MARSHFIELD – Dale and Janet Newton expect to distribute more than one-million seeds to Vermont libraries, schools and businesses that the public can then plant around the state. They are almost finished distributing sunflower seeds this season for their homegrown solidarity initiative, Vermont Plants Sunflowers for Ukraine, which they started[Read More…]
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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…]
LCP Present “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
HYDE PARK — Lamoille County Players’ 72nd season at the Hyde Park Opera House kicks off with the classic ” One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. “ R. P. McMurphy, a small-time criminal is looking to spend the end of his prison sentence in the relative luxury of a mental hospital,[Read More…]
Blood Donations Earn Free Haircut
BURLINGTON – As May approaches, the American Red Cross reminds eligible donors to keep the blood supply stable by giving blood or platelets in the weeks to come. Donors of all blood types – especially type O blood donors and those giving platelets – are crucial to keeping shelves fully[Read More…]
Vermont State Police
Single-Vehicle Crashes On April 18, at 8:31 a.m., the Vermont State Police, Craftsbury Fire and Hardwick EMS, responded to Vt. Rte. 14 near the N. Craftsbury Road for a report of a single vehicle crash. Through investigation it was revealed Sara Bonillacextary, of Orleans, was traveling south on Vt. Rte.[Read More…]
Hardwick Police Report
Shooting On Tuesday, April 16, at approximately 3:48 p.m., a male called 911 to report he had been shot inside a residence at 7 Prospect St. in Hardwick. Hardwick Police, Morristown Police, Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department and Vermont State Police responded to the scene. The suspect(s) fled prior to the[Read More…]
Budget Bill Goes to Senate
WOLCOTT – Senate Appropriations was wrapping up the budget when I left the statehouse around 5 p.m. last Friday, as indicated by the large group of people outside their committee room. The Senate will vote on the budget later this week and it will come back to the House the[Read More…]
The Hidden Costs of Climate Progress
WALDEN – Renewables don’t change anything fundamental. They are just the latest business-as-usual scheme to keep the destructive economic party going for a few more years. In a recent VTDigger commentary, Sen. Becca White and Rep. Gabrielle Stebbins touted the “progress on climate” accomplished by the state Legislature. They claim,[Read More…]
Ranked Choice Voting Seminars Scheduled
Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas announced a two-part series of virtual forums which her office will co-host with the League of Women Voters of Vermont (LWVVT) to discuss Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). As interest has grown in RCV, in the state legislature and among municipalities, interest groups and voters, the[Read More…]
Talk About Invasives April 28
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Conservation Commission will present a program featuring Michael Bald of “Got Weeds?” at the Greensboro Free Library on Sunday, April 28, at 3 p.m. Bald will provide an orientation to terrestrial invasive plants and effective manual control methods. He will briefly outline the impacts of exotic,[Read More…]
