by Karl Stein Patrick Larson’s February 20 post regarding “Closing Lakeview” stated that “For those wondering, the cost to educate a student at both Woodbury and Hardwick Elementary is in the neighborhood of $15,000/pupil. At Lakeview the cost is $31,317/pupil. Any argument that doesn’t acknowledge equity disparity and affordability is[Read More…]

EAST MONTPELIER – The Senate Appropriations Committee is a distillation of everything I don’t like about the Senate as a whole. It’s heavily weighted toward seniority. The senior solons get near-total deference from any junior colleague who manages to wedge their way onto the committee. Those veteran members are a[Read More…]

GREENSBORO – Years ago, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, two friends and I began organizing high school exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Republics in hopes of reducing some of the tensions between our countries. At one point we had a group of students here from[Read More…]

by Jennifer Thompson GREENSBORO BEND – Are you born into it? Do you sign up for it in kindergarten? Do you have to attend school in the Hardwick district? Is it an oath? Often this wanders through my mind while attending Hazen Union basketball games. I am a Kansas girl:[Read More…]

by Rep. Anne Donahue (R), Northfield and Rep. Katherine Sims (D), Craftsbury MONTPELIER – Vermont has the opportunity to do the right thing for our farmers and loggers and to do it the Vermont way. Last year the Vermont House passed a pro-farmer, pro-logger, pro-market, pro-commonsense piece of legislation with[Read More…]

Mandy L. Draper, community member and parent HARDWICK – I am writing this piece as a community member. These views are my own personal views and are not that of the school board. My writings are not endorsed by the school board or anyone in the district: these are my[Read More…]

by Rebecca Tatistcheff, Ed. D., Principal, Cabot School CABOT – Vermont has some of the most progressive education legislation in the country. Laurie Gagnon of the Aurora Institute recently wrote, “What’s especially important about Vermont’s approach is that it sets a vision for shifting the education system as a whole[Read More…]

by Robin Cappuccino GREENSBORO – There will be a community forum on the background of the current crisis in Gaza and path ahead on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7 p.m., at the Greensboro United Church of Christ. Speaking will be Hamed Bakir, a Palestinian-American living in Fairfax, and the uncle[Read More…]

by Meghan Luther, GMTCC Forestry Instructor HARDWICK – Some know, some do not. Over this past school year the forestry and land management program was faced with low (zero new) student enrollment. This means that the forestry program was not running this year. Since then there have been numerous RAB[Read More…]

by David F. Kelley GREENSBORO – In his Inaugural Address John Kennedy challenged us to: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” It was a reminder to America that democracy driven by self interest is doomed to fail, but we[Read More…]

by Brenda Eastman, Outgoing HA/HU Alumni President HARDWICK – The Hardwick Academy (HA) Bell, apart from HA yearbooks, is the last tangible touchstone for HA alumni and families to their Hardwick Academy lives and history. For most of us, it reminds us of some of the best friendships and times of[Read More…]

by David Kelley GREENSBORO – For several years, I worked in the former Soviet republics where I learned a profound respect for the Ukrainian people. In recent years, I have been even more awed by the Ukrainian peoples’ heroic determination to build a free and democratic country in the shadow[Read More…]