While scrolling down my Facebook timeline over the long weekend, I noticed statuses, such as “Memorial Day was not made for us” and “this holiday is not really about us” by my friends of color.

Memorial Day began more than one hundred and fifty years ago, first in the southern United States when families took time in the spring to decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers with flowers.

In all my years as a reporter, I was never thrown out of a public meeting.

I love watching springtime unfold in the forests and fields of Vermont. Hunting for fiddlehead ferns along the river banks, spotting red and white trillium dotting the forest floor and smelling the air, sweetened by tree blossoms. It reminds me of our connection to nature. And it also reminds me of the work we have to do if we’re to protect our natural environment for future generations.

Close your eyes and imagine Vermont. Now consider this vision the Vermont Brand.

In today’s brave new world of genome analysis, law enforcement has just used genetic testing to track down a long sought serial killer.

It was no great mystery why the turtle was crossing the road, but who knows why it decided to cross right in front of my bicycle.

A few times a year I take the plunge and buy a handful of lottery tickets, especially when the prize money catches my attention.

I happened to be in Montgomery, Alabama, the day after the opening of the new memorial for the nation’s victims of lynching. It’s called the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Very soon now, the school year will come to a close, and usher in a season of summer camps, family vacations, and sun-soaked days.