Editorial
How to support your local news outlet
Whether by giving a detailed report about education standards, highlighting a local food festival or covering the bankruptcy of a prominent nursing home operator, local news outlets cover stories that affect daily life, stories that might otherwise go untold. “Without local newsrooms, it’s almost impossible to follow everything that’s impacting[Read More…]
Parkhurst reminisces about Village Restaurant career
HARDWICK – Sharon Parkhurst, 60, has been a waitress at the Village restaurant, a Hardwick institution, since she was 16 years old.The local fixture talks about her 34 years at the diner, discussing the people she’s met, the relationships she’s formed and the changes she has witnessed. Q: Do you[Read More…]
Outrage aimed at RFK Jr. unwarranted
The outrage aimed at Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. regarding policy changes made under his leadership at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is unwarranted. Our very own Senator Bernie Sanders has called for Kennedy’s resignation. Democrats, prominent Democratic Party-supporting influencers, most of the mainstream media, and a[Read More…]
For the record:
Following last week’s publication of, “Sterling names Brown to ecology faculty,” Sterling College Director of Communications & Marketing Julia Vallera told us, “Farley has been a Faculty in Ecology for many years so we’re confused why this article is announcing her appointment as something that happened recently.” We received a[Read More…]
Truth telling
HARDWICK – We manifest our fear in our hands, as a physical thing. Sometimes it pricks at our skin and leaves marks; sometimes it results in stiff fingers, cracking from a stiffened clench. The keyboard invites an unbeknownst realization to form, almost as if the clacking of the keys, spelling[Read More…]
Heller’s World: AI
First sips from a bitter cup
GREENSBORO – This week the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense (or War?) gathered 800 generals and admirals for a peculiar sort of political rally. The President told stone-faced generals and admirals they would be crucial in his fight against the “enemy from within” and that[Read More…]
Our stories shape the stories that matter most
HARDWICK – On the occasion of National Newspaper Week, October 5 to 11 this year, it seems appropriate to share this perspective from a fellow editor, modified with a local perspective. It seems like about every time I am out in public, no matter what the occasion, once someone realizes[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
It’s time to resist the roundup
In tracking down information to write the story of ICE rounding up nine foreigners in Hardwick on September 26, and this week trying to track them through their Vermont imprisonment, with state, ICE and third-party websites (where I came up mostly empty, by the way), it’s clear that it’s not[Read More…]
Wolcott in the news, Act 73
HARDWICK – Recently, we saw a perfect example of what a determined, small community can achieve. Wolcott, one of the smaller towns in our supervisory union, was recently highlighted on Channel 3 WCAX for exceptional community work on bike trails that run through the forest adjacent to the school. While[Read More…]
