Judge halts Shelburne salt shed ordinance

Protesters march through Shelburne last year to decry the planned construction of a road salt storage facility near the LaPlatte River in town. Photo by Phoebe Sheehan/VTDiggerA federal judge has derailed — at least for now — a Shelburne town ordinance that likely would have closed a year-old operation to take road salt from trains and load it onto trucks for distribution around Vermont.
Judge William Sessions III, sitting in the U.S. District Court in Burlington, this week issued a