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 well [...]

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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 by [...]

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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 possibly two principals railroaded out
in Caledonia [...]

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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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Jennifer Hartswick left Sheffield, her hometown, eleven years ago.  She graduated from Lyndon Institute, headed to New York City, spent a couple of years at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford and lives now in Chicago.
She plays trumpet, she sings, she mixes jazz, funk, soul and other genres and brings her [...]

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It started out under sunny skies with temperatures nudging into the 60’s, but even as the clouds, wind and sprinkles arrived, the outcome of the 105th Rivalry was never in doubt from the beginning.  The 1-7 LI Vikings dominated the St. Johnsbury Hilltoppers from the get-go.

The fellow on the left punted the football through the [...]

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For well over 100 years, students have gathered at Lyndon Institute and St. Johnsbury Academy the night before “The Rivalry,” a football game that gives one of those towns a year’s worth of bragging rights.  We stopped by as the LI pep rally was getting underway Friday evening.

It’s a powerful event for the students…this is [...]

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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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Sooooo…Victoria Scheufler wants Caledonia North Supervisory Union board members to get out there and defend her honor against the dumpster-diving mutant subclass that’s plotting against her.
Well maybe she didn’t use those exact words in last Friday’s Caledonian-Record, but that was the vibe I got when I read how she asked the CNSU executive board to [...]

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Friday is Dave Cobb’s last day as principal at Lyndon Town School.
For reasons we still don’t know, he is leaving a job that he loves.   If you have read Todd’s posts on this “resignation,” you know that we have all been lazy -  we have not attended school board meetings, we have assumed that all [...]

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