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March 23, 2023
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Hinesburg Highway foreman abruptly resigns
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Philo Ridge Farm’s sheep flock, and a guard llama, just days before the first lambs of the season are born in Charlotte. See full story on page 12.
Hinesburg’s highway foreman of more than 30 years abruptly resigned this month, just days before a winter storm walloped much of Vermont and left roads in disarray. Michael Anthony, the town’s highway foreman since 1992, submitted his resignation to the town the night of March 9. He had been with the town’s highway department for 40 years; the town garage was named after him when it opened in 2018. “Mike did a great job on our roads for See ANTHONY on page 9
Hinesburg confronts destruction of beaver dams by landowner ELLA WEIGEL AND CAROLYN SHAPIRO COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE
Gregg Lyman enjoys watching the ducks and blue heron flock to the water where beavers build their dams in the LaPlatte River behind his house in Hinesburg. But when the water starts rising and creeping onto his land,
he has to knock the dams down, he said. Lyman, who lives on Gilman Road adjacent to the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest, said he has done this for years when the beaver dams threaten to flood his property. He doesn’t destroy the habitat, he said, but pushes over the beavers’ wood construction to let water flow over it.
“All I do out back is knock it down and prevent the water from flooding everybody’s property,” Lyman said. Earlier this year, the Hinesburg Town Forest Committee learned that Lyman had gone into the town forest with heavy machinery and destroyed three beaver dams. The committee considered the incident a
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“violation of the conservation easement” on the land and voted to refer it to the Hinesburg Selectboard to take “further action,” according to the minutes from a committee meeting on Jan. 26. See BEAVER DAMS on page 7
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