Paul Fixx
Hardwick Electric 1.97% Rate Increase Effective March 7
HARDWICK – Vermont’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) allowed a 1.97% Hardwick Electric Department (HED) rate increase to go into effect on March 7. In the PUC order, dated February 26, it is noted that, “The Commission has reviewed Hardwick Electric’s filing and is satisfied with the supporting information provided.” Vermont’s[Read More…]
Town Meeting Takes a Village
It takes a village, or rather the 11 towns that The Hardwick Gazette covers to hold a town meeting and report about it to those same communities. Town meetings begin long before the first Tuesday in March when select boards begin to develop budgets. They write reports on the meetings[Read More…]
Delaricheliere and Lady Cats Clean Up
by Paul Fixx HARDWICK – Hazen Union students were called to the gym at 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon, March 11, for a pair of ceremonies recognizing outstanding contributions to the school and wider community. Tod Delaricheliere was recognized with a 2024 Hardwick Humanitarian Award. Sherry Lussier, presented the award[Read More…]
Talk of Taxes Takes Tons of Town Time
HARDWICK — The annual meeting at Hardwick’s Elementary School drew a somewhat smaller crowd than in recent years according to Moderator Orise Ainsworth. The meeting got off to a smooth start until it came time to consider approving the proposed 2024-25 budget of $4,018,083. A 7.55% increase over the 2023-24[Read More…]
Public Hearing to Consider Consolidated Communications Merger
by Paul Fixx MONTPELIER – The Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC) will hold a public hearing March 7, at 6:30 p.m., to hear comments and testimony from members of the public about a proposed merger of Consolidated Communications (CNSL) with Condor Holding (Condor). CNSL offers landline telephone service to consumers[Read More…]
Pollinator Protection Efforts May Soon Bear Fruit
by Paul Fixx HARDWICK – As Greensboro gets ready to consider a Town Meeting Day article 14, proposed by Jane Hoffman, declaring itself a “pollinator-friendly” community and the Vermont Legislature considers H.706, a bill banning neonicotinoid use in Vermont, local activist Emily Lanxner and Rep. Chip Troiano may be seeing[Read More…]
Alex Bottinelli’s Works at Front Gallery
MONTPELIER — The contrast between Alexandra Bottinelli’s sensuous organic forms and the angular writing on The Front Gallery’s windows lets the visitor know immediately that they are in for a treat. Open entering, one’s eye is drawn to a row of sculptural forms along the left wall. Driftwood, prepared with[Read More…]
Saturday Meeting Caps Busy Year
WOODBURY – Woodbury is preparing for its first Saturday town meeting in the Elementary School Gym, beginning at 10 a.m., on March 2. Select board member, Diana Peduzzi wrote the Gazette to say, “This will be our first Saturday town meeting. Last year the voters approved this change in an[Read More…]
Town Clerk Expects Lively Conversation
WALDEN – At Town Meeting this year, voters will be asked to approve budgets totaling $914,532, an increase of just under 2.4% over the 2023 budget. An additional item asks for approval to borrow up to $30,000 over three years for a new truck. That borrowing reduced the proposed highway[Read More…]
Vote, Be Part of the Conversation
Vermont’s Town Meeting Day is upon us. Most towns covered by The Gazette will hold an in-person meeting on the first Tuesday in March. That’s March 5 this year and also the date of the Presidential Primary. Stannard and Woodbury will hold Town Meetings on Saturday, and Marshfield on Sunday.[Read More…]
