Elodie Reed
Health Equity ReporterElodie is a reporter and producer for Vermont Public. She previously worked as a multimedia journalist at the Concord Monitor, the St. Albans Messenger and the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and she's freelanced for The Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, the Berkshire Eagle and the Bennington Banner. In 2019, she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University.
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While state and federal law require polling places to be accessible to Vermont voters with disabilities, that’s not always the reality in what are often historic buildings. -
The show displays the work of 25 artists with disabilities. The exhibition, currently on display at the University of Vermont in Burlington, will also travel to Brattleboro, Montpelier and St. Johnsbury between now and December. -
These Vermont orgs create safe spaces for Black & rural youth with substance misuse prevention fundsAccording to the Mayo Clinic, providing supervised activities and support for teens can reduce risk of drug use. -
New research from the University of Vermont and University of Maine shows that while a large percentage of residents already gardened, fished, hunted, foraged and raised backyard animals before the COVID-19 pandemic, more people, especially those experiencing food insecurity, picked up those activities and improved their food security 9-12 months later. -
According to data scraped by PriceLabs from Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, there’s a big spike in people booking short-term rentals for the dates around April 8. -
From snake plants to succulents, our house plants can start to feel like part of the family. Especially in the winter, when they might be the only green, growing thing you see all day. -
The resolution, which was rejected 72-11, would have forced the State Department to review whether Israel is using U.S. military aid to violate human rights in Gaza. Also this week: protestors blocked an aerospace and defense corporation subsidiary's Vergennes facility, and Ben & Jerry's has called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. -
As of Sunday night, no households were reporting power loss according to VTOutages. -
The storm whacked parts of Vermont with reported wind gusts reaching around 70 to 90 miles per hour. And in one valley in Cambridge, the wind wreaked havoc, uprooting giant trees and damaging multiple buildings. -
As temperatures rose and rain fell Sunday night and into Monday, snow melted from Vermont's mountains, and rivers swelled.
