Paul Fixx
We’re Having too Much Fun
With April Fools’ Day behind us, we can get back to taking our job here at The Gazette mostly seriously. We look forward to April first all year long, usually starting a list of ideas for the next year before April is over. We’ve been enjoying hearing from readers today[Read More…]
Cross-Country Skiing, Biathlon Season Ends
CRAFTSBURY – The Outdoor Center reported March 25 that the Touring Center had closed and the season had come to an end. “We were open for 121 days, had two months of especially wonderful cold, dry snow and then it disappeared way too quickly. An additional note said, “If things[Read More…]
Fire District Made Whole Following Embezzlement
EAST HARDWICK — David O’Brien, East Hardwick Fire District #1 (EHFD) chair of the Prudential Committee, said the organization has received reimbursement from Laurel Schoop of Wolcott for $8,043 she is alleged to have embezzled, saying, “We have been made whole.” Recent meetings have involved fallout from the alleged embezzlement[Read More…]
Center Road Repaving, an HED Report and Grants Lead Agenda
HARDWICK – The Thursday, March 20, select board meeting began right on time, with Chair Eric Remick counting down to 6 p.m. Items were moved through quickly with approval to proceed with submitting a grant for repaving Center Road a highlight of the meeting. Amanda Fecteau gave the road foreman[Read More…]
Maple Open House Weekend
Standing up to Tyranny
Here in The Gazette newsroom we spend our days looking for and sharing local news each week. That went pretty smoothly last year. State and national news made its way into our stories when individuals, towns and civic organizations applied for and often received grants to fund various projects of[Read More…]
For The Record
HARDWICK — Last week’s editorial, “Scams Abound, We’ve Just Been Lucky,” in referring to CAPTCHA rules should have referred to Turing, rather than touring. Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 to June 7, 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential[Read More…]
Local Lumps, Hardwick, March 26, 1925
Fishing in the vicinity of lower Wolcott Street has been in evidence the past week or ten days – not for members of the finny tribe, but for the lumber which was washed away from the sawmill in the recent flood. Men from the mill have salvaged a goodly amount[Read More…]
Bridges, Dogs, a Truck and Helpful Neighbors Fill Select Board Agenda
CRAFTSBURY – The town garage bridge, animal control, the neighbor-to-neighbor group, a new truck and reviewing town committee assignments took up most of the March 12 select board meeting Bruce Urie’s FEMA update suggested a price for the town garage bridge approaching $1M with a 2026 timeline for construction of[Read More…]
Annual Select Board Reorganization Begins Meeting
WOODBURY – The select board came together for the first time after town meeting, to organize, Monday, March 10. Electing a chair and a clerk, setting the time, place and schedule of future meetings and determining the newspaper in which legal notices will be posted were added to the agenda.[Read More…]
