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Santa visits, Shelburne sings carols to usher in the season
Artist raffles sled to benefit local food shelves
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Volume 51 Number 49
Newly formed communication union district plots next steps
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Goal is to get fiber to more households COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Work has begun on the formation of a Chittenden County Communications Union District, approved by voters in five towns in November, with the goal of expanding the county’s fiber network to its participating towns in a county largely dominated by cable. Voters in Shelburne, South Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction and Williston overwhelmingly approved the creation of a communications union district, the state mechanism to expand and, in some cases, introduce high-speed fiber-optic internet connections while addressing pockets of underserved areas that the private market has so far failed to address. “There’s an economy of scale of workSee CUD on page 14
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Colin Graybuck, a pottery instructor, oversess the outdoor kiln at the Shelburne Craft School’s recent winter festival on Dec. 3.
Magazine names Fiddlehead craft brewery of the year LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Shelburne-based Fiddlehead Brewing Company was named Craft Brewery of the Year by Brewbound, a leading beer industry
trade publication. Fiddlehead’s success story began on New Year’s Eve 2011, when brewmaster Matt Cohen took his 15-plus years of industry knowledge and broke ground on a 15-barrel brewery in Shelburne. The 3,000-square-foot
brewery and tasting room were the incubator for their flagship Fiddlehead IPA. The brewery says its focus has always been “crafting approachable, multidimensional beers, while growing responsibly with a focus on the arts and positively impacting
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those in our communities — one beer at a time.” Fiddlehead has recorded double-digit growth each year across its eight markets, See FIDDLEHEAD on page 16
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