NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA) and Kingdom United Resilience & Recovery Effort (KURRVE) have received flood relief grants from the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF.) The Vermont Community Foundation has distributed $455,500 in flood relief grants over the past month to respond to devastating flooding around the state[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
Can Cooler Heads Prevail to Save Town Hall?
Emotions have heated up in Greensboro over the RuralEdge proposal to create an affordable housing development in the current town hall and former school, an historic building. While there are clearly bad actors involved in defacing signs and perhaps in removing some of them, most others are acting with the[Read More…]
Fire Claims Grassroots Center Community Space
MARSHFIELD – Firefighters responded to a blaze on Ennis Hill Road in Marshfield at around 10 a.m. Saturday morning, August 10. Six hours later, the 4,500 square foot barn housing The Grassroots Center for Community Organizing’s community space had burned to the ground. No people or animals were inside at[Read More…]
Wide-ranging Housing Discussion Fills Agenda
GREENSBORO – The bulk of the Greensboro Planning Commission meeting at the Greensboro Free Library, August 6, was taken up with a discussion about whether to reestablish a housing subcommittee late in the meeting. The commission met without several regular members: Kelli Story and ex-officio Zoning Administrator Brett Stanciu. A[Read More…]
Bold State Action Demanded by Flood Recovery Groups
MONTPELIER — Vermonters impacted by flooding and involved in flood relief gathered on the Statehouse steps Thursday, Aug. 1, to demand bold state action after repeated wet weather have caused flooding events that have devastated communities. Speakers presented The People’s Demands for a Just Recovery from Flooding, developed by grassroots[Read More…]
Greensboro’s Mysterious Rooster
Front Porch Forum Leaves Users Feeling Better, Says Washington Post
VERMONT – “On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited,” wrote Will Oremus in the August 10 Washington Post (WaPo). “Imagine an online community where substantive debates about Donald Trump, climate change and America’s culture wars nestle quietly alongside messages about lost rabbits and school board[Read More…]
News Notes: Big Lots to Remain Open in Morrisville
MORRISVILLE – Big Lots announced last weekend it will be closing 293 stores. In Vermont, the Morrisville and Essex Junction stores are slated to remain open while the Berlin and Rutland stores are expected to close. New England is home to 18 of the stores to be closed in this[Read More…]
Wine or Whining, that is the Question
Most days we work to bring you The Hardwick Gazette are pleasant and almost fun, but having said that, you can begin to imagine where this is going. Two Mondays ago, we came in to find a critical piece of computer equipment which stores all the documents, photos, ads and[Read More…]
Hardwick Hostel Planned as a Velomont Trail Stop
HARDWICK – The select board’s recent acceptance of a $45,000 bid from the Vermont Huts Association (VHA) for the vacant lot at the intersection of Perry Hill Lane and Mill Street paves the way for further approvals and study of a project that would become part of a proposed Velomont[Read More…]
Even Primary Elections are Important
Vermont’s primary election is coming up on Tuesday, Aug. 13, and it’s easy to be complacent when so many primary races are uncontested. For the 11 towns where we try to cover news and events, there are four Vermont Senate races and six Vermont House races with a total of[Read More…]
Team Rubicon’s Greyshirts Bring Welcome Aid Post-flood
HARDWICK – David and Gail O’Brien live on a bank of the Lamoille River in East Hardwick. This year the river rose 12 inches higher than it had in the flood exactly a year earlier. Sandbags protected their house on July 10 and 11, this year, but their four-bay garage[Read More…]
