John Dillon
Senior ReporterJohn worked for VPR in 2001-2021 as reporter and News Director. Previously, John was a staff writer for the Sunday Times Argus and the Sunday Rutland Herald, responsible for breaking stories and in-depth features on local issues. He has also served as Communications Director for the Vermont Health Care Authority and Bureau Chief for UPI in Montpelier.
John was honored with two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2007 for his reporting on VPR. He was the lead reporter for a VPR series on climate change that in 2008 won a national Edward R. Murrow award for continuing coverage. In 2009, John's coverage of an asbestos mine in northern Vermont was recognized with a regional investigative reporting award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
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Call it the cyanobacteria summer for Lake Champlain and Burlington鈥檚 beaches. The hot, dry weather came early and hung around for months. The heat made鈥� -
Gov. Phil Scott has allowed a commercial tax-and-regulate system for marijuana sales to become law without his signature.But in a letter sent to the鈥� -
A three-year effort to update the state's 50-year-old land use law ended Monday night with a veto by Gov. Phil Scott. The governor said he rejected the鈥� -
The two major party candidates for U.S. House outlined clear differences on health care, abortion, and immigration policy in a wide-ranging VPR-Vermont鈥� -
Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a bill designed to add teeth to Vermont鈥檚 efforts to cut greenhouse gases by allowing the public to sue the state if the鈥� -
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's leading expert on infectious disease, lauded the way Vermont has handled the COVID-19 crisis during a press briefing鈥� -
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed another casualty in Vermont's dairy industry. Rutland-based Thomas Dairy will close next month because its sales鈥� -
Vermont's biggest and wealthiest nonprofit media organizations are merging. Officials at 开云体育 Radio and Vermont PBS say the goal is to provide鈥� -
As Vermont lawmakers look ahead to next year, they're going through some of the same options as schools. They're asking if they should they meet remotely,鈥� -
With schools set to reopen next week, the Scott administration says the state has approved 12 new education 鈥渉ubs鈥� to provide child care services, with鈥�
