VPR's Susan Keese looks back at the illustrious history of the Harris Hill Ski Jump. The Brattleboro landmark is the only 90 meter ski jump in New England, and rebuilding it involved a massive community effort.  

VPR takes a look back at the people and events that shaped 2009.

300 Vermont National Guard soldiers left for training in Indiana over the weekend. For them and the twelve hundred army guard members who'll follow, it's the final training stop before they deploy to Afghanistan early next year. 

Swine flu vaccination clinics have begun at Vermont schools. But there's not enough vaccine to go around, and the virus already has struck in a lot of places.

Travelers between the New York and Vermont sides of Lake Champlain face a major detour.

Vermont's Agriculture Secretary and Dairy Policy Administrator talk with VPR's Jane Lindholm about the health of the state's dairy industry.

We celebrate the life and music of musician and chorale conductor Blanche Moyse.  She founded the Brattleboro Music Center and the New England Bach Festival, and this year she celebrates her 100th birthday.  

In Bennington County, which has the third highest unemployment rate in Vermont, a company called Plasan North America is expanding.

One of the first same-sex couples in the state to officially tie the knot did so at the stroke of midnight, and VPR's Sarah Ashworth was there, and shares their story.

Many gay and lesbian couples will hold small, low key ceremonies when they gain the legal right to marry this week.

Governor Jim Douglas threw the 2010 election wide open on Thursday when he announced he would not seek re-election.

The University of Vermont and two private companies have developed a new device that they say might boost maple sap production as much as 90 percent. The small plastic spouts will allow sugarmakers to tap their trees earlier and keep the sap flowing longer into the season.

One Vermonter is doing her part to preserve a rare donkey from France on her farm in Hartland - and thanks in part to her efforts, its making a comeback. VPR's Steve Zind paid a visit to the Hamilton Rare Breeds Foundation.  

One of northern Vermont's highest-profile music festivals is $400,000 in debt and struggling to survive. The Vermont Mozart Festival says its ticket sales have been hurt by the economy and especially by the rain.  

By the end of August, about 250 workers at the Ethan Allen Furniture factory in Beecher Falls will be out of work.  In this economy, and in this remote corner at the juncture of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Canada, the prospects for re-employment are especially slim.

It's fair season in Vermont. The annual celebration of farming is also a place where agriculture companies meet with their customers-dairy farmers. And in this time of low milk prices, many grain companies, equipment dealers and agricultural service businesses also have to change the way they do business.

The economic downturn that began in the fall deepened into a recession that some compare to the Great Depression. As VPR reported in a series in February, jobs were being cut, incomes were falling and the recession was Hitting Home. So now, six months later, what's changed?

State regulators have stepped up the pressure on FairPoint Communications by opening a formal investigation into its ongoing service quality problems.

Mark Breen, Jay Shafer and Andy Nash talk with VPR's Jane Lindholm about why the Northeast has been hit with such wet, cold weather this summer.

Plant experts are warning farmers and backyard gardeners to guard against a fungus that has the potential to wipe out tomato and potato crops across the region. The disease is known as "late blight," and it's what led to the Irish potato famine at the middle of the 19th century.