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Tom Messner has been delivering the weather with a smile for 18 years on WPTZ/NewsChannel 5.

His grandma assumed he would grow up to be a chatty salesman.  Little did she
know, Tom would one day be 'selling' the weather to the masses with his trademark grin.

Messner is so well-known that he can't get very far without being recognized. That is the thing about being a popular weatherman, people feel like they know you since you come into their living room every night.... Read more

Vermont is a small, out-of-the-way place, and if recent discussions about its future are any indication, its residents often wonder if their way of life is compatible with the rest of the country’s. No other state proudly trumpets the fact that a sitting president refuses to visit; none has argued so passionately for secession — a movement that surely embodies collective concern about whether the United States of America can live up to its good name. ... Read more

More than two years after it was convened to help guide the city-owned cable operation, an advisory group for Burlington Telecom is still struggling to understand its role, according to the annual report it recently submitted to the Burlington City Council.

In the report, the Burlington Telecommunications Advisory Committee expresses frustration with BT’s tendency to “hold back” detailed information about its operations since the departure of former general manager Tim Nulty late last year.... Read more

It would be hard to cast someone better to represent “red-blooded Americans” on-air than Josh Rushing. At least, the Pentagon’s Central Command thought so in 2003, when it chose Rushing as its official spokesperson in the Arab media during the Iraq invasion.... Read more

As supporters and critics gear up for this week’s public meeting on Burlington Telecom’s recent decision to stop airing Al Jazeera English, the conflict has attracted international media attention.

Richard Gizbert, a veteran reporter for the Arab news network in London, has hired a local film crew to cover Tuesday’s meeting of two citizens’ advisory committees.... Read more

Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss has called on the city-owned cable system, Burlington Telecom, to keep Al Jazeera English on the air until residents and two citizens’ advisory committees have had a chance to weigh in.

“For the time being, the channel is not going to come off BT,” confirmed Joe Reinert, the mayor’s assistant. “I think it’s ‘stay tuned,’ no pun intended.”... Read more

In March, a faculty bandleader decided to pull the Middlebury Union High School jazz band from a competition at the Flynn Center for Performing Arts over suspicions that musicians were getting stoned before school-sanctioned jams.

You should write about this in our school paper, one band member suggested to Liam Kelley-St. Clair, a reporter for the MUHS’s Tigers’ Print.... Read more

Sometimes it takes a bunch of completely stoked twentysomethings to remind everyone that the Queen City, like, totally rules. University of Vermont students Connor Boals, 20, and Lily March, 21, are so enthusiastic about Burlington’s creative scene they’ve founded an online magazine about it. “We’re all just really in love with Burlington,” confessed March, the magazine’s art director, at the launch party last Wednesday night at Halvorson’s.... Read more

The Arabic translation of Al Jazeera is “the island.” But now, that island is about to be deep-sixed off the West Coast of New England.... Read more

"For Rent: Must see to believe! 3-BR, 1-BA executive apartment in low-crime Chittenden County neighborhood. Quiet, second-story walkup across from First Methodist Church. Walk-in closets, lake view, unfenced yard near lake. Two-person max. occupancy. Ideal for young professionals/empty nesters. Please: no smokers, big dogs, Muslims or fat people. Se habla español. Gays and lesbians welcome! $900/mo. Credit check and proof of employment required. Not Section 8 approved."... Read more