As the July 10 anniversary of unprecedented flooding in the area approached, I was thinking a lot about how our towns have responded and, with this year’s reprieve from more of it, what this post-flood era might look like. Mostly there doesn’t seem to be a debate about why the[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
Weeks Gone By
Local Lumps Thursday, July 16, 1925 HARDWICK – With the painting of the new bridge, a very pretty battleship gray color, and the new cement sidewalks, on each side, at each end of the bridge, Hardwick may well boast of as nice a bridge as can be found in any[Read More…]
News & Citizen Available at Retail, Public Spots
STOWE – The News and Citizen, distributed free throughout Lamoille County and in neighboring Caledonia and Orleans County towns, announced last week that the paper will no longer be delivered to U.S. Post Office boxes. The change was made “with you, the reader, in mind,” wrote the paper’s parent[Read More…]
Hardwick Woman Strangled in Suspicious Death
WOODBURY – The Vermont State Police (VSP) reported Monday that the office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington found homicide due to assault by another to be the cause of death for the 38 year-old Hardwick woman whose body was found under suspicious circumstances on the side of Vermont[Read More…]
EHNO Efforts Bring Village Improvements
EAST HARDWICK – The East Hardwick Neighborhood Organization’s (EHNO) efforts in the village have helped bring crosswalks, improvements to Overlook Park, the planting of 300 trees as a buffer along the Lamoille River streambank, prepared the way for the purchase of a radar speed sign and set the stage for[Read More…]
FY25 Tax Rate Set
CRAFTSBURY – At the first of a pair of meetings in the week before Independence Day, the select board set the FY25 tax rate at 0.742, increasing from the FY24 rate of 0.666; continued the eight percent penalty for late homestead declaration filings and approved two fireworks permits at its[Read More…]
Snacks on Main St. in Hardwick
Greensboro Farmers Market
June 14 Drew over 8% of Population in Protest
HARDWICK – A recent press release from 50501 Vermont stated, “On June 14, we made history: more than six percent of Vermont’s entire population mobilized in the streets.” At the No Kings Day event in Hardwick, more than 250 people lined South Main St. from Mill to Wolcott Streets. With[Read More…]
Washington County Lowest Debt-to-Income Ratio in Vermont
AREA COUNTIES – Washington County residents averaged about $1.05 in debt for every $1 of income, the lowest 2024 debt-to-income ratio of any county in Vermont. Caledonia County residents had a debt-to-income ratio of 1.13, while Orleans County residents averaged 1.37 and Lamoille County residents 2.39. Grand Isle County had[Read More…]
Your Generous Contributions will Support The Gazette Well Into the Future
Last week’s news brought the announcement of another small New England newspaper suspending operations. The daily Eagle Times of Claremont, N.H., is no more and a visit Tuesday took me to a suspended website, with no access to any of the paper’s online content. That print newspaper circulated in New[Read More…]
For the record
The headline of last week’s story, “New Commissioner to be Appointed. . . ,” should have indicated, “Estimation Process Changed.” It should also have indicated Lynne Gedanken was leaving the board of commissioners, not Roger Prevot.
