100 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette
Thu, Apr 15, 1926
ACADEMY NOTES
The date of the Annual Bam Boozle Bazaar has been set at May 7th, this year This event has come to be a big part of the school activities outside of their regular course of study and gives the students an opportunity to manage a worthwhile enterprise for themselves. It also gives the townspeople an opportunity, or rather an incentive, to visit their school building and see for themselves the work that their children are doing. This means more than would appear from the surface for it creates an acqauintanceship [sic] between teacher and parent. This is of prime importance in our schools. The guessing contest will be different from any of previous years.
The guesses this year will be on a string of beads of various sizes. The first prize is to be $5 in gold. The second 25 lbs. of sugar. And the third a dictionary.
In the Commercial department three typewriting proficiency certificates have been awarded by the Remington Typewriter Company to Miss Edith Ward for attaining a speed of 36 words per minute; Miss Helen Gould for 34 words per minute and Miss Mamie McGough for 30 words per minute. A Medal Emblem was awarded Miss Dorothy Glass by the Underwood Company for a speed of 41 words a minute for fifteen consecutive minutes a feat which has not been’ accomplished heretofore in Hardwick academy. This test was taken by Miss Glass according to the National Contest Rules. Coach Lacey is grooming his prospective baseball material and shortly we will hear the crack of horse hide against wood. The following boys will be out for the team: Schlarman, Clark, Williams, Burke, Gagetti, Stewart, Calcagni, Feeley, Schoolcraft, Hay, Murch, Ainsworth, Coburn, Young, Ambrosini, Donlin and Sinnott.
It is readily seen by this list that H. A. has some excellent material for a team, several of the groups having had several years experience on the squad.
75 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette
April 19, 1951
BEING Additional Items: Some things heard and seen along Main St. and around the village. No harm meant and not hurt feelings intended. Sugarin’ is nearly over but there’s plenty of snow in the mountains yet… Where are the marble players of yesteryear.
‘Bout this time you couldn’t used to git around the corner by the McLoud Block without fallin’ over about a dozen kids all hunkered down | on the sidewalk shootin’ at alleys… No Pips, No Pops… .See “Norm” Michaud gettin’ around pretty spry the other day. …seems good to see him step off so sure… Only noticed one of the Mother-Daughter Spring outfits so far on Main Street. Looked pretty cute both dressed jest alike.
Tulips are up good on the Village Green… New fishin’ tackle is in, now the tall tales begin… And the boys start lookin’ the stuff over and gettin’ ready. . Haircuts have gone up and shaves.…been expéctin’ it any way, everything else has gone up… You’re an old-timer they say if you can remember when: Ira Shattuck was Town Clerk; W. W. Marshall had a store; Daniels Mfg. Bldg.
was the Brush block. And your a “young” oldtimer if you remember: The 1922 High School Basket Ball Team… When Hardwick went en masse to Morrisville by train to beat them at Basketball. When the Boy Scouts had a swell orchestra, “Pop” Barr, Huntress Clark, Waldo Bemis, “Bill” Robb, George Hanford. Elect ic Light Dept. has put in some new reflectors on some of the street lights… makes the light shine down on the street better… Village has had to patch a pile of holes on account of frost heaves. … Legion’s television aerial sure sticks up on top of the Kimball | block.
A few of the parkin’ meters are bein’ relocated. Lotsa talk along the Street about fixin’ up a place for Free Parkin’.. . Good Idea… Did you know, it’s a fact that: There are over 8 million T-V Sets in the U.S. already. .. Ice went out easy this year… I can remember when rowboats were used on Wolcott St. . . . . Hardwick, right now, has one of the lowest Unemployment | quotas of any town of its size in the state.
50 years ago in the Hardwickian
Tuesday, April 20, 1976
Hardwick Business Will Be Good
There are some clear indications that business is going to be very busy and successful in Hardwick this summer.
The arrival of last week’s warm weather has brought. people out in droves and many of them have been shopping in our local stores. When people are spending their money at home, that’s a real encouraging sign. We urge our local merchants and business people to promote their services and their products.
Hardwick is the hub of a population area of some 8,000 people. Those people are going to shop somewhere. Why not here? When local money is kept here, it gives a boost to the entire local economy.
With the national economic situation on the upswing, people are going to be traveling again. A lot of them will be going to the olympics in Montreal. Many of them will drive right through Hardwick. Some will stay at the Village Motel and they’ll be looking our stores over. So, let’s be ready for them.
We have a lot going for us here in the Hardwick area. Let’s take maximum advantage of our assets and our potential.
RJL
25 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette
April 18, 2001
by Jo Gilder
WOODBURY – It’s a several mile drive up a dirt road to reach a junction of more dirt road. The only way to reach the quarry is to walk, and it’s all private land although it isn’t posted. In the middle of April you don’t run into anybody or anything.
This is where Tom and Kevin Glusak want to put the FM radio antenna they want to build — out in the middle of a quarry on top of a mountain.
The controversy surrounding the FM radio station in Woodbury continues.
Recently, zoning administrator Diana Peduzzi turned down a permit for the radio antenna tower. The Glusaks appealed to the Zoning Board of Adjustment, but currently a date for a hearing hasn’t been set.
Townspeople aren’t waiting for a hearing date. Citizen George Ray circulated a petition against the antenna tower and addressed it to the zoning board. It reads:
“By this petition we hereby demand that the Woodbury Zoning Board of Adjustment follow the Zoning regulations established by the voters of Woodbury for Agricultural-Rural Residential District and deny the application to construct a 120-190 foot radio tower, which would change the essential character of the neighborhood [and town] be very visible and obtrusive from many locations including Nichols Ledge, numerous lakes and many home and other areas of town, and clearly does not comply with uses established for an Agricultural-Rural Residential District.”
Approximately 67 people signed the petition. Ginger Etkind was one. She said it was a communications tower and she didn’t need it. She thought alternative sites, such as the top of silos or steeples should be considered.
Glusak said if he couldn’t get the antenna tower past the zoning adjustment board he would not waste his money on the FM construction license. He also stated his son Kevin wants to become a part of the community as he would be living in Woodbury at the station. While the antenna would be in the Swenson Quarry area, the station would [be] located in a house or some pre-constructed building in Woodbury.
The Glusaks had previously told the Select Board they were willing to work with the community regarding the location and appearance of the tower as best as the antenna design would allow and they were willing to let town public safety departments mount a radio communications antenna on the radio station tower for free.
