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For well over forty years, Lyndonville’s Kay Welch (and more recently, her daughter Sonia Devereaux) have been teaching dance to the youngsters of the Northeast Kingdom. On Thursday and Friday nights, proud parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends again gathered at the Alexander Twilight Theatre at Lyndon State College to watch the girls and [...]

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The reference in the title is to a song by the jazz guitarist Larry Carlton.  The song is an instrumental, but it is optimistic and happy and it makes you feel good…just like Mike Smiles, who is the Chief Development Officer for The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp.  There’s a link for them on [...]

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Earth Hour is global.  Turn the lights and TV off tonight at 8:30 PM local time and enjoy the darkness.

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There’s trouble in River City, and the kids from The Riverside School in Lyndonville know all about it.  Tonight and tomorrow afternoon, they’re presenting “The Music Man Junior” at the Lyndon Institute Auditorium. Friday morning, two seventh-graders, Katherine and Wilan stopped by to talk about the show: Riverside School presents \”the Music Man Junior\” Shows [...]

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The most intense interview of my life. That is how I would describe the thirteen or so minutes I spent on the phone with Ed Asner last week. Ed Asner appears Wednesday night at 7:00 PM at Fuller Hall at St. Johnsbury Academy.  His one-man show, F.D.R., is being sponsored by Catamount Arts. You are [...]

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Corporate Agribusiness doesn’t give a damn about you.  They prove this with every recall, with every outbreak of botulism, every time a slaughterhouse gets fined and keeps doing what it does. The movie FOOD, INC. is being shown at Lyndon State College on Saturday night at 8:00 PM.  There is no charge.  It’s being presented [...]

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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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Rusty DeWees is a mass of contradictions.  His main character (he has plenty) is The Logger and in addition to a bunch of TV shows and movie appearances, writing a book, doing a weekly radio gig in Burlington and talking to high school kids about lifestyle choices, he spends a lot of time traveling Vermont [...]

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