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Volume 54 Number 2
Municipal employees honored for long tenures
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BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
If you’ve called 911 in the state of Vermont in the last 35 years, there’s a decent chance that you’ve spoken to Jimmy Mack, the emergency communications supervisor at the Shelburne Emergency Dispatch Center. During any given shift, you’ll find Mack monitoring the multitude of screens in front of him, picking up emergency calls from across the region and connecting to their local services. He knows every nook and cranny of the system. It makes sense — he’s been doing it since 1989. Mack is one of several employees who celebrated a work anniversary of more than a decade at the Town of Shelburne before See SHELBURNE on page 13
PHOTO BY LEE KROHN
Sheep graze at Meach Cove Farm in Shelburne in the last week of last year, basking in a brief bit of sunlight before the clouds returned.
CVU gives students more say in what flags fly at schools BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
The Champlain Valley School District board has amended its flag display policy in an effort to give students more say. Previously, hopeful flag fliers would petition the school board, which maintained control over which flags could be raised at the
schools. Now, students will be able to apply for approval directly with the superintendent or other designated building administrators. According to Superintendent Adam Bunting, this change was prompted by the students themselves. “There’s a regular cycle that the board does to review policies to make sure that everything remains up to date,” he said. “The
flag policy update is a little bit outside of that process, in that we had a student group approach the board.” That student group was Shelburne Community School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA). While the board voted in favor of raising pride flags in the district in April of 2022, Shelburne Community School remained without a flag displayed
for months. Protocol required that only three flags could fly on their singular flagpole and another pole had to be installed in order to raise additional flags. The school eventually ended up taking down the Vermont state flag in order to raise See FLAG on page 13
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