PLAINFIELD – A huge crabapple tree in a Hudson Avenue yard stopped debris from hitting nearby houses and ended up with close to two feet of muddy silt around it after flooding July 11, 2024. This year it has its “best bloom ever,” said Lauren Geiger. Geiger said the tree[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
South Main Street Construction
Greensboro Community Meal
Food Hub Community Room Hosts First Gathering
HARDWICK – The Food Hub hosted its first meeting in the Community Room, May 7, for the Vermont Internship Professionals Network (VIPN). As the multipurpose meeting and workshop space is in the process of being outfitted with both kitchen and conferencing equipment, the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) is[Read More…]
Menard Road Culvert Installed, Work Continues
CABOT – In a Thursday, May 29, report, Cabot Foreman Sid Griggs reported work on “Menard Road is moving along well. The Fenoff crew installed the new culvert yesterday and began backfilling. They will continue to work on the headwalls and backfilling before the weekend rain to allow water to[Read More…]
Greensboro Gazebo
Information Age Isn’t Perfect Yet
I went to school in the days of the library card catalog and “Index to Periodical Literature,” where research involved thumbing through the indexes and writing down what one wanted to go look for elsewhere. The biggest challenge we faced then was finding a library big enough to have what[Read More…]
For the record
The May 21 story, “Fire Ignited by Crashed Car Destroys Iconic Red Barn,” misspelled the name of the barn’s owner in one caption. She is Leslie Jean Ballantyne. In last week’s story, “Peace Corps Panel at Greensboro Free Library,” the photo of Arminda King and Corrine Pelletier shows Pelletier on[Read More…]
Alex Stanger Receives Fulbright Fellowship
EAST CALAIS – Alex Stanger, a Lawrence University senior and Hazen Union School alumnus from East Calais, is going abroad as the recipient of a 2025 U.S. Fulbright Program fellowship. Stanger will accept the award and spend the coming academic year teaching in Germany, said a Lawrence University press release.[Read More…]
Hardwick Springfest, Memorial Day Weekend, May 23 to 26
Farmers Market Season Begins
AREA TOWNS – Hardwick’s first farmers market of the season featured Food Truck Friday, May 23, to open the town’s Springfest activities at Atkins Field. The rain-or-shine Farmers Market proceeded as planned despite an intermittent drizzle. Craftsbury’s market opened May 17 and continues every Saturday through September 17, from 10[Read More…]
Orleans County Unemployment Well Above State Average
VERMONT – State Department of Labor (DoL) data on the Vermont economy for April released May 21, showed the seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for April was 2.7%, according to household data. This reflects an increase of one-tenth of one percentage point from the prior month’s revised estimate. The civilian labor[Read More…]
