Shelburne grapples with stormwater
State regulations could cost town, homeowners
Precipitation that falls on Vermont must flow somewhere and, eventually, most of it winds up in Lake Champlain, dragging with it pollutants that the federal government says are contaminating the lake.
“For the longest time in Vermont, like dating back to colonists, the thinking with stormwater was to just get rid of it, you know? Channel the water and get it off site as fast as possible so it doesn’t conflict with human use,” Shayne Geiger, Shelburne’s stormwater coordinator, said.
Through a series of mandates passed down from the Environmental Protection Agency, Vermont finally caught up with that practice and has been trying for the last two decades to decrease contaminates going into Lake Champlain by imposing and tightening regulations in towns and neighborhoods, which have since grappled with how to pay for the costly stormwater improvement projects.
That’s been Geiger’s focus since he started working for Shelburne about a year ago. It’s not his only responsibility but bringing Shelburne’s stormwater infrastructure into compliance with the state has become a full-time job. He gave an update on that effort
during last week’s selectboard meeting, where there is some sentiment that the state’s regulations are too onerous and costly, with little environmental benefit.
The main pollutant the regulations are meant to address is phosphorus, which is increasing in Lake Champlain, creating green algae blooms that choke off oxygen to different forms of aquatic life.
Phosphorus in Lake Champlain originates from several places. Most of it flows from agricultural land, but the next biggest sources are development and streambank erosion, which go together. More development means more impervious surface, which means more stormwater rushing into streams and widening banks.
To cut down on phosphorus levels, the state targeted housing developments by enacting a series of stormwater regulations over the last two decades.
The first round passed in the early 2000s, and the state began issuing Municipal Separate Storm Sewer General Permits to communities that were out of compliance.
The regulations tightened over the next two decades and Shelburne was issued such a permit in 2018. Geiger said Shelburne does OK with phosphorus discharges, but Munroe Brook is considered
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Champlain Valley Union High School students and others ran in the school’s Turkey Trot 5K on Nov. 25 as a fundraiser for the Hinesburg Food Shelf.
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Beta flies first electric plane from South Burlington
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If you were out and about on Nov. 13 in South Burlington, it’s likely you didn’t see a bird or any old regular plane flying in the sky, but the first electric plane produced at Beta Technologies’ South Burlington production facility.
Just over a year after the company opened its doors to community, state and federal leaders celebrating the opening of the 188,000 squarefoot facility located off Airport Parkway, the team successfully completed the first flight of the production aircraft, the Alia CTOL, when the company’s CEO and test pilot, Kyle Clark, sailed to 7,000 feet.
“It’s been a pretty remarkable year to look back on it,” Blain Newton, the company’s chief information officer. said. “Obviously seeing that aircraft come off the line was incredibly inspiring.”
The expansive manufacturing space now looks much different than it did last October. In that time, the company has installed aerospace-grade tooling for aircraft assembly and ground support equipment and started production of propulsion, batteries and other systems. Not to mention that the manufacturing floor is now alive with roughly 100 people at a time tinkering and perfecting aircraft design and manufacturing.
The company has hired just over 250 people this year alone, bringing its total employees up to 800 with most of them based in Vermont.
While the take-off of the fixedwing plane marked a milestone for Beta, the company has also been laser-focused on how to effectively “build the machine to build the machines.”
The goal is to be able to produce roughly 300 electric planes a year. An even bigger goal is getting the Federal Aviation Administration to certify the fixed-wing aircraft by the end of next year.
“It’s the same level of discipline
and care and engineering that goes into it, in fact, maybe more because of the number of dimensions,” Newton said. “One, let’s learn how to build aircraft in a high quality, safe way, alongside our partners in the FAA, to ensure that these aircraft are as safe as any aircraft coming off commercial airline production lines today. Then the rest of it has been spent on really learning how these aircraft come together in an optimized way.”
While Newton said there are hundreds of companies working in the electric aircraft realm, Beta’s mission is more expansive than
the common concept of “urban air mobility” or just moving passengers over city traffic.
For example, the company announced in September that it had received $20 million to partner with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to deploy 20 of the company’s battery charging stations along the Gulf Coast and in rural places like Mississippi and Arkansas as a means of powering public health preparedness.
“Well, that’s not really an urban air mobility mission, right? You’re not flying people over traffic in rural Mississippi,” Newton said.
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“What you’re doing is you’re opening and changing the paradigm of rural health access. You’re allowing more services to be provided because you bring the cost dramatically down from flying a helicopter in and you also set up preparations for disaster response by having infrastructure built to support it.”
While the company can certainly do urban air mobility — imagine flying from Rutland to New York City — that’s not the primary mission, he noted.
“So, to me, that mission highlights why we’re different,” he continued.
The company also recently signed with Air New Zealand to use its fixed-wing aircraft to move mail into rural communities.
“The reason they’re doing that is to get the folks in those communities accustomed to electric aviation that is safe, reliable, quiet, cost-effective,” he said. “Then they want to move to passenger movements so that folks that are isolated in those rural communities can now start to access the rest of the country.”
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The company, he said, elected to build the fixed-wing model first because it is likely first in the FAA certification schedule and likely first to be delivered to customers. But the company has always set out to build a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft like a helicopter.
“What we saw as we were out doing our flight tests, and we’ve now flown over 90 airports in the
U.S. and Canada, is that people still have the desire for a low-cost, quiet, reliable, safe, conventional aircraft,” he said.
There’s roughly 80 percent commonality in design of the two aircraft models, which means the team can essentially build them off the same production line, he said.
“We learned a lot from this first production build,” company found-
er Kyle Clark said. “We weren’t just building an aircraft company, we were building and refining a system to build high quality aircraft efficiently. This first build allowed the team to collect data and insight on manufacturing labor, tooling design, processes, yields and sequences, all of which are being used to refine our production systems.”
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Mike Schramm helps a customer carry a tree at Scout Troop 602’s annual tree sale at the Parade Ground in Shelburne.
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Shelburne Police Blotter: Nov. 19 - Dec. 1
Total reported incidents: 127
Traffic stops: 33
Warnings: 21
Tickets: 0
Arrests: 0
Medical emergencies: 45
Mental health incidents: 11
Suspicious incidents: 15
Directed patrols: 95
Citizen assists: 8
Motor vehicle complaints: 1
Car crash: 2
Animal problem: 2
Noise disturbance 1
Unlawful Mischief: 0
Theft: 4
Harassment: 1
Vandalism: 2
Property damage: 0
Fraud: 0
Alarms: 16
Pending investigations: 8
911 Hang-up calls: 1
Nov. 19 at 9:08 a.m., a caller reported a theft from their residence on Thomas Road. The case is under investigation.
Nov. 19 at 2:55 p.m., someone reported a fire on Palmer Court. The fire was extinguished, and no injuries were reported.
Nov. 20 at 2:52 p.m., several juveniles were referred to restorative justice over vandalism at Davis Park.
Nov. 21 at 11:54 a.m., Tractor
Supply reported a retail theft. The case is under investigation.
Nov. 22 at 7:06 a.m., police are investigating a theft from their motor vehicle on Longmeadow Drive.
Nov. 22 at 6:20 p.m., police are investigating a theft of items from their motor vehicle on Richmond Drive.
Nov. 23 at 9:32 a.m., someone stole some items from a home on Cardinal Way. The case is under investigation.
Nov. 24 at 8:08 a.m., Sarah Kalinoski, 90, of Shelburne, died in her residence on Marsett Drive. Police say the death was not suspicious.
Nov. 25 at 8:11 a.m., a 911 caller reported an unresponsive resident at Shelburne Bay Senior Living. Marianne Beckett, 89, of Shelburne, was pronounced dead.
Nov. 25 at 1:09 p.m., an unwanted guest refused to leave Harbor Place, and police escorted them from the property.
Nov. 26 at 4:57 p.m., an unwanted guest at Dunkin Donuts on Shelburne Road was issued a trespass notice.
Nov. 28 at 9:48 p.m., someone on LaPlatte Circle reported that
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Police, fire departments answer call for kids’ gifts
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First responders around northern Vermont are once again banding together to bring holiday cheer to children undergoing medical treatment.
Operation Fire Cuffs is a joint toy delivery initiative that launched in 2010 when three law enforcement agencies — Burlington and Morristown police departments and Vermont State Police — banded together to fill a fire truck with more than a thousand gifts.
As always, the gifts will be delivered to the University of Vermont Medical Center Children’s Hospital. Now, though, Santa’s got a lot more helpers, nearly 40 of them between
their residence or vehicle was vandalized. The case is pending.
Nov. 29 at 10:38 a.m., an erratic motorist at Shelburne and
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The participating agencies, organizations and businesses will collect the gifts and gift cards — a wish list is on the Operation Fire Cuffs 2024 Facebook page — and some of the police and fire departments will deliver the presents to the Children’s Hospital on Dec. 19. Presents should be new and unwrapped; gift cards are welcomed, too.
Nearby gift collectors this year include South Burlington Fire Department, Burlington Fire Department, City of Burlington Police Department, Chittenden County Children’s Advocacy Center, Burlington Electric Department, Department of Corrections Chittenden County, Vermont State
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Dec. 1 at 6:29 p.m., officers mediated a domestic situation at a home on Bay Road.
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Note: Charges filed by police are subject to review by the Chittenden County State’s Attorney Office and can be amended or dropped.
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Thank you, Gov. Phil Scott, for your recent communications regarding the challenges Vermont is experiencing with its education finance system. We appreciate your support in addressing this complex problem. As you may know, the Lamoille South Supervisory Union has been significantly impacted by the current crisis.
In the Elmore-Morristown district, two failed school budgets resulted in a substantial decrease in services provided to students, including the loss of a middle school foreign language program and intervention support for children.
In Stowe, taxpayers have navigated an increase of approximately 30 percent in local property taxes. Many have expressed the hardship this is placing on their families. According to the most recent Agency of Education data, our supervisory union has the second lowest spending in the state. It feels as though we are being penalized for years of fiscal responsibility.
We believe in the sharing of tax dollars and that all students should have access to a high-quality education, regardless of zip code. Our schools also need extensive capital improvements and residents in all three towns are dedicating a much larger percentage of their income toward housing than others across the state.
Our children have significant needs, and the impact of the pandemic, mental health crisis, and opiate epidemic can be felt in each one of our buildings daily. Another round of budget failures will be devastating to students and teacher morale. I worry deeply about the future of our towns, schools and state.
Although many are committed to redesigning the system, this will take time. There are structural changes that can be made now to avoid a repeat of last year. Without
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any change, it is inevitable that we will have another round of budget failures.
We ask that you please initiate and support action around the following short-term recommendations:
• Establish a reserve fund maximum (for example, 10 percent of expenditures) to immediately reduce pressure on the education fund, encourages districts to use reserve funds for capital improvements now and reduce future liabilities, and discourages districts from using Act 127 tax incentives to build a savings account to pay down future tax rates instead of lowering budgets.
• Allow local options taxes to be used for capital improvement to reduce the pressure on the education fund as some districts will be able to fund critical repairs and renovations through their local municipality; acknowledge the state’s decision to stop funding school construction and the burden this has placed on the education fund; and address the immediate safety repairs needed in many schools and the impact of PCBs.
• Redesign tax categories — resident, non-resident and business — and acknowledge the large purchase of properties that occurred during the pandemic by out-of-state residents. This will ensure residents will pay an equal or lower tax rate than non-residents, and it will reduce financial pressure on renters by disconnecting the landlord tax rate from non-resident tax rate.
• Remove weights from tuitioning districts. The state is currently subsidizing those sending their children to private schools by
lowering property tax rates with pupil weighting. The weights are designed to increase resources provided to students, not to reduce tax rates.
• Identify districts that have a disproportionate staff to student ratio. This one data point is critical for identifying inefficiencies in school budgets as salaries and benefits account for nearly 80 percent of all expenditures. Reducing overstaffing will also address the high number of vacancies in hard-to-fill positions and an over-reliance on unlicensed educators.
• Increase transparency and student investments by publishing actual per-pupil financial data while categorizing areas of spending — instruction, debt and maintenance, for example
The misrepresentation of the word pupil is having unintended consequences on equity across the state. For example, a district that may be spending $45,000 per pupil might have weighted spending of $12,000 per pupil. The $12,000 figure is what will be written on the ballot, thus preventing taxpayers from making informed decisions regarding the value of their tax dollars. High spending in some districts results in failed budgets across the state. Transparently showing where money is allocated increases accountability with how dollars are spent, thus ensuring money is directed toward student learning.
Ryan Heraty is superintendent of the Lamoille South Supervisory Union, which operates public schools in Morristown, Elmore and Stowe.
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Will Trump end gains with renewable energy?
Guest Perspective
Mike Yantachka
There is no doubt that the trajectory of our country has changed in the past month. Based on the recent election and signals from the incoming Trump administration, the reversal of the nation’s approach to climate change will have significant implications not only nationally, but locally and globally.
In mid-October I attended the annual conference organized
by Renewable Energy Vermont (REV2024) and sponsored by numerous businesses involved with renewable energy development. Renewable energy, including wind, solar, hydro and geothermal power generation, is key to reducing our dependence on greenhouse gas-producing fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation needs.
While the Biden administration encouraged renewable energy development through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act,
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the incoming administration has openly promised not only to end those efforts but to move in the opposite direction, promoting fossil fuel consumption.
Trump’s selection of Chris Wright, a CEO of a fracking company and a climate change denier, for energy secretary portends serious backtracking on efforts to fight global warming. In the meantime, we will see more droughts leading to wildfires, more extreme weather events leading to floods and mudslides, and longer periods of
extreme heat leading to heat-related fatalities, all of which will increase the costs in lives and recovery efforts. With the loss of federal support, it will fall to the states which recognize the seriousness of the situation to take up the cause of fighting climate change.
Resources and Energy, and Rep. Laura Sibilia, I-Dover, vicechair of the House Committee on Environment and Energy, spoke about the changes in Vermont’s energy policy.
Farmers market:
a welcome winter respite
To the Editor:
I just returned from the Shelburne Farmers Market at the Shelburne Town Hall. What a great idea to have it there on Saturdays through the winter. It’s warm and very pleasant inside. It is handicapped accessible through the library entrance and fun to see the various exhibitors.
Linda Ryan Shelburne
Time to abolish Green Mountain Care board
To the Editor:
Vermonters were recently alarmed to learn of cuts to the University of Vermont Health Network’s services statewide. This news comes amid skyrocketing health care costs, which also drive up property taxes and strain
household budgets.
Instead of expanding access, Vermonters now face reduced services, including the closure of clinics, fewer inpatient beds, and even the end of UVM’s transplant program, forcing patients to travel to New Hampshire for life-saving procedures.
These cuts stem from the Green Mountain Care Board’s mandate to reduce the health network’s revenues. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. Hospital networks across Vermont are also reducing services. Understandably, Vermonters are asking what is going on.
To answer this, we must revisit the origins of the Green Mountain Care Board. Created in 2011 as part of H.202, Vermont’s ambitious effort to establish a single-payer universal health care system, the board was given broad authority to oversee health care funding and budgets.
However, by 2014, the plan unraveled. Reports, such as one from Avalere Health, revealed that single payer would require $2.2 billion in new taxes. Amid mounting public opposition and economic concerns, then-Gov. Peter Shumlin abandoned the initiative.
Yet the Green Mountain Care Board remained. By 2016, it pivoted to an all-payer model aimed at reducing costs systemwide. The board was granted final authority over hospital budgets and insurance rates, enabling it to mandate cost reductions. While this might sound like a prudent measure, it has led directly to today’s crisis: hospitals unable to adjust revenues to meet rising costs are cutting essential services instead.
This rationing of care traces back to a failed experiment in
While the outcome of the election was still uncertain at the time of the REV2024 conference, presenters spoke about the current state of renewable energy development and the challenges that must be overcome. Allison Clements, a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, emphasized the need to move to an electric energy economy, calling it “the backbone of our modern society.”
She noted that our inherited legacy generation systems remain an obstacle to developing clean generation systems, and fossil fuel companies will continue to have a larger influence on public policy than the renewable sector. Furthermore, continued growth of renewables will require making the existing grid more efficient and building new infrastructure for transmission.
During the last session of the Vermont Legislature a significant change was made to the renewable energy standard. Sen. Chris Bray, D-Bristol, chair of the Senate Committee on Natural
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The standard set a requirement in 2015 that every Vermont electricity distribution utility would have to produce 75 percent of its electric demand from renewable generation by 2032. As of 2022, three utilities, Burlington Electric, Swanton Electric and Washington Electric Co-op, claimed to be 100 percent renewable using solar, wind, hydro and biomass.
In 2024, the standard was upgraded to require every utility to source 100 percent of its electricity demand from renewable generation by 2035. This achievement would be the foundation for the state’s transition from fossil fuels to clean electricity for transportation and heating, the major sectors contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
In addition to the renewable energy standard upgrade, the Legislature also passed over Gov. Phil Scott’s veto, the Affordable Heat Act, originally known as the Clean Heat Standard. This controversial legislation would require importers of fossil fuels
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to finance methods of reducing the fossil fuel consumption of their customers by weatherization, heat pumps and advanced wood heating.
The big unknown in this plan is whether the consequential increase in the cost of fuel would be offset by the savings in the reduction of fuel use and whether the increase could be equitably distributed across households based on their energy burden. Energy burden is the percentage of household income devoted to heating and cooling.
While Vermont households with lower incomes typically use less energy than those with higher incomes, lower-income households spend considerably higher percentages of their income on energy.
The Clean Heat Standard is not yet fully implemented because the Affordable Heat Act requires the Public Utility Commission to design the system, estimate the effect on heating costs to the consumer and report back to the Legislature, which will then either approve the plan or go back to the drawing board. Considering the change in the political makeup of the legislature on
Nov. 5, its ability to override another veto is unlikely.
There are other opportunities currently available to help Vermonters reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. One REV2024 breakout session featured community geothermal heating systems, which use the constant temperature of the ground to generate heat for multiple buildings.
Charlotte’s new town garage uses geothermal heating powered by the solar panels on its roof. The panels produce more than 90 percent of the electricity used by all five of the buildings owned by the town: the garage, library, town hall, senior center and fire station.
Since the library is heated and cooled with air-source heat pumps, it, like the garage, is fossil fuel-free. With additional solar generation, it would be conceivable to build a geothermal system that would heat and cool the other three town-owned buildings in the west village.
This is something Charlotte might look to in the future, assuming that the incentives of the Biden administration remain available.
So, from the federal perspec-
tive, the outlook for renewable energy generation and greenhouse gas reduction looks bleak. But there is a silver lining in that the states can continue to transition to renewable sources. Even many red states have come to appreciate the benefits.
Iowa produces 59 percent of its electricity by wind. Texas produces 28 percent from wind, 8 percent from solar and leads the nation in total megawatt-hours of renewable energy production followed by California. According to Yale Climate Connections, South Dakota has the most renewable energy generation by percentage (83 percent), followed by Vermont (76 percent), Washington (74 percent) and Idaho (69 percent). Progress has been made and will continue despite changes being planned by the Trump administration because renewable energy makes good economic sense.
We just have to keep doing our part.
Mike Yantachka is a member of the Charlotte Energy Committee and a former state representative who served 12 years on House committees responsible for energy policy.
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Luckily for the legislators who originally supported the legislation which brought us to this point, most of them are long-gone from public office at this point. This means that Vermont voters are unable to hold them accountable for their poor decisions. Current legislators, rather than finding solutions, seem happy to point the finger at hospital executives, insurance companies and an unelected board carrying out the mandate the Legislature gave them.
There are no easy fixes. Rising health care costs are a nationwide issue. But Vermont’s approach has been a resounding failure. The Legislature must acknowl-
edge this reality and disband the Green Mountain Care Board. Only by reevaluating how we manage health care can we begin to restore trust and ensure affordable access for all Vermonters.
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Shayne Spence is a former Johnson Selectboard member and was a Republican candidate for the Vermont House in 2020.
Letter proved un-enlightening
To the Editor:
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Please notify the Vatican that a new saint is on the horizon.
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Knights of Columbus host community breakfast
The Bishop DeGoesbriand Council will serve a pancake breakfast in its parish hall on Sunday, Dec. 8, 9-11:30 a.m., St. Joseph’s Cathedral, 29 Allen St., Burlington.
The feast will feature bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, blueberry pancakes, French toast and more. Coffee, juice, butter and real Vermont maple syrup are included.
The cost is $10 and $25 for a family of four. The breakfast benefits seminarians or religious aspirants for books, car insurance, maintenance, travel during vacations, clerical clothing, emergency expenditures and other living expenses.
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Shelburne tree lighting is Friday
Shelburne’s annual tree lighting and carol sing is Friday, Dec. 6, starting at 5:30 p.m., with caroling led by Matt Vachon and friends.
After the tree lighting, festivities move to Shelburne Town Hall and Pierson Library for light refreshments from the Shelburne Recreation Committee and other holiday activities:
• Visit with Santa and get your picture taken.
• Take home a seasonal kid’s
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• Listen to the Northern Bronze Handbell Ensemble.
• Electra’s engineers in residence display a Model O ‘Gauge train.
• See the SD Ireland holiday mixer truck.
Leave all pets at home. Dogs will not be allowed in town hall or the library during the event, except for registered service animals. Enter the event from the front of the town hall, facing Route 7. Those with accessibility needs will be allowed to enter through the library’s main entrance (and avoid the stairs). It is recommended to leave strollers outside or in your car.
Take the stage for Players’ next show
Looking for a little humor and something fun to do over the dark winter months? Audition for “The Servant of Two Masters” with The Shelburne Players.
Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 9 and 10, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., in the Pierson Library community room, 5376 Shelburne Road. If needed, callbacks will take place on Thursday, Dec. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
The play by Carlo Goldoni, will
be directed by Su Reid-St. John and produced by Cathy Diamond. Rehearsals begin Jan.13, and the play will run March 14-22.
The show has been called “a cross between traditional Italian commedia and postmodern vaudeville, this new version of Goldoni’s classic pits the madcap servant Truffaldino against masters, mistresses, lovers, lawyers, and twenty-seven plates of meatballs.
Imagine a Bob Hope or Woody Allen comedy written by Monty Python and performed with the physical bravura of Chaplin or Keaton.”
Learn more at shelburneplayers.com.
Shelburne Age Well offers Grab and Go meal
This will be the last Grab and Go meal offered by Age Well in Shelburne.
In January, community meals will be offered in person on the second and third Tuesday of the month.
Age Well and St. Catherine’s of Siena Parish in Shelburne will team up to provide a meal to go for anyone age 60 and older on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Meals will be available for pick up in the parking lot at 72 Church
St. from 11 a.m. until noon. A $5 donation is suggested.
The menu is beef stew with vegetables and potatoes, winter mixed vegetables, wheat biscuit, tapioca pudding with peaches and cream, and milk
To order a meal, contact Kathleen by Wednesday, Dec. 4 at agewellstcath@gmail.com or 802-503-1107.
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Shelburne church hosts holiday bazaar
Trinity Episcopal Church will open its doors for its annual holiday Christmas bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The sale will feature all manner of gifts and will fill the rooms with original and handmade crafts, food, and ornaments. A special traditional item will be the pinecone wreaths fashioned by hand. They require no adjustment; just hang them on the door.
Other holiday gifts will include knitted and crocheted items and wooden and glass tableware.
There will be children’s activities, raffles and take-home baskets and holiday food set-ups.
The church is on Shelburne Road in Shelburne.
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Marianne Beckett
Marianne Ondocin Beckett, 89, of Shelburne, died peacefully at home on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. She will be lovingly remembered by her daughter Diana Reilly (Michelle Richard); granddaughters, Grace Ondocin Seeley and Nora Ondocin Richard; brothers, Phil (Sharon) Ondocin and David (Dina) Ondocin; nine nieces, nephews and their families; as well as many friends around the world.
Marianne was predeceased by her second husband, Thomas Beckett; brother, Joseph Ondocin; son, John Christopher Reilly; and parents, Joseph and Anne Ondocin.
Marianne was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1935. She loved to read and excelled at school, which led her, as a young woman, to work at Merrill Lynch in Manhattan in the 1950s. Marianne later married and enjoyed raising her two children in the beach town of Northport, N.Y.
Working part-time for Sen. Bernie Smith in the 1970s, Marianne managed to also be a Girl Scout leader — teaching the girls to tie-dye and sing African songs — and to open her home to her teen son’s garage band. As a single mom, Marianne was devoted to sharing art, poetry and ballet with her children, often spending time in New York City at museums, libraries and Lincoln Center.
As Marianne’s youngest went off to college, she created a new life and career in Washington, D.C. She worked in many embassies in Europe, Central and South America as well as at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Marianne volunteered at a
church soup kitchen for all her years in New York City. Her love of travel for pleasure and work led her to visit over 30 countries, generating many wonderful friendships and memories with family. Egypt, Morocco, Prague and China were highlights.
Retirement in the Bradenton and Sarasota area of Florida was well deserved. She enjoyed the beach and cultural life, as well as being a proud founding member of the Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian.
Marianne married Thomas Beckett in 2004, and they enjoyed nine years together, including a memorable trip to Russia and riverboat cruises throughout Europe, before his death in 2013. Cherished events in her annual calendar included Christmas in Vermont and a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard with her extended family and sweet granddaughters.
In 2019 she moved to The Terraces in Shelburne to be near her loving family. Marianne wrote essays in her spare time and published poetry earlier in her life.
Marianne was an avid fan of the New York Times crossword, “Jeopardy” and treats with whipped cream. She recently moved to assisted living at The Residence at Shelburne Bay and her family is especially grateful for the assistance and kindness of Todd Patterson there.
Marianne was known for being funny, adventurous, a great mother, telling a good story and for her intelligence. She was loving, loyal, stylish and always up for a laugh. Marianne was a role model to many girls and young women, being generous with her resources and time.
There will be a service and celebration of her life in the Spring. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in her name to Mercy Connections, 255 South Champlain St., #8, Burlington VT 05401.
Marianne asks that you celebrate her by taking a friend or loved one to lunch. Share a laugh and a big hug in her honor.
Sarah Verret Kalinoski
Sarah Verret Kalinoski, 90, beloved mother and grandmother, longtime history teacher, extraor-
dinary quilter and devoted volunteer, died Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, of natural causes at her home in Shelburne after a short illness.
Sally, as she was called by virtually everyone who knew her, married Thomas Kalinoski on Memorial Day 1953 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington. Together, they had five children, Gregory (Ann), Catherine (Joseph), Thomas (Annette), Amy (Matthew) and Jane (Steve).
She was predeceased by her husband in 1967. At 33, with only a high school diploma and five children ranging in age from 3 to 13, Sally moved the family from Montpelier to Shelburne to be closer to her parents, who lived right around the corner from her new home.
To support her children and herself, Sally worked part-time for her father at A. Verret and Sons on Shelburne Road, a family owned grocery store. She had started college a year before her husband’s death, and earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Trinity College, summa cum laude, and a master’s in history, cum laude, from the University of Vermont within five years of his death. Her master’s thesis was on Vermont history and the Revolutionary War.
Known as Mrs. K, she began teaching at Burlington High School in 1972, where she also volunteered as a choreographer and costume maker for dozens of dramatic productions. She also gave her time at the St. Michael’s College Playhouse and volunteered her children for roles as well.
Thanks to her love of history and theater, and the high standards she set for herself and her students, she was known as a diligent instructor, a strong motivator and an inspiring mentor. She retired from Burlington High School in 2000.
Her teaching career included summer work leading Vermont Transit bus tours across New England, Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes, explaining local history and managing busloads of tourists. Incredibly independent right up until her death, Sally taught her children the importance of a strong work ethic, charity, frugality, taking personal responsibility for oneself and one’s family and a clear sense of right and wrong.
She was an avid volunteer with
the Vermont Retired Educators Association and its Chittenden County Chapter, where she was unit director, re-elected at age 90 to a three-year term earlier this year. She was also a longtime member of Vermont Delta Kappa Gamma’s Alpha Chapter, serving as secretary, treasurer and president. She received the Alpha Golden Needle Award in 1996, Woman of Distinction Award in 2004, and the Vermont Achievement Award in 2022.
Never one to sit still, if Sally was home and wasn’t eating or sleeping, she was invariably sewing, knitting or quilting. Sally made most of her own and her children’s clothes by hand in the 1960s and 1970s, and became an avid knitter and quilter, creating thousands of items for family, friends and charities.
Her quilts became treasured gifts destined to be handed down for generations, most of them made up of thousands of individual pieces, each of them sewn together and quilted by hand.
She donated hundreds of quilts to the Vermont Chapter of Project Linus, which distributed them to children through hospitals, shelters and social service agencies. She also made and donated many quilts and other gifts to the Saint Joseph’s Home in Burlington and St. Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne; hundreds of hats and mittens to people in need through the sorority, local schools and her church; and dresses for children in Haiti.
Sally volunteered relentlessly right up until her death. She volunteered for many years at the Shelburne polls, weekly at the Pierson Library.
Her Catholic faith was a centerpiece of her life, and for at least the past 20 years she opened St. Catherine’s Church every morning and closed it every evening without fail. She delivered communion to shutins as recently as early November, cleaned and ironed vestments and related materials for the church, served as lector and eucharistic minister, and served Mass daily, as well as dozens of funerals each year.
She was born Aug. 3, 1934, in Burlington, the daughter of Omer and Marie Verret.
She is survived by her children and nine grandchildren, Christo-
pher (Tara), Eliza, Sarah (Nick), Joseph (Bo), Emily (Noelle), Tommy (Megan), Joshua (Jessica), Nathan (Maggie) and Daniel (Bethany); two sisters, Nancy Kneen (John) of Belvidere and Lucienne Miller of Nashville, Tenn.; and a sister-in-law, Carolyn Verret of Saint Paul, Minn.
She is also survived by 11 great-grandchildren, Elsie, Jeanne, Theo, Declan, Alex, Abigail, Ethan, Jude, Charlie, Benjamin, and Lucy; and many nieces, nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews.
In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by brothers, Paul and Alex; sister, Jane; brothers-in-law, David Roberts and Ron Miller; and sisterin-law, Laurette Verret.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, with Rev. Dwight Baker presiding. Interment will follow at 2 p.m. at Resurrection Park Cemetery in South Burlington.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Sally’s memory may be made to the Pierson Library or St. Catherine of Siena Church. There will be no calling hours.
Arrangements are in the care of LaVigne Funeral & Cremation Service. To send condolences to her family visit vtfuneralhomes.com.
Patricia A. Pizzagalli
Patricia A. Pizzagalli (Haron) of Shelburne died on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, surrounded by loved ones. She was born on Jan. 19, 1935, in
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a stormwater-impaired watershed, raising flags about the town’s stormwater system.
Regulations tightened further in 2020 when the state mandated that any site with more than 3 acres of impervious surface be brought into compliance with those early-2000s stormwater standards, even if the site was built earlier.
The mandate has caused consternation among some landowners throughout the state who think they’ll be on the hook for costly stormwater repairs that they might not have been aware of when they bought their home.
There are 25 three-acre sites in Shelburne, including municipal buildings, private subdivisions and commercial properties. The town is expected to remove 45 kilograms of phosphorus from Shelburne’s stormwater, and it is involved at 10 of those sites where municipal infrastructure is present.
further along.
The planning and design phase is largely funded through grants and the stormwater department’s general fund, which has funds earmarked for planning. Once plans are approved by the state, updated stormwater systems must be completed within five years.
Geiger is hoping that Boulder Hill begins construction in the summer. That project is further along because it was identified as an area for stormwater upgrades long before the state enacted the 3-acre rule.
Planning and design for Boulder Hill was completely covered through grants.
“I would support some sort of legal action. I don’t see how this is going to significantly reduce phosphorus levels at all.”
— Matt Wormser
Construction will mostly involve expanding the filtration pond and creating a gravel wetland with layers of gravel, sand and soil to better filter out phosphorus before it hits streams and eventually Lake Champlain.
Those 10 sites are mostly neighborhood subdivisions with town roads, including Boulder Hill, Cedar Ridge, Longmeadow, Maeck Farm, Heritage Lane, Deer Run, Farmstead, Upper Meadows, Littlefield and Bay Colony.
In most cases, bringing these sites into compliance involves building better stormwater filtration ponds, which Geiger said is the state’s main goal. All these sites are currently in the preliminary planning and design phase, except Boulder Hill, which is
Geiger said the upgrades will reduce almost seven kilograms of phosphorus from the Boulder Hill neighborhood.
“This is just one site, so you can start to see how this is going to be a long project. I’m preaching patience as we work to find grants,” he said.
The goal is to fund projects at all 10 sites through grants, from design to construction. Geiger said the state could have done a better job advertising grants for upgrades, which may have led to confusion about landowners
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fronting cash for projects.
In cases where there are no grants available, Shelburne is considering a cost-sharing relationship where it would recoup costs through annual stormwater fees, rather than hit landowners with a large upfront bill for construction.
Grants are still available to neighborhoods that aren’t working with the town. For instance, Bay Colony, Deer Run and Farmstead have decided not to work with the town to meet mandates.
“Since we are so early in the
process, it’s still unclear what exactly the costs are going to be and who is going to pay for it,” Geiger said. “The planning phase is happening, though, and, you know, like with Boulder Hill, we’re hoping grants will cover all those costs. Obviously, things will get more expensive as construction ramps up, and that’s something we will have to figure out.”
During last week’s selectboard meeting, members expressed general frustration with the stormwater mandates, which
they said likely won’t make a big difference in reducing phosphorus levels in Lake Champlain. Board member Matt Wormser even floated the idea of legal action, which is a path some Vermont towns, like Richmond, are taking.
“I would support some sort of legal action,” Wormser said. “I mean this is going to cost the state millions of dollars and it’s a major headache for landowners, and for what? I don’t see how this is going to significantly reduce phosphorus levels at all.”
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Snow geese take flight over Dead Creek Wildlife Refuge in Addison on Nov. 25.
Author helps others grapple with ravages of Alzheimer’s
PATRICK BILOW STAFF WRITER
Shelburne resident Beverly Fay recently published her memoir, “Take My Hand,” which details her husband’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s in 2014 and the struggles that ensued.
Alzheimer’s is a brain disorder that causes a gradual decline in memory, thinking and ability to perform daily tasks. It’s an immeasurably frustrating disease for patients that can also pose difficulties to caretakers and loved ones.
day life of the Fay family after Norm’s diagnosis.
Fay, who owned the Shelburne Children’s Shop for 21 years, documents her husband’s actions as the disease progressed, from hopeful interactions with grandchildren, which the title draws inspiration from, to strange proclivities like placing golf balls in the fridge with produce.
“Take My Hand” is a short, spiral-bound book that walks readers through the day-to-day life of the Fay family after Norm’s diagnosis.
Norm, Fay’s husband, was diagnosed just months after his retirement at 69 years old. He died five years ago, but Fay felt compelled to tell their story of grappling with the disease, not only to come to terms with his death, but also to support families faced with a similar struggle.
“Take My Hand” is a short, spiral-bound book that walks readers through the day-to-
Married for 46 years, Fay also shows how Norm’s lifelong hobbies, like playing the guitar and listening to music, eventually slipped away.
“It’s an awful disease,” said Fay, who cared for her husband for years at their home in Shelburne before he moved to a supportive care facility in Bennington.
Despite the challenges and heartbreak of her husband’s illness, Fay, in many ways, was prepared to care for Norm.
For years, Fay cared for multiple women in Shelburne
who were struggling with Alzheimer’s. She’s not a nurse but, after her retirement from the children’s store, was asked by friends to help with a family member who had the disease.
“I would just show up and we’d do whatever,” Fay said. “It didn’t matter so long as they were engaged and comfortable, and their family could get a break.” She cared for five women in this capacity for almost a decade.
“I wholeheartedly believe that experience was preparing me for Norm’s sickness,” she said. “It’s harder to watch your husband go through it though.”
Since its publishing, “Take My Hand” has been received well by readers, according to Fay. At a recent book signing at the Pierson Library in Shelburne, a reader, who also had a family member suffering from the disease, thanked Fay for the advice she offers in the book.
“That was my main goal with the book,” Fay said. “I wanted to reach other people who were struggling and offer a hand.”
“Take My Hand” is available for purchase at Flying Pig in Shelburne and Fay hopes to offer the book in additional locations soon.
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Beverly Fay with her memoir, “Take My Hand,” which chronicles her husband’s Alzheimer’s.
Growing grains
niche in locally grown food market
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Getting down to the nitty-gritty is about getting down to the root of it all and for the Nitty Gritty Grain Co. team, that’s exactly what they’ve been doing for the last 16 years: growing grain.
Grains are arguably the basis for it all — from flour to cornmeal — and without them, it’s likely the things we love to eat most would not — or could not — exist at all.
“That’s the biggest thing for me is being able to grow local, healthy, organically sourced grain in Vermont.”
— David Kenyon
Golden strands tossing freely against a Green Mountain backdrop fill the expansive farm property on Lake Road in Charlotte. For the Kenyon family, the dancing wheat signifies home. But for Vermont, it signifies something much greater: the resurgence of a local grain industry.
The Kenyons have been farming for centuries in the Champlain Valley. The family started farming in the Shelburne area in the 1770s, and the family lore reveals a harrowing story of a family member who was killed over some type of grain crop debacle.
Growing grain is literally in their blood.
Tom Kenyon, the brain — and grit — behind Nitty Gritty Grain
Co. is the seventh generation of these farmers. His certified organic farm, Aurora Farm, had been growing grains and selling the yield to the commodity market since the 1980s. But as time passed, a question lingered: Why is it customary to ask where our meat and vegetables are grown, but the same question isn’t asked of grain? In fact, at the time, it was nearly impossible to buy Vermont-grown flour in the grocery store. That question posed by a neighbor planted the seed for what would later be known as Nitty Gritty Grain Co., which launched in 2008 with the help of a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.
“Essentially, it was a way to bring the local identity back to the grain,” David Kenyon, eighth generation on the farm and son of Tom, said. “Because previously, we were just selling it to the commodity market where it gets lost in a massive stream of identity-less grain.”
The company has since grown to include its products on local grocery store shelves — including Healthy Living in South Burlington, City Market in Burlington and Shelburne Grocery — and in bakeries and restaurants across
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the state.
While Nitty Gritty Grain Co. is one of several grain producers scattered across the state, according to a 2015 University of Vermont article, in the 1880s Vermont was dubbed the “breadbasket of New England” because of its high wheat production. However, by the turn of the century, and as colonial America expanded west, the crop largely disappeared from the Northeast and with it the knowledge and infrastructure needed to produce these crops.
“Historically, this was kind of like the breadbasket,” David Kenyon said. “But in more
contemporary times, there’s not a lot of people that grow grain in Vermont. There are a lot more large dairy farms that are growing soybeans and corn for feed now.”
Part of the problem, he said, is that the climate and soil found in the state are simply not conducive to growing grains, especially with catastrophic floods that climate experts predict will only intensify in coming years. And for growing grain, wet conditions can be far worse than dry.
Kenyon explained that the soil found in the areas surrounding the farm is wide-ranging, from beautiful soil to the “heaviest clay you’ve ever seen.”
“The last two years have just been awful,” he said. “That’s probably our biggest challenge, the amount of rain we’ve had in the last few years.”
While Charlotte was hammered with more than five inches of rain during July, the farm itself didn’t experience much irreversible harm, but one variety of wheat they were growing at the time didn’t pass the quality test for human consumption because it got too wet.
In addition to growing hay, corn and different legumes, the
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David Kenyon and his dad, Tom, of the Nitty Gritty Grain Co., at their farm in Charlotte.
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farm typically grows three types of winter wheat, which is planted in the middle of September and harvested in early July.
“It comes up in the fall, usually from two to eight inches, which would be the tallest,” Kenyon said. “It goes dormant for the winter, and then it wakes up in the spring and shoots up in height throughout April, May and June. It’ll start to turn more of that golden brown, yellow color. And then usually the first or second week of July, we combine it.”
The entire effort is a family affair. Tom Kenyon, nearing 70, still spends long days on the farm but now with the help of his son. Catherine Kenyon, Tom’s sister and self-proclaimed “Cornmeal Queen,” also helps with things like ordering and packing.
While Nitty Gritty Grain Co. hit the ground running in the renaissance of grain production in the state, it wasn’t without a lot of help from family, friends and a state that still intrinsically values locally produced foods.
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Plattsburgh, N.Y., and was raised by her nurse mother, Beatrice, and her school superintendent father, Frank.
She attended the University of Vermont, graduating in 1957. She worked as a dental hygienist in Burlington and met her future husband, Angelo Pizzagalli. They were married in 1960 and raised a family in South Burlington. To this day, her three kids remain cavity-free.
Pat was involved in many community organizations and events throughout her life. She was an entertainer without peer, arranging and hosting rollicking dinners and holiday parties for friends and family. She excelled at the little things — to know her was to know that special and unique details were Pat’s love and forte.
Spunky and sharp-witted, Pat left an impression on all who knew her. She embodied her Irish heri-
The next generation gets some time behind the wheel.
“I think we are super lucky to be in Vermont because the consumer here actually appreciates and is willing to pay a premium for a local grain,” Kenyon said. “So, in that regard, I think that Nitty Gritty probably wouldn’t really work as a model in a lot of other places in the country.”
For Kenyon, this was the entire reason he came back to the farm five years ago after working in architecture after school.
“That’s the biggest thing for me is being able to grow local, healthy, organically sourced grain in Vermont,” he said.
tage in her quick humor and beautiful, sparkling green eyes.
Patricia was predeceased by her parents, Beatrice and Frank.
She is survived by her children, Lisa and her husband, Dan of Shel burne, Mia and her husband, Ken of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Jon and his wife, Jennifer of Shelburne;
sister, Sally Tourville of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; and grandchildren, Jamie, David, Melina, Vittoria, Renzo and Carlo.
Her family would like to extend their personal gratitude for the incredible professionals at Wake Robin and University of Vermont Home Health and Hospice for the unwavering excellent and compassionate care mom received.
A celebration of her life will be held in the spring.
In lieu of flowers, the Wake Robin Scholarship Fund for employees is an organization Pat felt strongly about supporting. Checks can be made payable to Wake Robin, Attn: Teri O’brien, 200 Wake Robin Drive, Shel-
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