Commentary Series

Saint Lucy’s Day

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This week, VPR commentators continue to serve up some “Very Vermont Food”. Today commentator Rosemary Fifield describes a holiday tradition that will be familiar to many in Vermont’s Italian communities.
Commentary Series

New Legislature

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As a graduate student intern at the Snelling Center for Government, commentator Helen Labun Jordan is looking forward to observing the new session of the Vermont state legislature.
VPR News

Vermont Guard trains for brigade combat teams

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The 130 members of the Vermont National Guard called up earlier this month and another 400 headed out next month are training to be part of a relatively new military concept called ‘brigade combat’ teams
VPR News

Year in Review, Part 1: War

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For the entire year, Vermont, like the rest of the nation, has been touched by war. The war dominated the news and had a significant effect on Vermont, and it’s the subject that opens our weeklong year in review.
VPR News

Good news for Southern Vermont dairy farm

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Last June, VPR reported on a Vermont farm near the Massachusetts border that wanted to sell organic milk. The problem was that the farmers couldn’t find an organic milk hauler willing to travel far into southern Vermont to collect the milk. But things have taken a turn for the family and their dairy herd.