Better Days And you ask me what I want this year And I try to make this kind and clear Just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days Cuz I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings And desire and love and empty things Just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days So take [...]

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It was cloudy and chilly today here in the Northeast Kingdom.  But on Christmas Day, the sun was shining and temperatures were in the mid 20′sF on top of Burke Mountain as we skied above the clouds. Upper & Lower Willoughby were in great, groomed shape, there was plenty of powder on Powderhorn and Christmas [...]

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For we don’t know how long, we have flung open the doors on Christmas Eve at the Magic 97.7 studios and invited everyone to come visit, share food and drink, share memories and send wishes. This year we recorded the whole damn thing.   Hour One begins with Todd Wellington stumbling into the studio after the [...]

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News Flash: Despite your dramatic and hyperbolic rhetoric I, and millions of other average Americans, am thrilled that health care reform is passing (even in it’s diluted and imperfect state).  We’re also disgusted with the GOP’s disingenuous denunciations, carefully-scripted and inaccurate sound bites, and constant obstructionism and negativity. Maybe the technique you and your party [...]

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With our full support and 100% endorsement: Backbone Anyone? It has become too predictable. School boards and school administrators hide the sometimes scandalous behavior of some of their personnel, administrators and teachers behind the bogeyman of confidentiality and/or the cowards’ way out of payoffs to avoid public lawsuits. So we have one, for sure, and [...]

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So here’s the test: In the picture below, there’s a man in the coffee beans.  All you have to do is find him.  Time yourself, see how long it takes to locate him. Doctors have concluded that  if you find the man in the coffee beans in three seconds, the  right half of your brain [...]

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So what are YOU doing to help the men and women who serve in our military?  Sophie McKibben, a sixteen year old high school junior, is in her second year of running Snowjourn, a program that brings members of Vermont’s military and their family to Ripton, Vermont for a weekend of winter fun. This year, [...]

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