To the editor: No judge. No jury. No trial. Put him on the ground. Shoot him. He’s dead. Ross Connelly Hardwick
Letters to the Editor
Purple and Gold night: Hardwick Academy heritage
To the editor: Aaron Hill’s infamous Purple and Gold night got its beginnings back on December 30, 2022. What an event it was, reliving the glory days of the Hardwick Academy Terriers. Hill went above and beyond in preparation to make that Hardwick Academy evening one for the history books.[Read More…]
Bridge 31 options being considered
To the editor: Bridge 31 in East Hardwick was removed in April 2024 after flood damage. Since then, people who relied on the bridge have used an alternate crossing. The Town of Hardwick is evaluating long-term options and has begun targeted written outreach to people who relied on Bridge 31[Read More…]
Opportunity to limit ICE
To the editor: Our U.S. Constitution gives people in our country the right to peaceably assemble. It promises free speech rights. It assigns to Congress the powers of declaring war and making the rules concerning captures on land and water. It protects us from unreasonable search and seizures. These rights,[Read More…]
Petitions due for town positions
To the editor: There is no better time than now. Be part of Greensboro’s solutions. Greensboro residents have a week left to raise their batons and help lead the community into the future. Petitions need to be handed into the town clerk’s office by January 26 and you only need[Read More…]
The best
To the editor: Jerry Schneider’s story (“Fiction: Northern Star,” The Hardwick Gazette, December 24, 2025, hardwickgazette.org/2025/12/23/northern-star-1970/) was the best! Great paper through and through. Olive Ylin Hardwick
Dependable service every day
To the editor:As we turn the page on the holidays, I appreciate customers in Wolcott for the patience,kindness and support they showed the local postal service team during the busiest mailing andshipping season of the year.Carriers, clerks and plant teams worked hard to keep mail and packages moving forfamilies, small[Read More…]
I cannot support the Mountainview budget
To the editor: I’m really feeling like the Mountainview Elementary Union School Board is throwing money away. They have already paid $15,000 for an analysis of the Woodbury Elementary School fire escape. If they go forward, the cost of an architect could be around $50,000, with the rebuilding of the[Read More…]
Thoughts on equity in government
To the editor:Last Thursday, in a discussion of this year’s proposed $4.7 million town budget that lasted over an hour, the select board spent 30 minutes debating whether to eliminate a $1,500 allocation to the Equity Committee. The claim that our government “shouldn’t be legislating equity” was repeated several times,[Read More…]
Knotweed challenges
To the editor: Elinor Osborn’s article on behalf of Craftsbury Conservation Commission is an excellent description of the challenges we face in tackling invasive Knotweed and the importance of doing so to protect native environments and pollinators. The Greensboro Conservation Commission (GCC) has discussed and collaborated with a number of neighbouring towns (Craftsbury[Read More…]
Glyphosate does not cause cancer in humans
To the editor: I have sympathy for anyone with cancer and realize many people are looking for a reason as to what caused it, but Roundup (glyphosate) is certainly not the reason. Nancy Riege suggests in her letter to the Hardwick Gazette that her mother’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) could have[Read More…]
We need more wild forests and more ecological forestry
To the editor: We applaud Mr. Riley’s excellent opinion piece on ecological forestry [“Embracing ecological forestry, a new approach to forest management,” VTDigger, November 11, 2025]. We share his love of forests. Forest loss and fragmentation diminish both the vast biological and ecological functions of forests and all the benefits[Read More…]
