GREENSBORO – After years of residential internet service available only from the telephone company as DSL or wirelessly, residents in parts of Greensboro now have a choice of two broadband internet service providers (ISPs) with the addition of Comcast to NEK Broadband. On September 4. Comcast announced the completion of[Read More…]
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MVU holds redistricting forum, Sept. 11
GREENSBORO – The Mountain View Union (MVU) Elementary School District Board will meet September 11, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Lakeview Early Education Center. The first hour of the meeting will be dedicated to a public forum on the future of MVU given the changes facing school districts[Read More…]
Multi-talented musicians give uplifting benefit concert
GREENSBORO – A very upbeat concert to benefit the Greensboro Nursing Home (GNH) was held Friday evening, August 29, at the United Church of Christ. It featured Roy MacNeil on violin and guitar; Mavis MacNeil on saxophone, flute and vocals; Alice Perron on guitar and vocals; Andrew Koehler on piano[Read More…]
Final seasonal concert features thirty-piece orchestra
GREENSBORO – The final concert of this summer’s Caspian Music season was held on Sunday evening, August 24, at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. The thirty-piece Caspian Chamber Orchestra was skillfully conducted by Paul McShee, and two works featured soprano Andrea Nalywajko, an early Mendelssohn violin concerto[Read More…]
Drought conditions affect Caspian Lake users
GREENSBORO – Caspian Lake’s historically low water levels have been the subject of much conversation in a town that depends on the lake to draw summer visitors. With the lake more than 12 inches below its eight-year average on September 1, and 18 inches below its spring level this year,[Read More…]
Head Start moved to early education center
GREENSBORO – The newly-renamed Lakeview Early Education Center will now host students from Hardwick Head Start school, having moved from their former Church Street home in the Caspian Lake Lodge No. 87 of the Free & Accepted Masons. Details preceding the move were revealed during the August 14 Mountain View[Read More…]
Planning commission holds housing workshop
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Planning Commission (GPC) held a community housing design workshop with lunch, Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Greensboro United Church of Christ (GUCC). The collaborative, hands-on event was part of Greensboro’s ongoing effort to explore options that respond to the town’s growing housing access needs. The workshop[Read More…]
Merlin visits Caspian Lake
Last Margarita Monday
Rewards of honest history
GREENSBORO – After writing about American history for over forty years, I find it surprising that anyone would seriously claim that slavery in this country was not violent, humiliating or oppressive. But there are people who make such claims. Eager to erase aspects of our shared past, they pretend that[Read More…]
McCabe discusses Vermont aquatic life, Sept. 11
GREENSBORO – Declan McCabe, an aquatic ecologist and professor of biology at Saint Michael’s College, will be at Fellowship Hall at Greensboro United Church of Christ on Thursday, September 11, at 5:30 p.m., to discuss and share photographs of organisms found in Vermont’s waterways. His new book, “Turning Stones: Discovering[Read More…]
Second monthly select board meeting set
GREENSBORO – In keeping with its recent decision to hold a second monthly select board meeting, the board decided it will be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month. At the August 13 regular meeting, Chair Macneil suggested the first monthly meeting be structured as usual, with mostly housekeeping[Read More…]
