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 »
LISA SCAGLIOTTI Correspondent A recent permit approval for Shelburne Green business park to expand Fiddlehead Brewing Co.’s facility has been challenged with an appeal filed by a homeowner in the adjacent neighborhood. The appeal dated Aug. 30 was filed with the Vermont Superior Court Environmental Division by Nancy C. Hinsdale and her son, Clark Hinsdale… Read More »
MADELINE CLARK Staff Writer When many people are sleeping in or leisurely munching their morning cereal, Tod Whitaker is busy running the Shelburne Farmers Market. He’s hardly had a summer Saturday off in over a decade – but that’s about to change. After helping create the market, then volunteer as its manager for 14 years,… 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 »
LISA SCAGLIOTTI Correspondent Plans to build a new fire and rescue station off Shelburne Road are moving more slowly than town officials had hoped if they plan to ask Town Meeting Day voters to approve the land purchase for the project. But the co-owner of Healthy Living Market – the town’s partner in the unique… 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 »
ANNE WALLACE ALLEN VT Digger Facing slowing growth in the teddy bear market, one of Vermont’s most iconic businesses is looking to become the Noah’s Ark of stuffed animals. The iconic Vermont Teddy Bear has started making bunnies, foxes, koalas, elephants and various other animals. Next year, it’s making a sloth. Vermont Teddy Bear has… Read More »
SUNNY NAGPAUL Community News Service On Sept. 1, Shelburne Farms Chef Tim Fox found himself cooking before an audience not in his familiar kitchen at the Shelburne Farms Inn, but at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction. About a dozen and a half people gathered in the Ware Building at the Champlain Valley Expo… Read More »