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2025

The NEK Fund at the VCF awards $111,950 in grants to support local nonprofits – VermontBiz, October 27, 2025

Rain or Shine, Rallies For Medicaid on National Day of Action Held in Newport – Newport Daily Express, September 8, 2025

80 rally in Newport for healthcare access, oppose medicaid cuts – Newport Dispatch, September 9, 2025

Newport Rally Supports Healthcare – Barton Chronicle, September 10, 2025

Barton Holds Second Annual “Barton Celebrates” – Plans to Rebuild Brick Kingdom Trail Underway – Newport Daily Express, August 11, 2025

Volunteers Mobilize As Northeast Kingdom Communities Reel From Flooding – Caledonian Record, July 11, 2025

Education Funding Plans Criticized – Newport Daily Express, May 26, 2025

Five ways to prepare yourself for future floods – Vermont Public, May 19th, 2025

Locals decry plan to limit Canadian access to border-straddling Haskell Library – Vermont Public, March 21, 2025

Tensions rise between Gov. Scott and top Democrats over Budget Adjustment & Emergency Housing Program – NBC5, March 20, 2025

NEK Turns Out In Force At Statehouse – Caledonian Record, February 21, 2025

Leaders from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom make case to save area hospitals – NBC5, February 20, 2025

Hospital closures, cuts major issue at Northeast Kingdom lobbying day at the Statehouse – Vermont Public, February 20, 2025

2024

Town Celebration Held in Barton – The Newport Daily Express, August 19, 2024

Rev. Alyssa May: Who will stand with the Northeast Kingdom? – Op/ed in VTDigger, August 6, 2024

Erin O’Farrell: Rethinking what it means to be ‘Vermont Strong’  – Op/ed in VTDigger, February 28, 2024

‘They’re asking: Why me?’ Volunteers respond to mental health concerns after Vermont floods. – The Boston Globe, August 25, 2024

Why Vermont floods, and an update on NEK volunteer efforts – Vermont Public, August 5, 2024 (Vice President Megan Matthers speaks around 19 minutes in)

Updates on NEK floods and what comes next – Vermont Public, August 1, 2024 (You can listen to it here, Megan Matthers speaks around 12 minutes in, and Jean Marie Pearce speaks around 29 minutes in)

2023

In rural Vermont, reaching residents with flood damage takes a village – VTDigger, July 21, 2023

2021 and prior

Advocates renew calls for expanded mental health care access – WCAX, August 29, 2021

The Seeds of Rural Progressivism – Dissent Magazine, Fall 2019

Community organizing in the Northeast Kingdom begins with issues assembly – The North Star Monthly, January 3, 2018