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A muddy peninsula juts out into a shallow part of a lake's shoreline. A mountain and homes are seen across the water.

A good, not great, lake: Lake Champlain’s short stint as the sixth Great Lake

The Midwest is home to five Great Lakes. But for a short time in the late 1990s, there were six — after one Vermont lake crashed the party.

The Richmond park and ride is one of the state's busiest, according to the Vermont Agency of Transportation.

Twelve hours at the Richmond park and ride

Three reporters spent 12 straight hours at one of the busiest park and rides in the state — on one of the busiest travel days of the year — to get to know Vermont from a new perspective.

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Brave Little State’s 8th Annual Brief History of Vermont Road Names

From the cosmic to the paranormal, this year’s investigation into three peculiar road names — Horn of the Moon, Scotch Hollow and Goodenough — took us to some unexpected places.

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Vermont just passed a law to protect bees. Here’s how a similar effort is playing out in Quebec

Vermont just passed a law banning the use of some pesticides that are known to kill bees. Quebec has had a similar law on the books for years. So we headed north of the border to see what we can learn from our Canadian neighbors.

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What did the sale of the Lake Monsters mean for Vermont baseball? (Encore)

The sale of the Vermont Lake Monsters in 2021 brought lots of changes. In some ways, it’s a story of renewal. But the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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