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Through its zoning, St. Johnsbury has long restricted where shelters can be set up. But a provision of this year’s HOME Act makes it harder for municipalities to block new shelters.
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The new policy says that asylum seekers without U.S. or Canadian citizenship who are caught within 14 days of crossing anywhere along the border will be sent back.
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Across Vermont, lunch is served at dozens of senior centers and church basements nearly every day. People show up to get a free meal and warm up or just to socialize. In St. Johnsbury, several of these community lunches stopped during the pandemic. Some have only just started up again.
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A Vt. company plans to process industrial hemp. Their first challenge? Convincing farmers to grow itOver the past year, a pair of cousins bought two vacant industrial properties in Vermont. And they believe they have the right business to bring new life to the spaces: Processing industrial hemp. But to be successful, the cousins will need more farmers to grow the crop.
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As the federal relief that propped up nutrition-assistance organizations during the pandemic begins to disappear, food security advocates say Vermont will need to increase public support for food shelves and other programs in order to avoid a surge in malnutrition.
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The shortage of nurses in Vermont has reached a crisis point. Sen. Bernie Sanders says the state needs to add 9,000 nurses to the workforce over the next seven years. This hour, we talk with a nurse, a hospital administrator and a nursing school teacher about how they’re addressing the shortage. And we’ll look at how travel nurses are filling the gaps.
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It’s a few days before Christmas, and independent producer Erica Heilman took her recorder along to Ocean State Job Lot in St. Johnsbury to record some…
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In a year with heavy spring and summer storms across Vermont, rainfall totals can add up quickly and cause overflows of storm and sewage into rivers and…
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Christine Hallquist on her experience with the coronavirus. Plus, moving prisoners to St. Johnsbury, taxes, and telemedicine.Want the web version of one…
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Corrections officials are trying to alleviate fears in St. Johnsbury after they relocated 28 inmates with COVID-19 to an “isolation facility” in the…