VT VT - Marble Arvidson, 17, Brattleboro, 27 Aug 2011

[Seymour Krelborn]

MARBLE ARVIDSON, Age Now: 17, Missing: 08/27/2011. Missing From BRATTLEBORO, VT. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Brattleboro Police Department (Vermont) 1-802-257-7950.

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[goldie finch]

He disappeared the day before Tropical Storm Irene hit us.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/search_continues_for_missing_v.html

Published: Wednesday, September 07, 2011, 9:28 AM
Updated: Wednesday, September 07, 2011, 2:47 PM
By Robert Rizzuto, The Republican

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - With more than a week passing since anyone has seen or heard from 17-year-old Marble Arvidson, the concern is growing while a search is ongoing.

 

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http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/volunteers_needed_in_search_fo.html

Published: Friday, September 09, 2011, 12:31 PM
Updated: Saturday, September 10, 2011, 3:49 AM
By Robert Rizzuto, The Republican

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - With police resources scattered across flood-ravaged Vermont, volunteers are needed for a community search to help find 17-year-old Marble Arvidson, who has been missing for nearly two weeks.

 

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All they know for certain is that Marble Arvidson was at his home on the afternoon of Aug. 27.
One of the four members of the household saw Marble in the afternoon. Another heard someone knock at the door and Marble conversing with a man whose voice was not recognized.
Marble left a note saying he was going out and would be back in about 20 minutes. He marked it with the time — 2:17 p.m.
He never returned.
“We don’t know if he left in a car, went walking — nobody knows but the person who knocked on the door, and we haven’t been able to identify who that person is,” Kittredge said.

http://vtdigger.org/2011/09/09/a-brattleboro-boy-goes-missing-a-community-rallies-to-search/

Missing Marble Arvidson facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/notes/fireground360/missing-marble-arvidson/10150210446002824
Find Marble Arvidson facebook page (mostly set to private -- just a few pictures showing and no info) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002889113915&sk=wall

 

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Twitter account for updates: http://twitter.com/#!/MarbleArvidison

 

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Julie Cunningham, executive director of Families First, said she's known Arvidson for 11 years and served as his case manager with Families First ever since. http://www.reformer.com/ci_18792770?source=most_viewed

The Brattleboro Reformer reports that Arvidson, a Brattleboro Union High School student who was living with two mentors, hasn't been seen since. His case manager at Families First, a human services agency, says she's afraid something might have happened to Arvidson since Tropical Storm Irene hit. She says he's a high-functioning boy . . . http://www.wcax.com/story/15363277/17-year-old-vermont-boy-missing-since-saturday

BBM, just to make the terms stand out.

I wonder what "high functioning boy" is supposed to mean? Does it mean he functions better than an average teenager or does it mean he functions very well considering some situation of which we're unaware. He seems to be in foster care of some kind, as they mention "mentors" with whom he lives. His grandfather describes himself as a "mentor" of Marble (at http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site04/story.php?articleno=4068&page=2) but the grandfather doesn't live in West Brattleboro.

Marble's living situation might be somewhat complicated -- IMO it makes it less likely that he got lost in a storm or kidnapped by a stranger.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://findmarble.org/2011/09/11/bring-marble-home-hike-for-a-cause/

September 17 and 18th 9 AM

Large scale ground searches planned

 

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There may be a press conference on Marble's case on Tuesday at 2:00 pm E.T. I can't confirm that -- saw it on an unreliable web page and nowhere else so far. It is very hard to get info on this case as the facebook pages either have no info or have gone private and will only accept friend requests from people who actually knew Marble, the Twitter account hasn't been updated in 5 days, and I can't find links to the web site set up about him (except in summer_breeze's link below.) In the comment section to an article in the local paper, someone asked how they could help with the search and got the curt answer "The information is in the sidebar to the article." There's no sidebar about Marble, at least not anymore.
Perhaps the family has a strategy or perhaps they need some help in figuring out how to make it most likely that someone will find him. I've never seen a case where so many web resources have been set up with so few of them offering any outreach to the public for help.

 

[summer_breeze]

Hike for a cause

http://findmarble.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/bringmarblehome11x171.pdf

Find Marble

http://findmarble.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/111792128927067/

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.reformer.com/ci_18875201?source=most_viewed

By JOSH STILTS / Reformer Staff
Posted: 09/12/2011 03:00:00 AM EDT

BRATTLEBORO -- It has been more than two weeks with no new concrete leads and friends and family are left asking, "Where is Marble Arvidson?"

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.wcax.com/story/15447681/reward

Brattleboro, Vermont -- September 13, 2011

Short article at link

 

[alwayslooking]

http://www.wcax.com/story/15447681/reward

Brattleboro, Vermont -- September 13, 2011

Short article at link

I really wish he would get more media attention! Prayers for Marble!

 

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Press conference for Marble's case. His aunt, mom, close family friend, and detective speak. It sounds like there's only one press member there, and that person knows little about the case (or is acting as if he knows little so that he can ask all the relevant questions.) The reward and upcoming search information are announced.
Find Marble Arvidson Press Conference 091311 - YouTube

Possibly, the close friend (who stands up with a woman who seems to be his wife) are the people with whom Marble lived -- but that is not specifically stated. He is very sure that someone locally has information about what has happened to Marble. The family does not answer questions about Marble's living situation, because they don't feel it is relevant or helpful at this time. Hearing Marble's mom is heartbreaking.

I'm very hopeful that Marble will be found safe -- though I've been disappointed before. Often a young man goes missing, not because he's running away from anything but because he's going off to do something that he doesn't want to have to explain to everybody or get permission for.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://sentinelsource.com/news/loca...cle_8f324f63-1acb-5c38-b282-28e3f26fbf32.html

Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:15 pm
Updated: 2:31 pm, Wed Sep 14, 2011.
By Casey Farrar Sentinel Staff

BRATTLEBORO — The search for a teenager missing since late last month continues Saturday with coordinated search parties in the West Brattleboro area where he lived and along Hogback Mountain between there and Wilmington.

 

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http://dailycollegian.com/2011/09/14/vermont-teen-missing-since-irene/

By: COLLEGIAN NEWS STAFF | September 14, 2011

A group of investigators looking for a missing 17-year-old boy, from Vermont are recruiting members of the University of Massachusetts community to participate in their search efforts.

 

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http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/92002/

Friday, 09/16/11 5:50pm
Susan Keese

(Host) Volunteer search parties will be combing the woods around Hogback Mountain in Marlboro this weekend. They're hoping for clues pointing to the whereabouts of a missing Brattleboro high school senior.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/reggae_legend_denroy_morgan_of.html

ublished: Monday, September 19, 2011, 6:10 AM
Updated: Monday, September 19, 2011, 6:17 AM
By Conor Berry, The Republican

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- A large-scale weekend search for Marble Arvidson turned up no new evidence in the disappearance of the West Brattleboro teenager, who's been missing since the day before Tropical Storm Irene pounded southern Vermont and northwestern Massachusetts.

 

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http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/family_and_friends_of_brattleb.html

Published: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 12:08 AM
Updated: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 1:58 AM
By Patrick Johnson, The Republican

BRATTLEBORO, VT. -- Volunteers conducting a ground search last weekend for missing teen Marble Ace Arvidson, who was last seen the day before Tropical Storm Irene last month, found no trace of the boy, organizers said.

 

[Shutterfly]

FYI....

http://www.familiesfirstvt.com/services/
"Families First (above link)," who's case manager states that she has been so for eleven years.....

*snipped from above website ".....

Founded in 1996, Families First is a (501) non-profit organization commited to helping special needs children and their families in Windham County in Southeastern Vermont. We serve children who are medically fragile, developmentally delayed and those who have mental health issues.Thirteen years ago, Families First began with just four families who wanted to create an agency that would be creative, nurturing and responsive to the day to day needs of families with special needs children....."