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Three officers leave Hinesburg for other police departments
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Two cops head for Shelburne, while one moves to Williston COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
U.S. Her parents were initially unable to immigrate the U.S. due to exclusion laws — federal legislation that suspended immigration for the Chinese. Those laws were eventually replaced by ethnic quotas, which allowed her father to immigrate to the U.S. but prevented her mother from joining him, splitting up the family for four years. But they eventually reunited. Waples later worked side by side with her three
The Hinesburg Police Department is down to three full-time officers after Chief Anthony Cambridge last week announced that three cops had accepted job offers at neighboring departments, further complicating the future of the town’s police department. Brian Fox, an officer with Hinesburg, accepted a position in the Williston Police Department, while officer Dan Eickenberg and Sgt. Caleb Casco are headed to Shelburne. Eickenberg previously served in the Shelburne Police Department for more than 30 years before moving south to Hinesburg just four months ago. “All those employees left for significantly more money than what Hinesburg has been paying,” Todd Odit, Hinesburg’s town manager, said. “Regardless of the number of full-time officers that we settle on, we will not be able to attract anyone at the rates we had been paying.” Along with Cambridge, officers Frank Bryan and Jeremy Hulshof are now the only full-timers remaining, Odit said. The departures mark another setback for the department. After voters in March narrowly voted down the department’s $815,483 budget, 431-484, officials with the town and department worked to cut back that budget in hopes one could pass before a July 1 deadline. After the budget’s defeat, officials crafted a new plan that kept six full-time officers as well as a part-time administrative assistant but cut back on salary and benefits by roughly $10,000, reducingd the overall budget to $800,491. That figure dropped, however, after
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CVU’s Alice Kredell wins the 1,500-meter run at the Essex Vacational Track and Field meet on Thursday in Essex. See more, page 11.
Hinesburg resident state’s newest justice First woman of color becomes member of Vermont Supreme Court COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Nancy Waples, a Hinesburg resident, was sworn in as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court this month, becoming the first woman of color to join the five-member bench. Dozens of family, friends, members of the state judicial branch and other top government officials attended the ceremony on April 15 as Gov. Phil Scott swore in Waples.
“This is a banner day for our state. Nancy Waples’ appointment breathes fresh air into the foundational notion of equal justice under the law,” Vermont Chief Supreme Court Justice Paul Reiber said. “I applaud your arrival to this court. Waples, 61, will replace Justice Beth Robinson, who was appointed to a seat on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Joe Biden. The daughter of immigrants, Waples parents fled the communist revolution in China to Canada and then eventually to the