Every October, Maine-based folk musician and artist Dan Blakeslee dons a red hat with a skull on it, decorates a stage with dozens of plastic jack-o-lanterns and performs an entire set of spooky songs as his Halloween alter ego, Dr. Gasp.

After months of talks, President Biden today outlined the details for a compromise social infrastructure plan, with a pared down price tag from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion. But while negotiations have been ongoing with Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, some key provisions of Sen. Bernie Sanders have been eliminated.

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In the last month, there have been multiple incidents of racist and sexist harassment at Vermont high school sporting events. The head of the Vermont Principals' Association, which oversees high school athletics, says they're implementing new protocols to address the issue.

In about a year, Vermont's retail cannabis market is scheduled to be in place. The state's Cannabis Control Board has already made some key decisions that's shaping what a future legal marijuana marketplace will be like.

This fall, the town of Hartford sent letters to landowners after receiving complaints about campsites in the woods. They all wrote back that they wanted the campsites taken down. But many people experiencing homelessness say they have nowhere else to go.

The town of Vernon is considering a plan to reuse the site of the former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, even as the state of Texas fights a proposal by the federal government to build a new facility that would store nuclear waste from Vermont.

Scott administration officials fielded a bevy of questions at Gov. Phil Scott's weekly press briefing Tuesday, including about the administration's extension of the motel housing program and Vermont's high COVID case counts.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit 19 months ago, restaurants around the state have pivoted, changed hands, or shut down entirely. And in a small town, the loss of places like these can acutely impact the community.

More than a year before the next federal election, all three members of Vermont’s congressional delegation have several million dollars at their disposal, but both Sen. Patrick Leahy and Congressman Peter Welch are not raising money at the same pace as they did in previous cycles.