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By JAMES M. PATTERSON

Barbara Patch credits good air flow at the 1,200 foot elevation of her family’s Lebanon apple orchard with limiting the damage from a May freeze that devastated crops. The Patches saved around 50% of their fruit.The killing frost was just one example...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

When Greg Balch was growing up in Windsor, the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl was the biggest event of the summer.The annual football game between top just-graduated high school seniors in Vermont and New Hampshire was held at Dartmouth College back then, so...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Call it a healthy sign in how digital technology is reshaping Vermont’s economy. Or call it another dispiriting example in how making a real product just doesn’t count as much anymore.Either way, I don’t see it as something to cheer about.Airbnb is...

By SARAH EARLE

Bette Lambert feeds people.For decades, she filled the bellies of a husband and six kids while they worked the family farm. Then came the grandkids, “almost too many to count,” hanging out on threadbare sofas and piles of coats in the sugarhouse...