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New pellet plant in Island Pond will employ 30

By VPR | February 18, 2009

A Newport couple plans to turn a closed furniture factory in Island Pond into a wood pellet manufacturing plant, employing 30 workers.

VT Edition: Jean Swantko-Wiseman, Jack Hoffman & Peter Teachout recall the 1984 Island Pond raid

By VPR | April 30, 2008

VPR’s Jane Lindholm disucsses the polygamous Latter Day Saints sect in Texas and Vermont’s 1984 raid on a religious community in Island Pond with Jean Swantko-Wiseman, a former Northeast Kingdom Public Defender, Jack Hoffman, who reported on the Island Pond Raid and its aftermath and Peter Teachout who teaches Constitutional Law at Vermont Law School.

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Vote due on Island Pond constable re-election

By Charlotte Albright | February 27, 2008

Next Tuesday, voters in the Northeast Kingdom town of Brighton and its village of Island Pond will decide whether or not to re-elect a constable that’s been a lightening rod for almost a quarter century. VPR’s Charlotte Albright has been following the campaign and has this report.

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Postcard from Montpelier, a crossroads for all

By Patti Daniels | October 5, 2007

Montpelier is known as one of Vermont’s great gathering places. As one person told us: "You can have bikers over here, guys in business suits over there, hippies on that side, jocks over here – and it’s totally fine and everyone is welcome as long as you get along."