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A reporter’s opinion: Community spirit shines
At the age of twenty-four, I have many choices to make in the coming years about where and when I want to lay down roots. Similarly to one of the candidates Saturday evening at the Hardwick select board forum, I moved away for college and later returned. I relocated from[Read More…]
For the record:
Last week’s story, “Journalism awards, report announced at Statehouse,” should have referred to Cassandra Hemenway in the photo caption. The photo last week of four 90 year-olds playing Bridge should have identified the person on the right as Janet Long, whose birthday was being celebrated that day.
In case we survive it
EAST MONTPELIER – I’m writing this before this year’s State of the Union speech. As an old hand at backstage preparations, I can well imagine the excitement currently infusing whatever passes for a green room wherever the president is getting ready for his coming performance. And I can imagine the[Read More…]
Heller’s World by Joe Heller
Montpelier, the big picture
MONTPELIER – The governor gave his budget address, in which he proposed a 9.4 billion budget. While this does not raise any taxes rates or fees, it was my hope he would have offered a level funded or even a reduction in annual spending. Vermont has a spending problem, not[Read More…]
How are the children?
MONTPELIER – How are the children? That is the question we should be asking with the same discipline and transparency we apply to state revenues: reviewed regularly, measured honestly and reported for all to see. We love our children. Yet too many of them fall victim to neglect, instability and[Read More…]
Heller’s Word by Joe Heller
Radio nerd guides local station through expansion
PLAINFIELD – “I’m a radio nerd.” That’s the self-description of Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, executive director of Central Vermont Community Radio, which operates WGDR in Plainfield and WGDH in Hardwick. It’s been a challenging time for public broadcasting, but donors have stepped up, said Mulvaney-Stanak, who uses they/them pronouns. Meanwhile, work continues[Read More…]
After the buyout: standing in the in-between
HARDWICK – Recently, I spent a bitterly cold afternoon walking through several flood-impacted sites in Hardwick with a group of University of Vermont students. They are enrolled in a course on climate adaptation and are thinking about what towns manage after buyouts are complete. We were standing in places where[Read More…]
Kicking the tax can
TURENNE, France – Some school districts are experiencing sticker shock heading into town meeting. Their projected tax increases for the next school year seem out of line with their proposed spending increases. A few different things can cause this, but one big factor was the Legislature’s decision last year to[Read More…]
100 years ago in the Hardwick Gazette, February 25, 1926
Girl Scouts Grace J. Kelley, CaptainRuby Grisworld, 1st. Lieut.Mildred Stone, 2nd, Lieut. The twenty-eight girls who answered to their names at Roll Call last Monday night, at Scout Headquarters, were certainly an enthusiastic bunch and the business of the evening was conducted with all the necessary “snap” to make it[Read More…]
