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Recycling Center Stays Open

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Northfield News
The recycling center will not close as was reported earlier this month thanks to the swift action of the Northfield Selectboard and Selectman Charlie Morse in particular. More...

Lacillade Lumber Closing In Williamstown After 74 Years

By ROB WILLS

WILLIAMSTOWN - Lacillade Lumber, still a family owned business which has been in Williamstown since 1936 will soon be closing said Jim Lacillade, one of the principal owners. More...

Obituaries

Paul K. Manghi, 63

EAST MONTPELIER – Paul K. Manghi of East Montpelier, Vt., passed away on Feb. 3 at Fletcher Allen Healthcare. He was 63 years old. More...

Carl F. Dunican, 70

Carroll “Carl” F. Dunican, 70, died Saturday, February 6, 2010 at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. He was born in Bennington on December 24, 1939, the son of Alfred & Carolyn (Green) Dunican. 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, WALKING More...

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Entertainment

Hello From Hollywood!

The Oscars Noms and Pee-wee’s Next Step
By J. ROBERTS

THE ANNOUNCEMENT for Oscar nominations was the big headline news last week. More...

What’s On PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEBRUARY 14 TO 20 Feb. 14: Sunday at 8 p.m., “Nature” encores “In the Valley of the Wolves,” the dramatic saga of Yellowstone’s remarkable Druid wolf pack. More...

The Music Scene

Big Daddy V - Live PA Electronica
By S. RIZZOTTO The Northfield News

BIG DADDY V HAILS from Lockport, NY and has been creating electronic music for over twelve years. He started out small mixing records in local Buffalo, NY club and it was at the age of 22 that he decided he wanted more out of the Electronica game. More...

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Features

Thoughts of an Average Joe

Outhouses Have Come a Long Way
By JOE WRIGHT

IGREW UP AT A TIME when every camp—and these were camps, not cottages—had an out-house. My grandparents built a camp on a small pond up north in the 1940s. The outhouse was named Myra. More...

What’s Cooking

Choices
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY The Northfield News

SUPPOSE A CHEF came in the front door, and your grandmother came in the back door. Whose recipe would you use for family or fun? That’s my problem all the time. More...

Keeping In Touch

By CHRISTINE BARNES The Northfield News
Photo by Christine Barnes, The Northfield News

Man did not weave the web of life – he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle, 1854 More...

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Sports

Blue Devil Girls Smash Cabot, Then Destroy Concord & Canaan

By BILL CRONEY The Northfield News

The Williamstown Girl’s were three for three last week as they pushed their record to 12-5 on the season. Last Tuesday, at home, the Ladies of the Blue & White rolled over Cabot 63-39. More...

Boys Rollup Cabot, Demolish Caanan

By BILL CRONEY The Northfield News

The Williamstown Boy’s basketball team racked up the miles this week and came away with two impressive seventy point road wins to show for them. More...

Northfield Girls Ice Marauders Fall To Rutland But Shut Out Rice

By BILL CRONEY

The Northfield High Girl’s hockey team split a pair of games last week. More...

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Norwich Women’s Ice Hockey Team Collects $1,164 To Fight Breast Cancer

The Norwich University Women’s Ice Hockey team raised $1,124 at their Jan. 29 home game against St. Michael’s College to be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for The Cure. More...

Jennifer Clark Talks About Her Experiences In Haiti Working In An Intensive Care Unit

By BILL CRONEY

For Northfield resident Jennifer Clark the recent earthquake in Haiti is more than just images on a TV screen. A lot More. More...

News

Talking Criminal Investigations At Norwich’s CSI Symposium

By MARY COMISKEY

Watching CSI will never be the same experience again. The illusion of good looking, young, slim, brilliant investigators who never fail to solve a case in less than an hour is shattered. Their hair is never messed up or their clothing soiled. More...

Vermont Tech Grants Awards For Engineer and Technician Of The Year

RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt.-- Two Vermont Technical College students have been chosen to receive the school’s annual Engineer and Technician of the Year Awards. More...

Mark Twain Talks To Come to State House February 24

MONTPELIER - Actor Bern Budd will bring the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain to the Vermont Statehouse in a living history presentation on Wednesday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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

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Editorials

Representative View

By ANNE DONAHUE, R, Representative, Northfield, Roxbury Moretown H

HARSH THOUGHTS, but as predicted even last fall, school budgets this year may have to either assume a portion of the state’s budget cutbacks through higher property taxes or through reduced educational opportunity in our schools. More...

Commentary

By TOM SLAYTON

ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS that newspapers are in trouble, wounded because they're losing advertising dollars and circulation to the Internet. More...

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Letters

Reduction in Force

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS THE WAY IN WHICH our town officials handled the recent reduction in force involving our superintendent of our highway department is a disgrace to the people of Northfield.The way in which it was handled stinks of More...

Student Loans

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS THE VERMONT Student Assistance Corporation has been fighting a proposal to shift responsibility for education lending in Vermont from a local service-delivery model to one that is centralized at the federal level. More...

Debt Ceiling

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS ON JANUARY 28th, Sen. More...

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House & Home

Ask The Home Team

Some people swear by things like caulking their window and door frames and putting up window plastic. But other people say none of this saves much energy. What’s the truth? More...

GETTING READY FOR SPRING

By CHARLES NARDOZZI & LEONARD PERRY University of Vermont

Pinching back houseplants, getting ready for and sowing some seeds, and checking stored summer bulbs are some of the gardening activities for this month. More...

The Gardening Guy

The Spring Flower Shows
By HENRY HOMEYER

I saw a bumper sticker once that proclaimed, “Thirty Below Keeps Out the Riff Raff”. I haven’t seen minus thirty (yet) this winter, but still chuckle when I think of that slogan. We New Englanders are tough. More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL

125 Years Ago The Northfield News February 12, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

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