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Northfield Kids Win 1st Place Trophy

The Destination Imagination Team from Northfield Elementary School took home a first place trophy on Saturday from the Vermont State Destination Imagination Tournament. More...

Babies meet kids!

Aidan & Flynn Carroll, twins from Halstrom Road meet the new baby goats at Green Mountain Girls Farm More...

Obituaries

Claire Salvetti (nee Desparte), 83, Grew Up In Northfield

Claire Salvetti (nee Desparte), 83, passed away on April 1, 2011. She was preceded in death by her husband William. More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DURING APRIL AROUND THE AREA

Northfield Berlin Through June 3, Landscape, Kimono & Abstraction, Frank Woods exhibit at CVMC in the Medical Center lobby. More...

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Entertainment

PBS This Week

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR APRIL 10 TO 16

April 10: Sunday at 2 p.m., the “Great Performances at the Met” season continues with “Don Carlo.” Verdi’s profound, beautiful and ambitious opera stars Roberto Alagna. More...

Hello From Hollywood!

Jane Eyre: Love is in the air!
BY J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

JANE EYRE, the classic Victorian novel by Charlotte Bronte, has yet again been adapted into a motion picture, taking a big chance on director Cary Joji Fukunaga (2009’s Sin Nombre) with no track record, especially in costume dramas, and two upc More...

Gorman & Dover In Chandler Upper Room On April 23

The Northfield News

Cowboy singer/musician Skip Gorman and Celtic singer and poet Connie Dover bring their expressive interpretations of the traditional music of the American West, Ireland and Scotland to the Esther Mesh Room in Chandler’s Upper Gallery on Saturda More...

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Features

Representative View

BY ANNE DONAHUE
State Representative Northfield, Roxbury, Moretown

PERHAPS IT was the aftermath of the weight of the prior week, but a lighter side of legislative debate surfaced this past week when a discussion about single unit bathrooms in our state buildings became the highlight of the capital bill. More...

Multiples

A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. More...

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House & Home

What’s Cooking

Cookery and Housekeeping Marion Harland
BY PHYLLIS GREENWAY
THE NORTHFIELD NEWS

I HAVE A FEW cookbooks that are coming apart by the seams. This one that I’m looking at is in five pieces plus some of the top and bottom pages have begun to slough off. More...

The Gardening Guy

Self Watering Planters
BY HENRY HOMEYER

I RECENTLY got a copy of Ed Smith’s revised and improved book on growing vegetables in self-watering planters, The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible (Storey Publishing, 2011), and decided that making one of his containers might be a go More...

Hogweed is a menace Williamstown Selects told

BY KATHLEEN LOTT
The Northfield News

Giant hogweed has come to Williamstown and presents a threat to human safety was the message brought to the selectboard this week by Mike Bald, who has been working with the Town of Woodstock on eradicating the toxic weed in that town. Mr. More...

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Village To Vote On Bond Issue For $900,000 For Next Phase Of Water Lines

BY KATHLEEN LOTT
The Northfield News

Village voters will be asked for permission, by Australian ballot, to up the Village debt by another $900,000 for work on the water system. More...

Rotary Makes Community Grants For 2011

The Northfield Rotary Club awarded Community Grants to nine area organizations at their annual Community Grants Dinner last Thursday night. More...

News

Brown Public Library

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” –Atticus Finch, to daughter Scout More...

Commander Of American Legion Comes To Town

BY BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

Northfield’s Veterans’ Place on Vine Street, a transitional housing facility for homeless veterans, got a visit from some high- powered company last Wednesday afternoon. More...

Local Girl Wins At Science Fair

Jennifer Needle, left, a junior at Northfield High School was a winner at the State Science Fair. She stands with Judge Andrew Fish of the Vermont Dept. More...

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Police Report

Police Report

March 23 8:37 a.m. - MV Complaint - A report was received of a vehicle that off the roadway on West Hill. It was advised that the vehicle may have struck a fence post. More...

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Editorials

Wood Pellet Economics

BY JOHN CRUICKSHANK
The Northfield News

WHEN I WAS growing up, coal was burned by most homes in Vermont. I recall our house had a stoker that burned rice coal and my dad had to shovel the coal into the stoker from the coal bin which was next to it. More...

CORRECTION

In last week’s issue, in the article about the Wiilliamstown Selectboard meeting, we stated that a verbal altercation transpired in the town offices between Town Manager, Garrett Carls and Bob Cleaves. That did not occur. More...

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Letters

Universal Health Care

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS P ASSING A universal healthcare bill would mean giving people in Vermont freedom. More...

Child Abuse Prevention

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS A PRIL IS CHILD Abuse Prevention Month in More...

United Way

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS T HE ANNUAL fundraising campaign for Green Mountain United Way (GMUW), which serves Washington, Orange, Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties, will conclude on April 15, 2011. More...

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Sports

Norwich University Womens Hockey Team Holds Banquet Celebrating Their NCAA National Championship

BY BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

Last Saturday night was a night of celebration for the Norwich Women’s Hockey team. A crowd of over 120 well-wishers joined the Lady Ice Cadets for their annual banquet at Kreitzberg Arena. More...

Men’s Hockey Honors

Co-Rook Of The Year Freshman goaltender Parker Carroll shown making a save during the season was named as a Norwich “Co-Rookie of the Year” at the annual Hockey banquet last Sunday aftern More...

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History

NORTHFIELD NEWS IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL for the Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News April 7, 1886 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year George H. Richmond, Editor More...

Bernice E. Murray, 100, Worked at Norwich

Bernice E. Murray, 100, died Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at the Berlin Health & Rehab Center in Berlin. She was born in Hudson, Michigan on January 7, 1911, the daughter of Romeo & Rose (Mc- Neet) Bailey. More...

NORTHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PAINE HOUSE 75 S. MAIN STREET NORTHFIELD, VT 05663

Correction To the Dog River Crier More...

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