others whenever you can, and, if you have
the time, visit some of the wonders people have not been able
to accurately describe to you. That is not their fault. They may
have only stood their gawking and repeating the words amazing!
amazing! amazing! just as I did.
The Grand Canyon is, truly, one of the most indescribable
and amazing places I have ever visited. They named it ‘Grand’
for a reason. Please see it if you can. Thank you Olivia, for
taking us there.