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Marauders Win Regional Baseball Game Beating Stowe 4-2, Head To Burlington For State Championship

By BILL CRONEY The Northfield News
The Marauder Baseball team is headed to the Division III Championship game. The Maroon and White giant killers worked their way to the top rung of the tournament ladder by winning three post-season games in just over a week. More...

$1.5 Million Water Bond Passes As Does Item Discontinuing Australian Ballot When Voting for Village Officers In Future Years

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Northfield News

The bond issue to finance the rebuilding of the water mains on the west side of the Village won approval by an overwhelming vote last Tuesday. The vote was 78 in favor and 19 against the bond issue. More...

Article

Rose Audet was out weeding her rose garden and found a large cocoon the size of a bat. Intrigued, she moved it into a cage and waited for it to hatch. More...

Obituaries

Ida J. Welch, 94, Had WDEV Show in the 1930's

The Northfield News

Ida J. Welch, 94, died Thursday, June 4, 2009 at the Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin. She was born in Bethel on October 31, 1914. She was the daughter of Leonard & Marian (Chandler) Hopkins. More...

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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...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING JUNE AROUND VERMONT And In Northfield Northfield Through August 28 - Artists Reflect on the Historical Collection of the Sullivan Museum, Sullivan Museum, Norwich University off South Main Street. More...

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Police Report

NORTHFIELD POLICE REPORT

Complied by Chief Jeffrey L. Shaw

May 27 7:36 a.m. - Burglary - Police responded to a reported residential burglary in which cash and electronic equipment was taken. The case is under active investigation. 1:43 p.m. More...

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Editorials

Representative View

By MAXINE GRAD Representative, D, Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown

In this week's update I will explain my vote to support the budget. In the following weeks I will update you with this session's highlights. More...

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Features

Reflections From Pool Side

The Spread of 'Frolf Flu'
By REID WOBBY The Northfield News

Attention all readers, our nation is once again being faced with the spread of another highly transferrable flu. More...

Hello From Hollywood!

The Hangover Bachelor Party Gone Wildest
By J. ROBERTS The Northfield News

IT ALL SOUNDS like fun until someone loses a tooth, finds a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, and the groom is missing - not to mention a trashed night luxury suite and a chicken. And that's in the first 20 minutes of the movie. More...

What's On PBS This Week

Vermont Public Television Program Highlights for June 14 to 19: June 14: Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in "Priests in Concert at Armagh Cathedral," three priests from Northern Ireland celebrate music and faith. More...

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Sports

Girls on the Run Hold Banquet Celebrating the End of Season

The Northfield News

Northfield Elementary School chapter of Girls on the Run (GOTR) held a banquet last week to celebrate completion of its 2009 season. Twenty-one girls from grades 3- 5 completed the ten-week training program. More...

Eugene's Big Catch

Eugene Premant shows off his prize catch, a 16 1/2 inch, 1.8 pound rainbow trout caught last week in his favorite fishing hole in Sunset Lake. Eugene said that he regularly fishes there but this is the biggest one he's gotten yet. More...

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Article

A mobile home at the Falls trailer park caught fire last Thursday and was fully engulfed when fire fighters arrived. The home appeared to be a complete loss and the home owners lost all their possessions. No one was injured. More...

Put out your Flag Flag Day • June 14

Veteran's Stories • Voices From The Past Wendell Plastridge On D-Day
By JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Northfield News

They had been practicing for six months but nothing happened. Then, on June 5, 1944, the word came, "This is it!" Wendell Plastridge, a Northfield native and Petty Officer, Third Class in the U.S. Navy had been assigned to drive an LST. More...

News

Norwich Students Work and Learn In Nicaragua

The Northfield News

Ten Norwich University students, in partnership with Planting Hope, a grass-roots organization based in Montpelier and Nicaragua, are currently spending three weeks in Nicaragua living with host families, working and learning. More...

Onion River Exchange Sponsors 'Replay the Tunes' Fund Raiser

The Northfield News

If you have a closet full of old records, movies, video tapes and CDs that you no longer want, consider making a donation to the upcoming RePlay the Tunes event which will benefit the Onion River Exchange. More...

High School Students Win Art Award

Kaley Warren, left, Hilary Rogler, Kate Roux and Sarah Skinner as well as their teacher Craig Wiltse the Art teacher at Northfield High School were at the Wood Gallery in Montpelier to attend the Vermont Congressional Art awards ceremony la More...

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Entertainment

Green Mountain Opera Presents 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Elixir of Love'

The Northfield News

WAITSFIELD - Now in its fourth year as Vermont's premier professional opera festival, the Green Mountain Opera Festival introduces international opera performers, world renowned directors, and emerging opera artists to music enthusiasts throughout More...

Eleva Chamber Players Plan Series Of Summer Concerts Around State

The Northfield News

The Eleva Chamber Players, Central Vermont's professional chamber orchestra, has planned a series of house concerts throughout the Summer. More...

Wednesday 'Dessert and Discussion' To Start At Sullivan Museum June 17

Northfield News

The Sullivan Museum and History Center at Norwich University will host a three-part "dessert and discussion" sessions including panel presentations by Vermont artists on creativity followed by a discussion session with the audience. More...

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Letters

Downsizing

TO T HE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS ISPENT 24 years of my life in management at a Ford dealership in Massachusetts and made the following observations: The dealer paid all the expenses for advertising, personnel, building, etc. More...

Flags On Veterans Graves

TO T HE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IN THE NORTHFIELD News a couple of weeks ago, I read where the flags in the cemeteries were not replaced and people through that the veterans who are buried there were not given the proper respect that they des More...

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House & Home

What's Cooking

Bread & Thoughts
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY The Northfield News

I PROMISED last week to include a recipe for Challah, and you will find it below. It runs through my mind, that in spring and summer, we don't spend as much time in the kitchen, wanting to be in the garden or walking in the lovely Vermont air. More...

Home Again

Roxbury Village School • The Living Garden
By CHRISTINE BARNES The Northfield News

In the end, we conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News June 11, 1884 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor C. Farnsworth's old white horse is an animal of steadygoing, Sabbath observing habits. More...

VOICES FROM THE PAST

Compiled by SALLY PEDLEY Northfield Historical Society

Dog River Crier, #23, 1982, Julia McIntire, editor Luther Johnson's "The Old Northfield That I Knew" "There were two main events during each summer of my early years. More...

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