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College Roommates Organize Benefit For Nick Simon

Nick Simon, a 2003 graduate of Northfield High School was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforma Stage 4 in March of 2005. Over the last five years he has had three operations, radiation and chemotherapy. More...

Local Craftsman lends His Talents For New Child Display Center At Roxbury Free Library

By SUE NEVINS

When Roxbury Free Librarian Susan D'Amico applied for a Winnie Belle Learned Grant to purchase more user-friendly book display units, she had a couple of models in mind from a library supply catalog. More...

Obituaries

Nancy Lee Demas, 71, Was Secretary at CVMC Emergency

Nancy Lee Demas – 71, formerly of Waitsfield, passed away peacefully in her sleep and in the comfort of her Northfield home on Monday, February 15, 2010. Born in Montpelier on March 7, 1938, she was the daughter of the late Clesson E. More...

Lowell Smith, Founder of Capitol Video

In 1984, Lowell Smith founded Capitol Video and recently expanded to a new location in Montpelier, adding Artisan Pizza. Prior to owning Capitol Video, he started and owned Mountain Jam Music in Stowe and also founded Stowe Video. More...

Lorraine E. (Jarvis) Jeffords, 72, Northfield High Graduate

WILDER - Loraine E. Jeffords, 72, died Thursday February 18, 2010 at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Jct., V T Mrs. Jeffords was born March 8, 1937 in Northfield, VT the daughter of Roland and Josephine(Johnson) Jarvis. More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING FEBRUARY & MARCH AROUND THE AREA Montpelier Through February 26, Land, River, Sky, paintings by Strafford artist Micki Colbeck, Vermont Supreme Court. More...

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Police Report

Northfield Police Report

February 10 10:31 a.m. - Suspicious Person/ Circumstance - Police received a complaint of a student dealing drugs. The police will be investigating the allegations. More...

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Editorials

Representative View

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

ALTHOUGH WE debated river buffer zones, changes in the date for primaries, and a $38 million savings plan for part of the state budget, it was probably Vermont Yankee that was most on legislators’ minds last week. Vermont Yankee More...

Editorial

Let’s Build a New Nuclear Plant

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Northfield News

THERE ARE THOSE that have said that operating Vermont’s nuclear power plant is like driving a 1952 Chevy that hasn’t been restored. After such a long time, the car begins to leak oil, rattles and bangs and no longer can be easily driven. More...

An Open Letter From The Northfield School Board

By DEBRA WICK Chair, Northfield School Board

THE NORTHFIELD TOWN SCHOOL District Board is pleased to present an FY11 budget which is not only 3.6% less than the current year’s overall budget, but is also less than the overall budget approved two years ago for FY09. More...

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Letters

Affordable Housing

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AS A COMMUNITY-BASED nonprofit affordable housing provider, support from the towns we serve as well as from individuals and area businesses is an important contribution to assist in meeting the growing needs for a More...

Vermont Yankee

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IT’S HARD TO FATHOM why anybody is willing to give the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant any more slack. More...

Vermont Yankee Impact

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AS ENTERGY scrambles to find and fix the source of tritium contamination at Vermont Yankee, another major, substantive issue is being all but ignored: the plant’s economic impact to Vermont. More...

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Sports

Blue Devil Girls Finish With 16-6 Season Record

By BILL CRONEY

All good things must come to an end. And so it was for the Williamstown High Girl’s basketball team last week. In the span of just three days the Lady Blue Devils saw their hopes of Div. More...

Northfield Girls End With Close One In Quarter-Final Playoffs

By DICK WOBBY

In a game where both teams displayed classic signs of play off jitters the Lady Marauders saw their season come to a close with a 31-29 loss to Windsor in the Div. III quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon at the High School gym. More...

Northfield Boys Fall To Middlebury In Quarterfinal

By BILL CRONEY
Photo by Bill Croney, The Northfield News

The Northfield High Boy’s hockey team ended their season with a Div. II quarterfinal 3-loss to Mt. Mansfield last Saturday night on Kreitzberg ice. More...

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New Animal Shelter Opens For Dogs & Cats

By ROB WILLS

Sociable kitties were able to move around in their new spacious cat rooms replete with climbing towers while doggies each have their own beds and toys in the new dog wing of the humane society center which opened to accolates in East Montpelier last More...

Northfield School Budget Goes Down By 3.6 Percent

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK

While the schools seem to have done a great job keeping costs down, the legistlature will most likely frustrate their efforts by raising the education property tax. More...

Andy Pedley Honored By Sons Of The American Legion

Mike MeLellan, left and William Langley, right, from the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 63 Northfield presented Andy Pedley, center, and Depot Square Pizzeria with a certificate of appreciation award for his ongoing support and numerous do More...

News

The Case Of The Missing Bond Issue

Kamela Chouinard, who serves on Williamstown’s finance committee, has requested documentation on an interfund loan made by the town. More...

Ainsworth Public Library

802-433-5887 ainsworthpl@yahoo.com www. ainsworthpubliclibary.wordpress.com

SPECIAL DISPLAYS WE THE PEOPLE Bookshelf : Classic books of American history for young readers Artwork from the National Endowment for the Humanities and books from our collection on American History and Black History SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY More...

Roxbury Candidates Make Their Bid For Office

By SUE NEVINS

The Roxbury Free Library hosted a "Meet the Candidates" night last week to provide a forum for locals running for office to present their ideas and for the voters to ask questions ahead of Town Meeting Day. 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!

Love Hurts...in Bad Movies

By J. ROBERTS

TWO MOVIES celebrating love and its complications recently opened nationwide, and if these represent how love is “made in Hollywood,” be patient, the summer blockbusters films are months away. More...

What’s On PBS

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEB. 28 TO MARCH 6 Feb. 28: Sunday from 1:30 to More...

VSO To Play Free Concert At State House March 17

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will present its popular annual concert in the State House Chambers in Montpelier on Wednesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. The traditional David M. More...

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Features

Thoughts of an Average Joe

I’M NOT READY FOR A PAPERLESS WORLD

By JOE WRIGHT

I love books and newspapers, and even a good magazine. It’s not just the reading I enjoy. I love the sound a new book makes when you crack its binding for the first time and the smell of new ink on newspaper. More...

Silly Social Scenes

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

By Miss Aineeda Lobotomy, Semi-Permanent Guest Columnist

TROUBLE AT THE NUKULAR PLANT – Your Miss Lobotomy is, of course, disappointed to have no further news to report about our obnoxious selectmen (apart from the fact that This Very Gazette has reported that they were seen doing the Virginia Reel More...

What’s Cooking

The Taste of Lemon

By PHYLLIS GREENWAY

Scampi Al Forno (baked shrimp) (note brining!) 1 pound large shrimp 1 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 4 large garlic cloves, finely chopped Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes 2 tables poons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley More...

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