Kevin Trevellyan

March 31 is International Transgender Day of visibility. It's a celebration of trans and nonbinary people and a way to elevate their voices, pioneered by transgender activist Rachel Crandall Crocker in 2009. It's also the anniversary of the opening of Shapeshifters, an online shop in Brattleboro that specializes in size-inclusive, gender-affirming clothing, including chest binders.

This Saturday marks the first-ever Annual Youth Chess Day in Vermont. Grade-school students from around the state will participate in learning sessions and – for the experienced – a recreational tournament.

Between March 2020 and December 2022, a federally-funded program paid more than $160 million for motel and hotel rooms to shelter thousands of Vermonters. But many of those tenants have flagged abysmal conditions, and advocates are concerned there hasn't been enough state oversight or protections for renters.

CAR T-cell therapy uses a patient’s own immune system to attack the cancer cells — and is now available in Vermont for the first time.

When Mount Ascutney ski resort went bankrupt over a decade ago, it threw nearby West Windsor into turmoil. So the town took a risk and bought the ski area in 2015. Residents formed a non-profit called Ascutney Outdoors to run it, and the move paid off.

In 2020, Vermont became the first state in the country to legally require residents to compost food scraps. This is the first published research into that law, and another that bans single-use plastics for restaurant takeout.

Colby Tuller, a freshman at Montpelier’s U32 High School, recently discovered a trove of artifacts that belonged to a Civil War officer with Vermont ties.

“Two Bessies on Two Wheels" is a free, online package of African American history curriculum designed for kids in kindergarten through 5th grade. Using lesson plans and other resources, they're invited to learn about two Black women who were pioneers in motorcycle and airplane travel.

A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice was published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Yoga With Jillian is stopping for two nights in Burlington before an off-Broadway run in New York.