Santa, baby
Splashdown
Old Saint Nick poses for pictures with local pups
Car wash planned for site of old Champlain Lanes
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Shelburne takes steps at regulatory reform
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Lighting of the menorah
Planning staff prepares consultant proposal LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
With the new year just around the corner, Shelburne’s planning and zoning staff are taking their first steps toward reworking the town’s zoning bylaws. In lieu of this year’s recent changes made to a controversial designation within the town’s zoning district known as the form-based overlay, the staff is working to review the bylaws and
town plan for inconsistencies and needed changes. In a recent memo sent to the planning commission on Dec. 9, Aaron DeNamur, the town’s newly hired planning coordinator and assistant zoning administrator, outlined a framework for the overhaul that suggests separating the work into two categories: organization and structure of the bylaws and identifying policy decisions See REFORM on page 10
Most vulnerable students
CV school district faces years-long staff shortage COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Stephanie Dupras began as an intensive care educator at the Shelburne Community School, eventually going to Champlain Valley Union High School in 2020. It’s a job she adores, and one that, despite the day-to-day difficulties, she “gets so much joy out of.” But in her 7-year career, she’s hard pressed to remember a time when either of the schools she’s worked at had a full staff of intensive special needs para-educators.
In the past three years, with the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on school districts’ workforces, the shortage has only worsened, creating an educational dilemma for kids who need it the most. “It’s a staffing crisis for our most vulnerable students,” Anna Couperthwait, CVSD’s director of student support services, said at a recent school board meeting. “It’s really been a struggle.” Para-educator is an umbrelSee STAFF SHORTAGE on page 10
PHOTO BY LEE KROHN
On Monday, Dec. 19, more than 75 people gathered around a well-lit menorah to celebrate the second night of Chanukah, which celebrates the victory of the Jewish people against the ancient Greeks and the jug of oil that lasted for 8 days. It’s been a tradition in Shelburne for more than five years to display a menorah on the town green and have a celebration sponsored by Chabad of Vermont on one of the nights of Chanukah.
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