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The decade-long battle to create a new town highway rightof-way at a Shelburne railroad crossing has ended. The Shelburne Selectboard Tuesday approved an agreement with Vermont Railway and the Vermont Agency of Transportation to turn an extension of Champlain Drive into a town-owned road. Shelburne’s lakeshore includes several private subdivisions — Champlain Drive, Pine Haven Shores Road and Windmill Bay Road — with narrow areas separated by the railroad that don’t have public railroad crossings or have private crossing agreements between the homeowners’ associations and the railroad.
As reported by The Shelburne News in 2015, the issue surfaced during the 2008 recession when mortgage companies started tightening restrictions and refused to lend money to prospective buyers for these properties because the crossings were considered to be only farm crossings. Without a crossing agreement, title issues arise during home sales about whether there is a legitimate legal access to these properties. “A farm crossing traditionally is just used by tractors and cows, so it needs to get a status change,” town manager Matt Lawless said. “It’s an old, lingering effect of rural history in town.” The town already owns from Route 7 to the train tracks, and the See RAIL CROSSING on page 6
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Two young ladies help Shelburne celebrate Halloween in style at the annual Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary parade on Sunday. See the results of the rec department’s costume contest on page 11.
It’s been more than 15 years since the state helped fund school construction projects, and even for schools like the Champlain Valley School District that aren’t facing massive, deferred maintenance costs, staff there is wasting no time in preparing for a troubling next 10 years. In April 2022, the education committees in both the Vermont House and Senate commissioned the independent analysis, “Vermont School Facilities Inventory and Assessment,” that reviewed a broad range of facility-related factors in 54 school districts across the state.
The study utilized a Facility Condition Index to measure the aggregated depletion percentage of facilities for each district. The higher the percentage, the greater the need for infrastructure replacement or upgrades. The average for the districts participating in the study was 71.4 percent, which reflected a considerable amount of concern for the overall condition of school infrastructure across the state. Although Champlain Valley School District’s overall depletion percentage of 48 percent fared better than other districts, staff is still dealing with a slew of issues See INFRASTRUCTURE on page 12
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Shelburne Historical Society member David Boucher shows a piece of the town’s historic archives, now being digitized into a new accessible database.
Shelburne Historical Society launches new archival database LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Hidden in the vault in the basement of Shelburne’s old town hall are centuries’ worth of stories just waiting to be told. And now, the Shelburne Historical Society is working to create an online database
to make getting to those pieces of history much simpler. Although there were several committees in Shelburne charged with preserving documents and photographs throughout the years, the town’s last active historical society was in the 1990s. But during the 250th commemoration of the town’s char-
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ter in 2013, an official historical society was formed and incorporated just a year later. Now, the group is in the thick of what it calls their “10-year dream” to digitize all its treasured archives into a user-friendly online website. “We’re very excited,” historical society member Dorothea Penar said. “This was always the dream that we had to get some of this information that we have sorted and put out to the public so they can see what a great town we have.” The group has worked for months sorting boxes of antique documents in the vault of the old town clerk’s office, which the group has called home since the Pierson Library revamp in 2019. “We are in the old clerk’s office from back in the 1920s right when the building was built,” Penar said. “I really wanted that vault to be our location.” Digitizing collections has always been the ultimate goal, but accessing resources and space that makes the work possible was held up by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group was just recently awarded a grant from the Lake Champlain Basin program in coordination with the National Park Service to buy adequate equipment and participate in specialized trainings that deal with archival work. “We haven’t even been through all of it,” David Boucher said. “We’re not artifact-rich like the Shelburne Museum. We get a lot of paperwork and a lot of stories.” But handling old paperwork, the group has learned, is an intricate and dedicated process. “You have to be careful because sometimes relationships that pieces of paper have from one to another is important,” Boucher said, holding a box of documents dating back to 1850 that was recently donated. From old banking journals that show bartering transactions to property transfer receipts, the group is sitting on centuries of history from some of Shelburne’s earliest residents that paint a picture of what life was really like in the farming town about 175 years ago.
“I thought this was just so cool because this goes all the way back to 1850. You have townspeople that are in here and you can find out what they were buying and then what they were bartering with,” he said, pointing to a line in an old journal that shows half a day’s work and a bushel of wheat were traded for a new pair of shoes. Boucher came on board a few years ago to help the team with his knowledge of computer software, which Penar says propelled the digitizing endeavor full speed ahead. Choosing the correct software and learning how to accurately process old documents is just one aspect of archival work, Boucher said. The most important work for the man behind the computer is knowing how to accurately identify and describe each file being uploaded into the online database. “I start to put any information that I can find in there and there are definitely things that you want to include like any sort of writing or anything that you have on that object,” he said. “That’s why digitizing is so important because it helps preserve the object.” Although the group is a point of connection for resident research, Penar said that they receive inquiries from people all over the country looking to access important data related to Shelburne. By having an online catalog, it limits the amount of wear and tear on the documents that the society would otherwise have to dig out. “For instance, there’ a woman in San Diego who is very interested in a former Shelburne resident who was instrumental in a very important site in San Francisco,” Penar said. Residents are encouraged to learn how to navigate the website by attending a presentation where the group plans to unveil the early beginnings of its work to the public at the Pierson Library on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. “Over the last year, I’ve been getting all the procedures together,” Boucher said. “What’s fun about this is this will be the first time that we show it to the public.”
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State police makes arrest in fatal shooting of Shelburne teenager Vermont State Police have arrested a suspect in connection to the death of a 14-year-old Shelburne youth. The victim has been identified as Madden Gouveia. Police arrested Hussein Mohamed, 14, of Bristol, on a charge of second-degree murder. The Addison County State’s Attorney’s office will charge Mohamed as an adult. He was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in criminal court in Middlebury. According to police, a handgun in Mohamed’s possession discharged while he was sitting in the backseat of a car parked outside of a North Street home near the intersection with Plank Road in Bristol. A bullet struck
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Fitzgerald released on furlough after first being denied parole ALAN J. KEAYS VTDIGGER
A man convicted of murdering his wife 30 years ago who was denied parole last month has been released from prison on furlough, according to the state Department of Corrections. Gregory Fitzgerald, 66, was denied parole by the Vermont Parole Board on Sept. 19. The panel said his release would be a “detriment” to the public and “potentially harmful” to the victim’s family. But, soon after, the corrections department came to a different conclusion and granted him furlough. Fitzgerald was convicted in 1994 of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of Amy Fitzgerald in 1993. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Fitzgerald had long denied killing his 30-year-old wife, but last year he reached a deal with Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George that qualified him for community release. In exchange for withdrawing a lawsuit against the state, Fitzgerald agreed to admit to the murder charge for a reduced sentence of 35 years to life. With credit for good behavior and pre-sentence jail time, he became eligible for community release.
Haley Sommer, a state Department of Corrections spokesperson, said Thursday that Fitzgerald was released from prison Oct. 10 on furlough. “If an individual reaches their minimum release date, they’re eligible for consideration for both parole and furlough,” Sommer said. “Parole is determined by the parole board and furlough is determined by the department.” Furlough allows the corrections department to consider a person’s release if they are deemed low risk. The person being furloughed may also be required to have their housing approved while they serve their sentence in the community under corrections department supervision, Sommer said. Sommer would not reveal what conditions the corrections department imposed on Fitzgerald, citing privacy restrictions. Fitzgerald, according to Sommer, had served his minimum sentence and recently obtained approved housing. The corrections department, Sommer said, “typically goes by the philosophy” that if a person reaches their minimum release date and “there’s no compelling public safety reasons to keep See FITZGERALD on page 9
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OPINION In Middle East, it’s time to pick understanding over righteousness From the Senate Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale As we watch the violence and terror unfolding in Israel and Gaza, Americans should strive for nonviolence in our words and actions, instead of trying to be right. Withholding sympathy for those killed and injured in Israel or Gaza will harden positions at the extremes and result in more bloodshed in this unprecedented moment. We must advocate for a ceasefire and the ability to get safety and aid to those in need. Of course, I want hostages returned safely as well, but withholding insulin and anesthesia from Palestinian hospitals is not going to bring them back any sooner. I know, for many, this will simply be dismissed as trying to support all sides and stay politically safe. It would be safer to say nothing at all. But being silent in the face of so much suffering is far more painful for me than speaking out. I know what it’s like to inherit the legacy of brutal conflict. I am Jewish on my mother’s side, and her grandparents were lucky to leave Kiev at the start of the deadly pogroms. They knew the incurable pain of being scapegoated and exiled as a community, and even threatened with systematic erasure, as we should reflect on now. I am Hindu on my father’s side, and he and his family fled the part of India that became Pakistan with just the clothes on their backs. The Partition of India was the largest, bloodiest movement of people across a border in history, resulting in the death of 10 million people and the displacement and devastation of 30 million more. My father never returned to Lahore to see that the legacy of his great grandfather, credited with building the modern city, was maintained by the people of Pakistan a century later. He died embittered and angry, especially toward Muslims. At some point, we have to set aside our parents’
bitterness and fight for the reality we want for our children. Those stoking the conflict are seeking political ammunition to try and wipe the other side out. We cannot give them more ammunition, figuratively and literally, by choosing one group of innocent people over the other. I have traveled through Israel and the West Bank and met young children with big dreams, elders who have devoted their whole lives to the cause of peace, people who have put themselves in harm’s way to forge relationships across divides. I did not meet a single person who wanted war and conflict with their neighbors, or even justified it. In fact, many of the victim remembrances have highlighted humanitarians and bridge-builders. Yes, they were taken unjustly, but would they now want us killing innocent people in their name? At the very least, we must create respectful space for each other, even if we disagree. I teach at Vermont Law & Graduate School and this past week I opened conversation with my students about the unfolding conflict. They shared personal and vicarious pain and trauma. No one tried to have immediate answers or dismiss the feelings of another. Later, one of them emailed to say I was the only professor who spoke about the conflict at all, and the silence was hard for them to bear. If we cannot process our feelings without committing or receiving more harm, then the silence will breed resentment. We will retreat to our own corners of social media to feel justified in our growing rage. Pain and death should not be a competition. These are open wounds, and pouring salt on them will not help. We should have enough kindness to offer to everyone experiencing grief, loss, and sorrow — or we will foment more hatred. Calling for See HINSDALE on page 6
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Letters to the Editor Cyclists thanks South Burlington for commitment to safety To the Editor: I have been commuting to and from work by bicycle along Williston Road for nearly 15 years. For all that time, the most difficult and challenging part of that commute has involved a left turn on my homeward journey, travelling westbound on Williston Road and turning on to Davis Parkway. Until a week ago, I approached that turn with great trepidation. The speed of vehicles behind and ahead of me required quick calculation, careful signaling and not a little hope and faith that my lights and reflectors were making me visible enough to keep me safe while crossing the road. All that changed a week ago with the completed installation of a crosswalk and flashing beacon that allows me to press a button to activate yellow lights and safely cross this busy road. As a former member of the South Burlington Bicycle Pedestrian Committee and as a municipal worker next door in Williston, I know that infrastructure projects like this don’t happen by accident or without a great deal of hard work from city staff and
volunteers. In this particular case, I don’t believe it would have happened without the work of the bike-ped committee — after I was gone, I take no credit — on the Penny for Paths initiative and on prioritizing the projects like this that it funds. Government, at its best, humbly observes where people struggle and makes things a little better. South Burlington has done just that and continues to do so in so many other dimensions. It makes me proud to be a resident here. Thank you, South Burlington. Matt Boulanger South Burlington
Futures Project is just more of the same To the Editor: I have questions related to your article about the Kevin Chu’s Futures Project, appearing in the Oct. 26 issue. (“Futures Project says state needs to grow”) Has focusing just on economic and population growth improved the quality of life in communities in other parts of the country? Doesn’t the data suggest that Vermont, while not perfect, is a saner place to live than states that
have prioritized the accelerated growth he advocates for? Hasn’t the over-emphasis on economic and population growth contributed directly and significantly to most of the world’s major problems. Climate change is an obvious example. Add to that pollution of air and water, division between haves and have-nots, political corruption, expansion of chronic disease, crime and more. Do we think Vermont is somehow immune? Shouldn’t Chu’s data include not only his fantasies about prosperity but also the range of costs associated with growth? Shelburne is now facing fiscal issues around sewer treatment, municipal personnel, facilities like a new fire and rescue station, traffic congestion, highway maintenance, higher taxes and so forth. This all represents the town’s need to catch up with past growth. Plans for future growth must include a careful calculation of the inevitable costs, as well as benefits. Chu’s analysis ignores the costs. I think the Futures Project is really just more of the “past project” and that doesn’t seem to be working very well. Jim White Shelburne
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continued from page 5 a ceasefire while recognizing peoples’ right to exist does not mean we are on the side of Israelis or Palestinians, it means we’re on the side of peace over misdirected righteousness. When my daughter asks me
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public maintenance obligations by the town and a stipulation that residents never petition for an upgrade from Class 4 status. Liability at this crossing is the same as all other town rights of way that cross rail tracks, and homeowners agreed to pay $6,000 in costs associated with making the crossings public, which Lawless confirmed was paid in full last week. “The policy calls for all the neighbors to consent to the change. We need a unanimous party to work with first before we begin a public road layout where we would create a public crossing,” he said. “We commit only to what we call a Class 4 town road, which does not have a paving schedule and exists on paper only as a town road and not more.”
Although the agreement was supposed to be finalized by VTrans in 2015, the topic has been on the back burner between town manager transitions and an array of other issues. “This has been bouncing around for a long time,” selectboard chair Mike Ashooh said. “I’m happy to see it progressing.” The agreement approved on Tuesday ushers in the next part of process to inspect and take over the road. The next steps include a notification period to neighbors, a physical inspection of the site, and an official survey. “I think it’s good news for a practical partnership between the town and the railroad and being able to accomplish the basics is good news for neighbors,” Lawless said.
where I stood, I want to be able to say I buried the bitterness with my father and sought a path to lasting peace.
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continued from page 1 road west of the tracks will remain privately owned by the homeowners’ associations. The town received petitions from the homeowners to solve the problem over the years, but this issue is not unique to Shelburne, according to Lawless. Efforts to coordinate a statewide solution have proven unsuccessful, forcing towns in Vermont to find solutions on a case-by-case basis. In 2010, VTrans and Vermont Railway offered residents a private crossing agreement, but it included millions of dollars of liability for homeowners and was rejected by the residents. In 2016, the town entered into an agreement with the Champlain Bay Association that declares the small portion of road as a Class 4 highway, which requires no
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Shelburne Age Well hosts grab and go turkey dinner Age Well and St. Catherine’s of Siena Parish in Shelburne are teaming up to provide a meal to go for anyone age 60 and older on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The meal will be available for pick up in the parking lot at 72 Church St. from 11 a.m. until noon and are available for anyone 60 or older. Suggested donation is $5. The menu is roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, carrots, cranberry sauce, wheat roll, pumpkin pie with cream and milk. To order a meal contact Kathleen at agewellstcath@gmail. com or 802-503-1107. Deadline to order is Wednesday, Nov. 8.
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Senior centers host Veterans Day lunch The Charlotte Senior Center and Residence at Shelburne Bay are teaming up for a complimentary lunch for all Veterans and a guest on Friday, Nov. 10. Registration is required for the lunch as space is limited. To register for the lunch please stop by the Charlotte Senior Center or call 802-425-6345.
Shelburne Players offer ‘finely crafted diorama’ Join The Shelburne Players for its fall 2023 production, “Circle Mirror Transformation,” set in the fictional Shirley, Vt. The play offers finely crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.
“The play traces the lives of a handful of small-town Vermont residents who gather each week for an acting class taught at the local community center. By the play’s end we seem to see to the very bottom of these souls and feel how the artificial intimacy of the acting class has shaped their lives in substantial ways,” wrote the New York Times. Show dates are Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10-11, 7 p.m., with a matinee Sunday, Nov. 12, matinee at 2 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17-18, 7 p.m., with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee. The show takes place at the Historic Shelburne Town Hall, 5372 Shelburne Road. More at shelburneplayers.com.
Hullcrest Park playground survey available Shelburne residents’ opinions matter in the formation of the new playground at Hullcrest Park. Shelburne Parks and Recreation encourages residents to take the survey by using the link found on its website, shelburnevt.org/160/parks-recreation. The survey closes today, Nov. 2.
Students host discussion on racism, book bans Join Vermont students, advocates, nonprofit leaders, equity directors and others for a panel discussion of students and administrators on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the Center for Community & Social Justice at Champlain College in Burlington. National speaker professor Loretta J. Ross will join the conversation to talk about book bans and racial justice in America. In 2023, the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network and the Rutland NAACP sent out a survey asking about student experiences with racism in schools. At the event, the network will release the results. Register at bit.ly/45SAFgi.
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continued from page 4 them in our facilities, then we would want them to reenter their communities.” In Fitzgerald’s case, Sommer said, “our department didn’t determine that there was a large risk to the community.” Sommer declined to say where Fitzgerald’s approved housing was located. He is listed in the state’s online offender locator as currently being supervised by the Burlington Probation and Parole Office. At the parole board’s hearing last month, chair Dean George said, “We’re finding at this time you would be a detriment to the community and potentially harmful to the family of the victim.” Amy Fitzgerald’s brother, Alan Zeltserman, asked the board at the time to deny Fitzgerald’s parole request. Zeltserman, in a statement read on his behalf at the hearing by a victim services specialist, said police believed that Fitzgerald had been planning to also kill him
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as part of what investigators described as a scheme to get rid of his wife. “A police detective opined to us at the time that Fitzgerald was probably planning to murder me and blame my sister’s murder on me,” Zeltserman said in the statement. “I shudder to think what would have happened to me.” Sommer, the corrections department spokesperson, said she could not comment on the parole board’s decision and reasoning for denying Fitzgerald’s parole. Amy Fitzgerald’s body was found in a condo in Shelburne where she had been living. She had been pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Vermont and was also a captain in the U.S. Army. Family members have said they believe Gregory Fitzgerald killed her to collect on a $100,000 life insurance policy. Gregory Fitzgerald lived in Texas at the time of the murder.
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EARLY NOTICE AND PUBLIC REVIEW OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY NEAR A WETLAND To: All Interested Agencies, Groups, & Individuals This is to give notice that the Town of Shelburne and the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (Agency) have determined that the following proposed action under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (PL 93-383) and under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, for HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) funding is located in a wetland and the Town of Shelburne will be identifying and evaluating practicable alternatives to locating the action in the wetland and the potential impacts on the wetland from the proposed action, as required by Executive Order 11990, in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Procedures for Making Determinations on Protection of Wetlands. The proposed project is known as the Bay Ridge Project at 3164 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT. The proposed project includes demolition of the four motel buildings and office building and new construction of two 24 unit multifamily rental buildings on the eastern part of the site. The southern part of the site will consist of up to twenty-seven 2 & 3 bedroom for sale townhomes that are part of the site master plan. The project also includes stormwater management ponds, utilities, driveways, etc., and an additional parcel across the street will be utilized for the construction of a solar field that will support the electrical needs of the project. The construction of several townhomes will cause a small impact to a wetland. Many natural and cultural resources, including fertile soils, endangered species and archaeological resources can be found in wetlands, making wetlands sensitive to disruption. In addition, wetlands as a natural system are important during flood conditions, in respect to natural moderation of floods and preservation of water quality, therefore sensitivity of the wetland must be considered during the development. There are three primary purposes for this notice. First, people who may be affected by activities in wetlands and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information about wetlands can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in wetlands, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk. Written comments must be received by the Town of Shelburne at the following address: Town of Shelburne, 5420 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT 05482, Attention: Mr. Matthew Lawless, Town Manager, or email at mlawless@shelburnevt.org on or before November 17, 2023. A full description of the project may be emailed by contacting Environmental Officer, Grace Vinson, at Grace.Vinson@vermont.gov. Written comments must be received by the Agency for HOME funding at the following address (or email above) on or before November 17, 2023: Department of Housing and Community Development, One National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th floor, Montpelier, Vermont 05620, Attn: Environmental Officer. Date: November 2, 2023
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SPORTS CVU athletes eye titles in ongoing playoffs LAUREN READ CORRESPONDENT
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The CVU girls’ cross country team went 1-2-3-4-5 to take the Division I state title.
CVU girls capture cross country state title LAUREN READ CORRESPONDENT
The Champlain Valley girls’ cross-country team has been making headlines for years. From a 12-year run as the Division I state champs to national championship appearances, the Redhawks are used to breaking
records and making a name for themselves. On Saturday at the state championship race in Thetford, CVU found some new ground to break. Champlain Valley ran a perfect race, with its first five runners finishing 1-2-3-4-5 to capture the program’s 20th state title. “I think there was like a point
right about halfway in the race where I was coming through the halfway, I saw three people from our team in front of me and I knew one person was right behind me,” Audrey Neilson said. “It clicked into place in my head like, oh, we could actually get all five.” Alice Kredell crossed the finish line first, coming in 19 minutes, 49.3 seconds to capture first place and the individual title. Estella Laird followed just five seconds behind in second place. Neilson was third, Lydia Donahue came in fourth and Charlotte Crum rounded out the top five for the Redhawks. See CROSS COUNTRY on page 11
(1) Champlain Valley 3, (9) St. Johnsbury 0: Top-seeded Champlain Valley opened a first half lead and then extended that lead in the second half to beat St. Johnsbury in the Division I boys’ soccer quarterfinals on Saturday, Oct. 28. Chandler Turner had a goal and two assists for the Redhawks, while Charlie Jennings and Luke Sampson each scored. Ziggy Babbott in goal had seven saves. Champlain Valley faced No. 4 Colchester in the DI semifinals on Wednesday after press time. The Redhawks narrowly beat Colchester 1-0 in their only meeting of the regular season but will need to get another win to advance to the state championship. A CVU win means it will face the winner of a matchup between No. 6 Burlington and No. 2 South Burlington.
Girls’ volleyball (2) Champlain Valley 3, (10) Lyndon 0: The girls began their playoff push with a win over No. 10 Lyndon in the DI quarterfinals Saturday. The Redhawks won the first set 25-9, then followed up with a 25-8 win in the second set. They clinched the win, 25-14, in the
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Field hockey (3) Champlain Valley 2, (6) Essex 1: Champlain Valley opened a lead in the first half and held off Essex in a 2-1 win Friday in the field hockey quarterfinals. Claire Marcoe and Marlie Cartwright scored for the Redhawks, while Bibi Frechette and Cordelia Thomas each had assists. Sophie Comeau in goal helped the defending champs advance to the semifinals. CVU took on No. 2 Rice Wednesday at Middlebury College in the semifinals. The Green Knights handed the Redhawks two of its three losses this season.
Boys’ volleyball (4) Champlain Valley 3, (5) Mount Mansfield 0: The team beat Mount Mansfield in straight sets on Friday in the quarterfinals. The Redhawks advanced to the DI semifinals where they faced No. 1 Burlington on Tuesday after presstime. CVU fell in both regular season matchups to the Seahorses, losing both 3-0.
Girls’ soccer (9) Essex 1, (1) Champlain Valley 0: The Champlain Valley girls’ soccer team was upset Friday in the DI quarterfinals, falling to Essex 1-0. The Hornets scored the lone goal of the game on a free kick in the second half to upset the previously unbeaten Champlain Valley. The Redhawks finished the season with a 14-1 record.
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(3) Champlain Valley 45, (6) Essex 0: The defending champs kicked off the high school football postseason in convincing fashion on Saturday. The Redhawks defeated Essex 45-0 in the quarterfinals to See PLAYOFFS on page 11
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All in all, the top five CVU runners all finished within 43 seconds of each other. “I was the fifth person, so my goal the whole race was to stick with the people ahead of me and work together,” Crum said. “I think about halfway through I realized that I could stick with these people, and we can complete that top five.” CVU’s Annalise Wood and Noe Jenni came in ninth and tenth, respectively. “This group puts in an incredible amount of hard work and in every workout, everything we do, and every race they do, everything they do is put a lot of hard work,” coach Dave Baird said. “I feel like that’s the secret ingredient that makes that happen.” Breaking new ground is part of the legacy of running in such an historic program, the CVU runners said. They are racing against all the runners from past teams. “I think some of the very fast girls from the past are also a big motivation for this team,” Kredell said. With 19 state championships in the last
21 years, there is certainly no shortage of CVU runners to look up to, but it also puts the pressure on to perform. “What took the pressure off was that every week they saw they were putting in the work and they were then making adjustments and getting faster and faster each week,” Baird said. Now, Champlain Valley sets its sights on the New England Cross Country championship on Saturday, Nov. 11, in Maine — one of its season-opening goals. “We definitely are going to try and close the gap and do what we always do,” Kredell said. “I think if we do that then we have a pretty good chance at a good score.”
Boys’ cross country The Champlain Valley boys’ cross-country team came in third overall at state championship race. Dan Knight was the first Redhawk to finish, coming in fourth, while Owen Deale was just behind in fifth. Kody Guiterman was 16th, Charles Garavelli came in 21st and Treson McEnaney was 22nd for CVU.
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related to failing infrastructure due to aging buildings. Gary Marckres, the district’s chief operations officer, said that although the buildings have been relatively well maintained, many of them are reaching the end of their useful life. “That’s where the needs specifically come from, just the age of our buildings,” he said. “Even though they’re in pretty good shape, and they’ve had good solid investment, it’s just getting to the time period over the next 10 years where many systems will be will not be able to continue in the in the state that they’re in.” For decades, Vermont provided state money to cities and towns to build or renovate schools, but the state shut down its school construction aid fund in 2007. The
program used to fund up to 30 were failing.” that those buildings are going to be percent of a school infrastructure Vermont is now the only state in poor condition if they’ve been project. in New England without a school well maintained, it’s all about “You have to remember that it construction aid program, along ongoing maintenance and operwas right before the 2008 reces- with the second oldest building ations,” she said. “It’s more that sion,” said Chittenwe have a huge backlog of den County Sen. deferred maintenance, and “What we’re looking at is a proposal to Ginny Lyons, who school districts have not was involved in restart in this next legislative session and been able to budget approthese infrastructure priately for ongoing mainthe question, of course, will be balancing conversations in the tenance and operations.” Legislature in 2007. But the district’s the needs that we’re identifying with the “A discussion was biggest issues currently had about finding don’t have much to do funding resources available.” savings and reducwith deferred mainteing property taxes. nance, said Marckres. So historically, there “The deferred main— Jill Briggs Campbell were good intentenance answer is not tions about helping people with stock of school buildings in the how I would characterize Chamtheir property taxes, but the bad country, said Jill Briggs Campbell, plain Valley Union,” he said. “We outcome is that it put significant the Vermont Agency of Educa- haven’t deferred a lot of maintepressure on school boards to find tion’s operations director. nance until recently.” additional money when schools “That doesn’t necessarily mean The largest issue facing the
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district now is a mix of inflation-related costs in the construction industry that have caused the district to postpone several planned projects. In 2022, voters approved a $7.5 million bond vote to fund various infrastructure upgrades in school buildings, including $4.7 million in upgrades just at Charlotte Central School, which was built in 1969. The majority of the work focused on a sizable electrical system upgrade as well as a new building-wide fire suppression system. But now, costs are more than double what had already been budgeted, leaving the district with a nearly $3 million shortfall. See INFRASTRUCTURE on page 13
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In addition to the list of capital investment projects, the district, like many throughout the state, is facing the pressures of rising capacity issues. “We are a school district that demographic studies say will grow over the next 10 years,” he said. “There’s a lot of building that is already approved to happen, particularly in Hinesburg and some in Williston as well, that will put some capacity pressures on our school,” he said, noting that the change in multi-tiered systems of supports and interventions that require one-on-one spaces take up most of the space that was traditionally used for full classrooms. Marckres said that the district is currently planning a revision of the school’s capital improvement plan after Town Meeting Day that will expand the current committee to include community members to help inform a new long-range capital plan. Through Act 72, adopted in 2021, the state restarted a conversation about setting standards for school facilities — which the state does not currently have — for things like training and certification standards for facilities managers and doing a thorough compre-
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going to have a better sense of the actual condition of our school facilities.” All this is meant to inform the work of the State School Construction Aid Task Force, which was created in the appropriations bill of the last legislative session, Act 78. It creates a 17-member
group co-chaired by the Agency of Education and the Vermont treasurer’s office, which will present a proposal to the Legislature in January on a reinstated state school construction aid program. “What we’re looking at is a proposal to restart in this next legislative session and the ques-
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