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Yellow Barn And Marlboro Festivals

Enjoy a visit to two of New England’s longest-running and most respected music school/festivals: Yellow Barn in Putney and the Marlboro Music Festival. Listen Wednesday as VPR Classical’s Cheryl Willoughby co-hosts this very special "In Concert @ 8".

Morning Newscast: May 6, 2008

Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: Vermont’s commissioner of Housing and Community Affairs is leaving his post to return to the private sector;  Last month, Toyota announced that it had found problems with some of the frames on its popular Tacoma trucks, and it’s made a busy time of year in Toyota service departments even busier…
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Hawk watchers gather at Putney Mountain

Putney Mountain is a sky- island of glacier-scrubbed bedrock that towers 1600 feet high with a view of the Connecticut River and Mount Monadnock to the East. To the West is the West River Valley, Bromley, Stratton and Mount Snow. It’s a relatively easy Sunday climb, kept open by a local conservation Alliance. In the fall it’s a magnet for migrating hawk s—and hawk watchers.