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…]
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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…]
Back-and-Forth with Temperatures; Warming by the Weekend
HARDWICK – Clearing skies meant seasonable daytime temperatures and cool evenings starting in the middle of last week, as high pressure was in control of our weather. A frontal system approaching during the weekend brought scattered mixed precipitation and a return to below-normal temperatures, with lows Sunday night in the[Read More…]
Hardwick Police Media Log
April 14: Found Property, Depot St.; Parking Problem, S. Main St.; Citizen Dispute, Spruce Drive. April 15: Directed Patrol, S. Main St.; Accident – LSA, Maple St.; Citizen Dispute, Spruce Drive; Fingerprints, High St.; Suspicious Event, S. Main St. April 16: Directed Patrol, S. Main St.; Fingerprints, High St.; Motor[Read More…]
Hazen Spring Concert and Art Show
Busy Eclipse Day
Earth Day
Local 4-Her Competes in State Dairy Quiz Bowl
BURLINGTON – The 2024 State 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl saw a good turnout with 36 4-H’ers from 10 counties competing for placements and ribbons. At stake for 4-H teens, ages 14 to 18, was an opportunity to qualify for the state team that will represent Vermont in New England regional[Read More…]
Children Give Delightful Performance of Reimagined Fairy Tale
GREENSBORO – Saturday afternoon, April 22, 24 children from the Mountain View School District gave a delightful performance of “Boots- the Musical,” at the Highland Center for the Arts. Students from Greensboro, Hardwick and Woodbury schools, with several home-schoolers, presented the traditional “Puss in Boots” fairy tale as re-imagined by[Read More…]