Where the order of things,randomly organized in cycles isimperceptible through the passing of time or within a fraction of timeWhere everything begins and everything ends seen or unseen.I enter this timeless space belonging to it but also an intrudera naive observermeasurable and predictableyet also impetuously unpremeditatedSomething wild in the woods[Read More…]
Editorial
Purple coneflower is easy-to-grow perennial
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Purple coneflower’s (Echinacea purpurea) daisy-like flower adds a pop of color to a yard. They’re a great choice for an easy-to-grow, native perennial. Coneflowers are hardy in United States Department of Agriculture Hardiness Zones 4 to 9. Some varieties are hardy to Zone 3. Check the[Read More…]
Words Out Loud series begins Sept. 14
CALAIS – “Words Out Loud,” Sunday afternoon fall reading series, returns as part of event offerings for Art at the Kent’s exhibit, “Holding,” at the Kents’ Corner State Historic Site. “Words Out Loud: Knowing by Heart,” features six Vermont authors, two on each of three Sundays in September. On September 14, author[Read More…]
The time to make a gift is now
Dear Friends of The Hardwick Gazette, Your opportunity to double a gift to The Gazette in our summer fund drive begins now. Community members have offered a total of $5,000 in matching funds for the last days of the drive. Which means that your gift will be doubled if you[Read More…]
Resist silence of small surrenders
To the editor: Creeping normality is one of those quiet forces that reshapes our lives while we’re not looking. It rarely shouts. It whispers. It nudges. And by the time we notice, the landscape has changed beneath our feet. We know this in our personal lives. The extra pound or[Read More…]
Always the best shots
To the editor: Vanessa is one on-the-job photographer, always the best shots,knowing what and how to get the most from photography, wherever you are and whatever the event. Her name will go down in Hardwick history for giving us and future generations and historians, the scene, at the exact time and date.[Read More…]
Process is politically corrupt
To the editor: Texas is now in the process of redistricting its U.S. CongressionalDistricts. Vermont and six other states have one at large representative in the United States House. The pros and cons of electing each representative based on the population number in each state rather thancreating geographic Congressional Districts[Read More…]
Act 73 – OSSU next steps?
Have you been wondering what will come of our local schools and Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) administration under the new education law? Me too! I encourage you to read my op-ed last month in The Gazette and other papers statewide, which lays out the basics of what may happen[Read More…]
Hanzas vows to protect Vermont voter data
MONTPELIER – As the chief elections officer of the State of Vermont, I am proud of the work my office does to keep Vermont elections free, fair, accessible and accurate. Vermonters may have heard of recent outreach from the federal government to states asking for voter information, including state voter[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
Sacramental Space
Up here north, in verdant friend Vermont,as today’s dawn seeped in,I walked our grassy, backyard labyrinth,as mowed upon our mound.Deep thanks rose up—and now recur—for her who fashioned such a sacramental space,and shares this brickless, green cathedral(and that of her life) each day with me.When the labyrinth path led me[Read More…]
