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Exterior of Granby Central School, a white building — Amy Kolb Noyes / VPR

Granby's Old Schoolhouse Repurposed As A New Home For Town History

There will soon be a local history museum in the Northeast Kingdom town of Granby. The organization opening the museum — inside a 19th-century schoolhouse — is the same group responsible for bringing electricity to the town decades ago.

A pile of ten books stacked on top of each other. — Mitch Wertlieb / VPR

2019 Vermont Book Award Finalists Announced

A cow standing in a green patch of grass, with a barn and more cows way in the background — Elodie Reed / VPR

St. Albans Co-op Farmers Ponder Merger, Seek Answers About Their Equity

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Young At Art

A man in a pink shirt stands by a pond. — Elodie Reed / VPR

'Unhinged Rhythms And Unbridled Expression': Composer Matthew Evan Taylor

For as long as he can remember, Matthew Evan Taylor has been intrigued by sound.

Champ: Myth, Reality Or Just A Bit Of Fun?

By Jane Lindholm & Ric Cengeri • 2 hours ago

The idea of Champ being real is exciting, but "Vermont Edition" explores whether a sea monster could even exist in Lake Champlain. — Jennifer Morton / Flickr

Live call-in discussion: Scores of people have seen Champ in Lake Champlain. And Memphre in Lake Memphremagog. So they've got to be real, right? Vermont Edition explores the lore and the biology of our beloved lake monsters.

A Status Update On 3 Recently Closed Vermont Colleges

By Nina Keck, Jane Lindholm & Matthew F. Smith • 5 hours ago

Looking up at Green Mountain College entrance. — Nina Keck / VPR

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Listen to VPR reporter Nina Keck's conversation with 'Vermont Edition' host Jane Lindholm, which aired live during the noon hour on Monday.

The process of what comes next for three closed Vermont colleges has been a little different for each campus as they try to sell or reimagine how the physical infrastructure can be used. In at least one of these cases, that project has become mired in lawsuits.

More Kids Are Getting Placed In Foster Care Because Of Parents' Drug Use

By Susie Neilson • 9 hours ago

The number of cases of children entering the foster care system due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to research published this week in JAMA Pediatrics.

Sununu Signs Law to Help People Void Some Marijuana Possession Convictions

By Dan Tuohy • 13 hours ago

Gov. Chris Sununu has signed a bill into law that provides a procedure for the annulment of arrests or convictions for possession of three-quarters or less of an ounce of marijuana.

Sleep Training Truths: What Science Can (And Can't) Tell Us About Crying It Out

By Michaeleen Doucleff • 13 hours ago

Welcome to parenthood! For many of us, parenthood is like being air-dropped into a foreign land, where protohumans rule and communication is performed through cryptic screams and colorful fluids. And to top it off, in this new world, sleep is like gold: precious and rare. (Oh, so precious.)

Throughout human history, children were typically raised in large, extended families filled with aunts, uncles, grannies, grandpas and siblings. Adding another baby to the mix didn't really make a big dent.

ACA Constitutionality Lawsuit Explained: How It Could (Or Won't) Impact Vermonters

By Elodie Reed • Jul 12, 2019

A yellow toy ambulance sits on a white surface. — Zhen Hu / Unsplash

The Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — is making headlines once again as a lawsuit moves through the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will decide whether a lower court’s ruling, that the law is unconstitutional, should be upheld. This begs the question: what does this mean for Vermonters?

How Vermont's State Colleges Are Navigating A Turbulent Time In Higher Education

By Jane Lindholm, Matthew F. Smith & Olivia White • Jul 12, 2019

Images of Castleton University, the Community College of Vermont, and a diploma in the hands of a NVU-Lyndon student. — Wikimedia Commons / CCV, courtesy / NVU-Lyndon, courtesy

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Live call-in discussion: Three private Vermont colleges closed this year, the result of profound changes affecting higher education across the country. The Vermont State College system and its roughly 11,000 students are not immune. We're talking about the challenges facing Vermont's state, community and technical colleges, and efforts to keep the schools financially and academically sustainable.

A Call For More Research On Cancer's Environmental Triggers

By Elaine Schattner • Jul 12, 2019

We already know how to stop many cancers before they start, scientists say. But there's a lot more work to be done.

"Around half of cancers could be prevented," said Christopher Wild in the opening session of an international scientific meeting on cancer's environmental causes held in June. Wild is the former director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Will Vermont's New E-Cigarette Tax Lead To A Vaping Black Market?

By Mitch Wertlieb & Matthew F. Smith • Jul 12, 2019

A sign highlighting concerns about Vermont's new e-cigarette tax spurring a vaping black market hangs outside Tom Massey's Good Stuff shop in Essex Junction. — Matthew Smith / VPR

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E-cigarettes are the target of a hefty new state tax — one experts say should reduce teen vaping. But could the new tax lead to a vaping black market in Vermont?

Watch: US House Oversight Committee Hearing On Border Detention Conditions

By VPR News • Jul 12, 2019

Andrew Harnik / Associated Press

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Friday regarding Border Patrol detention centers. The hearing comes as the result of a report from Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General, which raised concerns about conditions at facilities near the country's southern border.

Vermont Rep. Peter Welch is a member of the committee.

Brave Little State

Chain-link fence surrounds an overgrown area in downtown Newport where buildings once stood. — Liam Elder-Connors / VPR

What's The Plan For The 'Pit' In The Middle Of Newport?

A development project gone wrong. A community living with the fallout. And an uncertain path forward.

A pistol on a whit background. — Taylor Dobbs, Emily Alfin Johnson / VPR

Gunshots Project Update: Takeaways From 2018 Gun Death Data

More people died from gunshots in Vermont in 2018 than any year since at least 2011, according to the most recent update to the Vermont Public Radio gunshot database.

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Starting June 24, 2019, 'All Things Considered' host Henry Epp will be reading two extra local newscasts at 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. — Daria Bishop / For VPR

More Local News Coming To All Things Considered

Beginning Monday, June 24, you will notice some changes to All Things Considered on VPR as we make room for more local news.

Members of the VPR news team include, from left: Liam Elder-Connors, Olivia White (summer intern), Henry Epp, Mitch Wertlieb, Matt Smith, Mark Davis, Elodie Reed, Jane Lindholm, Ric Cengeri, Sarah Ashworth, Meg Malone, Emily Corwin and Sam Gale Rosen. — Ty Robertson / VPR

VPR Wins National Edward R. Murrow Award For Overall Excellence

'Friday Night Jazz', hosted by Ray Vega (left), will join the VPR Replay stream along with 'My Place', hosted by Joel Najman (center), and 'All The Traditions', hosted by Robert Resnik (right). — Daria Bishop

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Where does electricity come from? What is electricity made of? Who invented it? How does electricity work? What are electrons made of? Where does static electricity come from? How is it generated? Why don't we use lightning as a power source? How does electricity power things? Electrical Engineer Paul Hines answers our questions, in part one of our live call-in program. Hines is a professor at the University of Vermont and co-founder of Packetized Energy.