POTSDAM, N.Y. — A team of four Clarkson University mechanical engineering students has placed second in the Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition. The team, including Juan Pablo Sola-Thomas of Plainfield, Vt., represented Clarkson University on a national stage in a competition known for fostering creativity, technical excellence and innovation.[Read More…]
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Twinfield and Cabot School Budgets Pass
PLAINFIELD, CABOT – Caledonia Central School District budgets for Twinfield Union School District and Cabot School passed in Australian balloting, March 4. Twinfield’s budget of $8,402,577 will result in per pupil education spending of $13,814, which is 5.4% higher than per pupil education spending for the current year. Cabot School’s[Read More…]
Reserve Fund for Future Housing Greenlighted
PLAINFIELD – Laughter and nervous tension rippled through the line of people waiting to enter the Plainfield Opera House for the March 4 town meeting. The future of their town would depend on how they and their neighbors voted. Flooding devastated the town in 2024, and efforts to rebuild the[Read More…]
On Town Meeting Day Plainfield Charts New Future
PLAINFIELD – Lauren Geiger has an ever-present reminder of why she is working toward building new housing in Plainfield, a town of 1,200 people just east of Montpelier. As she looks out of her window, she can see several neighbors who were hit by flooding in recent years. “I’m living[Read More…]
Plainfield Arts Begins 2025 Concert Series
PLAINFIELD – – Plainfield Arts begins its 2025 concert series on Sunday, Feb. 16, 4 p.m., with Spencer Lewis and Pappy Biondo is at the Plainfield Opera House. Lewis and Biondo bring their blend of bluegrass music to the stage, celebrating the release of Lewis’ latest album “Of Spirit &[Read More…]
Local Students Named to President’s List
PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Keenan Wallace, English major of Plainfield and Grace Cloutier, Art and Design major of Hardwick have been named to the Plymouth State University President’s List for the Fall 2024 semester. To be named to the President’s List, a student must achieve a grade point average of 3.70[Read More…]
MacGregor-Stewart to receive EPAs 2024 Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator of the Year Award
Co-op Plans Move for Mid-February
PLAINFIELD – In a recent social media post, the Plainfield Co-op provided a community update. Under the leadership of a general manager, Jeannine DeWald, the merger of two businesses continues. This includes, reorganization and upgrades to the Route 2 store and installation of the produce prep area, which should be[Read More…]
Lewis, Biondo in Concert, Feb. 16
PLAINFIELD — Plainfield Arts will present an afternoon of music with songwriter Spencer Lewis and Vermont banjoist Pappy Biondo, Sunday, Feb. 16. The afternoon will feature a performance of Lewis’ old-time, bluegrass-tinged ballads, accompanied by Biondo’s banjo style. The event will take place at Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, with[Read More…]
Year in Review: Plainfield Flooded, Recovers. Goddard Finally Sold
PLAINFIELD – Goddard College will move to online-only education for at least a year, school leaders announced in a community letter in late January. Attorney General Charity Clark sued three loggers, alleging that they stole lumber from five different landowners between February 2018 and February 2020. Clark alleged that David,[Read More…]
Plainfield Co-op Balances Nostalgia, Growth with Planned Expansion
The faint smell of incense and a familiar scene of narrow aisles stocked with local food greet visitors to the Plainfield Co-op. The single 1,200-square-foot room in Plainfield village boasts a wood-paneled ceiling and can be thoroughly perused in minutes. “It feels like a trip to the 1970s,” co-op board[Read More…]
