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Summer beauty
‘Keep it simple,’ new owners say LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Way out on a hill off Route 7 sits a sprawling property iconically marked by red-roofed barns that strikingly contrast with the Green Mountain landscape around them. Inching closer to Charlotte, the noise of a bustling city begins to fade as chirps from the insects, crickets, and other wildlife fill the air. Those barns are more commonly known as Nordic Farm, a standing testament to what was once a booming dairy industry in Vermont. See NORDIC FARM on page 10
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A water lily blooms in Shelburne Bay.
Bay Ridge development breaks ground in Shelburne LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Local officials in Shelburne, along with state and federal leaders, gathered last week
at the site of the former Harbor Place motel on Shelburne Road to celebrate the groundbreaking of nearly 100 permanently affordable homes and apartments. The Bay Ridge development has been in
the works for more than two years after the town’s development review board approved plans for the project in 2022. And now, construction on the new homes is set to begin any time, Julie Curtin, director of homeown-
ership with Champlain Housing Trust, said. The $55 million development will See BAY RIDGE on page 11
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