Editorial
Sharing some background
To the editor: As part of the Communications Working Group (CWG) that proposed the article adopted at the 2025 Town Meeting to vote for elected officials by Australian ballot, I wanted to share some background. The article was not prepared by one or two people in town at the last[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
Everyone’s in favor of democracy, how best to achieve it?
With area towns discussing town meeting options, The Hardwick Gazette has scheduled an opportunity to learn more about them, June 22, with the program, “Strengthening Local Democracy: Exploring ‘Both/And’ Ideas,” featuring Susan Clark. Clark has worked with towns throughout the region by helping them explore ways to improve both democratic[Read More…]
Heller’s World
The legislative branch is you
GREENSBORO – Right now, our country is in chaos. Many struggle every day with anxiety or fear around the unknown. We’re paying more for groceries, more for fuel, more for medical necessities, more for our taxes and we don’t know when the end will come. Feelings like these affect our[Read More…]
Futurity
Numeral round to numeral round-&-round our sundial ants tug time.Tiny harnesses of light. At night at various variances the stars& moon hitch up the FourSnails of the Apocalypse, but you– for you, little jockey, I slide up & bucklethe two purple stirrups you’ll perchto break the gate & hurl out fluttering silks (o my[Read More…]
Heller’s World
The ship with a ticking time bomb
To the editor: President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law on July 4, 2025, saying at the time that it was “the biggest bill of its kind ever signed” and “it’s going to make this country into a rocket ship.” Well, the ship has a ticking[Read More…]
It’s imperative to make voting accessible
To the editor: Thank you to the Gazette for the article entitled “Towns Develop Creative Solutions to Address Voting Accessibility” from the May 27 edition. Perhaps Greensboro can invent their own style of maximizing voter accessibility while still keeping a Town Meeting Day. Growing up in Michigan and coming to[Read More…]
I would challenge a number of points
To the editor: I am writing this letter in response to Dave Kelley’s opinion piece in last week’s Gazette. Dave and I agree on everything to do with trout fishing and agree to disagree on a large percentage of everything else. His opinion piece is no exception. That said I do agree with Dave that[Read More…]
