GREENSBORO – The Nature Conservancy in Vermont (TNC) has conserved a new 92-acre parcel of land at Long Pond in Greensboro. This purchase marks the organization’s fourteenth conservation project in this region. This new property expands TNC’s Long Pond Natural Area, a protected block that now totals 860 acres surrounding the pond. Public access is allowed at all Long Pond TNC properties. “Long Pond has[Read More…]
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Housing advisory committee hosts Hardwick, St. Johnsbury guests
PLAINFIELD – The Plainfield Housing Advisory Committee meeting February 25, featured presentations from Hardwick and St. Johnsbury municipal leaders who shared their experiences with community revitalization. Kristie Farnham from the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development facilitated the discussion with Hardwick Select Board Chair Eric Remick who has served[Read More…]
Maple open house weekend, March 21, 22
HARDWICK – Vermont Maple Open House Weekend is an opportunity to visit sugarhouses across the state where visitors can learn how maple syrup and other maple products are produced, while tasting samples and buying products to take home. The 2026 weekend is coming up, Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and[Read More…]
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As winters get warmer, maple farmers are learning to adapt
VERMONT – Sugar maples are called “Goldilocks” trees for good reason. Preferring temperatures to be just right, the trees produce more sap over freezing nights and on days that are just warm enough. But warmer winters and midseason thaws are disrupting that balance. Producers are being forced to adapt to protect both[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
What’s the solution?
With Vermont’s Town Meeting Day upon us, most questions involve funding, or who will be responsible for making decisions in our towns. At school district meetings we have budgets for education to vote on, most of which have gone up, some astronomically for several years. Our state legislature ponders education[Read More…]
Heller’s World
For the record
Last week’s review by David Rodgers, “Woodard discusses films, farms and more,” should have indicated George Woodard’s father is George. His grandfather was Walt.
Heller’s World
Bread and circuses
EAST MONTPELIER – I had the experience, some thirty years ago, of sharing a canoe in the Canadian Arctic with a delightful child psychiatrist. Naturally, we talked all day long of shoes and ships and sealing wax, I suppose, and I remember a few of the things I learned. One[Read More…]
