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 Cagepotato | Hippies Rejoice: Vermont Becomes 46th State to Regulate Mixed Martial Arts Cagepotato Yesterday, while you were making terrible Star Wars jokes and/or mourning the death of MCA, lawmakers in “The Green Mountain State” were busy passing a bill to regulate the sport of mixed martial arts. Vermont is now the 46th state in the United States ... |
Edgecomb: Like it was yesterday TheDay.com But about five minutes in, everyone looked the same as they did back in eighth-grade when we ruled the school, gave our teachers gray hair and laughed at each other's jokes like we were the funniest people in the world. Back in the day at St. Joe's, ... |
American Legion baseball in jeopardy due to cutbacks Brattleboro Reformer But fans of American Legion baseball in southern Vermont might not see a single game played this year, as Brattleboro's Post 5 team scrambles to come up with a way to fund their 2012 season. "There have been people who have told me they were going to ... |
JPMorgan Loss A Blessing In Disguise? Lez Get Real Let's get the bad jokes out of the way first. The JPMorgan Chase employee who did the trades that cost his bank at least $2 billion was nicknamed “Voldemort.” And we thought George W. Bush was the only “He who must not be named,” running around… |
 vtdigger.org | Sanford went from “cow-freak hippie” to an obsession with “all things archival” vtdigger.org Photo by Andrew Nemethy Without Gregory Sanford, Vermont history just wouldn't be the same. For 30 years, he's been the state archivist, preserving, organizing, cataloging and pondering the documents that underpin the existence of the state we call ... |
ON THE COVER: Hide your celebrities — Joan Rivers is coming Kitsap Sun Rivers was enjoying a rare respite — "I have an easy day today, and I'm going to enjoy myself and read," she said — in her Burlington, Vt. hotel room, where she had started a run of three stand-up shows in three nights the previous evening. |
 vtdigger.org | Burlington school district struggles at the racial “tipping point” vtdigger.org by Greg Guma | May 10, 2012 Schools systems facing considerably greater challenges than Burlington's have made “substantial strides in academic performance for their most vulnerable students,” according a new report from Diversity Now, a Vermont group ... |
Vachon still going strong London Free Press “Five years ago, in Vermont, this guy, maybe 6-foot-3, comes up to me, looks at me and starts shaking his head back and forth. He told me the story, he was the kid, he remembered me picking him up.” The Butcher would start up Grand Prix Wrestling, ... |
The Grapes of Wrath – and Guinness Down East And don't get me started on that lingering 1960s fad of grape jokes, which produced perhaps the worst band name ever in Moby Grape. (Although, I'll concede that “Murder in My Heart for the Judge” is a killer tune.) Grape Nuts is OK, mostly because it ... |
 New England Hockey Journal | From NEHJ: The one that got away New England Hockey Journal By Mike Zhe There was every reason for the US women to be down, or at least a little bit nervous, as they prepared for a winner-take-all overtime against Canada for the gold medal at the Women's World Championship in Burlington, Vt., last month. |
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