October 17, 2010 @ 7:18 p.m.
It seems to me that James Fogler, who replaced Brad Robertson as the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press in September 2010, was attracted to Burlington because of the sexual harassment and also specifically the pedophilia aspect that the sexual references had increasingly started to include in the months before Mr. Fogler took over at the Free Press.
Mr. Fogler’s contribution to the harassment was immediately sicker and more detailed than anything that Mr. Robertson had done. I have no interest in seeing Mr. Robertson return to run the Burlington Free Press. However, it was Mr. Fogler who chose to put a picture of President Obama on the front page of the September 7, 2010 Burlington Free Press, next to an article about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and then to spatter red ink over the article about Ms. Ashtiani so that all copies of the Burlington Free Press that day looked as if they had blood on them. I checked; I went to the supermarket on September 7 and looked through the stack of copies of the Burlington Free Press that were for sale. Every copy had red ink on the front page in the same pattern.
That was just one of Mr. Fogler’s earliest efforts.
It seems to me that James Fogler, who replaced Brad Robertson as the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press in September 2010, was attracted to Burlington because of the sexual harassment and also specifically the pedophilia aspect that the sexual references had increasingly started to include in the months before Mr. Fogler took over at the Free Press.
Mr. Fogler’s contribution to the harassment was immediately sicker and more detailed than anything that Mr. Robertson had done. I have no interest in seeing Mr. Robertson return to run the Burlington Free Press. However, it was Mr. Fogler who chose to put a picture of President Obama on the front page of the September 7, 2010 Burlington Free Press, next to an article about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and then to spatter red ink over the article about Ms. Ashtiani so that all copies of the Burlington Free Press that day looked as if they had blood on them. I checked; I went to the supermarket on September 7 and looked through the stack of copies of the Burlington Free Press that were for sale. Every copy had red ink on the front page in the same pattern.
That was just one of Mr. Fogler’s earliest efforts.
Since Mr. Fogler has been the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press, he has done some things with the pedophilia side of the issue that were horrifying but which I didn’t feel that I could take pictures of and put online because I was hoping that the people who have been encouraging Mr. Fogler’s behavior would investigate the issue and realize how serious the situation is, and that I wouldn’t have to compromise the privacy of children and teenagers who have been Mr. Fogler’s victims and the victims of other people and authorities in Vermont who have allowed this situation to continue and to escalate in the sense of its having become something that is getting exploited not only by schools and individual parents but by other organizations in Vermont that want to get funding.
Because the situation has continued, and because the safety and privacy of these children and young people have already been increasingly compromised by the participating newspapers and by the people who have allowed and encouraged the situation to progress, today I’m putting up pictures of a section of the Burlington Free Press that includes some names. I have tried not to highlight or make obvious the identity of children whose parents might not know what’s going on.
Even with all of the attention that this issue has gotten, you can see that Mr. Fogler and certain people on his staff don’t want to let it go; they don’t want to stop exploiting children and schools and they don't want to stop accommodating any organizations that want to take advantage of the situation.
The front page of the "D" section says "SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THIS" and is an article about the Burlington Food Council, which, according to the article, "exists with no funding." The quote that starts by saying "I believe this is the wave of the future" is just below a picture taken at the Intervale Community Farm of the hand of an 11-year-old girl. The caption to the picture of the girl's hand give her full name and age and says her "hands are stained with beet juice." The article continues on page 4D, where a full picture of a 7-year-old girl is shown; she's holding a bunch of carrots right in front of the camera. The picture of the 7-year-old girl was also taken at the Invervale Community Farm, and her first and last name are printed.
The article about the Burlington Food Council says that “In the past, the council’s major initiative was establishing the Burlington Schools Food Project.”
The article says that "Nancy Kaplan represents the City Council on the Food Council." On page 4D, the article quotes Ms. Kaplan and then the article says: "Now all (the Food Council) needs is a tangible effort to coordinate, members say. Funding would be a plus, too. The council has none."
(I've added the bold print to the final lines there.)
The article goes on with a subtitle that says "A day in the fields," and introduces “Jennifer Green, coordinator of the Burlington Legacy Project... a council member and past facilitator.”
If you go to the Burlington Legacy Projects website and click on the link that says “Partners,” you’ll be brought to a page that lists, among others, the Burlington Electric Department, otherwise known as “BED,” which was prominently featured in the October 1, 2010 North Avenue News in order to make sexual references about children.
As I documented in my blog page on Weebly called "From October 14, 2010," in the October 1, 2010, North Avenue News, the "BED" ads were used in two places. On page 5 a "BED" ad that said "An Energy Tip from your BED" ran above an ad for the Bone Appetit Wine Tasting that I had seen an ad for on the bulletin board at the First Congregational Church and documented on my Frienster profile. Below the Bone Appetit ad in the North Avenue News was an announcement for a Children's Memorial Service that's going to be held at the Ira Allen Chapel at the University of Vermont on November 7, 2010, run by Fletcher Allen Health Care. On page 27 of the North Avenue News, another "BED" ad was placed below an article about and pictures of 2nd graders from Christ the King School making pizza at Shelburne Farms. The BED ad on page 27 was also next to an announcement from the Burlington School District saying that by federal law the School Distrit has to identify all special needs children and get them into school, and above another announcement for "Employment Opportunities" in the Burlington School District, starting with its need for a special educator for its "Ontop Program." Also on page 27 was an ad that said "Want to make a difference in someone's life?" which I guess was the North Avenue News's way of giving support to Brian Williams at NBC.
Putting obituaries of dead children and teenagers or other articles that pertain to dead children next to the sexual references is something that more than one of the Vermont newspapers, including the Burlington Free Press, has done by now.
On page 4D, the article goes on to say “There was some council-sponsored digging last week at the Intervale, when about 100 volunteers went to a soggy field at Intervale Community Farm to help harvest beets and carrots....Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., knelt in mud and picked potatoes.” The mention of U.S. Representative Peter Welch is right under the picture of the 7-year-old girl holding out a bunch of carrots to the camera.
At 12:22 a.m. on October 18, 2010, the website for Democrat U.S. Representative Peter Welch has a display that says “Fighting for fresh and local food in Vermont schools: At Mallets Bay School in Colchester, Rep. Welch introduced legislation that would help Vermont schools buy produce from local farms.” In the picture, he’s standing a foot away from a prepubescent girl who is wearing a tight, pink t-shirt that says “Love Your Earth, Keep It Green.”
Colchester is the school district that got the South Burlington Police Department to issue me a Warning of Trespass Notice because of my efforts to stop the Burlington Free Press and the participating community newspapers from using students in Vermont schools in order to make sexual references; Peter Welch is endorsing child sex abuse in order to get his legislation passed.
The next pictures are of Representative Welch's website. I took the second picture on an angle to give that child the remaining 10 seconds of privacy that she's going to have in regard to this issue.
Representative Welch visited the Malletts Bay School in Colchester, VT to talk about his "fresh and local food" bill on September 13, 2010. A South Burlington police officer showed up at my house on September 21, 2010 and dropped off a Notice of Trespass Warning on behalf of all Colchester schools. I hadn't been to any Colchester school in 20 years since I played sports in high school, and the only contact that I'd had with any Colchester school since 20 years ago was to make a few phone calls to administrators to let them know about the Burlington Free Press's exploitative activities.
It looks as if perhaps the Democratic Party at the federal level planned to have me arrested, and the Notice of Trespass Warning from Colchester schools was the Party's first step in that process.
As you go through the next photo gallery, please keep in mind that I took the pictures of Representative Welch's website today; the picture of him at Malletts Bay School in Colchester shows the first thing that appears on his website if you to the website and the September 13, 2010 article about him discussing his "fresh food" bill at Malletts Bay School is where you go on his website if you click "Read More" in that green box.
The pictures of Representative Welch's website show what he's making a priority right now, show his support of the harassment of me, show his support for all schools that want to exploit children in order to get more funding from the federal government, and show his support for my getting sent other Notice of Trespass Warnings and eventually arrested for continuing to document and protest about these issues.
I've covered up my address in the Notice of Trespass Warning; there's not much point to my doing that, but I figured why not.
At 12:22 a.m. on October 18, 2010, the website for Democrat U.S. Representative Peter Welch has a display that says “Fighting for fresh and local food in Vermont schools: At Mallets Bay School in Colchester, Rep. Welch introduced legislation that would help Vermont schools buy produce from local farms.” In the picture, he’s standing a foot away from a prepubescent girl who is wearing a tight, pink t-shirt that says “Love Your Earth, Keep It Green.”
Colchester is the school district that got the South Burlington Police Department to issue me a Warning of Trespass Notice because of my efforts to stop the Burlington Free Press and the participating community newspapers from using students in Vermont schools in order to make sexual references; Peter Welch is endorsing child sex abuse in order to get his legislation passed.
The next pictures are of Representative Welch's website. I took the second picture on an angle to give that child the remaining 10 seconds of privacy that she's going to have in regard to this issue.
Representative Welch visited the Malletts Bay School in Colchester, VT to talk about his "fresh and local food" bill on September 13, 2010. A South Burlington police officer showed up at my house on September 21, 2010 and dropped off a Notice of Trespass Warning on behalf of all Colchester schools. I hadn't been to any Colchester school in 20 years since I played sports in high school, and the only contact that I'd had with any Colchester school since 20 years ago was to make a few phone calls to administrators to let them know about the Burlington Free Press's exploitative activities.
It looks as if perhaps the Democratic Party at the federal level planned to have me arrested, and the Notice of Trespass Warning from Colchester schools was the Party's first step in that process.
As you go through the next photo gallery, please keep in mind that I took the pictures of Representative Welch's website today; the picture of him at Malletts Bay School in Colchester shows the first thing that appears on his website if you to the website and the September 13, 2010 article about him discussing his "fresh food" bill at Malletts Bay School is where you go on his website if you click "Read More" in that green box.
The pictures of Representative Welch's website show what he's making a priority right now, show his support of the harassment of me, show his support for all schools that want to exploit children in order to get more funding from the federal government, and show his support for my getting sent other Notice of Trespass Warnings and eventually arrested for continuing to document and protest about these issues.
I've covered up my address in the Notice of Trespass Warning; there's not much point to my doing that, but I figured why not.
The next photos show some of page 5D in the October 17, 2010 Burlington Free Press. Page 5D is directly opposite to Page 4D which has the article about the Burlington Food Council in which U.S. Representative Peter Welch appears.
The following pictures are all taken from the same page, page 7D, from the same “D” section of today’s Burlington Free Press as the pictures in the preceding photo gallery were taken. The Burlington Free Press had photographed a 3-year-old boy blowing on a paper windmill in front of a poster that said "THE WATER'S WARM!" I've only shown a corner of the picture as it is in the Free Press; in the Free Press, the picture of the little boy takes up the first third of the page, he is fully visible, and his name and town of residence are printed as part of the caption to the picture.
Then there's an article, and another picture with young girls in it. The ads are surrounding the picture of the girls, the oldest of whom is on crutches and is identified by name, age, and town of residence. She's 12 years old.
Then there's an article, and another picture with young girls in it. The ads are surrounding the picture of the girls, the oldest of whom is on crutches and is identified by name, age, and town of residence. She's 12 years old.
Here’s the article on page 8D called “Highlight the “MIRACLE OF HONEY” with fall squash, chevre and sage” that was advertised for at the top of the front page of the “D” section, next to the caption on the front page of the “D” section that said “Education needs to take children beyond classroom.” The recipe was submitted by someone at Fat Toad Farm in Brookfield, who says in Step 1 of her directions that "Usinga relatively deep apn is helpful that the oil doesn't spit up at you." There are all kinds of kids menus advertised for along the side, a reminder about Friday Night Lights, and then the last picture that I've put here shows the last of the small advertisements along the side of the page, for a Tailgate Party where they have NFL games on 5 TVs and a Make-your-own Bloody Mary bar.
It was a couple of weeks before the 2010 Academy Awards that I started getting called vagina names by some of the big media outside of Vermont, by several search engines on the Internet, and by some celebrities, so by the time the Academy Awards happened on March 7, 2010, I had been protesting me or anyone being called vagina names for those couple of weeks.
Here’s a picture I took on Church Street the other night. It’s another one of the plaques commemorating the sexual harassment that have been going up around Burlington since this past summer. I wonder if it’s the Burlington City Council or Mayor Bob Kiss who's been going back through the history of Burlington to find events and past businesses that can be used as part of the harassment and then creating and posting plaques about them.
I had pictures of some of the other plaques up on my Friendster profile before my Friendster profile was suppressed and all of my pictures were erased with it. It’s good that I was able to reactivate my Friendster profile, but of course all of the photo albums that I had made on it in the months before it got suppressed were gone. I might still have copies of the pictures I took of the other commemorative, sexually harassing plaques; even if I don’t, the plaques are still up around Burlington and I could take new pictures of them.
This plaque is offering the public a reminder of a "restaurant and oyster saloon" that existed from 1865 to 1895.
Here’s a picture I took on Church Street the other night. It’s another one of the plaques commemorating the sexual harassment that have been going up around Burlington since this past summer. I wonder if it’s the Burlington City Council or Mayor Bob Kiss who's been going back through the history of Burlington to find events and past businesses that can be used as part of the harassment and then creating and posting plaques about them.
I had pictures of some of the other plaques up on my Friendster profile before my Friendster profile was suppressed and all of my pictures were erased with it. It’s good that I was able to reactivate my Friendster profile, but of course all of the photo albums that I had made on it in the months before it got suppressed were gone. I might still have copies of the pictures I took of the other commemorative, sexually harassing plaques; even if I don’t, the plaques are still up around Burlington and I could take new pictures of them.
This plaque is offering the public a reminder of a "restaurant and oyster saloon" that existed from 1865 to 1895.
Page 6A and 7A of the October 18, 2010 Burlington Free Press
On Page 6A is a list of Republican, Democrat and Independent candidates for the Vermont House of Representatives. On Page 7A is an ad for "Direct Cremation Services" and an ad for www.burlingtonfreepress.com/obituaries that says "Find Obituaries. Share Condolences." Both of those ads are next to a list of schools in an announcement that Citizens Bank, the Burlington Free Press, the Vermont Lake Monsters baseball team, City Market and the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf are going to have a food drive from October 18 to November 5 to fight hunger for impoverished people. It looks as if at least page 6A and 7A were planned out by Clover Whitham, the Community Editor of the Burlington Free Press, who, along with the reporter Lynn Monty, were the ones who started the Free Press's fetish of using children in order to make sexual references in the weekly Hometown section of the Burlington Free Press, which Ms. Whitham also edits and to which Lynn Monty contributes with a great deal of frequency. It was from the efforts of these two women that the practice of exploiting children in the Burlington Free Press began and grew, with encouragement all summer from the Obamas but most specifically from Michelle Obama, who knew exactly what was going on and didn't care at all, and still doesn't care.
October 20, 2010 @ 1:48 a.m
On the front page of the “B” or “Vermont” section of the October 19, 2010 Burlington Free Press, there was a large picture of a 9-year-old boy above a headline for an ostensibly unrelated article that says “City seeks fountain proposals.” The picture of the 9-year-old boy is also below an article called “Britton gets campaign help: Sen. McCain to join rally; debate today.” The “Britton” has a picture of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Len Britton next to a picture of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. To the right of the picture of the 9-year-old boy, there’s an article about Mayor Bob Kiss that says “Kiss vetoes council resolution: Department head firings in dispute.”
The article “City seeks fountain proposals” says this:
“Two new drinking fountains in downtown Burlington will do more than quench the public thirst, organizers of a new arts project say: The installations will inspire a broader, deeper appreciation for the Queen City.
Monday, The Church Street Marketplace, the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation and the nonprofit Burlington City Arts issued a request for designs, with a Dec. 1 deadline.”
It looks as if this trio, the Church Street Marketplace District Commission, the Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation, and Burlington City Arts, decided together to create 2 new projects to commemorate and further institutionalize sexual harassment and pedophilia in Burlington.
Here’s what the website for the Church Street Marketplace says about its District Commission:
“The Church Street Marketplace District Commission consists of nine members, appointed by the Burlington City Council, who serve three year terms. The Commission is comprised of business owners, property owners and citizens who set policy for the Marketplace. It is also responsible for establishing common area fees charged to Marketplace property owners. The fees provide the majority of funding for the Marketplace operating budget.”
What that means is that any business on Church Street that doesn’t want to be part of the harassment and pedophilia can and probably will get punished by the Church Street Marketplace District Commission, a 9-member group which “sets polices” and “establish(es) common area fees charged to Marketplace property owners.”
The website for the Burlington City Arts features an upcoming event called “Jonathon Harris: Inner Landscapes” at the Firehouse Gallery from 09/10 -10/23 2010. If you click on that section, it brings to a page that says that “The 2010 Firehouse Gallery Exhibition Year is underwritten by the Burlington Free Press and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.”
Then it says “Click Here to read a letter from Jim Fogler, Burlington Free Press Publisher.”
Mr. Fogler’s letter says “the Free Press upholds First Amendment rights as the eyes and ears of our community.”
The Burlington Free Press hasn’t shown any interest at all in holding up First Amendment rights; the Burlington Free Press wanted to get me arrested for using the Internet to protest the Free Press’s exploitation of children and the exposure of corruption in Vermont that I’ve kept uncovering without even meaning to do so.
There’s a direct link to the Burlington Free Press’s website from the section of the BCA website that says “The 2010 Firehouse Gallery Exhibition Year is underwritten by the Burlington Free Press.” I followed the link and, in addition to being greeted by an ad for Windex on the BFP’s website that said “Keep up with messes right as they happen,” I saw that there was a BFP article that said “Richmond board votes to paint historic bridge red.”
I went to the article online called “Richmond board votes to paint historic bridge red.” The article was covered in ads for Shaws, which is just one of many supermarkets that’s been part of the harassment since the summer.
The article said “Next year, a fresh coat of paint will render the $1.67 million project complete.”
The article also said “The Vermont Agency of Transportation generally steers towns toward a more subdued palette: black, silver or green, said Agency spokesman John Zicconi.
Anticipating the Richmond Selectboard’s decision, Agency planners and preservation experts researched historic guidelines and precedents.”
The Vermont Agency of Transportation did all the research and is just giving $1.67 million to the town of Richmond to paint the bridge red in support of my being murdered.
I’m putting the whole article below; according to article, it was the Richmond selectboard that “unanimously” voted to paint the bridge red, and the original color of the bridge was silver.
Richmond board votes to paint historic bridge red
By Joel Banner Baird, Free Press Staff Writer • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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The unanimous vote Monday night reflected the majority preference among several hundred residents who responded to an informal survey last month — but does not automatically guarantee the color scheme, said Town Administrator Geoffrey Urbanik on Tuesday.
Construction crews rehabilitated most of the historic steel truss structure last year after it was deemed unsafe due to corrosion. Next year, a fresh coat of paint will render the $1.67 million project complete.
Richmond Town Historian and author Harriet Riggs on Tuesday endorsed the selectboard’s vote, adding that a red bridge in the center of town would be “quite striking.”
“As you approach the Round Church— which is white — you’ll have an interesting contrast,” she added.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation generally steers towns toward a more subdued palette: black, silver or green, said Agency spokesman John Zicconi.
Anticipating the Richmond Selectboard’s decision, Agency planners and preservation experts researched historic guidelines and precedents.
“Their consensus was that nothing would prevent the bridge from being painted red,” Zicconi said. “If the town is serious, we’re willing to listen to them.”
Tuesday, the bridge’s project manager began researching shades of red that match the Agency’s technical specifications, he added.
But, Zicconi said the available palette may or may not match the expectations of the Richmond majority.
“Supporters of red have probably envisioned very different shades,” he said.
Richmond’s span, erected in 1928 across the Winooski River, originally sported a silver coat; several decades ago it made the transition to green. Galvanized steel portions of the bridge will in all likelihood retain their silver patina — paint doesn’t adhere well to that surface, Zicconi said.
Urbanik, in an e-mail to the Richmond Village Front Porch Forum, reported town residents’ straw poll preference: Red (170 votes); green (103); silver (15) and black (7). Two residents stated a preference for gray; write-in votes garnered two votes for gray, and one vote apiece for copper and gunmetal.
Contact Joel Banner Baird at 660-1843 or [email protected]. Read his blog at www.burlingtonfreepress.com/BairdsEyeView and follow him on Twitter at @vtgoingup .
Previously : Richmond's green bridge might have red future
Read more: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101019/NEWS02/101019010/Richmond-board-votes-to-paint-historic-bridge-red#ixzz12sAtqC6Q
On the front page of the “B” or “Vermont” section of the October 19, 2010 Burlington Free Press, there was a large picture of a 9-year-old boy above a headline for an ostensibly unrelated article that says “City seeks fountain proposals.” The picture of the 9-year-old boy is also below an article called “Britton gets campaign help: Sen. McCain to join rally; debate today.” The “Britton” has a picture of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Len Britton next to a picture of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. To the right of the picture of the 9-year-old boy, there’s an article about Mayor Bob Kiss that says “Kiss vetoes council resolution: Department head firings in dispute.”
The article “City seeks fountain proposals” says this:
“Two new drinking fountains in downtown Burlington will do more than quench the public thirst, organizers of a new arts project say: The installations will inspire a broader, deeper appreciation for the Queen City.
Monday, The Church Street Marketplace, the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation and the nonprofit Burlington City Arts issued a request for designs, with a Dec. 1 deadline.”
It looks as if this trio, the Church Street Marketplace District Commission, the Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation, and Burlington City Arts, decided together to create 2 new projects to commemorate and further institutionalize sexual harassment and pedophilia in Burlington.
Here’s what the website for the Church Street Marketplace says about its District Commission:
“The Church Street Marketplace District Commission consists of nine members, appointed by the Burlington City Council, who serve three year terms. The Commission is comprised of business owners, property owners and citizens who set policy for the Marketplace. It is also responsible for establishing common area fees charged to Marketplace property owners. The fees provide the majority of funding for the Marketplace operating budget.”
What that means is that any business on Church Street that doesn’t want to be part of the harassment and pedophilia can and probably will get punished by the Church Street Marketplace District Commission, a 9-member group which “sets polices” and “establish(es) common area fees charged to Marketplace property owners.”
The website for the Burlington City Arts features an upcoming event called “Jonathon Harris: Inner Landscapes” at the Firehouse Gallery from 09/10 -10/23 2010. If you click on that section, it brings to a page that says that “The 2010 Firehouse Gallery Exhibition Year is underwritten by the Burlington Free Press and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.”
Then it says “Click Here to read a letter from Jim Fogler, Burlington Free Press Publisher.”
Mr. Fogler’s letter says “the Free Press upholds First Amendment rights as the eyes and ears of our community.”
The Burlington Free Press hasn’t shown any interest at all in holding up First Amendment rights; the Burlington Free Press wanted to get me arrested for using the Internet to protest the Free Press’s exploitation of children and the exposure of corruption in Vermont that I’ve kept uncovering without even meaning to do so.
There’s a direct link to the Burlington Free Press’s website from the section of the BCA website that says “The 2010 Firehouse Gallery Exhibition Year is underwritten by the Burlington Free Press.” I followed the link and, in addition to being greeted by an ad for Windex on the BFP’s website that said “Keep up with messes right as they happen,” I saw that there was a BFP article that said “Richmond board votes to paint historic bridge red.”
I went to the article online called “Richmond board votes to paint historic bridge red.” The article was covered in ads for Shaws, which is just one of many supermarkets that’s been part of the harassment since the summer.
The article said “Next year, a fresh coat of paint will render the $1.67 million project complete.”
The article also said “The Vermont Agency of Transportation generally steers towns toward a more subdued palette: black, silver or green, said Agency spokesman John Zicconi.
Anticipating the Richmond Selectboard’s decision, Agency planners and preservation experts researched historic guidelines and precedents.”
The Vermont Agency of Transportation did all the research and is just giving $1.67 million to the town of Richmond to paint the bridge red in support of my being murdered.
I’m putting the whole article below; according to article, it was the Richmond selectboard that “unanimously” voted to paint the bridge red, and the original color of the bridge was silver.
Richmond board votes to paint historic bridge red
By Joel Banner Baird, Free Press Staff Writer • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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The unanimous vote Monday night reflected the majority preference among several hundred residents who responded to an informal survey last month — but does not automatically guarantee the color scheme, said Town Administrator Geoffrey Urbanik on Tuesday.
Construction crews rehabilitated most of the historic steel truss structure last year after it was deemed unsafe due to corrosion. Next year, a fresh coat of paint will render the $1.67 million project complete.
Richmond Town Historian and author Harriet Riggs on Tuesday endorsed the selectboard’s vote, adding that a red bridge in the center of town would be “quite striking.”
“As you approach the Round Church— which is white — you’ll have an interesting contrast,” she added.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation generally steers towns toward a more subdued palette: black, silver or green, said Agency spokesman John Zicconi.
Anticipating the Richmond Selectboard’s decision, Agency planners and preservation experts researched historic guidelines and precedents.
“Their consensus was that nothing would prevent the bridge from being painted red,” Zicconi said. “If the town is serious, we’re willing to listen to them.”
Tuesday, the bridge’s project manager began researching shades of red that match the Agency’s technical specifications, he added.
But, Zicconi said the available palette may or may not match the expectations of the Richmond majority.
“Supporters of red have probably envisioned very different shades,” he said.
Richmond’s span, erected in 1928 across the Winooski River, originally sported a silver coat; several decades ago it made the transition to green. Galvanized steel portions of the bridge will in all likelihood retain their silver patina — paint doesn’t adhere well to that surface, Zicconi said.
Urbanik, in an e-mail to the Richmond Village Front Porch Forum, reported town residents’ straw poll preference: Red (170 votes); green (103); silver (15) and black (7). Two residents stated a preference for gray; write-in votes garnered two votes for gray, and one vote apiece for copper and gunmetal.
Contact Joel Banner Baird at 660-1843 or [email protected]. Read his blog at www.burlingtonfreepress.com/BairdsEyeView and follow him on Twitter at @vtgoingup .
Previously : Richmond's green bridge might have red future
Read more: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101019/NEWS02/101019010/Richmond-board-votes-to-paint-historic-bridge-red#ixzz12sAtqC6Q
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October 20, 2010 @ 10:06 a.m.
My computer was being extra slow earlier this morning, possibly because a lot of people were trying to read my Weebly blog while I was logged in there.
It seems from the article “Britton gets campaign help” that the Republican Party is making an effort to be a part of the harassment and the death threats. Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Britton scheduled his rally with support from Republican Senator John McCain at a “private aviation-company HANGAR” at Burlington International Airport.
Also, Britton arranged a video hookup at Vermont Public Radio’s studio in Colchester so he could participate in a debate with Senator Leahy. Apparently, Mr. Britton had wanted the debate to be moved to Colchester from Montpelier and Senator Leahy refused to make the switch.
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October 20, 2010 @ 10:18 a.m.
From today's Burlington Free Press, it looks as if Clover Whitham is starting to include more UVM students in the Hometown section of the Burlington Free Press. The Hometown section is where Ms. Whitham and the reporter Lynn Monty started using kids to make sexual references a few months ago.
However, it also looks as if maybe Ms. Whitham has been under some pressure to be more careful with students in public grade schools, so she's moving on somewhat to UVM students, to the Catholic grade school Mater Christi, to foreigners who might not have any idea what's going on, and also to individual parents who are willing to endanger other children in order to try to get publicity for their own children and their causes.
Leunig's Restaurant has its most recent ad featuring a big bottle of wine in the middle of a page with three UVM students and their umbrellas. One of its ads in the past several weeks said "Yeah, the crew at Leunig's already knew," which meant that Leunig's had known from the beginning of the summer that the Burlington Free Press was using children in order to make sexual references.
From the behavior of businesses such as Leunig's, you'd think that stories about sexual abuse, rape and murder never made the newspapers in Vermont at all, and in fact, it seems as if they don't unless even the newspapers can't ignore them or suppress them.
Although I think that there are still a lot of bad things going on, people who haven't been watching this situation for the past 6 months might not realize that when I first started trying to deal with the Burlington Free Press, everything it was doing in the paper was 10 times more obvious every day than what it's had to be doing most of the time recently. It was stories about flooding and fish and the BP oil spill and more every day, all over the paper. There were clusters of 5 and 6 ads at a time being abused because they contained words or pictures of cheese and fish and so on, on every other page, from businesses that had no idea what the Free Press was doing with those ads.
I hadn't been watching what the Burlington Free Press was doing online then, but I'm sure it was bad, and in my opinion, Mr. Fogler replacing Brad Robertson as President and Publisher of the Free Press in September of 2010 wasn't an improvement in the sense that my impression of Mr. Fogler is that he would and will be as horrible in the newspaper and online as he thinks he can get away with the second that he thinks he can get away with it.
Copyright L. Kochman October 20, 2010
My computer was being extra slow earlier this morning, possibly because a lot of people were trying to read my Weebly blog while I was logged in there.
It seems from the article “Britton gets campaign help” that the Republican Party is making an effort to be a part of the harassment and the death threats. Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Britton scheduled his rally with support from Republican Senator John McCain at a “private aviation-company HANGAR” at Burlington International Airport.
Also, Britton arranged a video hookup at Vermont Public Radio’s studio in Colchester so he could participate in a debate with Senator Leahy. Apparently, Mr. Britton had wanted the debate to be moved to Colchester from Montpelier and Senator Leahy refused to make the switch.
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October 20, 2010 @ 10:18 a.m.
From today's Burlington Free Press, it looks as if Clover Whitham is starting to include more UVM students in the Hometown section of the Burlington Free Press. The Hometown section is where Ms. Whitham and the reporter Lynn Monty started using kids to make sexual references a few months ago.
However, it also looks as if maybe Ms. Whitham has been under some pressure to be more careful with students in public grade schools, so she's moving on somewhat to UVM students, to the Catholic grade school Mater Christi, to foreigners who might not have any idea what's going on, and also to individual parents who are willing to endanger other children in order to try to get publicity for their own children and their causes.
Leunig's Restaurant has its most recent ad featuring a big bottle of wine in the middle of a page with three UVM students and their umbrellas. One of its ads in the past several weeks said "Yeah, the crew at Leunig's already knew," which meant that Leunig's had known from the beginning of the summer that the Burlington Free Press was using children in order to make sexual references.
From the behavior of businesses such as Leunig's, you'd think that stories about sexual abuse, rape and murder never made the newspapers in Vermont at all, and in fact, it seems as if they don't unless even the newspapers can't ignore them or suppress them.
Although I think that there are still a lot of bad things going on, people who haven't been watching this situation for the past 6 months might not realize that when I first started trying to deal with the Burlington Free Press, everything it was doing in the paper was 10 times more obvious every day than what it's had to be doing most of the time recently. It was stories about flooding and fish and the BP oil spill and more every day, all over the paper. There were clusters of 5 and 6 ads at a time being abused because they contained words or pictures of cheese and fish and so on, on every other page, from businesses that had no idea what the Free Press was doing with those ads.
I hadn't been watching what the Burlington Free Press was doing online then, but I'm sure it was bad, and in my opinion, Mr. Fogler replacing Brad Robertson as President and Publisher of the Free Press in September of 2010 wasn't an improvement in the sense that my impression of Mr. Fogler is that he would and will be as horrible in the newspaper and online as he thinks he can get away with the second that he thinks he can get away with it.
Copyright L. Kochman October 20, 2010
The Burlington Free Press, October 23, 2010, Front Page
Burlington Free Press, October 23, 2010, Page 3A
Burlington Free Press, October 23, 2010, page 7A
Yesterday, the Burlington Free Press was absolutely disgusting, and I documented that on the page of this blog called "From October 22, 2010." Probably, people complained to the Free Press about what the Free Press was like yesterday, so it's being more careful today, but the second that Mr. Fogler feels that he can get away with it, he will go back to making the Burlington Free Press just as disgusting as it was yesterday.
Here is one page in which he's being careful to hide the reference, by putting an advertisment for "heavy duty school model sew and serge sewing machines," and he's put a story about Democrat Peter Welch and his Republican challenger Paul Beaudry at the top of the page to give his reference authority. Then he brings the reference out again at the top of page 3D for a headline about a high school football game: "SJA surges past Burlington." I'll put the picture of the top of page 3D in another slideshow; I'm going in order of the pages of the Free Press.
October 28, 2010 @ 7:10 a.m.
As I"ve said on this page, I have more pictures to put up here. If I haven't done it yet, it's because I wanted to document what was happening as it was happening and I just didn't have time to go back and fill in other pictures. Then my blog got suppressed for a short while: I couldn't log into it at all.
If I'm able to get back to put in the other pictures I mentioned here, I will.
Copyright L. Kochman October 28, 2010
As I"ve said on this page, I have more pictures to put up here. If I haven't done it yet, it's because I wanted to document what was happening as it was happening and I just didn't have time to go back and fill in other pictures. Then my blog got suppressed for a short while: I couldn't log into it at all.
If I'm able to get back to put in the other pictures I mentioned here, I will.
Copyright L. Kochman October 28, 2010