A woman picked up a sword from a table. Its hilt was wrapped in green felt and decorated with copper wire. The colors went well with the dress and corset the woman was wearing. The blade was slim and short,...
A house divided cannot stand. The same could be said for Elmore’s town garage.
The garage is currently supported by three 2-by-4s held together with nails, Brian Lane-Karnas, a civil engineer at DeWolfe...
A few sparks flew at an otherwise mellow Hyde Park town meeting on Tuesday.
One contentious proposal would have authorized the select board to research the idea of allowing it to appoint the town clerk...
“So, Jim, on your butterfly kick, splash your feet,” Erica Clark, the certified American Swim Coaching Association (A.S.C.A) coach, says to her student while making hand motions to demonstrate changes...
February break for NVU was the last week of the month and for most students, that meant going home and relaxing, trying not to think about the busy world they typically live in. However, some students...
All in-person, face-to-face instruction at both campuses of Northern Vermont University will be suspended at the end of the day tomorrow, Friday, March 13, 2020.
April break has been moved to the week...
Congressman Peter Welch joined a roundtable on rural broadband hosted in Johnson, where local leaders from Johnson, Belvidere, Wolcott, Hyde Park and Cambridge came together to discuss rural broadband....
Assistant Attorney General Molly Gray sat down with a Basement Medicine reporter last Monday at the Black Cap Café in Stowe to talk about her bid for lieutenant governor of Vermont. Gray, a Vermont native,...
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On the last day of January, all NVU students, staff and faculty received an email or text informing them about...
Put on your flapper dresses and striped tuxedos: it’s time for Prohibition!
SGA revealed the theme of this year’s Casino Night with a party in Stearns, where they taught new players how to play...
Northern Vermont University will host a reception at the State House on Feb 26.
As legislators prepare for the new budget, NVU is putting its presence in the minds of those determining it.
“The legislature...
Beth Walsh, director of career development at NVU-Johnson, will be teaching a 1-credit class called Career Development and Planning. The class will run for the second half of the semester, starting in...
Northern Vermont University has recently updated its software allowing students to choose rooms and roommates.
According to the Director of Residential Life Jeff Bickford, the updated software is intended...
The JED Campus program has arrived at NVU-Johnson with a focus on supporting student mental health.
According to their website, JED Campus is a signature program of the JED Foundation, designed to guide...
Like every other social media, Pinterest is a veritable black hole of time. Once I click on that little red icon, an afternoon suddenly falls away from me. Where were those hours spent? On recipe/lifestyle/mom...
At the Feb. 3 Johnson select board meeting, two main issues took most of the night’s time.
The first half-hour of the night was a presentation and question-and-answer period for Jenna’s Promise, a...
New tenure track positions in the Environmental and Health Sciences department have been authorized and active searches are underway.
A tenure track biology position is open, and according to Provost...
After October’s windstorm, the back side of Johnson’s campus was a sorry sight. A collection of downed trees could be seen just past the campus apartments. Almost a dozen of them, crowns and all, lay...
In December, the NVU-Johnson Faculty Assembly approved three new degree programs for fall 2020, following an endorsement in fall 2019 by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees. Two of the programs,...
Of the many posters on the walls of the Martinetti kitchen, one stands out. It shows dishes, sinks, and stovetops covered with food scraps and spills. A caption addresses the issue bluntly – “YOUR...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.1 percent unemployment rate, Vermont has reached the lowest in the country.
Having a low unemployment rate sounds like it would be a good thing;...
For 28 years, Mike Laflin has been a familiar figure on the Johnson campus: with a long blond ponytail and what initially appears to be a laconic, gruff manner, he has been an anchor in the office of public...
Beginning in fall 2020, the Writing and Literature department will host a new degree program: Professional Writing, Editing, and Publishing. The proposed major was approved by the Vermont State Colleges...
This year’s annual fundraising phone-a-thon is still underway and as of presstime has raised about $5500.
The phone-a-thon happens for five weeks from the beginning of November to Dec. 13. During...
Bob Genter. Amy Welch. Bill Doyle. Susan Green. Sharon Twigg. Karen Uhlendorf. All were NVU professors who have left within the last few years. Some retired, while others sought alternative career opportunities....
Everyone has an emergency come up now and then. You get back from class, ready for the best nap you’ve ever taken, but as you flop down into bed, you hear a terrifying crunch. You get up to find your...
After more than 26 years teaching meteorology, oceanography and other environmental science courses at NVU-Johnson, Tania Bacchus is moving on at the end of this semester.
“It’s exciting and sort...
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz is not your average composer. For one, he is, what he calls, a non-pop, or classical music composer. The average person, he says, knows Mozart or Beethoven, but not many listen to...
One of the two first-year advisors has left NVU-Johnson for another position within the University.
Caitlin Wilkins, who began her advising work last March, has accepted a position as Assistant Director...
Arriana Crowe first saw her house surrounded by water at 3:30 in the morning Nov. 1.
Crowe, a first-year Business Administration student, had been staying at a friend’s house on Halloween night during...
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