MONTPELIER – Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the Administration’s political agenda. In addition, the Administration reduced the period during[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
Our stories shape the stories that matter most
HARDWICK – On the occasion of National Newspaper Week, October 5 to 11 this year, it seems appropriate to share this perspective from a fellow editor, modified with a local perspective. It seems like about every time I am out in public, no matter what the occasion, once someone realizes[Read More…]
It’s time to resist the roundup
In tracking down information to write the story of ICE rounding up nine foreigners in Hardwick on September 26, and this week trying to track them through their Vermont imprisonment, with state, ICE and third-party websites (where I came up mostly empty, by the way), it’s clear that it’s not[Read More…]
Art at the Kent
Open Studio Weekend
U.S. Border Patrol, ICE detain 9 individuals Friday
HARDWICK – A dark vehicle heading west on Wolcott Street a little after 7 a.m., Friday, had its drive interrupted when a white vehicle behind it turned on its siren and lights, pulled around it and brought it to a stop. Behind it two other law-enforcement vehicles stopped too. The[Read More…]
Trees for Downtown project plants 30 small trees
HARDWICK – Small trees have recently been popping up throughout Hardwick’s Designated Downtown area over the last several weeks, where wooden stakes had been marking places for them throughout much of the summer. A $33,487 Vermont Community Tree Planting Grant (CTPG) for the Trees for Downtown Hardwick project was secured[Read More…]
Town asks for voluntary water conservation
HARDWICK – In the face of the area’s drought, Hardwick Town Manager David Upson asked all residents and businesses to begin voluntarily conserving water. In a public notice issued last week Upson said “. . . our water system remains stable at this time,” and “With the Town of Hardwick[Read More…]
Less is more in observing and recording ICE activity
HARDWICK – Several people who observed U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity Friday in Hardwick expressed concern about those who were detained, in one case referring to those who had left the scene of a traffic stop as having been kidnapped by ICE. Another observer said[Read More…]
HED reviews plan to improve accountability, dam future
HARDWICK – The Hardwick Electric Department (HED) Board of Commissioners held two meetings in September. A revised organizational chart presented by General Manager Sarah Braese was adopted by the commissioners after a discussion in open session, followed by a half-hour executive session at a special meeting, September 8. The draft[Read More…]
Dam removal forum panelists teach river science
HARDWICK – A roomful of people in the Jeudeview Memorial Library’s Parker Ladd Community joined panelists Karina Dailey with the Vermont Natural Resources Council and Kassia Randzio with the Vermont River Conservancy for the third forum in the Ripple Effects series, titled “Dam Removal & Rivers,” Wednesday, Sept. 24. Panelists[Read More…]
