HARDWICK – July 5: Missing Person, Bridgman Hill Road; Juvenile Problem, Cottage Street; Traffic Stop, Mill St.; Suspicious Event, Vt. Route 14 S.; Traffic Hazard, Vt. Route 16; Traffic Stop, Vt. Route 15; Assist – Agency, Bayley Hazen Road. July 6: Trespassing, Prospect St.; Animal Problem, High St.; Theft –[Read More…]
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Craftsbury Farmers Market, Saturday, July 11
Community trust aims to build strong social infrastructure
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Community Trust (GCT) became part of a Greensboro tradition on July 4, participating in the Funky Fourth. Over the past year, GCT has grown from an idea to an organization, building on the work of the Bend Revitalization Initiative. The trust has established a 10-person board[Read More…]
Nature’s Beauty
Cooling center highlights community response during heat wave
HARDWICK, GREENSBORO – As temperatures climbed into the 90s across much of Vermont two weeks ago, communities opened cooling centers and encouraged residents to seek relief in air-conditioned public spaces. In Hardwick and Greensboro, local organizations worked together to provide places where residents could stay cool during the heat wave.[Read More…]
Hay season stretches on
Welch announces nearly $2 million in FEMA funding
MORRISVILLE – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, announced the delivery of over $1.79 million in federal funding, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to repair catastrophic damage to the Morrisville Water & Light and the Town of Marshfield caused by severe flooding in July 2023. The federal funding grants announced[Read More…]
Beaver Deceiver
Jasper Hill Farm Winnimere awarded ACS Best in Show
GREENSBORO – Jasper Hill Farm won Best of Show with its Winnimere offering at the American Cheese Society (ACS) annual conference, July 7 to 10 in Louisville, Ky. Winnimere is a raw cow milk, spruce bark-wrapped washed rind cheese, made only during winter months when Jasper Hill’s Ayrshire cows are[Read More…]
Pollinator garden in bloom
Turnout at town hall gym open house, clear path forward
To the editor: The Greensboro Town Hall Gym open house on July 4 after the parade was a huge success. It was incredible to see so many neighbors filling the space, sharing memories and looking toward the future of this beautiful building. Over 150 people came through to see the[Read More…]
Suffragettes ignored again
To the editor: Ho hum, tractors front page. They are important, even a photo of the back end of eight tractors, as well as the agriculture they help to flourish (despite those wanting to kill microbes in the soil and surrounding insects), but so was our message. It is very discouraging[Read More…]
