The Hardwick Gazette, May 13, 2026

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HARDWICK – The future of Hardwick Town Meeting Day floor votes in March 2027 and beyond will depend on a special town meeting vote set for next Tuesday evening by…

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EAST HARDWICK – Some heavy rain at the beginning of the forecast period last week brought us ahead of to-date monthly rainfall averages. 1.74 inches of new rain fell between…

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HARDWICK – Hardwick Elementary School (HES) music teacher Jess Zehngut has been selected as a recipient of the Music Will National Instrument Fund, a highly competitive national award with only…

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AREA TOWNS – The Wolcott and Mountain View School districts are each respectively headed to a third round of budget voting. The public information meeting about the Wolcott FY27 budget…

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AREA TOWNS – May is the month for area college graduation ceremonies to begin, with Sterling College up first to hold its final commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16. VTSU…

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MONTPELIER – Amid this legislative session’s turmoil over Act 181’s land use revisions to Act 250, adding three tiers and a road rule, and the turmoil of an extended floor…

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LYNDONVILLE – A new University of Vermont extreme weather monitoring station opened in Lyndonville recently, the first in a planned network of monitoring stations to help fill gaps in extreme…

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New washers and dryers installed at the Hardwick Village Laundromat now accept credit card payments as part of their commitment to renewing the facility at 9 Mill Street. Most of…

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ST. JOHNSBURY – NEK Broadband and CVFiber (collectively, NEKCV) recently announced their newest internet offering: a 50/50 Mbps plan for $59 per month. NEKCV Executive Director Christa Shute said, “This…

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HARDWICK – Every so often, amid the ever flowing stream of garbage coming up from Washington, D.C., something gets lost and forgotten. This time, it is the functioning government we…

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EAST MONTPELIER – Charles Dickens, as most of us have read, went to work in a boot-black factory at the age of twelve to help with his family’s expenses after…

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To the editor: The schoolchildren of Greensboro, Hardwick, Stannard and Woodbury need your vote to pass their budget. Twice now, a small number of budget opponents, roughly or less than…

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HARDWICK – This year’s Hardwick Town Meeting was one of the best in years with an impressive turnout of 250 people. The only other time I see that many people…

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MONTPELIER – It has been a pivotal week in Montpelier as we near the end of the biennium and work to finalize major legislation before adjournment. The biggest development this…

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MONTPELIER – For years, Vermont’s opioid epidemic seemed to move in only one direction: worse. Each annual report brought another heartbreaking record number of overdose deaths, another reminder that fentanyl…

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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…

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SHELBURNE – I am finding tenderness amid the tumult in today’s world. Neighbors are helping neighbors. Federally defunded social profits are collaborating. Strangers in countries at war with each other…

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HARDWICK – One detail in the Jackson Dam study stayed with me after I read it. When the SLR engineers began trying to measure how much sediment had accumulated behind…

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100 years ago in The Hardwick GazetteMay 13, 1926 Real Estate Items Wm. F. George has purchased what is known as the Gero property, consisiting [sic] of house, barn and…

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HARDWICK – Hardwick Elementary School (HES) music teacher Jess Zehngut has been selected as a recipient of the Music Will National Instrument Fund, a highly competitive national award with only…

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CORNISH FLAT, N.H. – I decided this year to do a better job of keeping track of what plants are blooming when, and photographing them. I encourage you to do…

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FAYSTON – Spring has finally arrived and with it comes a renewed sense of excitement to try something new. For those who have been thinking about starting a garden, this…

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – With each spring comes a renewed need to be vigilant for ticks. Over the past several decades, many tick populations and the pathogens they carry have…

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100 years ago in The Hardwick GazetteMay 13, 1926 Real Estate Items Wm. F. George has purchased what is known as the Gero property, consisiting [sic] of house, barn and…

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Wednesday, May 13 Cooking Club, 3 p.m., Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick. Information: (802) 472-5948 or [email protected] Thursday, May 14 Storytime with HPD, 10:30 a.m., Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick. Listen to…

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CABOT – The Cabot Community Theatre gave five stagings of a very ambitious play last week at the Cabot School Performing Arts Center, divided into two acts with five scenes in…

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GLOVER — The Northeast Kingdom is a place defined by its rugged individualism, hyper-traditionalists, some of the last true hippies of North America, and, of course, regular, everyday people. At…

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The Circus Smirkus tent crew prepare to raise the cupola after being attached to the tent canvas as the Big Top tent is raised last week for the first time.photo…

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Boots the cat waits for its owner at the Hardwick Memorial Building during the Special Town Meeting Information Meeting, last Thursday, May 7, 2026. photo by Larry Fliegelman

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LYNDON CENTER – A shorthanded Hazen Union baseball team rebounded from a lopsided loss to Division II Lyndon Institute with a hard-fought win over Lake Region last week, improving to…

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WILLIAMSTOWN – The Caledonia United (Twinfield-Cabot-Danville) softball team earned its first two wins of the season last week with offensive explosions against Paine Mountain and Craftsbury Academy (CA). Caledonia United’s…

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PLAINFIELD – Brook trout populations are in decline across the eastern United States due to human-caused climate change leading to warming water temperatures. Brook trout in Vermont are said to be in…

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BARRE – Even as snowflakes fell during the first driver’s meeting of the season at Thunder Road on Sunday, May 3, race fans filled the Nation’s Site of Excitement to…

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