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Last Thursday, a stunning artifact turned up on one of the shaker screens filtering soil from the main excavation area of the archaeological dig site in Jamaica State Park.
Two research supervisors of the project, Jess Robinson and Geoff Mandel, said workers had found a stone object - just over an inch in length and an inch wide, in a vague projectile-point shape and clearly marked by shallow fluting - that may be 9,500 years old, or from the Early Archaic Period.
The team of about 10 people from the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program uses several methods to date the nearly 3,000 artifacts and fragments and flakes they have uncovered; the final verifications may take two years of laboratory testing.
But preliminary dating can be done, says Mandel, by comparing the objects to others that already have been, for example, carbon-dated, and also by knowing a lot about how and when tools were shaped, by the size of the flutes and how flakes were removed, among other variables.
New Leland & Gray Union High School Principal Dorinne - pronounced “door in” - Dorfman chooses her words both easily and carefully, even when they are among the ubiquitous terms (like “multiple pathways”) favored by school departments. At 40, and looking something like a self-assured high school student herself,
Revenues for the 60th Grace Cottage Hospital fair, held on Aug. 7, came in at a little over $75,000. According to fair accountant Mike Adrian, that's a slight dip from the all-time record last year of nearly $80,000, which was a 23 percent raise over revenue in 2008. “It...
Hiring a new principal at Leland & Gray took months and required a complex filtration system made up of at least half a dozen committees through which information was refined. Committee members represented every nook and cranny of the school: teachers of nearly every discipline, administrators, school board representatives, support staff (so-called non-licensed professionals), parents and students. “We began last spring with a resume review committee,” said Steven B. John, superintendent of the Windham Central Supervisory Union, which serves 10...
Antler central has opened on Route 30. The shop, called the Rustic Moose, opened in May and it stands out in the small mall between Kindle Farm School and West River Valley Veterinary Service. Just look for the sign near the road that's decorated with moose antlers. Tom White, taxidermist and proprietor of the Rustic Moose, draws a stream of weekend visitors. Some buy deer antlers and jawbones, while others come in to talk about White's work and why there...
Even though the 93-year-old Green Mountain Camp for Girls has a Facebook page, kids say goodbye to such digital distractions when they enroll for summer camp - day or overnight, one week or several, up to six - at the sanctuary-like, 13-acre site in Dummerston. There's electricity, and there are showers (and an elegant pool), but you won't see any hand-held electronic devices - at least among the campers - or even old-fashioned devices you have to plug into the...
Apart from whatever inconvenience the closing of the Williamsville covered bridge for two months accrues to commuters and tourists traveling to and from South Newfane via the Dover Road, it's not nearly as serious as what the contractors and state employees fear if hordes of locals want to watch (and who doesn't?) the new bridge, now complete and resting on private property, being transported to where the old bridge once was. Indeed, officials decline to disclose the estimated target date...
The logistics of road resurfacing are as precise as a recipe and nearly as epic as a military invasion. One day last week, during a short break on the Newfane-Townshend Route 30 resurfacing project, Terry Dixon, paving foreman for contractor Lane Construction of Cheshire, Conn., pointed this out. Dixon said that nine men and 16 machines - one paver, one rubber tire roller, two steel drum rollers and 12 trucks carrying about 1,600 tons of asphalt - first made the...
