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6:23

Peeping season: The sights and sounds of fall...

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2024/10/17

Vermont Public staffers celebrated the fall season — and the year of the camelids — at a wool spinning class, apple orchard and potato plot.

7:13

Gardening in Vermont: An exercise for eternal optimists

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2024/10/15

The Vermont gardening season is often too wet or too dry, and it is always too short. We love it anyway.

6:44

Vermont’s legal cannabis marketplace celebrates its...

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2024/10/14

Sales have far exceeded the state's initial projections, but market saturation remains a real threat to the industry's health.

5:30

West Windsor gets rid of a cannon that it never...

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2024/10/11

For about 20 years a cannon of unknown origin stood in front of the West Windsor town hall. The town learned recently that it was possibly stolen and has no connection to the town's history.

8:38

Does Vermont tax Social Security benefits? It's...

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2024/10/10

Vermont is one of nine states that tax some Social Security benefits. Some people would like to see Vermont expand its exemption to higher income levels.

8:12

Rutland wants to fix a common housing complaint:...

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2024/10/09

Housing is a huge issue this election. In Rutland, officials are trying to fix what they call a housing log jam, that's making it hard for older homeowners to downsize and too costly for first time buyers to become homeowners.

3:14

Vermont prisons work to improve visitation...

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2024/10/07

Corrections officials say maintaining strong family bonds can improve outcomes for children and their incarcerated parents.

6:18

Family shelters are scarce as hundreds of children...

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2024/10/02

According to preliminary state data, there were 1,927 unhoused students enrolled in Vermont public schools last school year — nearly double the figure from five years prior.

5:23

Underhill's unofficial town crier has been part of...

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2024/10/01

For 50 years, the United Church of Underhill’s Old Fashioned Harvest Market has welcomed scores of visitors. And James Morris has been there most of that time — his voice booming over the hubbub.

13:26

Vermonter, Lakota elder reflects on documentary about...

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2024/09/30

Huntington resident Beverly Little Thunder, who is enrolled in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, recently attended the Burlington screening of the documentary Sugarcane.

4:52

Vermont's landlocked. You can still find plenty of...

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2024/09/30

For an ocean bird traveling from its breeding grounds in the Arctic, Lake Champlain looks a lot like the sea. This skinny stretch of water serves as a migration corridor for some birds who are usually hundreds of miles away, in the Atlantic.

8:16

Rumble Strip: Tara

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2024/09/27

On the latest installment of Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman explores the evolution of grief with Tara Reese.

5:44

'They haven't been fed': Legal troubles, forfeitures...

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2024/09/26

The most recent horse seizure came on Sept. 10, when Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department game wardens and Vermont State Police troopers took at least 20 horses from Townshend's Friesians of Majesty. Troopers seized two more horses earlier this year, and 13 last year, due to a lack of care.

6:12

Did Act 46 work? It's complicated

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2024/09/25

Grace Miller parsed 15 years of school spending data to figure out if the school district consolidation law saved any money. And while her statistical analysis found that merged and unmerged districts ultimately spent about the same amount, she also found they spent money in very different ways.

6:15

Vermont hospitals are heading for bankruptcy. A plan...

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2024/09/19

“There is no hospital in Vermont that is not in jeopardy,” stressed the consultant who led work on the report. Recommendations include closing inpatient beds and converting emergency departments into urgent care centers at Gifford Medical Center, Grace Cottage, North Country, and Springfield hospitals.

8:22

Health care workers are unionizing across Vermont....

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2024/09/17

The union representing health care and higher education employees, AFT Vermont, says it’s doubled the number of workers in its ranks over the last six years.

7:48

Vermont needs at least 24,000 more homes in the next...

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2024/09/16

Vermont needs 24,000 new year-round homes to get the housing market to a healthy place — that's according to the recent Vermont Housing Needs Assessment report, from the Vermont Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Community Development. Housing official Alex Farrell breaks down the report.

7:33

Liam's burger: Local man takes on the Dozer Challenge...

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2024/09/13

The Dozer is 2 pounds of burger, eight strips of bacon and cheese, and a pound of fries. It has to be eaten in 30 minutes or less.

5:45

Barre, the only district in Vermont still without a...

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2024/09/12

The school board has once again trimmed its spending plans for the year, and scheduled a fourth budget vote for Sept. 17. Early voting has begun.

4:26

Vermont plans new locked youth facility under the...

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2024/09/11

In May, the Department for Children and Families unveiled a plan to build a new secure youth facility in Vergennes — partially on land that once housed the Weeks School, a former youth detention center with a troubled history. Some advocates say it’s a physical reminder that the state hasn't done enough to reckon with the past.

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