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Why a group of musicians have been gathering in Rutland for more than 30 years. Plus, a Canadian storm system is expected to create hazardous driving conditions in Vermont, a person was found dead at a Berlin homeless encampment Saturday, police are investigating hazing allegations at Dartmouth College, Vermont House Republicans say they’ll focus on reversing the state’s aging demographic trends, and the annual audit of Vermont election results showed initial vote tallies were largely accurate.

A Nor’easter moving up the coast is expected to arrive with snow by mid-morning Thursday and intensify through the afternoon and evening.

A look back at this year’s successful use of chicanes in the Notch, and a preview of what property taxes will look like next year. Plus, Vermonters should prepare for snow on Thanksgiving, the Scott administration is taking advantage of federal funds before Trump is back in the White House, Gov. Phil Scott is making interim Education Secretary Zoie Saunders’s position permanent, Sen. Peter Welch is trying to overturn a plan by the Biden administration to cut Medicare reimbursement rates and a man accused of orchestrating a scheme to harass and intimidate two New Hampshire Public Radio journalists was sentenced to more than three years in prison.

Hospital leaders say they have no other choice but to cut services, like inpatient psychiatric care at Central Vermont Medical Center, in order to avoid operating at a loss. But lawmakers want them to reconsider.

"We're really encouraging people to take it slow if they have any travel, especially in southern Vermont, maybe try and do that on Wednesday rather than Thursday," says Rebecca Duell with the National Weather Service in Burlington.

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England says following the presidential election, its health centers across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are hearing from more patients wanting appointments.

A biological discovery brings two women together. Plus, cold weather will bring changes to Vermont’s motel housing program, there’s been an uptick in requests for contraceptive and gender-affirming care since the election, Vermont's unemployment rate rose slightly last month, workers seeking disaster unemployment benefits from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after July’s floods have less than a week to apply, Monkton has a new town forest and Middlebury College field hockey clinches another Division III NCAA Championship.

Meet the 89-year-old who’s played Middlebury Chapel’s carillon bells for nearly four decades. Plus, today is the last day Vermonters affected by this summer’s floods can apply for federal disaster assistance, the latest statewide survey of high school students has intensified concerns about youth mental health, a poll finds most Vermonters think an income-based system would be a better way to pay for schools, the state is developing a training system for dispensary employees for when they start selling higher-potency products, Sen. Peter Welch introduced bills reinstating UNRWA funding and expanding protections for people in Customs and Border Protection custody, a Superior Court judge ruled that Burlington has broad authority to regulate short-term rentals and Killington Resort is greenlit to host World Cup races later this month.

Erica Heilman stops in at Kellogg Hubbard Library to learn about the role it plays in the community. Plus, Sen. Bernie Sanders� congressional efforts to block offensive weapons from going to Israel have failed, the Vermont Community Broadband Board is prepping for the incoming Trump administration, staff and patients are protesting cuts proposed by UVM Health Network, Vermonters have less than one week to apply for disaster assistance from FEMA for the July 2024 storms, four Vermont counties are experiencing drought conditions and Vermont Olympic medalist Ilona Maher has made the finals in “Dancing with the Stars.�

The hospital system has said dialysis clinics in St. Albans, Rutland and Newport will remain open as they look for alternative providers. At Central Vermont Medical Center, hospital leaders plan to close the in-patient psych unit, and they'll consolidate several community clinics.