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A trail for everyone
A new mountain biking trail system that is universally accessible for adaptive mountain bikers is now open in Vermont. Plus, Debby brought high winds and power outages, but minimal flooding, environmental justice groups call on utilities to shutdown power plants that are used when demand for electricity is high, an update on Vermont’s greenhouse gas emissions, no medal for Franklin County’s Elle St. Pierre, the first case of eastern equine encephalitis in Vermont in over a decade, and Montpelier is asking people to leave an encampment at a former country club.
Elodie 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.
Brittany Patterson joined Vermont Public in December 2020. Previously, she was an energy and environment reporter for West Virginia Public Broadcasting and the Ohio Valley ReSource. Prior to that, she covered public lands, the Interior Department and forests for E&E News' ClimateWire, based in Washington, D.C. Brittany also teaches audio storytelling and has taught classes at West Virginia University, Saint Michael's College and the University of Vermont. She holds degrees in journalism from San Jose State University and U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. A native of California, Brittany has fallen in love with Vermont. She enjoys hiking, skiing, baking and cuddling with her rescues, a 95-pound American Bulldog mix named Cooper, and Mila, the most beautiful calico cat you'll ever meet.