March 18, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

Northfield Senior Center Gets Federal Grant To Expand Kitchen

The Northfield Senior Center has obtained a grant for $18,675 to expand its kitchen. Presently the kitchen is compltely inadequate for the over 10,000 meals that are prepared annually, said Barbara Brayton, director of the center. More...

Obituaries

Doris M. Dills Ingalls, 70, Famous for Wedding Cakes

WEST CHESTERFIELD, NH - Doris M. Dills Ingalls, 70, of Poor Road, died peacefully of natural causes at her residence early Saturday morning, March 6, 2010. She was born in Morganton, N.C. More...

Marilore Willett Brooks, 89, Secretary At Norwich

Marilore (Willett) Brooks, 89, died peacefully in her sleep, on March 4, 2010, at Silver Creek Manor, Bristol, RI, after months of declining health. 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...

Entertainment

Hello From Hollywood!

An Evening with “Glee”

AT THE 27TH Annual PaleyFest in Beverly Hills last Saturday night, more than 1800 fans – breaking a record for largest audience ever – gathered for a evening with the cast and creative talents of the hit Fox comedy with music series, &ldq More...

What’s On PBS

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR MARCH 21 TO 27 March 21: Sunday, the “VPT Favorites” weekend continues. More...

VSO Concert For Children Comes To Barre Opera House

Lou Kosma, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra, travels tens of thousands of miles every year from his job playing double base with the New York Metropolitan Opera orchestra to lead our community orchestra. More...

Letters

Let's Grow Hemp

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS RURAL VERMONt successfully lobbied for a bill in 2008 that legalized hemp in Vermont, but the commerical cultivation of hemp won't be possible here or elsewhere in the US until the federal government changes its d More...

Vermont Yankee

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AT THE OPENING of this legislative session Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin announced that this would be “The Jobs Session” -- a means for getting Vermonters back on their feet and our economy ou More...

Fishing In the Dog

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IN OCTOBER of 2009 the Vt. More...

House & Home

What’s Cooking

Whose Over-alls?

MRS. MURPHY had a problem. There they were in her chowder, and even with the shouting, (and they shouted all the louder!) she must have had to start again. More...

Keeping In Touch

Keeping In Touch Signs of Spring

THE GRASSES lie crisp and brown in the fields here in northern Florida. The trees seem eternally stuck in barenaked. It has been a cold, wet winter, but its stingy grip on the area is slipsliding away. More...

The Gardening Guy

Fixing Storm Damage

RECENTLY a fierce wind blew through much of northern New England leaving behind a swath of downed and damaged trees. In places the damage was so severe that it looked as if a tornado had come through. More...

History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

125 Years Ago The Northfield News March 19, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

Northfield Elementary School Listed As One Of Ten Worst In The State of Vermont

Improvements Already Under Way Says Superintendent Northfield Elementary School has been listed as one of Vermont’s “persistently low-achieving schools,” according to a report which was issued by the Vermont Department of Educat More...

"The Wiz" Gets Ready

Northfield High's Play Director Mary Corrigan (Right) Leads part of the cast of "The Wiz" in a dance move as they rehearse for next week's performance. More...

Car Crashes Over Curb On Common

A local driver missed the turn onto the Common, ran over the curb, demolished a sign and ended up flattening two tires and creating a gasoline spill on the street which had to be cleaned up by the fire department. More...

News

Discipline Problems In School May Be Due To Child Hunger

The Principal of Montpelier Elementary School, Tim Franke, knows that the reason a child acts out in school may be hunger. More...

Google Invited To Build High Speed Network In Vermont

The Vermont Telecommunications Authority (VTA) is inviting Google to build their “Fiber to Communities” ultra high-speed network in every corner of Vermont. More...

Ex Libris

Brown Public Library

Professor and author Woden Teachout will present a program entitled, Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism on Wednesday, March 24th, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Northfield Community Room of the Brown Public Library. More...

Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING MARCH AROUND THE AREA Montpelier Ongoing, Sculpture Exhibit featuring the works of Leila Bandar, Kat Clear, Chris Curtis, David Tanych and Denis Versweyveld, Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden. More...

Editorials

Editorial

Banning health care ads - Are you nuts?

SOME OF OUR esteemed legislators are at it again in Montpelier and this time its local newspapers who are going to take it in the shorts. More...

Features

Representative View

IN THIS UPDATE I will discuss my committee work and share some events and resources that may be of interest to you. Committee work: More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

I LIKE BEER

ILIKE BEER—beer is good. There’s nothing like a cold beer on a hot summer day, or a cold winter night, or . . . well, you get the idea. More...

Common Talk

Sugar on Snow

IN THE SMALLEST of surveys, we found two people who think that Sugar on Snow is “sort of like a snow cone”. Since it’s nothing like that, we decided to explain it to everyone who will read this. More...

Sports

Fifth, Sixth Graders Show Their Basketball Stuff!

Walker Williams (in white with ball) of the WYSA (Williamstown Youth Sports Association) grade 5/6 Boy's "White" Team dribbles through three WYSA "Blue" Team defenders (from left, Brandon Carrier, Cody Waite, and Jenja Bell) as his WYSA "White" t More...

Norwich Rallies Past Elmira, 2-1, Advances To NCAA Frozen Four

For the second time in the last three years, the Norwich University men’s ice hockey team will be returning to Lake Placid, N.Y., to compete in the NCAA Frozen Four after the top-ranked Cadets knocked off No. More...

All Stars From Northfield & Williamstown

The Northfield and Williamstown members if the Girl's Div.III and IV all star team and the coaches of the North All Star team posed for a photo after the Div. III Div IV game. More...