by Jenny Bayles GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Community Garden (GCG), centrally located on the green in front of Town Hall, is well into its third growing season. Garden volunteers have been harvesting vegetables since mid-July and delivering the produce to the Hardwick Area Food Pantry. To date, almost 30 pounds[Read More…]
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Greensboro Association Activates Community Relief Fund for Local Flood Relie
GREENSBORO –After so many homes and businesses were damaged during the July storms and widespread road closures limited access to jobs and other essentials, the Greensboro Association (GA) reactivated its Community Relief Fund in an effort to support the community and has been able to put tens of thousands of[Read More…]
Local Organizations Receive Flood Relief Grants
MIDDLEBURY – The Vermont Community Foundation announced today that it has awarded another $670,500 in grants to help individuals, businesses, farms, and downtowns recover from the devastating flooding across the state earlier this month. The new round of grants from the Foundation’s Vermont’s Flood Response & Recovery Fund 2023 follows[Read More…]
Orleans County Added to Disaster Declaration
MONTPELIER – The Vermont Department of Labor announced today that Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits are now available to Vermonters in Orleans County, in addition to the eight counties first announced on July 20, and July 26. Under DUA program guidance, individuals in Orleans County have until Monday, August[Read More…]
Community Comes Together as Severe Storms Hit
by Francesca Kitch GREENSBORO — Vermont has felt the effects of climate change in the past week as a series of severe storms have hit. Roadways fractured, whirlpools and rivers appeared in the middle of roads, and asphalt crumbled; the damage last week exceeds the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene[Read More…]
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Roads Dominate Select Board Agenda
by Gazette Staff GREENSBORO – At its June 14 regular meeting, the Greensboro Select Board’s agenda focused mostly on roads, paving, roads, plowing, and roads. Library trustee Beth Meacham reported that the north section of library driveway needs to be repaired. The board and road foreman believe repaving would be[Read More…]
Sen. Welch Hosts Listening Session in The Bend
by Francesca Kitch GREENSBORO — On Monday, approximately 100 people from the near and far corners of Vermont traveled to see Senator Peter Welch visit the Northeast Kingdom at the Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend. The purpose of his visit was to host a listening session to understand how[Read More…]
Opening Reception on July 2 Features 50 Years of Land Conservation
GREENSBORO – The popular “land conservation” exhibit sponsored by the Greensboro Land Trust and Greensboro Historical Society (GHS) will re-open with a reception on Sunday, July 2, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the museum next to Willey’s Store. Everyone is invited to visit the exhibit, which features 21[Read More…]
Stewart and Shatney Sell Easement in Greensboro Bend
by Clive Gray, Community Journalist GREENSBORO BEND – At the end of May, Janet Stewart and Ray Shatney sold a conservation easement on 154 acres on Route 16 in Greensboro Bend to the Vermont Land Trust (VLT). This was land on which Stewart and Shatney had developed a farm featuring[Read More…]
Board Discusses Planning and Funding for Trailhead
by Gazette Staff GREENSBORO – At its March 15 regular meeting, the Greensboro Select Board’s discussion topics included the library, the trailhead in the Bend, and the board’s reorganization following Town Meeting Day.The first topic for discuss was the Greensboro Free Library. Board member Beth Meacham told the board that[Read More…]
Greensboro Fellowship Hall Roof Takes a Beating
by Hal Gray, Community Journalist GREENSBORO – The lakeside roof on Greensboro’s Fellowship Hall has taken a beating from the weather coming off Caspian Lake. After recent renovation of the ceiling, insulation, lights and the floor at the hall, it is thought that heavy snow, strong winds and driving rain[Read More…]
