Space: it’s really big, and really cold. But apparently not cold enough for NASA. And a White River Junction engineering company says it has the ultra-cold technology the space agency’s needs for Project Artemis, which aims to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024.

VPR midday newscast for Monday, Oct. 18

The town of Bennington is using $11 million in federal funding to remove lead water lines across town.

After 98 years in business, Caplan’s Army Store in St. Johnsbury is closed. They closed on the last day of 2020. Independent reporter Erica Heilman stopped by to talk with longtime employee Gary Ely about the store, and his many years there.

The early months of the pandemic saw a dramatic increase in Vermonters using telemedicine services. A year and a half later, doctors still rely on telemedicine, but a number of health care providers — and teenaged patients — say in some situations, it's actually preferred.

Every Monday night, a group of veterans in the Upper Valley meets for a virtual book club. They are not reading the latest bestsellers. Instead, they discuss works by Sophocles and Homer. In stories written thousands of years ago, they find parallels to what war has meant for them.

At Gov. Phil Scott's COVID briefing on Tuesday, Oct. 12, officials said case counts over the past seven days rose to some of the highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic, and infection rates are most severe among young children who aren't yet eligible for the vaccine.

A conversation with a veteran who served in the National Guard under "don't ask, don't tell."

The state wants to use COVID relief money to encourage mobile home owners to move away from areas that are prone to flooding.

Montpelier author Katherine Paterson's books are beloved by millions of readers young and old. Paterson has just published her latest, about a military family navigating the father's deployment to war just after 9/11.