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This week’s newsletter is just below if you missed it the first time.

See this week’s top stories, Tyler Molleur’s Weather, opinions, William Lange’s weekly column and a cartoon or two below the front page.

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HARDWICK u0026ndash; At a quick special meeting of the Hardwick Electric Department (HED) commissioners last Thursday, Scott Johnstone was formally appointed as the HED general manager The meeting began withu0026hellip;

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EAST HARDWICK u0026ndash; Almost every day of the past forecast period featured some form of light snow, with moderate to heavy bursts-and those amounts added up over the week. Snowfallu0026hellip;

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VERMONT u0026ndash; Canadian tourism and spending in Vermont has fallen significantly since January, following the February announcement that the U.S, would impose a 25% tariff on Canadian imports, except oilu0026hellip;

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PLAINFIELD u0026ndash; The final report of the East Village Expansion Advisory Committee (EVEAC) was approved in a 10-0 vote at its December 3 meeting, after which the committee voted tou0026hellip;

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HARDWICK u0026ndash; The first regular select board meeting of December consisted primarily of budget discussions, updates on flood-related projects and debate over whether or not to implement a local optionu0026hellip;

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GREENSBORO u0026ndash; The weekly budget meeting had a short agenda. Town Clerk Kim Greaves informed the select board that, while it has delegated authority to the town clerk to approveu0026hellip;

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WOODBURY u0026ndash; A preliminary town budget discussion presented to the Woodbury Select Board (WSB) at its December 8 meeting, showed a general fund increase of 11%, with 15% for theu0026hellip;

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CRAFTSBURY COMMON u0026ndash; A report on the November 21 community public hearing on Vermont school districting, addressing issues around Act 73 concludes with, u0026ldquo;The message from Craftsbury was clear: Vermontersu0026hellip;

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HARDWICK u0026ndash; I wonder if anyone would like to know the truth about the Hardwick Water Fountain. Other than a niece of mine, not a soul has contacted me tou0026hellip;

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Russia!
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GREENSBORO u0026ndash; Almost 250 years ago Jefferson wrote that we u0026ldquo;are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rightsu0026rdquo; and that u0026ldquo;government derives its just powers from the consent ofu0026hellip;

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EAST MONTPELIER u0026ndash; Around 1906, a young Harvard graduate student was browsing a used book store in Cambridge and came across a rare treasure: a prompteru0026rsquo;s script used by Charlesu0026hellip;

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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