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As Trump Threatens Electoral Chaos, Vermont Grassroots Groups Prepare to Protect the Midterms

October 12, 2026

MONTPELIER — “Can I have about five people to volunteer to be the legislators? You’re the people who are trying to get past the soldiers.” On a September afternoon in a Montpelier…

Muddy rural road with ruts and snow; two men carry sap buckets to maple trees.

Get Your Pickles: Maple Sugar Season is Off and Running

March 14, 2022

by Cassandra Hemenway

Sap lines, taps, and buckets mean winter is coming to a sweet end as local maple producers report that boiling has begun, following a…

Kekla Magoon: Social Change is Incremental and We Can All Be Part of It

February 22, 2022

by Tom McKone

By Tom McKone Kekla Magoon knows her readers. As a prolific, highly respected writer of young adult books and a strong advocate for social…

Woman holding keys in front of white door.

Pathways Vermont: Housing Helps Build New Lives

January 26, 2022

by Mary Cole Mello

The nonprofit Pathways Vermont uses the “housing first” model, based on the belief that housing is the foundation upon which a new life can…

Women-Owned Businesses on Stowe Street, Waterbury

January 26, 2022

by Linda Radtke

When a friend mentioned women own most businesses on Waterbury’s Stowe Street, I thought, “Why is that news?” Women in leadership have made great…

Yoga Studios Adapt to Pandemic

January 26, 2022

by Valentyn Smith

Central Vermont yoga studios grapple with financial stability, safety concerns, and accessibility during the pandemic. At the same time, they offer space to practice…

Kitzmiller Coat Drive Still Thrives

December 23, 2021

by Cassandra Hemenway

The annual cold weather coat drive started in 1989 by the late Rep. Karen Bitterman Kitzmiller, D-Montpelier, is still alive and thriving thanks to…

Missing Package Madness Escalates

December 23, 2021

by J. Gregory Gerdel

A recent Consumer Reports survey found that “a number of socio-demographic variables factor into whether you’re likely to have a package stolen. Package theft…

Montpelier’s Wandering Creche

December 15, 2021

by Carla Occaso

Images, statues, candles, and twinkling lights depicting Jesus can be seen in many places during the holiday season. But if you want to see…

Several Homeless People Die Recently

November 30, 2021

by Cassandra

Amid a flurry of advocates cobbling together winter solutions for the unhoused, three local homeless people died over an eight-day period in November, according…

Honoring Veterans in Barre

November 16, 2021

by John Lazenby

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The Old Stagecoach Inn: Waterbury’s Victorian Jewel Box

November 16, 2021

by Linda Radtke

“If this house doesn’t have a ghost, it should have,” remarks a guest at the Old Stagecoach Inn on Main Street in Waterbury. On…

Is it over yet? Third in a series.

August 2, 2021

by Carla Occaso

A COVID Christmas Carol Part III: The ghost of COVID future — getting the shot See A COVID Christmas Carol part I A COVID…

From Ebbets Field to the Montpelier Rec

May 18, 2021

by sarah

Meeting a baseball legend here in town My grandmother Libertoff — a stern, unhappy, divorced woman — lived in a basement apartment in what…

‘Of An Era’: The Horn of the Moon Café, And All It Stood For

April 28, 2021

by Will Lindner

Fred Wilber had been waiting weeks for this day, and he wasn’t going to blow it now. So he arrived early at his store,…

Joint Chiefs Chairman to Give Norwich Commencement Address

April 24, 2021

by Press Release

NORTHFIELD — Norwich University announced that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley will give the commencement address to the Class of…

Union Elementary School: The Early Years

April 10, 2021

by Mary Cole Mello

You may have passed through the front hall of Montpelier’s Union Elementary School many times and never noticed it, a bronze plaque with burnished…

Leo Riby-Williams Rises With a Little Help From His Friends

April 7, 2021

by Tom Brown

It might be hard to find gems in a year that can charitably be described as lousy, but there are a few gold nuggets…

Central Vermont Humane Society Adapts, and Adapts Again

April 7, 2021

by Will Lindner

While many sectors of society are cautiously feeling their way back to what we wistfully remember as “normal” — life before the danger and…

Downsizing, Pre- and During a Pandemic

April 7, 2021

by sarah

by Cari Clement We knew it had to happen, but we couldn’t have picked both a better and worse time to downsize. However, now…

Vermont National Guard Sees Most Active Year Since Afghanistan

April 7, 2021

by Ariel Wish

For the past year, the Vermont National Guard has been serving on the frontlines — aiding locally in coronavirus relief efforts, federally to support…

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