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Police Set Up Road Block To Nab Cadets, Get No Takers

Sheriff Makes two unrelated DUI Arrests on weekend
The Northfield News
The Washington county Sheriff’s Department has been active lately working along side the Northfield Police Department as well as the Department of Liquor Control. More...

Over 100 Cars Featured In Barre ACT Car Show Prior To Sunday Race At Thunder Road

A large crowd turned out for the ACT and Thunder Road Car Show held in downtown Barre last Sunday prior to the Merchants Bank 150 race. More...

Obituaries

Harold Arthur Carpenter

WILLIAMSTOWN - The Service of Remembrance for Harold Arthur Carpenter, of Garden Street, was held Sunday, April 25, 2010, at 2 p.m. in the Williamstown United Federated Church. He died April 20, 2010, at the Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin. 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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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING MAY 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. Through April 30, Brian D. More...

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Editorials

Aging In Place

Back to Reverse
By SCOTT FUNK

THE PAST TWO years have seen more changes in reverse mortgages than the preceding decade. The most obvious has been the increased advertising. Mail boxes are full of promises of big bucks and the television ads seem to be cons tant. More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

I Just Love Mud
By JOE WRIGHT

Here in northern New England, we wait all winter for the next season—Mud Season. By late April, I am sick and tired of snow and cold, and ready for some warmer weather. More...

A Tale of Two Cows

ONCE UPON A TIME… More...

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Letters

Be Courteous To Bicycle Riders

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AS DAYS LENGTHEN and temperatures rise, more people are heading to Vermont's roadways to bicycle, walk, and run. More...

Unemployment Insurance

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IF YOU COULD restore the unemployment fund without cutting benefits and with less harm to employers would you do it? Of course. More...

When Is Winter Over

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS I'M LOOKING AT the front page of the northfield news for june 1, 1967. Weather in northfield was a weekly feature by ray belding,official observer. “FIVE INCHES OF WET SHOW FELL THURSDAY, MAY 25TH” More...

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Sports

Nick Sweet Wins Merchants Bank 150, Kevin Wheatley Takes Second Feature

The Northfield News

Barre’s own Nick Sweet earned his first career American Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car win in the 12th Annual Merchants Bank 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Sunday, May 2. More...

Williamstown Baseball/Softball Update

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

Both Williamstown spring sports turned in split performances in their respective two game schedules last week. The Softball team and the Baseball team each dropped a game at South Royalton last Thursday. More...

Marauders Preserve Their Winning Record With Defeat Of U-32 Raiders 7-2

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

The Northfield High Baseball team picked up a pair of victories last week and moved their record to 4-0. More...

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Having Read 2,736 Books, First Graders Celebrate

By HANNAH MORVAN
First Grade Teacher, Comiskey School

First graders at the Northfield Elementary School have been having fun reading. They gathered with their families got together Comiskey School in Northfield for the annual reading celebration on last week. More...

Fifty Volunteers Show Up For Green Up Day In Northfield

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

Northfield’s Green Up Day activities got underway a little after 8 a.m. last Saturday when nearly 50 volunteers started to arrive and sign up for assignments. More...

News

NEWS FROM THE HILL

By LISA BRUCKEN
Norwich University Office of Communications

THE UNDERGRADUATE academic year is rapidly winding down at the University. The last day of classes is Friday, May 7 and exams run from May 9-14. More...

“Parents who Host Lose the Most”

By JANE E. BRYANT
The Northfield News

Considering the excitement building about Northfield High School’s prom night on May 29 and graduation on June 19, the board of Northfield/Roxbury’s Drug Free Partnership decided it was a great time to remind teens, parents and guardians More...

Green Up Day Volunteers In Roxbury Get A Ride To Work

Gene Sevi starts his team off for another group of passengers during the annual town picnic and cleanup day on Saturday. More...

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Entertainment

Hello From Hollywood!

Broadway in LA: An Evening With Sutton Foster
By J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

TONY-AWARD winning actress Sutton Foster brought her solo concert show to Los Angeles last week much to the delight of her west coast fans, some of whom discovered her eight years ago in the pre-Broadway run of “Thoroughly Modern Mille.” More...

What’s On PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 9 TO 15

May 9: Sunday at 4 p.m., Vermont Public Television continues its encore of “American Masters: You Must Remember This.” The second of a threeparter on Warner Bros. More...

Young Classical Musicians To Play At Chandler May 21

The Northfield News

Last May Chandler presented an NPR "From the Top" lookalike program which featured the talent of outstanding high school age classical musicians from all over the state. More...

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Features

Williamstown Historical Society 2010 Programs

“Williamstown In The Civil War” To Be Published

Program Schedule 2010 (Unless otherwise noted programs are held the second Tuesday of the month at the Historical Society) May 11 "Vermont Flower Farm" with George Africa, Potluck dinner at 6 p.m.; meeting at 6:45 p.m.; and presentation at 7: More...

Ainswor th Public Library

www. ainsworthpubliclibary.wordpress.com

MY FAMILY READS CHALLENGE: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FAMILY BONDING Until May15, 2010 Step One: Chose a book related to the theme Picturing America from the “We the People” bookshelf to read as a family. More...

Kellogg-Hubbard Library

MAY PROGRAMS

Wednesday May 5, 2010 at 7p.m. More...

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House & Home

What’s Cooking

A Terrific Spy and Cook
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY
The Northfield News

VIVIAN WAS retired from the CIA when I met her. She had spent her last year or so training surveillance personnel. These were older women, the premise being that they were less likely to be noticed when they were over 45. More...

Keeping In Touch

Bird Alert!
By CHRISTINE BARNES
The Northfield News

JUST ONE morning ago, the half-moon crystal clarity of the night reluctantly yielded to the grace of another beautiful spring day. More...

The Gardening Guy

Weeds, Wonderful Weeds
By HENRY HOMEYER

As the bible says, “To every thing there is a season … a time to plant and …a time to weed.” Okay, I’m paraphrasing Ecclesiastes 3 a little bit, because, as far as I know, the bible says nothing directly about weeding More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News May 14, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

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