HARDWICK – Front Seat Coffee is opening a side operation called Tailgate Creemee. Using the café space, the Tailgate Creemee pop-up will be operating from 3 to 6 p.m. every day. While the café space will be open until 6 p.m., barista drinks will still close at 3 p.m. Tailgate[Read More…]
Business Briefs
Caja Madera opens smoked barbecue joint
HARDWICK – Chef Bryan Palilonis opened his Hardwick BBQ for the first time on Wednesday, May 20, next door to the Caja Taqueria at 154 Vt. Rte. 15 in Hardwick, and quickly sold out. The barbecue joint was closed Thursday, with the Caja Madera Facebook site reporting, “We SOLD OUT[Read More…]
Daily Express cuts back to print three days each week
NEWPORT – In a story May 17 titled, “Big Changes Coming at The Newport Daily Express,” the daily newspaper explained they planned to cut back beginning May 25 and “begin publishing our print editions on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday each week.” The expanded Tuesday, Thursday and Friday editions “will deliver[Read More…]
DPS Commissioner Johnson keynote speaker at VEC’s annual meeting
JEFFERSONVILLE – Vermont Electric Co-op members engaged with speakers at the co-op’s annual meeting held at Smugglers’ Notch Resort, Saturday. Keynote speaker Kerrick Johnson, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service, offered an overview of the power sector regionally and in Vermont and offered a glimpse at what we can expect in the future. He touched on reliability, the[Read More…]
Village Laundramat updates
Grants awarded to local farm, forest and food businesses
MONTPELIER – Earthbound Forest Services of Cabot and Stannard Farm Vermont Pure Maple Syrup of Craftsbury, have received grants through the Working Lands Enterprise Board (WKEB). Earthbound Forest Services, a logging business, received $28,000 for a forwarding wagon to expand low-impact timber extraction. Stannard Farm Vermont Pure Maple Syrup received a $7,321[Read More…]
Smarties®, Cabot Creamery debut cheese in candy collaboration
UNION, N.J., – Smarties Candy Company and Cabot Creamery today unveiled an innovation in snack engineering: Seriously Smart Cheese, the world’s first cheddar-forward candy tablet.The collaboration reimagines Cabot’s award-winning Seriously Sharp Cheddar through the lens of Smarties.To create Seriously Smart Cheese, Cabot’s cheddar is carefully pulverized into a fine powder[Read More…]
Washington named executive director of NEK Council on Aging
ST. JOHNSBURY – The Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging (NEKCOA) has appointed Darryl Washington as its new executive director. Washington succeeds Meg Burmeister, who recently retired after more than nine years of leadership at the council.Washington brings leadership experience and a focus on strategic planning, community collaboration and quality improvement.[Read More…]
Market 32, Price Chopper Unveil Morrisville Market 32
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Vermont’s newest Market 32 location was officially opened, Friday, Jan. 16, following the completion of a full conversion of the former Price Chopper supermarket at Route 15 and Munson Ave., Morrisville. The more than 53,000-square-foot store becomes the 52nd Market 32-branded location across the regional grocer’s six-state[Read More…]
Lamoille FiberNet high-speed internet plan completed
LAMOILLE COUNTY – Lamoille FiberNet Communications Union District has successfully completed its Universal Service Plan, ensuring that every on-grid address within its 10-town footprint now has access to at least one high-speed broadband provider. This milestone marks the culmination of a five-year effort, including a two-year construction effort in partnership[Read More…]
Willey’s Winter Wonderland
Galaxy Bookshop shines on
HARDWICK – Best friends and store owners for 11 years, Andrea Jones and Sandy Scott, “work wives,” as they affectionately call each other, run Hardwick’s Galaxy Bookshop with pride. They carry forward a 36-year legacy of community, resilience and friendship. On a snowy Thursday afternoon, the two women bustled around[Read More…]
