EAST MONTPELIER – Most of us have always been told, and believe it, too, that for wisdom we should look to our elders. At my age, however, I’ve about run out of elders, and I don’t feel particularly wise, myself. But I’ve discovered something that’s changing my attitude: my kids[Read More…]
Editorial
Heller’s World by Joe Heller
The Mountains Remember Me
(A love letter to Vermont, from a Hardwick girl holding still for a moment before the world pulls again.) My life has never followed a straight line. It bent. It wandered. Still, it brought me back. Not by accident. Vermont called me home. In the Northeast Kingdom, the land does[Read More…]
Walden Home Dem celebrates 80th anniversary
WALDEN – The Walden Home Dem group (home demonstrators) is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. The first week in May is “National Home Demonstration Week.” The Walden Home Dem group held its first meeting on January 14, 1946, at the home of Betty Hatch, who was then elected their[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
One-hundred years ago in The Hardwick Gazette, May 20, 1926 WILBER FISK MEMORIAL, M. E. CHURCH Craftsbury, Vermont Last Thursday morning Mr. LeBaron of Morrisville, head sarpenter (sic), appeared on the church lot with two helpers, and began to erect forms for the concrete wall. About ten o’clock Mr. Debrune[Read More…]
Our children need your vote
To the editor: The schoolchildren of Greensboro, Hardwick, Stannard and Woodbury need your vote to pass their budget. Twice now, a small number of budget opponents, roughly or less than 10% of our towns’ combined electorate, defeated the proposed budget of Mountain View Union Elementary School District. On March 3,[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
It’s time to take the train
HARDWICK – Every so often, amid the ever flowing stream of garbage coming up from Washington, D.C., something gets lost and forgotten. This time, it is the functioning government we expect our taxes to be paying for. Did anyone else forget we were in the midst of a historically long[Read More…]
Heller’s World
Nowadays it’s most likely a Sharpie
EAST MONTPELIER – Charles Dickens, as most of us have read, went to work in a boot-black factory at the age of twelve to help with his family’s expenses after his father, John Dickens, had been sentenced to debtor’s prison. The factory, not surprisingly, was in a sagging, tumbledown old[Read More…]
Town meeting is more than voting
HARDWICK – This year’s Hardwick Town Meeting was one of the best in years with an impressive turnout of 250 people. The only other time I see that many people come together in town is for a Hazen basketball game or the school’s graduation. This town has had its share[Read More…]
Legislators consider yield, other education bills
HARDWICK – We continue to pay close attention to our legislators and the Governor in Montpelier. As I write this report, we have the Senate and House converging on a bit of a showdown on Act 73 legislation. The House adopted H.955, which has a built in period of time[Read More…]
