STANNARD – Richard Foster paints because he can’t not paint, he says. He creates because he has to create. Foster enjoys the entire creative process, from preparing the substrate, to building up texture beneath the pastels that are his preferred medium in recent years. That, and even the woodworking involved[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
For the Record
The Greensboro Historical Society note in the Gazette’s “Our Communities” section last week titled, “New Summer Exhibit Opens June 30” incorrectly showed the museum’s Saturday summer hours, which are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The editorial, “Change is Inevitable,” in the June 26 edition mistakenly indicated Greensboro students in grades[Read More…]
LVRT Bridge Re-opened
Welch Calls for more Hardwick Flood Recovery Funds
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch, Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, took to the Senate floor on Monday evening, June 18, to call for more supplemental disaster funding for Vermont communities impacted by flooding in July 2023, and urged his colleagues to take[Read More…]
Lamoille Housing Partnership Membership Votes Yes to Changes
MORRISVILLE – At a special membership meeting on June 17, more than 45 Lamoille Housing Partnership (LHP) members came together to vote on the future of the organization that has worked to create and preserve quality affordable housing opportunities for Hardwick and Lamoille County. Those members, most of whom were[Read More…]
Change is Inevitable
Towns in the Gazette’s coverage area are having conversations about housing, their schools, their access to emergency services and many other things. Those conversations often seem to happen in silos, unconnected with each other and a bigger picture view of the town’s future. Cabot recently began a community conversation, initiated[Read More…]
Proposed Village Apartments Designed with Vermont Historic Preservation
GREENSBORO – RuralEdge, the Greensboro Housung Committee and select board have been working together for about five years to identify ways to meet a need for more Greensboro housing to support the needs of the town’s growing business community. Executive Director Patrick Shattuck of RuralEdge provided an architectural rendering of[Read More…]
Caspian Lake Loons Hatch Two Chicks
GREENSBORO – Visitors to the shores of Caspian Lake have recently been seeing and capturing photos of a pair of loon chicks and their parents. “Few birding experiences rival hearing the haunting call of the loon or seeing them glide by in protected coves on a lake,” wrote the Vermont[Read More…]
RuralEdge Supporters Offer Comments of Unmet Need
GREENSBORO – The June 4 Opportunity Greensboro Forum in support of learning more about a proposal by the RuralEdge (RE) housing and community development organization to create a rental housing development at the town hall was well-attended by over 50 people. Panelists offered their perspectives on the work of the[Read More…]
Greensboro’s Housing Crisis isn’t New or Unique
Recent conversations about potential development of Greensboro’s Town Hall by RuralEdge to create 20 residential rental apartments has drawn both strong support and criticism. It’s an issue that is becoming divisive in a small town where people with differing opinions generally coexist peacefully. This is not a new problem, either[Read More…]
House and Senate Override Neonicotinoid Ban Veto
MONTPELIER — House and Senate votes on June 17 overturned Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of H.706, allowing the bill banning the use of neonicotinoid pesticides to become law. The newly-passed bill will prohibit all neonicotinoid treated soybean and cereal grain seeds from being sold, distributed, or offered for sale in[Read More…]
PUC Walks a Tightrope with Net Metering Changes
GREENSBORO – The Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) biannual assessment of net-metered systems released in May resulted in a decrease for new systems of just under three-fourths of a cent, while compensation for existing systems will increase by just over one cent. Vermonter’s concerned about the decrease in compensation for future[Read More…]
