Adiah Gholston

In today's episode, a program that offers free admission to Vermont State Parks again this year, some residents in Plainfield are working on building dozens of new housing units and designating a percentage as affordable housing, and a trip to the new Waterbury skatepark.

Overdose deaths in Vermont involving a powerful tranquilizer decreased nearly 70 percent last year; and a man wanted by federal immigration authorities missed his state court appearance for a D-U-I charge; a conversation with the University of Vermont’s new women’s basketball head coach.

Towns across Vermont are making hard choices about how much money they have to invest in their recreation areas; it could cost you more to visit certain Vermont State Parks under a new proposal; and research investigating genetic sequences that contribute to some people getting long-term complications from Lyme disease. Plus…a new indoor practice facility for little leaguers in Bennington.

The House narrowly nixes a bill that would have disallowed federal immigration officials from masking their faces; a mental health facility in Randolph is closing its residential facility; Williston voters go back to the polls to overturn a previously passed library renovation; an Afghan refugee who’d been living in Boston is now opening a restaurant in Brattleboro; the women’s Vermont Green FC ran to a scoreless draw against Hartford in its inaugural full season game; Plus…how to be true to yourself and be accepted by loved ones as part of our series of communal live storytelling events in Brattleboro.

The Vermont senate advances a bill to reform the state’s homelessness policies; Advocates for foster youth in Vermont say the Department for Children and Families should not be taking a portion of their federal benefits to pay for the cost of foster care; A Vermont man held at a private prison in Mississippi died while being held in segregation;the regional grocery chain Healthy Living is challenging a vote by workers to unionize; the defending USL-2 champions Vermont Green FC play their home opener against Albany tonight; Plus…a woman talks about the bonds she formed caring for Jersey cows on her farm.

In this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, the latest from Montpelier from Vermont Public’s Lola Duffort and Peter Hirschfeld

Vermont’s labor force continues to shrink while unemployment remains steady; Vermont State Police mark the one-year anniversary of an unsolved suspicious death; trash and recycling pickup will cost more in the Northeast Kingdom; hundreds of Vermonters line the streets of Richmond to celebrate local Olympians; Plus…an unlikely friendship changes a life.

Gov. Scott announces he’ll run again; where the legislature landed on education reform this session; a Vermont artist found inspiration in a kids’ book.

A round-up of last-minute legislative news that occurred just before adjournment on Friday; a local therapist who gained confidence through Jiu-Jitsu.

Some school districts are running out of time to finalize budgets, hundreds of Vermont National Guard troops are being deployed this week; upcoming discussions over safety concerns at Vermont dairy farms; Vermont Public's news team has reviewed more than 130 hours of police bodycam footage from the South Burlington ICE raid on March 11th.