A
seemingly routine school-wide assembly turned into the surprise of a lifetime for
Champlain Elementary
School fourth-
and fifth-grade teacher Matthew Hajdun yesterday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Burlington Mayor
Miro Weinberger are touting a new revolving loan program that will allow businesses
to work with the city-owned electric department to make energy upgrades.
Two high-ranking
Irish diplomats are visiting Vermont this week. Michael Collins, the Irish ambassador to the United States, and Michael Longergan, the Irish Consul General,
will be in Burlington for two days of talks and events on Thursday and
Friday.
Burlington has
debated for years how to move traffic swiftly through its south end into
downtown.
Now Mayor Miro Weinberger wants to build an
alternative: a series of intersecting streets adjacent to Lake Champlain, south of where the
ferryboats dock.