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After 98 years in business, Caplan’s Army Store in St. Johnsbury is closed. They closed on the last day of 2020. Independent reporter Erica Heilman stopped by to talk with longtime employee Gary Ely about the store, and his many years there.
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Why one longtime employee keeps going back to a store that closed months ago. Plus, extending the motel housing program, drought, and COVID-19 numbers.
To answer this question from Robert Small of Stannard, Brave Little State takes stock of not one, not two but three pharmaceuticals currently in development.
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Vermont Edition co-host Connor Cyrus tells us about a special high school halftime show featuring drag performers in Burlington. -
Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."
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Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about the coronavirus and more for Thursday, Oct. 14.
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Horticulturist Charlie Nardozzi joins us to answer your fall gardening questions.
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Should people who get a COVID booster get a different vaccine from their original shot? The results of a highly anticipated study suggest that in some cases the answer may be yes.
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Nearly half of all U.S. households heat their homes with natural gas. A new report from the Energy Information Administration says they can expect to pay 30% more on average this winter.
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Judge Colleen McMahon was expected to halt work on the controversial settlement that would give immunity from opioid lawsuits to the Sackler family. Instead she allowed work on the plan to go ahead.
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The early months of the pandemic saw a dramatic increase in Vermonters using telemedicine services. A year and a half later, doctors still rely on telemedicine, but a number of health care providers — and teenaged patients — say in some situations, it's actually preferred.
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Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about the coronavirus and more for Wednesday, Oct. 13.
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Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine joins the show to discuss the latest COVID-19 numbers, as well as other pandemic news.
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Do you believe Vermonters have more in common than what divides us? VPR and StoryCorps invite you to take part in One Small Step, a nationwide initiative that connects strangers with different political views for a personal conversation.
Gather round the campfire this month, and share your scariest Vermont tale.
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