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WEST DANVILLE, Vt. — Forget what the calendar says. In these parts, spring doesn’t arrive until the cinder block falls through the ice on Joe’s Pond.
The 65-pound block is placed on a wooden pallet on the frozen surface of the pond and tied to an alarm clock on shore each winter in a $1-per-chance guessing game. It plunged into the water at 5:25 p.m. Friday.
Four people who guessed April 25 at 5:15 p.m. — the closest time — won $1,323 apiece in the annual Joe’s Pond Ice Out Contest, according to organizer Dave Parker.
The 20th annual contest drew 12,039 entries, many far from Vermont. The Associated Press
