Along with several other states, it’s Primary Day here in Vermont.  In most places, polls are open until 7:00 PM. If you don’t vote today, your license to bitch about almost anything is revoked.  If you don’t vote today, shut the hell up.  You don’t get democracy.

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

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On Friday morning, the fog lifted and ushered in brilliantly blue skies, the cars with out of state (and out of province) license plates started arriving early in the morning and by Friday afternoon, the Northeast Kingdom was packed. The 2nd Annual Vermont Fourth Festival got underway with a strawberry dinner in East Burke Village [...]

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Summer officially begins at 7:28 Monday morning EDT, but for the last couple of weeks, we’ve been enjoying The Long Days.  The dawn’s early bright suggests itself at about 3:45 AM and if you’re outside at 9:00 PM, you realize that the twilight has lasted longer and longer.  Look northward and the glow you see [...]

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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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April 28, 2010: ‘Nuff said… Friday’s forecast:  Sunny, highs in the mid 60′s. (pictures by staff photographer Alyssa Nichols)

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Every year, on the 28th of February (the 29th in Leap Years) and on the 1st of April, we place observers in 255 locations throughout Vermont…in all 237 towns, 9 cities, 5 unincorporated areas and 4 gores.  Our goal is to determine exactly how March comes in, and how it goes out.  This year, after [...]

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Helluva ‘winter’ here in the Northeast Kingdom.  Ever since the January thaw, it hasn’t snowed much at all, hasn’t gotten cold, hasn’t done the things it’s supposed to do so the plow guys can make a few bucks and the snowmobilers can come up from down country and spend their dollars here. Fortunately, lots of [...]

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And today, we hear from James Moore, the Clean Energy Program Director for VPIRG, the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, a consumer and environmental advocacy group in operation since 1972. VPIRG wants Vermont Yankee closed for good in 2012.  James also called some of yesterday’s guest’s comments untruthful…AND called out Northeast Kingdom state Senators Matt [...]

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