CABOT – The winter garden is an underrated joy. Even in the deepest part of winter, a garden can be full of interest and beauty, full of different heights and textures and colors. If you would like to enjoy your garden year-round, the key is to incorporate trees, shrubs, and[Read More…]
Editorial
Houseplant care during winter months
BURLINGTON – Winter has officially arrived, bringing unique challenges in caring for houseplants. At this time of year, we experience less intense and fewer hours of sunlight. For most indoor plants, the lack of daylight signals a special kind of dormancy called quiescence. During this period, plants conserve their energy[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…]
Woodsmoke
Heller’s World
For the record:
The first paragraph of the December 24 story, “Superior Court orders bail hearing for murder suspect,” should have read “The Vermont Supreme Court has ordered a lower, trial court to hold a bail hearing and establish conditions for the release of a Morrisville man held without bail since his August[Read More…]
