GREENSBORO BEND – More than a general store, more than a convenience store, Smith’s Grocery has long served as a community cornerstone for people in and around Greensboro Bend. Some local residents begin their day by stopping at Smiths for a cup of coffee or to fill up their tanks. Some[Read More…]
Columns
The gift of Advent
EAST MONTPELIER – In recent years, how many of us have found ourselves shaking our heads and bemoaning how Christmas appears to be in retrograde motion, creeping backwards ever closer to Thanksgiving? More recently, I find my head not just shaking, but spinning, as I try to wrap it around[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By, Dec. 10 1925
ADAMANT ––– Services in the church next Sunday at the usual hour. Earl Slayton took a truckload of Christmas trees to Plainfield last week. C.E. Carlson and wife were in Worcester Sunday. Leona Baldwin was taken to the Heaton Hospital, Montpelier, Sunday night, and was operated on Monday morning. Messrs.[Read More…]
Trappers and educators protect Vermont against invasive beetle
VERMONT – Across six sites in Vermont’s forests, Savannah Ferreira and her team of trappers are on the lookout for six-legged invaders. If the rogues establish a stronghold here, they will pillage tree habitats and hold sugar producers hostage. The trappers cloak lures in forest camouflage to spring on their[Read More…]
Holiday gifts for gardeners
CORNISH FLAT, N.H. – New England skies in winter are often cloudy and dark, accompanied by sleet, slush, rain or snow. The sun sleeps late and goes to bed early. Gardeners sometimes give up and go to Florida. Not me, but there is much I do to make the holidays[Read More…]
First winter storm of the season, cold comes creeping in
HARDWICK – Precipitation fell mostly as light snow during the past week. Heavy snow showers arrived Tuesday as the first major winter storm of the season blanketed much of New England. Temperatures hovered near seasonal norms with lows in the 20’s and highs in the low 30’s. On the weather[Read More…]
When the wheels fall off
EAST MONTPELIER – On an early spring day in 1958 I was tooling north in Constance Green, my trusty old Plymouth, on Route 9N in New York State, with Lake Champlain off to my right. The frost heaves were fierce, but in those days I treated them more like ski[Read More…]
The value of expressing gratitude in all things
MORRISVILLE – At work recently, we had training on conflict resolution. After learning about the harm that unresolved conflict can have on a place of business, and going through ways of dealing with conflict rather than ignoring it, we ended with a gratitude exercise. Each person had a paper with[Read More…]
65 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette, December 1, 1960
65 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette, December 1, 1960 SCUDDER PARKER TO BE ORDAINED SUNDAY A Service for Ordination for Scudder M. Parker, who has been serving as pastor of the United Church of Hardwick since September, 1958, will be held at the local church this Sunday evening, Dec.[Read More…]
100 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette, December 1, 1925
100 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette, December 1, 1925 Breaks Leg While Sliding The boys and girls of this village should take heed of the almost serious accident which befell Raymond Benway, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benway, last night, while coasting on Kimball Hill, one of[Read More…]
Winter visitor: Rough-legged Hawk
MILLBROOK, N.Y. – In late autumn, cold air masses come barreling down from the Canadian Arctic like an atmospheric avalanche, bringing with them a visitor from the North: the rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus). Its arrival is not as heralded as that of another arctic invader, the snowy owl, but the[Read More…]
Considerations when giving holiday plants
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – During the holidays, an eye-catching display of plants may seem like the perfect gift solution, particularly at the last minute. Is the intended recipient a plant lover? Will they welcome the gift, or will it be something they’ll feel obligated to water (when they remember) and[Read More…]
