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Town hall third floor reopened for cleaning, Independence Day tours
GREENSBORO – The second monthly meeting of the Greensboro Select Board saw discussion of the town hall third floor, license approvals as well as some policy updates. Resident Rob Brigham, with the approval of the select board, organized a group of volunteers to clean up the third floor of the[Read More…]
Burgers and BINGO
Decorating for July 4th
FEMA approves funding for Marshfield flooding project
BOSTON – FEMA has approved over $470,000 for the Town of Marshfield, Vt., for management costs related to the 2023 flooding, in a recent grant in post-disaster funding. The funding is part of nearly $3.4 million for projects in Vermont, Maine and Connecticut. This program empowers states, local communities, tribes[Read More…]
HUD gives data on local subsidized housing
AREA COUNTIES – People who live in subsidized housing share one thing: incomes low enough to qualify for housing assistance. In 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) classified 98% of households in subsidized housing as very low income and 76% as extremely low income. In 2025,[Read More…]
Central Vermont Community Radio to move station
PLAINFIELD – Central Vermont Community Radio (CVCR), home of WGDR, Plainfield, WGDH, Hardwick, and online listening at WGDR.org, will relocate from the Creative Campus by March 1, 2027. CVCR has been notified that its lease on the Creative Campus will not be renewed, requiring the station to vacate its current[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
Heller’s World
Women’s care is as essential as women
As a reporter, occasionally I find story leads in odd places, so literally walking into this discovery some weeks ago left me quite pleased. After completing a shift scooping ice cream in Stowe, my double life, as some readers and area ice cream lovers have discovered, I ran into some[Read More…]
Heller’s World
It’s Boston for me when it comes to the birth of the nation
EAST MONTPELIER – I’ve had the dubious good fortune during the past five years to drive every couple of weeks or so to the neighborhood of Boston. It’s becoming a habit, casually alternating visits to Nahant with my friend Bea’s visits here in Vermont. But where else would we be[Read More…]
