The Year is Coming to an End

We’re Making History Together

Thank you to the hundreds of Hardwick Gazette readers who have made this fundraising drive the most successful ever! More readers have responded, and they have given more than in any preceding drive. 

But the work is not yet done! Every donation makes The Gazette stronger and better able to serve our communities. And the next few thusand dollars in donations will be doubled, thanks to the efforts of generous local donors. Your gift of $100 makes The Gazette $200 stronger. Your $250 gift becomes $500 for The Gazette’s weekly coverage.

But what matters most is that yuo give a gift in any amount to show your support. 

How much history can we make? Only you hold the answer to that question. Give to The Gazette today! Your reward will be another year of fact-based journalism that brings our communities closer. 

Our weekly newsletter with the December 24 edition follows in case you missed it in the holiday rush.

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Dad said he wanted to talk to me after we were done with our paper route. Now I had one more thing to worry about that afternoon, on top of 

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Preparing this special issue of The Gazette made us realize what an incredible year itu0026rsquo;s been. Our communities might seem small and sleepy from afar, but there’s a lot going on around here

A limited number of printed Hardwick Gazette copies are now for sale at the Buffalo Mountain Market in Hardwick and Willey’s Store in Greensboro at $5 a copy. Please tell your friends who would rather read us in print.

Look below the front page below to see this week’s top stories, Tyler Molleur’s Weather, opinions, William Lange’s weekly column and a cartoon or two.

Comfort chickens are still available for a donation of $500 or more.

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HARDWICK – Caledonia Superior Court has ordered a lower, trial court to hold a bail hearing and establish conditions for the release a Morrisville held without bail since his August

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EAST HARDWICK – Moderating temperatures closed out the work week last week, with lows struggling to drop below freezing Thursday night under the influence of a southerly flow. Some snowpack

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MONTPELIER – The Washington Central Unified Union School Board to recommend closing Calais Elementary School and Worcester’s Doty Memorial School WCUUSB) voted last Wednesday, Dec. 17. The proposed budget, which

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HARDWICK – A grant from the Vermont Community Foundation will allow the Jeudevine Memorial Library to revisit its mission and vision statements white it crafts a strategic plan. The $5,000

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WOLCOTT – In November of 2023, the Lamoille County Planning Commission (LCPC), in partnership with the Town of Wolcott, received a $46,499.81 grant award from the Lamoille Basin Clean Water

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Willey’s Store employees, (all from left) front, Taina Frazier, Gracie Crown; back, Christina Hernandez and Tanya Howard, pose in a mock snow globe set up in the clothing department to celebrate

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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

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SORRY SANTA, BUT ALL THE ELVES WERE DEPORTED 

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EAST MONTPELIER – As I write, it’s only a quarter past four in the afternoon, but I wouldn’t

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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). 

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Russia!

The Hardwick Gazette is now a community-owned, non-profit publication of Northeast Kingdom Public Journalism. We depend on your donation to support our mission of producing fair and accurate local journalism, shining a light on all aspects of our communities and creating a forum for deeper engagement.

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EDITOR
Paul Fixx

ADVERTISING
Sandy Atkins, Raymonda Parchment, Dawn Gustafson, Paul Fixx

CIRCULATION
Dawn Gustafson

PRODUCTION
Sandy Atkins, Dawn Gustafson, Dave Mitchell, Raymonda Parchment

REPORTER
Raymonda Parchment

SPORTS WRITERS
Ken Brown
Eric Hanson

WEATHER REPORTER
Tyler Molleur

PHOTOGRAPHER
Vanessa Fournier

CARTOONIST
Julie Atwood

CONTRIBUTORS
Trish Alley, Sandy Atkins, Brendan Buckley, Hal Gray, Abrah Griggs, Eleanor Guare, Henry Homeyer, Pat Hussey, Willem Lange, Cheryl Luther Michaels, Tyler Molleur, Kay Spaulding, Liz Steel, John Walters

INTERNS
Cloey Camley, Hazen Union School
Claire Charlow, UVM Community News Service
Will Helms, Hazen Union School
Eisha Qureshi, UVM Community News Service