MORRISVILLE – Nick Leblanc, a Morrisville Water and Light Department line foreman has become the first recipient of a Hero Award created by the village trustees to recognize extraordinary acts of courage. LeBlanc responded to the scene of a Wolcott crash and subsequent fire, pulling the car’s driver from a[Read More…]
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Children’s Farmers Market
Town Reappraisal Process Underway
CALAIS – A town-wide reappraisal process began last month in Calais, with property owners receiving a postcard in the mail to let them know when the reappraisal team would be coming to their property. Each property will be visited and inspected by representatives from the New England Municipal Resource Center[Read More…]
OSSU Superintendent not Alarmed by Fed Funding Cuts
HARDWICK – Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union School (OSSU) Superintendent David Baker expects programs at its member schools to continue without interruption despite the U.S. Department of Education’s abrupt halt to distribution of Federal funding to Vermont schools announced June 30. As reports come that the Vermont Agency of Education and[Read More…]
HED Presentation, Hearing on Rate Increase, July 23
HARDWICK – Hardwick Electric Department customers (HED) recently received notice from the Vermont Public Utility Commission of a hearing on the department’s proposed rate increase. The virtual public hearing by the Vermont Public Utility Commission is to “receive input concerning the tariff filing of the Town of Hardwick Electric Department[Read More…]
A Better Future is Being Built
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…]
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…]
