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Shelburne police chief Mike Thomas was just stepping out of the station Monday afternoon when he got an all-too-familiar call: Someone crashed into the post office, the second time since December.

Shelburne will honor some newly promoted police officers and a half dozen new hires during a special reception at the Shelburne Museum on Friday evening.

School board members with the Champlain Valley School District last week voted to keep a budget vote on the March 5 ballot, declining to take advantage of a new state law allowing districts to push the vote back to rework their budgets amid the current state education chaos.

Would you like to receive a poem in your inbox every day in April? Or a weekly sketch or photo? Enliven your April and help new neighbors as they navigate the legal process of seeking asylum by being an Arts for Asylum Seekers sponsor.

The Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary club hosted Pie for Breakfast March 16 at Shelburne Community School.

The 2024 Vermont Francophonie Celebration will be held Thursday, March 28, in the performing arts center of the Winooski School District, 60 Normand St. The official ceremony will be held from 1-2 pm.

Wintry months have me meandering indoors at the University Mall in South Burlington. Morning crew starts at 8:30 a.m. when only the IHop restaurant is open. We are quiet and determined with our walkers, canes and shuffling gaits.

The question on many minds following the Republican response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was “Where does the GOP find these people?”

I’m delighted to report that Champlain Valley School District administrators have been working hard to fix our budget affordability problem. Somewhat.

Open government mattered to all of us during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Government played an outsized role in our day-to-day lives then. Schools closed, storefronts shuttered and the officials making decisions about quarantines, mask mandates and vaccines often met in secret or exclusively online.

My body feels as though I’ve volunteered for a scientific study; becoming a proving ground of sorts, evaluating various pieces of adaptive equipment as I put my own durability to the test, slipping, sliding, slogging and crunching over back roads whose fluctuating consistency becomes more unpredictable with each passing winter.

It may be time for the changing views of Vermonters toward wildlife to be addressed, but bill S.258 will not accomplish it. Currently, and historically, the 14 members of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board have been appointed by the governor with input from the Legislature. One seat represents each county.

It is frequently said that when writing regulations, we will know we’ve done it right when everyone is equally unhappy, because there are many competing interests that need to be balanced against one another. I understand that it can feel that way, but I disagree, wholeheartedly. It does not have to be that way.

I want to raise a concern about the minimal amount of protection the PlaceSense consultants are proposing in their zoning rewrite draft for Shelburne’s remaining forest habitat blocks.

Has anyone not heard about drug addiction problems in Vermont? About substance use in municipalities and neighborhoods? Residents have found used needles near local schools and friends and families are severely affected by the loss of loved ones from addiction or death.

When I first played Old Maid as a child, I thought the old maid in question was an elderly housekeeper. That’s understandable, though it didn’t make the title of the card game any less offensive.