Vermont Viewpoint

We’re talking food for the first hour this morning. First, we meet the winner of the Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship, Adam Monette of St. Albans. Then we’ll learn about a Belgian company that is distributing its plant-based veggie dogs, ham slices and other products from Bolton. After that, we head to Orwell to learn how to blow glass and discuss the glass heating and melting equipment that the company manufactures. And we’ll finish off with a half hour of open phones.   

We start the morning in Townshend at a farm full of happy, healthy sheep where you can find yarn, fleece and woolen whimsies among other products. Next, as affordable housing becomes a major focus of the Legislature and the Scott administration, we’ll check in with the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition. After that, a WDEV All-Star who used to hang out with All-Stars and other major leaguers, Jasper Goodman, checks in as we continue the station’s 90th Anniversary. And we finish up by learning about a Vermont jewelry maker whose creations have been a big hit in Hollywood.  

There’s much more to an old forest than trees. We’ll start the morning hearing about what you can explore there in the winter months. Then, WCAX Capitol Bureau Chief Calvin Cutler provides an update on what’s been happening at the State House. After that, we hear the tale of when pirates sailed on Lake Champlain. And we finish the show, hearing what Raj Bhakta plans for the campus of Green Mountain College in Poultney that he purchased in August of 2020. 

When can zip codes confuse COVID case counts? We’ll hear what Alek Fleury of the St. Albans Messenger learned about it and about other news stories from the town of Georgia. After that, we’ll open up the phones until 10. That’s when national correspondent Bob Ney checks in for his weekly update. Then Paula Routley of Seven Days gives us the back stories on a number of pieces covered by the paper in 2021. And we finish the show in the best way possible. With cheese! We’ll hear about the cache of awards the Cabot Creamery Co-operative has won recently.