Grateful for Community, State Police
HARDWICK – Aubrey St. Louis recently commented on the Vermont State Police having closed the investigation into her husband, Gunnar Watson’s fatal shooting in Wheelock October 16, 2023. St. Louis, who owns The Rehair Shop at 28 Mill Street in Hardwick, said she is grateful to the state police for pursuing the case and for the community’s support.
She said closing of the case has brought a small sense of relief. The open investigation left her hanging. Now she no longer has a sense of being in limbo.
The Rehair shop’s website notes that the salon will be open only every other Saturday “so that Aubrie’s littles have a parent present more frequently.”
Inn Escapes Being “Inn in the River” – Again!
HARDWICK – The Inn by the River, along Route 15 in Hardwick, was demolished on Tuesday, July 9, and the debris carted off to a landfill, the day before rains began and brought flooding throughout the area, eroding much of the area where that inn once stood. Land where the Inn once stood is gone now, leaving only the river and riverbank.
A road between the inn and Hay’s Service Station next door is mostly gone with the riverbank just feet from the diesel pumps.
The Lamoille River approaches the diesel pumps at Hay’s Service Station in Hardwick at 7:30 a.m. on July 11, almost completely eliminating the road that once went between the station and the former Inn by the River. the remainder of which was removed on July 9.
The flooding and erosion washed three vehicles from Hay’s, including the shop’s plow truck that ended up facing backward in the Lamoille River below the Cottage Street Bridge.
Photos, taken July 11, show the missing land and road that once ran between Hay’s Service and the Inn.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
