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Chief Shaw Resigns After 9 Years Of Service To Community

By JOHN CRUICKSHANK
Police Chief Jeffrey L. Shaw has sent his resignation to the Town Manager, Nanci Allard which will become effective on June 4. More...

Roxbury Gets Makeover With Flags Along Village Highway

By SUE NEVINS
The Northfield News

It was a perfect spring day: sunny, warm and with just enough breeze to wave the newly mounted flags over the freshly blacktopped road. More...

Obituaries

Rollie James “Jim” Martin, 68, Northfield Barber For 50 Years

Rollie James Martin, 68, of King St., Northfield, a barber in Northfield for 50 years, died Sunday evening at the Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin. He was born in Waterbury on July 16, 1941, the son of Rollie and Phyllis (Copeland) Martin. More...

Thomas P. Mayo, 89, World War II Veteran Thought To Have Been Killed In Action

Thomas P. Mayo, 89, last surviving son of Dr. William B. Mayo for whom Mayo Healthcare is named, passed away at the facility on May 28, 2010. More...

Pearl M. Nadon, 91, Active Northfield Volunteer

Pearl M. Nadon, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died on May 30, 2010 at the Central Vermont Medical Center. More...

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Entertainment

Hello From Hollywood!

Back to Broadway: 2010 (Part 1)
By J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

TWO BIG musical hits with even bigger names are currently captivating audiences and competing against each other at the 64th Annual Tony Awards this month. More...

PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR JUNE 6 TO 12

June 6: Sunday at 9 p.m. on “Masterpiece Mystery!,” Julia McKenzie stars as Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth in another new Miss Marple story. More...

Balloon Festival Comes To Snowflake At Stowe Again This July

The Northfield News

STOWE - More than 25 hot-air balloons will soar through the sky during Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa's 24th Annual Stoweflake Hot-Air Balloon Festival, July 9-11, 2010. More...

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House & Home

Aging In Place

Aging and Home Ownership
By SCOTT FUNK

IN MEETING with clients across the state, I find a surprising amount of confusion Iamount surrounding home ownership. Not who owns the home and lives it, but how the deed reads. More...

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Sports

Blue Devil Girls End As Thirteenth Seed In Playoffs

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

The Lady Blue Devils softball team dropped three games last week. Last Thursday they fell at Concord 10-5, then on Friday they were shutout 11-0, at home, by Richford and Saturday they came out on the short end of an 8-3 score at Twinfield. More...

Boys End Up In Third Place Statewide In VPA

By BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

The Williamstown High Baseball teams split their two games last week but they only had to play one game. Last Thursday the Blue Devils got a gift. Concord didn’t have enough players so they had to forfeit. More...

High School Kids March In Memorial Day Parade

Some of the members of the Williamstown Boy's Basketball Div IV State Championship team marched in Williamstown's Memorial Day Parade last Saturday. More...

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Two Year Budget Shortfall In Roads Expected To Top $430,000

By KATHLEEN LOTT
The Northfield News

The $6 million, 10-year road surface management system (RSMS) plan has a $101,000 shortfall in the first year of the program. There is expected to be a shortfall of $329,000 for the second year, the Selectmen were told last week. More...

Downtown Northfield Now A ‘Designated Village Center’

The Northfield News

The Village of Northfield now includes a Designated Village Center. Mel Adams and Michele Braun went before the Vermont Downtown Board to represent Northfield’s application for Village Center Designation. More...

High School Celebrates ‘American Pride’ In Concert

Northfield middle & High School Music Director Lorraine Monmaney (Left) directs the HIgh School's "Class Act" Chorus as they sing " The Battle Hymn of The Republic" during last Wednesday night's Sprin More...

News

Norwich Announces New Vice President of Academic Affairs

The Northfield News

Norwich University officials have announced that beginning July 1, Guiyou Huang, Ph.D., will serve as vice president of academic affairs. More...

Daniel Macijeski Wins National Merit Scholarship

The Northfield News

Nathaniel D. Macijeski from Northfield Falls has won a National Merit Scholarship. A graduate of Northfield High School, Mr. Macjjeski will most like study in the field of psychology and has won the National Merit MacAlester College Scholarship. More...

Beth Jacob Holds Groundbreaking To Begin Major Renovation

The Northfield News

A recent groundbreaking at Beth Jacob Synagogue in Montpelier held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of major renovations to the synagogue building which has been owned by the congregation since1914. 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 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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Editorials

Representative View

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

“Go home... we don’t need any more laws from Montpelier.” That’s an oft-heard public call. So how many bills did we actually pass in 2010? Roughly 115. More...

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Features

Common Talk

The Latest News
By JANE E. BRYANT
The Northfield News

ON ROUTE 12, near the I- 89 access, a farmer has planted a 15.2-acre field with corn. Bright green leaves spurt from the earth in even rows. The plants look like little fountains. Tom Goodrich owns the land, which is for sale. More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

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By JOE WRIGHT

I'M ONE of those dinosaurs who still has a telephone attached to my wall, and to the rest of the world, with wires. That's because the part of the world in which the little woman and I live isn't ready to be part of the “wireless world”. More...

Silly Social Scenes

By Miss Hysterectoma Gutthwacker
Journeyperson Columnist

CHARLEY’S CUPBOARD – Oh, my, all you reading-type persons, your very own Miss Gutthwacker learn something new and excitable last week after we got done of writing our columnar-type material for this noosepaper. More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL
For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News June 4, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

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