This article was written by journalism student, Otis Loga. Last Thursday on April 6th instead of students eating lunch with their friends, more than 230 people attended Town Hall with Bernie Sanders. The senator wanted to come to…

This article was written by journalism student, Otis Loga. Last Thursday on April 6th instead of students eating lunch with their friends, more than 230 people attended Town Hall with Bernie Sanders. The senator wanted to come to…
This article was written by a U-32 alumni, Ella Bradley, who has been working on this article for a while now; it’s about her exchange year in Germany. On Friday, the sixth of May in Beesenstedt, Germany, I woke…
This article was written by Tegan O’Donnell who is a senior in the journalism class at U-32. One Monday in September, Alyce Bradshaw, a U-32 sophomore, participated in surveillance testing at U-32. Around 9 am she left class and…
On a sunny January morning in the Mad River Valley, crowds of people stood in front of the Sugarbush ticket window waiting to purchase a day lift ticket. The blue skies, abundance of snow and mild temperatures made for an…
You throw open the glass front doors of the Berlin Panera and enter the warm environment of your everyday oasis. As you respectfully stomp the dirt and snow off your shoes, the sweet smell of freshly-baked Chocolate Chipper Cookies® wafts…
Willis Backus stands solitary, encompassed by four glass cases of colorful jewelry. This is his counter– he’s earned the right to call it that. The only vacation he’s ever taken was in 1975, when he had a heart attack. “I…
It’s 3am, 30 degrees, and the lights switch on in the barn. Twenty cows are herded into the milking parlor above the operating pit. As milk is pumped from the Holsteins, it travels through tubes into two stainless steel bulk…
Harrison Bushnell is a student member of the Vermont Climate Commision. This is the third installment of our Local Economics series. Looking out over a crowd of legislators packed in the House chamber, Vermont Governor Phil Scott gave…
There are three cars on the showroom floor at Formula Ford in Berlin. Two are brand new Mustangs, iconic pony cars with graceful lines and shiny wheels. These are the cars that kids and adults alike wish they could own.…
This is the first piece in an ongoing series exploring questions about our local economy. At 9:00 on a Sunday morning in Montpelier, Vermont the streets are generally still quiet. However inside the Southern breakfast restaurant Down Home Kitchen…
This story is part of a three part series about the Kingsbury Dam. To read more about U-32’s relationship with the dam check out Kingsbury Dam: Did U-32 Drop the Ball? . To learn more about how the dam works see Kingsbury…
A family of four enters the Maple Corner Store. They warm up by the stove, then the group moves towards the counter, their eyes on the deli’s large chalk board. After ordering four sandwiches, each with a small bag of…
Washington Electric Coop placed their first power pole at the McKnight Farm, on Snow Hill Road in East Montpelier, in 1939. “You folks don’t know what you’ve started,” a townsperson who witnessed the occasion remarked. “I wouldn’t be surprised…
When Paul Scheckel purchased his land in Calais he knew that there were no power lines within a mile and that it would cost a fortune to run a line to his new building site. But there was a phone…