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The Shelburne Museum is hosting an exhibition showcasing the artwork of Hinesburg Community School students enrolled in a new after-school program that combines visual art education with mathematical reasoning.

Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of Jefferson Country is his house and plantation at Monticello, but Jefferson traveled the breadth of his home state, from his time at William & Mary in Williamsburg to the new state capital at Richmond and his retreat and plantation at Poplar Forest, near Lynchburg.

The Shelburne Memorial Day Ceremony will be held on Monday, May 27, at 11 a.m., at the Shelburne Veterans Monument on Church Street. The guest speaker will be Col. Roger Zeigler, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations and Training and Commander of the 124th Regiment (Regional Training Institute) during weekend drills.

Visitors walking Calkins Loop in Burlington’s Intervale will again be treated to a little poetic inspiration along with a dose of fresh air. The Poetry Path features panels displaying bite-sized poems placed at intervals among the trees lining the loop.

Shelburne Forward Bike and Pedestrian Task Force hosted its first Village Walk & Roll on May 5 — a celebration of walking and riding in Shelburne Village — with the help of its sponsors and raffle prize donors.

Building accessible, affordable, quality health care for Vermonters is an overdue work in progress. Regardless of mixed results of past major reform efforts, Vermont’s goals to improve population health, advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes and curb health care cost growth are possible.

I strongly urge the planning and zoning commission, and Shelburne in general, to turn their back on the proposed 10-acre zoning. Those of us in Jericho have seen how that works.

As the chair of the Burlington School District School Board, I am fortunate to witness firsthand the profound impact of educational policies on our diverse community.

That’s it. The truth is unavoidable. I’m officially old. Truly, I am not ageist, nor do I have anything against aging. Who wouldn’t prefer it to the alternative? I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m still a kid inside or at least in my 20s.

Eight years ago, when I made the decision to run for the Vermont House of Representatives, I asked for input and support from my constituents in Shelburne and St. George, and I also asked for your vote at the polls in 2016 and again in 2018, 2020, and 2022.

In consideration of the recent rash of out-of-control autos driving into the Shelburne Post Office, I would like to suggest that about five or six of these interesting sculptures be placed between the building and the parking lot.