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Attorney General Clears Selectboard Of Wrongdoing

Not So Fast Says Northfield’s Grand Juror
By JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Northfield News
The Attorney General’s office has ruled that the executive session held by the Northfield Selectboard on December 3, 2009 was “not inconsistent with the open meeting” law. More...

Historical Society Moves To Improve One of Our Earliest Cemeteries

By MARY COMISKEY
The Northfield News

The Northfield Historical Society, the Town of Northfield, represented by Dominic Falzarano, Superintendent of Northfield’s Cemeteries and Norwich University represented by Bizhan Yahyazadeh, Director of Facilities, and David DeFelice, owner o More...

Obituaries

Virginia McLean Igo, 96, Former Teacher

ROANOKE, Va. - Virginia McLean Igo, 98, of Roanoke, Va., passed into the light on Thursday, May 6, 2010. More...

William Edward Osgood, 84, Trailmaster, Bee Keeper, Master Gardener

BURLINGTON - William Edward Osgood, died May 9, 2010 in Burlington. Born March 24, 1926 in Nashua, New Hampshire to Horace Edward Osgood and Ethel Trow Osgood. 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!

ROBIN HOOD: Misses the Target
By J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

THE SUMMER movie season has begun with “Robin Hood” leading the pack after its lavish world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last week. More...

Open Studio Show Is May 29 & 30

NORTHFIELD ARTISTS JOIN IN VERMONT OPEN STUDIO CELEBRATION

May 29th & 30th: 10a.m. to 4p.m. More...

Northfield High School Girl Is Featured Dancer In Peter Pan Ballet Coming In June

The Northfield News

Mark your calendars for Friday, June 4, Saturday June 5 and Sunday June 6, and prepare to be dazzled by over 175 talented local dancers. More...

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Features

NEWS FROM THE HILL

By LISA BRUCKEN
Norwich University

NOW THAT THE undergraduate students have left campus for the summer, another group of Norwich students will arrive for their experience on the Hill. More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

Weathermen Don’t Know Sleet
By JOE WRIGHT

I’M GUESSING meteorologists go to college for at least four years; some of them for six or eight, I’m sure. So why, with all their schooling and all their high-tech gizmos, are they accurate about half the time? More...

Silly Social Scenes

By Miss Hysterectoma Gutthwacker,
Apprentice Columnist

SELECTMENTALS “NOT QUITE GUILTY” – Oh, my goodness, all of you faithfully-reading type personables, has Your Very Own Miss Gutthwacker got excitable news for you! More...

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House & Home

Common Talk

Blossoms, Bugs & Balloons
By JANE E. BRYANT
The Northfield News

THIS PAST WEEK, snowflakes and apple and cherry blossoms blew hither and yon, filling the air with white flakes. It was hard to tell which made the greater accumulation the snow or the blossoms. More...

Keeping In Touch

Reflections on the Journey, and Moving On
By CHRISTINE BARNES
The Northfield News

IT IS TRULY wonderful to be back in Northfield, seeing friends, familiar faces, and favorite places. It seems that when you’ve been away for a while, you see with a clearer eye. More...

What’s Cooking

Rhubarb
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY
The Northfield News

FEW THINGS give me more pleasure in the garden than seeing my rhubarb plants flourishing. Although most of my stalks are green rather than the distinctive crimson of “pie remem- bered,” I know that the taste will be the same. More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News May 21, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor The Soldiers' Monument is nearly completed and will be placed in position on the common early next week. • More...

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It’s Home Cooking At The Square Biscuit On The Common

By ROB WILLS
The Northfield News

On Depot Square, where Celebrations With Heidi once sold flowers, a new variety of food in the good old southern style of cooking can be found in a restaurant called The Square Biscuit. More...

105 Norwich Cadets Receive Armed Services Commissions

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

There was gold in Shapiro Field house last Saturday. More...

News

They’re back!!

The Farmers Market is back on the Common. Fresh vegetables, plants, eggs, meat, wine, donuts, photographs, baked goods, breads and other goods are available to shoppers every Tuesday. More...

Historical Society Website Launches

The Northfield News

The Northfield Historical Society launched its new website Friday, May 14, using the free Web hosting services of Google.com at http://sites.google.com/site/n orthvthistoricalsociety. More...

Our Green Mountain Conservation Camps Still Have Openings For Vermont Students

The Northfield News

If you are 12 to 14 years old and want to learn about Vermont's wildlife and gain outdoor skills, consider attending one of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department's Green Mountain Conservation Camps. More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 Northfield 5:30 p.m. – Weightwatchers meeting in the Gray Building, weigh in at 5 p.m. 5:45 p.m. – Masonic Bingo, early birds, games start immediately following, Dewitt Clinton Masonic Lodge. More...

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Police Report

Northfield Police Report

May 5 10:52 a.m. - Animal Problem - The department received a call regarding a dog. The caller stated that they thought the dog was mistreated and underfed. The officers responded to the North Main Street address and did not locate a dog. More...

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Editorials

Representative View

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

LAST YEAR’S budget veto and override were the exceptions to the rule. More...

Editorial

What To Do About Our Obese Children
By JOHN CRUICKSHANK
The Northfield News

THE PERCENTAGE of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids now considered overweight or obese according to kidshealth.org. More...

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Letters

Census

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IAM A CREW Leader for the Bureau of Census and have 16 people in my crew who are out in Central VT counting those who did not return their census forms. More...

Swanton Dam

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AGROWING COALITION of individuals and groups is supporting the removal of the Swanton Dam in order to resurrect the mighty fish runs that for thousands of years ran from Lake Champlain up the Missisquoi River to h More...

Right To Repair

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS ON BEHALF of more than 5.5 million citizenactivists nationwide, the 60 Plus Association asks Congress to support the passage of H.R. 2057/S.3181, the “Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act.” More...

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Sports

Blue Devil Boys Overrun By South Royalton 16-7

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

The Blue Devil Boy’s Baseball team split the two game they played last week, On Thursday they fell to South Royalton 16-7. On Saturday they climbed back into the win column with a 17-0 thrashing of Craftsbury. More...

Girl Devils Fall To South Royalton 7-4 In Softball

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

The Softball Lady Devil’s won one game and dropped two last week. On Tuesday the Girl’s of the Blue & White fell to Concord 17-3, and on Thursday South Royalton defeated the Lady Devils 7-4. More...

Girls Now Have Two Wins To Their Credit In Softball Topping Hazen 14-4

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

The Northfield High Softball Girls won one game and dropped two last week. Last Tuesday they fell to Thetford 14-5, on Thursday they defeated Hazen by a 14-4 count and on Saturday they were defeated by Div. I Harwood 10-1. More...

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