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November 20, 2008
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Norwich Celebrates Veterans
By BILL CRONEY The Northfield News
At precisely 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11, the long grey line of the Norwich University Corps of Cadets stepped smartly and silently off on their march up the length of the University's Upper Parade ground to commence the military school's Veterans Day Observance ceremony. More...
Roll Call

Cadets from the Norwich University Artillery unit fire the unit's 75 mm pack howitzers as the "Roll Of Wars" is called during the Veterans Day Observance last Tuesday. The "Roll Of Wars" includes 18 conflicts that stretch from the American Revolution to the present day. More...

Roxbury Considers Closing All Schools
By LARRY GARLAND The Northfield News

Roxbury may close its elementary school and issue vouchers to parents so their children can be educated in surrounding towns. Whether this will occur or not will be decided at the School Board's December 8 meeting. Presently Roxbury operates a stand alone school program for kindergarten through ... More...

 News
•Young- Bottomley Wedding
Amy Marie Young and Scott William Bottomley were married on August 22, 2008, a glorious sunny day, in an outdoor ceremony overlooking the ocean at the Hartley Mason Reserve in York Harbor, Maine. Jane Rokes and Susan Antel, justices of the peace, officiated. More...
•Energizing
•Rotary Club is Honored
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 Worship
•WORSHIP DIRECTORY
BETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE 10 Harrison St., Montpelier Contact: 229-9429 7 p.m. Friday, 9:45 a.m. Saturday Shabbat Services THE FISHERMEN MINISTRY 571 Route 12 North, Northfield Falls Contact: Steven H. Atherton, 485-7577 10:30 a.m. More...
•Thanksgiving Service To Be At St. Mary's
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 Calendar
•COMMUNITY CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Order your Thanksgiving pies and other baked goods from the Boys and Girls Club Pre- Order Bake Sale, last day for orders November 20, delivery November 25, Call 485-5494 to order [Those who want to bake, More...
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 Entertainment
•Ying Quartet Will Perform At Montpelier's Unitarian
MONTPELIER - Capital City Concerts presents the Ying Quartet on Sunday, December 7 at 4PM at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier in a diverse program entitled "Joy and Sorrow". The sibling string quartet will perform Mendelssohn's Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.12, Dvorak's Quartet in A-flat Major, Op... More...
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 Police Report
•NORTHFIELD POLICE REPORT
November 5 12 p.m. - Unlawful Mischief - The department was advised of another home that had been hit with paint balls on Monday evening. The caller remembers hearing a noise but didn't go out to investigate. This morning he noticed the paint on the siding. More...
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 Editorials
•We Want to Hear from You
Internet Scams
NOT A DAY goes by that I do not get one of those "I have placed $9,000,000 with our agent for you" requests that come to the newspaper's email. More...
•A Representative View
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 Features
•From the Troop
Court of Honor
Northfield's Boy Scout Troop 759 had its fall Court of Honor on Thursday, October 30 in the basement of the American Legion Post 63. The purpose of the ceremony was to recognize Scouts for recent rank advancement and the completion of merit badges. More...
•Silly Social Scenes
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 House & Home
•What's Cooking
Stone Soup and Chowders
WHEN WE LIVED in Pennsylvania for a year, I accepted an invitation to come to lunch to a new friend's home right outside of Carlisle. We had had a conv ersation regarding "stone soup" that she said she kept "going" all winter. More...
•Keeping in Touch
•Ask Rachael
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 Sports
•Norwich Women's Soccer Team Loses First Round Bid In NCAA Playoff
Husson scored twice in a span of 1 minute, 59 seconds midway through the second half en route to a 2-0 victory over Norwich in an NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament first round game Thursday afternoon at a cold and rainy Howard Field. More...
•NU Hockey Men Kill So. NH, 7-2
•Norwich Footballers Fall to Springfield
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 History
•NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY
125 Years Ago The Northfield News November 21, 1883 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor The North Troy Palladium gives the following full account of a circumstance which was a "seven days' wonder" at St. Albans and is of interest to Northfield people from the fact that Mr... More...
•VOICES FROM THE PAST
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