HARDWICK – A water leak under South Main Street, near its intersection with Mill and North Main Streets, last Wednesday caused some downtown businesses to close. Construction equipment in front of the Clip Joint took up parking spaces on the other side of the street, but not directly across from[Read More…]
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Farmer’s market provides food for low-income Vermonters
HARDWICK – Low income Vermonters’ received $10,310 of farm-fresh food from Hardwick Farmers Market vendors in 2025 through programs to supplement their purchase of food. Those programs include the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), Crop Cash and Crop Cash Plus. “This program and its associated incentives brought $10,310 to our[Read More…]
MVU budget to be voted May 20 holds increase to 1%
GREENSBORO – The Mountain View Union (MVU) Elementary School Board approved a third budget at its April 16 meeting that cuts $113,088 from the budget now twice rejected by voters. The total expenditure budget was approved for $9,065,204.25, with Education Fund spending of $8,956,803. The board and administrators meeting in[Read More…]
Prospects bleak for oldest building on S. Main Street
HARDWICK – Prospects of finding a path forward for efforts to save the former Civic Standard building at 42 S. Main St. in Hardwick were dampened last week when a proposal to take on renovations was rejected by the building’s owner. A note sent Friday by Shari Cornish to members[Read More…]
Radar speed sign, LVRT trailhead to come
EAST HARDWICK – The East Hardwick Neighborhood (EHNO) organization announced Friday that it has reached its fundraising goal for the purchase of a radar speed sign. “Your overwhelming support for our radar speed sign campaign has been truly inspiring,” they wrote in email and Front Porch Forum (FPF) announcements. The[Read More…]
Local student wins Regional Civics Bee
LYNDON CENTER – Walden Elementary School sixth-grader, Azailya Lesperance, won first place and a cash prize at the Regional Civics Bee, Friday, April 10. The event at Lyndon Institute was organized by the NEK Chamber of Commerce. Azailya’s social studies and global citizenship teacher Katey Foster said she learned of[Read More…]
Recipe class holds all-school sugar on snow party
HARDWICK – Last month the Hazen High School Recipe for Human Connection Class took on a project to hold an all-school sugar on snow party they hope will become a regular annual event. Sugar on snow involves boiling maple syrup to 235 °F and drizzle it on snow for maple[Read More…]
Hummingbird migration map available now
U.S. – Hummingbird Central offers crowd-sourced interactive maps tracking the northward migration of hummingbirds each spring. They had been sighted as far north as south-eastern Pennsylvania on April 4. Tracking of the annual spring hummingbird migration is done with the help of viewers as they submit their first hummingbird sightings[Read More…]
Supverisory union news recounts events
HARDWICK – In the April edition of “News from the office of Superintendent Dr. David Baker,” the retiring Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) superintendent said he’s been meeting weekly with incoming Superintendent Becca Tatistscheff. “We are working on the transition as she is brought up to speed. She will be[Read More…]
Lovely Road clearing phase 1 of bridge replacement
CABOT – Two weeks ago Fenoff and Son Excavating out of Danville cut all the trees on the Lovely Road job site in phase 1 of a FEMA project to replace the bridge, said town Road Foreman Sid Griggs. “The bridge replacement is NOT starting now. . . Fenoff has[Read More…]
Journalism Award recognizes Strand as College Rising Star
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – University of Vermont’s Alex Strand earned several first-place awards in the Better Newspaper competition at the New England Newspaper Association (NENPA) annual meeting last month. Strand worked as an intern with The Hardwick Gazette last summer. The weekly News & Citizen, statewide Seven Days and online VTDigger[Read More…]
Let’s not let town meeting die
Hardwick’s lively town meeting last month has me concerned about what might happen if a petition recently turned in to Town Clerk Tonia Chase passes muster with the select board and then voters. The petition essentially calls for an Australian ballot vote to decide whether “all public questions, town budget[Read More…]
