Thursday, April 254:30 p.m., Hazen Union Boys’ Baseball vs. Williamstwon, at Hazen Union.4:30 p.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball vs. Thetford. Saturday, April 2711 a.m., Hazen Union Boys’ Baseball at Williamstown. Monday, April 2911 a.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball at Richford.4:30 p.m., Hazen Union Boys’ Baseball at Montpelier. Tuesday, April 304:30 p.m., Hazen[Read More…]
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Steelhead Run Event at Willoughby Falls April 27, 28
ORLEANS – Northeast Kingdom Trout Unlimited (NEKTU) members will be at Willoughby Falls Wildlife Management Area this Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m., for their “Steelhead Encounter,” 150 East St., Orleans. Unique to the Northeast Kingdom is the run of Steelhead Trout that[Read More…]
Lady Mustangs Ride Championship Momentum
HARDWICK – On the heels of the Hazen Union girls’ basketball team bringing home their first state championship in 33 years, the Hardwick Mustangs AAU team swept four games over the weekend to capture the Kingdom Invitational crown at Hardwick Elementary School. Featuring many of the same faces of last[Read More…]
Blue Mountain Holds Down Lady Chargers in Opener
WELLS RIVER – Blue Mountain is showing no signs of slowing down in their Division IV softball title defense early on this spring, and they added another blowout win to their resume last week over the Craftsbury Academy (CA) Lady Chargers. Head coach Ashley Gravel and her Lady Charger softball[Read More…]
Hazen Middle and High School Track and Field Solid
LYNDONVILLE – Hazen Union’s varsity track and field team was solid in their second meet of the season last week and their middle school program got their season underway in the Middle School Kick-Off Meet at Montpelier. Fresh off a stellar first meet of his young career, freshman Manny Fliegelman[Read More…]
Krebs Back in Action for Tufts
MEDFORD, Mass. – Former Craftsbury Academy (CA) and St. Johnsbury Academy (SJA) great Charlie Krebs is back on the track for Tufts University in his freshman season this spring. Krebs finished 23rd in the 800m at the Sunshine Classic last week in Medford for Tufts. It was just the second[Read More…]
Kehler Keeps Charger Track and Field Rolling
LYNDONVILLE – Charlie Kehler’s third career individual title for his Craftsbury Academy (CA) track and field team last week probably felt a little sweeter than the rest, as he has fought all the way back from injury from the high school Nordic ski season this past winter. Kehler captured his[Read More…]
What Will Karma Have in Store?
EAST MONTPELIER – Many of us are familiar with archy and mehitabel (more of us ought to be), a collection of essays, stories, and poetry written by archy, a cockroach with literary instincts and talents who’s been condemned to a life as a cockroach for the crime of having been[Read More…]
Misinformation Travels Faster than Fact
Last Tuesday’s shooting, on April 16 in Hardwick shows both the value and peril of relying on social media in an emergency. A post to the Facebook group, “What’s happening around Hardwick, Vt.?” inquiring about the wail of police sirens first appeared at 4:48 p.m. Some responses to that post[Read More…]
For the Record
HARDWICK – The article in the April 17 Gazette titled “New Bridge and Civic Standard’s Plans Approved by Development Review Board” identified the two properties as being in Hardwick’s compact residential zoning district. Documents have been reissued by the Development Review Board and now all references correctly identify the pedestrian[Read More…]
“Dare To Be Me” Shifts Students’ Focus from Doing to Being
HARDWICK – Some students at Hardwick’s Hazen Union School are spending their time outside; walking the trails, writing poetry and growing vegetables instead of being cooped up in classrooms all day long. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new class arose from a community in crisis; it is “Dare[Read More…]