GREENSBORO – I read Sheila Dillon’s op ed in last week’s Gazette and thought it deserved a response as well as corrections. Here are some basic facts. Contrary to Ms. Dillon’s claim, the proposed conveyance would not transfer title to the Town Green. The Town retains ownership of the Green.[Read More…]
David Kelley
Beginning Australian Ballot Procedure
To the editor: The select board has been under pressure to bring the town hall redevelopment proposal to a vote and we have repeatedly told people we planned to be able to do that by town meeting. We have also been under pressure by some to have the vote be[Read More…]
Congratulations to Harple
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…]
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…]
