HARDWICK – With weather warming and rain forecast overnight Sunday, a series of alerts went out to Hardwick residents who have signed up for the TextMyGov systems at hardwickvt.gov/hardwick-textmygov/. Just before 8 p.m. Sunday, the first alert warned, “Due to rising river levels and expected rainfall overnight, the Lamoille River[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
Hill Farmstead Brewery Offerings Among World’s Top Ten
GREENSBORO — Hill Farmstead Brewery earned 73 Untappd Community Awards, with 38 Gold, 15 Silver and 20 Bronze, in the second annual Untappd recognition of the world’s best beers. Hill Farmstead Brewing is among the 10 U.S. breweries that produced the highest number of award-winning brews at a state or[Read More…]
Budgets Pass, First Town Plan Adopted
WALDEN — Town meeting day began with the nomination of a new moderator, Carolyn Greaves. After twenty-nine years, Roger Fox has stepped down from the position. The town thanked him for his years of service. Both the general and highway budgets passed, with an amendment to the general budget. Highway[Read More…]
OSSU: Students, Community Benefit from Free, Universal School Meals
HARDWICK – Food Service Director Val Hussey continues to coordinate school meals for the six OSSU campuses as Governor Scott and the legislature debate a new proposal to organize and fund education in Vermont that includes cuts to funding free school meals for all, Pandemic-era funding allowed schools to offer[Read More…]
Annual Chili Dinner
Beck Prioritizes Affordably Meeting Vermonter’s Needs
ST. JOHNSBURY – Sen. Scott Beck shared his thoughts on the legislature’s priorities and his approach to serving there as the Vermont legislature reached this session’s halfway point and took the week off for Vermont’s Town Meeting Day. The top priorities continue to be housing education and energy, with Beck’s[Read More…]
Community Dinner Cooks
Greensboro Food Share
Share Your Nose for News
With town meeting mostly behind us, it’s worth looking at what we learned this year in covering 11 town meetings, their associated informational meetings and Australian balloting, along with the same for school districts and supervisory unions. Our small staff did a heroic job getting at least some report from[Read More…]
For the Record
HARDWICK – Last week’s article, “Schoop Charged with Embezzlement” misidentified Gary Michaels as the NEKarts treasurer. He serves as Hardwick Downtown Partnership’s treasurer. Also last week, our story about the Hardwick Town Meeting, “Civil Discussion Marks Uneventful Meeting,” indicated Dave O’Brien had been elected town agent, when David Shepard was[Read More…]
GMTCC Budget Passes
HYDE PARK – Voters of the Lamoille North Modified Unified Union School District #58 (LNSU) approved the budget for Green Mountain Technology & Career Center for $4,191,823 on March 4, by a vote of 934 to 232. Students at Craftsbury Academy and Hazen Union High School are eligible to apply[Read More…]
Greensboro Garage Gains New Owners
GREENSBORO ― After 10 years as the owner of Greensboro Garage, Joanne Lacasse announced on social media Monday, March 3, “I am thrilled to share with my valued customers, whom I consider friends, that I am passing the torch of ownership of the Greensboro Garage to a new generation. As[Read More…]
