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Leading Brattleboro’s Police

Lara Dickson
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For VPR

Norma Hardy, the new police chief of Brattleboro, becomes the first Black woman to lead a police department in Vermont. Plus, Burlington’s a “heat island,� the struggle to find foster homes and COVID-19 numbers.

With The Frequency, get up to speed on what's happening in Vermont in under 15 minutes. Hosted by Henry Epp and Anna Van Dine, and available every weekday morning by 6:30 a.m.

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Henry worked for as a reporter from 2017 to 2023.
Abagael is 's climate and environment reporter, focusing on the energy transition and how the climate crisis is impacting Vermonters � and Vermont’s landscape.

Abagael joined in 2020. Previously, she was the assistant editor at Vermont Sports and Vermont Ski + Ride magazines. She covered dairy and agriculture for The Addison Independent and got her start covering land use, water and the Los Angeles Aqueduct for The Sheet: News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra in Mammoth Lakes, Ca.
Mark Davis has spent more than a decade working as a reporter in Vermont, focusing on both daily and long-form stories. Prior joining as assistant news director, he worked for five years at Seven Days, the alt-weekly in Burlington, where he won national awards for his criminal justice reporting. Before that, he spent nine years at the Valley News, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the criminal justice system, Topical Storm Irene, and other topics. He has also served as a producer and editor for the Rumblestrip podcast. He graduated from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.