To the editor: Many (most?) do not know that the Mountain View Union Elementary School District (MVUESD) board has voted to move all preschool students (ages 3-5) to the Lakeview campus and the MVUESD administration has recommended that all kindergarten students be moved there as well, creating what they’re calling[Read More…]
Editorial
Stop Asking If I Want To Have Children
As a young woman in my twenties, I’ve come to expect to field questions about my prospective future. Most people inquire about my hopes for a career, marriage and of course children. I’ve never minded being asked if I want a family. In recent times however, this sentiment has begun[Read More…]
Connecting the Dots
MONTPELIER – In 2020 the Global Warming Solutions Act (Act 153) was passed in defiance of Governor Scott’s veto and without support from a single House or Senate Republican. Act 153 created a private right of action which allows Vermont to be sued as early as 2025 if carbon reduction[Read More…]
Education Committee Prepares for Reform Proposal
MONTPELIER – Over the first two weeks of the new biennium, the House Education Committee has devoted its time to preparing for Governor Scott’s education reform proposal that will be unveiled on January 28. Committee members hope to gain a thorough understanding of Vermont’s current education financing system and the[Read More…]
Make Your Voice Heard This Legislative Session
CRAFTSBURY – The start of a new legislative session in Montpelier always feels like the first day of school: new faces, fresh energy, and the sense that anything is possible. This year, it’s a little different for me personally: it’s the first time in four years that I haven’t been[Read More…]
100 Years Ago This Week, January 22, 1925
The terrible cold snap of Sunday night and Monday morning caused another hot water front accident, in which the lady of the house had a miraculous escape from almost certain death. When Mrs. Norman Michaud started the fire in her kitchen stove Monday morning there was an extra nice bed[Read More…]
Show of Support
To the editor: I would like to acknowledge all the wonderful people who attended this past Wednesday’s Greensboro Selectboard meeting in such cold and blustery weather and online. It was such a strong show of support for the Selectboard and employees. We are all working for the same end, helping[Read More…]
Homo is not yet Sapiens
Some see this birthing-dying world as a blaze of beauty. Some call it dark and dense. Some feel mainly Grace, some toil and pain. But some —no, most— to soothe their fear and vulnerability, apply for membership on well-muscled teams, ones made fit for fight (euphemized as noble combat) which[Read More…]
Just Like the Old Days
To the editor: I saw your story about the Main Street Cannabis Shop. What’s Hardwick coming to? Oh! Just like the old days of no alcohol. Oh well, we know how to handle that. Hardwick had a stage (six-door car) that ran from Hardwick to Montpelier and Hardwick to Newport.Mr. Stratton drove[Read More…]
Village Responds to Fire Disaster
To the editor: After a fire in East Hardwick village destroyed the homes of six families, Helen Beattie of Neighbor-to-Neighbor called and asked if the East Hardwick Neighborhood Organization (EHNO) would organize some meals for one of the families. This family of six includes four children who lost everything that[Read More…]
The Hardwick Gazette by the Numbers
All of us working to create The Hardwick Gazette are happy to report that we’ve had a successful first year, sometimes in spite of ourselves. We feel it’s important to share the details of what’s happening behind the scenes at The Gazette in our new role as a community-owned nonprofit,[Read More…]
Not Anymore!
Oh, my! Greensboro has finally become Washington, D.C!. What a shame. I used to live in a simple community of mostly farmers. Not anymore. Now we have zoom meetings and signs and lawyers. I believe the current problems may have started about five plus years ago when the town held[Read More…]
