GREENSBORO – June 24, Willey’s Store staffer Grace Daly made an inquiry to residents and shoppers, asking what their favorite ocean animal is, with a wide range of results. The greater Greensboro area has spoken, with whales taking the majority, dolphins coming in a close second and sharks in third.[Read More…]
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Sen. Beck updates select board, public engagement policy to get more work
HARDWICK – Senator Scott Beck attended the final June meeting of the select board, reporting a significant statewide effort is underway to secure additional transportation funding for road maintenance. According to Beck, the need is being driven in part by the growing use of electric vehicles, which contribute less fuel[Read More…]
Town hall third floor reopened for cleaning, Independence Day tours
GREENSBORO – The second monthly meeting of the Greensboro Select Board saw discussion of the town hall third floor, license approvals as well as some policy updates. Resident Rob Brigham, with the approval of the select board, organized a group of volunteers to clean up the third floor of the[Read More…]
Women’s care is as essential as women
As a reporter, occasionally I find story leads in odd places, so literally walking into this discovery some weeks ago left me quite pleased. After completing a shift scooping ice cream in Stowe, my double life, as some readers and area ice cream lovers have discovered, I ran into some[Read More…]
Young lives claimed in head-on crash
WOODBURY – Two young Danville sisters, ages 2 and 8, died this past Saturday after a fatal head-on crash into a second vehicle on Vermont Route 14 in Woodbury. On June 13, around 9:30 a.m., the Vermont State Police were notified of a two-vehicle head-on crash on Vt. Route 14, near[Read More…]
Expanding downtown parking options, cemetery planning suggested
HARDWICK – The May 21 regular selectboard meeting saw the introduction of a new candidate for Caledonia County Sheriff, Robert Gerrish. Former selectboard member Danny Hale was present, bringing a number of issues to the board’s attention. Hale began with suggestions for improving the quality of zoom for remote attendees. Hale[Read More…]
Third time’s a charm, school budget passes
WOLCOTT – On May 20, the Wolcott school budget passed with 165 voting yes, 158 against. For a second straight year, the town of Wolcott defeated the budget once on town meeting day, and once again in April. Residents first rejected the proposed $6.3 million budget, March 3, by a[Read More…]
Act 181 letter questioned, wastewater, stormwater get attention
GREENSBORO – The regular May 13 meeting of the select board began with public concerns, and chairperson Chris Steel of the Greensboro Conservation Commission (GCC) submitting a letter to the board in response to actions taken at its April 22 meeting. Steel expressed concerns that the select board approved sending[Read More…]
It’s time to take the train
HARDWICK – Every so often, amid the ever flowing stream of garbage coming up from Washington, D.C., something gets lost and forgotten. This time, it is the functioning government we expect our taxes to be paying for. Did anyone else forget we were in the midst of a historically long[Read More…]
Residents concerned by $65k school budget cut
WOLCOTT – The April 15 school board meeting in Wolcott saw residents and board members each expressing their concerns and frustrations with the current state of the budget. According to minutes, at the start of public comment Keith Cochran expressed his displeasure and disgust with the board going into executive[Read More…]
