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The Frequency: Daily Vermont News

Family secrets

By Elodie Reed,
Brittany Patterson
Published November 26, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST
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A biological discovery brings two women together. Plus, cold weather will bring changes to Vermont’s motel housing program, there’s been an uptick in requests for contraceptive and gender-affirming care since the election, Vermont's unemployment rate rose slightly last month, workers seeking disaster unemployment benefits from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after July’s floods have less than a week to apply, Monkton has a new town forest and Middlebury College field hockey clinches another Division III NCAA Championship.

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Elodie Reed
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. <a href="mailto:elodie.reed@vermontpublic.org" target="_blank" link-data="{&quot;cms.site.owner&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000177-ab2e-d2dd-abff-eb6ea2110000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;ae3387cc-b875-31b7-b82d-63fd8d758c20&quot;},&quot;cms.content.publishDate&quot;:1742304232532,&quot;cms.content.publishUser&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000186-5fe4-d0fb-afde-5ff5517d0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc&quot;},&quot;cms.content.updateDate&quot;:1742304232532,&quot;cms.content.updateUser&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000186-5fe4-d0fb-afde-5ff5517d0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc&quot;},&quot;cms.directory.paths&quot;:[],&quot;anchorable.showAnchor&quot;:false,&quot;link&quot;:{&quot;attributes&quot;:[],&quot;cms.directory.paths&quot;:[],&quot;linkText&quot;:&quot;Email Elodie&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;NEW&quot;,&quot;attachSourceUrl&quot;:false,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;mailto:elodie.reed@vermontpublic.org&quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;00000195-a96c-d29a-af9f-bbeca84b0001&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a&quot;},&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;00000195-a96c-d29a-af9f-bbeca84b0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288&quot;}">Email Elodie</a>.
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Brittany Patterson
Brittany Patterson worked for Vermont Public from 2020 to 2025 as an editor, afternoon news producer, deputy managing editor and executive editor of news at the station.
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