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Glaser development application submitted
A rendering of the backside of homes proposed on the Glaser parcel was included in the project’s permit application to illustrate how the homes impact easterly views from Mountain View Road. COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF WILLISTON
DRB hearing set for Jan. 14 at WCS BY JASON STARR Observer staff The Williston Development Review Board has set a hearing for
Jan. 14 on a proposal to construct 107 homes and two new roads on a portion of the vacant 95-acre Glaser property off Mountain View Road. The hearing is the final public hurdle in a lengthy and novel land development proposal that
involved the Williston Selectboard amending the town’s bylaws to bypass growth control regulations in exchange for a promise from landowners Jack and Caitlin Glaser to give about half the acreage to the town. The arrangement will ensure preservation of Green
Committee recommends school cellphone ban
‘We need to move on this now,’ CVU principal says BY JASON STARR Observer staff
Students be warned: This is likely the last year you’ll be able to use your phones during the school day. A phone-free schools study committee led by Adam Bunting — who accepted the permanent Champlain Valley School District superintendent job Tuesday (see
story at right) — has recommended the district ban cell phone use in schools from “bell-to-bell” starting next August. A ban would be consistent with the current practice at the district’s K-8 schools, where building administrators already enforce a no-phone policy during the school day. But it would be a change at CVU High School, where the current practice allows phone use between classes and at lunch, and teachers have differing levels of tolerance for in-class phone use.
Mountain views and a continuation of neighboring Windswept Farm’s use of the property as horse pasture. The DRB application contains a first glimpse of how the new homes will look to drivers passing on Mountain View Road. It also
reveals the names of the two new roads: Glaser Court and Stone Ridge Circle. Plans show Glaser Court as a cul-de-sac road with 38 homes and an intersection with Mountain View Road. Stone Ridge Circle is a horseshoe-shaped road see GLASER page 15
Bunting chosen as CVSD superintendent
“It shouldn’t be up to the teachers. They should be able to teach and not worry about the phone situation,” Jacklyn Whittier, a student representative to the school board, said during Tuesday’s board meeting. The committee was made up of students, teachers and building principals, among others. They began studying the subject in September. A visit to Harwood Union High School in Moretown was a turning point in see PHONES page 15
Adam Bunting
Adam Bunting has been chosen as superintendent of the Champlain Valley School District. Bunting had been
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interim superintendent since July 1, following the resignation of Rene Sanchez. The Champlain Valley School Board announced the selection during their meeting Tuesday. Bunting was the principal at CVU High School for 10 years before being appointed to interim superintendent. He is a 1994 graduate of the school and started his teaching career there. He was selected Vermont Principal of the Year in 2018. “Adam is the right leader see BUNTING page 15
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