As a summer without COVID-19 restrictions gets underway, people are resuming activities, large and small, that the pandemic had paused or postponed.

Last year, public health officials warned that the coronavirus pandemic would likely lead to a spike in demand for mental health services. New data in Vermont shows that prediction is bearing out.

Recent and sporadic rainfall over the last week has done little to resolve dry and, in some areas, outright drought conditions in the Northeast. Now portions of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine face moderate to severe drought.

Whether it's on stage or on the page, Mark Redmond likes to tell stories. Sharing his experiences has been a way to connect with others in his day job as executive director of Spectrum Youth and Family Services in Burlington, where he's spent nearly 20 years working with homeless and at-risk youth. Now he's putting his storytelling to work in a new memoir about his nearly four decades in that field.

Len Gerardi worked as a fish biologist for Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department for over 35 years. Independent producer Erica Heilman took a long drive with him to talk about his life in conservation.

Fishing season opened in April in Vermont, and independent producer Erica Heilman went for a drive around the Northeast Kingdom with retired fish biologist Len Gerardi to check out the fishing and talk with some anglers.

A new study from the University of Vermont finds that over the next 80 years, people of color and lower income communities will be disproportionately impacted by the loss of natural resources.

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