Eclipse mania
‘Kodachrome’
Shelburne readies for throngs of visitors
A play about nostalgia, love, saying goodbye
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Volume 53 Number 14
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April 4, 2024
Sky painting Howard Center opens new Lakeview House
Teachers, staff push for ‘yes’ on budget COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
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This week, 16 new residents will call Shelburne home as staff with the Howard Center’s Lakeview housing project began moving residents into the brand new 8,000 square feet building on Tuesday. Cathie Buscaglia, director of innovation and special projects with the Howard Center, who has championed the $3.5 million community care facility project for nearly three years, pointed to the compass logo painted onto the vinyl floor at the entrance of the new building. “I came up with this compass star,” she said. “Because I feel like this program really gives people direction.” Lakeview House, just one of the 25 homes that Howard Center operates as part of its residential programming, celebrates nearly 26 years this year. It began in a modest building on the former grounds of the Catholic Diocese off North Avenue in 1998. When Burlington College bought the property in 2011, Howard Center partnered See HOWARD CENTER on page 12
PHOTO BY LEE KROHN
A rainbow settles over Shelburne in this view from Greenbush Road, just south of the Shelburne border.
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Parents and students heading to or from school this past week may have been greeted by sign-waving teachers, advocating for themselves before their workdays began. Through these pop-up rallies, nicknamed “visibility events,” teachers, staff members and board members in the Champlain Valley School District have been making a point the past two weeks to advocate and raise awareness for an April 16 budget looming for the district. Its consequences could be critical for many staff members and the programs they help run within schools throughout Hinesburg, Charlotte, Shelburne and Williston, and for the overall education of students throughout the area. “What we’re concerned about as employees is voting down the budget will just result in more reductions to positions and programs,” said Emily McLean, a teacher at the Champlain Valley Union High School, and the head of the Champlain Valley Education Association. “That is someSee BUDGET on page 13
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