The Gazette has begun its annual year-end fundraiser. With your help it promises to be the biggest and best we’ve ever had. The Institute for Nonprofit News and major foundations, are giving us a huge boost; offering The Gazette more than $20,000 in matching funds and challenge grants. Local donors have already contributed another $10,000[Read More…]
John Walters
Tactical retreat for a local paper
EAST MONTPELIER – Following rapidly on the heels of The Brandon Reporter’s suspension of activity comes word from The Hinesburg Record of a move designed to save it from extinction. The Record has announced it will discontinue its monthly print edition and pursue a digital-only strategy as a weekly. The nonprofit’s board[Read More…]
One big step for The Gazette
Thanks to all who made The Hardwick Gazette’s summer fund drive a great success! It’s another big step on The Gazette’s nonprofit journey that’s approaching its second anniversary. We received a total of $17,425 from 208 readers during the six week campaign and are especially grateful to the 20 of[Read More…]
The time to make a gift is now
Dear Friends of The Hardwick Gazette, Your opportunity to double a gift to The Gazette in our summer fund drive begins now. Community members have offered a total of $5,000 in matching funds for the last days of the drive. Which means that your gift will be doubled if you[Read More…]
Local News Matters Even More Now
EAST MONTPELIER – Local news has always mattered. It’s the only way we can keep in touch with our town and city governments, school boards, high school sports, arts and community events, not to mention road construction, floods, fires, crashes, and crime. But it matters even more now, at this[Read More…]
We’re About to Find Out, Yet Again, How Terrible the Legislature’s Ethics Regime Truly Is
EAST MONTPELIER – Hey, look: Somebody filed an ethics complaint against two state senators! We wouldn’t know this, of course, except that the complainant announced the action in a press release. You’d never hear anything about it from official sources, because the Senate’s ethics process is a black hole from[Read More…]
No Kings Day Rally Draws over 260 Demonstrators
HARDWICK – A No Kings Day rally Saturday in Hardwick organized by the Hardwick Indivisible group drew over 260 people who joined over 1,500 similar rallies throughout Vermont and the United States. Organizer Carlotta Hayes said, “I am so proud of the team that worked together to produce this event[Read More…]
Making Phil Scott’s Fondest Wish Come True
EAST MONTPELIER — Every time there’s an inflection point in the General Assistance Emergency Housing program (d.b.a. the motel voucher program), it’s always the same thing. Scott takes a hard line against spending a dime more on vouchers . . . we get close to a mass unsheltering . .[Read More…]
Phil Scott’s Two Big Money-Saving Ideas: Unshelter the Homeless, Take Food from the Mouths of Schoolkids
EAST MONTPELIER – The contest for “Stupidest Veto in the History of Phil Scott Vetoes” is a richly competitive one, with numerous contenders for the honors among the [checks notes] 52 vetoes he has unleashed upon Vermont’s normally placid and communitarian political life.* But the next one he threatens to[Read More…]
Dear Friends of The Gazette,
If you’re a regular reader, this message is for you. Did you turn to The Gazette for coverage of Town Meeting Day? Do you depend on The Gazette to bring you the news, school sports, arts and community events from our area? When you get our weekly email rundown, do[Read More…]
Sen. Sam Douglass, Campaign Finance Scofflaw
MONTPELIER – The folksy Son of the Soil pictured above is Sam Douglass, senator-elect from the Orleans district. Or, as I find myself thinking of him, Senator Scofflaw. Because while he claims to be a “fierce advocate,” he was shockingly blasé about his legal obligations to report campaign finances accurately[Read More…]
People, Not Props
EAST MONTPELIER – In my recent post (since amended) about the deaths of Lucas and Tammy Menard, I was guilty of the very thing I have accused state officials of doing: Treating real people as symbols or statistics or props. My post caused further distress to the people who knew[Read More…]
