Travels with Charlie

Matt Cota is with Meadow Hill Consulting, as Vermonters gear up for home heating season. Jeff Weld is a spokesman Casella Waste Systems, a major contributor to the Wheels for Warmth tire sale; and Erin McCormick is a local food advocate online at @travelikealocalvt talking about the rise in places in Vermont offering Cider Donuts

Ethan Lawrence along with his wife Alexis, are the owners of Lawrence Family Farms, a local working family farm located in Essex Center, with more than 100 Angus beef cattle. And Jeff Weld, updates listeners in the Casella Sustainability Spotlight, as Casella gets ready for Wheels for Warmth; and Charlie Papillo and producer Lee Kittell talk about e-bikes and issues surrounding the increasingly popular form of transportation.

Stephen Russell Payne is author of a new book titled Almost April Under unimaginable circumstances, ALMOST APRIL is a dramatic coming-of-age love story that brings together a beautiful Olympic-hopeful skater and an old sheriff, Harry Thurber, and his wonderful wife, Bea. Set along Lake Champlain, the relationships that develop out of tragedy are as beautiful and challenging as the Vermont landscape in which the story is set. As one early reader said: “I simply could not put this extraordinary no

Dave Hartnett is an independent running for a seat in Chittenden-18 district of the Vermont House of Representatives. Louie Manno is running for a seat in the Vermont Senate as a republican in Chittenden County.

Charlie talks first with Mike Lacroix with the Vermont Agency of Transportation, about the Diverging Diamond Interchange project at I-89, Exit 16 in Colchester, which is set to open in September. Then Jeff Weld with Casella Waste Management talks about the return of kids to school this week, and safety issues surrounding school bus transportation. And Brad Hunt, with the Champlain Valley Fair, sets up the "10 Best Days of Summer" and Charlie gives away passes to callers who sing the jingle liv

Charlie talks with Ric Cengeri, former host of Vermont Viewpoint, now with HomeShare Vermont, talking about HomeShare's efforts in the state. online at homesharevermont.org and Greg Tatro, co-founder of Jenna's Promise, the substance abuse rehabilitation facility in Johnson. jennaspromise.org