Back in 2005, Bess O’Brien of Kingdom County Productions got a grant to create a musical that tells the story of Vermont teenagers making their way through high school. (Sound familiar, Disney fans? It’s not, thank goodness.)
Last year Bess adapted the stage musical into a movie and she has spent the summer [...]

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VIENNA, New York – It’s important to realize that I was here on official business when it all went down…the wind, the hail, the bees, the fire trucks and the creeping sense that I was being stalked by some poor-shooting but highly determined dark spirit.
But like any good adventure there was also good food, great [...]

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In September of 2006, Dr. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, learned he had terminal pancreatic cancer.  Last September, he addressed 400 or so faculty and students as part of the school’s “Last Lecture” series.  The lecture became an internet video sensation and has since been viewed by over TEN MILLION people.  [...]

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Tom Ashley will be Kitty Toll’s opponent in the September 9th Democratic primary for the Caledonia-Washington-1 house seat.  Like Kitty, Tom is a Danville native.  He also has some political background…he worked for Jim Jeffords as a staff assistant for the Committee on Environment & Public Works.  He stopped by Friday to tell us who/what/where.  [...]

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The only thing hotter than the weather in Florida is the performance of the Tampa Bay Rays. As stated before here at Vermont Mornings, we are convinced that the turnaround for this perpetual cellar-dwelling team (currently in first place in the AL East) is entirely due to the arrival of Lyndonville’s Libby Lefaivre as [...]

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Our guest on Wednesday morning is a first-time candidate for political office, Danville’s Kitty Toll. It may be her first race (she’s going for the Caledonia-Washington-1 House seat being vacated by Steve Larrabee) but politics is in her blood. She grew up on a fifth-generation dairy farm, taught school in the Northeast Kingdom [...]

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I’m guessing that John Walker, department chair for St. Johnsbury Academy’s Fine Arts Department and the director of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” at the academy this weekend and next, doesn’t have much of a problem getting the attention of his young charges. He’s very tall, he has a booming voice and his passion for [...]

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John Hall’s resume is impressive. He’s the long-time owner of an auto parts business in St. Johnsbury. He’s also a former St. Johnsbury Town Manager, former State Representative and most recently, he was the Vermont Commissioner of Housing & Community Affairs. Now he’s in a three-way Republican primary race for the [...]

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We’re not sure if it’s the 26th or 28th anniversary of Stars ‘n Stripes, but we ARE sure that it is the biggest annual event in the Northeast Kingdom. Parades, politicians, contests, food, live music, it’s an entire day (and night) of nonstop fun. On Tuesday morning, Donna Wheeler, president of the Lyndon [...]

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That’s something we all do, eh?  It’s part of the love/hate relationship that we have with this place, wherever it is, that we choose to call home.  We hear from others about concerts, cultural gatherings,  important events going on.  There are places to go, people to see, rare occurrences occurring and we should be there.  [...]

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