Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, Burlington kids learned how to blow a shofar.

A tech company announced last August it would hire 250 people to staff an office in Waterbury. But in recent months, it quietly canceled those plans.The development comes even though the company, MTX Group, was in line to receive the largest-ever award from a controversial state economic incentive program.

Since 1975, staff at Polly’s Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, has been tracking when the leaves peak, when they fade and when the season’s first snowfall arrives. It’s a tradition that customers have come to rely on when planning their fall foliage watching.

The state used COVID relief money to invest in slaughterhouses, but officials say much more is needed to bring the existing infrastructure up to capacity.

Vermont’s new retail cannabis marketplace is set to open soon. It’s not going to happen with a lot of fanfare, but instead will be a gradual opening of retail stores across the state over the next few months.

Seder is a Jewish ceremonial dinner that begins the springtime festival of Passover. A prominent Passover theme — liberation — sparked a different kind of Seder in the mid-90s: a Pride Seder. The event marks key milestones in the struggle for LGBTQ rights. And this marks the first year that a Pride Seder is being held in Vermont.

Recently, fish biologists from Vermont Fish and Wildlife added 5,000 muskellunge fingerlings to the Missisquoi River in Swanton. Since 2013, the department has undertaken a restoration effort to restock this native species, in collaboration with a muskellunge hatchery in New York state. Reporter Erica Heilman went along to watch these fish get introduced to their new home.

For more than two decades, Stephen Leslie has worked to restore 60 acres of farmland in Hartland, Vermont. In the final installment of our Summer School series, Vermont Public’s Elodie Reed took a walk with him to learn how.

Catamount Run will bring roughly 500 more beds to South Burlington City Center, within a mile-and-a-half radius of UVM’s Burlington campus. The development will come online in phases, with plans to have 170 beds ready by summer 2024, and the rest finished within the following two years.

Vermont is in line to receive about $8 million from the vaping company Juul Labs — that's after Vermont and 33 other states reached a settlement with Juul over its aggressive marketing toward young people.