The Hardwick Gazette, Sept. 17, 2025

Click below the front page for this week’s top news stories, Tyler’s take on upcoming weather, and a few items from our opinion, entertainment and sports pages.

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Thanks to all who made The Hardwick Gazette’s summer fund drive a great success! It’s another big step on The Gazette’s nonprofit journey that’s approaching its second anniversary. We received…

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GREENSBORO – A hour-long meeting advertised to look at the future of the Mountain View Union Elementary School District (MVU) under Act 73, Sept. 11, focusing on two key questions:…

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Vermont officials ask residents to report drought impacts EAST HARDWICK – Remember the days of noting how often it rained during the weekends as the weather warmed up and spring…

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HARDWICK – Young and old community members turned out in abundance for the Buffalo Mountain Co-op’s 50th Anniversary Party on a clear and comfortable Saturday, Sept. 13, at Atkins Field.…

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WOLCOTT – After much anticipation, planning and community collaboration, the grand opening of the Wolcott Community Forest took place Saturday, Sept. 13, at Wolcott Elementary School. Seven-hundred-thirty-five acres of new…

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A boat’s owner and her friends pump water out of the swamped boat in Caspian Lake Monday, with help from Hardwick’s David Upson and Greensboro’s John Schweitzer, while paddleboarders and…

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WOODBURY – Business was mostly routine at the Woodbury Select Board’s September 8 meeting, with the Swenson Quarry planning to expand and the road crew beginning significant repairs on Wilbur…

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PLAINFIELD – Plainfield community members will participate in the next step of the Plainfield Forward process to review, discuss and prioritize community-led actions that will improve the future of the…

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AREA TOWNS – Like many Vermont schools this year, the Caledonia Central Supervisory Union (CCSU) has adopted a device free plan and procedures in the wake of Act 72, which…

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HYDE PARK – The Green River Reservoir in Hyde Park has long offered a true wilderness experience, with its undeveloped shorelines and remote campsites reachable only by paddling. But after…

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Malaky Downing shows a photo of a false morel mushroom during his talk about mushroom identification and foraging at Jeudevine Memorial Library’s Parker Ladd Community Room on September 9. He…

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Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, the Rt. Rev. Shannon MacVean-Brown, who will be leading the Sunday service at Saint John the Baptist Church in Hardwick, September 28 at 11 a.m. All…

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Daniel J. Franklin CRAFTSBURY – The Obama Foundation welcomed 206 change-makers from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States into The Obama Foundation’s Leaders program on September 9. Representing 70…

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FAIRFAX – The Hazen Union girls soccer team rolled to a pair of road wins over BFA-Fairfax and Winooski last week to improve to 3-1 on the season. Senior Isabelle…

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NEWPORT – The defense took it to another level last week for the Hazen Union boys soccer team, pitching a pair of shutouts against Division I North Country and Division…

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Chuck Oliver (left) from Newfields, N.H., Stephen Taylor (center) of Bristol and David Olsen (right) of Glover wait for the start of the 60 km (35.6 miles) ride Sunday at…

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BARRE – The inaugural $2,000-to-win, 100 lap special for the Flying Tigers certainly did not disappoint on Vermont Agency of Transportation night. Thirty teams entered the event with only Ty…

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EAST MONTPELIER – Saturday morning, in bright sunshine and warming temperatures, a young man sat on the concrete railing of the Rialto bridge in downtown Montpelier. He bore two signs,…

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September 17, 1925 South Woodbury John Bushey, 75, began his 64th year of work with the Winooski woolen mill on August 19th. When he began work at the age of…

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HARDWICK – Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA) is in the process of updating the 2015 regional plan that was amended in 2023. They will be collecting community input.at the Hardwick…

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GREENSBORO – An exhibition of paintings by Harold Arthur Drury is currently being held at the Lauredon Place Gallery on 545 Laurendon Avenue, through the end of September. Harold Arthur…

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REPORTER
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SPORTS WRITERS
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Vanessa Fournier

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Julie Atwood

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