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We’ve passed a key deadline for Vermont bills to get out of their committees in time for lawmakers to get them to the next chamber this year. What climate bills made it past crossover and which ones didn’t?
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For people with dementia, social interactions can be vital in slowing the disease’s progression. But as a person’s condition worsens, finding enjoyable things to do together can be difficult.The two longtime friends from Chittenden County hope a new card game they’ve created will help.
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Spring weather means Vermont’s black bears are coming out of hibernation — and they’re hungry. That’s been an issue in recent years because biologists say the animals are increasingly associating people with food.
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Two long abandoned copper mines in Orange County have finally been slated for cleanup. When those projects are finished, they will mark the end of an industry that ran from the mid 1800s through the 1950s in Vermont.
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After the pandemic halted jury trials in Vermont for more than a year, hundreds of people have languished in prison without being convicted of a crime. And in some cases, people have served longer sentences than they would have otherwise.
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Mining waste from a set of copper mines in Orange County has been polluting surrounding streams for over a century. Last month, the federal government announced new funding to help with the clean up. But many neighbors have asked why the mines need to be disturbed after all this time.
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A new report evaluating the services available for Vermonters struggling with eating disorders found the state is lacking in higher levels of coordinated care.
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As part of our series exploring the word "heat," Vermont Public's Anna Van Dine visited a pig farm in Panton.
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A ride around in Brooke Howe's snowplow truck during a big storm in March, and a conversation about what goes on out there when everyone else is home.
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Vermont lawmakers are poised to move ahead with new restrictions on gun ownership that are all but certain to invite a constitutional challenge due to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that upended legal precedent over the right to bear arms.