CRAFTSBURY – The Craftsbury Academy (CA) softball program has reason for optimism this spring, fielding its largest team in recent memory after adding players from both Hazen Union and Peoples Academy (PA). Head coach Ashley Gravel enters her sixth year at the helm and will open the season later this[Read More…]
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Skorstad Stars in High School T&F Season Opener
ST. JOHNSBURY – Senior Sadie Skorstad stole the show last week, capturing her first career title in the 400m as both Craftsbury Academy (CA) and Hazen Union kicked off the high school track and field season last week at St. Johnsbury Academy (SJA). Skorstad’s time of 1:06.64 in the 400m[Read More…]
Leahy Back in Action at the Collegiate Level
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Former Craftsbury Academy (CA) standout Cormac Leahy had his best finish of the young season last week for Siena College in the Bucknell Mile at the Bison Outdoor Classic. Leahy’s time of 4:29.45 in the mile was good enough for a 15th place finish for the Siena[Read More…]
Weather Watch
A couple of absolutely marvelous and warm days occurred on Sunday and Tuesday with sunny skies and mild temperatures. Today will be high pressure’s last day over the region before in moves eastward and clouds return for tomorrow. A frontal system approaching will bring a steady rain Thursday night changing[Read More…]
East Main Street Bridge Work
Yellow Barn Work
Eclipse Brings Crowds, Traffic and Unusual Events
HARDWICK — The April 8 total eclipse of the sun was visible in a narrow swath that passed over the U.S. and was visible throughout the area. A total eclipse of the sun is a rare event that happens at any spot on the earth roughly just once every 375[Read More…]
Jane Kitchel Joins the Race for the Vermont Senate’s “Third Member”
MONTPELIER – The influential post on the Senate’s Committee on Committees opened up for the first time in 27 years following the resignation of Sen. Dick Mazza. Fans of inside baseball, please take your seats. Today, we’re talking about the process under the golden dome. On Monday, Vermont’s longest-serving state[Read More…]
New Bridge and Civic Standard’s Plans Approved by Development Review Board
HARDWICK – Hardwick’s Development Review Board (DRB) held a hearing on April 3 to consider two applications for conditional use permits. First up was the Town of Hardwick’s project to rebuild the 105 foot long pedestrian bridge over the Lamoille River beside the former Hardwick Gazette building now owned by[Read More…]
Hardwick Electric Manager Resigns
HARDWICK – Hardwick Electric Department’s (HED) Board of Commissioners announced “On April 10, 2024 the General Manager of Hardwick Electric Department resigned, effective immediately.” Addressed to “Customers of and Residents of Communities Served by Hardwick Electric Department” and dated last Friday, April 12, the letter’s subject is “Transition of General[Read More…]
Eight More Community Newspapers Soon Will Vanish
The internet and social media won’t fill the gap in civic awareness. Local government officials will go largely unchecked. “If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves.” – President Thomas Jefferson on the dangers of[Read More…]
