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Signs guiding the way through Chapin Orchard. Photo captured on Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2026. Photo by Emma White/VTDigger.
Editorial coverage from the Vermont USA Wire newsroom.

Signs guiding the way through Chapin Orchard. Photo captured on Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2026. Photo by Emma White/VTDigger.

A sign directs voters to the polling place in the municipal building in Windsor on August 11, 2026. Photo by Noel Clark/VTDigger

The Sunderland River Project, led in part by Trout Unlimited’s Jacob Fetterman, aims to restore a damaged floodplain, stabilize eroding banks, and bring back a more beneficial habitat for trout and other wildlife.

The University of Vermont Medical Center complex. Photo courtesy of UVM Health Network

This year, VTDigger is teaming up with Henry’s Weather Channel to help answer the annual question of when and where peak foliage will make its appearance across the state.




A worker cuts apart a beam during the deconstruction of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The salvaged metal from the plant, which is not radioactive, is being recycled.

This commentary is by Seton McIlroy, the executive director of GunSense Vermont.

The St. Albans Co-op Creamery in St. Albans on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

This commentary is by John Bossange, who lives in South Burlington.