Brave Little State
Vermont Public
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What if you could decide what stories Vermont Public should be covering, before they're even assigned? That's the idea behind Brave Little State.
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DEC 18, 2025
The case of D.W. Bancroft’s curious cure-all
A few years ago, John Haffner was digging in his White River Junction backyard when his shovel hit a glass bottle buried underground. Then he found another, and another — all with words like “…
20 MIN
DEC 4, 2025
What happened to all the halfway houses in Vermont?
Question-asker Manny recently got out of prison. He wants to learn about his options for transitional housing — a place where he could stay sober while readjusting to life outside a prison cell. It …
30 MIN
NOV 20, 2025
Why is Rutland made to feel like Vermont’s ‘ugly child’?
Rutland — or, “RutVegas” — gets a pretty bad rap outside the city’s limits. But some of Rutland’s most passionate cheerleaders say there’s a side of the city people are missing.Thanks to Linda Mulli…
25 MIN
NOV 6, 2025
The case of the missing Tinmouth apple
Leave your grocery store apples at home and join our search for this most unusual Vermont fruit.For photos from our journey, check out the web version of our story here. And if you want to read up…
22 MIN
OCT 30, 2025
200th episode extravaganza
For the 200th episode of the show, we set ourselves a challenge: take on 20 listener questions in a single episode.We went back to the very beginning of our archive — combing through thousands of q…
56 MIN
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