NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Hazen Union and Twinfield-Cabot officially put a wrap on a successful girls high school basketball season last week by earning several of the top players and coaching Mountain League awards. Lady Cat head coach Randy Lumsden took home Coach of the Year honors after leading his young[Read More…]
Northeast Kingdom
Bador, Stewart Among Mountain League Selections
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Twinfield head coach Kris Bador and his junior starting backcourt led the lion’s share of Mountain League honors last week after a sensational season that saw the Trojans punch their ticket to Barre for the first time in almost a decade. Tej Stewart was rewarded with a[Read More…]
HomeShare Vermont Expands to Serve NEK Communities
NORTHEAST KINGDOM — HomeShare Vermont will provide more Vermonters access to home-sharing as a result of its recent expansion into Hardwick, Craftsbury and Greensboro. The nonprofit organization has brought its more-than 40 years of experience in matching hosts and guests for living opportunities to the Northeast Kingdom (NEK). “We are[Read More…]
Small Schools, Supervisory Unions Grapple with Proposed Redistricting
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – As educators and legislators begin to digest details of the governor’s education plan released by Vermont Secretary of Education Zoie Saunders last week, a Rural School Community Alliance (RSCA) is being formed to help protect the most vulnerable small schools. At the other end of the rural[Read More…]
Storytelling For Change Workshops, Feb. 11, 13
NORTHEAST KINGDOM — Northeast Kingdom Organizing (NEKO ) will be holding storytelling workshops on February 11, 5 to 7 p.m., at the Goodrich Library in Newport, and February 13, 1 to 2:30 p.m, at the Barton Hub. These workshops will provide an overview of the Vermont legislature, skill building opportunities[Read More…]
NEK Day at the Statehouse, Feb. 20
NORTHEAST KINGDOM — Residents may speak directly with representatives and senators on February 20, at the statehouse for NEK Day, to discuss matters such as schools, transportation, flooding, housing, and the North Country Hospital. Northeast Kingdom Organizing (NEKO) will provide free rides to Montpelier and lunch to NEKO members. Reserve[Read More…]
Conservation District to Host Meeting, Meal, Feb. 10
IRASBURG — The Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District will host two free community feedback forums with meals, Monday, Feb. 10, with lunch,11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., or with dinner, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Irasburg Town Hall. Each meeting will have the same agenda to cater to a[Read More…]
Digital Divide Affects Most NEK Residents
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – “In our service territory we have three of the four poorest [Vermont] counties and we see daily the impact of the digital divide,” said Tonya Ozone, director of sales and marketing at NEKCV, the organization resulting from a merger of Northeast Kingdom Broadband and CVFiber. She added,[Read More…]
Beck Proposes Education Foundation Formula Funding
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Vermonters cited affordability as a top priority in the 2024 election, and last week, they voted to send more Republicans to Montpelier than in recent decades. Driving affordability concerns is the cost of education, which fueled this year’s average education property tax increase of 13.8%. The election results, which saw a[Read More…]
President Biden Approves Disaster Declaration
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the late July storms that inundated Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The declaration, announced late Thursday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, opens up aid for damage caused in Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties from July 29 through July[Read More…]
UVM Summer Interns Live and Learn in the NEK
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Lush vegetation, towering maples and pines, rolling hillsides, rivers, lakes and streams mark this corner of the Green Mountain State. Along with the Northeast Kingdom’s (NEK) abundant beauty come some very real challenges, including dangerous seasonal flooding that has increased with the effects of climate change. But[Read More…]
NEK Broadband and CV Fiber Merge
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – A merger of Vermont Communications Union Districts NEK Broadband and CVFiber became effective August 16, wrote the new Governing Board Chair Nick Anzalone, in a letter to town clerks that day. Anzalone said, “NEK Broadband and CVFiber have united resources, expertise and a shared commitment to deliver[Read More…]
