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Entries from October 2008

The week in review

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Sure,  you’re burnt out on all the politicking, so we won’t tell you that we’ve lined up ALL THREE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES for their last shot on Monday morning.  This week, there was plenty of campaigning to absorb too, along with our interview with a vampire expert (who also works for NPR!) and some other Halloween insanity. [...]

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Tags: authors · Politics · rant · Vermont · Weather

Must be Independent Friday…

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

It took a SIXTEEN point bump in the polls for the other candidates to sit up and take notice of Anthony Pollina, the Independent running for Governor of Vermont.  A former Progressive, it’s obvious that his message is resonating with people.  Friday morning, Pollina phoned in and we talked about polls, the Vermont Milk Company [...]

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Tags: Politics · Vermont

Psssst. Need a loan?

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

The Small Business Administration reports that even in this very difficult times, there IS money available out there.  They will be holding “SBA DAYS” in St. Johnsbury on November 7th.  Thursday morning, Valerie Morse phoned in with details. audio

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom

And now for something completely different

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

In the midst of the political frenzy, with just five days to go before the election, we took a break!  Following Republican Tuesday and Democratic Wednesday, turned today into Vampire Thursday. Eric Nuzum is a programming executive for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C.  He is probably the only NPR executive who drank his own [...]

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Tags: authors · On The Road

Six days to go…

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

…and on Democratic Wednesday (which followed Republican Tuesday), Senator Jane Kitchel and candidate Matt Choate stopped by to discuss the final days of the campaign, economic woes and education funding in Vermont audio

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Politics · Vermont

First snow

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

It wasn’t the twenty inches they got over in the Adirondacks or even the mess that Northern New Jersey got, but our first significant snowfall arrived overnight.   Winter is close.

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Weather

A week to go

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning was Republican Tuesday, with both John Hall and John Kascenska joining us in the studio.  We’re in the homestretch and the candidates for the Caledonia-Orange Senate District talked about the process and what they’re hearing from the folks who they hope will vote for them. audio Tomorrow will be Democratic Wednesday, with Senator [...]

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Politics · Vermont

ROUT

October 25th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s all in the body language of  the Lyndon Vikings’  Kyle Greenwood.  The 104th meeting between the Lyndon Institute Vikings and the St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltoppers (“The Rivalry“) took place on a cloudy, breezy but dry Saturday afternoon at the Academy’s Fairbanks Field.  By halftime, it appeared that the ‘Toppers were on their way to a [...]

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Sports

The week in review

October 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Living in far Northern New England, we can take a small measure of comfort in knowing that in the midst of this remarkable global financial crisis and an interminable (and quite honestly, horrid) election process, we can focus on what’s really important:  that damn stop sign that’s backing up traffic in downtown Lyndonville.  That’s how this [...]

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Politics · Radio · Sports · Vermont

It starts NOW

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Hand To Hand provides holidays gifts and/or food to children in the towns of Burke, East Haven, Newark, Sheffield, Sutton and Wheelock…towns NOT served by the Santa Fund.  Last year, they served 88 families, including 160 children and 13 elderly. Two of the coordinators, realtors Deb Baird and Kelly Deth,  stopped by Friday morning to [...]

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom