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Entries from June 2009

Tuesday’s sunrise

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Tuesday, June 9, 2009    4:35 AM It’s better here.

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Weather

Sarcasm, Barack Obama and Boss Scheufler

June 10th, 2009 · No Comments

What?  It’s HIS fault????????? So I see that the Caledonian Record editorial writers laid on the whoopin’ stick for an editorial on the Lyndon School Board yesterday. I especially liked the part about buying out Dave Cobb’s contract. It was an insightful observation; in the course of asking that very same question, a board member [...]

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Tags: Education · Northeast Kingdom · Politics · rant

Bonfire of the Barbecue

June 9th, 2009 · No Comments

When I awoke the day after the VermontMornings.Com annual meeting, I wondered if it had all been real. The sun was not yet up, but my eyes were still telling me stories from last night’s affair. There were continuing flashbacks of scenes both terrible…and pulsating. We had it all last Saturday. New-wave corporate high jinks [...]

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Annual meeting

June 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Well into our second year, we gathered the VermontMornings.Com board together on a sun drenched Saturday afternoon for the State Of The Domain. Here’s what we learned:  The State of VermontMornings.Com is on a solid foundation, forward-focused and ready for…what comes next.  That will be unveiled soon.  We have been held back by technical issues, [...]

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Inside the tent

June 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

(written by a Lyndon Institute student who was not graduating last week) The bell chimes on Lyndon Institute’s main campus and a sea of Maroon & White makes its way down to the enormous tent, which is being used for the very first time this year (It’s a big deal.) Cameras flash as people, packed [...]

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Tags: Education · Northeast Kingdom · Politics · rant

BREAKING NEWS: Barre Man Dies In Copter Crash

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments

A Barre man is dead after the experimental helicopter he was flying crashed at E.F. Knapp Airport in Berlin Friday. Police say 63-year old Ron York of Barre Town was at the controls when the aircraft appeared to have mechanical problems as it approached the airport. York died instantly when the copter crashed about 2000 [...]

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I Guess Saying ‘Please’ Didn’t Work

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments

A Berlin man is facing charges for allegedly assaulting his niece and her boyfriend…with a crowbar. State police say 45-year-old Alan LaPan was upset because 24-year-old Sara LaPan and 25-year-old Chris Lovely had not returned a piece of equipment that belonged to him. So Alan LaPan went to the couple’s Calais home to retrieve it. [...]

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Hard core Monty Python fans will recognize these…

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Oh yes, lupins. The picture was taken by Darcie McCann, executive director of the Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce… in her front yard.

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Weather

Tractor Mystery Solved

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The mystery of the stolen farm tractor has been solved. Police say 40-year-old Steven Trembley of Highgate stole the tractor last weekend in the town of Georgia so he could use it to mow a field 20 miles-away in Colchester. Authorities received a tip about the tractor’s whereabouts after Tremblay tried to pass the red, [...]

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POLICE LOG: Green Thumb Bandit Strikes In Walden

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

A thief with an eye for perennials and spring color has struck a Walden home. 55-year-old Katherine Kotulak told authorities that someone stole potted plants from her Route-15 residence last week. The missing plants are described by police as being yellow marguerites and white daisies.

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