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April 29 at 3:25 p.m., an injured woman came into the station and told police she assaulted by her boyfriend. She was taken to the hospital. Police are seeking an arrest warrant for the man for aggravated domestic assault.

The nonprofit Sail Beyond Cancer Vermont kicks off the season with a SPLASH! for Tranquility fund raiser on Saturday, May 18, 3-6 p.m., at the ECHO Center in Burlington.

The Vermont Garden Network is offering a free workshop on garden planning for raised beds on Thursday, May 16, 5 p.m., at the Davis Park raised garden in Shelburne.

Over 30 residents at Wake Robin gathered Saturday morning to help in various ways in Green Up Day activities.

The 35th COTS Walk will take place on Sunday, May 5, at 1 p.m. in Battery Park in Burlington. It’s the nonprofit’s largest annual event and fundraiser to provide shelter, services and housing to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in Vermont.

Building accessible, affordable, quality health care for Vermonters is an overdue work in progress. Regardless of mixed results of past major reform efforts, Vermont’s goals to improve population health, advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes and curb health care cost growth are possible.

I strongly urge the planning and zoning commission, and Shelburne in general, to turn their back on the proposed 10-acre zoning. Those of us in Jericho have seen how that works.

As the chair of the Burlington School District School Board, I am fortunate to witness firsthand the profound impact of educational policies on our diverse community.

That’s it. The truth is unavoidable. I’m officially old. Truly, I am not ageist, nor do I have anything against aging. Who wouldn’t prefer it to the alternative? I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m still a kid inside or at least in my 20s.

Eight years ago, when I made the decision to run for the Vermont House of Representatives, I asked for input and support from my constituents in Shelburne and St. George, and I also asked for your vote at the polls in 2016 and again in 2018, 2020, and 2022.

In consideration of the recent rash of out-of-control autos driving into the Shelburne Post Office, I would like to suggest that about five or six of these interesting sculptures be placed between the building and the parking lot.

Senate bill S.258 has passed and is now in the Vermont House of Representatives. This bill was pushed by and written in cooperation with animal rights groups.