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Students enrolled in Green across the Pacific's (GATP) summer environmental leadership program have really dug into Vermont.

The Champlain Valley Jr. tennis team will hold their State Championship tournament on Friday and Saturday, July 30-31 at the Davis Park tennis courts in Shelburne each day until 7 p.m.

Shelburne defeated St. Albans 8-3 in the opening game of the 11 and 12-year-old state Little League tournament July 27 at Schifilliti Park in Burlington.

Shelburne Players and Shelburne Parks and Recreation Department have once again joined forces to put on their annual Summer Musical Theatre Camp for children beginning Monday, Aug. 2 through Friday, Aug. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Vermont Mozart Festival (VMF) announces the appointment of a new Artistic Director, Gil Shohat, who will succeed VMF founder and Artistic Director Melvin Kaplan in 2011.

The final concert in the Ben & Jerry's Concerts on the Green at Shelburne Museum series is this Sunday, Aug. 1, with headliner George Thorogood and The Destroyers.

The Fleming Museum is proud to present the work of Vermont artists Francis Colburn (1909-1984) and Ronald Slayton (1910-1992), in celebration of the 100th anniversary of their births.

In its first game of the double-elimination phase of the Little League All Star Tournament at Schifilletti Field Shelburne jumped to a quick 10-run lead in the top of the first enroute to an 18-4 victory in a rule-shortened game against Burlington. Stars at the plate were Shea Ireland (4-4, 4 RBI), Rayne Supple (3-4, 3 RBI), Andrew Pitcher (2-3, 2 doubles). William Hesslink and Henry Conroy each chipped in a homer while Will Ryan, Harrison Thayer, Hugh Sheahan, Alex Kent, Jack Caswell, and Thomas Stevens all hit safely. Pitchers Supple, Ireland, and Conroy combined for seven strikeouts.

Shelburne resident Greg Mernick finished the Lake Placid Ironman!

Zeke Kassel is a talented martial artist. According to Darrel Duffy, Kassel's chief instructor of Shaolin Kempo Karate at Villari's Self Defense, "I can honestly say that Zeke is one of the most caring and hardworking teens I have ever worked with.

The Suburban All Stars, a combined team of Shelburne and Burlington 11 and 12-year old girls, advanced through pool play of the Little League Softball All-Star tournament this month.

Children looking to have fun on the courts should look no further than the tennis camp offered by the Shelburne Parks and Recreation department in August.

Tanner Choiniere, Gary Mace, and Bruce Thibaud, all of Shelburne, won moose hunting permits at a lottery drawing in Waterbury on July 9. Michael O'Neill of Sheffield, Vt., who attended to witness the drawing, started the computer-generated selection process that randomly picked 765 winners among more than 12,000 people who applied.

Olympic snowboarding champion Hannah Teter of Belmont, Vt. won the VH1's "Do Something" award for improving the lives of poor children around the world through her own charity, Sweet Cheeks, and Children International.

In recent weeks, two rather large pieces of real estate in Town have turned into construction zones as an existing business expands and a new business breaks ground.

Green Mountain Coffee and Ashoka's Changemakers have announced the winners of their "Revelation to Action: Your Place. Your Idea. Your Change" competition.

Three Shelburne residents have been nominated for the United Way of Chittenden County's "Hometown Hero" volunteer awards, honoring community volunteers for the positive impact they have on the quality of life in Chittenden County.

As the writer of the weekly Person of Shelburne column, I almost always ask my interviewees for suggestions of Shelburne residents for future columns. Recently several interviewees have suggested Randy Sweeney. Sweeney is a vibrant volunteer at Shelburne Community School (SCS) and in the community at large. Here's more about this talented Shelburnite.

The second annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival held last Sunday at Shelburne Farms brought together over 1,500 cheese aficionados from throughout the Northeast. Hosted by the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese, Vermont Butter and Cheese Company, and the Vermont Cheese Council, the festival offered the 1,500 people in attendance an opportunity to sample and purchase over 100 types of cheese from more than 40 different cheesemakers.

Ten years ago, I granted a local beekeeper's request to host his hives on my farm. I agreed and we scouted my property to find the most favorable site to locate the colony. Over the three years that he had his hives on my land, I did loads of welcoming things to keep the bees busy.

Four of the 321 Vermont high school students honored for completing studies at the Governor's Institutes of Vermont this summer are from Shelburne, and represent Champlain Valley Union High School (CVU) and Lake Champlain Waldorf High School (LCWHS).

In last week's issue of the Shelburne News, readers were introduced to the New Farms for New Americans program, a local effort to assist the area's recent immigrants. The story detailed the cooperative efforts between Shelburne resident Al Gobeille and the Association of Africans Living in Vermont (AALV). Another Shelburne resident, CVU senior Julia Hughes, has also been working with the AALV this summer and has supplied a report of her experiences below.

The second Grow an Extra Row drop-off and pick-up date is Tuesday, Aug. 3 at Shelburne Community School (SCS).

The Lodge at Shelburne Bay is hosting its annual Country Fair from 3-5 p.m. Prior to the event, the residents will be selling rubber ducks for $5 apiece to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. Proceeds of the sale will be a 50/50 raffle with the opportunity to win $500 and give back to a great cause.

I love trying new things. It comes with the job title. As a reporter, fear stays at home; it does not come with you to work. Not that my life has been in danger working at Shelburne News for the past two years, but the new experiences and the comings and goings of this 20-something reporter in and around Shelburne have been invaluable: unique and interesting people and stories with a life lesson thrown in here and there.

Allen Mullins, dressed in a Superman costume, has taken the plight of the nation's veterans to state capitols throughout the country.

The Irregulars, a Shelburne based fiddle band of fun-loving young musicians ages 12-15 will perform at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival Saturday, July 31.

Pedal Power Electric Bike Rentals is now open on Battery Street in Burlington. Longtime Shelburne resident Doug Robbie owns the store. Last summer, Robbie retired from a career as a marketer for banks. For the past nine years, he had been commuting to Boston and he decided it was time to semi-retire and wanted to try something new.

The gasoline-free days of Vermont agriculture, when horsepower was really horse power, will live again in the fields of historic Shelburne Farms as draft horse teams and their drivers gather for the annual Green Mountain Draft Horse Field Day on Saturday, July 31.

Under the terms of a 25-year cooperative agreement, Green Mountain Power (GMP) will install a 770 solar panel array at Shelburne Farms. The panels will occupy three quarters of an acre in a field that Shelburne Farms has recently designated as a solar orchard.

Congratulations to Lissy Wolf, of Shelburne, who found Bella the bulldog, Shelburne News' director of hospitality, in Shelburne Supermarket!

Mazza's corn is ready in Colchester, blueberry farms are open early, and in Monkton at Norris Berry Farm, owner Norma Norris reported that the conditions this year have been excellent for her strawberry and raspberry fruit production.

For Greg Mernick, Shelburne's only entrant in the Lake Placid (N.Y.) Ironman this weekend, it's the journey that matters, not the result.

Jamie Wilhite doesn't remember riding in a backpack strapped to her father, Jim, while he coached football, but she's sure it happened. Now, one generation later, Jamie has continued the family tradition, though the backpack has become a frontpack and the sport is soccer, not football, and the rider is a son, not a daughter.

I love Saturdays. For one, the Duff family adheres to a reasonably strict no housecleaning policy on weekends. I also rarely work or put pen to paper on what has become a traditional day of rest for me.