SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer He is a stepson of Hinesburg shooting victim David Auclair. She is one of Auclair’s longest and closest friends. Both evoked the game of chess to explain their thoughts on the recent arrest of another of Auclair’s stepsons, Kory Lee George. George, 31, was charged on Sept. 4 with possession of… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation, had a braid of sweet grass smoldering. A bird was calling from 150 yards away as a crowd gathered in Shelburne Bay Park to reflect on the spiritual and scientific importance of water on Saturday. “In our culture the osprey… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer As in much of Vermont, some farmers in Charlotte and Hinesburg may have tossed the dice, drawn to an inside straight, gone all in – maybe even have bet the farm – on growing hemp for CBD production. “It’s a modern-day agricultural gold rush,” said Heather Darby, UVM extension professor of… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer The Racial Alliance Committee at Champlain Valley Union High School is hoping that you’ll eat at the Hinesburgh Public House on at least one Sunday during September. And during November, the children’s programs at the Carpenter-Carse Library will most likely be hoping you’ll get your Sunday chow there as well. This… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer Sometime in 1989, Mike Kline from the Vermont Department of Conservation found himself sitting in Andrea Morgante’s living room in Hinesburg talking with a fledgling watershed organization – the Lewis Creek Association. Thirty years later, at the end of the workday on Thursday, Aug. 29, he was talking to a reporter… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer In 2006, Mike Leonard visited Hinesburg … and every other town in Vermont. All 251 of them. On Aug. 23, he visited Hinesburg again. Thirteen years ago, he was filming his visit. This time, he was visiting with his film, “One Town at a Time.” Leonard screened his film of the… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer The Ride 4 CMT event at the Old Lantern in Charlotte was a wonderful success. Chris Ouellette, an organizer of the event to raise money to fund work for a cure for CMT, said that they had roughly 200 riders and walkers. Many of them have been diagnosed with CMT. CMT… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer In early 2014, Glynda McKinnon of Charlotte noticed that her partner David Scheuer seemed to be slurring his words, but he didn’t notice it. By late summer, even he acknowledged that something wasn’t right. In September, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosi, or ALS. Despite leading an active, athletic lifestyle… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer When Elizabeth Ouellette’s son Johan Bouchard was 7, she noticed that he seemed to have trouble gripping the monkey bars. And he seemed to have trouble holding a pencil. She was also bothered that he seemed tired a lot. Ouellette was shocked by her son’s diagnosis – Johan had CMT, or… Read More »
SCOOTER MACMILLAN Staff Writer On Saturday, Aug. 10, the Maille Dairy Farm celebrates its 100th birthday. It is one of the last dairy farms in Shelburne. In 1919, Philiza and Blanche LaMothe from St. Albans bought the farm on Dorset Street, just south of the intersection where Barstow Road turns into Cheesefactory Road. Philiza continued… Read More »