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South Burlington’s longtime town clerk to retire
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Cheer champs
Kinville has served since 2001 COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
In her 20 plus years as the city’s clerk, Donna Kinville has ushered much of the city into the internet age. Since 2008, she’s led the admittedly long and tedious process of digitizing the city’s entire catalogue of land records, dating back to 1865. She has some 20 or 30 years left to go and hopes to be done by August — around the time when, she says, she’ll hand the job duties off to someone new. “It’s an entirely different job than anything I ever expected,” she said in an interview with The Other Paper. She announced her retirement last week after serving as the city’s clerk since 2001. “But it takes a certain amount of energy See KINVILLE on page 18
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South Burlington’s youth cheerleaders took second in the NVAC Metro Division cheerleading championships Saturday in the youth division for grades two to four. More results and photos on page 20.
School rental to church sparks concerns on inclusivity COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
The South Burlington School District is renting out space in one of its public schools for a church — whose beliefs say homosexuality is “sinful” — to hold weekly religious services, raising concerns that the church’s views on homosexuality and marriage come in conflict with the district’s policies on inclusion.
The New Life Baptist Church will be holding a grand opening service on March 26 at the Rick Marcotte Central School, “which will include uplifting music, a practical Bible message, and encouraging fellowship.” “This will be the start of weekly services for New Life,” the event invitation reads. The congregation, founded by Brandon and Esther Gaskill, has rented out the middle school to conduct weekly prayer services.
“We’re not going to be able to purchase anything so we’re going to be renting probably for at least the foreseeable future,” Gaskill said. “If we have people and if the Lord allows us to have the funds to be able to purchase something, we would but at this point, but the prices of things, we’re not going to be able to do that for a little while.” School districts renting out their facilities for use by the community is common practice. The South Burlington district charges
anywhere from $20 to $150 an hour to rent out indoor or outdoor spaces, depending on whether the group is a non-profit or for-profit entity. But questions have been raised about the church’s views on homosexuality and marriage, which seem to come in conflict with the school district’s policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion. See SCHOOL on page 17