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…]
News
Vermonters made their voices heard
MONTPELIER – It has been a pivotal week in Montpelier as we near the end of the biennium and work to finalize major legislation before adjournment. The biggest development this week was the passage in the House of S.325, legislation updating portions of Act 250 and Act 181. This bill came[Read More…]
The truth is more complicated
MONTPELIER – For years, Vermont’s opioid epidemic seemed to move in only one direction: worse. Each annual report brought another heartbreaking record number of overdose deaths, another reminder that fentanyl had tightened its grip on communities across the state. But for the first time in years, Vermont may finally have[Read More…]
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…]
Colors
Looking out the windowon a sunny February day,the white snow in the yard blinds me.Eyes lift and I sink into the deep darknessOf the woods beyond. Then… pulled back by stripey, brown-winged birds at the feeder,I remember the red of the cardinalwho visits from time to time,and thrill at the yellow[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
Visit with The Gazette staff at Front Seat Coffee, Friday, May 22
Tree planting, May 15
GREENSBORO – Friday, May 15 is World Community Land Trust Day, honoring the more than 600 trusts around the world that develop permanently affordable housing and other assets on community-owned land. From 3:30 to 6 p.m., Headwaters will observe the day at an outing where participants will plant trees, help[Read More…]
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…]
