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Entries from March 2008

Didn’t you sing “Sometimes When We Touch?”

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

No. This Dan Hill is the new, interim Lyndon Town Administrator. Well, the radio station is in Lyndon and both Todd and Steve live in Lyndon. On Thursday morning, we welcomed the new Administrator to town. Head to News ‘n Interviews to hear the chat.

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Politics · Sports · Vermont

Got 45 minutes??

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: Politics

“…plenty of people right now that are listening to your show that are having affairs…”

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Israel and Cathie Helfand are marriage, family and sex therapists. They are also dear friends. (More like family actually.) So when we had questions about marriage, family and sex and the disgraced, hypocritical former Governor of New York (as a native New Yorker, I’m completely disappointed), Todd and I asked Israel to come on the [...]

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Tags: Politics

White House on line one…

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Yeah, we got a call from the White House this morning. Head up to News ‘n Interviews and you’ll hear Dr. Bertha Madras talk about how some school districts are doing random student drug testing. Is yours? –SN

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Tags: Education · Politics

Whodunit?

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

First, apologies for not being able to get Tuesday’s interview with Annie Copps, the senior food editor at Yankee Magazine, posted here. Technical glitches made the recording vanish. However, the great Vermont vs. New Hampshire syrup controversy will not! BUT…you can hear a wonderful chat with author Louise Penny today. Her latest novel ‘The Cruelest [...]

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Vermont

Grenier appointed

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

St. Johnsbury Town Clerk Sandy Grenier has been appointed to finish the legislative term of the late Representative Dave Clark. Head up to News ‘n Interviews to hear Todd talk to her on Monday. Sandy Grenier, new Representative

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Politics · Vermont

East Burke update

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The cleanup continues today in East Burke Village, ravaged by flooding over the weekend. Bailey’s & Burke owner Jody Fried talked with us this morning about the devastation… and the heroism of area residents. Listen to his discussion up top in News ‘n Interviews. –SN

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Weather

The winter of our discontent…

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

We knew there were problems heading home from Comedy Night at Burke Mountain Saturday night. Earlier, we laughed at the two comedians who had made the difficult drive from Boston to entertain us; and we even, 200 strong, sang ‘Happy Birthday’ (via cellphone) to my godson Scott in Florida. But heading home, with gale winds [...]

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Weather

Machine problems

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

As many of you already know VermontMornings.com has been experiencing server problems this week with the worst coming Friday night. The site was either extremely slow or down for quite a while. The company that hosts VermontMornings.com has now moved us to another machine. Hopefully that will fix the problem. But if you have any [...]

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Tags: Technical

Something sticky this way comes…

March 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This month’s Yankee Magazine says New Hampshire syrups have been named the best of their kind in New England. Yankee tested Class B, the dark, strong stuff and Monadnock Sugarhouse in Jaffrey came out on top. Amazingly, New Hampshire producers took the TOP FIVE places in the contest. We have been attempting to reach a [...]

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Tags: Vermont