To the editor: I want to congratulate my opponent, Leanne Harple, on her successful primary campaign to represent Orleans-4 in the Vermont Legislature. I am sure we can both agree it was a vigorous campaign. Just as importantly, I want to thank the many people who gave me their money,[Read More…]
David Kelley
I Was Surprised
To the editor: I was surprised to read in a letter to the editor in your paper a few days ago that I had run for office in Franklin County. Since I have never even lived in Franklin County, much less sought any office there, my interest was piqued by[Read More…]
Old Yellow Barn’s Renovation Ushers in a New Era
HARDWICK – In 1947 there were 11,206 mostly small-scale, family-owned dairy farms operating in Vermont. The high cost of bulk tanks, competition from sprawling mega-farms in places like Iowa and California, collapsing milk prices, more stringent environmental regulations and more recently, warmer temperatures, have all taken their toll on family-owned[Read More…]
Mountain View Union Elementary School District: A Time to Consider Divorce
When Woodbury, Hardwick and Lakeview Elementary Schools were merged it was a shotgun wedding. It was a marriage that was ordered by an 11-member State Board of Education, the majority of whom had never been to Greensboro and probably didn’t even know where Stannard was. In fact, in the board’s[Read More…]
Quo Vadis America
GREENSBORO – Years ago, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, two friends and I began organizing high school exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Republics in hopes of reducing some of the tensions between our countries. At one point we had a group of students here from[Read More…]
Highland Center for the Arts Hosts Puccini’s Tosca
GREENSBORO – Puccini’s “Tosca” is coming to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Opera Vermont will present Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16 and 17, at the Highland Center for the Arts. The production is fully staged with chamber orchestra and sung in the original Italian with English[Read More…]
Curds and Curling Draws Outdoor Crowd
GREENSBORO – The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Greensboro Gorillas that day: the score stood three to zero, with but one more round to play, and then when Fredericks died with the first wheel and Hanowski did the same, a pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. The[Read More…]
Wildlife Art Competition at Highland Center
GREENSBORO – The Vermont Wildlife Education Fund and the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, Vermont announce the Third Annual Student Wildlife Art Competition. Known as the “Give Wildlife a Voice” art competition, the competition is open to all Vermont students from grades seven through twelve. The exhibition is[Read More…]
Area Residents Gather to Show Solidarity with Lakeview Elementary School
GREENSBORO — At a gathering at Lakeview Elementary School in Greensboro on Tuesday, January 9, to discuss a petition to close the school, it was clear that many would say, as did Daniel Webster of Dartmouth College, “It is a small school, but there are those who love it.” Bobbie[Read More…]
The Future of Lakeview: Time to Do our Homework
by David F. Kelley GREENSBORO – In his Inaugural Address John Kennedy challenged us to: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” It was a reminder to America that democracy driven by self interest is doomed to fail, but we[Read More…]
