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Home of @UVMVermont's Community News Service, helping local papers across VT tell stories. We're part of the new Reporting and Documentary Storytelling minor

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21 Mar 2025
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Feb 4
Under the bill, plug-in solar devices would no longer need an interconnection agreement, a contract between customer and utility which ensures technical compatibility when connecting a new energy system to an existing grid (via @reportinguvm). buff.ly/egP6E0J

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PUTNEY – Working in a wastewater plant may seem undesirable, but Tori Beloin likes it. For the past six months, she’s been working in southern Vermont as an apprentice through the Vermont Rural Water Association.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Wastewater apprenticeship addresses workforce shortage and helps keep Vermont ‘safe and healthy’ -...

Vermont is aging and many operators are retiring. But even before this issue, there weren’t enough operators to go around. 

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WINOOSKI –The city unveiled the initiative last February as part of its master plan to reduce 33% of emissions-producing energy use by 2050. Officials hope that at least 89% of registered vehicles will be electric in the future.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

EV-readiness roadmap steers Winooski towards a greener future - Community News Service

The city has allotted $50,000 to fund the early planning stages — collaborating with Drive Electric Vermont to identify crucial building spots and potential speed bumps in the future. 

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GREENSBORO — A ball rolls down the back of a slithering serpent, under the tangled webs of a lurking spider and into a lake guarded by a frog king. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Enchanted Kingdom Mini Golf brings magic to Greensboro summers - Community News Service

The course was designed and created by a host of local artists.

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When a parent goes to jail, it can turn a child’s world upside down.  Some 4,700 Vermont kids — one in every 25 — know what that’s like.  tinyurl.com/3cn6yspb

🎧 At this Vermont summer camp, kids with incarcerated parents ‘don’t have to hide’ - Community...

For two decades, Camp Agape has supported kids and families impacted by parental incarceration.

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Between houses and greenery in the heart of Cabot, the Winooski River now runs unrestricted. Rubble along the banks serves as the sole reminder of what once was — a dam that powered industry in the town for decades.   vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Water finds a way: Ruins of 200-year-old Cabot dam to be cleared - Community News Service

The Clark Sawmill Dam collapsed during the flooding that hit Vermont in 2023, punctuating years of back-and-forths about its future. 

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Every fall, a crane trundles in and, three times a day, hoists a massive steel hopper from beneath the swirling pools of the Winooski River Salmon Hole.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Salmon's success bodes well for Winooski River health, but flooding and federal cuts stir fear -...

Scientists say the fish are a reliable measure of lake and basin ecological health.

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NEW HAVEN — Hyla Howe trudged through the high grass. She scanned the ground and took note: red clover, sedge, canary reed. Each plant said something about whether the field would be a good spot for bobolinks.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Bobolink birds are in decline. Vermont's fields are key to changing that. - Community News Service

The Bobolink Project pays owners of fields, often farmers, to conduct bird-friendly practices. The birds get time and habitat to nest while the landowners get some compensation for letting them do so.

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MORRISVILLE — On Wednesday nights in the summer, Morrisville residents file into Oxbow Park prepared for a night of music. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Oxbow Park faces risk from flooding while citizens plan for the future - Community News Service

Activities in the park such as a live music series and a community garden are threatened by flood risk

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BOLTON — Wednesday nights are for mud-splattered limbs, sweaty faces, and no fear for the Bolton Babe Force, an all-female and non-binary outdoor extreme sports group. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

This Bolton Valley rec group puts the babe in bro-cultured extreme sports  - Community News Service

The Bolton Babe Force, an all-female and nonbinary sports group, wrapped up their mountain biking camp this past July. 

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12 Aug 2025
The American Camp Association, a membership organization that has accredited more than 3,500 overnight summer camps, plays a crucial role in promoting safety precautions to camps certified in its network. (via @reportinguvm) buff.ly/5hCGtVz

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BURLINGTON — Ahead of Vermont Green FC’s sold-out league championship match, the team sent out a statewide call: If your venue planned to play the game live Aug. 2, let us know.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Vermont Green FC final overflows into Burlington’s neighborhood watch parties - Community News...

Here’s what gameday looked like beyond Virtue Field in a historic year for Vermont soccer. 

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SOUTH BURLINGTON —  A Japanese dragon loomed from a poster over the ballroom doors inside the DoubleTree, greeter and guard for the ink-filled labyrinth within vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Ink lovers journey north for national tattoo convention in Vermont - Community News Service

Now in its second year, the Green State Tattoo Convention drew dozens of artists from across the country and hundreds of potential clients. 

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Students gathered in a circle at the Intervale Center in Burlington as Bronislaw Grala, an herbalist and teacher at Spoonful Herbals, a nonprofit organization that connects the community to herbal medicine, pulled a wild carrot from the ground.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/07/…

Herbalists teach a lesson in restraint as plants grow rarer - Community News Service

As plant species face population decline, herbalists teach foragers to be mindful of what they are taking

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WINOOSKI — People and their pets came to show off tricks, costumes and even bad breath at the Best Pooch in the Noosk dog show last Sunday. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Best Pooch in the Noosk returns to the Onion City - Community News Service

Even the pooches who didn't win still wagged their tails and grinned ear to ear.

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ROCHESTER — Liberty Hill Farm is straight out of a movie set with stately dairy cows, grandkids playing in the grass and barn cats napping on the porch of the picturesque farm house bought by Beth and Bob Kennett in 1979. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/07/…

Agritourism brings second income to Vermont farmers - Community News Service

“They were lying on top of the hay bales staring up at the sky, watching for shooting stars.”

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BURLINGTON — Vermont Green is headed to the United Soccer League 2 championship after outscoring Lionsbridge FC in extra time and Dothan United in penalties last week.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/08/…

Vermont Green hurdles extra time and penalty shootout to make first league final - Community News...

“Every single one of the games is so exciting — they take it right down to the end. You buy the whole seat, but you only use the edge.”

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BURLINGTON — Vermont’s dirt roads span 8,534 miles — more than the straight-line distance between Burlington and San Francisco three times over. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/07/…

When floods hit Vermont's iconic dirt roads, runoff hits waterways - Community News Service

But there are ways to improve those roads that reduce pollution and strengthen against floods. 

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A new logging plan for the Green Mountain National Forest could harvest almost 5 million cubic feet of timber, or enough trees to fill 5,000 school buses.  vtcommunitynews.org/2025/07/…

'Man’s hand in nature': Forest Service passes controversial logging in Green Mountain National...

The Telephone Gap Integrated Resource project had a historic level of public engagement, according to advocates, before it passed in June.

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BURLINGTON — Vermont’s dirt roadsspan 8,534 miles — more than the straight-line distance between Burlington and San Francisco three times over. vtcommunitynews.org/2025/07/…

When floods hit Vermont's iconic dirt roads, runoff hits waterways - Community News Service

But there are ways to improve those roads that reduce pollution and strengthen against floods. 

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