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Volume 51 Number 3
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January 20, 2022
Time running out for selectboard bid
Catching air
Still unclear if candidates need petitions SCOOTER MACMILLAN STAFF WRITER
Last week, people who wanted to run for town office but who were uncomfortable collecting signatures on petition supporting their candidacy seemed to have another opportunity to get on the ballot. On Thursday, the House and Senate passed a bill suspending the requirement for candidates to submit a petition with the signatures of 30 registered town voters, but the governor has not signed it. It seemed like a sure thing because the signature requirement was suspended last year to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. On Jan. 14, the governor did
sign S.172, a bill that gives towns that typically vote from the floor of town meeting the option to use an Australian ballot instead. Also still waiting on the governor’s signature is a bill, passed by the House and Senate, to temporarily suspend a requirement to have someone physically on site at public meetings. If approved, the bills would only be in effect until January 2023. They were passed because of the currently high rate of coronavirus infection. On Friday, town and state officials were pretty confident the governor would sign these two bills since the same exceptions See SELECTBOARD on page 16
Create art on skis, support Cochran’s SCOOTER MACMILLAN STAFF WRITER
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Megan Nick at Utah Olympic Park during her first-place finish at last year’s Nor-Am Cup. See our story, page 12.
So much is going downhill with the pandemic, the economy, the political divide, people hoarding toilet paper, that the Shelburne Tap House decided to go with the flow and embrace the slide by sponsoring a benefit for Cochran’s Ski Area. The Tap House is celebrating all things that go downhill in the snow by holding a Ski Art Show and Auction with the proceeds going to Cochran’s Ski Area. Cochran’s mission is “to provide area youth and families with affordable skiing and snowboarding, lessons and race train-
ing, in the Cochran tradition,” and in 1998 became the nation’s first nonprofit ski area. At Cochran’s, the Richmond ski area founded by Vermont’s first family of skiing, the mission is to provide affordable snowboarding, ski and ski racing opportunities and lessons. The Ski Art Show and Auction is a literal description of the fundraiser: Entrants will paint, draw, use stickers or otherwise create images on skis to then be exhibited at the restaurant. The entry fee is $15, and if an artist doesn’t have a ski to use as a palette, the Tap House will supply See ART on page 11