Local News Podcast
Local news, reporting and newscasts from Vermont Public.
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This fall, the local event series "Hollywood, VT" is staging two unique events in Brattleboro. The first is a largely unrehearsed live screenplay reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film The Trouble with Harry. A couple weeks later, they'll screen Hitchcock's film followed by an audience Q&A.
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Reporter Erica Heilman spends a day in the woods with horse logger John Smolinsky.
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"He thought he kept the universe alone; / For all the voice in answer he could wake / Was but the mocking echo of his own / From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake." For October, Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone delves into The Most of It from the state's first-ever Poet Laureate, Robert Frost.
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The bridge connects Lemington, Vermont, with Columbia, New Hampshire. “They’re always there for us, and we’re there for them,” New Hampshire resident Dana Ellingwood Hinkley said.
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In this episode of "What Class Are You?" Kaye Phipps talks about why eating the marshmallow right away instead of waiting to get two makes sense in a world where nothing's promised.
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Amanda Eldridge talks about growing up very Christian and very poor in this episode of "What Class Are You?"
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Erica Heilman has a conversation with Steve Giroux about work ethic and class in this installment of "What Class Are You?"
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Darlene Carey took care of her father after her mother died, and it changed her financial life for good.
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A jury in Burlington rejected Jason Eaton's insanity defense today and found him guilty of attempting to kill three Palestinian men in 2023.
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Maddie Cobb paid off her school debt in 10 years, and spent a lot of nights in the woods.
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In late 18th-century New England, flax was a mainstay on families’ farms. Women and children would have spent weeks processing it into linen, then a staple fabric. Every year, Burlington’s Ethan Allen Homestead Museum takes visitors back to this late-summer ritual.
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The lack of basic infrastructure like water and sewer lines has impeded housing development in many rural towns across Vermont. But the cancellation of a publicly funded affordable housing project is highly unusual.