Editorial
Gazette conversation with Hardwick this Sunday, Oct. 26
This Sunday afternoon in the Jeudevine Memorial Library’s new Parker Ladd Community Room, The Hardwick Gazette will be holding the second in our series of community conversations with each of the towns we cover. During this conversation we hope to share some of what you may not already know about[Read More…]
For the record:
Last week’s story, “Consideration of new public safety building brings out residents,” should have indicated the petition asked for a yes or no vote on the question of building a new Cabot Public Safety Building and not for construction of the building.
Will Vermont grads be left behind in financial literacy?
BURLINGTON – In six short years, 73% of high school graduates from 30 states will have to take a semester-long personal finance course that covers the subject thoroughly to graduate. After high school, these financially literate young people will use their personal finance education every day of their lives. They[Read More…]
Heller’s World
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…]
Heller’s World: Rest-in-peace prize
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…]
Capturing the administration’s cruelty
A shout out to Julie Atwood for her timely cartoon in the October 8 issue of The Hardwick Gazette. With a subtle use of color, she captures the cruelty and absurdity of the administration’s efforts to intimidate and control the population. Kudos to her. Shame on President Trump and his[Read More…]
