MONTPELIER – On Wednesday, the Boston Globe published an article titled “New England schools are failing and nobody seems to care.” At the Agency of Education, we know that Vermonters do care about the quality of our schools. However, we need to acknowledge some difficult truths, so we can move forward with honesty,[Read More…]
Editorial
Heller’s World
Alumni Assn. coin drop receives donations from motorists
To the editor: HARDWICK – The Hardwick Academy/Hazen Union Alumni Association hosted a coin drop in front of the Hardwick fire station, Saturday, Sept. 20, and received many donations from motorists. The Association took to the Wolcott St. location at around 9 a.m. and collected donations throughout the morning, finally[Read More…]
Let’s welcome new neighbors, build homes
This year over 17,000 workers will retire from Vermont’s labor force and approximately 5,300 students will graduate from Vermont high schools. Many of those high school graduates will leave Vermont for college and stay for opportunities outside of Vermont; in fact Vermont measures dead last in the country for retention[Read More…]
We believe in the freedom to read
HARDWICK – It is fundamental to our mission as booksellers that every person has access to the books they want to read. This month, Banned Books Week, October 5 to 11, is a national reminder that this is a freedom that needs to be protected. You might come into our[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
How do news outlets decide what to cover?
KEENE, N.H. – Should we chase down this tip? Is this meeting worth covering? How can we shed new light on this issue? Editors and reporters face those kinds of questions every day. So how do they decide what to cover, and how to cover it? “A question I often[Read More…]
How The Gazette decides what to cover
HARDWICK – For the most part, how we decide what to cover at The Hardwick Gazette is similar to the New Hampshire outlets in Paul Cuno-Booth’s story. As a small hyper-local, and mostly digital, news organization, we are never able to cover everything we’d like to, but each week we[Read More…]
School Redistricting Task Force public engagement session, Oct. 10
MONTPELIER — The Act 73 Task Force is wrapping up its September 29 meeting. We reviewed a map based on current CTEs (Career and Technical Education) and their regional advisory boards. Work will continue on this construct. There is still conversation around maps that could be based on counties, regional high schools or[Read More…]
Update on Redistricting Task Force
GLOVER – Thank you to those of you who attended the September Legislative Coffee Hour at the Highland Center for the Arts today, and a big thank you to HCA for that delicious apple tart. For those of you who could not make it, I shared this update about the[Read More…]
Heller’s World
Listening for the sounds of silence
GREENSBORO – The philosopher Nietzsche famously had a fictional character declare that “God is dead.” That was, to be sure, a metaphorical statement, and one that was meant to be predictive of things to come. (Traditional religion was still prevalent when Nietzsche wrote in the 1880s.) We might think of[Read More…]
