Remembrance
It’s a wrap
Shelburne commemorates Memorial Day
CVU sports teams head toward playoffs
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Volume 52 Number 21
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Shelburne Selectboard, housing trust strive to renew relationship
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Members of Shelburne’s Selectboard and Champlain Housing Trust met earlier this month to talk about how to make Shelburne a more welcoming place for all — including those temporarily residing at Harbor Place. Located in the former Days Inn at 3229 Shelburne Road, Harbor Place is a motel, owned and operated by Champlain Housing Trust, that utilizes the motel voucher program administered by the state to temporarily house homeless individuals. But Chris Donnelly, Champlain Housing
Trust’s director of community relations, explained that Harbor Place does not exclusively utilize the motel voucher program — it also contracts with the University of Vermont Medical Center and other social service agencies like Steps to End Domestic Violence. “That’s one thing I want to make sure to emphasize, Harbor Place is a motel, not a shelter. It’s not transitional housing. It’s a motel,” Donelly said. The motel has been a topic of contention among residents and some former selectboard members See HARBOR PLACE on page 12
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SHELBURNE FIRE DEPARTMENT
Shelburne Engine 1 arrived on the scene of a fully involved garbage truck fire on Juniper Ridge in Shelburne on May 16 at 2:54 p.m. Crews deployed two hand lines and promptly knocked down the bulk of the fire from the cab and body of the truck. Although the cause of the fire is still undetermined, fire officials think a mechanical malfunction under the truck’s cab may have caused the blaze. Eleven Shelburne firefighters were assisted by a crew from the South Burlington Fire Department.
A Champlain Valley Union high school senior was one of two Vermont students recognized for a Presidential Scholar award for academic excellence this year — an ambitious goal that Samuel Yager says has followed him throughout his entire high school career. “When I was a freshman, I
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arrived at (Champlain Valley Union), and on the wall of our gym, we have a ton of banners,” Yager said. “The one that had the least names on it for academics was this Presidential Scholar award. And I thought, ‘Oh, I want to get my name on that banner.’” The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars See YAGER on page 16
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