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.Peter Hirschfeld

A downtown apartment building stitched Plainfield together. On July 10, floods washed it away. The Heartbreak Hotel was the kind of place where neighbors saw each other every day, where generations of people, from all walks of life, found belonging and someone to wave to in the morning. Twelve people were living there at the time, and they all surv…

Vermont Public staffers celebrated the fall season — and the year of the camelids — at a wool spinning class, apple orchard and potato plot.Sophie Stephens, Zoe McDonald, Elodie Reed

The Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont brings together historical and contemporary quilts for two concurrent exhibitions.Mikaela Lefrak

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

Sales have far exceeded the state's initial projections, but market saturation remains a real threat to the industry's health.Bob Kinzel, Jenn Jarecki, Nathaniel Wilson

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.Howard Weiss-Tisman

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.Bob Kinzel, Jenn Jarecki, Nathaniel Wilson

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.Nina Keck

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

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.Mary Williams Engisch, Adiah Gholston

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.Bryant Denton, Kevin Trevellyan

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.Lola Duffort

Vermont Public is working to hear from as many Vermonters as we can about what issues they want candidates to address.Brittany Patterson, Nina Keck

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.Carly Berlin, Lola Duffort

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.Abagael Giles

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.Elodie Reed

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.Lexi Krupp

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

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.Nathaniel Wilson

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.Lola Duffort

"Uncomfortable conversations need to happen." Raneen Salha and Sarah White discuss their thoughts, feelings and personal connections to the war between Israel and Hamas.

More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the state judiciary is still struggling with an enormous backlog of criminal cases and competing public pressures around how justice should be pursued. To better understand how the system is working, Seven Days and Vermont Public embedded two reporters at the Burlington criminal courthouse for…

Two Abenaki First Nations are continuing to call for Vermont institutions not to work with state-recognized tribes, and to reconsider the process that led to the state recognizing those groups as Abenaki tribes. Those nations — Odanak and Wôlinak — are receiving a mixed response. 2024-04-02: This story has been updated to more accurately reflect th…

John Harrison traveled Vermont as a preacher in the 1880s. A racist name in town records preserved his memory. Note: This story contains sensitive material, including racial slurs. Please listen with care.

Ashley Messier is the co-chair of the Corrections Monitoring Committee in the Vermont Legislature, and she’s the reentry services program manager for Vermont Works for Women. She grew up in Essex with an abusive father and with little money, and she found herself repeating the cycle in early adulthood. This is a story about multigenerational povert…

Many people don’t want to talk about class, because class differences are the source of cultural division and tension. In this story, Erica talks with old friend Susan Randall, a private investigator based in Vergennes, about the luxuries of growing up upper middle class. "What class are you?" is an occasional series from Vermont Public reporter Er…

In 2023, around 70% of the total wealth in this country was owned by the top 10% of earners. The lowest 50% of earners only owned 2.5% of the total wealth. In this story, Vermont writer and poet Garrett Keizer, who has written extensively on the history of labor unions, talks about what happens when we address gender and race equity, but we ignore …

Stephanie Robtoy works as an account manager at Working Fields, a staffing agency that helps people with barriers gain and maintain a job. She grew up in St. Albans in a huge family of Robtoys, some of whom are pretty notorious in town for criminal activity. In this story, Stephanie talks about what it was like to grow up poor, with a last name tha…

Irfan Sehic and his family fled the war in Bosnia and arrived in Barre when Irfan was 17. He worked a number of jobs, went to college and started his own insurance agency, which he still runs out of his house. And for the last few years, he's been a club soccer coach. Irfan lives with his wife and son in Milton, and in this story, he describes the …

Who gets to decide who is Abenaki? Vermont’s four state-recognized tribes — and the state recognition law — have different definitions and criteria for what it means to be Indigenous than many Indigenous Nations. In this episode, we look at this disconnect, and lay out what’s at stake, including power, money and authority. This is Chapter Three of …

After the original group of self-proclaimed Vermont Abenaki failed to gain federal recognition, Vermont lawmakers created a state recognition process of their own. One theory in particular informed the state’s consideration: that Abenaki peoples hid in Vermont to avoid persecution, including statewide eugenics policies. In this episode, we look at …

Two Abenaki First Nations in Canada contest the legitimacy of the four groups recognized by the state of Vermont as Abenaki tribes. This is a dispute that goes back at least two decades, and has gained more prominence in recent years. In this episode, we trace Abenaki history up to 2003, when Odanak First Nation first denounced Vermont groups claim…

University of Virginia researchers say the complaint line run by the grassroots workers’ rights program Milk With Dignity improves conditions for both farmworkers and farm owners. But the program currently only covers one-fifth of Vermont’s dairy industry. Read more from Vermont Public's Elodie Reed.…

Giuliano Cecchinelli is part of a long legacy of Italian stone carvers in Barre, craftsmen whose skill transformed an industry and made the small central Vermont town the “Granite Capital of the World.” In the early 20th century, Barre was a booming industry town. Thousands of workers spent their days making monuments. The railroad chugged into tow…

How the events of last year changed Vermont schools and law enforcement. Also - where's Jack?

How do you know if a young person is plotting a school massacre? And what do you do then?

How a Republican governor who had been rated "A" by the NRA decided that Vermont, one of the most gun-friendly states in the nation, needed gun control laws.

When does planning a school shooting become attempted murder? The question went all the way to the Vermont Supreme Court.

Jack Sawyer’s journal contained a startling confession. It landed him in jail, and sent shockwaves through the state of Vermont.

Who is Jack Sawyer, and why did he want to kill his former classmates?

Coming September 6 from Vermont Public Radio.