MARSHFIELD – A story in January featured quotes from Marshfield’s Town Clerk Bobbi Brimblecombe, saying the town was going to try an experiment, holding their town meeting on Sunday, March 3.
Marshfield held an open town meeting on Sunday, March 3. The turnout was higher than last year (150 vs. 120 last year). Richard Baker did not run for another term on the select board and Christopher Whalen was elected for the three-year term.
In April, Vermont peace activist Jules Rabin celebrated his 100th birthday that month.
A Marshfield couple, Dale and Janet Newton, were in the third year of spreading sunflowers’ message of peace.
In May, the Marshfield School of Weaving found a new home in Newbury.
The Harvest Festival and community garden celebration was held Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Jaquith Public Library with a petting zoo, face painting, apple cider pressing, art tent, games, orienteering, a Vermont gas and steam engine display, with music by Noah Hahn, Atom
and the Orbits and The Faerie Godbrothers.
Marshfield erupted in September after an event was advertised on social media for MAP (minor-attracted people) at Onion River Campground. The outrage boiled over at a Marshfield Select Board meeting, during which more than 100 people gathered online and in-person to decry the unconfirmed event.
The morning following the Tuesday, Sept. 17, select board meeting, Caledonia Central Supervisory Union Superintendent Matt Foster posted a message to Facebook in response to concerns expressed at the meeting, on social media and in phone calls to the Vermont
State Police, town and Twinfield Union School administrators.
There was an art opening for “Portraits” with artist Eddie Epstein and a poetry reading with author Bob Messing on Friday, Oct. 25, at the Jaquith Library.
There was a pumpkin walk and bonfire on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Old Schoolhouse Common.
In November, there was a clothing giveaway and benefit craft show, on the ninth, and a free screening of Jay Craven’s latest film, November 13, at the Jaquith Library.
Plainfield bookseller Ben Koenig gave a presentation on the controversy about the Dorothy Canfield Fisher award on Friday, Nov. 15, at the Jaquith Library.
Bagpipers played at the Jaquith Library, November 16.
