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VTDigger covers life in Vermont through reporting on the arts, history, cultural events and the stories of people across the state.
This section highlights features and reporting that explore the traditions, creativity and everyday experiences that shape Vermont communities.
Vermont Conversation: ‘There was some justice.’ Hisham Awartani on enduring and speaking out for Palestinian lives.
Awartani was gravely wounded in 2023 when he and two friends were shot by Jason Eaton. A Vermont jury delivered a measure of justice this week when it convicted Eaton of three counts of attempted second-degree murder.
As financial hardship drives owners to give up pets, Vermont can’t rehome them fast enough
“It got really, really rough,” one former owner said of her efforts to keep hold of her dogs. “That’s not a fair life.”
This Vermont documentarian has filmed three decades of hard things. So why is she now focusing on hope?
“We can hear all the horrible, hateful rhetoric, but most human beings want to help each other out,” Bess O’Brien says of her new slice-of-life movie “Every Day: Big and Small,” set to tour the state this fall.
Pre-dawn calf washes and tail fluffing: Scenes from opening day at Tunbridge World’s Fair
More than 2,100 students visited the fairgrounds Thursday, where young exhibitors and veteran judges showed them what goes into raising, showing and judging animals.
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Pop-up clinic to offer free estate planning services
Legal professionals are volunteering to provide estate planning education and services Saturday to underserved Vermont communities.
Vermont Conversation: Filmmaker Bess O’Brien on connection, resilience and joy after tragedy
The inspiration for O’Brien’s new film was seeing what happened after the floods in 2023 and 2024 that ravaged some Vermont communities.
Revealed in the river
Local historians discover the remnants of a blockhouse on the Crown Point Road, Vermont’s first interstate highway.
Real Vermonters don’t milk goats. They laugh at newly revived books with that title.
A 43rd anniversary edition of 1983’s “Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats” — the state’s all-time bestselling humor book — is debuting this month with a few 21st century tweaks.
Vermont Almanac, an annual compendium of Vermont life, is shutting down
The founders of the publication say they’re stretched too thin to continue after six years.
The one story from 9/11 that I can’t forget. And I don’t want to.
Bob Dow lost the love of his life in the south tower. Nearing the 25th anniversary of the attack, he taught me why we still need stories like his — and journalists to tell them.
Then Again: Armed with a spirit of discovery and a gun, the first lady road-trips through Vermont
Eleanor Roosevelt had planned a getaway. But the trip also helped reshape expectations of what a first lady could do — and helped cement her role as a partner in her husband’s presidency.
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