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1 week ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
Zachary Nersinger started as Hinesburg’s new town planner June 6. Nersinger replaces Alex Weinhagen, who served as the town planner for 22 years before taking a position earlier this year with the state’s new Land Use Review Board. For the last two years, Nersinger worked with the Community and Economic Development Office for the City of Burlington where he was the senior projects and policy specialist.
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1 week ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
As the Champlain Valley School District overhauled some of its policies this year, local, state and federal debates over funding and structure also impacted how the district has been imagining its future. From local budget cuts to federal mandates over diversity, equity and inclusion, here’s a cheat-sheet on everything that happened in the district this year.
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1 week ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
At the Champlain Valley Union High School graduation on Friday, June 13, superintendent Adam Bunting started his welcome address by asking the graduates to look out in the audience filling the bleachers at University of Vermont’s Patrick Gym and find someone who helped them get to where they stood that day. The student all swiveled, arms in the air, waving and cheering to their people in the crowd. “Your success is a reflection of their support, and their belief in you,” Bunting said.
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2 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
Hinesburg’s Development Review Board at its June 3 meeting approved the site plan for the stormwater treatment upgrade at Hinesburg Community School. The upgrades are necessary for the school under Vermont’s three-acre rule, which mandates stormwater management system improvements on tracts of land with more than three acres of impervious surface.
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2 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
“Tag sale” is a bit of a misnomer for what the Wake Robin residents put together on the ground level of their parking garage every year. Since its inception in 1995, the sale has grown into a sprawling collection of folding tables and shelves covered with everything from jewelry and dish sets to antique lamps and boxes of yarn. “My husband and I moved in nine years ago, and all we heard about for the first three months was the tag sale.
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2 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
The Champlain Valley School District held a pride rally last Saturday at Hinesburg Community School. “A fundamental message at events like this is just helping kids feel safe and comfortable coming to school and that there are people in their school communities that care about them,” Nick Canaday, an English teacher at Champlain Valley Union High School and the advisor to the school’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance student group, said.
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2 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
For more than two decades, Hinesburg has held an annual picnic to celebrate and welcome babies born in the past year. Saturday, June 7, parents gathered on the lawn beside the Carpenter-Carse Library to mingle and pick out library books to dedicate to their child. “There’s a little dedication card, a little plaque in the front of each book that says, ‘This book was dedicated to:’ and it has the kid’s name and their birthday.
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3 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
Shelburne residents with competing interests and perspectives aired their concerns at the public hearing last week about the latest draft of the planning commission’s zoning bylaw rewrite. The commission has been working on the rewrite for two years and aims to send a final draft to the selectboard for approval in the coming weeks. Planning commission chair Steve Kendell referred to the current bylaws as a “rubber band ball that just keeps getting added and added and added and added” to.
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3 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
The Champlain Valley school board might merge Charlotte and Hinesburg’s community schools. A proposed study would research the feasibility and impact of linking the two schools in some capacity and would be undertaken by an administrative committee like the group that researched a phone-free policy last fall. Although the school board has not yet officially tasked superintendent Adam Bunting with organizing the study, board members signaled their interest at their May 20 board meeting.
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3 weeks ago | 
vtcng.com | Briana Brady
Howard Russell — Howdy, to his family — hasn’t rung the bell at the top of his Hinesburg house in years. The rope rotted at some point in the last decade, but Russell said that, soon, someone is coming to trim the maple tree beside the house, and they’re going to replace the rope. The bell may ring again. Russell, 71, and his six siblings grew up in the house, which, as of this year, is 200 years old and sits on Route 116 directly across the street from the town hall.
