CRAFTSBURY – Twenty-six volunteers filled the Craftsbury Outdoor Center’s ski shop last Saturday, as they carried out the carefully designed steps to build insulating window inserts for community members in the three-corner area of Caledonia, Lamoille and Orleans Counties. The Craftsbury, Glover, and Greensboro Energy Committees and the Albany Planning[Read More…]
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Shapiro to visit Namibian Kalahari desert
EAST HARDWICK – Jonathan Shapiro has received a Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation Adventure Scholarship award to travel to the Kalahari desert in Namibia and go tracking with indigenous San Bushmen elders. In making the award, the foundation said, “This will be an epic adventure for him, as well as a[Read More…]
SNAP chaos leads HAFP, state, others to step up
HARDWICK – As the result of the federal government shutdown, the Hardwick Area Food Pantry (HAFP), the Buffalo Mountain Market, Front Seat Coffee, the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) and others, have been scrambling to prepare for an anticipated November 1 end to food stamp (SNAP) benefits that support[Read More…]
More questions than answers raised at Act 73 Forum
HARDWICK – Area school board members and legislators were well-representated at a forum led by members of the three Hardwick school boards that was billed as a community conversation about Vermont’s Act 73 school redistricting legislation, last Wednesday in the Jeudevine Memorial Library. Board members shared what they know about[Read More…]
Towns hope to move flood-related projects forward with bond votes
PLAINFIELD, CABOT – Flood-related projects were on yesterday’s ballots for voters in Plainfield and Cabot. In Plainfield the select board was looking to borrow $600,000 to purchase land for the proposed village expansion project. If its application for a $9.7 million grant is approved, the loan will fund the purchase[Read More…]
Circus Smirkus Director Schiffer cautiously optimistic
GREENSBORO – As the big top tents came down early in October, Circus Smirkus Executive and Artistic Director Rachel Schiffer was already looking at scenarios for the 2026 season, while focusing on fundraising in the short-term. The organization’s usual staff of seven or eight people has recently managed three programs:[Read More…]
Hardwick buildings removed by FEMA
New town website goes live
CRAFTSBURY – A new website at craftsbury.gov debuted October 1. The site has links to select board and other meeting archives with agendas, minutes and videos. The website introduces the town by saying, “Founded in 1789, Craftsbury is one of Vermont’s oldest and most picturesque towns. With its classic New England village green, historic buildings, and panoramic[Read More…]
HCTV appoints MacKenzie executive director
HARDWICK – “Lance MacKenzie will be filling the roll [sic] of [HCTV] Executive Director. Lance has been a field producer with HCTV for a year now, so you may know him as ‘Lance on Camera,’” said an October 31 email message and a blog post on the Hardwick Community Television[Read More…]
Federal websites and the Hatch Act
Americans visiting the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service website to learn what might be happening with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which have been threatened to end on November 1, during the Federal Government shutdown, have seen some version of yesterday’s message copied below,[Read More…]
WOW Wednesday has middle-schoolers learning outdoors
CRAFTSBURY — Craftsbury Middle School students in grades six to eight leave the classroom each Wednesday for the WOW (With Out Walls) program. Vermont becomes a classroom every Wednesday as they have picked blueberries, gone rock climbing and visited the shores of Lake Champlain. All 59 middle-schoolers made the 1.6[Read More…]
Mural unveiled at Harry’s Hardware features Vermont scenes
CABOT – Cabot School sophomores Molly Paire and Freya Van Deusen unveiled a mural featuring Vermont scenes they painted on a wall outside Harry’s Hardware on Main Street. Class members were on hand for the occasion in a light drizzle Friday afternoon and Kyla Kerrigan brought her class of kindergarteners[Read More…]
