ST. JOHNSBURY – Caledonia Home Health Care & Hospice (CHHC) has earned a 5-star patient experience rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), according to Northern Counties Health Care (NCHC). The recognition reflects feedback from patients and families served by CHHC and places the organization among the[Read More…]
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Gingue receives Vermont Hunt Blair Leadership Award
ST. JOHNSBURY – Heidi Gingue, population health manager at Northern Counties Health Care (NCHC), has been named the recipient of the 2026 Vermont Hunt Blair Leadership Award, presented by Bi-State Primary Care Association. Gingue began her career as a case manager in long-term care, supporting older adults and helping individuals[Read More…]
Sharing some background
To the editor: As part of the Communications Working Group (CWG) that proposed the article adopted at the 2025 Town Meeting to vote for elected officials by Australian ballot, I wanted to share some background. The article was not prepared by one or two people in town at the last[Read More…]
Woodsmoke
Everyone’s in favor of democracy, how best to achieve it?
With area towns discussing town meeting options, The Hardwick Gazette has scheduled an opportunity to learn more about them, June 22, with the program, “Strengthening Local Democracy: Exploring ‘Both/And’ Ideas,” featuring Susan Clark. Clark has worked with towns throughout the region by helping them explore ways to improve both democratic[Read More…]
Heavy rain Thursday, cool, unsettled most of week
EAST HARDWICK – Prevailing conditions last week put us in a soupy air mass that coincided with some heat. The moisture hanging around, combined with frontal systems that were slow to move resulted in some pockets of heavy rain that added up quickly. Wednesday evening, parts of Hardwick west of[Read More…]
Heller’s World
We New Yorkers couldn’t get any respect
EAST MONTPELIER – On warm summer days it all comes back to me, much like a dream. When I was young in my early twenties, I was often embarrassed to say that I was from New York. Almost no one not from New York really knew what it was like,[Read More…]
The legislative branch is you
GREENSBORO – Right now, our country is in chaos. Many struggle every day with anxiety or fear around the unknown. We’re paying more for groceries, more for fuel, more for medical necessities, more for our taxes and we don’t know when the end will come. Feelings like these affect our[Read More…]
Speaking from the heart about anger requires courage
GREENSBORO – Who doesn’t feel anger? It is one of the emotions that we get to explore as humans. I have been feeling a lot of anger and rage lately. Some of this is triggered by what is happening in the larger world, and some arises from my personal life. Sometimes[Read More…]
Futurity
Numeral round to numeral round-&-round our sundial ants tug time.Tiny harnesses of light. At night at various variances the stars& moon hitch up the FourSnails of the Apocalypse, but you– for you, little jockey, I slide up & bucklethe two purple stirrups you’ll perchto break the gate & hurl out fluttering silks (o my[Read More…]
Peter Gould finds purpose through performance
BURLINGTON – At the dinner table on his first night in Mexico, then-17-year-old Peter Gould watched as members of his host family spoke with arched eyebrows, toothy grins and wide eyes. Their bodies moved with them, hands flew through the air, each finger articulating a syllable. Conversation became a dance. [Read More…]
