We’re giving away one a month!  Just identify the gentleman below: First correct entry at theshow@vermontmornings.com wins. DISCLAIMER: Only open to residents of the U.S.  Everybody else in the world knows who he is.

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Saturday morning at Burke Mountain.  Overcast and 39 degrees F.  At about 10:30, I was riding up the Willoughby Quad with  Tim Kirchoff, my neighbor here on Pudding Hill, and a regular contestant at Pond Skimming for the past four or five years.  This is the time of year that local skiers wait for; the [...]

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We’ve spent the week chatting with sugarmakers from all around the Northeast Kingdom and we wrapped up today with Gloria Rowell from Rowell’s Sugarhouse in Walden.  If the name sounds familiar, it’s because she’s the mother of Dave Rowell, who gave up radio for…well, for something. audio Thanks, Gloria.  Thanks, Vern.  Sirop d’érable…Il y a [...]

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The upside to this difficult time of year (crazy temperature swings, mud, potholes, mud, surprise snowstorms, mud, more mud) is that it’s sugaring season.  Smoke billowing out of sugarhouses is a sure sign that spring is near. The 8th Annual Vermont Maple Open House Weekend takes place at sugarhouses throughout Vermont this Friday, Saturday and [...]

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Wellington phoned in Wednesday morning from the Bagel Depot in Lyndonville to let the world know that they have just named a sandwich after him.  It’s a breakfast burrito, loaded with goodies and quite delicious. Then our talk turned serious.  The buzz started last night, when the phones in Lyndonville rang with news that Dave [...]

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Singer/Guitarist/Meteorologist Mark Breen on St. Patrick’s Day  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For the past twenty years or so, retired Lyndon State College Professor Ralph Aldrich has put on a St. Patrick’s Day Concert in the Alexander Twilight Theatre at noontime.  As [...]

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…here’s Jon Stewart doing what nobody in ‘journalism’ or government has had the guts to do…holding somebody (albeit a cretinous media maven) to account for the mess we’re in. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Jim Cramer Unedited Interview Pt. 1 Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things w/ Demetri Martin Political [...]

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One of the great benefits of having students from around the world attend our local high schools is that it allows students (and everyone else) in the Northeast Kingdom to meet and interact with people from many other cultures.  We are somewhat insular in Northern New England; kudos to St. Johnsbury Academy and Lyndon Institute [...]

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