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DuBois Construction Shop & Offices Destroyed in Massive Middlesex Fire

BY JOHN CRUICKSHANK
The Northfield News
Don DuBois from Northfield was sitting at a Norwich hockey game in Kreitzberg Arena when a puck hit him in the head last Friday night. More...

DENNY TO RUN FOR SELECT BOARD

The Northfield News

Former Northfield Selectboard member Brad Denny has announced that he will be a candidate for the selectboard at the March town meeting. More...

Obituaries

Rose M. Flint, Northfield Native

Rose M. Flint, 80, long time resident of Four Season’s Community Care, died Monday, January 2, 2012 at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph. She was born in Northfield, July 9, 1931, the daughter of Carl & Ella (Pecor) Botwell. 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 CHRIST THE REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH not a More...

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ART EXHIBITS AROUND THE AREA

Randolph Through January 30, Sabra Field Cosmis Geometry Suite at Hartness Library at the Vermont Technical College. Richmond More...

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Features

Silly Social Scenes

By Miss Lepidoptera Gutthwacker,

"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the Municipal Building." Robin Williams, paraphrased More...

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House & Home

What’s Cooking

Then & Now
BY PHYLLIS GREENWAY
THE NORTHFIELD NEWS

I N THE JANUARY 3rd section of Health in the New York Times there was an article reviewing a new book on the philosophy of cooking in today’s world. It was titled “A Recipe for Simplifying Life: Ditch All the Recipes”. More...

The Gardening Guy

Gardening Resolutions for 2012
BY HENRY HOMEYER

I am, at heart, an optimist. I believe that the rodents will leave my tulip bulbs alone, so last fall I planted plenty. I believe that the Zone 5 perennials I planted last summer in my zone 4 garden will survive the winter. More...

Slim Randle’s

Home Country
BY SLIM RANDLES

THERE WERE two little boys down at the Doughnut Hole Café the other day, standing outside, just waiting. They didn’t have long to wait. The Greyhound bus pulls up just about one each afternoon, give or take a little. More...

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History

THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IN HISTORY

Compiled by PHILO HALL for the Northfield News 125 Years Ago The Northfield News More...

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Village Manager admits $92,000 taken from Electric Company to Pay the Overrun on the Common Retaining Wall Project

BY JOHN CRUICKSHANK
The Northfield News

Fireworks erupted at a normally mundane budget meeting last Friday afternoon when the Northfield Selectboard met with Village Manager, Nanci Allard and Doug Lawson as well as one other village trustee in the Municipal Building to discuss the proposed More...

Norwich Engineers Helped Town Save Money On Local Bridge Reconstruction

BY DAVID W. SMITH

Thomas Hornstein, an enlisted Marine studying civil engineering at Norwich University, visited the Fairgrounds Bridge in Northfield, Vt., as Tropical Storm Irene began to wane. He lives just up the road. More...

News

Thanks From The American Legion

As you can imagine, this was a tough year for our community with everyone being affected by Hurricane Irene. In addition to the families who suffered loss, the entire community had come forward with substantial donations during that time of crisis. More...

Local Artist To Show At Brooklyn Library

Northfield artist, Jeneane Lunn, is participating in the 2012 Sketchbook Project sponsored by the Brooklyn Art Library. Artists world wide select from a variety of themes presented by the project. More...

School Kids To Help With Area Forest Management

The Northfield News

The Northfield School District (NSD) has explored and agreed to conduct a forest management project on school forest property located west of the soccer field on Garvey Hill. More...

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Entertainment

Hello From Hollywood

Betty White: America’s Golden Girl Celebrates 90 years of Talent
BY J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

LAST SUNDAY evening at the historic Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, three hundred invitedonly guests joined “It” girl Betty White to celebrate her 90th birthday. More...

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR JAN 15 TO 21

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Sports

Crowd of 800 Watch Devil’s Take Their First Loss Of The Season

BY BILL CRONEY
The Northfield News

In what can be best described as a playoff atmosphere the Websterville Warriors handed the Williamstown Blue Devils their first loss of the season, 61- 51,at Spaulding High School, in Barre, last Saturday night. More...

Marauder Girls Smash Danville, Stowe in Basketball

BY BILL CRONEY

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Cadets Win Northfield Savings Bank Tourney

The Cadet’s Doug Lindensmith (left) celebrates his late first period goal that gave Norwich a 2-0 lead in last Friday night’s game against SUNY Morrisville at Kreitzberg Arena. More...

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