November 1, 2014 Obituaries Rutland Daily Herald A7 Edna B. Cooper POULTNEY Edna B. Cooper, 92, of Poultney died Thursday morning, Oct. 30, 2014, at her residence with her daughter by her side. She was born on Sept.
11, 1922, in Hubbardton, the daughter of John and Bertha (Colty) Bishop. Mrs. Cooper grew up in Hubbardton where she attended the local school. She married Clayton H. Cooper on January 13, 1947.
Mrs. Cooper had been employed by the Cotbed Dress factory in Poultney and for several years with her husband in his construction company prior to her retirement. She was a member of the East Poultney Baptist Church and the Women's Union and Dorcas Society. Mrs. Cooper loved to play bingo, and enjoyed gardening, camping and her pets.
Survivors include her son Donald Cooper and his wife Robin; a daughter Linda Corey and her husband Dennis, all of Poultney; three step-children, two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and step-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband on March 17, 1992, and by 13 brothers and sisters. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Poultney Cemetery.
There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are by the Durfee Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rutland County Humane Society 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford, VT 05763. Harry A. Kerber POULTNEY Harry A.
Kerber, 82, of Poultney, died Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, at Dartmouth-Hitchco*ck Medical Center. A full obituary will follow at a later date. Arrangements are pending with the Durfee Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to People of Praise, 60 Kerber Lane, Poultney, VT, or Poultney Hose Co.
263 Beaman Street, Poultney, VT, 05764. Rose G. McLaughlin PITTSFORD Rose G. McLaughlin, died Oct. 30, 2014 at her home.
She was born in West Rutland on Nov. 16, 1930, daughter of Adam and Mary (Worosila) Hyjek. Rose was employed by Metromail. She enjoyed crocheting and spending time with her family. Surviving are three daughters: Anna Lang of Proctor, and Theresa Crandall and Diana McLaughlin, both of Rutland; four sons, Donald McLaughlin of Rutland, Patrick McLaughlin of Fair Haven, Walter and Peter McLaughlin; eight grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by four brothers, Jacob, Walter, Joseph and Peter Hyjek; and a sister, Frances Moody. A funeral Mass will held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 3 in St. Peter's Church in Rutland.
A reception will follow the funeral Mass at the home of Anna Lang in Proctor. Montpelier officials target per costs Brown visits Sullivan County after debate remarks Woman charged in 1 holdups in Montpelier, Barre Friends may call at the Clifford Funeral Home on Monday from 9:30 to 10:30 Russell 'Rusty' Moulton, Jr. PITTSFORD Rus- sell "Rusty" Moulton, age 54, died Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, at his home in Pittsford. Mr.
Moulton was born in Rutland on Sept. 10, 1960. He was the son of Russell and Elizabeth Archer Moulton, Sr. His father being career military he grew up all around the world. He had attended Aberdeen, High School, but earned his GED in 1986.
He returned to Vermont in 1981, moving here from Houston, Texas. He had worked at Brandon TrainSchool after returning. He had also worked for Laws Agriculture during the summer months for several years. He had been employed at New England Woodcraft from 1987 until 1994, when he joined the context of our own class-size Montpelier has gone from 917 students in fiscal year 2012 to 958 in fiscal 2013, 939 in fiscal 2014 and a projected 934 in fiscal 2015, according to the committee's report. Union Elementary has increased by 40 students in those four years, to 460 students, for 9.5 percent growth; Main Street Middle School has gone from 178 to 199, an increase of 11.8 percent.
Montpelier High School, on the other hand, has gone from 319 to 275 students, down 13.8 percent. Districtwide, the count increased 1.9 percent in the four-year period. The per-pupil rate of spending at the high school, where there is a continued decline in enrollment, has gone up each year and OWN Seat AP PHOTO at the Country Kitchen Res- comment about ski areas referred to the Mount Sunapee resort, which is not in Sullivan County but neighboring Merrimack County. The panelist all the money and nobody would hurt. The employee told the woman she didn't have any money, and the woman a left, according to the a affidavit.
A little over an hour later, police responded to a reported robbery at the Champlain Farms in Barre. They say a store employee block public access when records are tied to pending lawsuits. Because of litigation in the case of MacAdam Mason, the 39-yearold Thetford man who died after being shocked with a stun gun by Vermont State Police in 2012, the public still can't have access to basic information about the case, he said. "You can't have a record staff at OMYA, where he was a shipping coordinator. He was an avid hunter and fisherman.
Surviving are two sons: Justin Moulton of Joshua, Texas and Joshua Moulton of Pittsford; one daughter, Sarah Moulton of Gloucester, Virginia; a special daughter, Nicole Moller, of Orwell, who traveled with him for all his appointments during his transplant; his father, Russell Moulton, Sr. and step-mother Sylvia of Lake Alfred, a sister, Juanita Levasseur of Castleton; and the mother of his children, Janine Parker of Orwell. One grandson and several nieces, nephews and cousins also survive him. He was predeceased by his mother Elizabeth Moulton; a brother Allen Zeke Moulton; and a sister Sharon Moulton. The memorial service In Celebration of his Life will be held on Sunday, Nov.
2, 2014, at 1 p.m. at the Miller Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon, where friends may call Sunday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. until the time of the service at spiked significantly in the fiscal 2015 budget that is this year's spending plan, according to information from the committee. At Union Elementary School, where enrollment is up to the point that parent Chris Curtis recently referred to growth as "a baby boom," the per-pupil costs have remained fairly constant, even dropping from 2012 to 2014.
During this four-year period, per-pupil spending at Union went up 4.1 percent, or $374, from $9,088 to $9,462. During the same period, the per-pupil spending for Main Street Middle School went up much faster: 11.7 percent, or $1,539 per student from $13,123 to $14,662. At Montpelier High School, the figures have climbed the most: 23.5 acknowledged that he was wrong about the location of Sullivan County and he apologized to Brown. Asked about the geography feud on Friday, Brown said: "You want to talk directions guess which direction we're going in? The wrong direction." "The biggest issue affecting every business is Obamacare," Brown added. "Everything I said (at the debate) was 100 percent accurate." Brown, along with his wife and one of his daughters, visited with customers at the Country Kitchen in Newport, joining some in singing "The Star Spangled Banner" before embarking on a GOP candidate bus tour.
Shaheen was planning to visit Claremont on Friday afternoon, and her campaign said Brown's remarks showed he doesn't told them a woman wearing a black sweatshirt and pants and sunglasses handed a store employee a note that said, "I have a gun. Do not make any sudden movements." The woman demanded cash from the register and told the employee to keep his hands up. No weapon was seen of even how many police responded to the incident, how many cruisers responded," Gilbert said. He argued that there is no need for such an exemption to the public records law because if someone sees a need to keep information in a lawsuit secret, he or she can ask the judge for an order sealing it. p.m.
Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made in his memory to: Outdoors Unlimited, for Disabled Hunters, 1126 Ridge Road, Ontario, NY 14519, or to the Center for Donation and Organ Transplant, 218 Great Oaks Blvd, Albany, NY 12203. Jane H. Fox Rites TINMOUTH The graveside service for Jane H. Fox, 88, of Tinmouth, who died Oct. 24, 2014, at Rutland Regional Medical Center, was held Thursday, Oct.
30, 2014, at the Tinmouth Cemetery. The Rev. Hannah K. Rogers, pastor of the Rutland United Methodist Church, officiated. Susan Lloyd played guitar.
A poem was read by Megan Fox. Words of remembrance were by Judi Fox and Janice Moore. Arrangements were by the Wallingford-Aldous Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rutland County Humane Society 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford, VT 05763. MONTPELIER The mayor has asked schools to zero in on the city's perpupil expenditures this budget year, saying the rate of growth has accelerated in the past two years.
Mayor John Hollar, himself a school board veteran, raised the issue at the City Council's recent meeting where the budget process got started, saying the school side of expenses has risen too much the past few years. "Montpelier's tax rate has risen substantially in the last two years, in large part due to a significant increase in the per-pupil spending," said Hollar. "My hope is that the school board would limit the increase in per-pupil spending next year so that we can start to make Montpelier an affordable place for families to live." By LYNNE TUOHY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By AMY ASH NIXON STAFF WRITER NEWPORT, N.H. Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Scott Brown headed straight for Sullivan County on Friday and defended his answer in a debate that had Democrats claiming he was unfamiliar with the geography of his new home state.
In the WMUR-TV debate Thursday, Brown and Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen were asked what they'd do to improve the economy in Sullivan County. Brown began talking about supporting ski areas and snowmobile trails and a debate panelist twice interrupted, saying it sounded like the candidate was talking about the state's North Country, which has the majority of the state's ski areas. Brown responded that By ERIC BLAISDELL STAFF WRITER BARRE A transient woman has been held on $25,000 bail on charges she robbed the Champlain Farms on South Main Street in Barre shortly after trying to rob Shaw's supermarket on Main Street in Montpelier earlier this week. Koren E. Brand, 26, Secrets Continued from Page A1 many exemptions from disclosure are not embedded in law but are contained in rules, policies and procedures issued by executive branch agencies.
"Nobody's able to tell us how many exemptions Declining enrollments can lead to a higher per-pupil cost, Hollar said. This is an issue he wants the Montpelier School Board to focus on. Coincidentally, the board recently received a report containing data about the subject. "Our pe expenditures are not out of line with other school districts our size, and configured the way Montpelier is as a pre K-12 district. We really rank about in the middle of the pack," board member Lowell VanDerlip reported at last week's school board meeting.
He served on a program and facilities committee that recently concluded its work on studying steps to find cost savings while improving opportunities for students. During the four-year period from 2012 to 2015, the committee found that the per-pupil expenditure Republican Senate candidate taurant on Friday in Newport, he was talking about places "past Concord" including Sullivan County, most of which is north of the capital, and said businesses in every county face the same pleaded not guilty Thursday in Washington County criminal court to one felony count of assault and robbery and one felony count of attempted assault and robbery. If convicted, she faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. According to the police affidavit, officers received a call Sunday night about there really are and what they're being applied to," said Allen Gilbert, executive director of the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Two topics that came up in Friday's discussion were how broad or narrow exemptions should be and whether some exemptions are redundant.
increased about 10.2 percent, to $18,502. However, the per-pupil expenditures have increased the past two years at "a greater rate than they have in the past," VanDerlip told fellow board members during a discussion around the formation of the coming year's budget. That, VanDerlip said, is "a significant factor in the funding mechanism from the state and the amount of funding that needs to be done locally, and it results in increases in taxes, so our suggestion was in looking at the budget this year, not only looking at the overall increase or decrease, but also looking at it in terms of per-pupil expenditures." "Class size was another piece that we looked at," said VanDerlip. "To look at the decisions we make in the TAURANT LANE FOR DECADE OP JANE OUT 481 Scott Brown, right, campaigns N.H. challenges, such as high electric rates, corporate taxes and rising costs associated with the Affordable Care Act.
After the debate, his campaign said the an attempted robbery at Shaw's. An employee reported that while she was closing the safe in the customer service area, a woman in black wearing a hood and gloves watched her. The employee told police she approached the woman, and was handed a piece of paper stating she was to hand the woman Medical records were already exempt from public access when pharmacists insisted they be given a special exemption from disclosure when they dispense lethal drugs under the aid-in-dying bill lawmakers passed in 2013, Ayer said. Gilbert zeroed in on a section of the law allowing government officials to percent, from $13,481 in 2012 to $16,644 in 2015, an increase of $3,163. Too, the district level perstudent cost, which is added to the per-pupil cost from each school to reach the total number, has gone up 7.9 percent since 2012, or $424 per student; district costs this year are $5,818 per student.
The average total perstudent cost is $18,502 for Montpelier's students; broken down to $15,280 at Union; $20,480 for the middle school; and $22,462 for the high school. This 10.2 percent increase since fiscal 2012 means $1,706 per student. In 2012, the Montpelier school district's budget was $14.93 million; the fiscal 2015 budget is $17.28 million. amy.nixon understand New Hampshire. Claremont Mayor James Nielsen, who has endorsed Shaheen, said Brown "proved that not only can he not find us on a map, but also that he doesn't care about us at Brown called the mayor's comments "partisan politics" and said Nielsen's city faces the same challenges as others in the state.
Brown sat down on a counter stool alongside John Chiarella of Sunapee and the two talked about health care. Chiarella, who said his health care policy was canceled last year, said he's "absolutely" a Brown supporter. Chiarella said he was surprised by the Sullivan County exchange during the debate and described it as "unfair," but added, thought he answered it well." in the robbery. Police say the woman made off with $253.05 in cash. Obituary Policy The Rutland Herald prints obituaries and hosts them online as a public service.
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