5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (743+ words) This story was originally produced by the Valley News. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. When first approached about becoming Vermont’s next cartoonist laureate, Stephen R. Bissette declined. Though he retired from teaching at…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (511+ words) Steven Tendo, an asylum-seeker who lives in Colchester, is out of prison and back in Vermont after a federal judge ordered his release Friday. Federal immigration authorities arrested Tendo, a health care worker and pastor from Uganda, on Feb. 4 in…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (491+ words) A number of Vermont businesses have announced they are fully or partially closed today as part of a national protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Brattleboro Books, a used bookstore, closed in participation with the national strike. “We know this…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (324+ words) Some Vermont towns are facing road salt shortages ahead of a weekend of winter weather and historic cold. Rutland City, Middlebury, Monkton and Vergennes are among the towns scaling back their ice removal as a result. Rutland City Police Department…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (438+ words) The Vermont state senator who’s been under pressure to resign since revelations surfaced this week of his participation in a racist group chat announced Friday evening that he’s leaving public office. Orleans County Sen. Samuel Douglass, a Republican, said in…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (279+ words) Vermont is suing the Trump administration and Environmental Protection Agency over its clawback of $57 million in funds for low-income solar programs in August. Passed under the Biden administration and introduced by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Solar for All Program…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (588+ words) Orleans County Sen. Samuel Douglass, whose participation in a racist Young Republican group chat has spurred calls from across the political spectrum for his resignation, says he hasn’t yet decided whether he’ll leave public office. In his first public comments…...

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (675+ words) A relaxing hike in Chittenden Saturday afternoon took a crazy turn, but thanks to more than three dozen people who stepped up, a potential wildfire was averted. Here’s how it started: My husband Seth and I were slowly making our…...