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Feb 14, 2025 | 
vermontpublic.org | Calvin Cutler |Anne Allen
In the wake of abrupt cuts to USAID funding, Vermont nonprofits, companies and workers are left reeling. Plus, how the state is trying to prevent the spread of bird flu. And a look at drug treatment incentives and mental health services for prisoners in Gov. Phil Scott’s public safety proposal. Subscribe to the Vermont This Week podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
vermontpublic.org | Anne Allen |Ethan Weinstein
Gov. Phil Scott says many Vermonters have lost faith in their criminal justice system, and he wants prosecutors and judges to impose stricter criminal sanctions on alleged repeat offenders. Plus, a new group of power players will lobby for housing policy in Montpelier. And the Public Utility Commission issues highly anticipated proposed rules for the clean heat standard. Subscribe to the Vermont This Week podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thesnack.net | Anne Allen
Devon Kennedy, National Marketing Manager, Highline MushroomsWith over 18 years of tactical marketing know-how under her belt, the Highline Mushrooms leader shouldn’t be underestimated. Not only does her personality allow her to flit seamlessly between sales teams, retailers, and growers, Devon Kennedy has a wicked passion for the industry.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
vermontpublic.org | Anne Allen |Aaron Calvin
State officials announce they’re assembling three emergency family shelters following the evictions of over 1,000 people from Vermont’s motel voucher program and weeks of intense pressure from municipal leaders, lawmakers, and service providers to intervene. Plus, a program in Woodstock takes a new approach to worker housing. And a new survey shows Spanish-speaking immigrant farmworkers on Vermont dairy farms face ongoing bad conditions.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thesnack.net | Anne Allen
Throughout myth, apples have symbolized the great highs and lows of humanity. Love, beauty, wisdom, and heartache all reside within the candied hues of the category, making it ripe for innovation and consumer demand alike.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thesnack.net | Anne Allen
Backed by an abundance of research and development, innovation, and flavor, the California table grape category captures more than consumer attention—it captures sales with a momentum that drives the entire fresh produce category.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thesnack.net | Anne Allen
It was 2014. Tumblr, the blogging website perhaps best known for creating the phenomenon known as SuperWhoLock, was at its peak. It was a hotbed of creative activity, a hub of virtually unlimited artistic achievement. It spawned whole aesthetics, but for the purpose of this article, I turn to the aesthetic that started it all: Tumblr Girl™. Tumblr Girl is a figment of my imagination, but ask anyone on that website at that time, and they’ll conjure up an exact image.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thesnack.net | Anne Allen
Rounding the corner to Ocean Mist® Farms’ headquarters, with the fog still hanging low in the fields behind me, I wonder what this region looked like 100 years ago. The grower’s history is so integral to Castroville, California, that imagining the landscape without its influence is almost impossible. Since the 1920s, this Central Coast region has become synonymous with artichokes and, due to the company’s founding influence, Ocean Mist Farms itself.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thesnack.net | Anne Allen
How we snack now may have seemed inconceivable to us decades ago. The inroads our industry has made in aligning healthy products with the snacking sector are nothing short of miraculous, and certainly something worth celebrating. Within this space, Duda Farm Fresh Foods has thrived. Over the years, the company has taken the small mightiness of the celery stalk and pushed it to verifiable stardom. Already, the company’s Dandy® celery brand is synonymous with the category.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
vermontpublic.org | Anne Allen
President Biden approves Vermont's request for a major disaster declaration for flooding and mudslides that occurred between July 9 and 11. But state officials emphasized that FEMA's aid won't be a cure-all. Plus, a historic covered bridge in Lydon is dismantled, and new legislation broadens financial aid and in-state tuition eligibility in 2025. Subscribe to the Vermont This Week podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
