Across Vermont, kids are packing their swimsuits, sleeping bags, and mosquito repellant and heading off to summer camp. We talk about what kids learn from the experience today. Also, we hear from John Gregg about New Hampshire's role in the presidential election, and we look back at the week's top stories.

We explore why and how seasonal theater offerings - both amateur and professional - survive in the Green Mountain State. And host Jane Lindholm speaks with Rutland Mayor Chris Louras and surveys the damage from last week's storms.

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.

Vermont ranks fourth in the nation for the number of artists living here per capita, and first when it comes to writers and fine artists. But is everyone making a living? Then we continue our Green Series, with a visit to UVM's Dominico Grasso.

With 70 percent of Vermont's young children in out-of-home care for at least part of the work week, high quality, affordable child care has become a key economic development issue for the state. We talk about it with child care advocate Melissa Riegel-Garrett and with Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell, the co-chair of Governor Douglas's Building Bright Futures Council. And we visit a farm that's weaning itself from fossil fuels.

Governor Jim Douglas' office has been in a high-profile disagreement with the EPA about cleaning up Lake Champlain. We discuss this issue and others, and we take your calls.

We talk with a worker, a business owner and a Voc-Rehab specialist about hiring workers with disabilities Hear how rising fuel costs are affecting car choices and sales in Vermont. And we get a preview of the new summer exhibit at the Bennington Museum.

Gas prices have been inching up for a long time but the recent spike is, for the first time, changing the way many of us get around. Also, gas shortages in the early 1970s and prompted a novel plan to reduce long lines back then. And we visit with a family that hopes to grow most of its own food.