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Regional dispatch in limbo
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VOLUME 47, NO. 3
Sunset that keeps giving
SoBu mulls moving ahead with own emergency service COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
The Chittenden County Public Safety Authority (CCPSA), and its efforts to create a regional emergency dispatch, are now in limbo after Colchester told the board they would not be contributing financially this year. Now, with questions over whether the entity will be able to get a regional operation up and running, the city of South Burlington is mulling whether to continue regional efforts in-house. “Whether it’s through CCPSA, or just our expert dispatchers providing regional support, we are exploring all of those models with all of our partners,” Jessie Baker, South Burlington’s city manager, said. Colchester, a partner of the public safety authority since its inception in 2018, failed to authorize the annual funding for the See EMERGENCY DISPATCH on page 11
PHOTO BY LOUISE HAMMOND
“This was the most gorgeous sunrise I have seen here in the past 17 years,” said Shea Drive resident Louise Hammond, who took a series of photographs of the sun’s emergence on her husband’s birthday, “a nice wink from God.”
Racist TikTok post prompts schools to protest CVU game COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Two Champlain Valley Union High School girls’ basketball games were postponed — one by Rice Memorial High School and another by Burlington High School — after students at the schools learned of a social media video that a CVU player posted last month that included
racist language. Champlain Valley Union High School principal Adam Bunting, in an apology letter to students, said that in December, “a student-athlete on the CVU varsity girls’ basketball team made the terrible decision to follow a TikTok trend and post a video that was racially insensitive at best.” The video has since been taken down. The student “made the video with a family
member who is a person of color,” Bunting said, and “she wrongly believed it was okay to post something that used the N-word.” “The student took down the video within an hour, but the damage was done as it was recorded and widely distributed by others,” he said. The school was notified on Jan. 12 that Burlington High School students would not play CVU in protest of the video. Students
at Rice Memorial High School did the same the week prior on Jan. 6. “We as a team believe that racism is not a trend, nor is it any type of entertainment for social media,” the Burlington team said in an Instagram post on Jan. 12. “We dedicate this day to remind everyone that sadly, racism is still alive in our community.” See TIKTOK on page 11