Liam Elder-Connors
ReporterLiam is a reporter based in Burlington and covers a variety of issues, including courts, law enforcement and housing.
Liam has worked at VPR since 2015 and in that time has reported several special projects for VPR, including an investigation into one of the state's prominent landlords and a series of remembrances of Vermonters killed by COVID-19. In 2018, he reported and co-hosted JOLTED, a five-part podcast about an averted school shooting and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for his work on that project.
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Addressing school threats on a local level. Plus, a record maple syrup year, a language law in Quebec, and limited ferry service. -
In the two weeks since the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Vermont education officials and law enforcement have reported several potential threats to schools here. It’s put a spotlight on school security. But how do safety-related initiatives work at the local level in Vermont?
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In a few days, Bill Stenger, 73, will report to a federal prison in Massachusetts. There he’ll serve an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to a felony charge for his role in the Northeast Kingdom EB-5 scandal. It was the largest financial fraud in Vermont’s history.VPR's Liam Elder-Connors spoke with Stenger in an exclusive interview.
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Three local developers have assumed full ownership of the City Place Burlington project after buying out Don Sinex, one of their partners on the project.
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A veteran Vermont filmmaker makes his last film. Plus, a former St. Albans cop pleads guilty, and state run testing clinics are closing.
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A former St. Albans police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to punching a woman who was handcuffed in a holding cell. A sentencing hearing will take place later this summer.
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A 56-year-old man held at the Vermont state prison in Springfield died Monday evening, state police say. He’s the fifth person to die at a Vermont prison this year.
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While the sentencing of the central figures in the EB-5 scandal marks the end of a chapter, the men leave behind a legacy of EB-5 projects – both finished and unfinished – in the Northeast Kingdom. Residents of the region have mixed feelings about the men, and the projects they left behind.
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Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan announced Thursday he won’t run for reelection this year, and won’t seek another public office this cycle.
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Worries about a potential surge in food insecurity. Plus: bringing hate crime charges in Vermont, an overhaul of education financing, and reforms to Act 250.
