‘All Aboard’
Bored in Shelburne
Railroad in art debuts at Shelburne Museum
Deadly ash tree pest found in town
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Volume 53 Number 30
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Goat snuggling
Family of five
New Village Farm in Shelburne connects people with nature LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
A farm in Shelburne is exploring on a deeper level what connection to the natural world can and should look like, and in this case, it means a whole lot of goat snuggles. From birth and new beginnings to death and grief, the team at New Village Farm envisions a world in which farming is a community activity that restores
connections to the land, food and, most importantly, to each other. And this mission is now taking on a completely new meaning for the staff as they enter their second-year hosting goat snuggle sessions for those who wish to break free from the digital world of screens and texts and tap into a new community. What began as a creative way See GOATS on page 12
On Lake Champlain
Researchers tie recent floods to climate change KATE KAMPNER COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE
PHOTO BY ELSA OPPENHEIMER
Elsa Oppenheimer took these adorable shots of a gray fox family — mom and dad and three kits — in her Shelburne backyard. “They’ve made a den under my shed,” she said. “Gray foxes are much more elusive than red foxes, so having so much footage of them is pretty cool.” See more photos on page 9 and online at shelburnenews.com.
SUMMER TOMATO
SPECIALS
Celebrate Jericho Settler’s Farm tomatoes!
Fair skies last Thursday might have suggested a good day on the lake for boaters. But toward the mouth of the Winooski River, a clear cut of gray across the blue waves was hard to miss. Flooding last week caused the river to overflow into Lake Champlain and with it came an influx of phosphorus and sediment such as dirt and bits of landscape. Together, fine particles from the debris
created a string of murky, chocolate-colored plumes across the water. The cloudy water will likely take about two weeks to clear up. That was according to several researchers hosting the equivalent of a floating press conference on the lake that morning. The five experts — several affiliated with the University of Vermont — took members of the press on the See LAKE CHAMPLAIN on page 11
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