A recent spate of emails from opponents of a single-payer health care plan for Vermont, and the state Democratic Party, got testy-and drew one of the state's major health care providers into the fray.

Dining out is costing folks a little more in Montpelier these days. For our Regional Report this week we're taking a look at rising food prices and the ripple effect on restaurants, cafes and other eateries in Vermont's Capital City. 

Today we take you to the movies in Brattleboro. And you don't have to ask which theater, because now there's only one. VPR's Mitch Wertlieb speaks with Brattleboro Reformer reporter Howard Weiss-Tisman.

This week's Regional Report brings us to Orleans County, where an upgrade for an electrical transmission line is getting a lot of attention, reflected in the news, letters to the editor in local papers, and even in ads take out in those papers by opponents and supporters of the project.

In Addison County, another large solar array has been proposed in the town of Middlebury. The solar array is expected to generate electricity to some 30 average-sized homes.