With limbs reaching out, does the hemlock see itself in the lake’s mirror? In her snug small nest, does the chipping sparrow dream about her children? On his morning walk, does the black bear praise the sun for warming his fur? SURELY.
Hardwick
“Ash Bucket,” a VerseVillage poem
March thaw revealed the ash bucket’s cinders strewn into my daughter’s rock garden, dead coals squashing tender moss, staining her cherished hens and chicks. Had I carried the bucket three steps further, set it on the barn’s cement ramp: none of this damage, no repair needed. Ahead lies April’s tedious[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
100 years ago in The Hardwick Gazette Thu, Apr 15, 1926 ACADEMY NOTES The date of the Annual Bam Boozle Bazaar has been set at May 7th, this year This event has come to be a big part of the school activities outside of their regular course of study and[Read More…]
Recipe class holds all-school sugar on snow party
HARDWICK – Last month the Hazen High School Recipe for Human Connection Class took on a project to hold an all-school sugar on snow party they hope will become a regular annual event. Sugar on snow involves boiling maple syrup to 235 °F and drizzle it on snow for maple[Read More…]
Rescue squad hosts emergency care training, April 20
WOLCOTT – The Hardwick Rescue Squad will host a CPR and Stop the Bleed Class on Monday, April 20, from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Wolcott Town Offices. The course will cover CPR on individuals in all age ranges, choking relief maneuvers, naloxone administration, automated external defibrillator use,[Read More…]
All-ages poetry slam, April 25
HARDWICK – Saturday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m., VerseVillage and the Jeudevine Memorial Library invite poets and poem performers an all-ages, all-acoustic poetry slam in the Parker Ladd Community Room at the Jeudevine Memorial Library in Hardwick. Poets take the stage for up to five minutes to be judged to win[Read More…]
Edward J. “Ed” Kish
HARDWICK – Edward Julius “Ed” Kish, 67, of Hardwick, passed away on April 9. After a four-year battle with leukemia, he passed in peace with loved ones by his side. Ed will be remembered as a man of integrity, faith, and unmatched selflessness. He was known for his strong work[Read More…]
Card of Thanks
The board and members of the Hardwick Rescue Squad would like to offer our sincere gratitude to the Hardwick Hospital Association for their recent generous gift. The HHA donated their remaining funds, amounting to over $350k, to Hardwick Rescue in recognition of the close ties between the two organizations over[Read More…]
Gould discusses new novel
HARDWICK – Peter Gould came to the Jeudevine Library on the evening of April 7 and gave an insightful talk about his new young adult novel, “Red Nose Girl.” Initially set in a small town in Vermont, it is about an independent 15-year-old girl, Lettie, who frequently wears a clown nose[Read More…]
Hazen Union Baseball make improvements
HARDWICK – Returning an experienced core could help the Hazen Union baseball team make the defensive and offensive improvements they need to build on a three-win season a year ago. The Wildcats struggled to find consistency in head coach Shaun Allen’s third season. Defensive miscues and erratic pitching plagued Hazen[Read More…]
An era of unprecedented winning from local seniors
Northeast Kingdom – Hazen Union and Twinfield-Cabot will graduate a group of high school seniors later this spring that has given their communities a rate of winning and championships that we have never seen before. Isabelle Gouin and Julia des Groseilliers helped lead their Hazen Union girls basketball team to[Read More…]
Special Town Meeting set for town forest purchase, holding future town meetings by Australian Ballot
HARDWICK – A well-attended select board meeting with an overflow crowd upstairs in the Hardwick Memorial Building last Thursday began with an announcement by the Trust for Public Lands’ (TPL) Hannah Redmon announcing that a $465,000 grant had been awarded by the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) for the[Read More…]
