WOODBURY – Thanksgiving week in Woodbury began with the usual fourth Monday evening select board meeting, November 25, at which Jayne Nold-Laurendeau submitted her letter of resignation as a lister. Town Clerk Robin Durkee said she’s been finishing up final reports from the election. Her documentation of land records is[Read More…]
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Wakeboat Ban Comments to be Heard
GREENSBORO — Comments on a petition to ban wakeboating on Caspian Lake will be heard at a planned public comment meeting scheduled by Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources (ANR), December 12, in Montpelier. The Town of Greensboro and the Greensboro Association have submitted a joint petition to the ANR requesting[Read More…]
Digital Divide Affects Most NEK Residents
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – “In our service territory we have three of the four poorest [Vermont] counties and we see daily the impact of the digital divide,” said Tonya Ozone, director of sales and marketing at NEKCV, the organization resulting from a merger of Northeast Kingdom Broadband and CVFiber. She added,[Read More…]
We Hope We Continue to Earn Your Trust
The number of local news outlets around the country has declined rapidly and significantly over the past several decades. One recent report determined that “over the past 15 years, the United States has lost 2,100 newspapers, leaving at least 1,800 communities that had a local news outlet in 2004 without[Read More…]
For the Record
The article, “Woodbury Residents Hear About Broadband Construction,” in the November 6 issue was written by John Reid, Woodbury’s representative to NEKCV dba NEK Broadband. We’ve heard a number of comments about Raymonda Parchment’s headline, “Clerks say, BYOB: Bring Your Own Ballot,” in the November 6 Special Election Edition and[Read More…]
Sylvacurl Creates Waste-free Wood Curl Packaging
EAST HARDWICK – Jim and Mary-Ellen Lovinsky began making sustainable wood curl shavings as an alternative to petroleum-based packaging materials in the 1990s. Jim says they were intuitively drawn to the idea of waste-free manufacturing before it became common. Then and now, aspen wood from local loggers is shaved into[Read More…]
Organic Farmer, Freshman Senator-to-be, Douglass Plans to Make a Difference
ORLEANS COUNTY – A small family farmer, raising goats, chickens, ducks and bees, with more than 15 four- by 25-foot beds where he and his wife raise flowers, plant starts and have herb and tea gardens, Samuel Doulass, newly elected to represent Orleans County in the Vermont Senate, seems not[Read More…]
Oil Spill at 9 South Main St. Causes Evacuation, Retail Shutdown
HARDWICK – Patrons arriving at 9 South Main Street looking for walk-in appointments with NIkki the Barber early last week encountered a locked door and a bright red sign from the Vermont Division of Fire Safety marked “Stop Work Order, No Entry.” signed by Assistant State Fire Marshall Shawn Goodell.[Read More…]
Braese Named to Lead Hardwick Electric
HARDWICK – Sarah Elise Braese has been appointed by the board of commissioners of the Hardwick Electric Department to be the next general manager of the Town of Hardwick Electric Department (HED). She comes to HED following her work as assistant general manager with the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority[Read More…]
Wastewater Project Next Steps Approved
GREENSBORO – A special select board meeting agenda, calling for a wastewater project update, resulted in three unanimous votes to proceed and establish various aspects of the project after representatives from engineering firm Hoyle Tanner (HT) shared urgency to get the project underway. Select Board Chair Eric Hanson began by[Read More…]
RuralEdge to Manage Hardwick LHP Properties
RurHARDWICK – Amid problems at the 9 South Main Street building owned by Lamoille Housing Partnership (LHP), a letter jointly signed by the executives directors of LHP, St. Johnsbury’s RuralEdge and Barre’s Downstreet Housing & Community Development advised residents, commercial tenants and the community at-large of a change in the[Read More…]
Electric Department to Bring on New General Manager
HARDWICK – Electric Department Commissioners appointed Sarah Braese to fill the role of general manager for the rural electric utility at the November 19 regular meeting. She will begin on January 6, 2025. Braese was also appointed as the utility’s representative to her current employer Vermont Public Power Supply Authority[Read More…]
