MONTPELIER – Vermont’s Senate adjourned on Friday evening, ending the 2025-2026 biennium. The 2024 election and an end to the super majority in the House and Senate made it possible for a lot of good work to be accomplished over the last 2 years. Vermonters were rewarded for voting in[Read More…]
Editorial
Erosion
Wind and wavesso in love with the Earththey can’t keepthemselves from returningto the shore Over and over –sand is bornscouring away the hoursof each day, eitherplanned or erratic No angle of reposecan hold backour wearing away. Erin Rosenthal, Woodbury This poem was written for the Verse-Village celebration of April Poetry[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
100 Years ago in The Hardwick Gazette, May 27, 1926 Commissioner H. P. Sheldon to Speak Here Next Week State Fish and Game Commissioner H. P. Sheldon will come here next week Thursday evening, a guest of the Hardwick Rod and Gun Club, and a banquet will be given by[Read More…]
Heller’s World
We find a way to get it done
To the editor: Vermont is small. Small towns, small mountains, small businesses, small schools. It’s why we love it here. On Thursday night the gym at Woodbury Elementary School was packed with community folks there for the spring concert. It was especially joyous as the school budget finally passed the[Read More…]
Lots to do at SpringFest
To the editor: Saturday’s community-wide SpringFest effort was an incredible success that was made so by an amazing team of contributors. An unofficial ‘Hardwick SpringFest Committee’ has been so important to making the weekend the best it could be, with The American Legion Post #7 family, Hardwick Kiwanis Club, Hardwick[Read More…]
Woodsmoke by Julie Atwood
On Memorial Day we recognize graves of veterans in final resting places across the Northeast Kingdom
[Editor’s note: Craftsbury’s Memorial Day observances began with a service, Friday, May 22, at 9 a.m., that began with music in the Craftsbury Academy gym. Greensboro Select Board member and former state senator, Mike Metcalf, shared thoughts about his own and his son’s military service, with a local connection. A[Read More…]
Another Step Forward
The Hardwick Gazette’s spring fundraiser was a success, and marked another step toward financial sustainability. The goal of the campaign was to encourage readers to become monthly donors, the most reliable and consistent source of funds. In all, 24 more readers became monthly sustainers, two made sustaining annual gifts and[Read More…]
I watch her watching
EAST MONTPELIER – The apocalyptic traffic predicted for the last day of the Memorial Day weekend hadn’t become evident before Kiki and I covered the three hours and change from the North Shore back to Montpelier. As usual, I emptied everything temporary out of the car, put the leftovers from[Read More…]
Getting major legislation right
MONTPELIER – It is a little daunting that the legislative session is continuing this late into May, but that is because we are working hard in these final weeks to get several major pieces of legislation right.We are close to reaching an agreement with Governor Scott on the final education[Read More…]
