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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Volume 132 Number 18 HED Settles Lawsuit Against Auditors by Doug McClure time former employee Joyce Bel- levance [sic] including luxury livan said in an interview, “HED lavance embezzled $1.26m from vehicles, furniture, jewelry, IRAs, and our Board of Commissioners HARDWICK – In a press re- the utility. Bellavance embezzled and her Mackville Road home in could not be happier with this lease, Hardwick Electric Depart- $1.67m in total from HED, the re- Hardwick.” HED also successfully settlement, primarily because it ment (HED) announced that it lease said, which reports at the time sued for half of her municipal pen- makes our ratepayers 100% whole has settled its five-year lawsuit for described as the largest-known sion. The utility said that the law- for all the monies stolen by Joyce professional malpractice against government embezzlement in Ver- suit against KBS was “the last of Bellevance – but also because it St. Albans-based auditors Kittell mont history. these efforts” to recover the stolen brings final closure to what has Branagan & Sargent LTD (KBS) In its release, HED said that moneys. been a very long ten-year process. for $960,000. in the ten years since Bellavance’s General Manager Mike Sul- See LAWSUIT, 3 KBS was HED’s auditor from sentencing “HED recovered assets 2006 through 2010, during which worth over $700,000 from Bel- Hardwick Budget Tightens After Contract Cancellation by Doug McClure

HARDWICK – The pandemic’s ripple effects and Greensboro can- celing its contract with the Hardwick Police Department (HPD) have created financial concerns for the town. Vice chair Ceilidh Galloway-Kane wanted to assure residents that losing the Greensboro contract would not result in higher taxes. Chief Aaron Cochran said, “without drastic changes, I think we’re looking at the rainy-day fund or COVID money.” The latter are funds the town will receive from the American Rescue Plan (ARP). The amount of the funds and parameters for how it can be used are unclear. Chief Cochran said he wanted to “keep the coverage that I feel is courtesy photo See CANCELLATION, 2 Joe Young (left), once a little leaguer, and Mark Royan work on the Craftsbury Little League ball field on the Common in preparation for opening day on Hazen Union Announces Graduation Date Saturday, May 15. Craftsbury Little League has been organized again after a by Doug McClure hiatus of decades. HARDWICK – Hazen Union has announced a date and initial “Play Ball” Heard on the Common plan for the Class of 2021 graduation ceremony. The ceremony is slated for June 12, at 10 a.m. for the First Time in Ten Years The school will set up a large tent on the soccer field, and gradu- is under the aegis of the Hardwick by June Pichel Cook ating seniors will receive two tickets for family members to join them Area Little League and has four under the tent. The school is not limiting attendance for others, but CRAFTSBURY – The teams. Over 60 children, almost noted: “there will not be seating or coverage from any unexpected Common will be filled with ex- evenly split between boys and girls See GRADUATION, 2 cited children, cheering, and lots aged 4 to 12, signed up in 72 hours. of laughter on Saturday morning On Saturday morning, former when the Craftsbury Little League Red Sox Pitcher Bill “Spaceman” holds its opening game at 10 a.m. Lee, will be umpiring. The Crafts- It has been a decade or more since bury Academy Middle School young athletes played ball on the Chorus will open the proceedings Common. with the national anthem. School Commissioner April Royan Board chair and president of said the Craftsbury Little League See BALL, 4

Emergency Broadband Benefit Now Available by Doug McClure HARDWICK – The Federal ble for an up-to-$50 per month dis- Communications Commission count on services and up-to-$100 (FCC) has announced that start- one time discount for the purchase ing today people can register for of a computer, laptop, or tablet its Emergency Broadband Benefit “with a co-payment of more than (EBB) program, which is aimed at $10 but less than $50 through a helping people better afford broad- participating broadband provider.” photo by Vanessa Fournier band service during the pandemic. In this area, Charter, Com- Hardwick Elementary third grade teacher Stephanie Appleton (right) listens Customers of EBB-participat- cast/Xfinity, and VTel Wireless are as Nathaniel Leach (left) reads a story during Educating Children Outdoors ing providers who qualify are eligi- See BROADBAND, 3 time May 7. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Two

Contents Cancellation The main focus of the $350,000 Police Reports...... 3 Continued From Page One application will be upgrading venti- Hazen Union Students Learn While Nourishing Community...... 5 really important and still maintain lation and air handling systems. May Town Meeting Draws Usual Number of Voters...... 6 24-hour coverage.” He said he thor- Bledsoe said that “like many of the Morrisville Man Wins Craftsbury Bike Raffle...... 6 oughly reviewed the department’s facilities, [the CCCC] realized they Jeudevine Falls to Open New Section...... 7 budget and found nothing to cut. are at more risk than they thought they were.” The CCCC will apply Wolcott Road Paving Schedule is Tight...... 8 HPD is down two officers after $100,000 of its funds for a required Care Center Seeks Board Support for Grant...... 9 one left for another agency and match. The CCCC requested a letter Board Approves Purchase of Trailer...... 9 another deployed. A third officer of support from each town it serves. Dow Appointed to Select Board...... 10 will leave soon for basic training. The fireworks display is set to Children 12 and Up Can Soon Get Vaccine...... 10 Chief Cochran said he would not ask go forward. A major concern raised Our Communities...... 11 his officers to work shifts alone, as once more is that Hardwick is in a Cabot Launches Yogurt Line with Six Flavors...... 12 it might hurt the town’s ability to drought. If the fireworks display is Obituary...... 12 recruit. As for the town’s budget, not able to go forward for Memorial This Week’s Events...... 13 Day, suggestions were made to Yankee Notebook: Fraught and Complicated Relationships...... 14 business manager Casey Rowell said revenues were “on track at this postpone festivities until the Hazen In the Garden: Insects: Friends or Foes...... 16 point.” A milder winter than usual Union graduation ceremony or set Hilly Half Marathon Inspires Local Runners...... 18 saved some money on road salt and off the fireworks over Hardwick Letters from Readers...... 17 overtime. The outlook will become Lake. Chair Eric Remick said the Golf League Gets Early Start to Season...... 19 clearer after May 10, when water board and the town still wanted a Bolduc Heats up as Track and Field Season Nears Finish Line...19 and sewer bills are due, as currently show where it could “explode some Rooney Continues to Turn Heads in Big Week for Wildcats...... 20 $57,000 of those are delinquent. stuff so we can watch it.” Sicard Opens White Mountain Season with Triple Crown Win....21 Jeudevine Library board Board member Shari Cornish Lady Trojans Struggle Against Top of the Division...... 22 chair Jodi Lew-Smith said that the has been a proponent of porta- Purrier Breaks Four-Minute 1500m Barrier for First Time...... 22 trustees opened the bids for the potties in previous proceedings. library expansion on April 8 and Their absence in the village had been experienced “sticker shock,” with “a problem in downtown forever,” amounts 50% over what the library she said. There were more ques- raised. Materials costs have soared tions than answers regarding how due to shortages caused by the much the facilities would cost, how Craghoppers May 12 - May 18 pandemic. frequently cleaning would occur, and Insect Repellant Extra Tuf The trustees split the locations. Town Manager Shaun Fielder Clothing expansion plan into two phases Boots said, “Let’s face it, when it’s 90 for men, women & kids back in stock to ensure that construction could start in 2021. Some funding sources degrees out, a porta-potty is not a require current-year construction, pleasant thing to have next to a given Glutino Crackers Raos Green Mt. and a “big donor” recently pledged location.” Cornish said suggested the or Wafers Pasta Sauce Coffee $200,000, but wanted construction Peace Park as a possible location, $ $ $ to begin this year. Lew-Smith noted or “the Poop Park,” named for the 4.4-4.6 oz. 4.99 24 oz. 5.99 12 oz. or 12 ct. 3.99 there was “no guarantee prices waste left there by residents who do Dole Canned are not going to keep going up.” not clean up after their pets. Board Food Club G.M. Lucky Charms, Honeynut The contractor, Middlebury-based member Elizabeth Dow suggested Pineapple Beans Cheerios or Cinn. Toast Crunch Breadloaf Construction, advised the coin-operated facilities, which are $ ¢ $ common in Europe. 2/ 3 20 oz. 59 15.5 oz. 2/ 5 10.5-12 oz. library that it wanted to buy and store lumber now to ward off that Dow also had an update of a Post Honey Kellogg's Rice Krispies, Honey Pringles possibility. more troubling nature. She said Lew-Smith said that the goal of someone attempted to break into Bunches of Oats Smacks or Corn Flakes Potato Crisp the Historical Society the previous $ $ $ Phase I is “to take out everything we 2/ 4 13-14.5 oz. 2/ 5 12-15.3 oz. 3/ 4 5.2-5.5 oz. can and still have a usable building.” night, but failed. Fielder said, “that’s Phase II would seek “to have a [intolerable] behavior. The police Betty Crocker Kleenex Cabot building that we all feel really great department is on notice.” Assorted Fruit Snacks Facial Tissue Butter about.” While the library is aggres- The board also unanimously $ $ $ sively fundraising, the immediate approved signing a resolution to 4.5-8 oz. 65-144 ct. lb. 2/ 4 1.79 2.99 need is for Hardwick Town to sign a apply for the Downtown Designation. Planet Yoplait Green Mt. contract. The revisions require the Graduation Oatmilk Yogurt Greek Yogurt approval of one major funding Continued From Page One $ $ $ 2/ 5 52 oz. 10/ 5 6 oz. 4.59 32 oz. source, and the library is still weather and social distancing will roughly $200,000 short. Lew-Smith be expected.” If a thunderstorm Breyers Swanson Crav'n asked the board to operate with the warning happens, then only the Ice Cream Hungryman Dinners Pizza expectation that the money will be two guests per student will be $ $ $ found and proceed with signing the allowed and the ceremony will 3.49 48 oz. 2/ 6 16 oz. 4.29 28.3-32.7 oz. contract. “We’re hard workers and move to the auditorium. we raise money, we just need faith Hardwick Community Tele- Calavo Fresh Express 3 ct. Maine White to get us through this time crunch,” vision, as well as the school’s Avocados Romaine Hearts Potatoes she said. The board agreed to sign YouTube channel, will live-stream ¢ $ $ the contract. the event. The school listed this 79 ea. 2/ 4 5 lb. 2.99 Craftsbury Community Care year’s graduation requirements as Since 1900 Center (CCCC), represented by successful completion of required The Willey's Store Greensboro resident Ranny Bledsoe briefed the credits, a personalized learning Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sat. & Sun. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. board on a “pretty long-shot grant” plan and portfolio, 30 hours of 802-533-2621 • toll-free 855-533-2621 "If we don't have application from the Northern documented community service, • Full-service grocery & hardware • Clothing it, then you Border Regional Commission to and students ensuring all school • Housewares • Hunting & Fishing • Coffee Bar probably don't • Beer & Wine • Toys • Gifts need it." correct some COVID-19 issues, as property is returned and balances well as address energy efficiency. paid. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Three

Hardwick Police Vermont State Police Media Log Summary Overturned Mobile Home May 3: Medical, Maple St.; Rte. 16/Vt. Rte. 14; Assist – Motorist, Traffic Stop, Mill St.; Traffic Stop, S. S. Main St.; Suspicious Event, Depot Main St./Lower Cherry St.; Traffic St.; Traffic Stop, Vt. Rte. 15/Vt. Rte. Stop, Wolcott St.; Traffic Stop, 16; Citizen Dispute, Vt. Rte. 16; Wolcott St./Granite St.; Traffic Stop, Suspicious Event, Vt. Rte. 15W. Wolcott St.; Traffic Stop, S. Main May 7: Suspicious Event, St.; Traffic Stop, Lake Rd.; Assist – High St.; Suspicious Event, Upper Other, Wolcott St.; Assist – Other, Cherry St.; Traffic Stop, Spring St.; Wolcott St.; Assist – Other, Wolcott Suspicious Event, Central St. St.; Assist – Other, Wolcott St.; May 8: Medical, Hillary Dr.; Traffic Stop, Wolcott St.; Traffic Stop, Assist – Other, Wolcott St.; Assist – Wolcott St.; Traffic Hazard, S. Main Other, Wolcott St.; Assist – Other, St.; Traffic Stop, Vt. Rte. 15. Wolcott St.; Assist – Other, Wolcott May 4: Traffic Stop, S. Main St. St.; Traffic Stop, Wolcott St.; Traffic May 5: Theft – Automobile, Stop, Wolcott St.; Citizen Dispute, Vt. Rte. 16; Welfare Check, Vt. Rte. Hastings Ln.; Traffic Stop, S. Main photo courtesy Facebook and Paul Fixx 16; Motor Vehicle Complaint, S. St.; Traffic Stop, S. Main St.; Traffic An overturned mobile home blocked the intersection of U.S. Route 2 and Main St./Wolcott St.; Traffic Stop, S. Stop, Vt. Rte. 15W Vermont Route 14 on Thursday. Main St.; Traffic Stop, S. Main St. May 9: Accident – Property On May 6, at 1:58 p.m., the the investigation. Members of the May 6: Alarm, Log Yard Damage On, Vt Rte. 16; Traffic Stop, Vermont State Police Middlesex East Montpelier fire Department Dr.; Traffic Stop, Vt. Rte. 15/Vt. Breezy Ave.; Traffic Stop, Breezy barracks responded to a report assisted with traffic control until Rte. 14; Assist – Public, Winnimere Ave.; Traffic Stop, S. Main St.; Traffic of an overturned mobile home in the incident was cleaned up. The Cir.; Animal Problem, Vt. Rte. 16; Stop, S. Main St.; Trespassing, Vt. the roadway at the intersection roadway was reopened at approx- Accident, Property Damage On, Vt. Rte. 16; Traffic Stop, S. Main St. of U.S. Route 2 and Vt. Rte. 14 imately 3:45 p.m. North, in the town of East Mont- This report is based on Hardwick Police pelier. The operator of the truck information provided by the Gross Negligent Operation, pulling the home. Devin Poland, Vermont State Police but is not a Unlawful Trespass of Charlestown, N.H., stated the full accounting of police activity. On April 25, at approximately ticket for traveling at 48 mph in a mobile home toppled over while he Persons named in this report are 11:21 a.m., Police were notified 30-mph zone. was turning west onto U.S. Route 2. presumed to be innocent unless of a traffic incident where Steve On May 9, at 10:56 a.m., Norit The State of Vermont Department they plead or are found guilty in Shatney, of Greensboro, operated Demuth, of Hardwick, was stopped of Motor Vehicles assisted with court. a tractor in a manner that was on Breezy Ave. in Greensboro, unsafe by turning sharply in the Police issued a $185 ticket for road crossing the yellow line two traveling at 50 mph in a 30-mph Lawsuit “Bellavance would use convenience times and almost rolling the tractor zone.00. Continued From Page One checks from her personal credit both times. He was cited for Gross May 9, 1741, Sheara Bryant, Previous legal efforts cards to obtain significant cash Negligent Operation. transient, had been given a No contributed significant monies advances by depositing those checks On May 6, at 3:49 p.m., Police Trespass Notice and she violated toward making HED whole and the into her Merchants Bank account, responded to 3148 Route 16 to it by being on the property. Police funds from the auditor settlement and then use HED company checks remove Sheara Bryant, transient, located Bryant down the road from will first reimburse HED for all of its to pay off the credit cards … All in all, from the property. Bryant was the property and cited her roadside. costs of recovery, including attorney’s [FBI Special Agent Jennie McGlynn] removed from the property and This report is based on infor- fees and expert witness expenses. Emmons stated, Bellavance wrote served a citation to appear in Cale- mation provided by the Hardwick After paying these expenses the 267 fraudulent checks from the donia County Court on June 28 for Police Department but is not a settlement will restore all the utility, for her personal benefit.” the charges of Unlawful Trespass. full accounting of police activity. remaining uninsured financial Her scheme was uncovered when a On May 9, at 11:19 a.m., Persons named in this report are losses HED suffered.” check “to Chase Card Services for William S. Marlier, of Walden, presumed to be innocent unless Sullivan said the settlement $12,051.46, was returned… because was stopped on Breezy Ave. in they plead or are found guilty in will see an “immediate positive effect Bellavance forgot to sign it, and Greensboro. Police issued a $172 court. on our continuous effort to provide happened to be out of the office the stable rates for our customers” and day the check came back. An HED AWARE Report “it will definitely be utilized to push office employee noticed it, did some any rate increases further into the investigating, and all of a sudden HARDWICK – AWARE resolving the causes and effects future.” Bellavance’s scheme unraveled.” served six survivors of domestic of domestic violence and sexual He said that another outcome Bellavance was sentenced to and sexual violence from April assault in the greater Hardwick 25 through May 9. AWARE is a area. might be potentially speeding up 42 months in prison in January nonprofit organization, estab- The 24-hour hotline is some of HED’s planned-for capital 2012 and ordered to pay restitution. lished in 1984, dedicated to 802-472-6463. projects. “In the electric utility Then-general manager of HED Eric industry routine projects have costs Werner is quoted in the Hardwick which exceed $500k, and a single Gazette as saying “the $1.6 million piece of standard utility equipment she stole equals $380 taken from Broadband up-to-$50 a month discount, and can cost up to $250k – such as a basic each of HED’s 4,200 customers.” Continued From Page One those people already on its Internet hot line truck. Therefore, HED will HED sued KBS in 2016 for participating. Consolidated Essentials Program automatically prudently evaluate where and how $1.26m. The February 24, 2016, Communications (previously Fair- qualify and just need to enroll. the settlement money will be spent Gazette reported that HED’s Barre- point) is not listed as a participant To qualify for the EBB to provide the greatest benefits to based lawyer L. Brooke Dingledine in the EBB program by the FCC, program, the FCC set forth the our customers.” of the firm Valsangiacomo, Detora but does participate in the FCC’s following criteria, or which people Bellavance’s actions were & McQuesten, PC, alleged that KBS “Lifeline” program. must meet just one: discovered in 2010. The December “failed to perform in accordance with Comcast said in a release that Has an income that is at or 15, 2010, Hardwick Gazette reported applicable auditing standards for all tiers of service are eligible for the below 135% of the Federal that, according to an FBI affidavit, public utilities.” The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Four

courtesy photo Craftsbury Little League coach Shaun Allen and former Red Sox pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee work on the new ball field on the Common in preparation for opening day on Saturday, May 15. Little League has been resurrected after a long hiatus.

baseball back. The Craftsbury School and Michelle Martin took over after Life Association and select board him, as well as Jodi Smith. have been extremely supportive, she Eve Moffatt said she remembers courtesy photo noted. her group of boys who worked hard Craftsbury Little League coaches Sanjay Arcade and Ashley Nunery work on “I am really grateful,” she and didn’t mind that she was a the backstop on the Common in preparation for the season’s big opening said, “for this experience and the woman coaching them. game on Saturday, May 15. whole community coming together. “We had a good team,” she said, players between the two teams. It is really touching to see so many and “ended up in first place.” Ball Saturday’s grand opener parents and volunteers come out.” When her son, Jesse, moved up Continued From Page One features the Orioles vs. the Cardinals For 25 years, Stuart LaPoint to the Babe Ruth team, she moved Village Improvement Harry Miller at 10 a.m. and the Cubs vs. the Red served as president of the youth up, too. Bruce Martin took over the will be throwing the opening pitch. Sox at 11 a.m. organization that ran the Little Little Leaguers. Her daughter, Audri The Cubs, Red Sox, Orioles, The season begins May 15 and League teams. He said the names Miller, helped with keeping track of and Cardinals are competing in ends June 30. Royan said that games have changed but that they had a everything. the grand opening of Craftsbury are being scheduled with Hardwick, Babe Ruth team, as well. “It’s been “It was a great time for me,” she Little League’s revival. The t-ballers Morrisville, Stowe, Hyde Park, and a long time,” LaPoint said, “but we said. “I had a great team working will play at 10 a.m.; the Majors vs. Danville. had a lot of kids playing. We played with the boys. We would play a lot, Minors at 11 a.m. The revival of the games was Hardwick, Walden, and Greensboro. games and practices.” The teams include the Cubs spearheaded by Allen, Miller, and We played on the Common and There won’t be beer and hot (Majors, for ages 10-12), with 16 Royan working with volunteers to behind the little school.“ dogs Saturday morning, but there players and coaches Sanjay Arwade rebuild the field on the Common He said some of the coaches will be tee shirts and refreshments. and Travis Reynolds; the Red Sox last fall in anticipation of Little were Jim Masucci, Steve Smith, Money raised will support the Little (Minors, ages 8-10), with 13 players League and T-ball players filling Randy Martin, Michelle Martin, Eve League and Craftsbury School Life and coaches Shaun Allen and Mark the Common again. Last fall, the Moffatt, Rudy Chase, Jr., Judy Locke, Association. Royan; the Orioles (T-ball team, ages diamond was rebuilt and a backstop and William Locke. Steve Jones and Umpires are needed. Umpires 4-7), with coaches Ashley Nunery was constructed this spring. Bruce Martin (both deceased) were must be over 12 years old and have and Cody Thompson; and the Royan said that 2020 with also deeply involved. a solid knowledge of baseball. Please Cardinals (T-ball team, ages 4-7), COVID-19 did not offer a lot of options “I’m glad its back and alive,” he e-mail [email protected] to with coaches Senta Augsberger and for recreation and that was part said. volunteer and lend support. Tyler Pelland. There are 25 T-Ball of the motivation behind bringing LaPoint recalled that Randy See ya’ at the ball game!

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photo by Doug McClure In Hazen’s Recipe for Human Connection class, students (left to right, seated) photo by Doug McClure Alex Applebee, Justin Bashaw, and Dylan Hafnaoui chop onions along with Students Dylan Hafnaoui (left) and Justin Bashaw (right) cut onions in Recipe Reeve Basom of the Center for an Agricultural Economy (standing). for Human Connection class Hazen Union Students Learn While Nourishing Community by Doug McClure class, and before the pandemic it Economy, who also assists the class, Olson said that the class was a hadn’t occurred to him to try. He said that each student gets virtual “more flexible approach to try and HARDWICK – The Hazen became interested when the school space in the cookbook for a “recipe lift students up, create something Union class Recipe for Human went remote, and he sometimes and some stories about the recipe. in a year that has been really tough Connection was in prep mode this found himself with “nothing to do.” And sometimes, they’re incorpo- for young people.” Several students past Monday for its weekly soup “I started cooking at home, rating a variety of elements. Some around the table said the skills they project. and when a teacher came up to me are doing audio components, and gained were valuable to them. The class serves several during one of my study blocks and some are doing photos or video.” Olson said, “It’s nourished learning purposes, most directly asked if wanted to join this [class], Applebee’s contribution to all of us this year in one way or in helping students to refine their I said ‘yeah, I do.’” Applebee said the cookbook is cinnamon-glazed another, and everyone’s been able cooking skills or gain new ones. he is now good enough that his carrot cupcakes. Hafnaoui said to give a little.” Applebee empha- The class also educates students on family allows him to prepare meals that after seeing his classmate’s sized one of the most important how to connect with their commu- like macaroni and cheese. apple crisp, he’d like to try making lessons: “Don’t rub your eyes after nities through food and cooking. Student Dylan Hafnaoui said it for the cookbook. chopping onions.” On Monday, the class worked “My dad was a chef, good at cooking, on soup for the East Hardwick and I used to like to cook with him. community meal. The aroma of My grandfather also cooks, so I’m onions filled the room as students always around, cooking with him. I chopped their way through piles like to cook.” of bulbs. Rose Friedman of East Cameron Potter said she had Hardwick, who helps coordinate been cooking for about four years the community meal attended the now and enjoyed it, but the class class. opened up learning opportunities. The meals in East Hardwick “I’ve learned some new recipes, are, Friedman said, “basically a and I like learning about a bunch mutual aid project out of the [Cale- of new things,” she said. donia] Grange and with the help of Work-based Learning Coordi- the Greensboro Church.” nator Jen Olson, who co-teaches the Friedman said that volunteers class, said part of the curriculum prepare soup to bring to the Grange involves a virtual cookbook to where it is served to “whoever which students can contribute a shows up. It’s a no-reservation, recipe, whether it is from their no-money meal for the community. family or one of their own favorites. Just a takeout, soup, and bread, Hazen Union Librarian Sarah and it’s not necessarily only for Keener used her expertise to find those who are food-insecure.” Book Creator, a platform for the In addition to addressing food cookbook project. Reeve Basom insecurity, which the pandemic of the Center for an Agriculture exposed and worsened in Vermont communities, the gatherings also help combat feelings of isolation. “It’s also a social gathering space and a chance for people to meet each other,” Friedman said. “Last week we actually had some live music on the porch of the Grange. We have lots of donations: milk, eggs, whatever people have Now accepting new patients. produced in their gardens. And you Also offering Clear Aligner Orthodontics. can also just hang out and visit a Schedule a consult today! little bit with neighbors.” Making your smile last a lifetime starts with preventive care. Students of varying cooking abilities entered this course, she 49 W. Chuch St., Hardwick, VT 05843 said. Alex Applebee said he had (802) 472-5005 Hardwickdentalgroup.com not done much cooking before this The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Six May Town Meeting Draws Usual Number Of Voters by Tyler Molleur turnout similar to that in pre-pan- zoning administrator, along with voters in attendance. The amended demic years. vacancies for justice of the peace $65,414 general budget and the STANNARD – Any passing Moderator Tom Gilbert made and planning commissioner/zoning $181,231.42 road budget passed motorist driving along the Stannard opening remarks as he gaveled in board member, are all positions the unanimously. Mountain Road on Tuesday may the 2021 tradition, acknowledging select board is required to appoint. In the town reports, Constable have been perplexed by the small the role community members have An amendment was made to Warren Nott reported that most of crowd of 23 voters gathered in the in continuing this tradition of Article Four, which discussed the his duties have centered around driveway of the town clerk’s office, democracy. salaries of town officials. Treasurer repeatedly asking community with chairs socially distanced and “It’s increasingly unique in Regina Troiano observed that Town members to register their dogs. The occupied by residents bundled in the country,” said Gilbert of the Clerk Connie Wither’s increased town had 60 dogs registered last layers and grasping copies of their in-person meeting, as he invited work to ensure mail-in voting went year after everyone was brought town reports. newcomers to volunteer for posi- smoothly during the 2020 elections into compliance. This year, only 34 In a rarely deployed solution tions in town government. All posi- and suggested that her work be dogs have been registered thus far. to address the COVID-19 tions up for election were filled. recognized moving forward. Nott also said he has dealt with pandemic, the town decided to Ben Hewitt is serving as the “I thought the town clerk increasing drug activity within the keep with its tradition of voting on interim zoning administrator and should get an election year bonus,” town, including reports of activity articles from the floor and delayed encouraged anyone who thought Troiano said. The voters unan- occurring at the cemetery just its town meeting by two months to the position may be a good fit for imously agreed to add a $500 west of the Flagg Pond Road. He accommodate voters in an outdoor them to make their intentions stipend to the town clerk’s salary noted that the issue is beginning environment. The meeting had a known to the select board. The of $4,000 for years that federal and to impact members of the town state elections occur. significantly. On the town budget, Joseph Diane Janukajtis of the school Gresser asked the select board to board reported that it was not clarify the anticipated repairs. It uncommon for discarded syringes was also noted that the town garage to be found on their road. Gilbert will need new windows. Troiano clar- also mentioned the problem is not ified that the $1,700 budgeted for an limited to the trafficking of drugs upcoming re-appraisal will be added through town. to the $13,559.09 already set aside “A lot of the folks getting tied for reappraisal. The reappraisal up are those from our community,” will help to make the grand list he said. Input is being sought more accurate, as recent property from the Vermont State Police on transfers have come in well over the the issue. Polsenberg suggested 25-year-old appraised value. that the situation be treated like Johanna Polsenberg, an a neighborhood watch, so infor- EMT, requested an amendment to mation can be forwarded to the increase the appropriation for the proper authorities. Hardwick Rescue Squad from $700 The meeting wrapped up in 85 to $850, which was accepted by the minutes.

courtesy photo Hank Glowiak of Chuck’s Bikes in Morrisville presents Rodney Hartwig with the grand prize of the Craftsbury Community Care Center raffle, a Marin grav- el bike. Hartwig bought two tickets after learning about the raffle through a newspaper article. Morrisville Man wins Craftsbury Bike Raffle CRAFTSBURY – Morrisville rience with the Care Center, he resident Rodney Hartwig has won has friends in Craftsbury so “knew the Craftsbury Community Care it was a great place.” Center’s second-ever raffle fund- Hartwig said “You know, raiser. Hartwig bought two tickets, when you buy a raffle ticket you one for himself and one for his moth- don’t expect to win – you’re just er-in-law. CCCC resident Fielda supporting a good cause.” Calderwood drew the winning Care Center Board President ticket - #176 – on Saturday, May 1. Jane Marlin notified Hartwig of at the Care Center. his win. “When I got the email, I Hank Glowiak of Chuck’s had to check whether it was my Bikes in Morrisville collaborated ticket or my mother-in-law’s!” with the Care Center on the Hartwig said. Marin gravel bike and presented Hartwig and his wife moved it to Hartwig on Tuesday, May 4. here last year from Phoenix, Hartwig learned about the raffle Arizona and live near the Lamoille from a local newspaper article. Valley Rail Trail. They frequently While having no personal expe- ride it with their 11-year-old son. The Hardwick Gazette, Thursday, May 12, 2021 Page Seven Jeudevine Falls to Open New Section story and photos by Doug was carried into Hardwick when I McClure was three months old.” His family bought the property in 1955 and he HARDWICK – Bob Edebohls grew up next to the falls. is expanding the access to the “Every day, I’d climb [the Jeudevine Falls on Route 14. The falls], nobody ever told me not to, new section will include a bridge to that it was dangerous,” he said. a side of the property that has not When he returned to Hardwick to been accessible to the public and, care for his ailing parents in the funds allowing, may also include mid-1990s, he said the foliage was an observation deck. He said the so dense “you couldn’t even see the new area will almost double the falls from a hundred feet away.” He amount of the property open to the decided then to create the park to public with relatively easy access. honor his departed friends. Despite the Falls’ size, many The property is steeped in the in the area still may not know they lore of Hardwick’s early days. In exist, Edebohls said. The lower falls 1839, it was part of a massive land drop over 100 feet and the upper tract owned by Alden Jeudevine, falls are a cascade of smaller drops. one of Hardwick’s earliest settlers. Because of a visitor’s suggestion Jeudevine was a Caledonia County in its early years, the property has Senator and vocal opponent of seen considerable use as a wedding slavery. Part of the Underground venue. Edebohls said he wants to Railroad crosses the property. raise awareness of the site’s natural Edebohls said when his family and historical significance. bought the dwelling in the 1950s The main fall itself is the there were doors leading into the fourth tallest in Vermont and the crawlspace. Underneath the floor- second widest, he said. His “labor boards of an old, attached barn, his of love” has been keeping the park father found a rusted Civil War-era as natural as possible. He has removed trees only when necessary. The meandering path to the upper falls has a bovine backstory. “I followed the original cow paths,” he said. “I figured if it was good enough for the cows, it would be good enough for us.” The waterfalls are the most accessible in the state for people with disabilities, he said. The tallest single section of the Jeudevine Fall is the lower section, which The waterfalls are more than has seating and a gazebo at its base. just a daytime attraction. “This park is the only place in the world of that bridge sits in the park. this place can stay open past my featuring two lighted waterfalls,” If all goes to plan, the new existence.” He said he rejected two he said. section should open when he previous offers on the land that The path leading to the new completes the bridge across the would have closed off access to the area is known as “Denny’s Loop” in falls. Edebohls is contemplating a public. “I felt it really needed to be remembrance of long-time friend special dedication or plaque to the kept open and preserved,” he said. Dennis Bellavance. Edebohls Bob Edebohls friends who inspired the project, he The falls open on May 15, with opened the Jeudevine Falls to said. He referred to the new section daily hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., the public in August 2001 as a pistol which he donated to the as his final “bucket list” item, as throughout the summer. Admission memorial to friends Lynn Hall, Kay Historical Society. The falls once he is trying to sell the property to is $5, and the park offers season Jerome, Ronnie Bellavance, Walter supported a quarry and Edebohls someone “to turn into a nonprofit, passes ranging from $40 for indi- Garland, Bert Putvain, Norman suspects the circa-1840 house sits a historical, educational nature viduals to $85 for families. For more Campbell, and Rick Eastman, all on a foundation made from stone center. That is my dream now, so information, call 802-472-5486. of whom died young, he said. quarried here. The property also When Edebohls was growing housed a sawmill. Only a small up on the property, Hall died in section of stone wall survives a car accident in front of the falls from the original structures. Like on Craftsbury Road. He described most of the tract, the property was the tragedy as a singularly awful clear-cut in the late 1800s. As the moment in his young life. Edebohls trees returned, the falls remained said the park was meant to be his out of public view and access until life’s work. “I survived a [near] death he opened it for everyone. experience before any of them died,” Edebohls’ own lineage in he said of his late friends. “I [almost] Vermont traces to before it was drowned in the Atlantic when I was even a state. His mother was from fifteen. So I always questioned, ‘why the Wheelock family which founded was it I came back?’ And I thought, Wheelock and Calais. Peter Whee- maybe it’s to honor these people and lock’s daughter married into Hard- to turn this place into a special park wick’s Bridgman family, for which because I knew what we had here Bridgman Hill is named. Edebohls was something special.” said he is also a descendant of Chris- He said that some still topher Fisher, for whom the Fisher A bridge is being laid across a section of the Jeudevine Falls’ upper cascade, consider him a flatlander, but “I Bridge is named. A miniature version affording public access to a previously unseen area with spectacular views. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Eight Wolcott Road Paving Schedule is Tight by Doug McClure in fact all,” was the information plan and “it’s pretty frustrating. suggestions and questions. Szott said he received, with some I felt like it was put on us that Regarding the budget, Clegg WOLCOTT – At its May towns paying more in taxes than we’re just asking for money all the said she had done a profit and loss 5 meeting, the Wolcott Select they should and some less. The time [when] it wouldn’t take an comparison to previous years, and Board received new information speculation is Wolcott’s tax rate extraordinary amount of money to “we are making a lot more revenue, from the road crew, including a might go down 10 cents if the fix that building. It just felt more but are also making a lot more in potential time crunch to begin formula were re-evaluated. challenging than it needed to be.” expenses.” Regarding the the transfer paving. In other news, Szott said He said that at the same station’s financials, she said that The town has numerous that while it was premature to time he saw neighboring towns, “It looks like we don’t have enough paving projects it hopes to get into detail, discussions about for example, Albany, where revenue to cover our overhead and get done, but only two of the proposed town forest had seen similar initiatives had resulted in expenses at the moment.” She said three companies bidding have “substantial progress,” with more “remarkable things” since those it might be prudent to reassess fees. responded. Town administrator details to come. towns had succeeded at “trying But overall, she said of the budget, “I Tom Szott said that he was Chad Roy of the Schoolhouse to instill some preservation and think we’re going to be in a very good concerned because pavers said Committee went before the board energy into their little economies.” position at the end of this year.” they were short-supplied, and with news that the committee “as He added that he did not The board also briefly scheduling was tight. it stands now … doesn’t really have enough time to spearhead revisited the LVRT Right-of-Way To continue with a sealed exist.” He said the building’s struc- revamping the committee which Lease from VTrans which, due build as in years past could add tural integrity and costs were the would be “a tremendous amount of to the area being smaller than weeks to the process, which could first issues, and “It kind of died work,” but “the building is worth expected, would now cost slightly mean some projects not getting from there. Those conversations saving. It’s a piece of town history. less at $200 per year. Klein noted done. The alternative is to make about the building became pretty What is Wolcott going to have that VTrans had provided a an exception and use open bids. difficult. Money can be a difficult for the folks using the [Lamoille drawing without measurements The board concurred. Martin also thing to talk about. I’m a taxpayer Valley] Rail Trail (LVRT)?” and said the board might consider told road foreman Dillan Cafferky too, so I can understand that.” Town clerk Belinda Clegg using that map to stake out the “I wanted to thank the road crew, He said the committee had updated the board on the current perimeter for its own use so it you’re doing a wonderful job with taken its direction from the town state of the budget and had both knew the dimensions. the roads. They look really good, especially for this time of year.” Cafferky said that asking the board’s previously selected bidder if the town could buy sand at a unit price instead of a fixed amount resulted in the contractor asking for a three-year contract. Vice chair Kurt Klein said that the bid originally was lump-sum and to change the contract terms now would create a “credibility problem. I don’t think it would be ethical for us to do that.” The consensus was that in a future budget the change might be considered, but for the immediate budget, things would remain as they were. In his town administra- tor’s report, Szott reported that Rep. Noyes had said that the legislature was looking at photo by Vanessa Fournier the education formula’s pupil The Hardwick Kiwanis Club celebrated its 80th birthday at its annual meeting held outside in a barn structure May 3 weighting. “The way that they at Sherry and Greg Lussier’s. Next year’s officers were elected. Pictured (from left): current president Rich Jacobs, had been doing it had no basis president-elect Sherry Lussier, secretary-elect Connie Bellavance, and treasurer John Bellavance.

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NOTICE TO PARENTS veggies WITH HOME SCHOOL STUDENTS Annually, the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (Craftsbury, SUPPORT Greensboro, Hardwick, Stannard, Woodbury, and Wolcott) gives no- tice to parents of children with disabilities in home school placements coming in YOUR who reside in our towns of their opportunity to provide input to special LOCAL education services delivered. If you have a child with a disability who is home schooled and your child qualifies for special education services, each week! FARMERS you are invited to attend a consultation meeting via Google Meet on Monday, May 24th from 3 to 4 p.m., so that you can provide your input. Please contact Wanda Webster at 472-2908 or [email protected] to Main Street • Hardwick, Vermont • 472-6020 register for the meeting. Mon. - Fri. 8-7 • Sat. & Sun. 9-6 The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Nine Care Center Seeks Board Support for Grant by June Pichel Cook Board President Jane Marlin said amount of the grant being sought. timely manner thereafter and is the building was constructed 26 Marlin said the project would recommending that paper copies CRAFTSBURY – The select years ago and had been enlarged improve the building’s air filtration be kept. board’s meeting last week covered since that time. Improving the as well as its energy efficiency. Each public body is respon- a wide range of activities, from air filtration handling system was The center has received letters sible for drafting its own minutes. addressing the Open Meeting already being considered prior to of support from Albany, Glover, Minutes should include names of Law to giving its support to the the pandemic. Greensboro, and Hardwick. Select members present; active partic- Craftsbury Community Care The center hired an engi- board co-chair Jim Jones signed a ipants; motions, proposal, and/ Center’s (CCCC) grant application. neering firm to assess the build- letter of support with the board’s or resolutions made, offered, The CCCC is seeking a ing’s air filtration handling system unanimous approval. considered and disposition thereof. Northern Border Regional and is now seeking a grant. Air The board approved a The minutes should reflect what Commission grant to improve the filtration systems have improved three-page synopsis of Vermont’s has transpired at a meeting, but air filtration system at the center. with newer technologies; the cost Open Meeting Law which will be need not be a transcript of the In a phone interview, CCCC is about $450,000, which is the sent to all town committee chairs. proceedings. The document was drafted by Correspondence or electronic board member Susie Houston and communication between members board clerk Michelle Martin. of a public body when scheduling The Open Meeting Law (1 a meeting, organizing an agenda, V.S.A. Sect. 310-314) and Public or distributing materials to discuss Records Act (1 V.S.A. Sect. must be available for inspection 315-320) were enacted to ensure under the Public Records Act. This the public’s effective role as partici- applies to e-mail, telephone, or pants in government. The Vermont teleconferencing. Constitution states that officials When a quorum of members of government are legally trustees attend social gatherings, conven- and servants of the people at all tions, media events other similar times, and accountable to them. venues, it is not a meeting as such. Every municipal board, However, they may not discuss council, commission, committee, or specific business of the public body subcommittee, legally defined as a which will be taken up by them public body, must comply with the as a public body at the time of the Open Meeting Law. The law applies exchange or at a later time. when a quorum is present and Act 92 allows public bodies to involved in a discussion or taking meet electronically for a quorum; photo by Doug McClure an action on anything over which it remote meetings must enable all The kiosk atop Stannard Mountain is on the ground after being pulled down has authority or responsibility. public attendees to hear and be by force. Vermont Fish and Wildlife Specialist Tony Smith said the agency The public must receive heard throughout the meeting. was aware of the situation but is short-staffed due to COVID and expects to advance notice of meetings, with Ground rules for participation are fix the sign in the next month or so. He remembered installing the kiosk 10 agendas posted at designated recommended. or 15 years ago and said it has never been damaged like this before. Smith places. Public comment at all In other business, the board said it seemed extremely unlikely that wind caused the sign to blow over. meetings must be allowed and continued its planning for a “Bulky minutes taken and posted. Day” disposal of large items. More Board Approves Purchase of Trailer Agendas must be clear on details are forthcoming when the specific date is decided. WALDEN – The Walden District. Anyone interested in topics to be addressed or actions Board co-chair Bruce Urie Select Board met on Monday, May filling this position should call the that may be taken at a meeting. reported that the town is expecting 10, at the fire station. town clerk before the next meeting Agendas must be posted 48 hours Present were Brenda Huntoon on May 24. in advance of regular meetings, $175,000 from the state for paving. and Randolph Wilson in person, Two overweight permits and 24 hours in advance of special The town will have over $220,000 and Bob Hatch via Zoom. bills were signed, and contracts meetings. available, including additional The board approved the were signed for Jeff Badore to do Draft meeting minutes must funds voted at the annual meeting. purchase of a 20-ton trailer for cemetery and ballfield mowing and be posted within five days on the The board was notified that $5,000. The money will come out Ben Ackerman for excavation work town website and remain on the the Big Hosmer Soccer Camp has of the equipment fund. The 10-ton for projects in June. website for a minimum of one been discontinued and 2019 was trailer will be put up for sale for The next meeting will be at year. The board is requesting that the last Big Hosmer Soccer Camp $2,500 (or best offer) on Front the fire station and via Zoom. approved minutes be posted in a to be held. Porch Forum, Craigslist and the newspaper. A complaint was received about Bayley-Hazen Road. The board is looking into the problem. The road crew had a flat tire on the loader last week and Marshalls from Littleton, NH came and fixed it. The road crew is working 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday. The board approved hiring flaggers when Cabot Road is paved in June. The board will advertise for roadside mowing. Liz Wilkel resigned from being the town representative to the Central Vermont Solid Waste The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Ten Dow Appointed to Select Board, Town Manager Search Organizes by Doug McClure incapacitated, the office shall said Jewett mentioned the town’s Community Allies, noted she was become vacant and the selectmen administration could probably not only involved in the search HARDWICK – The sudden, shall appoint an eligible person support some of the search commit- for the Orleans Southwest Super- unexpected passing of Gary Bella- to fill the vacancy until the next tee’s administrative tasks since visory Union’s new superintendent vance on April 16 left the select annual meeting. The person the Vermont League of Cities and but also Hazen Union’s principal board with a vacancy. The board elected shall at the annual meeting Towns (VLCT) is not able to devote search. finalized the agreement for former serve until the predecessor’s term time to the search as it had in the Remick commented on the Town Manager Jon Jewett to expires.” past. substantial time commitment in take the reins after current Town The one-year term received Galloway-Kane has six people previous searches, recalling it had Manager Shaun Fielder resigns two letters of interest, one from interested in joining the committee: involved 30-40 applicants and while it searches for a permanent former board member Elizabeth former board member Danny Hale, “maybe a half-dozen” interviews. appointee for the position. Dow and the other from Larry Hardwick Electric Commission Hale said the previous search The board met in a special Hamel, who has served on the Chair Lynne Gedanken, Orleans had been national, which the session on April 27 with the board in years past. Board member Southwest Supervisory Union board decided was too broad this primary goal of finding a candidate Shari Cornish said Dow’s recent Board Chair and Hazen Union time around. “It was a learning to fill Bellavance’s seat. It noted departure meant she was familiar Board member Amy Rosenthal, experience,” said Remick, “what “it is with sadness that the Select with many of the projects currently former select board member Lucian we learned from it was we need Board must act to fill a Select in play. She motioned to appoint Avery, and residents Ross Connelly somebody with real knowledge of Board term after the recent death Dow and the board approved and Jenn MacLean. New England towns.” Hale said the of Gary Bellavance” and “the Town the appointment. The term ends Hale said he was involved position was not likely to attract sends their deepest sympathies to March 2022. in two previous town manager interest outside of the region. “It’s Gary’s family and friends.” A search committee, led by vice searches. Cornish said Hale brings not the job that somebody’s going to Under Hardwick’s Town chair Ceilidh Galloway-Kane, is “valued pragmatism” to the table. pack their family up and move to Charter, 24A V.S.A. § 123-302(d), being assembled to find a full-time Gedanken said her experience with Hardwick [for],” he said. “When an elected officer specified town manager. Chair Eric Remick the Hardwick Electric Department Cornish said five members of in section 302(a) of this charter focused on finalizing the contract meant she had been “learning a the current board, including the resigns, makes another Town his with Jon Jewett, which the select lot about the town.” Rosenthal, new people, have participated in at or her residence, dies, or becomes board signed off on tonight. Remick who is also a coordinator of least one town manager search. Children 12 and Up Can Soon Get Vaccine by Doug McClure Smith said was over 40 school- A recent study of young people by these symptoms during daily based vaccine clinic sites starting found “evidence from the first study activities.” Long COVID is the MONTPELIER – On on May 17, and anyone 12 and up of long COVID in children suggests blanket descriptor for a wide Monday, the Federal Drug can get vaccinated at any Pfizer that more than half of children aged variety of symptoms from COVID Administration (FDA) approved vaccination site. When setting up between 6 and 16 years old who that can sometimes linger for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for an appointment at healthvermont. contract the virus have at least one months or years, including fatigue, those 12 and up, and the CDC’s gov/myvaccine each site identifies symptom lasting more than 120 loss of taste or smell, shortness of Advisory Committee on Immu- which vaccine is in use during that days, with 42.6 percent impaired breath, and chest or joint pain. nization Practices is expected to session. follow suit today and update its Orleans Southwest Super- recommendations. visory Union Superintendent Adam With those two hurdles Rosenberg said that the state had cleared, children as young as been in contact and “we’re in the 12 can be vaccinated with the process of working with them to Pfizer vaccine. The Moderna and schedule a couple of Hazen Union Johnson & Johnson vaccines are clinics.” only authorized for use in those 18 The most recent state data and up, though trials for younger show the number of cases among people are in process. those ages 10-19 is the highest Agency of Human Services of any age group in Caledonia Secretary Mike Smith said County, is tied for third place Tuesday that Vermont was gearing in Orleans County, and ranked up for the new age band’s eligi- fourth in Lamoille County. Just bility and had ordered over 4,400 18% of 16- and 17-year-olds are extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine in vaccinated in Orleans County, expectation of the final go-ahead while in Lamoille County nearly from the CDC. half are. In Caledonia County, A part of the state’s vaccination 31% of 16 and 17-year-olds are plan for children will involve what vaccinated.

TOWN OF GREENSBORO PO BOX 119, GREENSBORO, VT 05841 802-533-2911 townclerk @greensborovt.org The Town of Greensboro is seeking bids for the following: 800 Ln/ft of 5” Straight Vertical Granite Curb installed Bids must be received by the Town Clerk by May 27, at 4 p.m., in the town clerk’s office. The select board reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Eleven

Hardwick Historical Society Summer Masses Begin May 29 Spring Program May 17 CRAFTSBURY – Summer at 6 p.m. mqasvt.org. Masses will resume at Our Lady For information on updated HARDWICK – The Hardwick received a number of awards and of Fatima Catholic Church in Mass protocols go to vermont- Historical Society will hold its annual honors for his work. Craftsbury on Saturday, May 29, catholic.org/covid-19. meeting upstairs in the Memorial His work focuses on the era of Building on Monday, May 17, at 7 p.m. American Revolution, largely telling Following a short business the story of the impact of common meeting and election of officers, Tim people on the war and the impact of Breen will discuss the American the war on common people. He will Revolution. talk on “The Crisis of 1778: How A professional historian, Dr. the People Saved the American Breen, received his Ph.D. from Yale Revolution.” Cabot Launches Yogurt and spent most of his teaching career The event is free and open to at Northwestern University. He the public. The room has been set Line with Six Flavors has traveled the globe as a visiting up to assure social distancing, and CABOT – Cabot’s has released professor and guest lecturer and has attendees should wear a mask. a new line of eight-ounce Triple Cream Yogurt that includes six Free Webinar Explores flavors: chocolate mousse, salted Soil Biodiversity on May 20 caramel, cupcake, red velvet, BURLINGTON – Gardeners for the University of Vermont vanilla chai, and orange ginger, each interested in learning what they can (UVM) Extension Master Gardener offered in resealable containers. do to improve their soil are invited program since 1994, and for the “Cabot’s newest addition to attend “Creating a Biodiverse UVM Extension Master Composter to their yogurt offerings brings Garden for Ecological Resilience,” a program since 2003. She is an something uniquely indulgent free Zoom webinar on May 20. associate faculty member at to the category, driving both Dr. Wendy Sue Harper, a Prescott College in Arizona, where incremental sales from existing Vermont soil scientist, will discuss she teaches courses in ecological consumers and bringing new courtesy photo why soil biodiversity is essential approaches to agriculture, biodi- consumers into the category.” Cabot has introduced a snacking yo- for healthy plants and describe versity conservation and soil science states Rachael Richards, cultured gurt line featuring six flavors. soil-based practices for healthy, for its online Master of Science in category manager. resilient soil. Her presentation will sustainable food systems. Cabot 8 oz Triple Cream run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and include The webinar is sponsored Yogurts were developed to capi- — a practice that continues to this a 30-minute question-and-answer by the Northwest chapter of the talize on the snack trends and to day. Cabot Creamery Co-operative session. UVM Extension Master Gardener bring those trends to the yogurt has been in continuous operation No pre-registration is required. program. To learn more or to request category. The Triple Cream Yogurt in Vermont since 1919, and makes Details about the webinar and how a disability-related accommodation line is available throughout New a full line of cheeses, Greek yogurt, to join by computer or phone can be to participate, contact Jonathan England and Upstate New York. sour cream, cottage cheese and found at go.uvm.edu/mg-classes. Trefry at [email protected] or (802) Cabot has grown from a single butter. Widely known as makers of Harper has taught classes 598-0855. butter plant in the town of Cabot “The World’s Best Cheddar,” Cabot to four creameries producing is owned by the 800 dairy farm Farmers’ Market Begins May 22 over one thousand varieties of families of Agri-Mark, the North- CRAFTSBURY COMMON – a diversity of products, including dairy products and cheeses being east’s premier dairy cooperative, The Craftsbury Farmers’ Market food from staples such as breads, distributed in every state and 22 with farms located throughout will begin its twentieth season on eggs, cheese and maple syrup to countries. Since its founding, all New England and upstate New May 22, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., new offerings of meat pies, soft profits have been returned to the York. For more information, see and every Saturday until October pretzels, hot sauces, popcorn, farm families who own the co-op cabotcheese.coop. 2. granola, rillettes, galettes, Poulet à Many previous vendors are la Moutarde, pastries, gluten-free returning to the market, offering baked goods, and pierogi. locally-produced food and crafts There will be free fami- and there will be many new ly-friendly entertainment every vendors offering products which Saturday and special events have not been available at the throughout the season. market before. Visit CraftsburyFarmers- The season is shaping up with Market.com for more detail. CABOT SCHOOL DISTRICT WARNING FOR ANNUAL MEETING The legal voters of the Cabot School District, Cabot, Vermont, are hereby no- Plainfield’s Community tified and warned to meet on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, to transact the following Bagged Supper on May 25 business by Australian Ballot. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Willey Building, 3084 Main St, Cabot, VT 05647. PLAINFIELD – Concluding available the next day, Wednesday, The School Board will hold an informational hearing via electronic conference the third year of serving community May 26, starting at around 11 a.m., (Zoom) on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at 6:30 p.m., to discuss all articles as suppers, Plainfield’s Community at the Onion River Food Shelf at warned below. A meeting notice with information for accessing this Zoom meeting Supper Support Group will serve the Old Schoolhouse Common in will be posted separately. Article 1: Shall the voters of the Cabot School District authorize the Cabot School the final meal of the season on Marshfield. Board to expend three million three hundred sixteen thousand seven hundred six- May 25, from 6 to 7 p.m., at Grace Volunteers and donations ty-six dollars ($3,316,766) which is the amount the school board has determined United Methodist Church in Plain- are welcome as planning begins to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year. It is estimated that this proposed bud- field lower village. Participants for the 2021-2022 supper season, get, if approved, will result in education spending of $19,215.00 per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is a 2.6% increase in spend- can expect a variety of pre-cooked with an exploration of new ing compared to the current year. soups and take-out items from COVID-19 social precautions. Dated at Cabot, Vermont April 22, 2021 which to choose, as well as side For further information, please Lisa Olson, Chair, Rory Thibault, Vice Chair items such as fresh-baked bread contact Michael Cerulli Billingsley Frank Kampf, Michael Taub, Chris Tormey and a choice of desserts. at [email protected] or Helen Attest: Betty Ritter, Town Clerk Remaining meals will be Rabin at 802-454-7119. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Twelve

GROVER D. “BUTCH” POTTER LYNDONVILLE – Graveside Hardwick. The Rev. Dr. Evelyn services for Grover Dan “Butch” Lavelli of the United Church of Potter, who died December 16, Hardwick will officiate. 2020, from diabetes-related kidney Arrangements are in the care and heart failure, will be held at of Dian R. Holcomb of Northern 2 p.m., on Wednesday, May 26, Vermont Funeral Service, 60 Elm in the Main Street Cemetery in Street, Hardwick.

THE REVEREND JOHN WILLIS HAMILTON GREENSBORO – The Reverend John Willis Hamilton, age 76, died on May 4. Father Hamilton was born on July 27, 1944, in Rutland, the son of the late Willis Carlton and Mary Ellen photo by Vanessa Fournier (Connors) Hamilton. He attended Tulips are in full bloom at Hardwick Elementary School. Christ the King and Mount Saint Joseph in Rutland, St. John Vianney Seminary in Barre and St. Paul Seminary in Ottawa, Canada. Father Hamilton was ordained Northern Vermont to the priesthood on May 22, 1970, at Christ the King, Rutland, by Funeral Service Bishop Robert F. Joyce. His priestly ministry began as Parochial Vicar 60 Elm St. • Hardwick, VT 05843 at St. Francis in Bennington. He 802-472-6861 also served as Parochial Vicar at Dian R. Holcomb St. Mark, Burlington. His first PRENEED PLANNING pastorate was at St. Michael The Reverend John Willis Hamilton Funeral Director Church, Greensboro Bend. He also mysteries. He loved trips to Maine, served as pastor at St. Edward primarily trips to Acadia National in Derby Line, St. Catherine of Park and Ogunquit Beach. He Siena in Shelburne, St. John loved playing jokes, teasing Vianney in South Burlington, St. people, and was always good for Norbert in Hardwick, St. Michael an exuberant laugh. He loved his in Greensboro Bend and Our Lady family; spending time with his of Fatima, Craftsbury. Father sisters and their children was one Hamilton was granted senior of his greatest joys. priest status on May 7, 2008. Hours of visitation will be held His diocesan responsibil- on May 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., at St. ities included diocesan board of Michael Church, Greensboro Bend. consultors, diocesan review board, A Mass of Christian Burial will Presbyterian council, dean of the be celebrated on Friday, May 14, South Burlington, Orleans and at St. Michael Catholic Church at Caledonia Deanery and chaplain at 11 a.m., with Bishop Christopher St. Joseph/Kervick Home, Rutland. J. Coyne as principal celebrant, Father Hamilton leaves followed by burial at St. Michael behind his sisters Mary Therese Cemetery. Parishioners, friends, (Hamilton) Grace, Joan Agnes and community members wishing (Hamilton) Haley, Barbara Jean to join in honoring Father Hamilton (Hamilton) Mazut, numerous are encouraged to attend the hours nieces and nephews, and many of visitation on Thursday as atten- life-long friends. dance for the Mass on Friday is In addition to his parents, he limited due to COVID policies. The is also predeceased by his sister des Groseilliers Funeral Home is in Patricia Ann (Hamilton) Lester care of arrangements. Condolences and her husband Harlan D. and memories may be conveyed to Lester, his sister Dolores Elaine the family online at dgfunerals.com. (Hamilton) Gray and her husband In lieu of flowers, contribu- John P. Gray, his brothers-in-law tions in Father Hamilton’s memory James H. Grace, Joseph A. Mazut, may be made to the Mary Queen and Bernard P. Haley. of All Saints Fund or St. Michael with purchase of an The Father was an avid Cemetery Fund at maryqueenofall- upright monument. reader, especially James Patterson saints.vermontcatholic.org/donate. Ends May 31, 2021.

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This Week’s Events Thursday, Monday, May 13 May 17 JAQUITH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 122 CELEBRATE RECOVERY, Mon- School St., Rm. 2., Marshfield, Tues- days, 6 p.m., Touch of Grace AG day through Friday, 9 a.m. - noon Church, 104 Vt. Rt. 16, E. Hardwick. and 3 - 6 p.m. Curbside service only. Men’s Addiction Group. Information: Home deliveries available for senior 802-279-2185. citizens within a 10 mile radius. Infor- GRACE presents free, virtual week- mation: 802-426-3581 or jaquithpub- ly art prompts. Each week GRACE [email protected]. will post a piece of art from their GRACE FREE VIRTUAL COMMU- “Outsider Art” collection for peo- NITY WORKSHOP. Free online art ple to use as inspiration for their class every Thursday, 1 - 3 p.m. Join own original creation. These will at https://meet.jit.si/GRACECom- be available on Mondays at https:// munityWorkshop. Free materials kit graceart.org/virtual-artcommunity/ available for pickup or delivery. Infor- virtual-art-prompts/ with responses mation: [email protected] or due by Sunday evenings. Email re- 802-472-6857. sponses to AmericorpsVista@Won- PARENT CAFE SERIES, hosted by derArtsVT.org. Healthy Lamoille Valley, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. on Zoom. A monthly gathering Tuesday, on the first Thursday of each month, designed to highlight a community May 18 resource or parenting skill and en- JAQUITH PUBLIC LIBRARY, courage conversation with other par- 122 School St., Rm. 2., Marshfield, photo by Vanessa Fournier ents/caregivers. Preregistration and Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. - Volunteer Jason Bahner (left) puts air in Nathaniel Leach’s (front right) bike information: healthylamoillevalley. noon and 3 - 6 p.m. Curbside ser- before the Bike & Walk to School Day May 6. Watching (from left) are Joe org/parent-cafe-series. vice only. Home deliveries available Donna, Jedediah Donna and Serenity Leach. for senior citizens within a 10 mile Friday, radius. Information: 802-426-3581 or [email protected]. May 14 THE DADS’ GROUP, every Tuesday, BLACK LIVES MATTER/Peace and 8-9 p.m., on Zoom. A great place to Justice Vigil, 5 - 6 p.m., Fridays, connect with other Dads. Information Peace Park, Hardwick. All welcome. and link to the Zoom meeting: Rob at JAQUITH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 122 [email protected] or 802-730-3000. School St., Rm. 2., Marshfield, Tues- THE MOMS IN RECOVERY Sup- day through Friday, 9 a.m. - noon port Program, tailored to support and 3 - 6 p.m. Curbside service only. pregnant and parenting mothers and Home deliveries available for senior their families. In person, every Tues- citizens within a 10 mile radius. Infor- day, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., North Cen- mation: 802-426-3581 or jaquithpub- tral Vermont Recovery Center, 275 [email protected]. Brooklyn St., Suite 2, Morrisville. In- ets at highlandartsvt.com. formation: crystal.morrissey@ncvrc. EVERYONE EATS PROGRAM, com, 802-635-0084. free frozen meal, Fridays, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Wolcott United Methodist Wednesday, Church, 4023 Vt. Rt. 15. No pre-reg- istration needed. Information: ere- May 19 photo by Vanessa Fournier [email protected]. JAQUITH PUBLIC LIBRARY , 122 Hardwick Elementary crossing guard Richard Coolbeth (right) stops traffic for School St., Rm. 2., Marshfield, Tues- Saturday, day through Friday, 9 a.m. - noon students in the Bike & Walk to School Day May 6. Fifteen students and 10 and 3 - 6 p.m. Curbside service only. adults participated in the event organized by volunteers Jason Bahner, Caitlin May 15 Home deliveries available for senior Strong and Bevin Barber-Campbell who are all advocates for safe cycling for BLACK LIVES MATTER/Peace and citizens within a 10 mile radius. Infor- youth and adults. Pictured in front (from left) are Noah Foster, Parker Bailey Justice Vigil, 3 - 5 p.m., Saturdays, mation: 802-426-3581 or jaquithpub - and Serenity Leach. South Main at Wolcott Street, Hard- [email protected]. wick. All welcome. EAST HARDWICK GRANGE SUP- PER, a free meal for the community, Wednesdays, 5 - 6 p.m. Caledonia Grange #9, 88 East Church St., East Hardwick. A curbside dinner for the whole family to enjoy. Information or delivery: easthardwickgrange@ Card Shower gmail.com or 472-8987. Happy 50th Exhibits MARTHA ELMES: Relief Prints, Col- Wedding lage Assemblage and Block Prints on exhibit at the Parker Pie Gallery, West Anniversary, Glover, through May 26. Information: May 22! 802-525-3366. 1111 COPPER NAILS: Bread & Pup- Gary & Barbara pet Calendar Prints - A 36-Year Retro- spective, a Dual Location Exhibition in Fontaine Hardwick, through the Summer. The P.O. Box 78 Hardwick Inn, 4 S. Main St., Exhibit on all 3 floors, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Mon. photo by Vanessa Fournier Danville - Sat. Front Seat Coffee, 101 S. Main VT 05828 St., B&P Calendars and Art for sale, 8 Wesley Strong (left), Finn Burgess (center) and Fred Daniels (right) enjoy a a.m. - 2 p.m. Mon. - Fri. Information: breakfast snack under the pavilion on Atkins field before celebrating Bike & [email protected], oliveylin1@ Walk to School Day on Thursday. Fifteen students and 10 adults participated gmail.com or BreadandPuppet.org. in the event organized by volunteers. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Fourteen

Fraught and Complicated Relationships by Willem Lange are old guys, if not in body, at least in spirit), I’m out of the hurly-burly and can look back more or less dispassionately EAST MONTPELIER – Noodling through the Internet at what once was, still is, and probably what still will be. this past weekend, I couldn’t help but see the hundreds of Raised on a heavy-handed dose of Levitical patriarchy – a tributes inspired by the observance of Mother’s Day. Most small boy is worth five shekels, a small girl, three – and the were accompanied by photographs from decades ago, when apostle Paul, and further encouraged by the vestiges of the the mothers were young and beautiful. The kids, full of Victorian canard that young women needed protection both promise, smiled uncertainly and squinted into the sunshine. from and by young men, I was too indoctrinated to protest I was struck by one contemporary photo of three great, when, as recently as 1960, my wife, who’d already been on strapping men towering over a wrinkled little old lady her own for years, was denied a savings or checking account who gazed, with a faint smile, straight into the camera, without my signature. It would have been counterproductive clearly proud of and a bit amused by the prodigies she’d for me to have objected; but the shame of my silence lingers borne and raised. There was also in those posts a lot of still. Decades later, after a bankruptcy, she took over our sweetness and light, much nostalgia and gratitude, and family financial affairs, and did much better than I had. expressions of the hope to be reunited someday with the From my vantage point at the end of an electronic funnel women who’d meant so much in the posters’ lives. into which the affairs of the world are poured 24 hours a Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, some men (a fact day, it seems patent that the women of the United States that goes without saying) detonated powerful car bombs outside are making strides toward eventual equality. But those an Afghan girls’ school, killing or maiming several dozens of strides aren’t without menace; many men feel threatened students and citizens, as well as many who rushed to help them. by that progress, seeing it, perhaps, as the worm turning, Of all the fraught and complicated relationships between human and then turning on them. The fact that they are already beings – religious, political, ethnic, caste, gender identification, equity a diminishing demographic must also haunt them, often to – the one between the sexes seems the most unyielding to solution. lethal effect. The big, rumbling pickup trucks blowing black Comedians from Jack Benny, Henny Youngman (“Now, you smoke and waving large flags are symbols of that anxiety. take my wife – please!”), and Red Skelton riffed on it generations That lethal effect is also what we’re witnessing in Afghan- ago. Jack Kennedy treated it with irony, as when asked by Helen istan and, to a lesser extent, in some Arab countries. The Thomas what his administration was doing for women, “I’m not patriarchy still thrives: Of two parties “taken in adultery,” sure, but I am sure that, whatever it is, it isn’t enough.” And one is chided by the clerics and the other fiercely stoned to in recent years, movements from Women’s Lib to #MeToo have death. That has to stop, and it will. But not soon enough. kept a dynamic tension on the issue. Lawsuits citing violations One of my heroes in this tumultuous relationship (“hero” of Title IX, as well as others alleging sexual harassment and being now gender-unspecific) is Lysistrata, who in Aristophanes’ bullying, have become increasingly incisive and effective. comedy of the same name determines to end the interminable I broach the subject with considerable trepidation, given Peloponnesian wars by persuading the women of Greece to the virulence of the opinions it engenders – plus the fact that, withhold sex from their husbands ‘til they sign a peace treaty. as a man, I’m probably on the stupid side of the issue – just Hardly a laughing matter for the patriarchy, the play was banned as, being a white person, I can’t empathize with the expe- in its native Greece, in 411 BC. Sadly, it was not approved for rience of being Black in America. But as someone now not performance in the United States till the 1930s. I suppose that’s unhappily past sexual politics (there’s a reason philosophers progress. But there’s still a rough climb ahead to the glass ceiling.

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photo by Vanessa Fournier Tri-State Painting, Inc. of Tilton, N.H., is the contractor for the Vt. 16 bridge #1 at the intersection of Vt. Rte. 15 and Vt. Rte. 16 in Hardwick. The work to be performed for the project includes applying metalized coating to the steel beams on the bridge over Haynesville Brook. The estimated cost of the project is $525,269.20.

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Insects: Friends or Foes? by Henry Homeyer feels it made a significant reduction in beetle numbers. CORNISH FLAT, N.H. – It’s What else can you do? There spring, and insects are hatching, are beneficial nematodes (unseg- flying, and munching. Contrary to mented worms) called Hb nema- what you may think, most are not todes that will attack Japanese a problem for your garden. There beetle larvae and are said to are over a million named insect be 96% effective in eliminating species and many, perhaps most, Japanese beetle and rose chafer co-evolved with flowering plants. larvae if applied properly. The best They pollinate our crops and do time to apply these nematodes is many wonderful things for us. July and August, when the grubs One of the most hated insects are feeding in your lawn. If you is the Japanese beetle. These buy them, follow the directions beetles, as the name suggests, carefully: they need to be applied are originally from Japan, and to moist lawn at dusk, and then were first observed in New Jersey watered in. These are live worms, in 1916. In just over 100 years and as such need to be used soon they have become omnipresent in after purchasing them. They are Eastern United States. Why? They not generally available at garden have very few natural predators: centers, but are available online. even birds don’t want to eat them. What about those Japanese As larvae, these pests beetle traps? Give them to neighbors generally live in lawns, feeding on you don’t like. They attract lots of grass roots. They are whitish grubs beetles, but only capture some, so of various sizes, but up to an inch they attract more hungry beetles courtesy photo long. If you cut open a square foot to your property if you use them. Hand pick potato beetles and look for orange egg masses on underneath of lawn with a sharp shovel and Really, just don’t buy them. side of leaves. peel back the sod, you are likely to I am a firm believer that the see a grub or two. If you count 10 or best method of insect control for destruction: I grow my seedlings in mulch. Consider putting up a more in that sample, you have an most bad bugs is hand-picking pots until they have three to four simple structure for solitary wasps infestation that will be a problem. them and dropping in soapy water. leaves so the beetles can’t kill the (such as those that control those The U.S. Department of Agri- Insects often have several life plant in one night. And I cover my pesky tomato hornworms). They culture) developed a remedy in the cycles in a summer, so try to reduce plants with row covers (breathable are sold next to the birdhouses at 1940s called milky spore, which is garden fabric) to physically keep the garden center. a bacterium that can be suspended those darn beetles off the leaves. I’m afraid that mosquitoes, in water and sprayed on lawns. It Which is not to say that they can’t black flies and deer ticks have is not a miracle cure and is quite come up under the covers through given all insects a bad name, but expensive. Not all entomologists the soil, but the method does help. most are beneficial. They pollinate, believe that milky spore is an And when the blossoms come, I’ll serve as food for baby birds, they effective cure, at least not in New have to remove the row covers to help to keep vigorous plants and England where cold winters can allow pollination. other insects from taking over. kill the bacterium. Can you create habitat for And please remember this: if you Not only that, those darn courtesy photo beneficial insects? Sure. Don’t decide that spraying pesticides is Japanese beetles fly. So, you can Catch Japanese beetles with a milk manicure every inch of your easier than the organic methods treat your lawn with milky spore jug and soapy water. garden. Leave a few dead branches described here, know that those only to have your neighbor’s beetles numbers before they reproduce. or decomposing flower stems in same sprays will kill small bene- fly over the fence to attack your Hand picking works for potato piles at the edge of your property. ficial insects that you probably roses. I did talk to an enterprising bugs, for example, if you check your Allow fallen leaves to serve as never even notice. gardener once who convinced her plants early in the season, before neighbors to treat, too, and she large numbers have appeared. Look under the leaves: if you see orange egg masses, scrape them off and drown them in soapy water, along with the beetles and larvae. If you grow too many potatoes for hand picking bugs, try something called “Bt”, another beneficial bacterium. It is readily available at garden centers. It does not act as a contact poison but sickens the larvae so they stop feeding and don’t reach adulthood. My insect nemesis is the striped cucumber beetle. It is a small striped beetle that can devour an entire small plant in one courtesy photo night. It eats not only cucumber A simple house for solitary wasps leaves, but anything in that family made with bamboo pieces in a box including squashes and pumpkins. courtesy photo hangs on my barn. I do two things to help prevent their Leaves eaten by striped cucumber beetles. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Seventeen CLASSIFIED FOR SALE FIREWOOD: Cut, Split and Delivered. Green - $235.00/Cord. 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when the soil is thawed along Vermont’s rolling dirt roads the serviceberry is in bloom, a sign that earth had softened woodland soil where the trillium can rise and stand alone in her burgundy whorl farmer’s fields now glow green with bursting yellow blossoms earth once again opens and winter’s loss is laid to rest in the country cemetery where people gather in Sunday’s best like the bouquet of wildflowers surrounding a box of beauty fragile and fleeting as the delicate white and red petals photo by Vanessa Fournier and the dandelion duff Craftsbury sophomore Charlie Krebs practices the long jump during track and Elizabeth McCarthy, May 2021 field on Dustan Field Friday. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Nineteen SPORTS Golf League Gets Early Start to Season by Patrick Hussey and Richardson all had a few low holes to help out. Richardson GREENSBORO -- With spring The league played its May opener this past also won closest in two on nine arriving much earlier than normal week as temperatures were again in the low by leaving his approach 13 feet 5 this year, and despite a couple 50s, but it was dry despite very grey skies. inches from the pin. April snowstorms, the Tuesday This time, a full slate of 22 golfers attended as One shot out in second place night golf league at Mountain View were two foursomes. The group Country Club (MVSS) got blessed momentum in the league is starting to build. of Dan Gauthier, Brad Ferland, with an early beginning. Mike Nixon and John Sperry got A late season snowfall delayed there by shooting a three-over 38 MVCC’s opening day, but once the his game, missing his predicted 14 strokes. and netting a 27. Sperry had the course opened on Wednesday, April score by just a stroke. Ferland Clark also won closest to the hot hand in this group, parring 28, the Boys of Tuesday showed and Coolbeth were only off by two pin on five, leaving his drive just his last five holes while shooting a up to embark on a new season. strokes and Pudvah missed by 13 feet 9 inches from the pin. He 41. But Nixon and Ferland got the However, Mother Nature was not just three. had a birdie on one and parred team some low scores on the early kind on this night, with tempera- Behind them in second place every hole coming in, starting on holes, with Nixon parring one and tures in the 50s and a late-devel- was the foursome of Jaxson the fourth hole. Nixon won closest Ferland bogeying two and three. oping rain shower. Hussey, Patrick Hussey, Mike to the pin on three, leaving his Tying them for second place It was a sparsely populated Clark and Mike Nixon. The two drive 23 feet 8 inches from the was the foursome of Kip Doyon, opening as just eight players Hussey’s went out earlier than hole. Patrick Hussey, Nate Brown and braved the damp weather. The goal their partners and, after their The league played its May Richard Brochu. They also shot 38 each golfer had on this opening round, the elder Hussey missed opener this past week as tempera- and netted a 27 after hitting for night was to predict what they by one stroke and the younger tures were again in the low 50s, six pars and three bogeys. Doyon would shoot before beginning play. Hussey missed by four. but it was dry despite very grey and Hussey both shot 43s to help As it turned out, the first foursome Behind them came the skies. This time, a full slate of 22 the cause. to hit the links won the night. twosome of Mike Clark and Mike golfers attended as momentum in Back in third place was the The group of Karl Ferland, Nixon. They got caught in the worst the league is starting to build. team of Dennis Pudvah, Karl Richard Coolbeth, Dennis Pudvah of the weather, playing through a Playing a team best ball Ferland, Richard Coolbeth and and Dave Campbell came the complete downpour. Still, Nixon format with handicaps, the Dave Campbell, shooting a 46 and closest, missing their predicted managed to come within two foursome of Jefferson Tolman, Bill netting a 28. The foursome of Joe scores by just eight strokes. That strokes of his prediction. Richardson, Marcus Brown and Mulligan, Dan Miko, Matt Kiley crowned them the weekly cham- Clark shot a fantastic round, Pete DesChamps won by shooting and Carl Edwards shot the night’s pions, the opening day winners posting the night’s low round a gross 43 best ball and netting best gross round, shooting an even and gave them a very rare April with a sterling 38 in the worst out at a 26 to win by a stroke over par 35 and netting a 30. Championship title. Not a bad way weather possible. Unfortunately, two teams. Tolman led the way by Mulligan had the night’s to begin their season. It may have he figured he was going to be in shooting a 46. He either had the low round with a 39. He also won been the league’s first-ever April for a tough night and predicted low score or tied for it on six of the closest to the pin on five with a championship. a 45 before going out. The team team’s nine holes. drive that landed 25 feet 5 inches Campbell had a real handle on settled for second after missing by However, DesChamps, Brown from the pin. Bolduc Heats up as Track and Field Season Nears Finish Line by Ken Brown over ten seconds to accomplish than a second and a half and also strong season for Hazen Union last the same feat. She also took home placed third in the 1500m event. Tuesday as she posted a fourth- NEWPORT – The Craftsbury a respectable third place finish in Bolduc will be eyeing her third place finish in the 3000m at North Academy (CA) and Hazen Union the 200m with teammate Sadie straight state title in the 800m in Country. Bruce Fortmann had track and field teams were both in Skorstad close behind in fourth. the upcoming Vermont Track and a solid ninth-place finish for the action last week at North Country Skorstad was also runner-up Field State Championships on Wildcats in the 200m and finished High School and the Burlington to St. Johnsbury’s Peggy Fischer in June 4. twelfth in the 100m, both against Invitational. Camille Bolduc stole the long jump, with teammate Ida On the boys’ side Dalton very deep fields. Cassandra Royer the show again for the Chargers, Eames finishing third. Skorstad Gravel and Silas Hunt finished had a pair of thirteenth place winning her fifth event of the wrapped up her impressive day eighth in the shot put and discus finishes in the 800m and 1500m season. with a third-place finish in the events, with Cole VanWinkle events and Ella Considine, Lila Bolduc entered the North 100m. finishing ninth in the shot put for Meyer, and Mary Jane McKenzie Country meet with a pair of wins Ava Purdy finished sixth in the Chargers. posted personal bests in the 200m, in the 800m this season already in the 800m for the Chargers and Orion Cenkl had an impressive discus, and 100m hurdle events. her back pocket, but she added to teammate Ella Gillespie posted sixth-place finish in the 3000m Cassandra Royer and Fortmann that total last Tuesday and showed her best time of the season in the and also posted his best time of the also competed at the Burlington her versatility as an athlete at the 200m event. season in the 400m along with team- Invitational on Saturday and same time. Bolduc didn’t disappoint in mates Alex Califano and Linden posted solid finishes in the 1500m Bolduc bested Hazel Fay of the biggest event of the season on Stelma-Leonard. Charlie Krebs and 200m. St. Johnsbury by over a full second Saturday as she took home the finished twelfth in the 800m and Both Hazen Union and to win her first 400m event of the 800m title against a stacked field beat two thirds of the field in the Craftsbury Academy will back season and then turned around at the Burlington Invitational. She 1500m event, finishing tenth overall. in action this Friday at Lyndon and blitzed the 1500m field by bested U-32’s May Lamb by more Jessica Royer continued her Institute. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Twenty SPORTS

photo by Vanessa Fournier photo by Vanessa Fournier Wildcat sophomore Tyler Rivard hits the ball in a game against Peoples May Hazen sophomore Jadon Baker safely slides into second base as Chandler 8. P.A. won 7-0. Follensbee of Peoples leaps for the ball during action Saturday at P.A. Rooney Continues to Turn Heads in Big Week for Wildcats by Ken Brown talized on their mistakes at the right time. Rivard took the loss, striking out three and It’s a really good win and the guys were giving up one earned over six innings. MORRISVILLE – Super sophomore pretty pumped on the bus ride home,” said PA improved to 3-2 on the season with Lyle Rooney silenced Peoples Academy head coach Spencer Howard. their only losses coming to Hazen Unon and (PA) last week, handing them their first Tyler Rivard smacked three hits and division power Montpelier. The Wildcats’ loss of the season as the Hazen Union Andrew Menard earned his first career impressive week vaulted them to third in baseball team won two more games on the varsity win as the Wildcats outlasted the Division III standings. Hazen Union’s week to improve to 5-2 on the season. Williamstown on the road last Thursday, baseball program hasn’t hosted a playoff Rooney twirled a one hitter last 9-6. Menard struck out four Blue Devils game or had a winning season since 2007. Tuesday, striking out 12 Wolves and over three innings and Jadon Baker That team made it to the Division III state walking none as the Wildcats came away pitched an inning and a third to secure title game and current head coach Spencer with an impressive 4-0 road win. In a the save. Ethan Shopland and Lyle Rooney Howard was on the roster. scoreless game in the top of the fourth, combined for four hits and four RBIs and “[Alekson] is an impressive kid and he a PA error set up a four-run inning for Baker added two more hits and a run. did a nice job of pitching backwards with the Wildcats, all with two outs. Ethan The Wildcats stole seven more bases on some breaking stuff this time around. Our Shopland singled home Jadon Baker for the afternoon in the win. Max Dexter took defense was night and day from Tuesday the eventual game-winner and singles by the loss for the second straight week as and we just gave them too many free outs. Tyler Rivard and Rooney added insurance. Williamstown fell to 0-6. Overall, it was a good week to build on. Hazen Union also stole three bases in the “The guys did a nice job of putting We have to keep our focus on one pitch inning. Ben Alekson was the hard luck pressure on their defense all day, built a and one at bat at a time and don’t overlook loser for the Wolves, striking out 15 on the nice lead and got out of there with a win. anybody. After this week it is a sprint to day. PA had scored 39 runs in their first We have some really good athletes on this the end of the regular season with 6 games two wins of the season before falling to team, and they want to run and are smart in 8 days and it will be challenging. This is Rooney and the Wildcats. about it. It gives us options to manufacture a special group of kids, though, and they “Lyle was very impressive in runs when we are struggling to string love to learn and are eager to get better commanding all of his pitches, the guys together hits,” said Howard. and succeed and they have fun doing it,” played great defense behind him, and Ben Alekson and the Wolves got their said Howard. James Montgomery called a great game revenge on Saturday as the sophomore Hazen Union welcomed Northfield to behind the plate. We kept battling all day struckout 16 Wildcats and gave up one town on Tuesday and will travel to Danville against a very good pitcher and we capi- hit in an impressive 7-0 home win. Tyler Saturday afternoon. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Twenty-one SPORTS Sicard Opens White Mountain Season with Dominating Triple Crown Win N. WOODSTOCK, N.H. – the semi feature, ran away from Barton, Vt.’s Shane Sicard showed the pack. why he’s a three-time defending Things closed up on lap 18 White Mountain Motorsports when John Donahue spun in Turn Park champion with a dominating Four to bring out the caution. The victory in the Triple Crown Series field got antsy on the restart, and on Saturday, May 8. Sicard took the Olsen took advantage, shooting to lead from Marshfield’s Matthew the runner-up spot. Cahoon and Potter on lap-six of the 75-lap Olsen then pulled away as Alby Flying Tiger feature and cruised to Ovitt, Mike “Beetle” Bailey, Derek the win as part of the 29th White Ming, and others duked it out Mountain season opener. behind them. For Sicard, it was the third Another caution lap 30 for the straight year that he’s won the stalled Chris Roberts machine put opening round of the Triple Crown Cahoon and Olsen door to door. courtesy photo Series. The victory was also his Cahoon chose the inside for the North Haverhill, N.H.’s Ryan Olsen (center) beat out Tyler Cahoon (right) and 14th overall in that same time span. restart and cleared Olsen at first. Quinny Welch (left) for his first Late Model win since 2014. A trio of Potters led the field But the fourth-generation racer to the initial green flag with kept at it and drove around the on Thompson and swung to the Rogers was able to hold off “Uncle” Michael, Matthew, and outside of Cahoon to take the lead outside with the white flag in sight. Smithers for one lap, but Smithers rookie Chandler earning the top with 14 circuits remaining. The youngster edged Thompson by was just too strong. He swiped the three starting spots in qualifying. Cahoon stuck right to Olsen’s just seven-hundredths of a second lead away the following circuit and Matthew Potter grabbed the lead bumper in the closing laps as Quinny at the finish line for a thrilling scored his seventh victory since the from Michael at the start with Welch, who’d surged to the third victory. start of 2020. Waterford’s McKenna Sicard following him around the position, lurked in the shadows. Thompson and Hayes, both of Merchant took third, followed by outside into the second spot. With four laps to go, Bailey cut a Littleton, completed the podium. Farnsworth and Dominic Warren. Sicard got a crack at the lead tire while running fourth, and the Baumgardner, Mike Smith, The day began with the when Jason Woodard, the 2019 resulting caution gave Cahoon one reigning champion Brett Jackson, annual White Mountain Car Show Triple Crown champion, spun on last shot. Cahoon had his hands full Jon Savage, Todd Derrington, Tim at the track. Island Pond’s Derek lap-four following a Turn Four with Welch on the restart, though, Corey, and Scott Senecal finished Ming was the Late Model Car jumble-up to bring out the first and Olsen was able to escape for a fourth through tenth. Show winner. Littleton’s Russ caution. Matthew Potter was able long-overdue win. Lincoln’s “Downtown” Bobby Clark was judged the top Flying to keep the nose out front on lap Danville’s Cahoon settled for Brown fended off a late charge from Tiger entry. Rookie Chris Moulton five, but Sicard took over the point second with Groveton’s Welch, who St. Johnsbury’s Colby Bourgeois to won the Strictly Stock Minis, Colby one lap later. started 13th, coming home third. win the 25-lap Dwarf Car feature. Bourgeois was top dog in the Dwarf After another yellow on lap Ovitt held off Jimmy Renfrew Jr. Brown grabbed the lead from Jeff Cars, and McKenna Merchant took 10 for Chandler Potter’s encounter for fourth. All four drivers got off Ainsworth on lap-four and seemed home the first-place Kids Truck with the backstretch wall, Sicard to great starts in their bids for to be well on his way to victory. Car Show trophy. checked out from the field. A scin- the inaugural New England Late Bourgeois moved into second on White Mountain Motor- tillating battle for second raged Model Challenge Cup. the ninth circuit but was having sports Park returns to action this through the race’s middle stages Ming, Jeff Marshall, Donahue, trouble catching Brown. Saturday, May 15 at 6 p.m. with with Matthew Potter, Ryan Ware, Kasey Beattie, and Matthew As the laps were winding the Late Models, Flying Tigers, and rookie Brandon Gray going at Morrill completed the top 10. Twen- down, though, Brown came up on Strictly Stock Minis, Dwarf Cars, it. But Sicard was long gone, at one ty-five Late Models rolled through up some slower traffic. As Brown and Kids Trucks. point holding a margin of nearly the pit gate, with 22 starting the struggled to get around them on UNOFFICIAL RESULTS half a track. main event. the outside, Bourgeois came right LOCAL FINISHERS The third and final yellow on Groveton’s “Lucky” Luke up on his doorstep. However, the Pos., Start Pos., Driver, Car #, lap 46 for Colin Cornell’s spin let Shannon brought the crowd to its veteran Brown — now in his 49th Hometown, Laps the field get a shot at Sicard. It feet with a last-lap pass to win season of racing — had a few tricks FLYING TIGERS wasn’t enough, though, as Sicard his first-ever Strictly Stock Mini up his sleeve and held the young 4. (2) Matthew Potter (23vt), blazed to the season-opening start. Shannon started 11th in gun at bay. Marshfield, Vt., 75 Laps victory. the 25-lap main event and quickly Gilmanton’s Tommy Smithers 8. (1) Michael Potter (23nh), Plain- Woodard steadily sliced knifed through the pack. After came out on top of a wheel-banger field, Vt., 75 Laps through the field after his early a hard-fought battle with Jack with reigning champion Jason 12. (13) Jaden Perry (92vt), spin and passed Gray in the closing Hayes, Shannon moved into third Wyman for the third position. Chad Hardwick, Vt., 52 Laps laps for second. Matthew Potter with six laps to go. However, he Dufour rounded out the top-five. 14. (3) #Chandler Potter (22nh), finished fourth, followed by rookie was still well back of leader Tyler Smithers’ son Thomas VI was Plainfield, Vt., 10 Laps Tanner Woodard. Bryan Wall Jr., Thompson and runner-up Donnie the winner in the Kids Truck 15-lap 15. (16) Hunter King (62vt), Ware, Michael Potter, Cornell, and Baumgardner. feature. Glover’s Owen Rogers was Woodbury, Vt., 3 Laps Jody Sicard rounded out the top 10. But one circuit later, John holding Smithers off for the lead LATE MODELS North Haverhill’s Ryan Olsen Knight spun to bring the caution when Damion Sicard and Logan 2. Tyler Cahoon (38vt) Danville, Vt. got his first Late Model win since out and bunch up the field for a Farnsworth tangled with four laps 17. #Laci Potter (55nh) West 2014 in the 50-lap event. Olsen five-lap showdown. Baumgardner to go. The contact sent Sicard hard Danville, Vt. started sixth and was patient in drifted up the track on the restart into the Turn Three tire barriers 20. Marcel J. Gravel (86vt) Wolcott, Vt. the early stages as polesitter Tyler and Shannon slid underneath to and let Smithers get alongside KIDS TRUCKS Cahoon, who had won his heat and grab second. He then set his sights Rogers for a four-lap dash. 2. Owen Rogers (4) Glover, Vt. The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Page Twenty-two SPORTS

photo by Vanessa Fournier photo by Vanessa Fournier Twinfield’s Maddie Duke pitches to a Blue Mountain batter during play May 8 Umpire Leo Clark calls Delaney Fowler of Twinfield out at the plate as Blue at Twinfield. In the back is Sophia Mancini. Blue Mountain won 16-4. Mountain catcher Lauren Joy makes the play. Lady Trojans Struggle Against Top of the Division by Ken Brown Mancini made some spectacular Danville in the divisional stand- season. diving plays in the outfield. Dan- ings on Saturday, handing the “Blue Mountain is also one of PLAINFIELD – Division IV ville improved to 4-1 on the sea- Lady Trojans their second straight the better teams in the division, but powers Danville and Blue Moun- son with their only loss coming to home loss, 16-4. Maggie Emerson overall, the girls played a much bet- tain flexed their muscles against Division III BFA-Fairfax. They sit and Gabby Houghton had two hits ter game. Our defense is continu- the Twinfield softball team last atop of the division and have out- apiece for Blue Mountain and Jor- ing to improve and Hannah Haver- week, ending their two-game win scored their opponents this sea- dan Alley belted a double and drove ick and Zari Elliott made some cru- streak. son 83-12. in four on the afternoon. Fresh- cial plays for us in the outfield and Danville remained perfect “They are a very good team man Felicity Sulham earned the Maddi put together some really nice within the division last Monday, and it was just one of those games win as the Lady Bucks improved at bats,” said Martin. blanking Twinfield on the road, where we just struggled to get any- to 5-1. Ginger Klarich struck out Twinfield hosted Williamstown 23-0. Makayla Quintin was a thing going,” said head coach Chris- three for Twinfield in the loss and on Monday and are scheduled to bright spot for the Lady Trojans, tin Martin. Maddi Duke drove in two runs. The travel to Mount. St. Joseph’s Acad- going 3-3, and eighth grader Sophi Blue Mountain kept pace with loss dropped Twinfield to 2-3 on the emy on Thursday.

Purrier Breaks Four-Minute 1500m Barrier for First Time WALNUT, Calif. – Elinor Purrier, from indoor mile record of 4:16.85 on February 8, Richford, has done Vermont proud again. On 2020. May 9, the 26-year-old distance running sen- The University of New Hampshire grad- sation competed in the USATF Golden Games. uate grew up on a dairy farm in Richford. She Purrier outran a talented field to win the got her start running cross country, playing women’s 1500-meter race. She became only basketball, and competing in track and field the sixth American woman in history to break for Richford High School. Purrier still holds the four-minute barrier in the 1500m event. the Division IV Vermont state outdoor track Purrier won the race in 3:58.36. Her and field records in the 400m, 800m, 1500m, 1500m performance on Sunday currently and 3000m events. ranks first for women athletes worldwide in On a local note, Craftsbury Academy se- 2021. nior Camille Bolduc is following in Purrier’s Purrier is a favorite to qualify for the footsteps. Bolduc broke the 1500m 5-minute U.S. Olympic track and field team. The Olym- barrier for the first time on Saturday at the pic trials will take place at Hayward Field in Burlington High School Invitational. Bolduc, Eugene, Oregon, on June 18-27, 2021. who is a two-time state champion in the 800m The 1500m race is 109 meters short of event, finished third in 4:54.82. The Vermont photo by Vanessa Fournier a mile. Shelly Houlihan set the American D-IV state women’s 1500m record is within MaryJane McKenzie (left) and Jessica Royer (right) women’s 1500m record of 3:54.99 on October Bolduc’s reach. The mark of 4:45.35 was set of the Hazen Union track and field team pass a baton 5, 2019. Purrier set the American women’s by Elinor Purrier on May 31, 2013. during practice May 6 on Hudson Field.