Top Stories for Tuesday January 9, 2018

Starting The New Year With 7 South Sandwich Company
By Cookie Steponaitis
Walking in the doors of Middlebury’s newest business located at 1396 Route 7 South is a mix of new and old. While the business is new the smiling faces of Amy and Donnie Sweet and daughter Alex are welcoming and already a fixture in the local food eateries. Amy Sweet always wanted to do something on her own and felt 2018 was the time to branch out and take her twenty-five plus years in the business of making food and turn it into her own place and destination for local people and visitors alike.  [ more ]

Addison County Raised Artist Illustrates Children’s Books
By Cookie Steponaitis
It was a recent event that made life come full circle for artist Aaron Parrott. His mother Ernestine Woolery downloaded his first children’s book on her Kindle and called up Aaron to read it to him over the phone, chuckling all the while. “This is why I love reading and love writing,” responded the artist. “Thank you, mom.” Aaron Parrott grew up and attended school in Addison County and was always one for the printed word, artistic image and creative process itself.  Parrot was involved in music, sports and creative writing and grew up with his own pets and experiences that were part of his development and childhood years. While life took his career in different paths including a twenty-year career in the U.S. military as an instructor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Parrott always kept his hand in the arts with his own music and drawings.
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