Unlike Vermont, other states’ search and rescue protocols don’t rely on state police
Regardless of who is officially the lead public agency, search and rescue is primarily a volunteer function throughout the country.
Vermont State Police response falls short, rescuers charge
The Search and Rescue Unit could not possibly have engaged in a timely response that night because they were never informed that Levi Duclos was reported missing.
In This State: Heritage breed expert brings back family farm in North Hero
Siebenaler forged her own educational path and a career track that reflects her passion for preserving vanishing heritage bloodlines.
In This State: How the old Socialist Labor Party Hall got its third life
Quarry workers not only raised money for the building – 50 families chipped in $23.08 apiece – but many helped with construction while still cutting rock six and a half days a week.
Mares on the gamut — from bees to rugby
The author talks to the American everyman and at the same time, manages to sprinkle his book with the erudite quotations of a broadly read intellectual.
A piano’s grand debut in the House
The piano was, in essence, marooned by the storm like many Vermonters, with no one to play it, a sad thing for an instrument with the exalted pedigree of a Steinway.
Fishing the deep freeze
Smoke billows up from the plywood shanties, where venison stew and perch fillets are cooked up in big black skillets. A slate-gray sky threatens even more snow.
In This State: Charlie Cogbill indeed sees the forest for the trees
Charlie Cogbill’s trees are toppling some textbook assumptions about the composition of eastern pre-settlement forests.
In This State: A game warden’s life – drowned moose, traplines and bad brakes
After nearly 18 years, there’s one thing Game Warden David Gregory can predict about his job in the Northeast Kingdom: It remains unpredictable.
In This State: The woodstove guy
By Wilber’s reckoning, counting a batch in his barn, he has more than 350 stoves, many of which are broken down and of little value, except for parts. But you also get the sense he has difficulty just letting some go. Nostalgia is part of the business.
