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Blake Turns Around Mid-Season Slump
BARRE – After starting off with a heavy mist just after opening the pit gates for teams on Thursday, if you can believe it, teams waited out the showers. After drying the track, the Thunder Road faithful again put on another stellar showcase of auto racing on the Barre highbanks,[Read More…]
Gray Wows for Three-Peat in Flying Tiger 100 Win
BARRE – Both racers and fans were greeted to another beautiful day high atop Quarry Hill on Sunday evening for the rain-date make-up Cody Chevrolet-Cadillac Night. In this game, winning races doesn’t always equate to winning championships and Sunday at Thunder Road proved it. Consistency is, and always will be,[Read More…]
Bolduc, Smyers, and Knutson Lead Local Runners at Berlin Pond
BERLIN ̶ Fifty-three athletes competed in the 43rd annual Berlin Pond Five Miler on August 17. The contest started pleasantly cool with temperatures in the high 60s F. A light southerly headwind gently whisked away sweat as runners climbed up Brookfield Road on the west side of the pond. Bearing[Read More…]
Disaster Recovery Center to Relocate to Cabot
WILLISTON – The Disaster Recovery Center in Danville (Caledonia County) has ceased operations and relocated to Cabot (Washington County). It is open at 8 a.m., and continues regular hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday. The center is located at Cabot Town Hall (Willey Building),[Read More…]
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Yellow Barn 2.0 Construction Gets Underway
by Gazette Staff HARDWICK – After years of planning, permitting, and fundraising, the refurbishment of the Yellow Barn site is underway. The project consists of two structures: the refurbished Yellow Barn building and a new accelerator facility. According to the Northern Vermont Development Agency (NVDA) website dedicated to the project[Read More…]
Select Board Continues Work on Flood Recovery
by Gazette Staff HARDWICK – At its August 17 regular meeting, the Hardwick Select Board continued to work through flood recovery issues and discussed updates to the town’s hazard mitigation plan. Town Manager David Upson reported that the stormwater system in the North Main Street parking lot had damage as[Read More…]
Ackermann Dairy Wins Dairy Award
by Lisa Halvorsen, Freelance Agricultural Journalist for UVM Extension HARDWICK – If there is one word that can be used to describe Jimmy and Sara Ackermann, it’s resilient. Although only in their mid-thirties, these hard-working Hardwick dairy farmers have the same dogged work ethic of generations of old-time New[Read More…]
