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VPR Newscast for 6/7/2017 at 6:25 a.m.

VPR Newscast for 6/6/2017 at 5 p.m.

These are uncertain times for many school boards across the state as they try to negotiate new labor contracts with local teachers unions.

VPR Newscast for 6/6/2017 at 12:10 p.m.

VPR Newscast for 6/6/2017 at 6:25 a.m.

VPR Newscast for 6/5/2017 at 5 p.m.

Proposed federal cuts to affordable housing funds are headed to the Senate in Washington, but Gov. Phil Scott says that whatever the federal government does, affordable housing remains a priority for his administration.

On Tuesday, residents of South Burlington will vote on the local school budget. This will be the third time the city has tried to pass a budget this year, and the vote is tied up in a decision to drop the school district’s mascot name, the Rebels.

Maple syrup producers have an ever-growing arsenal of high-tech tools to draw more and more sap out of the trees. Now, scientists at the University of Vermont are doing a long-term study to see if modern tapping systems are affecting the health of maple trees.

At the White River Indie Festival over the weekend audiences watched the local debut of a documentary that follows a Dartmouth College class working with incarcerated women from Sullivan County, New Hampshire.