Hardwick News

Vermont state police were busy again Wednesday helping more than two dozen motorists who slid off the 35 mile stretch of Interstate 89 between Montpelier and Burlington.

It wasn't a kitschy tourist spot, or a boutique stocked with artisanal cheeses. The Putney General Store was a workhorse, a 215-year-old dowager in this riverfront town, with dependably dusty floor boards, walls obscured by drawers of Phillips screws and sacks of flour, and a lunch counter rounded out each morning with old-timers who called ...

A more recent change on the Rainville farm took place earlier this year, when Louis Rainville, son of Bernard and great-grandson of Theophil, started to produce sunflower oil from fields of sunflowers he grows on the family farm in Highgate.

It has been eighteen months since the Vermont Army National Guard was alerted to prepare to go to Afghanistan for a year -- and now that time has come.

Vermont has paid a bigger price than any other state in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Patrick Kane was surprised when he got a call from the New England chapter of the American Institute of Architects saying he had won one of the association's annual awards.

Not everyone is happy that Hardwick is the new site of the Vermont Food Venture Center.

The most popular place in Hardwick these days is not the pizza place, the bookstore or even Claire's Restaurant.

Aubuchon Hardware regional manager Marc Bellavance looks over the interior of the former Somers Hardware that shows evidence of a major renovation underway to convert the space to an expansion of Aubuchon's next door.

A daughter, Jasmine Grace Ormiston, was born Sept. 16, 2009, to Leo Ormiston and Jessica Longe of Middlesex.

A daughter, Marissa Gale Young, was born Aug. 17, 2009, to Steve and Ginger Young of Graniteville.

Throughout the summer of 2009, Martin joined Kevin Cooper in a unique project that offered bicycle delivery services to customers at Vancouver farmers' markets.

September's warmer days have given way to October's chill in Vermont - and it's primetime for foliage.

DATE OF RELEASE: September 30, 2009 INCIDENT: Unsolved Homicide STATION: Derby Barracks DATE OF INCIDENT: July 17, 1977 LOCATION: Hardwick, VT DECEASED: Joan Rogers of Hardwick, VT SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: On July 17, 1977 the Vermont State Police began an investigation into the brutal murder of Joan Rogers of Hardwick, VT.

At his cheese shop in Manhattan, chef Emeril Lagasse likes to buy a certain blue cheese made in Vermont.

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"In my opinion, this place is getting attention because it's what people need and want," Craftsbury farmer Meg Gardner said.

With nighttime frost possible and a sunny weekend forecast -- the first real glimpses of foliage in Vermont are on the horizon.

A Hardwick teen who crashed an all-terrain vehicle in Woodbury on Tuesday evening was taken to a local hospital for injuries to his legs, according to the Vermont State Police.

In Hardwick and surrounding towns something exciting is taking root. "It's continuing to grow and coming to a crescendo now," said Tom Stearns with High Mowing Organic Seeds.