6. Interactive TV Currently, there are 14 Vermont Interactive Television (VIT) sites throughout the state, one of which is located at the Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury. The Middlebury VIT site began operation in 1994 and enables the region’s residents to participate in classes and videoconferences from around the state or the world. Each VIT studio is staffed by technicians and is outfitted with equipment such as VCRs, computers with Power Point software, overhead cameras, fax machines and an internet connection to support presentations, public hearings, conferences and distance learning courses.

7. Vermont Interactive Learning Network The Vermont Interactive Learning Network (VILN) is a videoconferencing network that connects the state’s high schools for course sharing, professional development, curriculum resources, technical assistance, professional meetings and special events. Participating schools are connected by special T1 broadband lines into a high-speed communications network, which is being provided by Verizon at no additional cost until June 2005. The VILN is available to students at all the region’s high schools. The system offers students additional choices in foreign language classes, advanced placement classes and other specialized curriculum.

Radio There are several commercial FM and AM radio stations in the Addison Region. operates out of Colchester. The local stations are WXAL-FM “The Arrow” (93.7 MHz) and WFAD AM (1490 kHz) in Middlebury, owned by Addison Broadcasting Company, and WCLX FM (102.9 MHz) and WIZN FM (106.7 MHz) of Vergennes. WSYB FM and AM (92.1 MHz and 1380 kHz) and WGTK FM (100.9 MHz) also broadcast from Middlebury, although the WSYB FM tower is in Port Henry, New York. A low-power FM station, WMUD LP, operates out of Bridport at 89.3 MHz, with a tower in Moriah, New York. WRMC FM (91.1 MHz) is the independent, student-operated station at Middlebury College. A number of other stations transmitting from outside the region can also be picked up from within the Addison Region.

Print Media The Addison County Independent was established in 1946, taking over the Middlebury Register, which was founded in 1831. Originally published weekly, the Addison County Independent began publishing twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays in 1987. The paper covers all of Addison County and has a website that provides a limited number of current stories and a searchable archive of articles going back to the late 1990s.

The weekly Addison Eagle of Middlebury is owned by Denton Publications of Elizabethtown, New York, after having been started as a local enterprise. The Middlebury Valley Voice is a feature-oriented weekly. The Five Town News is a monthly newspaper in Bristol. The monthly Vermont Magazine has offices in Middlebury. Two daily newspapers, the Burlington Free Press and Rutland Herald, circulate in the Addison Region.

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