Drag queens celebrate Vermont’s real-life frogs

Frog and Toad Drag Story Hour on Saturday, July 5, at VINE Sanctuary. Photo provided SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – Once upon a time, frogs turned into princes, but we think they’re perfect just the way they are. In Defense of Animals, VINE Sanctuary, and Drag Story …

Big Waves and Aquatic Invasives: Vermont’s Home Lake Rule

By Pat Suozzi Letter to the Editor Picture this: a motorboat puts into Lake Champlain. As you watch, you notice something odd happens: its stern is down, and its bow is up. It is producing very large waves and there is a person on a small board surfing on …

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE

Greg Hale didn’t understand why border patrol officers from Maine were showing up at the prison he oversees in St. Albans town. He was used to federal immigration authorities bringing detainees in from Vermont’s northern border. But this signaled a shift.  …

A week with Vermont Green: Inside the plan to build a destination for women’s soccer

Violet Rademacher of Vermont Green scores a header from distance during the women’s team’s victory over Flower City Union on June 11. Video by Busy Anderson/CNS Busy Anderson is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of …

Village Roofs Shingled with Vermont Slate

By Roger Donegan As a crow flies low over Hinesburg Village it pans the rooftops in town center, including Town Hall, which structures are prudently protected from the elements of the four seasons by expanses of sheet metal, synthetic asphalt and slate …

Taconic traffic stop yields gun stolen in Vermont

YORKTOWN – A traffic stop of a 2014 Mercedes-Benz on the Taconic State Parkway in the Town of Yorktown yielded a Colt semi-automatic gun reported stolen in Vermont. State Police conducted a traffic stop on the parkway on Wednesday and arrested the driver, …

A detained leader of the Vermont group Migrant Justice will stay in the U.S. for now.

Vermont Is Just Done With Letting People Run Around Naked

BURLINGTON, VT - Currently, there is a law on the books that allows people to be nude in public in the city of Burlington, Vermont, and the city council is attempting to amend that law to curb the nuisance of public nudity downtown. Burlington's City …

Judge orders Migrant Justice leader to remain detained in Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A detained leader of the Vermont group Migrant Justice will stay in the U.S. for now. Jose Ignacio de la Cruz and his stepdaughter, Heidi Perez, were taken into custody during a traffic stop near the Canadian border in Richford …

Stuck in Vermont: Clarence Baker transforms junk into art in his Roxbury gardens

ROXBURY, Vt. (WCAX) - Clarence Baker has spent more than 30 years transforming his Roxbury gardens into a peaceful respite full of surprises. Baker, 69, is a woodworker, gardener, and maker. He collects junk and ancient farm equipment and transforms it …