The Frequency: Daily Vermont News

A sampling of sounds from annual fall harvest festival activities happening around Vermont. Plus, three emergency family shelters are being set up to help people recently evicted from the state’s motel voucher program, early mail voting gets off to a strong start, Woodstock’s police chief is the subject of a criminal investigation, Vermont is getting a $400,000 settlement from Amazon for its failure to prevent illegal sales of tobacco products, and the award-winning Broadway musical Hadestown has returned to Vermont.

Two exhibitions at the Fleming Museum showcase dynamic and sometimes surprising quilt subjects. Plus, overdose reversal meds are distributed as a precaution to town clerks after he Secretary of State’s office received a suspicious package, gubernatorial candidates debate the best ways to deal with climate change, police investigate an apparent drowning death in Williamstown, a new report posits Vermont could spend hundreds of millions less on schools if districts were configured differently, and the Agency of Education will hold public listening and engagement sessions in the coming weeks.

Chronicling how Vermonters feel about the state’s all too short gardening season as it comes to a close. Plus, Grand Isle County’s top prosecutor drops a pending simple assault charge against the Franklin County sheriff, a shooting in Waterbury leaves one man dead and another injured, the South Burlington City Council wants federal action to remove F-35 jets from Vermont, high tourist traffic complicates efforts to rescue some hikers in the White Mountains, and Rutland postpones a housing development summit.

Cannabis sales have far exceeded expectations in the two years since Vermont’s retail marketplace opened, but the industry is still facing growing pains. Plus, Indigenous Peoples’ Day events are happening throughout this week, attendees of a public forum in Newport are worried about potential major changes to North Country Hospital, Vermont is pulling the plug on a popular electric vehicle incentive program, the minimum wage is set to rise in Vermont in the new year, local officials are figuring out how to address a new federal rule requiring water utilities nationwide to replace lead pipes, and Killington Resort receives its first snow of the season.

Examining differing views on the meaning and presence of a cannon situated outside the Town Hall in West Windsor. Plus, more child care centers opened than closed in Vermont this year for the first time in six years, the owner of a former paramilitary camp in West Pawlet returns to court in Rutland, a Chittenden County man died last month after contracting EEE from a mosquito bite, a class-action lawsuit accuses the nonprofit College Board and some private universities of conspiring to overcharge for tuition, and in our weekly sports report a special in-house guest star who happens to be a lifelong San Diego Padres fan talks about tonight’s deciding game 5 with the Dodgers.

Why Vermont is one of just nine states that taxes some social security benefits. Plus, after two mistrials the prosecutor who charged a Franklin County sheriff with assault is considering whether to call for a third trial, the state is suing social media company TikTok alleging it purposefully uses addictive algorithms, Vermont’s candidates for lieutenant governor spar over who would better represent the working class, a new report details how human-caused climate change is disrupting life in Vermont, and a second case of West Nile virus has been confirmed in upstate New York.

Our Citizen’s Agenda election reporting initiative takes us to Rutland to hear what residents are doing about the state’s housing crisis. Plus, more than 2,000 Vermonters file for individual flood-related FEMA assistance, the deadline to file for individual help has been extended, a Vermont-based company announces layoffs of more than 100 workers, Vermonters planning to vote by mail are advised to send their ballots by the middle of the month, another mistrial is declared in the case of a Franklin County sheriff accused of assault, and a geneticist who grew up on a dairy farm in Hartland and formerly taught at Dartmouth wins a Nobel Prize.

Checking in with former residents of the Heartbreak Hotel, a Plainfield apartment building that was washed away in last July’s floods. Plus, Montpelier at long last has a new post office following last year’s flooding, Vermont median household incomes spiked far beyond the national average last year, Goddard College’s campus has a(nother) new buyer, Rutland is taking steps to boost its housing stock amid a statewide shortage, and a young lynx has been spotted meandering north through Vermont.

Vermont Department of Corrections officials are working on improving visitation policies for the children of incarcerated fathers, saying strong family bonds can improve outcomes for families. Plus, UVM Medical Center is halting plans for a new outpatient surgery center, immigrant dairy farmworkers are picketing outside Hannaford stores to secure better working conditions, a renowned Abenaki artist has a new retrospective exhibition on display in Montreal, and Springfield residents will weigh whether to ban guns in a town park.

Why a central Vermont school board decided not to ask voters whether to close two of the district’s elementary schools in November. Plus, the young NFL season has brought a huge upswing in Vermont online sports betting, Northeast Kingdom residents whose jobs were affected by the late-July floods may now be eligible for federal unemployment aid, West Windsor adopts short-term rental fees, why Burlington’s former racial equity director is demanding a multimillion dollar payment from the city, for the first time ever Vermont went nearly a year without a vehicle getting stuck at Smuggler’s Notch, and in our sports report we discuss the harsh realities for first place teams knocked out of the playoffs in the league’s new wild card format.