Lexi Krupp

2 days ago | nhpr.org | Lexi Krupp

A baby was born at Copley Hospital in Morrisville the morning of Mother's Day this year. Hours later, hospital staff who provided care for the mother and newborn gathered with dozens of parents, grandparents and children less than a mile away, calling to prevent that labor and delivery unit from closing. The hospital board and president have said they’re considering closing the unit as a way to save the hospital money.

3 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Lexi Krupp

Mohsen Mahdawi smiled and flashed a peace sign at dozens of friends and supporters who showed up Wednesday morning for his hearing in federal court in Burlington. He’ll continue to be held at Northwest State Correctional Facility in Vermont and will have another hearing next week, where a judge could consider his potential release. Mahdawi has lived in Vermont's Upper Valley for the past decade and is currently a student at Columbia University.

3 weeks ago | vermontpublic.org | Lexi Krupp

Last July, the stream that usually trickles from the woods above Ansel Ploog’s farm in Woodbury came gushing down the hillside for the second year in a row. It dug out a cabbage bed, covered strawberries and lettuce in half a foot of water and littered the fields with driftwood. This year, Ploog was planning to buy native trees and shrubs to plant above her fields at Flywheel Farm, a small fruit and vegetable farm that sells produce to several markets in central Vermont.

3 weeks ago | vermontpublic.org | Lexi Krupp

The number of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in Vermont have doubled in the past two years — there are now more than 18,000 on the roads. “We are sort of on an exponential growth path at the moment,” said Dave Roberts, an expert in transportation electrification at Efficiency Vermont. They’re still a tiny portion of the vehicles registered in the state — less than 4%, and well below the targets set by the state to meet its emission reduction requirements.

3 weeks ago | vermontpublic.org | Lexi Krupp |Liam Elder-Connors

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