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Volume 54 Number 17
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Farmers learn hands-on tips for lambing season BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
“The tail is the easy part,” Renee LaCoss, Shelburne Farms’ herdsman, said last Saturday as she handed a participant at the farm’s lambing clinic the tight rubber band that would eventually dock the tail of the lamb she held in her arms. The hard part, which LaCoss also helped attendees practice on lambs that had been
born few days earlier, involved removing certain other body parts from the male lambs. Shelburne Farms hosts a lambing clinic every year in partnership with the Vermont Sheep and Goat Association. Dave Martin, who owns and operates Settlement Farm in Underhill and is the former president of the See LAMB on page 16
CVU community rallies as yet another student leaves country BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
Champlain Valley School District and the surrounding communities continue to feel the impact of changes in processes and attitudes toward immigration at the federal level. On Friday, the district learned that a kindergartener and their family are planning to leave the country and return to Ecuador. This is in addition to two high school students who are choosing to leave after President Trump ordered the end of humanitarian parole protections for Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Haitians. The high school students, who are from Nicaragua, were informed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that they would face deportation if they stayed in the country beyond the end of the month.
Although a judge in Boston put a stay on the order, the two seniors are still choosing to leave rather than face an uncertain future. Christina Daudelin, a student and community engagement facilitator with the district who has been organizing support for the students, said that, similarly, this kindergartener and their family are choosing to leave. Unfortunately, she said, this puts them in a precarious financial situation. “Due to the significant cost of coming to the U.S. and now having to leave, the family could use the support of our community. Over the last couple of weeks many of you reached out asking if you could help financially and now there is a true need,” Daudelin said in an email to the community. See IMMIGRATION on page 12
PHOTO BY BRIANA BRADY
Shelburne Farms herdsman Renee LaCoss holds a lamb while Dave Martin helps a farmer dock a lamb’s tail.
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