HARDWICK – We continue to pay close attention to our legislators and the Governor in Montpelier. As I write this report, we have the Senate and House converging on a bit of a showdown on Act 73 legislation. The House adopted H.955, which has a built in period of time[Read More…]
Hardwick
Jackson Dam Study reveals river system complexity
HARDWICK – One detail in the Jackson Dam study stayed with me after I read it. When the SLR engineers began trying to measure how much sediment had accumulated behind the dam, they pushed a fourteen-foot probe rod straight down into the lakebed. In several locations they still did not[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
100 years ago in The Hardwick GazetteMay 13, 1926 Real Estate Items Wm. F. George has purchased what is known as the Gero property, consisiting [sic] of house, barn and three acres of land, better known as the Olmstead place just this side of the Hardwick and Woodbury railroad crossing[Read More…]
Music teacher awarded grant to expand band program
HARDWICK – Hardwick Elementary School (HES) music teacher Jess Zehngut has been selected as a recipient of the Music Will National Instrument Fund, a highly competitive national award with only 11% of applicants chosen. Through this grant, HES will receive new instruments and resources to expand its music program and[Read More…]
Library’s Cooking Club connects young chefs with community
HARDWICK – A water main break couldn’t stop the young chefs of the Jeudevine Library Cooking Club from providing a meal to the community on April 23. In the basement of Jeudevine Memorial Library, local children meet once a month with Youth Librarian Rachel Funk for the cooking club. What[Read More…]
Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week
Human library, May 23, Springfest at the Jeudevine
HARDWICK – The Jeudevine Memorial Library will hold a human library on Saturday, May 23, between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. The library and the Hardwick Police Department bring a human library to Hardwick’s Springfest celebration as someone volunteers to be an open book about some part of their life’s story. Some[Read More…]
Boots the cat
Live “Punch” show, May 16, 17
HARDWICK – Modern Times Theater Presents “The Perils of Mr. Punch” at The Civic StandardSaturday, May 16, and Sunday May 17, at 1 p.m. The hand puppets are created from up-cycled designer trash and performed in a puppet stage. The show is hosted by Rose Friedman. Justin Lander portrays all[Read More…]
Sign-ups starting for 25th Annual Hazen Hoop Camp
HARDWICK – Coming off the heels of his Hazen Union varsity boys basketball program’s seventh Division III State Championship, head coach Aaron Hill is set to hit the quarter-century mark on his Hazen Hoop Camp this summer. The camp will run from July 13-17 at the Hazen Union gymnasium. Hill,[Read More…]
Community clean-up removes 175 tires from Cooper Brook
HARDWICK – A student-led cleanup effort to improve water quality along Cooper Brook resulted in the removal of 175 tires and additional debris, May 1. Many of the tires had been carried downstream during the July 2024 flooding and collected along the stretch of Cooper Brook near Atkins Field. The[Read More…]
