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AREA TOWNS – Vermont candidates for statewide and local legislative races had until Thursday, May 28. to file petitions declaring themselves as candidates for the primary election, scheduled on Tuesday, August 11. Independent candidates have until Thursday, Aug. 6, to file their petitions. In Senate races, incumbent Minority Leader, Caledonia[Read More…]
WALDEN – May was a busy month for the Walden Select Board with meetings on the fourth, the eighteenth and a special meeting on the twentieth. Following its executive session at the May 20 meeting, the board offered the Walden Road Foreman position to Bill Ducharme, who accepted the position.[Read More…]
WALDEN – Saturday, June 6, Walden will celebrate 250 years, beginning at 10 a.m., at the Walden Methodist Church on Noyestar Road. The days activities will include displays of antiques, exhibits of Walden history, a barbecue and picnic, live music, square dancing demonstrations, games and more. A town-wide photograph of residents will[Read More…]
WALDEN – The Walden Home Dem group (home demonstrators) is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. The first week in May is “National Home Demonstration Week.” The Walden Home Dem group held its first meeting on January 14, 1946, at the home of Betty Hatch, who was then elected their[Read More…]
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…]
WALDEN – Hello, my name is Azailya L’Esperance. I am from Walden, and in sixth grade. Throughout my years here, I have noticed that we don’t have enough student engagement. My school has combined grades and most classes are mixed together with multiple ages. This arrangement really limits students’ learning.[Read More…]
WALDEN – On April 25, at 7:38 a.m., the Walden and Cabot Fire Departments were dispatched to Noyestar Road for a chimney fire. First arriving units found smoke and flames coming from the top of the chimney. irefighters laddered the roof and dropped a weight to clear the blockage then brushed[Read More…]
WALDEN – A recent Vermont Digger piece “Vermont House poised to roll back portions of Act 181” included a quote from House Energy and Environment Committee Chair, Amy Sheldon: “We don’t need our shared interest in protecting our environment to divide Vermont.” There’s certainly plenty of division in Vermont, but[Read More…]
LYNDON CENTER – Walden Elementary School sixth-grader, Azailya Lesperance, won first place and a cash prize at the Regional Civics Bee, Friday, April 10. The event at Lyndon Institute was organized by the NEK Chamber of Commerce. Azailya’s social studies and global citizenship teacher Katey Foster said she learned of[Read More…]
WALDEN — The 8th grade class at Walden School is selling raffle tickets for a queen size quilt to fund their end-of-the-year trip, wrote Tammy Hall in an April 13 Front Porch Forum post. The drawing is April 15. The quilt is made with 100% cotton fabrics that can be machine[Read More…]
Walden Volunteer Fire Department WALDEN – On April 5, at 1:30 p.m., the Walden Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to assist Vermont State Police (VSP) with a lost hiker at the Cheever Falls trail in the Steam Mill Brook Wildlife Maagement Area. VSP located the hiker with a drone and[Read More…]
MONTPELIER – The past couple of weeks have been quite active in the House. Many bills have passed out of the House and have gone to the Senate for consideration. Some of the bills do not do much other than correct language in current laws which was identified as needing[Read More…]
