Elodie Reed

“There is no hospital in Vermont that is not in jeopardy,” stressed the consultant who led work on the report. Recommendations include closing inpatient beds and converting emergency departments into urgent care centers at Gifford Medical Center, Grace Cottage, North Country, and Springfield hospitals.

At a Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting this week, Indigenous women spoke up about sexism and cultural appropriation among state-recognized Abenaki tribes.

Last week, Abenaki representatives from the Odanak First Nation addressed an uncomfortable, long-simmering dispute. Odanak citizens and officials said Vermont’s state-recognized tribes are misrepresenting themselves as Abenaki – and profiting from it – when they are in fact not Indigenous.

On a recent April evening, half a dozen farmers gathered inside a Burlington greenhouse. There they attended a gardening class put on by the Association of Africans Living in Vermont. The class is meant to help farmers adapt crops from warmer parts of the world – to Vermont’s rather short growing se…

A legislative committee voted unanimously Friday to endorse veteran Judge Rick Lawrence’s nomination to Maine’s highest court, setting the stage for a historic appointment.

Vermont is continuing to wind down measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including state-run COVID-19 vaccine clinics, the Scott administration announced Tuesday.At the same time, administration officials say they’re keeping an eye on the BA.2 coronavirus variant, a more contagious versi…

According to a recent VPR-Vermont PBS poll, nearly three-quarters of Vermonters say they would support Vermont’s dairy industry by paying more for products. But who in the industry Vermonters actually want to support — and how they can do that — is a little more complicated.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture is rolling out a new program that will pay farmers for reducing the amount of phosphorous lost from their fields, above and beyond state and federal requirements.

Indigenous people in Vermont, together with other people of color, manage just 1% of the state’s farmland. But before Europeans colonized the region, Abenaki and Mohican people took care of nearly all of it.Now, some organizations are trying to redress these racial disparities by giving resources, l…

Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury is now home to the largest anaerobic digester in the Northeast. Several dozen people, including Gov. Phil Scott, gathered at the dairy farm Wednesday to celebrate. So how exactly does the digester work?