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Volume 53 Number 40
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October 3, 2024
Shelburne Selectboard wraps up cemetery investigation LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
An investigation by the Shelburne Selectboard into a complaint alleging that Stuart Morrow, chair of the cemetery commission, verbally accosted a grieving family during a burial service continues to simmer but with no immediate plans to take disciplinary action. Matt Wormser, vice chair of the selectboard, investigated the incident and has been working with the commission on cleaning up internal processes to ensure that a similar incident does not take place again. Wormser, with the help of fellow board member Luce Hillman, conducted interviews with parties involved, including Matthew Gervia, who filed the initial complaint, other volunteers and Father Dwight Baker of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, who oversaw the family’s funeral. The goal, Wormser said, was to determine whether this was a repeated pattern of behavior or an isolated incident while also defining a “de-escalation path” should another problem happen in the future. (See related guest perspective, page 6) “What we’re trying to do is get a sense, See CEMETERY on page 7
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Shelburne Town Manager Matt Lawless reviews preliminary plans for a pipe connecting the town’s wastewater treatment facilities. It would run beneath the Ti-Haul recreation trail and along Bay Road toward Lake Champlain. The pipe would be phase one of a $38 million project to consolidate and renovate Shelburne’s wastewater system, a bond for which voters will decide during this year’s election.
Wastewater treatment redo in voters’ hands PATRICK BILOW STAFF WRITER
Shelburne voters will weigh in on a proposed project to consolidate and renovate the city’s aging wastewater treatment
facilities during the General Election. The issue, which will appear on the back side of the 2024 ballot, will ask voters to approve or deny a $38 million bond to fund the project. Ballots are expected to appear in mailboxes starting this week.
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Shelburne currently operates two wastewater treatment facilities. The Turtle Lane plant off Harbor Road, known as Plant No. See WASTEWATER on page 12
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