Paul Fixx
Southworth will be Guided by Vermont Constitution
WALDEN – On November 5, Mike Southworth was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives for the Caledonia-2 District covering Hardwick, Stannard and Walden where he has lived the last 28 years. Southworth is married and has three adult sons. Southworth says he’s more practical than political and hopes his[Read More…]
Senator-elect Beck to Become Minority Leader
by Paul Fixx CALEDONIA COUNTY – Members of the Senate Republican Caucus met November 26 and chose Senator-elect Scott Beck as the new caucus leader for the upcoming legislative session. Senator Brian Collamore was re-elected as Assistant Republican Leader. Beck said he gave a lot of thought to it before[Read More…]
FEMA Funds Trickle In, FY26 Budgeting Begins
WOODBURY – Thanksgiving week in Woodbury began with the usual fourth Monday evening select board meeting, November 25, at which Jayne Nold-Laurendeau submitted her letter of resignation as a lister. Town Clerk Robin Durkee said she’s been finishing up final reports from the election. Her documentation of land records is[Read More…]
Wakeboat Ban Comments to be Heard
GREENSBORO — Comments on a petition to ban wakeboating on Caspian Lake will be heard at a planned public comment meeting scheduled by Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources (ANR), December 12, in Montpelier. The Town of Greensboro and the Greensboro Association have submitted a joint petition to the ANR requesting[Read More…]
Digital Divide Affects Most NEK Residents
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – “In our service territory we have three of the four poorest [Vermont] counties and we see daily the impact of the digital divide,” said Tonya Ozone, director of sales and marketing at NEKCV, the organization resulting from a merger of Northeast Kingdom Broadband and CVFiber. She added,[Read More…]
We Hope We Continue to Earn Your Trust
The number of local news outlets around the country has declined rapidly and significantly over the past several decades. One recent report determined that “over the past 15 years, the United States has lost 2,100 newspapers, leaving at least 1,800 communities that had a local news outlet in 2004 without[Read More…]
For the Record
The article, “Woodbury Residents Hear About Broadband Construction,” in the November 6 issue was written by John Reid, Woodbury’s representative to NEKCV dba NEK Broadband. We’ve heard a number of comments about Raymonda Parchment’s headline, “Clerks say, BYOB: Bring Your Own Ballot,” in the November 6 Special Election Edition and[Read More…]
Sylvacurl Creates Waste-free Wood Curl Packaging
EAST HARDWICK – Jim and Mary-Ellen Lovinsky began making sustainable wood curl shavings as an alternative to petroleum-based packaging materials in the 1990s. Jim says they were intuitively drawn to the idea of waste-free manufacturing before it became common. Then and now, aspen wood from local loggers is shaved into[Read More…]
Organic Farmer, Freshman Senator-to-be, Douglass Plans to Make a Difference
ORLEANS COUNTY – A small family farmer, raising goats, chickens, ducks and bees, with more than 15 four- by 25-foot beds where he and his wife raise flowers, plant starts and have herb and tea gardens, Samuel Doulass, newly elected to represent Orleans County in the Vermont Senate, seems not[Read More…]
Oil Spill at 9 South Main St. Causes Evacuation, Retail Shutdown
HARDWICK – Patrons arriving at 9 South Main Street looking for walk-in appointments with NIkki the Barber early last week encountered a locked door and a bright red sign from the Vermont Division of Fire Safety marked “Stop Work Order, No Entry.” signed by Assistant State Fire Marshall Shawn Goodell.[Read More…]
