Embezzled Funds, Accidents
On February 19, representatives from Northeast Kingdom Arts Council (NEKarts) and the Hardwick Downtown Partnership (HDP), filed complaints with the Hardwick Police Department regarding a bookkeeper, identified as Laurel Schoop, of Wolcott, having embezzled funds from the above listed non-profit organizations.
The amount owed to these two organizations by Schoop totals $8,866.19. Schoop used her check signing authority with NEKarts and HDP to write a total of 65 checks to herself over a four month period, from October 2024 to January 2025. Schoop has been issued a citation to appear in Caledonia Superior Court to be arraigned on these charges, March 23.
On February 21, at approximately 2:22 p.m., Hardwick Police Department was dispatched to an accident on Belfry Road between a car and a snowmobile. Glenn Twilley, of Fairfax, was crossing Belfry Road on a 2020 Skidoo and didn’t see a car approaching from the west. Twilley hit the front of a 2017 Subaru Forester operated by Eric Kawka, of Hardwick. There was damage to the front of Kawka’s vehicle and to the cowling of the Skidoo. There were no injuries.
On Sunday, March 2, at approximately 10 a.m., Hardwick Fire, Rescue and Police Departments responded to a single vehicle rollover crash on Rte. 16 in East Hardwick. The investigation revealed Keith Herman, of Barton, was traveling north on Rte. 16 in his 2005 Dodge Ram truck. Herman lost control of his truck on the slippery roadway. The truck slid out of control and caught the snowbank on the southbound side. This caused the truck to barrel rolled and it came to its final resting point on its passenger’s side. There were no reported injuries. The cause of the crash was traveling too fast for the conditions of the roadway.
On March 3, at approximately 3:41 p.m., Hardwick Police Department was dispatched to a single motor vehicle crash on S. Main St. near Mackville Road. Levi Tanner Mulberry, of Hardwick, was traveling northbound on S. Main St. when he fell asleep at the wheel and drifted off the roadway. His vehicle came to an uncontrolled rest in a snowbank on the corner of S. Main St. and Mackville Road. Four side airbags were deployed an
