“Washington Crossing the Delaware,” a float on a boat by David Magnan won first prize in the Cabot July 4 parade and $1,500, sponsored by Dunham Brothers Painting, Ben Ackerman Excavation, AC Electrical, Dunham Builders, Green Mountain Flooring, Rhapsody, Cabot Garage, Harry’s Hardware, Cabot Village Store, Burtt’s Apple Orchard, Churchill Excavation, Seth’s Computers, Jet’s American, Goodrich’s Maple and Cal Alexander Tree Service. courtesy photoThe Cabot School float was awarded second prize and $1,000, sponsored by Cabot Community Association, Casella and the Wiswell Foundation. courtesy photo
“Kidding Around – Goats!” the Marshfield Monarchs 4-H Club entry in the Cabot Fourth of July parade earned third place and a $500 cash prize from Green Mountain Lodge #68, Saturday. courtesy photoThe Hardwick Gazette joins the Cabot Independence Day Parade, as entry #55A, near the end of a long line-up, with Editor Paul Fixx driving and board member John Walters walking to hand out Smarties, Dum-Dum candy and pens, which ran out about two-turds of the way through, then magnets and stickers soon after. social media photoA brace of Minutemen carry the colors past thousands of onlookers in Cabot’s Fourth of July parade, Saturday. photo by Ross ConnellyRural Vermont Rising, formed in response to Act 181, passed by the Vermont Legislature this year, touts its 14 chapters created “around the shared goal of protecting our land, our rights and our way of life,” in Cabot’s Independence Day parade, Saturday. photo by Ross ConnellyGlover’s Bread and Puppet Theatre, with its stilt walkers, grimacing paper mache lady liberty puppet and buttoned up businessperson, makes its usual political comment, this time on an upside down world. photo by Ross ConnellyThe Bothfeld farm’s parade entry drawn by an International 686 tractor, whose last year of production was 1980, Saturday, July 4. photo by Ross Connelly“Democracy on Display” highlights the many hats people in the United States wear, in the Cabot Independence Day parade, July 4 on Main St. photo by Ross ConnellyFrom over the hill, children ride in the Woodbury Fire and Rescue airboat, from the town said to have more lakes and ponds than any other in Vermont; 23 or 32, or even more if unnamed ponds are included. Over 4% of the town is water according to U.S. Census data. photo by Ross Connelly
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EDITOR Paul Fixx
ADVERTISING Sandy Atkins, Raymonda Parchment, Dawn Gustafson, Paul Fixx
CIRCULATION Dawn Gustafson
PRODUCTION Sandy Atkins, Dawn Gustafson, Dave Mitchell, Raymonda Parchment
REPORTER Raymonda Parchment
SPORTS WRITERS Ken Brown Eric Hanson
WEATHER REPORTER Tyler Molleur
PHOTOGRAPHER Vanessa Fournier
CARTOONIST Julie Atwood
CONTRIBUTORS Trish Alley, Sandy Atkins, Brendan Buckley, Hal Gray, Abrah Griggs, Eleanor Guare, Henry Homeyer, Pat Hussey, Willem Lange, Cheryl Luther Michaels, Tyler Molleur, Kay Spaulding, Liz Steel, John Walters
INTERNS Cloey Camley, Hazen Union School Claire Charlow, UVM Community News Service Will Helms, Hazen Union School Eisha Qureshi, UVM Community News Service
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