The Hardwick Gazette, Feb. 18, 2026

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EAST HARDWICK – Last week’s warming temperatures during the day still gave way to some cooler nights with lows on either side of zero. The boundary between some cooler polar…

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MONTPELIER – After a pair of lopsided victories over Montpelier and Lake Region, the Hazen Union girls basketball team battled to fend off fellow Division III power Oxbow on the…

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by Jennifer Bliss There’s a little school in Calais town, With creaky doors and swings worn down. Not lots of kids in every class, Some desks empty as days go…

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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.

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NORTHEAST KINGDOM, CENTRAL VERMONT – Last week Vermont Governor Phil Scott thanked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for approving Vermont’s $100 million proposal to use Broadband Equity, Access,…

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CALAIS – Calais and Worcester residents on Tuesday voted against shuttering two community elementary schools in the Washington Central Unified Union School District. Doty Memorial School in Worcester.photo courtesy of…

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WOODBURY – In a wide-ranging meeting that lasted over three hours, February 9, the Woodbury Select Board took up repairs at Woodbury Elementary School to meet state fire and safety…

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HARDWICK – The first regular select board meeting of February began with communication from the audience, primarily about the location of this year’s town meeting, before proceeding to regular business.…

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MONTPELIER, HARDWICK – Rep. Edye Graning, vice chair of the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development, joined advocates and survivors at the statehouse this week to highlight H.385, a…

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ST. JOHNSBURY – Senator Welch’s recent announcement of $1,400,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) awarded to Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) for the development of one or two Caledonia County…

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CRAFTSBURY – Library trustees joke that a recent $25,000 donation “came out of left field.” But really the surprise gift from the Yawkey Foundation was more like a slow, high-arching…

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MONTPELIER – When Act 181 passed, its supporters framed it as a “grand bargain” between housing proponents and environmentalists that would rebalance Vermont’s land-use regulations for the 21st century.  Area representatives support…

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M​ONTPELIER – Leaders from the newly formed Vermont Journalism Coalition (VJC) and the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF), as well as Senator Andrew Perchlik and Vermont Secretary Copeland Hanzas held a…

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HARDWICK  – Will Helms, an 11th-grade student at Hazen Union School, has been announced as the school winner of the Poetry Out Loud competition held on December 23.  Poetry Out…

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ANHOLTZ, Italy – Margie Freed of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) saved her best biathlon race for the big time at the Cortina/Milan Winter Olympics. Earlier this season, she…

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FAIRFAX – The Twinfield-Cabot boys basketball team just keeps winning no matter what, downing Division III BFA-Fairfax on the road last week in a double overtime thriller for their eleventh…

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NEWPORT – Jameson Lamarre continued his breakout junior campaign, leading the Hazen Union boys basketball team (12-3) to a road thumping of North Country last week, taking over the top…

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WOODBURY – A talk on town government for current and former town officials, volunteers and members of the public is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26, 5 to 5:45 p.m., at…

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Four 90 year olds (from left) John Elwell and Tom Twetten of Craftsbury; Nat Smith and Janet Lyles are gathered to play bridge in Greensboro. They all turned 90 in…

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ST. JOHNSBURY – Caledonia County Sheriff Brandon Thrailkill announced accreditations and promotions that have recently occurred within the department. In January (from left) Lt. Brian Tallmadge, Sgt. Doug Morrill and…

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“Even though the baby will be born here, there’s no guarantee the baby will have any rights.”

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The House Committee on Education has discussed and heard testimony on H.542, a bill that proposes to end testing of additional schools for 8 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). While the bill,…

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by Willem Lange EAST MONTPELIER – The so-called Founding Fathers of the United States of America were far from perfect. Compromised by various interests as they were, however, they were…

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HARDWICK, GREENSBORO – Over the past few years, towns in the Lamoille River watershed have spent a great deal of time and money repairing roads, stabilizing riverbanks, replacing culverts and…

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MONTPELIER – Individual members of the Vermont tri-partisan Rural Caucus met in the Vermont Statehouse Cedar Creek Room to call for passage of H.730, which would extend the implementation timeline…

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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