January 28, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

Northfield Junior Rifles Compete In National Tourney In Pennsylvania

By JEFF YOUNG PALYMRYA, PA - A group of Northfield Jr. Rifle Teammates traveled to Palmyra Pennsylvania to compete in the 11th Annual Palmyra Invitational shooting tournament in mid January. More...

Obituaries

Josephine “Jo” M. Wilson, 85, NHS Class of 1942

Josephine “Jo” M. Wilson, 85, passed away at her home in Spanaway, WA on December 24, 2009 surrounded by her children. Born in Barre on June 12, 1924, she was the daughter of Frank L. and Mildred (Bailey) Archer. 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, WALKING More...

Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING JANUARY AROUND THE AREA Barre Through February 20, Art of Action, Studio Place Arts, artists envision the future of Vermont, Main Gallery. More...

Editorials

Representative View

LAST WEEK, the House took the final vote to move ahead on a constitutional amendment to allow certain 17- year-olds the right to vote in presidential primaries. More...

Editorial

Back Door Deals

At first I was disappointed, then disgusted with the goings on in the houses of Congress on the recent attempt to ram through a health care bill behind closed doors and without any public input or transparency. More...

House & Home

Ask The Home Team

I think this is the last winter for my boiler, so I’m looking into replacement options. A friend of mine said that I could heat the whole house (1,400 square feet with a hotwater baseboard system) from More...

What’s Cooking

An Easy Way to Healthy “Eat plants, not what comes from a plant”

WE KNOW WE should do it, but how to make it terrific and not like an afterthought? Last night we shared pizza and salad at home with friends prior to a great Norwich hockey game. More...

The Gardening Guy

Growing and Using Unusual Vegetables

By HENRY HOMEYER T THIS IS THE season for studying those seed catalogs and planning what to do in the garden this summer. It’s easy to get into a rut. Plant Big Boy tomatoes, Kennebec potatoes, Bolero carrots and black seeded Simpson lettuce. More...

History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

125 Years Ago The Northfield News January 29, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

Northfield Nurse Goes To Haiti To Help Earthquake Survivors

LEBANON, N.H. — A nurse from Northfield, Jennifer Clark, has gone to Haiti as part of the second team of doctors and nurses from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to help earthquake survivors. More...

Tyler Daniels Feeds Newly Arrived Mason Before Guard Deployment

Tyler Daniels feeds his new son, Mason Alexander as his wife, Margaret looks on. More...

SHINE Raises Money For Breast Cancer

Northfield High School’s SHINE School and Community group raised a total of $200 from donations made by local community members for the American Breast Cancer Foundation as a result of their Memory Tree Event at the Gray Building. More...

News

Annie Luke Receives Kathy Fionda Award

Annie Luke, an employee of the Northfield Schools, has received the Kathy Fionda Award for her work at as Student Assistance Professional (S.A.P.) at Northfield Middle/High School and Northfield Elementary School. More...

Grace Church Is Organizing Second Trip To Honduras

Grace Church of Northfield is organizing a return trip to Tegucigalpa Honduras to help serve the underprivileged in the city, particularly children. They will be sending both a medical and compassion team to partner with Manos Extendidas. More...

Norwich Ends Capital Campaign After Total Of $81.9 Million Raised

Norwich University officials announced the end to the Norwich Forever! fundraising campaign, which closed at the end of December with alumni and friends making a record investment in the future of Norwich students. More...

Entertainment

What’s On PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR JAN. 31 TO FEB. 6 More...

Hello From Hollywood!

Awards Round Up: Actors and Producers

Last weekend, the Screen Actors Guild anointed their own, cementing the foregone conclusion that Christoph Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds”) and Mo’Nique (“Precious”) will take their winning streak to the Oscars as support More...

Brookfield Ice Harvest To Be This Saturday

The Lotus Discovery Center in Brookfield will be hosting their 4th Annual Winter Fest on January 30, 2010. More...

Features

Aging In Place

Scary Words

NO MATTER what our ages, there are some words that just make our hearts sink. As parents of teenagers, pregnant or police officer have that impact. As older adults, it’s cancer or Alzheimer’s. More...

Keeping In Touch

Rescue Mission from Sky to Sea

“It made a difference to that one.” From The Parable of the Starfish Source Unknown More...

Silly Social Scenes

“As to his general character, it would not be safe to trust the representations of satirists.” Thomas Babington Macaulay

THREE SELECTMEN CONTEMPLATE A PUTSCH – Your Miss Lobotomy, whose shell-like ear is ever pointed groundward in search of a juicy tidbit, is pleased to be the first in print with this item, recently gleaned from the grapevine: Our beloved minitro More...

Sports

Big Blue Devil Boys Swamp Canaan 76-18

Williamstown’s Blue Devil Boys had absolutely no trouble advancing their record to 13-1 in their lone game last week. The ‘Devils demolished Cannan 76- 18 in a total mis-match. More...

Girl Devils Cruise To Win

The Blue Devil Girls racked up their eighth win of the season with a 55-42 home victory over Canaan last Saturday. If you just look at the score you would think that Williamstown just jumped out to a lead and cruised to victory. More...

Marauder Boys Take Milton In Hockey

Northfield High’s Ice Marauders made the long trip up to the border to Highgate to take on the Milton Yellow Jackets last Saturday and when the yellow bus headed back south it was the Yellow Jackets that had been stung. More...