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The Beerworth Sisters
Charlotte Central teacher, student work together on music video LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Charlotte Central School teacher Julia Beerworth and former student Kobe Kessler are collaborating on a creative project showing just how important the student-teacher relationship is. The two met at Vergennes Union High School where Beerworth taught civics. Kessler was a senior in her class at the time and the two connected over the media studies portion of the class. Although Kessler was a strong history student, Beerworth could see that his passions were in media and technology. “The most important thing about teaching to me is to build relationships with students,” said Beerworth. “I believe every student is so much more than what we see within the classroom walls. To me, teaching is not just about having students memorize COURTESY PHOTO
The Beerworth Sisters, Anna Pepin and Julia Beerworth.
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Hinesburg questions solar array on old landfill site COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Efforts to build a 150kW solar array on Hinesburg’s landfill are proceeding, but after discovering contaminated drinking water emanating from the landfill last year, the selectboard remains hesitant to commit
to its completion and will ultimately decide on the project at its next meeting. First capped in 1992, the landfill on Beecher Hill and Observatory roads has been earmarked for a solar array for three years. The town in 2019 bid out for the project to be developed, and eventually partnered with Acorn Renewable Energy Co-op.
After discovering contaminated drinking water at two locations in Hinesburg, official’s suspicions that the landfill was leeching were confirmed, which forced the town to spend more than $30,000 to recap the landfill and rectify issues with its drinking water. Now, town officials are awaiting advice
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from their lawyer before OK’ing the last two steps before work can commence. “Generally, it all sounded very good,” selectboard member Phil Pouech said at a Nov. 16 meeting. “Then, all of a sudden, we had problems with our cap. We have See SOLAR ARRAY on page 3
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