She calls her music “Modern Vintage”  and in a music landscape notable for its desolate sameness, Miss Tess is fresh, tart and fills me with hope. 
She will appear tonight (Saturday) at 9pm at the Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain with the group, The Bon Ton Parade, and THE SHOW IS FREE. 
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…and there was a lot of loud music and obvious rowdy activity and I thought it was Wellington, but I wasn’t positive until I got this e-mail tonight…
…taken by the IRA…forced to sing in pubs….and drink……..send in George Mitchell…….hurray…………………..Todd WellingtonThe King of Silly
…along with this video:

I will alert you if I get ANY requests for…lawyers, [...]

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This much I know:  The departure, at noon Tuesday, of the current occupant is a good thing for this country.  Eight years of this administration is…eight years too many.  Regardless of what side of the aisle you’re on, there is nothing that suggests, short or long-term, that W’s tenure was anything but an utter disaster [...]

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One week from today, a new Miss America will be crowned in Las Vegas.  (You can see it live on the 24th at 8:00 Eastern on TLC.)
This past week, in preparation for her competition, Miss Vermont, Lyndonville’s Ashley Wheeler, stopped by and Steve & Cindy conducted a ten-minute mock interview.
Listen here:
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The station studios are located in downtown Lyndonville and the temperature you see is the lowest measured in these parts in fifteen years.  The coldest readings reported yesterday were a pair of -42’s from Island Pond and Whitefield.  This morning (Saturday) at 7:30 EST, we’re checking in at a more ‘reasonable’ -26.
And if you remember [...]

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The staff at the local unemployment office could not have been more friendly.
 
“Hello,” said a pleasant-looking woman after I’d walked into the lobby.
 
“Hi,” I said. “I’m Todd Wellington.”
 
“Oh,” she said smiling. “I listen to you every morning.”
 
I waited for a few seconds as my brain processed the awkward nature of the situation. I silently wished [...]

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Dear Listeners
On New Year’s Day 2009 I was told that my seven-year run on the WGMT Morning Show was over.
The need for the radio station to cut operating costs was cited.
I was out sick the previous week and had heard from other employees that they were being asked to take pay cuts so I was [...]

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Jake Laferriere died of cancer in August of 2000.  Ever since, his brother Fred, who owns Mayo’s Furniture in St. Johnsbury, has been a tireless fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.  He gets much of the credit for the success of the annual Relay for Life, and he also gets much of the credit (blame??) [...]

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