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Saturday, April 204:30 p.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball at Vergennes. Thursday, April 254:30 p.m., Hazen Union Boys’ Baseball vs. Williamstwon, at Hazen Union.4:30 p.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball vs. Thetford. Saturday, April 2711 a.m., Hazen Union Boys’ Baseball at Williamstown. Monday, April 2911 a.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball at Richford.4:30 p.m., Hazen Union[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
HARDWICK – On April 4, The Galaxy Bookshop reported on their Facebook page, “We are so happy to learn we’re featured in an article by AAA this month about New England bookstores!” The bookstore has been listed by AAA Magazine in an article titled, “10 Independent bookstores in Northern New[Read More…]
Tuesday’s shooting in Hardwick shows both the value and peril of relying on social media in an emergency. A post to the Facebook group, “What’s happening around Hardwick, Vt.?” inquiring about the wail of police sirens first appeared at 4:48 p.m. Some responses to that post were simply factual reports[Read More…]
HARDWICK – Hardwick Electric Department’s (HED) April 15 meeting began with approval of previous minutes, with the April 12 minutes revised from the previous draft to indicate “There was discussion about planning for management after the general manager’s resignation.” A discussion between commissioners, HED Foreman Brian Forant, and other former[Read More…]
HARDWICK – The article in the April 17 Gazette titled “New Bridge and Civic Standard’s Plans Approved by Development Review Board” identified the two properties as being in Hardwick’s compact residential zoning district. Documents have been reissued by the Development Review Board and now all references correctly identify the pedestrian[Read More…]
HARDWICK – Some students at Hardwick’s Hazen Union School are spending their time outside; walking the trails, writing poetry and growing vegetables instead of being cooped up in classrooms all day long. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new class arose from a community in crisis; it is “Dare[Read More…]
HARDWICK – Clearing skies meant seasonable daytime temperatures and cool evenings starting in the middle of last week, as high pressure was in control of our weather. A frontal system approaching during the weekend brought scattered mixed precipitation and a return to below-normal temperatures, with lows Sunday night in the[Read More…]
April 14: Found Property, Depot St.; Parking Problem, S. Main St.; Citizen Dispute, Spruce Drive. April 15: Directed Patrol, S. Main St.; Accident – LSA, Maple St.; Citizen Dispute, Spruce Drive; Fingerprints, High St.; Suspicious Event, S. Main St. April 16: Directed Patrol, S. Main St.; Fingerprints, High St.; Motor[Read More…]
PLAINFIELD – A local climate resiliency group is hoping to purchase the campus, but it says it’s been frozen out by Goddard administration. A week after Goddard College announced plans to close its private college, alumni and community groups with ideas for the property are feeling shut out. At the[Read More…]
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…]
