Top Stories for Tuesday April 24, 2012

Witnessing The Technology Revolution At The Nea Tocht Farm
By Cookie Steponaitis
Down on the farm will never have the same meaning that it used to. Heck, we may even have to rewrite some of the classic songs like Home, Home on the Range, where the robots are milking all day. It has a futuristic tinge to it, doesn’t it? Well, ready or not, the future is now and Ferrsiburgh is one place it is happening.
When Raymond and Linda VanderWey moved to Addison County from New Jersey and started Nea Tocht Farm in 1976, they had no visions of the changes that were coming to agriculture and eventually their farm, but today they are embracing them.
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Ferrisburgh Has a Special Birthday Party Planned
By Cookie Steponaitis
We have all had one, the birthday that made you set up and take notice. For some of us it was a rollover birthday as one decade slid into another. For teens it is the magic eighteen where all life is supposed to change. For others in the community it is celebrating longevity with ninety or even one hundred years young. So, when talking about Vermont towns of which many were settled in the 1700’s, what is that rollover number?  [ more ]

Administrative Assistants Day Spotlight On…
By Marcie Bolton
   Administrative Professionals Day will celebrate its 60th anniversary on April 25, 2012.  Secretaries administrators, receptionists have remained the backbone of businesses, corporations, educational facilities, and so much more.   They are the gears of the operation, whose jobs demand accuracy, timeliness and perhaps most importantly an ability to deal with many different types of personalities.  The Valley Voice is proud to recognize the administrative professional’s around Addison County. 

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