I read an article today in one of the local newspapers about the 30th anniversary of the Vermont lottery and the possibility of expanding the lottery in various yet unsaid ways. What caught my attention about this article was that among the interviews of local folks about how they felt about this possible expansion of [...] Read more »
Yup! You just have to love our local humor.
(Source: The Barton Chronicle, Vol. 35, #16, April 23rd, 2008)
Tags: humor, local matters, politics Read more »
I banged into my local news site today and I immediately zoned in on this headline:
17% of Vermonters Admit Driving Drunk
Washington, D.C. - April 23, 2008
According to a new federal report, nearly one in six motorists in Vermont admit they have driven drunk. The report relies on information from the National Survey on Drug Use [...] Read more »
Grandad launched a (left over Russian Cold War era) Missile at my town today but instead of exploding properly, wreaking death and destruction everywhere, it instead embedded itself in my neighbors tree.
(Photo Courtesy of Sixty via a Weather Satellite reentering the atmosphere)
It’s obvious that Grandad had to have his neighbor, [...] Read more »
Rt.100, somewhere between West Dover and Podunk, somewhere between 2:30 and 3:00 AM Sunday morning; a body lies in the road. The body is male. If you could get a good look at him you might notice that he’s probably in his early twenties. At this point though, we have no idea whether this [...] Read more »
I don’t usually blog about local matters but this controversy about wind towers being built atop some of our mountains and ridges is beginning to get my goat. And just so you know, I think it’s a viable solution to begin pulling away from our dependency on the power grid or at the very least, [...] Read more »
