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Gazette fundraiser: unprecedented success
The Hardwick Gazette’s end-of-year fundraising campaign began in November with an ambitious goal: $40,000 in reader donations. It seemed like a real stretch, because the 2024 campaign’s total was about $30,000. In the end, readers delivered beyond all expectation. At last count, reader donations totaled $45,451.89. Add in matching funds[Read More…]
This stuff never gets old
EAST MONTPELIER – One of the advantages of a three-day weekend is that we get an extra day just to talk. It doesn’t matter what else we may be doing, there’s just more time to chat and share points of view on what’s happening around us. Thanks to the wild[Read More…]
Heller’s World
Enough, restore Constitutionality
Enough…it’s not acceptable for American citizens to be killed by federal agents for exercising their God-given and constitutional rights to protest their government. At best, these federal immigration operations are a complete failure of coordination of acceptable public safety and law enforcement practices, training, and leadership. At worst,[Read More…]
The monetary value of volunteer committees
EAST HARDWICK – I just watched the recording of the January 8 select board meeting. Of particular interest were discussions about funding for NEK Arts related to Town House improvements and funding for the Equity Committee. Given the national discourse about the word “equity” the discussion was civil and I commend[Read More…]
Doing nothing is not an option
MONTPELIER – It seems that throughout the statehouse, in every corner, hallway, and committee room, you can hear conversations about property taxes and education. From the men’s room to the cafeteria and the parking lot, lawmakers are musing on this vexing issue. In our communities, whether on social media pages[Read More…]
Greensboro Historical Society details resources, programs
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Historical Society’s (GHS’s) summer exhibit last year, Rails to Trails, offered an expanded history of the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad, its role in creating and sustaining The Bend, and the conversion into the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. Skip Hoblin installed a bulletin board and[Read More…]
More than books: A Year at the Library
GREENSBORO – Over the past year, the Greensboro Free Library has continued to be a steady and familiar part of everyday life in Greensboro, offering space, resources and connection in ways both big and small.The library has remained a place where people gather, learn, work, rest and connect. It serves[Read More…]
Granite Street Historic District: What’s changed since the floods
HARDWICK – After the floods of 2023 and 2024, the Town of Hardwick heard versions of the same question: what changes after the water goes down? In the Granite Street Historic District, the answer has not been a single project or a single fix. There has been a slow shift[Read More…]
Crunching through a forest of needle ice
DUXBURY – On an early winter walk with my three-year-old in a local town forest, we heard our steps crunch on the frozen ground. The dirt of the trail had been pushed up on delicate columns of ice that looked like a pale sugar candy. “Why is it like ribbon[Read More…]
It’s sharp to keep garden tools maintained
MONTPELIER – Home gardeners use a variety of hand tools to achieve their desired results for gardening and landscape maintenance. A quick search at any garden center or online retailer uncovers a vast diversity of equipment, implements, and gear. These include, but are certainly not limited to, shovels and hoes,[Read More…]
