Woman charged in shaker assault
11.10.11
A West Rutland woman is charged with cutting a mans head open with salt and pepper shakers.
Darcy Sanderson-Day, 31, of Walker Mountain Road, pleaded innocent Thursday in Rutland criminal court to a felony charge of unlawful trespass in an occupied residence and misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and unlawful mischief. If convicted of all charges, she could face a total of five years in prison.
Police said the charges stemmed from an incident Tuesday afternoon on North Main Street in Rutland. City police responding to a call at a house there and found a man bleeding from his face.
The man, identified by police as Sanderson-Days stepfather, told police Sanderson-Day arrived at the house and demanded entry on the grounds that the house belonged to her deceased mother. When the stepfather denied her entry, according to affidavits, she pushed by him and grabbed a pack of cigarettes from a table.
The stepfather told police he escorted Sanderson-Day
Source: Rutland Herald
UVM dining hall bans backpacks to foil food thieves
12.10.11
"Our dining plan is very clear that it's unlimited while you are in this particular facility. So it's not about a full, free-for-all takeout," said Melissa Zelazny, the general manager of Sodexho.
But fruit, juice, silverware and salt and pepper shakers continued to vanish from the University of Vermont's Harris Millis dining hall until the university banned backpacks.
"We had some students bringing in Tupperware containers and filling up food to be taken out," Zelazny said. "We're missing salt and pepper shakers and equipment."
Zelazny heads food services for UVM. She says the university had no choice but to outlaw the bags. Since the start of the school year these thefts have sent food costs sky high. Sodexo orders food based upon how much kids eat in a typical sitting. But she says that number is impossible to calculate when students start illegally taking an inordinate amount of food to go.
"It was just getting to the point where we were running out of food for the late night dinner option and late night dinner," she said.
Source: WCAX