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A poem is adhered to a storefront window Saturday, April 1, 2023, in Montpelier, Vt. The city, the smallest capital city in the country, goes all out during National Poetry Month each April, with hundreds of poems by Vermonters in storefront windows, readings, workshops. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Vermont capital springs to life through poetry each April
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Wed,04/19/23-12:08AM , 252 Reads
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As spring starts to blossom in New England, some Vermont communities come to life with the sites and sounds of written verse.

"These are the honey makers

The maple sap tappers

The pollen gatherers

The elixirs healing the future
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A worker, at left, tends to a customer at a cosmetics shop on Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles.A growing number of state legislatures are considering banning the sale of cosmetics and other consumer products that contain the toxic industrial compound PFAS over health concerns. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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US states consider ban on cosmetics with 'forever chemicals'
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Fri,04/07/23-1:10PM , 180 Reads
A growing number of state legislatures are considering bans on cosmetics and other consumer products that contain a group of synthetic, potentially harmful chemicals known as PFAS.
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Mochozi Bigelegele, left, and Martha Mlebinge, center, both originally from Congo, and Fatuma Hussein, right, originally from Burundi, hold handmade blankets they picked out at a Welcome Blanket giveaway event on March 21, 2023, in Burlington, Vt. The blankets were made by Vermont and out-of-state crafters as gifts for refugees to welcome them to the community as part of the national Welcome Blanket project. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Handmade blankets welcome refugees, immigrants to US
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Tue,03/28/23-12:18AM , 278 Reads
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — "Welcome to the USA," says a note attached to a hand-crocheted blanket of purple, white and gray stripes.

Hollie Shaner-McRae, of Burlington, who made the blanket as a gift for a refugee, wrote of her great-grandparents coming to the United States from Ukraine, Russia and Poland.
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Lynda Shannon Bluestein, left, jams with her husband Paul in the living room of their home, Feb. 28, 2023, in Bridgeport, Conn. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)

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Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Tue,03/14/23-7:57AM , 144 Reads
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Lynda Bluestein has terminal cancer and knows she'll likely die soon, but until Tuesday, she didn't know if she'd be able to choose how or when and whether her family, friends and dog would be with her when the time comes.
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