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Shea brothers at DRB for housing project, purchase a second property

Shea Property Services, owned by brothers Aron and Corey Shea, appeared before the Waitsfield Development Review Board with a proposal to add four apartments to the old Methodist Church in Waitsfield ...

Shea brothers at DRB for housing project, purchase a second property

Harwood Union Middle School hosts oratorical contest

On April 27, Harwood Union Middle School (HUMS) seventh graders performed three- to five-minute speeches they researched and wrote in the school’s 15th annual oratorical contest. All students ...

Hard to be part of the community with an 80-minute commute

Aiden Saunders is living in Woodstock and communiting 1 hour and 20 minutes to his job in marketing at Sugarbush. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ...

Take Me Back-Two Nordic legends- Part One

The air was still and frigid. I had to move my arms rapidly in a circle to keep my fingertips from getting numb. The term bone-chilling was a reality on this cold January night at the Blueberry Lake ...

MRV Bear Initiative says to learn from our neighbors

By Beniamino Nardin, Harwood correspondent Susan Morse, photographer and bear aficionado, shared years of knowledge of her studies of grizzly, brown and polar bears on a Zoom webinar on May 10. The ...

Invasive jumping worms pose threat to ecosystem

The Mountain Gardeners of the Mad River Valley canceled its annual plant sale this year due to concerns over Asian jumping worms being transmitted through plants. “Many plants have been donated ...

HUUSD Board to consider discussing prone restraint and seclusion policy

The Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) Board voted at its May 11 meeting to review the district’s prone restraint and seclusion policy at a future meeting. Duxbury resident Life LeGeros ...