Vermont Public

10/18/2026

While Vermont’s housing market has cooled off after a pandemic-era surge, the state’s median sales price has risen to $450,000, Seven Days’ Colin Flanders reported last month.

Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2026-10-16/in-review-heating-oil-housing-market-affordability-in-vermont

10/17/2026

From filmmaker Vince Franke of Waterbury, "Beneath The Surface" follows the journeys of five scientists who are working to protect Lake Champlain and its watershed.

Find out how early experiences shaped their careers as well as the challenges and rewards that drive them to safeguard our shared waters today.

Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/made-here/2026-10-15/beneath-the-surface

10/16/2026

With affordability top of mind for Vermonters, soaring heating oil prices are raising serious concerns.

Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2026-10-16/in-review-heating-oil-housing-market-affordability-in-vermont

10/16/2026

The Book of Genocides is a graphic narrative, also called a "disaster comic," that recounts some of the most devastating episodes in human history.

Award-winning Vermont-based writer, artist and anthropologist Dana Mashoian Walrath is the author of Aliceheimer's and Like Water on Stone. Her latest work is The Book of Genocides, a graphic narrative published by Harvard University Press in September.

10/16/2026

There are lots of ways to pull logs out of the forest. There are cable skidders and grapple skidders and feller bunchers — and then there's John Smolinsky and his horse Ted.

Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2026-10-16/horse-logging-200-year-vermont-tradition-future

10/16/2026

Vermont folk musician Moira Smiley will take the stage with The Rasa String Quartet for an evening of classical music, original and traditional folk songs and immersive film images of the natural world.

Vermont folk musician Moira Smiley will take the stage with The Rasa String Quartet for an evening of classical music, original and traditional folk songs and immersive film images of the natural world.

10/16/2026

Vermont high school teacher Andy Samara's songwriting project, Bull's Head, has a new album out now: Before the Robins Leave the Yard.

This week's Friday Song is "Fix Everything," from Samara's songwriting project, Bull's Head.

10/15/2026

State officials have awarded the city $4.2 million for a housing development on city-owned land just outside the flood zone, combined with several flood buyouts of properties nearby.

The North End neighborhood was hard-hit by flooding in 2023 and 2024. City leaders hope the newly funded plans are the first step toward a bigger transformation.

10/15/2026

🐦 Vermont Edition talks species identification, birds' funky fall behavior, and the benefits of birding through grief with Bridget Butler, the Bird Diva.

It's Vermont Edition's annual fall migration show with Bridget Butler, the Bird Diva.

10/15/2026

Work is underway this fall to make two popular fire towers in central Vermont safer for hikers to climb.

Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2026-10-15/vermont-restore-fire-towers-spruce-elmore-mountains-helicopters-fall