PLAINFIELD – As the town grapples with the big issues of its response to flooding with the East Village Expansion Project and delays in work to improve sight-lines at the Main Street intersection with U.S. Rte. 2, discussion at the May 27 select board meeting veered into discussion of derelict[Read More…]
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Blooming Crabapple Tree Brightens View
PLAINFIELD – A huge crabapple tree in a Hudson Avenue yard stopped debris from hitting nearby houses and ended up with close to two feet of muddy silt around it after flooding July 11, 2024. This year it has its “best bloom ever,” said Lauren Geiger. Geiger said the tree[Read More…]
State Approves Community Radio Funding
PLAINFIELD – In a recent blog post, WGDR-WGDH Station Manager Llu Mulvaney-Stanak announced, “The Vermont legislature just approved $150,000 in one-time funding for the ten community radio stations in Vermont. This is a direct result of your advocacy on behalf of the difference WGDR & WGDH makes in your everyday[Read More…]
WGDR/WGDH Holds Birthday Party, June 7
PLAINFIELD – Central Vermont Community Radio is celebrating 52 years of WGDR and 15 of WGDH at a birthday party, Saturday, June 7, noon to 3 p.m., with food, drinks, DJs and music. There will be a short program toward the start of the party. Food, tours of the station will be available.[Read More…]
Vermont Nonprofit Pairs Seniors and Renters
VERMONT – Several years ago, Linda Suter looked for a small house on the market in central Vermont, hoping to downsize. She was living alone in a three-bedroom Montpelier home that she’d owned for nearly two decades, but could no longer afford it. Real estate prospects that fit her budget[Read More…]
Disasters, Disabilities Forum, June 1
PLAINFIELD – A free public forum and workshops for households having persons with disabilities, chronic illness or debilitating old age who want to be prepared for flood or fire evacuation and sheltering will be held June 1, at the Plainfield Town Hall from 2:30 to 5 p.m. This is also[Read More…]
Auditions Set for “Shrew”
PLAINFIELD – Open auditions for Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” to be presented by the newly-formed Green Mountain Shakespeare Festival, will be held Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Haybarn Theatre on The Creative Campus at Goddard. Auditioners should prepare a short monologue. The production[Read More…]
Celtic Rock Fusion Group, May 9
PLAINFIELD — The Celtic fusion band, Cantrip, performs live Friday, May 9, 7 p.m., at the Plainfield Opera House. With a name drawn from an old Scots word for a magic spell or piece of mischief, Cantrip’s music is a brew of border pipes, fiddle, guitar and three voices. Forming[Read More…]
Grimaldi’s Pastel Paintings Exhibited, May 9
PLAINFIELD — The Cutler Memorial Library will present “Powwow Pastel Paintings,” a new body of work by Susan Ross Grimaldi. The exhibition will open with a reception on Friday, May 9, 6 p.m., and remain on view through August 23. In this series, Grimaldi draws from her Choctaw heritage, capturing the energy[Read More…]
O’Brien Selected Finalist in Essay Contest
PLAINFIELD – Twinfield Union School Senior Hazel O’Brien was selected as a finalist in Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) fifteenth annual State of the Union Essay Contest, Wednesday, March 19. His essay, selected from the 475 students at 25 Vermont high schools who submitted entries, evaluated ranked choice voting, demonstrated the[Read More…]
State Police News
BARTON — On March 29 at 12:06 a.m., Troopers observed a vehicle commit a motor vehicle infraction on Church Street in Barton and initiated a traffic stop. The operator, John Ohear, of Hardwick, displayed multiple indicators of impairment and subsequent investigation led troopers to place him under arrest for Suspicion[Read More…]
Justice Sought Following Accident Involving Town Employee
PLAINFIELD — Last July, a Plainfield town employee was left seriously injured, having been struck by a vehicle while operating a backhoe. Local officials have since expressed their displeasure with the outcome of the incident. In a letter addressed to Commissioner Jennifer Morrison of the Department of Public Safety, the[Read More…]
