GREENSBORO – An informal survey of Gazette staff and volunteers identified many of the top 10 scams reported to the Vermont Attorney General (AG) as happening in the local area. Scams have become so common that many go unreported. None of those surveyed had reported a scam to the AG.[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
The Tale of Two Towns
A letter to the editor in today’s Gazette suggests the Greensboro Select Board doesn’t have the expertise to manage the complexities of a housing development project like the one Rural Edge has proposed. It does seem town leadership is finding it difficult to pull things back together and mend divisions[Read More…]
Post Office Reopens
CABOT – The Cabot Post Office reopened Saturday, January 18 at 8 a.m. for retail service according to postal clerk Dennis Towle. Towle has replaced Diane Jeger, who left the postal service soon after the Cabot office closed and was relocated to Marshfield.“Effective Saturday, Jan. 18, the Cabot Post Office[Read More…]
Artists, Arts Organizations, Projects Receive Funding
MONTPELIER – Vermont Arts Council 2025 grants benefiting a wide range of local organizations, artists and projects were announced earlier this month. Plainfield’s Buffy Aakaash will receive $1,000 to support attendance at the Colrain Manuscript Classic Online conference; Marshfield’s Jenni Belotserkovsky will see $850 to support lost income due to[Read More…]
Man Arrested in Hardwick for Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol Actions Pardoned
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Brian Preller, arrested in Hardwick on August 24, 2022, after being charged with felony civil disorder on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021, was pardoned, January 20, by President Donald Trump. The Presidential Action said, “This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has[Read More…]
East Hardwick Zoning Forum Engages Residents
HARDWICK – Nineteen people attended a Hardwick Planning Commission (HPC) public forum about a proposed zoning district change for East Hardwick to combine several separate areas under the same village center designation as the Hardwick Village Center. The Tuesday, Dec. 10, forum, held in-person and on Zoom, was joined by[Read More…]
Kitchel Reflects on her Senate Career
MONTPELIER – After 35 years in state government, Jane Kitchel is able to sit on the sidelines now as the legislature gets to work in the new year. Last year, after the session was over, she said it was a difficult decision to walk away from the position she held[Read More…]
The Ku Klux Klan In and Near Hardwick
HARDWICK – Vermont and Hardwick were not entirely outside the sphere of influence of the Ku Klux Klan, but the organization appears not to have gained any significant foothold by its efforts. More than a dozen references appear to the Ku Klux Klan in The Hardwick Gazette in 1924 alone.[Read More…]
Community Trust Launched to Create Affordable Housing
CRAFTSBURY – The Headwaters Community Trust (HCT) board will begin regular meetings in January to lay out membership, project criteria and partnerships to bring new, perpetually affordable housing opportunities to fruition, according to Rick Morrill of Greensboro, in a Front Porch Forum post. The HCT service area is the headwaters[Read More…]
Curtis Pond Dam Reconstruction Essentially Complete
CALAIS – Calais Select Board member, and a driving force behind the effort to rebuild the Curtis Pond Dam, Jamie Moorby, said construction of the dam was essentially completed in 2024. An early July article in The Bridge reported on the July 2 ribbon cutting to initiate the construction that[Read More…]
Wolcott Street Walkability Audit Identifies Concerns
HARDWICK – A report on a September 2024 AARP Community Walk Audit along Wolcott Street from the fire station to the blinking light at the three-way intersection with Main Street presented to the select board in October, identified several areas of concern and one priority area for attention. Overall, the[Read More…]
Gazette Intern Featured in CNS Annual Report
HARDWICK – UVM Senior Lucia McCallum’s work with The Hardwick Gazette reporting on community resilience during her 2024 summer internship earned her a spot in the UVM Community News Service annual report, that stated, “Senior Lucia McCallum, an English major, joined CNS in the spring of 2024 with a curious[Read More…]
