About a hundred people turned out at the Bennington Fire House Tuesday night to learn about opportunities for training and jobs in the composites industry.

Vermont's education funding system got high marks in a new legislative report for reaching its goal of providing equal educational opportunity for all Vermont students. But a new report, commissioned by two southern Vermont resort towns, claims the funding model leads to fewer opportunities for students in smaller schools.

Over the past decade more than a third of Vermont's manufacturing jobs have disappeared. Bennington is trying to reverse that trend.

As Tropical Storm Irene becomes a memory for some Vermonters, for others the disaster is still unfolding. In October, VPR spoke with Brett Morrison. His house in Jamaica was one of four in town swept away in the flood, along with the land beneath them.