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HARDWICK AREA — Thursday, July 11 brought recovery and repair efforts throughout the region as rivers and streams began to subside throughout the morning and early afternoon. Many area waterways remained above their banks, expanding into floodplains, forests and lawns. Many roads became passable, if only with one lane open[Read More…]
GREENSBORO – In a year with lots of stress due to the summer’s flooding, Select Board Chair Peter Romans reported, “To repair town roads, the town borrowed one million dollars and subsequently spent most of it. The town’s proposed budget of $1,956,009 comes in with an increase of 6.93% after[Read More…]
STANNARD — Vermont’s senior Senator, Bernie Sanders shared his unique blend of pessimism and optimism with an enthusiastic crowd who hung on his every word and offered applause at appropriate moments. The town hall rally following an intense Saturday, July 6, downpour that had organizers scrambling to move the gathering[Read More…]
While writing this week’s story on the anniversary of the July flood that began on the tenth of the month, exactly one year before the date of this week’s edition of the Gazette, I was struck by how people come together to help each other when disaster strikes. It’s easy[Read More…]
Saturday hours for the Greensboro Historical Society are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and not as noted on page 7 of last week’s Hardwick Gazette in “GHS Receives Award . . .” The last paragraph of “Greensboro Association Shares . . . “ in that same edition should have read,[Read More…]
CRAFTSBURY — A $1 million grant has been awarded to Craftsbury Saplings toward construction of a new 7,000-square-foot childcare center. The Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) grant provides funding for a $5,262,642 project that will allow Saplings to grow its capacity, allowing it to serve 54 children. Saplings’ Board Chair[Read More…]
HARDWICK — Volunteers and members of the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE) hosted community meals at Atkins Field on Monday, June 24, and the following week, on July 1. Behind the grill on June 24, Reeve Basom and CAE intern Finn Atwood were kept hard at work grilling and[Read More…]
HARDWICK — Co-chair of the Greensboro Association (GA) Lakes and Environmental Stewardship Committee, Stew Arnold attended the Hardwick Electric Department (HED) Board of Commissioners meeting on June 17 to make public comments about ensuring effective communication continues between HED and the GA while HED is in its transition between permanent[Read More…]
CALAIS – Washington Central Supervisory Union schools held concurrent forums June 26 to hear the public weigh in on possible closure or reconfiguration of the district’s smaller elementary schools in Calais and Worcester. Eighteen people turned out for the Calais forum, where current parents with school-age children were universally in[Read More…]
WATERBURY – The 50th EMS Week awards celebrate the contribution of individuals and services to public health. Tyler Molleur with the Hardwick Emergency Rescue Squad received EMS Educator of the Year honors for his work training that rescue squad and many other EMTs elsewhere in Vermont. Molleur says it was[Read More…]
WOLCOTT – Voters last month approved two measures clearing the way for design and construction of a wastewater treatment system expected to serve about 35 town residents, plus businesses and municipal offices. The vote on the project, expected to cost $4.5 million, was likely helped when the town learned that the[Read More…]
ST. JOHNSBURY — Police warned residents to “use caution when passing and receiving currency,” in an alert posted to Facebook on Tuesday, June 25. The notice indicated “the St. Johnsbury Police Department has experienced an influx of calls regarding counterfeit money. The currency passed is of all denominations.” Police said[Read More…]
