Editing Hardwick, Vermont (section)

==Government==
The federal government granted the town $492,000 in 2008 to upgrade the water system for fire-fighting purposes after a 2005 fire gutted the Bemis block.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200810/101508a.html |title=Leahy-Authored Farm Bill Provision Nets Northeast Kingdom $22 M. in Economic Development Investments |date=October 15, 2008 |work=U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy |publisher=leahy.senate.gov |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106171549/http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200810/101508a.html |archive-date=January 6, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The town owns the Hardwick Electric Department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hardwickelectric.com/|title=Home - Hardwick Electric Department|website=www.hardwickelectric.com|language=en-gb|access-date=March 26, 2018}}</ref>

The town owns {{convert|225|ft}} of shoreline on Caspian Lake in [[Greensboro, Vermont|Greensboro]]. The {{convert|2.4|acres}} has been used for recreation since 1927. As a result, they pay taxes to Greensboro on land worth $644,000. This was overlooked until 2012.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Joseph | last=Gresser | title=How much is 225 feet of Caspian Lake shoreline worth? | newspaper=the Chronicle | location=Barton, Vermont | pages= 2, 3 | date=September 19, 2012 }}</ref> The Vermont State Legislature passed a bill near the end of its 2013 calendar exempting Caspian Lake Public Beach from state taxes, a bill which "appears to solve recent questions between Greensboro and Hardwick regarding taxation of the Public Beach."<ref name="Greensboro Association">{{cite web|title=Vermont Legislature Exempts Caspian Lake Public Beach from State Tax|date=May 26, 2013|url=http://www.greensboroassociation.org/2013/05/26/vermont-legislature-exempts-caspian-lake-public-beach-from-state-tax/|publisher=The Greensboro Association|access-date=May 28, 2013}}</ref>