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 Elmore's Fire Tower Pizza: A Community Collaboration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 77

Six months ago, Elmore residents John and Kristen Howell struck up a partnership with The Elmore Store owners Warren and Kathy Miller. They started...

 Old Wood Cook Stoves Are Still A Draw, For Some | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 230

A century ago, home life in Vermont revolved around the wood burning cook stove. Meals were prepared, bread baked and hands warmed from the heat it...

 Road, Bridge Projects Come In $16 Million Over Budget | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 176

The Agency of Transportation has experienced some mild sticker shock for road and bridge projects this year. And the high cost of materials has...

 Vermont Novelist Seeks To Complicate The 'Thanksgiving Myth' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 676

Will Poole's Island, a new novel by Vermont writer Tim Weed, is a perfect fit for the Thanksgiving season. It's historical fiction set in the colonial...

 Thanksgiving Travel? Vermont Turkeys Used To Walk To Boston | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 460

Today, the term farm-to-table signifies the epitome of local food. But nearly 200 years ago, it meant something entirely different when Thanksgiving...

 Rare Baseball Memorabilia Stolen From Burlington Home | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 160

A Burlington collector is offering a $30,000 reward for information that leads to the return of some very rare baseball memorabilia from the early 1900s...

 Q&A: Rebecca Rupp On How Food Shapes Society | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 870

Award-winning author and food historian Rebecca Rupp has written more than 20 books and published over 200 articles. Rupp lives in northern Vermont and...

 How 'Housing First' Reduces Homelessness And Saves Money | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 409

Homelessness is a problem in the United States that affects every state, and Vermont is no exception.But a model of handling homelessness called Housing...

 Sharks! New Lecture Series Begins In Middlebury | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 778

“The one thing you're not supposed to do when filming sharks is to back up." The first time Andy Mitchell swam with great white sharks proved to be...

 Regional Report: Hartland Cemetery Relocated, But Resentment Lingers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 414

The Vermont Telephone Co. CEO who moved an ancient cemetery in Hartland to clear the way for a new home has received a wastewater permit for the site,...

  Proposals Sought For Wood Heat Program In Windham County | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 186

The Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund has allocated $1.6 million to develop a wood-pellet heating industry in Windham County. The funding group has...

 Advocacy Group Reacts To Obama's Immigration Plan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 90

President Barack Obama says he will be laying out a plan Thursday to improve the immigration system. He says he plans to extend temporary legal status...

 Still On High Alert, State Is Monitoring Two People For Ebola | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 213

There isn’t a single documented case of Ebola in the United States right now, let alone in Vermont. But health officials here remain on high alert...

 For Susanne Schmidt, Storytelling Is About Connecting People | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 300

Susanne Schmidt started telling stories over a year ago, during a comedy fundraiser for the lunch ladies of Vermont. “The day before the event, I was...

 New Reports Yield Fresh Information To Help Vermonters Lower Energy Bills | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 407

Starting this week, over 100,000 Vermonters began getting Home Energy Reports in the mail. They came from the state's energy efficiency utility,...

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