GREENSBORO – The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Greensboro Gorillas that day: the score stood three to zero, with but one more round to play, and then when Fredericks died with the first wheel and Hanowski did the same, a pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. The[Read More…]
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Community Workshop First Event of Energy Efficiency Group
GREENSBORO – A new multi-town energy efficiency group, Save Energy NEK, sponsored its first event on Saturday Feb. 3, at the Greensboro Free Library. The community workshop, led by Aaron Heyerdahl, an energy educator with the Vermont Energy Education Program (VEEP), focused on home heat transfer and how to weatherize[Read More…]
Local Vermonters Rally for Justice
MONTPELIER – Vermonters from across the state came together in the capital city on Saturday, Jan. 27, to call on the state’s decision-makers to address current economic, social and environmental injustice for the sake of the next generation. Specifically, rally goers want legislators and the governor to create a more equitable,[Read More…]
Greensboro Association Awarded Grant for Decontamination Station
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Association (GA) has been awarded a nearly $22,000 grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program that will allow for the creation and maintenance of a decontamination station to be located at the Caspian Lake boat launch area. The station will provide hot, pressurized water to clean[Read More…]
After 143 Years, Greensboro Bend Church Holds Final Service
by Nancy Hill, Community Journalist GREENSBORO BEND – Members and friends of the United Methodist Church gathered on Sunday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m., for a service to mark the closing of the church that had served the community since 1881. Rev. Jill Colley Robinson, the district superintendent of the[Read More…]
More Greensboro Association Grants Support Flood Recovery
GREENSBORO – Another round of Greensboro Association Community Relief Fund grants is supporting local organizations assisting those most impacted after massive flooding devastated the region in July. This latest round of grants went to Greensboro United Church of Christ, Smith’s Grocery, Center for an Agricultural Economy, Hardwick Area Food Pantry,[Read More…]
Select Board Discusses Petition to Close Lakeview School
GREENSBORO – At its January 10 regular meeting, the Greensboro Select Board heard an update on the library’s participation in an energy resilience program, decided to ask Stannard to contribute more to the fire department budget and discussed the petition to close Lakeview School. Beth Meachem, a trustee for the[Read More…]
Area Residents Gather to Show Solidarity with Lakeview Elementary School
GREENSBORO — At a gathering at Lakeview Elementary School in Greensboro on Tuesday, January 9, to discuss a petition to close the school, it was clear that many would say, as did Daniel Webster of Dartmouth College, “It is a small school, but there are those who love it.” Bobbie[Read More…]
Silence and Soup Returns
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro United Church of Christ will provide a space for silence (20 minutes in the church sanctuary) and soup (40 minutes in Fellowship Hall) on Tuesday, February 6. Sitting in silence, even for a few minutes, is a practice followed by many people. It is known to[Read More…]
School Board Considers Petition to Close Lakeview Elementary
by Gazette Staff GREENSBORO — A petition calling for a vote of the electorate to close the Lakeview Elementary School in Greensboro was presented and considered at a special meeting of the Mountain View Elementary School District Board on December 28. Approximately 60 Greensboro residents were in attendance, almost all[Read More…]
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Board Reviews Proposal to Turn Town Hall into Housing Units
by Gazette Staff GREENSBORO – At its April 12 regular meeting, the Greensboro Select Board discussed a cemetery commission project, a proposal from the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department, and a proposed initiative to convert Town Hall into affordable housing units. First up, on behalf of the Greensboro Cemetery Commission, Wayne[Read More…]
