The Hardwick Gazette, Jan. 28, 2026

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EAST HARDWICK – It’s hard to summarize the span of events we’ve experienced in the past week around here. Let’s put it in the category of what we’ve come to…

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The Hardwick Gazette’s end-of-year fundraising campaign began in November with an ambitious goal: $40,000 in reader donations. It seemed like a real stretch, because the 2024 campaign’s total was about…

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More than a dozen athletes with Vermont ties named to US Olympic team CRAFTSBURY – Two Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) skiers will be in Italy next month to compete…

A limited number of printed Hardwick Gazette copies are now for sale at the Buffalo Mountain Market in Hardwick and Willey’s Store in Greensboro at $5 a copy. Please tell your friends who would rather read us in print.

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

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HARDWICK – During an evening meeting last Wednesday, Jan. 21, town officials and an architect laid out problems with the buildings occupied by three of Hardwick’s essential services and plans…

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CALAIS – Doug Lilley has been farming on Lightening Ridge Road in Calais for most of his 82 years. The Lilley Hill Farm where he grew up and still raises…

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AREA TOWNS – Town meeting day is traditionally held on the first Tuesday of March. Some towns have published and mailed warnings contained in their annual town reports. The following…

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CRAFTSBURY – The Headwaters Community Trust board met, January 8, to elect officers and laid out next steps in business planning and organizational development. Board officers are Linda Ramsdell, president;…

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Looking north over Caspian Lake, an aurora over the night of Tuesday January 20 adds a green glow in the starry sky.photo by Joe Nudell The aurora borealis glows green…

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WALDEN – Town Clerk Debbie Messier confirmed a January 18 social media post indicating that a snowmobile neglected to stop at the crossing on Upper Harrington Hill in Walden, Saturday,…

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WOODBURY – The January 12 regular select board meeting had a mixed agenda, with Darren Usinowicz and Heather Meacham of the Mountain View Union Elementary School District (MVU) informing the board…

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EAST MONTPELIER – One of the advantages of a three-day weekend is that we get an extra day just to talk. It doesn’t matter what else we may be doing,…

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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