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Entries from September 2009

Jingo

September 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Editor’s Note: He finished his last show at Dead North in Danville nearly four years ago and then disappeared into the night. Until today, nobody knew where he’d been.  But the man known as Jingo The Dark Clown is back in St. Johnsbury, preparing to perform at the Belly Dance Circus, at Catamount Arts on [...]

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Tags: authors · Northeast Kingdom · On The Road · Politics · Radio

BMMF ISO BIG CROWD FOR FUN

September 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Pictures At A Festival: (All pictures by Staff Photographer Alyssa Nichols) It still shocks me how few people in the NEK show up to support good, live music.  The Third Annual Burke Mountain Music drew a few hundred people, each of whom spent a mere $20 to see FOUR bands.  Where was everyone else?  I [...]

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Tags: Arts · Music · Northeast Kingdom · rant

Meanwhile the world goes on

September 11th, 2009 · No Comments

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Tags: rant

Why we love karting

September 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Karting is different than go-karting.  You can try it up at Karting Orford, just across the border in Magog.  Or you can go all out and head to Road America in Wisconsin, like these lucky guys…

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Tags: On The Road · Sports

Good grades, initiative and all that other stuff

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Mira Davis is a junior at Lyndon Institute.  On Tuesday, she’s flying down to Washington D.C. for three days of orientation.  Then she’s off to Germany, for ten months, as a Congress-Bundestag scholar.  The program, administered by the U.S. Department of State, allows 250 American high school students to spend a year learning German and [...]

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Tags: Education · Northeast Kingdom · On The Road

On a Tuesday evening early in September…

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

A few neighbors came floating by. It really IS better here.

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Tags: Northeast Kingdom · Weather