VPR News
VPR News
Environmental activist urges students to fight complacency
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Noted author and environmental activist Diane Wilson was at Green Mountain College today discussing her book An Unreasonable Woman.VPR News
Midday Newscast: September 15, 2008
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Gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina has won another labor endorsement for his campaign; author and environmental activist Diane Wilson will speak at Green Mountain College today; Vermont Technical College in Randolph is getting some money to support a program that helps freshman improve their math and English skills; more…VPR News
Midday Newscast: August 13, 2008
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Champlain College plans to take over operation of Woodbury College; Vermont to get up to $20 million from the federal government to help homeowners avoid foreclosure; Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to look into the latest changes proposed by Comcast.VPR News
Dartmouth to sell Mount Washington land
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Dartmouth College is selling land at the top of Mount Washington to the state. The land on the summit will become part of the Mount Washington State Park.VPR News
Longtime NEK educator, Graham Newell, dies at 92
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Graham Newell, a seventh generation Vermonter and iconic educator from the Northeast Kingdom, has died in Saint Johnsbury at the age of 92.VPR News
Midday Newscast: June 24, 2008
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State officials have confirmed that IBM in Essex Junction is laying off 180 employees; the newly formed Vermont College of Fine Arts will purchase the historic Vermont College in Montpelier; more…Vermont Edition
Same-sex marriage and civil unions
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A new commission has released a report that studies whether equality has been achieved between marriage and civil unions. The commission chair explains the findings, recommendations and next steps for the legal status of same-sex couples in Vermont. Also, President Jack Neuhauser of Saint Michael’s College on the pope’s message to Catholic educators, and summer snack shacks and creemee stands re-open for the season.VPR News
Police: Deathbed confession in mystery of missing cannon
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Some Dartmouth College students could help solve a 40-year-old mystery about what happened to a World War I cannon missing from the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington. Police say a man on his deathbed confessed to taking it. He says it’s buried under the Dartmouth College football field.Vermont Edition