Williston Selectboard News Today

Maple Tree Place has changed hands again, selling for $77 million to Acadia Realty Trust, which is $13 million less than it last sold for in 2016.

Williston residents submitted a petition two years ago urging the town to prohibit the practice, calling animal traps “inhumane and indiscriminate” and posing a risk to pets and children.

Gordon St. Hilaire, who resigned from the board in December, reached an agreement with prosecutors and will serve six months probation.

St. Hilaire, who taught grades five and six at Camel’s Hump Middle School in Richmond, also resigned his teaching position.

Gordon St. Hilaire was in Chittenden County court Thursday to face charges that he vandalized an ex-girlfriend’s vehicle on multiple occasions beginning in October.

Gordon St. Hilaire is due to appear in court on Thursday to face charges that he stalked his ex-girlfriend and vandalized her vehicle. He is also alleged to have asked a Williston police officer to look up the license plate of a man he thought was seeing his ex.

The version of the code passed included amendments made by the selectboard, some of which compromised with key developers in the area.

In a contentious and well-attended public hearing on Tuesday, the Williston Selectboard approved a form-based code for Taft Corners in a 4-1 vote. The form-based code regulates the architectural design, site placement and other aspects of new development.  In approving the new code, the Selectboard allowed for the absolute building height limit in Taft Corners to be increased from 52 to 87 feet — a change a number of residents spoke out against.   “We’re just concerned that that’s not...