HARDWICK – Two public hearings will be held in Hardwick’s Memorial Building before the September 5 select board meeting at 6 p.m. At 5 p.m. there will be a public hearing to take comments from the public regarding proposed changes to the town’s Unified Development Bylaws. The changes provide additional[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
Primary Election Sets Stage for November Contests
HARDWICK AREA TOWNS – Primary election contests for Vermont’s State House and Senate races in the Hardwick area saw few close contests and many candidates were unopposed on August 13. Republican Scott Beck and Democrat Amanda Cochrane, both of St. Johnsbury, bested their opponents by significant margins in the Caledonia[Read More…]
Save Town Hall Coalition Demands Answers
GREENSBORO – The Save Town Hall Coalition retained the law office of Stackpole French, whose Counsel, Edward B. French, Jr., Esq. has presented the select board with an August 13 letter sharing concerns about a proposed Town Hall redevelopment project by Rural Edge, a Northeast Kingdom affordable housing developer. The[Read More…]
“Save Town Hall” Signs Draw Ire from Select Board, Vandals
GREENSBORO – As residents have begun to express reservations about the advisability of a RuralEdge proposal to create a 20-unit affordable housing development at the town hall, a Save Town Hall Coalition has come together and presented the Greensboro select board with a petition signed by 180 people and retained[Read More…]
Hardwick Farms Road Reopens over Porter Brook
NEKCA and KURRVE Receive VCF Flood Recovery Grants
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…]
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…]
