May 7, 2009 RSS feed / Front Page

002p1_xlg.jpg

Norwich Dedicates New Building in Honor of A.J. Bartoletto, Class of 1952

The Northfield News
Norwich University this past week dedicated the central building in its Engineering, Math and Science Complex in honor of A.J. Bartoletto, Class of 1952, and his wife Anne. Mr. More...

Local Teenagers Win Regional Honors in Step Up To Dance Tour

The Northfield News

Two ballet dance competition teams from the Northfield dance school A Step Above traveled to West Springfield, MA and to Stratham, NH to participate in the Step Up To Dance Tour sponsored by Olympic Miss Dance. More...

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...

Click here for all stories

Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Northfield 5:45 - Masonic Bingo, Masonic Temple, now every Wednesday. Montpelier 1 p.m. More...

Click here for all stories

Entertainment

Celebrate Mother's Day With Arioso Concert

The Northfield News

Paine Mountain Arts Council will present the Arioso Chamber Ensemble in a Mother's Day concert of vocal and string chamber music at the United Church on Sunday, May 10 at 4pm. There is a suggested donation of $12. More...

Play Review

The Miracle Worker

By CHARLENE MCCARNEY Hello to all Northfield theater goers. More...

Paine Mountain Arts Council Notes

By JEANNE COOK Paine Mountain Arts Council

Nearly five years ago I was privileged to be elected chair of the fledgling Paine Mountain Arts Council, and have remained so since then. More...

Click here for all stories

Letters

Senator Leahy

TO T HE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS ICAN UNDERSTAND some of what motivates Senator Leahy's desire to investigate the Bush administration; after all he was once a prosecutor, in a court of law. More...

Criminal Prosecutions?

TO T HE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AS IS OBVIOUS, President Obama unquestionably is very bright. More...

Relay For Life

TO T HE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AS THE CO-CHAIR of this year's American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Norwich University, I want to thank everyone who participated; we had twenty teams (including a youth team from Northfield School!) and do More...

Click here for all stories

House & Home

Keeping In Touch

Volunteering At St. Marks (Wrapping Up The Season)
By CHRISTINE BARNES The Northfield News

What do we do when we volunteer at a refuge? Six months ago we came to St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge to help the Fish and Wildlife Service in whatever ways the staff requested. More...

What's Cooking

Mother's Day By PHYLLIS GREENWAY The Northfield News

Memories are part of life, and special efforts for special days are tucked away in our minds. It was a tradition in our family to give "mom" breakfast in bed on her special day. My husband would get the boys up, and all would help. More...

Click here for all stories

History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News May 7, 1884 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor E.M. More...

VOICES FROM THE PAST

Compiled by SALLY PEDLEY Northfield Historical Society

Dog River Crier, #42, 1987, Julia McIntire, Editor SOME HORSES I REMEMBER By Ed Mayo "When I was a youngster in the early 1930's, the contest between horses and automobiles had been settled some years before. More...

Click here for all stories

Shaw Hearing Postponed Again, Reporting Errors by Police to VCJTC Are Endemic Across State

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Northfield News

Chief Shaw's hearing before the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council [VCJTC] has been postponed once again. It had been scheduled for hearing on May 1. No new date for the hearing has been set. More...

Select Board Chairman Wants To Throw Up One House Roads

By KATHLEEN LOTT The Northfield News

The selectboard had a contentious meeting last week when its chairman decided to address the question of throwing up single service roads. More...

Green Up Northfield

Lehana Guyette, 16, of Water St. picks up litter near the Mayo Nursing Home. She was the first Northfield resident to get sign up and get out to pick up trash on Green Up Day, last Saturday. More...

News

Mail Carriers CERV Food Drive Is This Saturday

Leave Food By Your MailBox For Pick-up

The Mail Carriers' Food Drive to benefit CERV will be happening this Saturday, May 9. Leave a non-perishable grocery item or two near your mailbox and the carrier will pick it up when they come to deliver the mail. More...

Village To Vote On Next Phase Of Water Main Replacement

By KATHLEEN LOTT The Northfield News

Bond funding for the west phase of the three-phase, almost $7 million, water main replacement project will go before voters on Village meeting day the Trustees decided last week. More...

Merchants Bank Donates To Historical Society

Doreen Allen of Merchants Bank presents a check for $200 to Sally Pedley, left, as a contribution to the Northfield Historical Society's Glass Negatives Project which is raising money in memory of Jim Wilson to restore More...

Click here for all stories

Police Report

NORTHFIELD POLICE REPORT

April 22 5:34 p.m. - Unlawful Mischief - The department was advised of damage to parked vehicles. The offenders were two young males throwing rocks. The officers talked with the victims and the mothers of the young children. More...

Click here for all stories

Editorials

Representative View

Sex Offender Legislation
By MAXINE GRAD Representative, D, Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown

MY COMMITTEE finished its work on and passed S.125 An Act Relating to Expanding the Sex Offender Registry. This is a Senate bill. More...

Click here for all stories

Features

Norwich University • Commencement 2009

[img_assist|nid=1397 More...

NEWS FROM THE HILL

By LISA BRUCKEN Norwich University Office of Communications

May 1 was the last day of classes for the spring 2009 semester. Students have a reading day, then five days of finals before they depart Norwich for their summer destinations. Commencement for the class of 2009 will take place on Sunday, May 10. More...

Common Talk

From The Common To The Vineyard
By JANE E. BRYANT The Northfield News

Sally and Jay Pedley were out and about the Common this week. They had lunch, visited her mother (hello, Mrs. Nadon), conducted errands. More...

Click here for all stories

Sports

The Wire

By BILL CRONEY The Northfield News

We take a lot of things for granted. The sun will come up in the east, taxes are due on April 15th, and Frank Pecora, Northfield's Athletic Director, will be in attendance at all Northfield High home games. More...

Marauders Fall To U-32 8-7

Northfield shortstop, Sam Dyer tries in vain to apply the tag as a U-32 runner slides safely into second base last Thursday. The Mauraders fell to the Raiders by an 8-7 score. More...

Marauder Girls Blasted By U-32

Melissa Kelsey, the Northfield shortstop makes a play after a nice pickup of a ground ball play against U-32 last Thursday. The girl Marauders bowed to the Raiders 10-0. More...

Click here for all stories