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Grants, Interns & Board Members
Northeast Kingdom Public Journalism, publisher of The Hardwick Gazette, was notified last week by the Greensboro Association that it was awarded a $750 grant to help cover the cost of local reporting in Greensboro. This is the first grant received by the nonprofit organization formed at the end of 2023[Read More…]
Vermont Girl’s Disappearance Sparked Massive Search (Part 1)
VERMONT – The last time anyone had seen Lucille Chatterton was at 6 o’clock on April 24, 1925. That’s when the 11-year-old girl told her father she was going to fetch some water from the spring, which was 50 yards from the family’s home in Granville. Her father, Walter, wasn’t[Read More…]
WGDR, Plainfield Celebrates 50 Years
PLAINFIELD – WGDR, Plainfield has been broadcasting across central Vermont at 91.1 FM since the late spring of 1973. To celebrate reaching 50 years on the air, Central Vermont Community Radio (CVCR), the non-profit that manages WGDR, Plainfield, and WGDH, Hardwick (the second station of CVCR), will host a birthday[Read More…]
Grants, Demolition, Construction, Repairs, Free Concerts Fill Agenda
HARDWICK – Hardwick Rescue Squad learned at the April 4 select board meeting, that they will receive a letter of support from the town for their application requesting congressionally delegated spending (CDS) funds through Bernie Sanders’ office. Work is beginning to demolish three properties; on School Street in East Hardwick,[Read More…]
Town Meeting Scheduled with Worrisome Budget Increase
PLAINFIELD — Town Meeting has finally been scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, at 5:30 p.m., by the select board at their special April 11 meeting. The delay was caused by the lack of an auditor to sign off on the town’s 2023 financial statements. The select board had signed off[Read More…]
Misinformation Travels Faster than Fact
Last Tuesday’s shooting, on April 16 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[Read More…]
“Dare To Be Me” Shifts Students’ Focus from Doing to Being
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…]
Cengeri is Winner of Care Center’s Celtics Tickets
EAST CRAFTSBURY – The winner of Craftsbury Community Care Center’s spring raffle tickets to the April 12 Boston Celtics game against the Charlotte Hornets, Ric Cengeri, reports a “magical” time. Cengari, who purchased his raffle chance at Hardwick Town Meeting, said that Boston was “absolutely buzzing” due to Boston Marathon[Read More…]
Trees Planted to Mitigate Flooding
GREENSBORO BEND – On Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27, a volunteer team led by the Watershed Stewards of Greensboro (part of the Greensboro Association) and Orleans County Conservation District, planted close to 400 trees in Greensboro Bend at the property of Pierrette Lyman. Lyman had asked for a Streamwise[Read More…]
Green Up Day is May 4
Future of fertilizer: Peecycling?
BRATTLEBORO – When Peter Stickney walks along his cow paddocks in the morning, he notes the scattered patches of greener grass across the pasture. He knows what this means: It’s where his cows have peed. So when the Rich Earth Institute, a Brattleboro organization focused on turning human urine into[Read More…]
Concert at St. Norbert’s Church
Kwik Stop Construction
Willows and April Bees
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – Willows (genus Salix) are pollen powerhouses in April. From river banks to roadside ditches, these fast-growing shrubs provide abundant food for early spring pollinators. Their inconspicuous, greenish flowers are visited by a variety of different bees and other insects and are likely the primary pollen source[Read More…]
Stunned That Ski and Ride Program Diminished
To the editor: I am stunned that David Perrigo has been removed as facilitator for the ski and ride program and that it appears it will be cut back to only four or five days a year. My son has partaken in the program the last two years and has[Read More…]
Sports Calendar
Wednesday, May 13 p.m., Hazen Union Track and Field at U32. Thursday, May 24:30 p.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball BFA Fairfax. Monday, May 611 a.m., Peoples Acadmy Softball at Craftsbury Academy. Tuesday, May 74:30 p.m., Hazen Union Boys’ Baseball vs. Montpelier, at Hazen Union. Wednesday, May 83:30 p.m., Hazen Union Track[Read More…]
