Vermonters turned out along roadsides this morning in tribute to a fallen Vermont soldier.

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At about 1:40 EDT this afternoon, an earthquake was felt around Caledonia County…from Sutton down to St. Johnsbury. Monitors, chairs moving in the radio studio. Details later. 6:00 PM update- It was a 5.0 magnitude earthquake and the epicenter was actually quite far away, just north of Ottawa on the Quebec border.  Best info is [...]

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The picture above was taken by Magic 97.7′s night guy, Jeff Garfield, on Saturday afternoon, when the weather turned dangerous.  They call them microbursts, they’re sorta like mini-tornadoes.  They were very localized, but they were all around the Northeast Kingdom Saturday afternoon.  The worst damage, besides an actual tornado that tore a roof off a [...]

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Anywhere from eight to twenty-four inches of snow has fallen in the last twenty-four hours throughout Vermont, which was the hardest hit part of New England.  We had periodic outages of the Radio Stream today but reports from servers, service providers and the electric company are that all is well from here on in. Coming [...]

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Darcy Carter is the District Director for the Small Business Administration in Vermont.  In late February, she called in to tell us about some new financial and business development programs the SBA was implementing. On Tuesday morning, Darcy called in again, to give us some numbers, and to give us what on the surface seems [...]

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The Captain: Louis Vincent Albano July 29, 1933 – October 14,2009

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Governor Jim Douglas, R-Vermont, says he will not seek another term as governor of Vermont. Douglas is in the first year of his fourth term as governor. And he has been in state government for most of his adult life– elected to statewide office 14 times and in office 25 of the last 27 years. [...]

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Cronkite is dead and the world is a far lesser place with his passing. There’s nobody left in television news with any credibility.  From 1962 to 1981, Walter Cronkite told us what was wrong in the world and with the world, and then, five nights a week, he put us at ease.  And for a [...]

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(photo courtesy of Jennifer Kirchoff) The Main Street block in St. Johnsbury, fully engulfed this morning.

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