To the editor: Thank you so much to the staff and authors for your April 1 edition. At the end of winter in Vermont we needed the laugh. J.L. in a website comment Great fun and thanks for getting my quote correct!!! S.A., Greensboro As a summer resident of Ashenhurst[Read More…]

To the editor: Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is proposing to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This cannot help but affect the care that our veterans receive when attempting to access and benefit from their VA benefits. Positions have already been[Read More…]

To the Editor: I would like to address my dearest friends, neighbors and allies in Canada. I am writing in the hopes you will consider taking on Vermont as your 11th Province. If not as a Province, perhaps a territory.  We have enjoyed so much freedom, support and genuine caring[Read More…]

To the editor: I have attached a transcript of my remarks, accepting a nomination to the Greensboro Select Board, March 4. “Thank you, I really appreciate your support and your confidence in me. First, a word about the professional experience that I would bring to this role: I received an[Read More…]

To the editor: As American Legion Post 7 in Hardwick prepares for the nomination of officers at our next meeting on Thursday, March 20, at 7 p.m., (more on that in a moment), we would like to invite all veterans who have served at any time since December 7, 1941,[Read More…]

To the editor: As a retired (2010) employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), I am deeply disappointed in the Trump Administration actions to dismember USAID. Such actions reflect a willful disregard of the positive role performed by foreign aid in U.S. relations with most of the rest[Read More…]

To the editor: I have nothing good to say about the Vance/Trump “made-for-tv-performance” in the White House last Friday, so best not to say anything at all. If you can, please show support for the country of Ukraine and its leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky, who during the brief White House[Read More…]

To the editor:For the past few weeks, since Jan. 20, to be exact, “DOGE” is the word that captures the attention of the printed and broadcast press, and the public. But how best to declare the meaning and pronunciation of this amalgamation of letters? (Lexicographers, please take note.)It certainly is[Read More…]

To the editor: We are in a dangerous time for the USA. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United case allowed unlimited amounts of money (“free speech”) to buy elections. And here we are, on the brink of losing our American democracy that has served us for 250 years, thanks to out-of-control billionaires and[Read More…]

To the editor: My fellow man; greetings and welcome to the greatest show on earth: life!I’ll continue this begging in my literary nature, with a quotation from the Baltimore Evening Sun, a mere 102 years ago, February 12, 1923, with H.L. Mencken taking credit:“The fact is that the average man’s[Read More…]

To the editor: I admire the effort, strength and resolve required to publish the “hometown” Hardwick Gazette. Clearly a team effort by you and the staff. End result: an impressive publication of news about NEK and the people within. Success is a rare commodity in today’s era of newspapers closing[Read More…]