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05/14/2024

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/barre-voters-will-choose-between-thom-lauzon-and-samn-stockwell-for-mayor-40849913
"It was clear to me that Thom's interests focused on starving the city's general fund of future revenues in a never-ending Ponzi scheme of tax stabilization that would benefit his personal development interests," Hemmerick wrote in an email to Seven Days.

After floods hit downtown Barre last summer, City Councilor Thom Lauzon toured the damage with other local officials and met with residents whose homes had...

05/26/2021

Powers been out here in Barre for a couple hours.
Green Mountain power estimates that it won’t be turned back on until after 9 PM and maybe even a while after that

02/26/2021

https://www.thequarryproject2020.com/

The Quarry Project is a site-specific dance/theatre piece being created for the Wells Lamson quarry, one of the oldest, deepest granite quarries in the country, now flooded and in “reserve.” Performances – originally slated for August 2020 – have been postponed until 2022.

10/25/2020

Alex Pouliot of Barre's Troop 714 became Vermont's latest Eagle Scout with his project of installing a flag pole at the William Milne plaza at Depot Square in Barre, VT.

Flag Dedication Ceremony 10/24/2020

01/15/2020

Here is a video of that midget car race held in the Fall of 1941 in Barre at Trotting Park, the current location of Spaulding High School.

Midget race cars raced at the Fall fair just before WWII broke out in America. This track is located where the current Spaulding High School is on Ayer Stree...

12/11/2019

The Barre Scouting Monument is now listed in the Historical Marker Database and can be found on Google Maps.
Here is a link to how Barre, Vermont and Camp Abnaki figure into how the Boy Scouts of America was started:
http://FirstScoutTroop.com