MIDDLEBURY – The Vermont Community Foundation is pleased to announce that its Spark Connecting Community grant program has awarded a portion of the $62,450 to Cabot Arts, to host local projects that strengthen community connections and bring Vermonters together around music, language, art, gardening, and food. “This round’s grantees make[Read More…]
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60th Birthday
Greensboro Halloween
Alumni Group Keeps Busy with Many Projects
HARDWICK — From its humble beginnings in September of 2022, when it voted to become an official group, the Hardwick Academy/Hazen Union Alumni Association took quick flight and is soaring along as it heads into its second year of existence. It was a pretty dramatic rise for this group over[Read More…]
Plainfield Disaster Recovery Center Closes, Others Change Hours and Days of Operation
VERMONT – The state and federal Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) at Goddard College in Plainfield closed permanently at the end of the day, Sunday, Sept. 15. The five remaining centers across Vermont have changed their hours and days of operation. As of September 15, four DRCs will no longer be[Read More…]
Working Group Formed to Host Neighborhood Dinner
HARDWICK – Twenty-two people from Hardwick and Walden met on October 24, at the Hardwick Senior Center to get updates from the leaders of Neighbor to Neighbor: Helen Beattie, Diane Grenkow and Kim Hartling-Wells, and to share a meal. Although there are ongoing needs for help after July’s flooding, direct[Read More…]
Garage of Doom
Wolcott School Fall Festival
Some Minor Floods in Hardwick
by Elizabeth H. Dow, Hardwick Historical Society [The following is an excerpt from the Summer 2023 edition of The Hardwick Historical Society Journal, reprinted with permission to provide historical perspective on recent events.] HARDWICK – Hardwick has had countless relatively small or isolated floods. The ones included here come from[Read More…]
Craftsbury Academy’s Boys Cross Country Team
Afterschool Program Looks to Expand
by Virginia Lapierre, Community Journalist HARDWICK – Forward. Two. Three. Four. Back. Two. Three. Four. The sound of children counting and feet stepping in rhythm could be heard coming from the Hardwick Elementary Gym this past Tuesday afternoon. It is the sound of the children in the WonderKids Afterschool Program,[Read More…]
Pellet Boilers Reduce the Maintenance Costs at Craftsbury Academy
by Lisa Stinson – Community Journalist HARDWICK – This winter, when the winds start howling and the temperatures drop to 20 or 30 below, Craftsbury Academy will be toasty warm – and will be reducing their carbon heating footprint at the same time. Thanks to four new pellet boilers from[Read More…]
