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Trish O'Kane pairs college students with Burlington elementary school kids for birding adventures that yield surprising benefits. Her new memoir, "Birding to Change the World," explores how birding can be a gateway into personal healing, environmental and social justice, and stronger human connections.
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A unique collaboration links college students in Burlington with elementary school kids to learn birding skills. Plus, plans to build a locked juvenile facility in Newbury are dropped, Vermont’s House speaker pushes back on criticism that Democrats aren’t doing enough to ease the state’s housing crisis, weather is the X factor in determining how many tourists come for the total solar eclipse,dogs rescued from a facility in New York are now up for adoption, and a big week for Vermont college basketball fans.
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Vermont will receive over $74 million from the federal government as part of the appropriations bill passed earlier this month. And there’s more on the way.
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At one of the four shelters, set up in anticipation of people exiting the emergency housing motel program, not a single person showed up over the weekend.
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Town officials and residents strongly opposed the proposed facility, and the project was caught in a lengthy legal battle. DCF Commissioner Chris Winters said that the department is pursuing other options for where to build a secure facility to house justice-involved youth.
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Vermont municipalities are allowed to auction off a person’s property if they fall behind on their taxes. It’s a process called a tax sale. Local officials say tax sales are an important tool to ensure towns get the revenue they’re owed, but critics say the process has few protections for residents.