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A Hinesburg mobile home park went without running water for a week earlier this month while its management company tried to fix a leak in one of the park’s water pipes. Sunset Lake, off Richmond Road, is a resident-owned cooperative with 55 individual homes. Residents there collectively own the park and govern themselves through a co-op board. The board also contracts with Majestic Property Management to run day-today operations. While Sunset Lake is connected to the town water supply, the co-op owns and is responsible for the pipes on their own property. On Tuesday, Mar. 4, the Hinesburg Water Department informed
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the co-op board and the management company that an excessive amount of water was entering the park, indicating that there might be a leak somewhere on the property. According to Majestic Property Management owner Bob Lake — who, along with another employee, also oversees four other cooperative mobile home parks in the state — the amount of water entering the park from the town main was about twice the amount expected for the number of people living there. In response, a member of the co-op board asked the town to turn off the water to the park while they tried to locate and repair the leak. On March 4, the management PHOTO BY AL FREY
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With the legislative session in full swing, Chittenden Southeast senators Kesha Ram Hinsdale, Thomas Chittenden and Virginia “Ginny” Lyons talked with dozens of constituents this weekend to
discuss all things education reform, property taxes and healthcare. The Legislature has some mighty tasks still at hand with a little over two months left of the session, including a massive plan proposed by Republican Gov. Phil Scott to reform the way that Vermont funds and ultimately
plans for education. And last week the Senate voted 22-8 to confirm Zoie Saunders as the state’s secretary of education in the throes of the education reform talk. Saunders was appointed by Gov. Scott on an interim basis after the Senate rejected her approval 19-9 last April.
“There are not many commissioners or secretaries who have faced this much scrutiny and have been considered so much of a litmus test on the future of policy in that area,” Ram Hinsdale, D-Shelburne, said. “Some senators got up and said they’ve never heard from constituents about an appointment
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of the governor until now.” Ram Hinsdale, Senate Majority Leader and a member of the Senate Committee on Education, was the only one of the three to vote against Saunders’ appointSee TOWN HALL on page 3