To the editor: In your front-page article last week about Greensboro’s proposed 1% local option tax [Ed. Note: hardwickgazette.org/2025/11/18/reactions-mixed-on-1-local-option-tax/] your reference to some of my earlier comments on FPF were significantly misleading. The way your article reads made it sound like my strong desire to support long-term rentals (and discourage[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor
Act 181 imposes needless rural development restrictions
To the editor: The public may have heard about Act 181’s reduction of Act 250 review in developed areas. Few have heard of new, major, Act 250 review intrusion in rural areas that does not involve the large developments Act 250 was designed to address. Construction of a single-family home[Read More…]
Holiday boycott targets three companies
To the editor: Kicking off the holiday shopping season, from November 27 to December 1, there is a nation-wide call to boycott three major corporations, demonstrating the power of everyday citizens to vote with their dollars to protest the Trump regime. These companies are Target, which caved to Trump over[Read More…]
Wet yellow road paint splashes car
To the editor: This is to share with others who had the misfortune of getting wet yellow line paint on their car. Late one afternoon this summer, on Route 14 north-bound between Post Road and North Craftsbury Road, the road crew hired by the state engineer to paint the lines[Read More…]
Rapid action needed
To the editor: One of the three maps being developed by Vermont’s Act 73 Redistricting Committee is based around Career and Technical Education (CTE) centers and it poses serious risks to our local schools. In the latest draft of the CTE-based proposal, the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) has been[Read More…]
What brought me out?
To the editor: As the crowd of nearly 300 people gathered in Hardwick, Saturday, Oct. 18, I donned my old crossing guard vest and took my aging, somewhat creaky, body out of its cozy downtown nook (where my husband and I are living, as I care for him, and he,[Read More…]
Few young adults at No Kings Day 2
I was one of four people from my high school who lined South Main Street in Hardwick this past Saturday to participate in the No King Day 2 protest against the Trump administration. It was easy to forget the dreary weather with all of the music and signs waving. What[Read More…]
Questions raised about Cabot select board process
To the editor: There are a couple of takeaways from the Cabot Select Board (SB) meeting Monday night, October 6. One: The SB chair is acting independently from the rest of the board by going to the town lawyer on his own without the knowledge or vote of the rest of the board, which according[Read More…]
People are the sovereign power
On this Saturday, Oct. 18, in communities throughout the U.S., we gather in mass, nonviolent protest to again say “No Kings in America.” Mass nonviolent protest has been effectively used world-wide for generations to demonstrate resistance and refusal to those who would disallow the will of the average folks: the[Read More…]
Stand up and say, “no!”
To the editor: I am thrilled that both the Jewish hostages and the Palestinian prisoners were released today, October 13. President Trump deserves credit for achieving this first major step. However, there is much work to be done before there is actually peace in the Middle East. The actual plan[Read More…]
Good riddance, I say
To the editor: The fascist Trump regime is being widely resisted. People all over the country are standing strong against it: against his ICE Gestapo snatching immigrant workers off the streets and disappearing them into concentration camps, against the dispatching of armed soldiers to cause turmoil in our blue cities[Read More…]
History Repeats
To the editor: It took Hitler 53 days to disable and dismantle Germany’s constitutional republic after he became that country’s Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Within two months he had completed the concentration camp, Dachau, and rounded up prisoners: first political opponents, then trade unionists, gypsies, artists and Jews. It[Read More…]
