The Hardwick Gazette is on Vacation. Look for our first issue of 2024 on January 10. The Hardwick Gazette is now published by Northeast Kingdom Public Journalism, Inc. We are a community owned, non-profit corporation committed to carrying on a 134 year publishing tradition. Our mission is to offer fair[Read More…]
Editorial
The Bell Needs to Stay
To the editor: The class of HA (Hardwick Academy) Class of 1970 preserved the bell for the Town of Hardwick and the HA Alumni. Our class gathered over 400 signatures on a petition in June, 1970 and presented it to the Hardwick Town School Board requesting the bell remain in Hardwick. The[Read More…]
Priorities Set for Coming Year
by Rep. Katherine Sims, Orleans 4 CRAFTSBURY – The second half of the 2023-2024 legislative biennium begins Wednesday, January 3. Thank you to everyone who filled out my priorities poll or shared your thoughts over the summer. Our top priorities are: Housing (32%), Climate action (32%), Education (32%), Healthcare (30%),[Read More…]
For the Record
HARDWICK – In the story about the Hardwick Select Board on Page 1 of the December 20 edition, it was reported that the board voted to adopt the town’s updated All-Hazards Mitigation Plan. The item was on the agenda, but after discussion the motion was withdrawn.
Some Thoughts about the Hardwick Academy Bell
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…]
Slava Ukraine: Setting the Record Straight
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…]
Protecting the Rich
To the editor: The newly elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has revealed his priorities: protect the Republicans’ rich backers. Funds from the Inflation Reduction Act to allow the Internal Revenue System to ensure that large corporations and high-income and high-wealth individuals pay taxes owed, will[Read More…]
Who Decides?
To the editor: Who decides whether a woman has autonomy over her own health/body decisions? The woman in consultation with her doctor, or five male Justices who were hand-picked for nomination by the Federalist Society, a right wing, conservative organization led by an ardent forced birth advocate, and then shoehorned[Read More…]
Cultivating Climate Change Leaders through Liberal Arts Education
by Moxie Mehegan, CRAFTSBURY COMMON – Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting every aspect of human life and the natural world. As we grapple with the consequences of environmental degradation, it has become increasingly evident that addressing climate change requires a multidisciplinary and[Read More…]
Witches Broom and Fairy Rings
by Elizabeth McCarthy like children lost in the dark forest we who are old wander an unfamiliar path where nature leaves her clues for us to doubt and wonder if we ever knew reality now that light is fading and shadows cloak us in chill when earth places before us[Read More…]
For the Record
HARDWICK – As a clarification to the Hardwick Select Board meeting as reported in the October 18 edition of the Gazette, the Jeudevine Library addition will be attached to the side of the existing building but a redesign was necessary to raise the addition up due to the excessive groundwater.
