Stephanie Colombini
News EditorStephanie Colombini joined Vermont Public in 2025 as News Editor after more than a decade working in public radio. She previously worked at WUSF in Tampa, Florida, where she won dozens of state and national awards reporting on health care, hurricanes and other issues. She also contributed stories for NPR and KFF Health News as part of a national reporting collaborative. Colombini has also worked as an editor, producer and host. She hails from New York and spent her early journalism years working at WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City and WFUV, based at her alma mater Fordham University.
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Work is underway to build a cabin on national forest land in Rutland County and there’s a legal challenge against a planned transmission line in New Hampshire that New England electric customers will pay for; a local college is launching a new EMS degree program. -
In this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, Vermont Public reporters Lola Duffort and Peter Hirschfeld break down a high-stakes fight over mandatory consolidation.
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The Burlington Police Department releases body camera footage from a March immigration raid and protests in South Burlington; a local electric aircraft company’s CEO reports big earnings; and a seven-year-old song from a Starksboro musician and carpenter Erin Cassels-Brown went through some renovations this year.
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A Dartmouth study finds rainfall is happening in shorter, more intense bursts; a Quebec man accused of smuggling migrants pled guilty to the charge; you might need to hire a boat charter to get to a popular camping site this summer.
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Overdose deaths in Vermont involving a powerful tranquilizer decreased nearly 70 percent last year; and a man wanted by federal immigration authorities missed his state court appearance for a D-U-I charge; a conversation with the University of Vermont’s new women’s basketball head coach.
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The region (and the nation) sees another rise in gasoline prices; Vermont may ban a toxic weed killer; exploring a regional museum dedicated to a distinctive instrument.
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In today's episode, a program that offers free admission to Vermont State Parks again this year, some residents in Plainfield are working on building dozens of new housing units and designating a percentage as affordable housing, and a trip to the new Waterbury skatepark.
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In this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, the latest from Montpelier from Vermont Public’s Statehouse reporter Peter Hirschfeld gets the lowdown from housing and infrastructure reporter Carly Berlin on the vote to repeal some measures in the land-use law, known as Act 181.
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In today's episode, the infant formula factory in Georgia is closing its doors and laying off workers, rabies was detected in New York state, plus The Friday song from a Plainfield artist.
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In today's episode, Efforts to build more affordable housing in Rutland and a state police investigation into human remains found in the GreenMountain National Forest. Then, we’ll go on board a Lake Champlain boat tour with a Vermont writer and captain who’s got a new book full ofstories about lake history and his own reflections on place, tourism and home.
