Around the NEK

One local student has written and published her first book at the age of 17. Jessica Newby, a senior at Danville High School, spent six months working on her senior project, a book entitled Mother Where Art Thou? The book is composed of poems inspired by her mother's heroine addiction.

A powerful forehand swing and a dangerous serve can easily score an ace. The newest team member of the Lyndon State College tennis team is up 40-love against his competitors, and making history at the same time.

The search for a one hundred year old relic from Lyndon's past is back on.

July 4^th, 1891 marked Lyndon's first centennial celebration. To memorialize the date, townspeople decided to bury a time capsule with documents from the event. Today it has still not been found.

If you really like watching the weather and you want to have a more active role here is your chance. The national weather service is looking for volunteers from across rural northern Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom.

A new bill has been passed in Vermont that will ban texting while driving.

The State of Vermont prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle by a driver that has a .08% or above blood alcohol concentration. But what repercussions will you face if you do get caught drinking and driving?

The National Weather Service in Burlington has declared this week National Severe Weather Awareness Week.

Since severe weather doesn't occur in the northeast usually until the summer months, meteorologists from offices all across the Northeast and New York thought it would be best to use this week in early May to prepare families for potentially severe weather down the road.

After a lifetime of logging, one of East Burke's residents, Sam Sanderson, has learned to keep an eye on the woodpiles and garbage cans around him.  Sanderson has been creating beauty from objects that most of us would not look twice at.