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Hospital association donates remaining funds to rescue squad
HARDWICK – As the Hardwick Rescue Squad prepares to begin raising funds for a long-anticipated building to replace its undersized 1972 home on Creamery Road, they have received a grant of more $350,000 from the Hardwick Hospital Association (HHA). A Card of Thanks from Hardwick Rescue in today’s issue notes,[Read More…]
Construction in downtown Hardwick
Voters turn down Mountain View, Wolcott school budgets a second time
HARDWICK, WOLCOTT – The second round of school budget votes failed today in both the Mountain View Union and Wolcott School Districts. Both school boards submitted the same budget that had been submitted on Town Meeting Day, saying a state buy down would lower tax rates, but voters rejected that.[Read More…]
Haynes honored with dairy scholarship
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Charlie Haynes of Calais, Vt., was among six students from Cornell University receiving scholarship awards at the 2026 Northeast Dairy Management Conference (NEDM), March 4 to 5. The Richard Popp Scholarship Fund was established by friends, families and colleagues of Dick Popp and honors senior undergraduate[Read More…]
AAU Basketball
Special Town Meeting set for town forest purchase, holding future town meetings by Australian Ballot
HARDWICK – A well-attended select board meeting with an overflow crowd upstairs in the Hardwick Memorial Building last Thursday began with an announcement by the Trust for Public Lands’ (TPL) Hannah Redmon announcing that a $465,000 grant had been awarded by the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) for the[Read More…]
Headwaters and Sterling College discuss future
CRAFTSBURY – Headwaters Community Trust and Sterling College are working to find a path forward for the Craftsbury campus that will fit the requirements of both organizations and the wider community. An April 1 Headwaters update said an offer had been made to take on the Sterling College Campus. “In[Read More…]
Ada Allen’s State of the Union essay receives award
CRAFTSBURY – Craftsbury Academy Sophomore Ada Allen was awarded third place in Bernie Sander’s 16th Annual State of the Union Essay contest. Her essay proposing a community capacity-building after school program was one of only 15 essays chosen from 418 entries statewide. She and 13 other high school student finalists[Read More…]
A sign of spring
Reconsideration of town forest vote petitioned
HARDWICK – Three petitions were submitted to Hardwick Town Clerk Tonia Chase last week. One calls for reconsideration of the town meeting vote to donate $25,000 toward purchase of land for a Town Forest. The second two ask for votes on changing voting procedures for future town meetings and reconsideration[Read More…]
Jackson Dam removal advanced
HARDWICK – Hardwick Electric Department Commissioners and General Manager Scott Johnstone joined the Hardwick Select Board at a special meeting last Thursday where they received the reports of a Jackson Dam Removal Feasibility Study and landscaping plans to reduce runoff and erosion at the Caspian Lake Town Beach. Following each[Read More…]
