To the editor: After a fire in East Hardwick village destroyed the homes of six families, Helen Beattie of Neighbor-to-Neighbor called and asked if the East Hardwick Neighborhood Organization (EHNO) would organize some meals for one of the families. This family of six includes four children who lost everything that[Read More…]
Editorial
The Hardwick Gazette by the Numbers
All of us working to create The Hardwick Gazette are happy to report that we’ve had a successful first year, sometimes in spite of ourselves. We feel it’s important to share the details of what’s happening behind the scenes at The Gazette in our new role as a community-owned nonprofit,[Read More…]
Moving the Needle to Address Vermont’s Housing Crisis
CRAFTSBURY – Together, we can move the needle on addressing Vermont’s housing crisis and ensure our rural towns remain places where families and businesses can thrive. Vermont is facing a housing crisis. The lack of affordable housing is making it increasingly difficult for young families, seniors and essential workers to[Read More…]
We Won’t Forget Vermonters
ST. JOHNSBURY – More than any post-election period that I can recall, Vermonters remain heavily engaged since November’s election: so engaged, that many want to know why the problems highlighted on November 5 haven’t already been fixed: education property taxes, housing affordability and availability, healthcare costs, public safety, and the[Read More…]
Balint Recounts Legislative Activities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 2024 has been a challenging year for many of us. For another summer, we had to dig out from devastating flooding, landslides, and mudslides. Families are struggling to afford housing and other basic needs. And it can feel at times like our country is more divided than[Read More…]
Checks & Balances
For the Record
The December 25 year-in-review article about Craftsbury should have said, “Craftsbury Saplings Received a $50,000 planning grant from First Children’s Finance Vermont to help with the planned expansion project.”
Not Anymore!
Oh, my! Greensboro has finally become Washington, D.C!. What a shame. I used to live in a simple community of mostly farmers. Not anymore. Now we have zoom meetings and signs and lawyers. I believe the current problems may have started about five plus years ago when the town held[Read More…]
We Must End this Madness
To the editor: The 17,000 Palestinian children who have died in the last 15 months of assault on their country did not ask to be killed. Not the ones who died a slow anguished death under the rubble of their bombed-out homes, nor those obliterated by other weaponry provided by[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
Look To the Light
Willem Lange’s column last week got me to contemplating the connection he made between religious celebrations at this time of year and the return of daylight after the winter solstice; Saturday, Dec. 21, this year. At a time of divisive political rhetoric, it seems worthwhile to remember that the sun[Read More…]
For the record
In last week’s article, “WEC Manager Authorized to Sell Wrightsville Hydro Plant,” minutes of the board’s October 30 meeting were revised at the November meeting, December 4, they became available December 18. The correct quotes from those amended minutes are, “A Motion made by Director Hamilton, seconded by Director Douglas,[Read More…]
