In Vermont, who speaks for the trees?

Scientists try to restore American chestnut trees to the northeast 

Vermont marks the anniversary of the 2023 and 2024 summer floods 

State Senators Seth Bongartz (D-Bennington) and Scott Beck (R-Caledonia) are the subject of an ethics complaint that alleges their ties to independent schools influenced their work on Vermont's big education reform bill. Vermont Public reporter Lola Duffort has been closely follo ... Show More

Today Vermont is known for its progressive politics, beautiful forestry, Bernie Sanders and Ben and Jerry's. It's not a state you'll hear much about outside of the US and, for many Vermont natives, that's just fine. But once upon a time, Vermont was a very different place -- in f ... Show More

When a 17-year-old girl left work one night in March of 2004, it began what would become one of the most well-known missing persons cases in New England. Her father and a duo of private investigators have dedicated years in their own pursuit of answers. More than anything, they j ... Show More

This week, in Townshend, Vermont, what appears to be a nice story, of a couple, living a nice life, turns very dark when it's least expected. This leaves one member of this couple brutally beaten to death, in the driveway, after the other spouse had been carrying on a weird affai ... Show More

This week, in Stowe, Vermont, a young woman trades in the corporate city life, to hopefully spend her time as a "ski bum" in the Vermont mountains, but disappears, while enjoying the outdoors. Her bike is left, leaning against a tree, while she was nowhere to be found. Eventually ... Show More

Isaac lives in Newport, Vermont, which is as far north as you get in Vermont. It’s a town in the Northeast Kingdom with a beautiful lake. It’s also a town with a state prison and a lot of drugs and poverty.I met Isaac at a writers group in town, which meets once a week in town at ... Show More

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for letting me share the series on Rumble Strip. 

For almost fifty years, the murders of two people in the tiny northern Vermont village of Hardwick have gone unsolved. The rumors in town ran almost as rampant as the fear, but whether any of the chatter about what happened to the victims is true remains to be seen nearly five de ... Show More

Myrina and Tristan celebrate their podcasting milestone of reaching over 200,000 downloads in 18 months! And it's all thanks to the Accidental Swingers podcast listeners!  To share in the excitement, Myrina and Tristan will treat a lucky listener couple to fun day in the sun at t ... Show More

The Emmy-nominated host of E!'s “Daily Pop”(and “Today Show” contributor) Justin Sylvester joins me for an honest conversation about where we go from here…and with a side of pop culture, of course.  

This week, Yergy and Drewby head to both Minnesota and Virginia to discuss the case of Heaven Watkins, a young autistic girl with cerebral palsy who was killed by her mother, Latoya Monique Smith, and her new boyfriend, Demont Harris. Even more infuriating than the fact that this ... Show More