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Lake Champlain’s Discovery from a Native Perspective

By Jane Lindholm | October 29, 2008

Abenaki scholar Fred Wiseman discusses the role Native Americans played in Lake Champlain’s discovery. Also, Burlington Free Press reporter Candy Page on hydro power, and we travel to Westminster for a town postcard.

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Morning Newscast: August 4, 2008

By Mitch Wertlieb | August 4, 2008

Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: Vermont lawmakers are investigating whether the state Health Department broke the law by changing its methods for measuring radiation emitted by the Vermont Yankee; The power may be coming back on at the Middlebury falls; Vermont tourism officials say it’s rain and not high gas prices that has kept tourism down so far this summer…

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New hydro project considered in Middlebury

By Jane Lindholm | August 4, 2008

In the late 1800s the Middlebury Electric Company harnessed the falls for power. But since the 1960s, the falls have just been falls. Now, the power may be coming back on.