Episodes
Dartmouth College students put on the sixth annual Indigenous Arts and Fashion Show Thursday night at the Hood Museum of Art. It's part of an ongoing observation of Indigenous Peoples' Month.
Published 10/18/24
New England musicians Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin have released a new album that references their African American and Indigenous traditions. the duo is performing at Higher Ground on Friday.
Published 10/18/24
A national group called the Green Advocacy Project has contributed $180,000 to a Vermont-based super PAC that’s using the money to boost candidates who it believes will support a clean heat standard.
Published 10/17/24
Vermont Public staffers celebrated the fall season — and the year of the camelids — at a wool spinning class, apple orchard and potato plot.
Published 10/17/24
The Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont brings together historical and contemporary quilts for two concurrent exhibitions.
Published 10/16/24
The Vermont gardening season is often too wet or too dry, and it is always too short. We love it anyway.
Published 10/15/24
Sales have far exceeded the state's initial projections, but market saturation remains a real threat to the industry's health.
Published 10/14/24
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.
Published 10/11/24
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.
Published 10/10/24
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.
Published 10/09/24
Corrections officials say maintaining strong family bonds can improve outcomes for children and their incarcerated parents.
Published 10/07/24
Hip-hop artist Edwin Owusu, also known as SINNN, was first introduced to the genre when he moved to Harlem from Ghana. The Vermonter shines a light on mental health issues in the tracks on his new EP, Art N Depression, out Oct. 4.
Published 10/04/24
For years, multiplayer video games have been moving more and more online. But some hardcore gamers still gather in person to compete against each other at the highest levels, including in the Green Mountain State.
Published 10/04/24
The decision came at the conclusion of an emotional four-hour meeting, in which even some proponents of consolidation said the board and administrators had failed to make a convincing case for closure.
Published 10/04/24
Vermont Public is working to hear from as many Vermonters as we can about what issues they want candidates to address.
Published 10/03/24
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.
Published 10/02/24
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.
Published 10/01/24
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.
Published 09/30/24
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.
Published 09/30/24
On the latest installment of Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman explores the evolution of grief with Tara Reese.
Published 09/27/24
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.
Published 09/26/24
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.
Published 09/25/24
Restorative justice is a process that focuses on the offender repairing the harm caused by their actions, and uses dialogue and empathy rather than punishment. Vermont's only women's prison has had restorative justice classes for the past few years.
Published 09/24/24
Local entrepreneur Harmony Edosomwan is taking part in a 10-week program through New York University intended to lift up Black business owners. Her catering business, Harmony's Kitchen, serves authentic soul food from its Winooski hub.
Published 09/23/24
The same federal bureaucracy that hampered flood recovery for individuals after last summer's floods is plunging small, rural towns into crippling debt.
Published 09/23/24