Power Lunch: Robin Turnau
Over a cup of hot coffee in Vermont Public Radio’s Colchester studios, CEO Robin Turnau talks about the station’s ongoing expansion project, its transition into the digital age and how VPR used Legos t o explain the Iowa caucus. Vermont Public Radio must have been the only NPR affiliate in the country that pulled out a Lego set as the recent Iowa caucuses got into high gear. But it wasn’t because the staff at VPR was bored. “We just...
Power Lunch: Robin Turnau
Over a cup of hot coffee in Vermont Public Radio’s Colchester studios, CEO Robin Turnau talks about the station’s ongoing expansion project, its transition into the digital age and how VPR used Legos to explain the Iowa caucus. Vermont Public Radio must have been the only NPR affiliate in the country that pulled out a Lego set as the recent Iowa caucuses got into high gear. But it wasn’t because the staff at VPR was bored. “We just...
Making Online Selling Safer
Boston — Michele Velleman needed to sell a Zumba dance fitness kit, a cellphone and a table through Facebook. So she found buyers on Facebook and made the trades at — where else? — the police station. “It is always a little nerve-racking when you go to someone’s house. It’s in the back of your mind: ‘I hope this person is OK and everything turns out all right,’ ”said Velleman, 44, a pharmaceutical executive assistant for a...
Tesla, Maker of Electric Cars, Plans to Install Route 12A Charging Station
Lebanon — The Route 12A commercial strip in West Lebanon is finally to get a new refueling station for automobiles. Only it won’t help drivers running low on gas. Tesla, the maker of $70,000-plus electric cars, is planning to build a charging station for its vehicles adjacent to Price Chopper in a move that brings the first major electric vehicle power station to the Upper Valley. The station comes after Korpela Family Trust, the...
