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…]
Business Briefs
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…]
Dunbar to retire from Center for an Agricultural Economy
HARDWICK – “With the change of seasons,” wrote Programs Manager Bethany Dunbar in the Atkins Field Winter Bulletin,“ also come changes at the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE). And with that, she announced her retirement this month. “I’m so excited for all the future developments and potential that is[Read More…]
Center for an Agricultural Economy is sub-award recipient
ST. JOHNSBURY – The Center for an Agricultural Economy is a sub-award recipient of the 2026 Northeast Vermont Prevention Consortium – Prevention Lead Region 3 from Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH), Umbrella and the Lamoille Family Center. The Center for Agricultural Economy received $14,500 to build on work begun in[Read More…]
Local cheesemakers are international winners
WAITSFIELD – The Vermont Cheese Council received word that Vermont took home at least 33 awards at the World Cheese Awards international competition in Bern, Switzerland. The Cellars at Jasper Hill Farm, Greensboro and Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, were among the cheesemakers who received awards. Super Gold winner included Withersbrook[Read More…]
Cabot butter named best overall
WAITSFIELD – Cabot Creamery received nine awards, including Overall Best Butter, at the National Milk Producers Federation’s (NMPF) Annual Cheese & Yogurt Contest held this week in Arlington, Texas. The cooperative’s Greek Yogurt and Cheddar also took home top awards. “As dairy farmers, we are exceptionally proud of our Cabot[Read More…]
NEK Broadband opens up new service areas
HARDWICK – Residents on the end of Pumpkin Lane nearest to Vt. Rte. 16, a section of Mountainview Road on the border with Walden and the far end of Hays Drive, now have high speed, fiber-optic broadband internet service available through NEK Broadband, the nonprofit, public internet utility. NEK Broadband[Read More…]
