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Weekly news coverage for Charlotte and Hinesburg
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Hinesburg budgets for one fewer cop
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PATRICK BILOW STAFF WRITER
The towns of Hinesburg and Richmond are peaking over each other’s shoulder as they draft next year’s budgets. Under an agreement between the towns, Richmond currently pays Hinesburg for police services in Richmond, but Richmond has been eager to rebuild its department for years, leaving Hinesburg with a large projected decrease in revenue for law enforcement and a question of how many officers
the town can afford next year. The town formed the agreement two years ago during a rocky time for Richmond’s police department. The town was cycling through police chiefs and officers were leaving the department for steadier jobs, but the agreement was always meant to be temporary. During a Richmond Selectboard meeting last week, Anthony Cambridge, the police chief for See BUDGET on page 7
School district eyes ban on cellphones Measure could go into effect in September LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY LEE KROHN
A couple of dog lovers walk their pooches on Mt. Philo after a recent light snow.
Champlain Valley schools could see a bell-to-bell cellphone ban for the entire district next year. A committee spearheaded by Champlain Valley School District superintendent Adam Bunting tasked with studying the use of cellphones in the state’s largest school district, recommended the sweeping ban to the school board last week. A cellphone ban policy, which
caught on this summer in several of the state’s school districts — and across the nation — would extend a set of restrictions already in play, Bunting said earlier this year. In all elementary and middle schools, the district has a strict “away for the day” policy, which requires cellphones to be powered off and stored in backpacks. This administrative-led committee is separate from a See PHONE-FREE BAN on page 5
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