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Safety First: Teaching Teens To Drive

Learning to drive is a rite of passage and huge responsibility for the 5,500 or so teens who get junior operator licenses each year in Vermont. Now, a new guide from the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles aims to help parents reinforce safety lessons as their teens get behind the wheel.
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Summer Jobs for Teens

For many teens, summer means punching a time clock at the local pool or creemee stand. But is this year’s tight economy affecting their ability to find a summer job? And what’s the value of teens working? Also, we talk with a UVM Professor who just won a James Beard award for her healthy cookbook.