A project of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.
Richmond resident JoAnn Yurchesyn is breathing fresh life into the old Jonesville Country Store on Route 2, location of her new ReFind Boutique, an “upcycled” furniture shop scheduled to open in May.
As maple season comes to a close, sugar makers in Huntington, Richmond, and Bolton are pulling taps and coiling collection tubes. Between warm weather and Covid restrictions, it has been a challenging year.
One of the newest members of Shelburne’s selectboard, Cate Cross, knew she wanted to get more involved in the community after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016.
Tevye Kelman, a social studies teacher at Randolph Union High School, is running for president of the Vermont chapter of the National Education Association (VT-NEA).
After someone spent almost three weeks at the Randolph Village laundromat during the winter of 2019-2020, Charlie McMeekin knew there was a bigger issue at hand.
After a full day of work on March 1, Cory Krieg hopped on the tractor, picked up his sap tank, and prepared to make some syrup.
Fewer than three weeks after voters approved the measure, the Stockbridge selectboard received a petition that triggers another vote on decoupling from the Rochester Stockbridge Unified District (RSUD).
Unassuming yet influential, “gentle giant” Chris Wood has been organizing on behalf of communities across Vermont— and around this planet—for decades.
“I grew up performing. I’m a dance minor and I’ve always done plays and sang in local concerts,” said Sarah Blow, the producer and interviewer of the new show, VT Peeps. “But only in the last six months have I’ve realized what I love is hearing peoples stories.”
For the Stowe Mercantile, their story of navigating the COVID-19 pandemic included an unexpected boost that may have just saved the store.
