We need 366 members to help us reach our goal by Thanksgiving and send 3,600 meals to the foodbank. Rock of Ages, a Barre-based granite company, has ended its quarry tours and shuttered its visitors ...

Brigitte Offord is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program, on assignment for the Hardwick Gazette Growing up in ...

If one’s final earthly travel destination is a graveyard, then the penultimate stop might well be Barre, Vt., the self-proclaimed “granite center of the world.” Here, in the scenic foothills of the ...

The granite industry in Barre reaches as far back as the early 1800s, and it expanded in 1875, when the central railroad reached Vermont. As the granite industry grew, so did the city of Barre. Yet ...

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BARRE, Vt. — Giuliano Cecchinelli, a beret and a beard framing his expressive face, drove a chisel into Barre Gray granite as he shaped a religious sculpture for a large cemetery monument. Dust puffed ...