To the editor: The Hardwick Children’s Holiday Project 2024 kicked off its 24th year of providing donated gifts of: toys, games, books and hats and mittens to area families with children birth to 17 years in need of assistance, so they may continue a tradition of holiday giving. For 24[Read More…]

To the editor: Property owners may have interpreted last week’s StreamWise article as indicating a 15-foot riparian buffer is sufficient.  However our guidance is that property owner’s should endeavor to maintain a minimum 50-foot buffer on properties over an acre in size and 30-feet for those less than an acre.  In general, the wider and more heavily[Read More…]

To the editor: Just a note to say how wonderful it is to read the Gazette these days. The quality of the pieces and the depth you’re all managing to pull together with limited resources is amazing and the overall feeling of community is incredibly reassuring. Your work is such[Read More…]

To the editor: Amazing job you and your crew did with this edition and the election special edition.  Most impressive.  A valuable resource for your communities.  And I love the personal messages from you about how you did it.  Oh – and I loved the headline:  BYOB – Bring Your[Read More…]

I would like to congratulate the Hazen Union Drama Club for their superb performance of Hardwick, 1924 at the Main Street Cemetery. I thought the acting was really good and learned a lot about the Hardwick families of that time. John Bellavance Hardwick

o the editor: This is fantastic! I’m so glad you were able to make good use of the material and that it helped your staff save time. I love seeing that your visitors nearly quadrupled from a month ago, while time spent on site nearly doubled. We really appreciate your[Read More…]

To the editor: The Hardwick Academy bell was saved by the class of 1970, the last graduating class. It was given to us by the school board at the time and we have taken care of it ever since-over 50 years. The housing structure was so well built in the[Read More…]

To the editor: A thoughtful alumnus asked, “what would happen to the Hardwick Academy Bell (if moved to Hazen), if Hazen Union, in theory, closed its doors?  What would happen to the Bell?”    We, the Hardwick Academy Hazen Union Alumni Association (HAHUAA) committee have discussed at our meetings creating[Read More…]

To the editor: You folks have probably heard all this before, but as a 1963 HA grad, my father, Dean Norcross, a 1936 grad and my grandfather, Ray Norcross almost graduated in the ‘20s (he was a treasured baseball pitcher for the HA team), I wanted to share my opinion (everyone has one!).[Read More…]

To the editor: The Hardwick Academy/Hazen Union Alumni Association met last Thursday morning. The HAHUAA just wants to reiterate, we have mailed out roughly 700 bell ballots using all our H.A. alumni addresses on file. We continue to have envelopes kicked back to us with incorrect addresses.  Everyone should know[Read More…]

To the editor: I support Sabrina Butterick Morrison to represent Hardwick, Walden and Stannard in the Vermont House, a seat that I have held for the past 10 years. In the course of my service in the Vermont House there was often discussion about the legislature’s aging membership. I concluded[Read More…]

To the editor: We are supporting Anthony “Tony” Daniels for Orleans District 4 Representative. Tony grew up on a farm in Albany. As any farmer knows, their kids start working at a young age and take on responsibilities early in life. Tony went on to work in construction-working with his[Read More…]