HARDWICK – The Hazen Union girls basketball team thumped Winooski and Danville last week for their 27th consecutive victory, breaking a nearly 50-year school record held by all-time great head coach Jan Howard and generational talent Penny Libercent. Super sophomore Kelsie Rivard drained a career-high six threes on her way[Read More…]
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Community Displays Support for Board
GREENSBORO — The January 8 select board meeting began with residents voicing a variety of opinions; many in support of the board, with others sharing points of contention and some with mixed comments. “There’s been a lot of recent controversy, we may not all agree on everything but we’re admiring[Read More…]
Cabot Task Force Ready for Flood-protection Upgrades
CABOT —- Bright rainbow colors mark the flood levels in hydraulic mapping of Cabot Village released this past fall. But they show a decidedly gloomy forecast. With existing infrastructure, a 100-year flood could transform the street into a stream, with water levels reaching about eight feet deep. A 500-year flood[Read More…]
General Store Project Awarded Architectural Excellence Citation
EAST CALAIS – R. Edwards & Company has been awarded an AIA Vermont (AIAVT) Citation for Excellence in Architecture for its East Calais General Store project at this year’s AIAVT Annual Design Awards, December 5. The AIAVT Excellence in Architecture Design Awards are the highest state-level architecture awards conferred in Vermont.[Read More…]
OSSU Schools Closed, Dec. 11
Due to icy road conditions, all schools in Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union are CLOSED, today, Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Stay safe!
Plainfield Co-op Balances Nostalgia, Growth with Planned Expansion
The faint smell of incense and a familiar scene of narrow aisles stocked with local food greet visitors to the Plainfield Co-op. The single 1,200-square-foot room in Plainfield village boasts a wood-paneled ceiling and can be thoroughly perused in minutes. “It feels like a trip to the 1970s,” co-op board[Read More…]
Harple to Prioritize Rural Needs, Education
GLOVER – Leanne Harple of Glover, mother, teacher and traveled Vermonter, became one of only two democrats elected to the Vermont House of Representatives from the Northeast Kingdom on November 5. She’ll take her seat representing Albany, Craftsbury, Glover and Greensboro for the Orleans-4 House District in January. Harple says[Read More…]
Beck Prioritizes Education Funding and Housing Costs
CALEDONIA COUNTY – Rep. Scott Beck says he spent Wednesday after the election decompressing after a long campaign that began with a contested primary. His election to the Vermont Senate will have him representing all 12 Caledonia County towns that include Hardwick, Walden and Stannard in the Gazette area. By[Read More…]
Candidates Share Election Comments
AREA TOWNS – Last Tuesday’s election on November 5 featured GOP wins in the Caledonia and Orleans Senate races as well as the Caledonia-4 House race, all of which had been filled for many years by Democrats. Bucking that trend, in a close race, Democrat Leanne Harple of Glover was[Read More…]
Team Rubicon’s Greyshirts Bring Welcome Aid Post-flood
HARDWICK – David and Gail O’Brien live on a bank of the Lamoille River in East Hardwick. This year the river rose 12 inches higher than it had in the flood exactly a year earlier. Sandbags protected their house on July 10 and 11, this year, but their four-bay garage[Read More…]
Lamoille River and Cooper Brook Flood Agenda, Tax Rates Set
HARDWICK – The board set tax rates and discussed the effects of both this year’s July 10 and 11 flooding and last year’s, appointed a new Hardwick Police Department (HPD) officer, heard a Hardwick Electric Department (HED) update and agreed to sell two town owned properties. The total FY25 residential[Read More…]
Staff RIFed following failed budget votes
HARDWICK, WOLCOTT – Following voters’ rejection of both the Wolcott and Mountain View Union (MVU) School District budgets last week, staff received an email message April 10, notifying them contracts for the coming school year would be delayed. School board meetings this week on Wednesday in Wolcott and Thursday in[Read More…]
