The Frequency

Why a New Hampshire town is pausing work on a multi-million dollar project to fix a pair of pedestrian bridges between Brattleboro and the Connecticut River. Plus, a renowned Vermont climate expert calls for a national day of activism to rally for solar energy projects amid federal rollbacks, parts of the northern Champlain and St. Lawrence Valleys have been under a heat advisory while drought conditions are being seen throughout the state, and Vermont increases the amount of Medicaid dollars people can use moving back home from long-term care facilities.

The Montshire Museum in Norwich has what’s known as a wind phone in its 100-acre forest for people who want to speak to lost loved ones. Plus, State regulators review budgets from Vermont hospitals with a requirement to keep expenses and insurance rates at no more than a three percent hike from last year, construction begins on forty new affordable housing units in Burlington, a federal lawsuit seeks to overturn a new New Hampshire law that denies state funding for schools with DEI programs, and a new poll shows more young people in Quebec want the province to become independent.

A conversation with the retiring head of Vermont’s Department of Corrections after his nearly four year tenure. Plus, Gov. Scott faces backlash for his decision to provide the federal government with the sensitive personal information of people receiving food assistance benefits, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital puts its budget before state health care regulators as it tries to mitigate severe financial deficits, housing advocates advise people forced to leave Vermont's motel voucher program to appeal to the state's Human Services Board, and Gov. Scott says he’s working on a strategy to bring a good number of state employees back to work in downtown Montpelier.

Day programs providing critical care for older adults and people with disabilities have been closing in Vermont, but efforts are underway to extend services in some areas. Plus, state officials move to expand access to Vermont’s medical cannabis program, a local donation will add more than 50 acres of land to Roxbury State Forest, Vermont’s Supreme Court is preparing to hear a lawsuit over who can maintain public trails that run through private land, an associate justice is set to retire from the state’s high court, and we reflect on a very good week for fans of the Boston Red Sox in our weekly sports report.

Vermont’s after school summer programs are using a patchwork approach to get the funding they need to operate this year. Plus, a new affordable housing project opens in Berlin, Vermont remains on a list of states the Justice Department claims have regulations preventing the enforcement of federal immigration laws, why a former state Governor has stopped just shy of visiting every one of Vermont’s 251 towns, villages, and cities, and New Hampshire becomes the first New England state to ban transgender health care for minors.

The Trump administration demanded SNAP recipients personal data and Vermont chose to comply. Plus, Vermont's main energy sources from Canada will not be subject to new tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration, Canadian authorities say they intercepted a group of asylum seekers and potential smugglers in Quebec near the Derby Line border crossing, Only about 200 property owners have taken buyouts from flood damage in Vermont since Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and The Vermont department of health will host a free dental clinic in Hartford Village.

Some criminal defense lawyers could go months without getting paid. Plus, Vermont gives the Trump Administration the sensitive personal data of all residents receiving SNAP benefits, Vermont officials issued an air quality alert for pollution from wildfire smoke, the state is partnering with local businesses to encourage Canadians to travel to Vermont, and Hartford high school will lose access to 12 classrooms this fall due to toxic contamination.

How to spot old schoolhouses in Vermont even when they’ve long since been converted to buildings for other purposes. Plus, the Scott administration says it probably overestimated how many Vermonters will lose health insurance because of federal cuts to Medicaid, a St. Johnsbury hospital announces service closures in an effort to lower health care costs, state officials hope a chemical compound can help suppress algae blooms threatening Lake Carmi, attendance at Vermont state parks has been affected by rainy summer weather and the current political discord between the US and Canada, and our weekly sports report appears today to focus on Major League Baseball and analysis of the moves made and not made by teams at the trading deadline.

Analyzing data on the number of unhoused people in Vermont collected from a single night in January. Plus, revenues in Vermont are expected to grow by over one percent in the new fiscal year but economists warn new federal tariffs could weaken the numbers, insurance companies with state marketplace plans are proposing more modest rate hikes this year but concerns remain that they’re still too expensive, the state Attorney General settles with a Saint Albans creamery over violations of its federal wastewater permit, and more than half a million liquid rabies vaccine baits will be spread across northern Vermont over the next few days.

Speaking with the head coach of Vermont Green FC about the soccer club’s chance to complete an undefeated season by winning the U-S-L League Two title this weekend. Plus, Vermont’s largest hospital system is laying off nearly 80 staff members as part of an effort to rein in costs, why Vermont’s criminal defense lawyers face the prospect of not getting paid until fall, the Vermont National Guard will utilize a program pairing veterans and military service members with vacant jobs, and a new mobile simulation lab will help with emergency training for the state’s rural EMS companies.