This week in photos: April 3

Spear on target

Photo by Dave Speidel.

Far left, road commissioner Junior Lewis talks with workers on the Spear Street bridge. The repairs look to be on target for meeting the April 6 deadline in order to qualify for federal funds to pay for the reconstruction. Lewis said there were still a few things to do before the road will reopen like putting up guard rails. Spear Street will be unpaved here when it reopens because paving companies aren’t paving this early in the year. Lewis said it should be paved in May.

Vermont comes home

Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Scott Barnes.

Vermont’s namesake submarine, the USS Vermont, returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam March 16, following a seven-month deployment, the submarine’s first deployment to the Western Pacific. The Vermont is the third U.S. Navy ship named after the Green Mountain State. Vermont was administratively commissioned in April 2020. Since the submarine’s departure from Pearl Harbor in August 2024, 104 sailors assigned to Vermont earned their first Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.

Food shelf cookies

Photo by Lee Krohn.

On Tuesday evening, March 25, members of Charlotte Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services delivered 12 cases, or 144 boxes, of cookies to the Charlotte Food Shelf they bought from local Girl Scouts themselves.

LEGO champ

Courtesy photo.

Nigel Pluss of Shelburne won the kindergarten-second grade section of Vergennes’ Bixby Free Library’s seventh annual LEGO Contest at the beginning of March.

Spring prediction

Photo by Alexandra Lazar.

The first crocus of the year is a sure sign spring is on the verge of chasing away the dreariness of winter with a burst of color. Lazar is also happy to see the appearance of this flower, reminding her of her late grandmother Eleanor Wojcik, who was always excited to see crocuses blooming.