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8A BURLINGTONFREEPRESS.COMMONDAY,FEBRUARY27,2017 The town of Hinesburg will pay a resident $60,000 to settle a lawsuit where the woman had alleged two officers used responding to a call at her home last spring. Town Administrator Trevor Lashua said last week the Hinesburg Selectboard ratified the agreement. The insurer, the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Property and Casualty Intermun- icipal Fund, will pay resident Lori Ann Carron the sum, which includes fees, he said in an email. The lawsuit had initially been brought against two town police officers, Cameron Coltharp and Jeremy Hulshof, but the town agreed to settle in place of the two officers. The court record will be amended to include the Town of Hinesburg as the sole defendant in the lawsuit, and will eliminate all references to the two officers as a result, court papers show.

agreement does not admit wrongdoing on the part of the Lashua wrote in an email last week. lawsuit is being settled in the name of the Town only; the agreement was reached because the cost to proceed to defend the lawsuit would have greatly exceeded the amount of the Both officers were also cleared of any criminal wrongdoingby the Chittenden County Office late last year. Coltharp remains on administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation, said Chief Frank Koss last week. Hulshof has remained on full duty since the incident. Koss declined to comment on the lawsuit settlement, referring questions to Lashua.

One of lawyers, Brooks McArthur, said in a text message Sunday that he, his co-counsel David Williams and their client believed the settlement was fair. He said the lawsuit focused primarily on conduct since he was the officer who physically apprehended Carron. feel confident that the town would not have settled if the town recognize the conduct was not McArthur said in a text message. Carron said she suffers from mental- health issues and was in crisis when police were called to her house May 6, 2016. Video footage from the body- worn cameras captured the incident, raising questions around how the officers handled the call.

lawyers said in court papers that she suffered physical, emotional and psychological as a result. Contact Elizabeth Murray at 651-4835 or Follow her on Twitter at Hinesburg settles lawsuit alleging excessive force Lori Ann Carron will receive $60,000 from town COURTESY Shown in this police body-cam video, Hineburg Police Officer Cameron Coltharp holds down Lori Carron after responding to her home May 6. ELIZABETH MURRAY FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Montpelier will have extensive projects on roads, sidewalks MONTPELIER The Montpelier City Council wants residents and others who visit capital city to know that there are going to be extensive road and sidewalk projects underway this spring and summer. Officials say residents and visitors must be made aware of overnight work that might be disruptive and they have called for a citywide mailing of information about the projects. The Times Argus reports that Public Works Director Tom McArdle said that since residents were notified of construction noise at night recently, he received any feedback about concerns.

Among this projects are underground utility work, sidewalk reconstruction and paving projects throughout the city. Effort moving to help shelter homeless in Brattleboro BRATTLEBORO A plan to turn Lamplighter Inn into long-term housing for the homeless is moving forward. Town officials say preliminary approval for a $425,000 state grant for the project has been received and a local permit for the approximately $4.3 million project known as Great River Terrace has been granted. Brattleboro Assistant Town Manager Patrick Moreland called the news On Wednesday the Development Review Board approved plans by the Windham Windsor Housing Trust to redevelop the inn into 22 The Peter Paggi says half of the units will be offered to homeless individuals. The Brattleboro Reformer reports the units will be about 350 square feet, but they will be permanent housing.

Several towns win grants to upgrade outdoor recreation MONTPELIER Several Vermont towns are about to get a windfall of gov- ernment money. The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation announced Friday that the National Park Service awarded $600,000 in Vermont to go toward outdoor recreation projects. The money will be split three ways. A playground in Lincoln will be getting an upgrade, Mad River, Vt. will buy 10 acres to turn into recreation fields and Burlington will buy 12 acres of land to expand a bike path and add a community garden.

Through its Land and Water Conservation Fund, the National Parks Service has doled out over $48 million in funds since the fund started operating in 1964. About 27,000 acres of land has been bought for public use through the program. VERMONT BRIEFS BARTON A 73-year-old Brownington man died Saturday afternoon after his pickup truck was involved in a single-vehicle crash in Barton, Vermont State Police said. Police received a call at about 3:44 p.m. Saturday about a crash on Tarbox Hill Road, just north of Postman Lane, according to a news release issued Sunday.

Police found David C. Yanacheak in a 2002 Chevrolet pick-up truck with heavy front-end damage off the east side of the road, according to the release. He was the only person in the car and he was wearing his seat belt, police said. Neither speed nor impairment appeared to be factors in the crash, police said. Yanacheak appeared to have veered off of the right side of the road onto the shoulder and continued into the roadway drainage ditch where his truck collided head-on with a cement culvert, according to police.

Yanacheak was initially taken to North Country Hospital in Newport for treatment. He died of his injuries while being transferred by ambulance to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, police said. Brownington man, 73, dies in one-car crash in Barton FREE PRESS STAFF Burlington police are searching for information and suspects after receiving reports of gunshots being fired at a North Champlain Street home Sunday morning, the agency said in a news release. Police responded to the area of 61 North Champlain St. in the Old North End of Burlington late Sunday morning.

The home is near the intersection with Peru Street. The incident was reported to have occurred in the early morning hours, police said. Abullet penetrated the door of one of the apartments in the building, and it en- tered the apartment in which several people, including a child, were sleeping, police said. No injuries were reported. The Burlington Police Department is offering a cash reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the person or people responsible, the agency stated in a news release.

Police urge those with information about the incident to call the department at 658-2700 or Detective Jeffrey Beerworth at 540-2280. Burlington police search for shooting suspects FREE PRESS STAFF vermont.