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Savings Bank Rated As Best Performing Institution

Employee Career Milestones Honored
The Northfield News
In this time when banks nationally are failing at a record rate and mortgage foreclosures have been at a high, locally, we are extremely fortunate to have a bank that has been rated among the best performers in the nation. More...

Cox Brook Runs High!

The site of the old Cox Brook Dam was running very high last week during the rain storm that impacted most of the rivers around the area, some reaching close to flood stage. More...

Obituaries

Ruth Marcella Victoria (Poskus) McAllan, 86, Worked At Breck Shampoo

WILLIAMSTOWN — Ruth Marcella Victoria (Poskus) McAllan, died on Sept. 15 at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, Vermont. She was 86. More...

Ralph S. Peters, 66, Worked as Letter Carrier

WILLIAMSTOWN — Ralph S. Peters, 66, of VT Route 14, died Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. His family was at his bedside. More...

Richard Price Deitzler, 90, Was GE Engineer

NORTHFIELD - Richard Price Deitzler died Sept. 26, 2010, at the Mayo Nursing Home in Northfield. He was born June 19, 1920, in Lebanon, Pa., son of Walter and Mary Deitzler. More...

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Entertainment

PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR OCT. 10 TO 16

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Feeling Funny Comes To Chandler

The Northfield News

Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont is adding a surprise to its Fall Season. More...

Hello From Hollywood!

The Social Network: The Birth of a Worldwide Phenomenon
By J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

DOES THE END justify the means? If 500 millionplus members are finding new friends and locating old ones, how bad can it be? More...

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Letters

Elections Approaching

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS It IS COMING close to election time and I feel that it is important to let other Vermonters know there are a lot of us out there that care about the way things are being done in our State. More...

Norwich Manuvers

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS I’M A NATIVE of Northfield. I was born there and graduated form Northfield High School. I now live in Concord, NH but travel back to Northfield often, especially in the fall. More...

Jobs, Taxes, Education and the Governor

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS GOVERNOR DOUGLAS has presented us a novel way “to advance necessary reforms to reduce property taxes.” His plan increases property taxes. More...

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Sports

Northfield Boys Soccer Team Lines Up For A Photo Shoot

The Northfield High Boy's soccer team's record stands at 6-2 midway through the season. The Boy's of The Maroon & White traveled to St. More...

Northfield Girls Soccer

Taylor Marcotte (in white) and her Lady Marauder teammates were on the road for both of their games last week and the pavement wasn't kind to the Girls of the Maroon & White. Last Tuesday the Lady Marauders fell 1-0 at St. More...

Cadets Cruise By Becker, 64-7 In Football

Norwich Sports Information

LEICESTER, Mass. - The Norwich University football team racked up 557 rushing yards in rolling past Becker College, 64- 7, in Eastern Collegiate Football Conference action Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field. More...

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Volunteers Honored At Community Breakfast

Northfield United Methodist Parish and the United Church of Northfield hosted a breakfast to thank all the emergency service groups and families in Northfield and Roxbury for the great work that they More...

Union Dam Removed

By KATHLEEN LOTT
The Northfield News

Bolis Union moved to Northfield in 1922, bought the “Cutler Place” and started an ice business. There had been a log dam on the property across Union Brook and Bolis improved on it and built an ice house on the property. More...

Crop Walk Big Success!

Nearly 30 volunteers walked almost 80 miles on a route through Northfield Last Sunday during the annual Crop Walk.Most walked just once around the 2.4 mile course that started out at the Norwich Armor More...

News

Randolph Tech Grads Finding Jobs

The Northfield News

RANDOLPH CENTER – In a year when job losses, cutbacks, and a lingering recession have dominated the economic news, Vermont Tech this week announced that 94 per cent of its 2010 graduating class have found jobs – with 98 per cent finding More...

High Schoolers Receive Merit Awards

The Northfield News

The National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP) has recognized Benjamin Albury for his performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test, which he took last year as a sophomore at Northfield High School. More...

Youth Service Bureau hires Northfield Native as new Executive Director

The Northfield News

The Board of Directors of the Washington County Youth Service Bureau/Boys & Girls Club has hired Kreig Pinkham as the new Executive Director of the organization, replacing Tom Howard who retired at the end of June after serving in that position for More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING SEPTEMBER 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 October 30, Linda More...

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Police Report

Police Report

September 22 10:10 a.m. - Suspicious Person/ Circumstance – An officer was requested to meet with Norwich Security regarding a suspicious bag that they had found on campus. More...

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Features

Thoughts of an Average Joe

My Grandson is a Corker
By JOE WRIGHT

I’m finally a grandfather! Jake and his wife, Jenna, have given Winnie and me the most amazing grandson ever. We had to be patient a while longer than most of our friends, but it was well worth the wait. More...

Silly Social Scenes

MYSTERY OF OVERSHOT PORKER REVEALED – This week we have almost nothing to say about Marsupial Managerette Mimsy Borogrove and the three selectjerks. More...

Common Talk

A Rainy Week
By JANE E. BRYANT
The Northfield News

WE’VE HAD SO much rain from the storm that traveled I 95 north along the east coast that Northfield’s rivers, brooks, ditches and some driveways are flooding as this is written, October 1, 2010. More...

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House & Home

What’s Cooking

Returning Home
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY
The Northfield News

IJUST GOT BACK from spending 3 days with my grandchildren that live just north of NYC. More...

The Gardening Guy

Putting the Vegetable Garden to Bed
By HENRY HOMEYER

The first gardening column I ever wrote (back in 1998) was prompted by seeing that so many gardeners never bothered to clean up their vegetable gardens. When the first frost came, they just put away their wheelbarrows and walked away. More...

Yestermorrow In Waitsfield Holding Kayak Raffle

The Northfield News

WAITSFIELD – Yestermorrow Design/Build School has just launched its Fall 2010 Raffle of a skin-on-frame kayak. More...

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History

NORTHFIELD IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL For The Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News October 7, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year Geo. H Richmond, editor More...

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