Narratives

“I just want to shout on every corner that this guy is a big deal.”

For two decades, Camp Agape has supported kids and families impacted by parental incarceration.

Mary Bride has been a secretary at Mill River Union High School since 1989 and students and colleagues say she’s basically the glue of the school.

Fair Haven annual fund-raiser leads to Duncan the dog serving as pet mayor of the town.

Vermont State University adjunct professor Burnham Holmes is retiring after decades of inspiring students to learn to love writing.

Pre-K students at the Tinmouth Mountain School are learning traditional lessons in outdoor, natural classrooms as part of the Mill River Unified Union School’s Trailhead Initiative.

Vermont native and Olympic Rugby star Ilona Maher captivated the world with her athleticism, bronze medal and social media prowess. Now she is joined by her two sisters in a new podcast called “House of Maher.”

Two West Rutland High School musicians are gaining quite a local following, and they’re raising money for their senior class in the process.

Silas Loomis, who has been the Castleton constable since Richard Nixon was in the White House, is calling it quits and sharing lots of wild stories from his more than five decades in the position.

“There’s been deaths, there’s been births and there’s been weddings,” said one regular. In the bar, familiar faces experience it all.

Young Vermonters often decide to leave their small hometowns for jobs elsewhere, but siblings Martin and Whitney VanBuren decided to stay put and make a difference in Poultney.

Hundreds of enthusiasts come every year in search of supernatural experiences.

Both neighbors agree their aim is to call attention to the election, and they hope passersby will be reminded to vote. 

The event marked the first Abenaki log burn in the delta in over 300 years, said a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki tribe.

On a recent afternoon, entrepreneurs like Adriana Munch congregated in the warehouse, sinking their boots into disinfectant and slipping past each other as they hunkered down in kitchens.

The best player in Vermont girl’s hoops this year is set to play college baseball — get to know Elise Berger.

The honor caps his time as the youngest son in the state’s most-storied basketball family — and it comes in a year that marks the 25th anniversary of his father’s death. 

Scheer is an actor, puppeteer, clown, acrobat — and one of the first openly trans women and nonbinary people to puppeteer in American television.

The brothers’ art-filled upbringings would take them from auditoriums in Randolph to arenas and stages worldwide, working with people like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Ryan Gosling and more.

The Burlington lounge’s latest endeavor, the Emerging Songwriters Contest, has drawn musicians from across the state. The last semifinals show is Feb. 20.

About 75 cows died after a fire broke Jan. 20 and turned a 400-foot-long barn into a pile of rubble and ash. 

The group’s numbers have expanded to 150 women. “I was all by myself for 30 years, fly fishing,” one co-founder said. No longer.

The story of the Waterbury Center Horseshoe League is a story of legacy.

Today the league consists of 16 teams of two who play games over the course of 16 weeks, starting in May and ending before Labor Day in September.

In 2010, Alejandra Perez decided to build her own community by cooking and selling authentic Mexican food outside her home.

Tucked away in Burlington’s arts district on Pine Street, the Dojo gives independent music teachers a space to gather and teach lessons to students both in person and online. 

Shepherd Dave Martin, left, lends his sheep’s wool to Muriel’s of Vermont. Cyrus Brooks, right, owns the company with his mother, Laura Jacoby, and runs their whole-garment knitting machine to turn yarn into sweaters. Photos by Kayla Duvel Not all of Dave Martin’s sheep have names. He likes some more than others. He should probably […]

“A strong spirit transcends rules.”— Prince  Craig Mitchell stands before Mount Kilimanjaro, flanked by a friend. “You have to be ready for the mountain, and the mountain has to be ready for you,” says his friend, but Mitchell starts climbing. The two ascend at record speed. But when the peak is in sight, Kilimanjaro erupts, […]