Entergy wants to do away with the emergency zone around the VT Yankee reactor after it ceases operating this year. In 2012, after a 180 year run the Barnard General store closed. In response, a local group raised $500,000 to purchase the building and find someone to run the store. Burlington school district expects to pay fines to IRS for underpayment and non-payment of taxes. Police in Stowe investigate an apparent murder-suicide of a married couple.
Melody is the Contributing Editor for But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids and the co-author of two But Why books with Jane Lindholm.
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
