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After a presumed10 year absence, a snake native to Vermont reappears in southern Windham County. Plus, the Agency of Education schedules listening sessions to weigh public feedback on the state’s new school safety law, two Vermont school districts still haven’t passed their budgets for next year, taxi drivers in Quebec win compensation in a class action lawsuit after the government allowed app-based ride services to operate in the province, New England’s power grid held up well during the first major heat wave of the season, and clean up is underway after concentrated firefighting foam spilled at a National Guard aircraft hanger in South Burlington.

Tagging along to see how a prescribed burn in Ripton helps manage the forest land there. Plus, a health care consultant says Vermont needs to make sweeping changes to its hospital network, more Vermonters will get access to rebates for energy efficient appliances to replace equipment damaged in last year's floods, UVM fires ten people from its Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Champlain Valley Expo announces plans to upgrade its 60-year old grandstand.

A 100-year-old Vermont veteran receives the Legion of Honor for his service in northern France during World War II. Plus, two state senators are suing Gov. Scott over his appointment of an interim education secretary lawmakers had initially rejected, Rep. Balint files legislation designed to prevent what she calls deceptive small donor fundraising tactics, workers at an Essex Junction Starbucks say they’ll try to unionize, Green Mountain Transit adds five new electric buses to its Chittenden County fleet, and this week’s heat wave could lead to more cyanobacteria blooms in ponds and lakes this summer.

A Vermont-based summer camp for LGTBQ+ youth with a years-long waitlist is expanding its footprint to serve more kids. Plus, nurses at Vermont’s biggest hospital are considering a strike if their contract demands aren’t met, high-level nuclear waste from the former Vermont Yankee plant will spend at least another 20 years in Vermont, a national conservative group and Burlington residents are filing suit to block a recent charter change allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections, and four more districts get mixed results from school budget votes.

The financial conundrum many young women of color face when trying to achieve stardom in the music industry. Plus, breaking down the action from yesterday’s legislative veto session, the state prepares for its first major heat wave of the season, and a Vermonter wins two Tony awards for her musical about the American suffragist movement.

Stopping by Vermont’s annual free fishing festival, where young people learn how to become sustainable anglers. Plus, a showdown between the Scott administration and Montpelier lawmakers comes to a head with a veto override session today, Vermont’s House speaker confirms one of the override attempts will focus on the state’s signature land-use law, Gov. Scott approves a bill that allows people who were in the foster care system to access their state records, Vermont State Police release the name of a man fatally shot by a trooper and the officer who fired their weapon, the union for UVM support staff is negotiating a new contract for higher wages, and the state prepares for the first major heat wave of the season this week.