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Vermont Edition

Vermont Edition brings you news and conversation about issues affecting your life. Host Mikaela Lefrak considers the context of current events through interviews with news makers and people who make our region buzz.

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School Stories: Sex Education

Vermont Edition ·

2025/09/09

Vermont schools are required to provide comprehensive sex education. Classes cover everything from STIs to consent. Jenna Emerson, a certified sex educator and stand-up comedian, and Celia Bird, a family nurse practitioner and comprehensive sex educator, share how they create age-appropriate lesson plans, and embrace the awkward humor of the human body. At a national level, the Trump administration cut sex ed funds for California after the state refused to remove references to gender identity from

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49:57

With CDC shakeup, states chart their own COVID course

Vermont Edition ·

2025/09/08

Can you get the latest COVID vaccine? The answer might depend on how old you are, what state you live in or whether you have a prescription. Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is undergoing a period of upheaval marked by firings and resignations. Kennedy also fired the members of the CDC's immunization panel, and the new panel hasn't met in weeks.Weighing in on Vermont Edition is: Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former deputy director at the CDC;

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Seven Days celebrates its 30th anniversary

Vermont Edition ·

2025/09/04

The Vermont alt weekly Seven Days is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Every week, they publish a print paper, and every day they share local news and stories online. We’ll hear from the paper’s co-founder and deputy publisher about their favorite memories from the past 30 years, and what it’ll take to keep the paper going for 30 more.Plus, a check-in with Vermont Public's two newest music hosts, Tad Cautious and DJ Llu. They’ll tell us stories from their radio roots, explain how they come up with

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Will Vermont's drought leave leaf peepers high and dry?

Vermont Edition ·

2025/09/03

Will Vermont's drought leave leaf peepers high and dry?

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49:46

School Stories: What's for lunch?

Vermont Edition ·

2025/09/02

When we talk about schools, we usually focus on what happens inside the classroom, but what happens in the cafeteria also plays an important role in learning.In the second installment of our fall series School Stories, we’re talking school meals. Food services coordinators Susan Grabowski of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union and Kathy Alexander of the Mount Abe and Addison Northwest school districts discuss menus, how federal funding cuts could affect school meals and the pros and cons of

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Get the scoop on the best creemees: Vermont Edition's...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/28

Vermonters are very particular about our ice cream. It makes sense — we live in the land of milk and maple syrup. Chances are that if you stop a person in the street, they'll be able to quickly rattle off their favorite creemee spot and classic order.On Vermont Edition's annual creemee show, we talk with the purveyors of some of your favorite frozen treats in the region. This year we hear from Hannah Connor, the café and kitchen manager at Red Hen Baking Company in Middlesex, Jess Yates, owner of

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Varsity bass fishing hooks Vermont high school students

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/27

Varsity bass fishing hooks Vermont high school students

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School Stories: Redistricting and consolidation

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/26

School Stories: Redistricting and consolidation

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How should a city honor its original peoples through...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/25

For four decades, a statue dedicated to an Abenaki Chief stood in Burlington's Battery Park. The wooden statue was recently removed due to decay and rot. Deciding how to honor a complex part of history is never easy. We’ll talk with a Norwich professor about Northeastern Indigenous history, the director general of Odanak First Nation in Quebec, and a state representative for Burlington.City leaders in Burlington continue to debate how to address illegal activity in public spaces like drug use and

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Vermont Edition At Home: Gesine Bullock-Prado

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/21

Vermont Edition At Home: Gesine Bullock-Prado

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A Winooski author's urban field guide

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/20

Winooski author Maggie Hersokvits loves the hardy little plants that grow through the cracks of our cities. Her new book is an urban field guide to the plants, trees and herbs you might find in a North American city, like pokeweed, ground ivy, yellow rocket and hackberry.Plus, we'll listen back to our conversation from June with the state’s Historic Preservation Officer about the state’s newest historic markers.

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Let's get physical with records, film photography,...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/19

Let's get physical with records, film photography, and more

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Novelist Amy Klinger examines small town Vermont in...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/18

In Vermont author Amy Klinger's new novel, unlikely connections abound between softball players, migrant farm workers, an experimental art sculptor--and a Scarecrow Jesus.Klinger joins guest host Mitch Wertlieb to talk about about her book Ducks on the Pond. At turns darkly comic and dramatically poignant, it's a story of people from wildly different backgrounds and circumstances trying to find a sense of community and belonging in a fictional Vermont town...one that will feel very real to folks

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Saying goodbye to Nectar's music venue

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/14

The neon street sign. The Phish memorabilia. The gravy fries. The iconic stage. For those who loved Nectar’s restaurant, bar and music venue in Burlington, these were the hallmarks of a good time for nearly 50 years.We’ll relive Nectar’s storied history with Seven Days music editor Chris Farnsworth and what the closure of one Burlington music club signals about the local music scene in our region. Lee Anderson, owner of the music venue Radio Bean, explains how important it is to have a network of

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Live from the Vermont State Fair

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/13

Every summer, the Vermont Edition team heads to a local fair for a special live broadcast, and this year we chose the Vermont State Fair in Rutland. Our team set up shop right by the milking parlor at the fairgrounds as the food was getting fried, the kids were gearing up for the 4H competitions, and the rides were getting ready to provide the ambiance of summer fun. We spoke with the fair's president, Robert Congdon, Jr., who told us about the past and present of this storied Rutland tradition. We

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Navigating A.I. therapy

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/12

The use of artificial intelligence for therapy is growing, including for minors. AI makes therapy more accessible. But clinicians want to make sure kids get medically sound advice and stay safe.We weigh the pros and cons of this mental health approach with Dr. Steven Schlozman, the chief of child psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, as well as an associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, and Shannon Newell, who works with

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Bill McKibben's new book on solar power /...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/11

Today on Vermont Edition, we'll talk with climate writer and activist Bill McKibben of Ripton. In his new book, he makes the case for solar power as the cheapest energy source on the planet. And he says it’s time to stop thinking of solar as “alternative energy” and bring it into the mainstream.Then, programs to support Vermont veterans have lost staff due to cuts in federal funding this summer. We’ll talk with the head of the Vermont National Guard’s family programs, and an organizer with a

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How today's college students navigate romance in a...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/07

How today's college students navigate romance in a digital age

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Town by town: The 251 Club

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/06

Town by town: The 251 Club

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Vermont as a leader in flood mitigation / Seven Days...

Vermont Edition ·

2025/08/06

In Vermont, annual precipitation has increased six inches since the 1960s. That, plus the state’s steep terrain, make Vermont a laboratory for the study of intense rainfall and flooding.Today on Vermont Edition, The New Yorker magazine staff writer John Seabrook explores how Vermont manages its rivers in his latest article. He sees scientists, land use planners and policymakers breaking away from tradition, and making choices that other states could mimic. We’ll also hear from Kevin Geiger, a

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