By LISA SCAGLIOTTI The Shelburne Development Review Board recently continued its work on several project proposals including a request to rebuild the parish hall at a church in the village, the design of a nine-lot subdivision on Irish Hill Road, and the final approval for the 91-lot development by Snyder Homes on Spear Street. At… Read More »
By MADELINE HUGHES Shelburne voters will have no races to decide on the Town Meeting Day ballot after the candidates’ deadline this week attracted no competition for open offices. Four positions were up for election this year, and three incumbents have chosen to serve again. Two seats on the Selectboard each have a single candidate… Read More »
By MADELINE HUGHES Since opening in Shelburne in 2012, Fiddlehead Brewing Company has been steadily growing. Now, seven years later, the craft brewer is pushing the limits of the space it occupies in the Shelburne Green commercial development along Route 7 and its landlord is looking to expand the beer company’s footprint in the commercial… Read More »
By MADELINE HUGHES Kathryn Webb has been a member of the Vermont House of Representatives for a decade. Webb served on the Fish, Wildlife, Water Resources Committee for her first eight years serving in the Legislature. The committee has since been renamed the Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Committee. She also held several leadership positions,… Read More »
By SCOOTER MACMILLAN A group of students from Champlain Valley Union High may or may not see their shadow on Groundhog Day, but they will definitely see their splash. That’s because at 11 a.m. on Feb. 2, they will be jumping into the waters of Lake Champlain to support the Special Olympics Vermont in the… Read More »
By MADELINE HUGHES At Tuesday night’s Selectboard meeting, Vice Chair Jaime Heins and member Mary Kehoe were directed to continue negotiations on a potential real estate purchase over the coming week. This decision comes after the board has met in executive session four times since December about a real estate purchase. “We will continue to… Read More »
By SCOOTER MACMILLAN The school board of the Champlain Valley School District finished its work on the 2019-20 budget that voters will consider on Town Meeting Day with tax rates kept tightly in check to support the $78.9 million spending plan. Earlier this month, board members used one calculation that was revised by this week’s… Read More »
By MADELINE HUGHES A year ago, Lee Krohn was filling in as a zoning administrator at the Charlotte town offices, on loan from his job at the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission where he was a senior planner. Today, he’s settling in after nearly two months as Shelburne’s new town manager, seven months as the… Read More »
By SCOOTER MACMILLAN The Champlain Valley School District School Board is contemplating a budget for 2020 that bumps up spending more than $2 million for the 2019-20 school year. If given final approval by the school board and the public, the proposed budget would increase spending by 2.7 percent from $76.8 million this year to… Read More »
By MADELINE HUGHES Town Meeting Day is March 5, less than two months away, and as selectboards around Vermont are finalizing budgets, local candidates are circulating their petitions to run for local offices. In Shelburne, town meeting will be held the evening of March 4. Voters on March 5 will elect two selectboard members and… Read More »