Wake no more
On a streak
New rule regulates wakesports on lakes
Season underway, CVU baseball undefeated
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May 9, 2024
Town manager reflects on first year in Shelburne
Greening the Greens
Selectboard outlines long-term strategic plan LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
When Matt Lawless isn’t wrangling a town of roughly 8,000 residents and overseeing a staff of nearly 70 people, you can probably find him riding his bike around the greater Shelburne area as he treks almost daily to and from his Winooski home to Shelburne town offices. “It’s got a little motor on it, so I do about 20 miles per hour on Spear Street,” he said. As he wracks up almost 2,000 miles on his bike this year, he’s also added a few other accomplishments as he reminisced
on almost a full year as Shelburne’s town manager after moving from Virginia last June. Although he has pushed some of Shelburne’s biggest and long-awaited capital projects over the finish line this year, the work, he said, has really been a team effort and wouldn’t have been possible without those who came before him. “It’s a team effort,” he said. “You start work on one thing, and then a new team takes over and carries it forward. It’s like a See LAWLESS on page 12
CVU principal Adam Bunting named interim superintendent HABIB SADET STAFFWRITER
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Wake Robin residents did their part on Saturday, the state’s annual Green Up Day, where Vermonters collect the litter and debris discarded along the roadways. See more on page 3.
Adam Bunting, principal of Champlain Valley Union High School, will take over as interim superintendent of the school district for the coming school year. The Champlain Valley Union School District announced Bunting’s appointment May 1 in a press release. According to the release, Bunting will start his new job July 1, taking over for outgoing superintendent Rene Sanchez, who announced this March that he would be stepping down after three years on the job. “I really love the Champlain Valley
Union School District. I love our community and our students and our team of educators,” Bunting said in an interview. “I think in my years as being an administrator in the past two decades there’s nothing more exciting to me than collaborating with other people to do work that’s worthy.” Bunting has been principal of CVU since 2015. Prior to that, he was the principal of Montpelier High School, and was formerly an English teacher and house director at CVU, according to a biogSee BUNTING on page 13
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