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HARDWICK — With nine crockpots going in her kitchen at once, Lisa Johnson feared she would short out her circuit breaker. She knew her home business of making roasted sweet potato dips had outgrown her Norwich home, but she was nowhere near ready to build her own food processing building. The new Vermont Food Venture Center, which had its grand opening Friday, saved her from giving it all up. Click HERE to read the article.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012

calendarBetween summer 2011 and spring 2012, e-Vermont and will deliver an array of resources to improve Hardwick’s use of the Internet to achieve key community goals and welcome more citizens into the digital culture. Already, e-Vermont is working with Hardwick Elementary to bring 21st century educational opportunities to its students.

MONTPELIER – The towns of Calais and Hardwick are joining 10 other rural communities set to receive computers and develop new digital projects through a pilot project sponsored by the Vermont Council on Rural Development. The e-Vermont Community Broadband Project announced Wednesday it has chosen 12 more communities to take part in the one-year grant project aimed at helping Vermont’s rural towns take advantage of high-speed Internet and its benefits.

Publication Date: 
12/14/2010

The E-Vermont Community Broadband Project was the only applicant East of the Mississippi to be awarded federal stimulus money for rural broadband. This week the project announced both advances of 2010 and the names of 12 rural communities chosen for next year. E-Vermont doesn’t lay fiber cable; instead, it offers small communities expert help in making the most of existing Internet technology. The 2010 projects included, for 5th graders in Bristol, VT, new computers, training in making podcasts, and better integration of technology into the school curriculum.

Publication Date: 
12/23/2010