HARDWICK – Lisa Sammet, Jeudevine’s librarian from 1993 through 2022, recalls that day in January 2018 as “one of the best days of my life.” Her spirits were at a low ebb, as a bond vote to approve her long-hoped-for expansion project had been voted down. The Jeudevine board chair[Read More…]
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AWARE Report
HARDWICK – Fifteen people used AWARE services between September 7 and September 14. The AWARE 24-hour hotline is 802-472-6463. A non-profit established in 1984, AWARE serves Hardwick and the greater Hardwick area in preventing and healing the trauma of domestic and sexual violence. AWARE provides help during immediate crises, as well as advocating for[Read More…]
AWARE Walk
Vermont Bishop at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Sept. 28
Trees for downtown have arrived
HARDWICK – Local contractor, Ecotone Landscapes and Tree Care, will be working over the next few weeks to plant the 30 trees that have arrived and adopted by private landowners and in public spaces in the designated downtown area. The planting is a collaboration of the Hardwick Downtown Partnership (HDP), the[Read More…]
Mushrooms can kill you, says forager
HARDWICK – Mushroom identification and foraging was the subject of Malaky Downing’s presentation “Foraging for Mushrooms with Malaky” at the Jeudevine Memorial Library last week, on Tuesday. His presentation was one of the September youth events at the library. Malaky said he’s learned what he knows about mushrooms by reading[Read More…]
New England Independent Booksellers Fall Conference
Fifty Years of the Buffalo Mountain Market
HARDWICK – The foundation of the current Buffalo Mountain Market was laid in the late ’60s and early ’70s with the back-to-the-land movement happening across our country. People dreamed of leaving the rat race behind and returning to a simpler life and homegrown food, without all the chemicals and additives.[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
September 17, 1925 South Woodbury John Bushey, 75, began his 64th year of work with the Winooski woolen mill on August 19th. When he began work at the age of 11 years, the pay was $7.00 a month and a day consisted of 14 working hours. Local Lumps The heavy[Read More…]
Vittles closes for good, Friday, Sept. 12
HARDWICK – In a social media post on Tuesday last week, Karen Whitcomb, the owner of Vittles in the Hardwick Inn, announced she would be closing the establishment that had been serving breakfast and lunch since Memorial Day 2024. “It’s with a heavy heart that I share with you that[Read More…]
Help develop NEK regional plan at Farmers Market, Sept. 19
HARDWICK – Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA) is in the process of updating the 2015 regional plan that was amended in 2023. They will be collecting community input.at the Hardwick Farmers Market at Atkins Field on Sept. 19 from 3 to 6 p.m. The NVDA Regional Plan is a collaborative[Read More…]
Lean Left presentation, Sept. 27
HARDWICK – Saturday, Sept. 27, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., in the Jeudevine Memorial Library, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, a Lean Left Vermont organizer and an assistant attorney general for the State of Vermont from 1990 to 2018, will share a slideshow on empowering citizen activism, and working at the state level in[Read More…]
