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High School Holds Second Annual Wellness Day Event

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Northfield High School held its 2nd Annual Wellness Day last week. More...

GOOD BEGINNINGS HONORS NEW MOTHERS !

The Board, Volunteers, and Staff of Good Beginnings celebrated its Tenth Annual Mothers’ Luncheon for mothers, infants, and preschoolers visited this year with a Teddy Bear’s Picnic theme. More...

Obituaries

Commital For Carroll “Carl” Dunican

NORTHFIELD - Committal services for Carroll "Carl" Dunican, who died Feb, 6, 2010, were conducted on Saturday, May 22 at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Northfield. A Masonic commital was performed by Dewitt Clinton Lodge No. 15 of Northfield. More...

Commital For Stella H. Peloquin

GRANITEVILLE — A Committal service for Stella H. Peloquin was held on Friday, May 21, 2010 in St. Sylvester Cemetery in Lower Websterville. She died on Dec. 29, 2009. More...

Lorraine Knox Emmons, 96, Shelburne Museum Guide

WILLIAMSTOWN – Lorraine Knox Emmons, 96, a former resident of the Gardens, died Saturday, May 15, 2010, at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING JUNE 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 June 30 - The Art More...

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Police Report

Northfield Police Report

May 12 More...

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Editorials

Thoughts of an Average Joe

Poachers Are Not Hunters

By JOE WRIGHT

IHATE GAME poachers. You know the kind of guy I’m referring to. More...

Common Talk

Merry Month of May

By JANE E. BRYANT
The Northfield News

ACROSS THE Common, the smoky, spicy aroma of barbecue chicken is wafting. The town looks good, all dressed in green and bedecked with flowers. At a yard on Main Street, a woman is sunbathing. More...

Representative View

By MAXINE GRAD
Representative, D, Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown

Current Use Current Use is the tax policy which taxes land on its ‘use value’, not on its market value. It is credited with helping keep Vermont’s working landscape – its agricultural and forestry industries - viable. More...

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House & Home

What’s Cooking

Cookbooks Some Personal Thoughts

By PHYLLIS GREENWAY
The Northfield News

As you might have gathered, I collect cookbooks, from the old to the new, specialized to basic. They are beyond reference, they are friends to be revisited. Throughout the years I have used them as albums. More...

Home Again

“All We Like Sheep”

By CHRISTINE BARNES
The Northfield News

“All We Like Sheep” is the title to one of Handel’s magnificent choral works, a small piece embedded in the Messiah. Its title is amusing. More...

The Gardening Guy

Spring Planting

By HENRY HOMEYER

T. S. ELLIOT said that April is the cruelest month, but for apple growers this year, May was. More...

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Village Meeting Coming On Tuesday, June 1, Those There Will Decide Who Will Be Running Things Next Year

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK
The Northfield News

It’s that time of year and hopes are high that there will be a good turn out for the Northfield Village Meeting set for June 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Granai Corrigan Auditorium at the high school. More...

National Honor Society Inducts New Members

The Alice B. Tompkins Chapter of the National Honor Society, which is the Northfield High School chapter, recently inducted six new members into the prestigious organization. More...

Norwich President Confers Honorary Degree

Norwich President Dr. Richard Schneider (Right) grants an Honorary Degree to General Ann E. Dunwoody (4th from left)t) of the U.S. More...

News

The Postal Carriers Food Drive Big Success

The Northfield News

Several postal workers across the five counties served by Green Mountain United Way participated in the 18th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive on Saturday, May 8th. More...

Vermont Tech Graduates Many Local Students

The Northfield News

RANDOLPH - Vermont Technical College recognized 465 graduates at its commencement ceremony held at the Shapiro Field house on the Norwich University campus in Northfield. More...

John Doyon Graduates From Bridgewater

The Northfield News

BRIDGEWATER, Va., May 19, 2010 — John R. Doyon from Northfield who majored in psychology has graduated from Bridgewater College. President Phillip C. 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!

Shrek Forever and After: 4th Time Is a Charm

By J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

SHREK FOREVER AFTER, the fourth and reported final chapter of the tale about a lovable green ogre, is back to warm the hearts of young movie goers and appeal to the adults with the film’s many references written for them. More...

Open Studio Show Is May 29 & 30

NORTHFIELD ARTISTS JOIN IN VERMONT OPEN STUDIO

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

PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 30 TO JUNE 5

May 30: Sunday at 2 p.m., “America’s Ballroom Challenge” captures the sizzling action of the world’s largest ballroom competition. More...

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Features

Silly Social Scenes

By Miss Hysterectoma Gutthwacker,
Journeyperson Columnist

BOB ON TAIL OF SELECTMENTALS – Well, dear weekly reader-type persons, you will of remember what we was saying last week, about Bob, the bob-tail feline-type animal of Chief Nylon, who chase the three selectmentals on account of Grandly Jurrier More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News May 28, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

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