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Northfield Scouts Hear Tales Of The Turkey Shoot

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Todd Lecture Series Gets Underway

BY MARK COMISKEY
The Northfield News

Lt General Michael M. Dunn USAF Retired and President of the Air Force Association was the first speaker in the 2012 Spring Todd Lecture Series in the Plumley Armory. More...

Obituaries

Particia Ann Commins, 78, Legion Supporter

Patricia Ann Commins, 78, passed quietly in her sleep on Friday January 27th 2012. She was born in Montpelier April 20, 1933. The daughter of Chester and Marjorie (Sullivan) Poulen. More...

Meryl P. Buck, 65, Ran Brookfield Wagon Rides

Meryl P. Buck, 65, died Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at her home in Brookfield. She was born in Barre on February 4, 1946, the daughter of Francis & Harriet (Hebert) Poor. She is a graduate of Northfield High School, class of 1964. More...

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Calendar

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

ART EXHIBITS AROUND THE AREA Montpelier More...

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Editorials

REPRESENTATIVE VIEW

BY MAXINE GRAD
VERMONT REPRESENTATIVE
NORTHFIELD, ROXBURY, MORETOWN

My Committee Work H.609 cocaine trafficking: More...

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Features

Common Talk

Another Day In Paradise
BY JANE E. BRYANT
The Northfield News

FERN MOORE is one of this year’s high school students studying in the STAR program, located in several rooms and an office on the Common. More...

Pen Troubles

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. More...

Average Joe

Fly the Friendly Skies
BY JOE WRIGHT

Growing up in Smalltown, I didn’t know many people from outside our county, so I didn’t fly in an airplane until my brother, Sam, went to Ft. Lauderdale for spring break and my father and I flew down to bail him out of jail. More...

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Sports

Boys Basketball Team Record Stands At 10-2

Williamstown’s Seth Atherton (right, in white) makes a steal in the first half of last Friday night’s game against Whitcomb as teammate Logan Clark (left) helps out.The Blue Devil boys im More...

Lady Devils Kill Royals 48-19

The Lady Devil’s Kimmy Gilbert (on the floor, in white) battles for a loose ball in last Wednesday night’s game against South Royalton at the Parks Gym. More...

BB Boys Get 1st Win

Northfield’s Dillon Austin (in white) led the way on defense and got lots of help offensively as the Marauders picked up their first win of the season last Friday night at Richford. More...

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Northfield Students Go Robotic - Norwich Provides Hi-Tec Tools to Assist

BY JERRY CASSELS

When Tim Moynihan, a Math Teacher at Northfield Middle High School decided to offer an elective course entitled Robotics, he had no idea that it would fill up so quickly. More...

Northfield Seeking 2 Years In Jail For Larry Drown

BY JOHN CRUICKSHANK
The Northfield News

For the very first time in years of appearances, Larry Drown turned up with attorneys in tow in the Environmental Court. In a recent order of the court, Mr. More...

News

Williamstown ONWARD! Program Completes Second Session Of The Year

The Northfield News

The ONWARD! program at Williamstown Elementary School recently completed the second session of the school year. More...

Norwich Women’s Hockey Team Raises $2,600 annual “PinkThe Rink” Project

The Northfield News

The Norwich women’s ice hockey team raised $2,600 on Saturday, Jan. 28 for the Professor Carol E. Stephens Memorial Scholarship Fund during their third annual “Cadets Skate For The Cure” night at Kreitzberg Arena. More...

Selectboard Holds Hearings On Amendment Of Town Charter

BY KATHLEEN LOTT

The Northfield News Heeding a suggestion for changing the proposed Town charter, Selectboard Chairman Larry Hebert told attendees at Monday’s hearing that the proposed candidate search committee was expanded to include a member of the school b More...

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Entertainment

Silly Social Scenes

“A Column for the Discriminatingly Indifferent.”
By Miss Lepidoptera Gutthwacker

  By Miss Lepidoptera Gutthwacker, Columniste par Excellence   CHIEF NYLON TAKES UP SHAKESPEARE – Reports reaching this Columniste indicate that Chief Nylon has b More...

Hello From Hollywood

Big Miracle: Close Enough
BY J. ROBERTS
The Northfield News

I NSPIRED BY true events, Big Miracle is an inspirational story about three grey whales trapped under Alaska’s ice-covered Beaufort Sea and about five miles from freedom. More...

VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEB. 12 TO 18

Feb. 12: Sunday at 7 p.m., Vermont Public Television continues its profiles of the royals with “Prince Philip at 90.” It tells the story of the man who has been at Queen Elizabeth’s side for more than 60 years. More...

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Letters

Lies & Liars

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS N ORTHFIELD’S municipal governing bodies (town selectboard and village trustees) seem to be leaping from quagmire to quagmire and the Northfield News isn’t helping with a headline that seems certain to More...

I Support Kenny Goslant

TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS J UST A THOUGHT on the upcoming election of Selectmen. I have been following budget meetings off and on and I have noticed that Mr. More...

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House & Home

What’s Cooking

Commissario Guido Brunetti
BY PHYLLIS GREENWAY
THE NORTHFIELD NEWS

I REALLY LIKE mysteries and cookbooks and what a treat to combine memories of a place where I have painted with friends and sampled the foods so different, yet often so simple. This book and this memory takes me back to Venice. More...

Slim Randle’s

Home Country
BY SLIM RANDLES

It’s always a treat when Jasper Blankenship comes down from the diggin’s with his dog, Arthur, to see us here in town and stop by for stories and coffee at the Mule Barn. More...

The Gardening Guy

Seed Catalogs
BY HENRY HOMEYER

I LOVE THUMBING thought the seed catalogs, and look forward to their arrival every year. On the other hand, I do wonder about the environmental impact of having so many seed companies sending thousands upon thousands of catalogs through the mail. 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 February 9, 1887 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year George H. Richmond, Editor More...

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