GREENSBORO – The Caspian Lake Beach parking lot was already filling up at 9:30 a.m. on Eclipse Day, April 8. D.J. Placek flew from Chicago to Boston, where he was met by Kevin Selesta. The two drove from there, choosing Greensboro as their destination to view the eclipse at Hill[Read More…]
Paul Fixx
The Sun Is In Your Eyes
In the run-up to Monday’s total eclipse of the sun, almost all of us have heard warnings not to look at the sun without special dark glasses made especially for viewing it. We’ve probably also heard that it’s okay to look at the fully eclipsed sun during totality. Why is[Read More…]
Neonicotinoid Ban Moves One Step Closer to Becoming Law
VERMONT — On March 22, the Vermont House passed H.706, an act relating to the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. It now moves on to be considered by the Vermont Senate. Rep. Chip Troiano, (Hardwick, Stannard, Walden), who is a co-sponsor and voted in favor of the bill said, “in 2018[Read More…]
Viewing Guide to the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – “On April 8, at 2:14 p.m., a partial solar eclipse will begin, and at 3:26 p.m., a total eclipse will darken Vermont’s daytime sky, lasting about three minutes. The phenomenon will continue as a partial eclipse until 4:37 p.m.,” says a Vermont State website that continues, “Vermont[Read More…]
Visions of Totality: Area Artists Share Eclipse Perspectives
GREENSBORO – While other publications and media outlets are bringing you science to explain the total eclipse of the sun on April 8, the Gazette is choosing to share the perspective of artists living in the towns we cover. These works, at Greensboro’s Highland Center for the Arts, are a[Read More…]
Lamoille Health Partners to pay $540,000 Following Ransomware Attack
MORRISTOWN – Lamoille Health Partners (LHP) has agreed to pay $540,000 to resolve claims that it failed to prevent a 2022 data breach. Lamoille Health Partners is a health program system that provides services to Lamoille County. The company hasn’t admitted wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement to resolve the[Read More…]
Prophecy Chocolate Sweetens Hardwick’s Streets
HARDWICK – I stumbled upon Prophecy Chocolate one evening as a friend and I were heading up the street to another restaurant. A sign promising tamales and chocolate drinks was too much to resist. We opened the door to the aroma of marvelously rich chocolate wafting out. Inside the door,[Read More…]
Curtis Pond Dam Renovation Funded
CALAIS – Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that his office has secured $525,000 for the Curtis Pond Dam Renovation. The Homeland Security funding will support the Town of Calais in constructing a concrete wall upstream from the existing dam. On July 19, 2019, the Agency of Natural Resources {ANR} had the[Read More…]
Washington Gridlock Brings Woodbury Windfall
WOODBURY – Fire Chief Paul Cerutti could hardly believe the news when a friend called on Friday, March 8, with news that a Senate appropriations bill had just passed with $1,125,000 for an addition to the Woodbury Volunteer Fire Department emergency services and operations center. The next day President Biden[Read More…]
Alexander Tree Sugarhouse Holds Open House
CABOT – Calvin Alexander opened his sugarhouse to guests for the annual Spring Maple Open House Weekend on Sunday, March 24, after a snowy Saturday open house that brought no visitors: which was just as well because his tractor got a flat that day. His aunt, K.C. Wright, visiting from[Read More…]
Homelessness and Substance Use Affect the Hardwick Area Too
Homelessness and the associated issue of substance use isn’t just an issue in Vermont’s cities. It’s just on a smaller scale in Vermont’s smaller towns like Hardwick, where there are no homeless shelters for more than 20 miles in every direction. John Walters writes in a piece appearing elsewhere in[Read More…]
Fielder Named Lacrosse Rookie of the Week for Norwich Cadets
EAST CALAIS — Norwich Cadets first-year midfielder, Caitlyn Fielder, who calls East Calais home, collected 13 points with 10 goals, three assists and won 26 draw controls in the week ending March 17. Her performance earned her Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Women’s Lacrosse Rookie of the Week accolades from[Read More…]
