EAST MONTPELIER — The week started off Friday night at midnight with a full lunar eclipse. A thick, rain-filled warm front followed right behind, and the snow began receding from my yard. Sugar-makers began posting steam-filled photographs of their operations, which will be followed shortly by more photos of two-wheel[Read More…]
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Mud Season, March 19, 1925
Pleasant for People Early, Good Day for Sugarmaking Sat.
HARDWICK – With weather warming and rain forecast overnight Sunday, a series of alerts went out to Hardwick residents who have signed up for the TextMyGov systems at hardwickvt.gov/hardwick-textmygov/. Just before 8 p.m. Sunday, the first alert warned, “Due to rising river levels and expected rainfall overnight, the Lamoille River[Read More…]
Lamoille Birders Win Vermont County Quest
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — From the Northeast Kingdom to the Massachusetts border, and from the Connecticut River to the waters of Lake Champlain, Vermont’s teaming birding community once again took part in the Vermont e-Bird County Quest in 2024. Marking the 14th year, this event continued to bolster Vermont’s enormous database[Read More…]
Close Encounters with a Canadian Lynx and Bald Eagle
HARDWICK – I was kayaking in mid-September with my partner in New Hampshire. We got out of our boats on the backside of the lake to explore the shoreline a bit. We saw abundant signs of wildlife on the sandy shore. We walked a ways and then returned to our[Read More…]
Surprising Sugarmakers in the Late Winter Woods
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As steam rises from sugarhouse cupolas and early morning coffee pots, sugarmakers are working overtime to turn maple sap into golden syrup. But as it turns out, they aren’t alone: other living things are sugaring too, and their stories affect the syrup that is poured on[Read More…]
Indoor Herb Gardening
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Winter weather may be on the wane, but it will still be a while before we can get outdoors and work in the soil. Even so, there’s no reason not to enjoy fresh, homegrown herbs. Herbs grown indoors don’t care what the temperature is outside, whether[Read More…]
We Never Saw the Like Again
EAST MONTPELIER — The year 1985 has often moved me to invoke Shakespeare: “So fair and foul a year I have not seen.” But let’s focus on just the fair for the next few minutes. In the middle of an Alaskan February night, Dudley and I were skiing on a[Read More…]
We are Close
HARDWICK — A visitor entering the Jeudevine Memorial Library addition via the West Church Street entryway this week would have a very clear picture of the floor space and traffic flow through the new building. We are that close! A right turn out of the vestibule leads into the primary[Read More…]
The Hardwick Gazette, Thursday, March 12, 1925
A Challenge. A team of basketball players composed of the employees of the Woodbury Granite Company, wish in this way to challenge the winners of the Merchants-Clerks game, which was won by the former, to a game to be played in the near future. The W. G.C. boys guarantee to[Read More…]
More Mild Weather Ahead For The Weekend
HARDWICK – Spring season conditions blended with intermittent snow showers during the past week. High temperatures peaked in the upper 40s before everyone woke Friday morning to blustery conditions and a couple of inches of snow. Despite some rainfall and snowmelt that preceded the scattered snow showers, the threat of[Read More…]
Muse Not News
SHELBURNE — March madness has a whole new meaning for me this year. It has nothing to do with basketball. Listening to my muse is more constructive than taking in too much news. Even when I briefly check the day’s events, I’m listening for poetry. Rep. Becca Balint invites us[Read More…]
