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Retrospective for Abenaki filmmaker, singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin now on display in MontrealHer decades of work aims to tell the truth about Indigenous peoples in the education system, and to dispel racism, she told Vermont Public last year. Her exhibition is called “The Children Have to Hear Another Story.”
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The survey — focused on farms not covered by a grassroots farmworker labor and housing rights program — shows a vast majority of Spanish-speaking immigrant dairy farmworkers in Vermont make below minimum wage, work six to seven days a week and are hurt on the job.
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Restorative justice is a process that focuses on the offender repairing the harm caused by their actions, and uses dialogue and empathy rather than punishment. Vermont's only women's prison has had restorative justice classes for the past few years.
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The same federal bureaucracy that hampered flood recovery for individuals after last summer's floods is plunging small, rural towns into crippling debt.
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The Luman R. Nelson taxidermy collection, which includes more than 600 birds and animals, has been in Marlboro since the early 1960s. The museum where it’s housed lost their lease and the collection is to be put into storage.
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Pieces of stone tools and pottery were first discovered at Sand Bar State Park in 2022. For the past two years, water levels of Lake Champlain have been too high to further excavate.
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The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets runs a program in the summer testing mosquitoes for Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus. The stakes are raised as EEE is detected in more bugs around the state.
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Removing the residency requirement has brought an influx of out-of-state interest to Vermont's program.
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Vermont has a reputation for being a place that is relatively safe from the worst impacts of climate change. However, the latest series of climate fueled flooding disasters is raising questions about whether that’s the case.
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The elder Lydia Clemmons was one of the original owners of Clemmons Family Farm, an icon of African American cultural heritage in Charlotte, Vermont. She died at the age of 101.
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With only 15 students when it closed, Windham is an extreme example. But the dynamics at play in this tiny southern Vermont town are nevertheless emblematic of widespread trends.
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A series of catastrophic floods over the past 14 months is raising new questions about how, and whether, Vermonters can coexist with the rivers they live by.