You let a bear get the word out to travelers

You go on the radio and tell the world

You warm up to music by The Village People

You dance, baby!
We are confident in predicting a 12-14″ snowfall on either February 9th or 10th.  Should the weather gods fail to comply, we will consider this a re-initiation of [...]

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If you are anywhere near the area, plan on showing up on at Bandstand Park in Lyndonville, Vermont this Thursday at 10:00 AM.
At that time, those in attendance will perform a Snow Dance. (Click on the link and rehearse when you have time, we will provide lyrics Thursday)
Our goal is to appease the weather gods, [...]

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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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John Buccigross hosts afternoons on ESPN’s Sportcenter.  He also writes about hockey for ESPN.COM.   If you’re a hockey parent, you won’t find a thing to argue about in this recent column:
My 13 simple rules for hockey parents everywhere
By John Buccigross
Women and men used to gaze up at the stars, awed at the sight [...]

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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 these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is [...]

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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 6:00 [...]

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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 have [...]

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

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Today I drove past Santa.  He was lying in a hammock strung between two palm trees and may have been holding a beer, although from the street I couldn’t really tell.  I guess he hired a few extra elves this season.  That’s good.  We should start seeing the economy perk up soon, don’t you think?
On [...]

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