by David Kelley GREENSBORO – For several years, I worked in the former Soviet republics where I learned a profound respect for the Ukrainian people. In recent years, I have been even more awed by the Ukrainian peoples’ heroic determination to build a free and democratic country in the shadow[Read More…]
Editorial
Protecting the Rich
To the editor: The newly elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has revealed his priorities: protect the Republicans’ rich backers. Funds from the Inflation Reduction Act to allow the Internal Revenue System to ensure that large corporations and high-income and high-wealth individuals pay taxes owed, will[Read More…]
Who Decides?
To the editor: Who decides whether a woman has autonomy over her own health/body decisions? The woman in consultation with her doctor, or five male Justices who were hand-picked for nomination by the Federalist Society, a right wing, conservative organization led by an ardent forced birth advocate, and then shoehorned[Read More…]
Cultivating Climate Change Leaders through Liberal Arts Education
by Moxie Mehegan, CRAFTSBURY COMMON – Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting every aspect of human life and the natural world. As we grapple with the consequences of environmental degradation, it has become increasingly evident that addressing climate change requires a multidisciplinary and[Read More…]
Witches Broom and Fairy Rings
by Elizabeth McCarthy like children lost in the dark forest we who are old wander an unfamiliar path where nature leaves her clues for us to doubt and wonder if we ever knew reality now that light is fading and shadows cloak us in chill when earth places before us[Read More…]
For the Record
HARDWICK – As a clarification to the Hardwick Select Board meeting as reported in the October 18 edition of the Gazette, the Jeudevine Library addition will be attached to the side of the existing building but a redesign was necessary to raise the addition up due to the excessive groundwater.
Reconsider the Fate of Hardwick Lake
To the editor: In the light of the latest flood and the likelihood that we will see even more severe storms in our future, is it time to reconsider the fate of Hardwick Lake and Jackson Dam? I know that years ago we voted to keep those local icons since I[Read More…]
For the Record
HARDWICK – The unapproved minutes of the Hardwick Select Board, which formed the basis of the front-page story in the August 16 edition of the Hardwick Gazette (Library Expansion Facing Groundwater Challenge, fourth paragraph) were approved to read, “While working with residents and FEMA, there have been six potential properties identified[Read More…]
See More Wild
by Jerry Schneider HARDWICK – I take my dog up the hill in Hardwick every now and then. Today I was half way up and noticed the small field to the right that is often mowed. This morning it was flourishing with red clove and English Plantain and milkweed and[Read More…]
Three Local People Attend Moral Poverty Action Congress
by Zarina CastroWALDEN – Three people from the Gazette’s coverage area, Pastor Ed Sunday-Winters from Greensboro United Church of Christ, Amy Lester of Plainfield, from the Vermont Workers’ Center, and Deacon Zarina Castro of Walden, from the Church of St. John’s in the Mountains, joined 13 others from Vermont to[Read More…]
Regarding the School Board Meeting at Lakeview Elementary School:
by Peter and Sandy Gebbie GREENSBORO – Congratulations, Greensboro! you showed up at the recent OSUESD school board meeting as they were flirting with closing our school. Great job but be ready. I don’t think the board is done, especially as they are led by a superintendent that obviously would[Read More…]
