Another year is coming to a close, and it's time for the annual “Stuck in Vermont” video reflecting on 2025’s most memorable moments.

A Burlington park ranger stopped by the Seven Days office with a story tip about homelessness. Reporter Derek Brouwer turned the tipster into the story.

When reporting on Vermont’s immigrant communities, Lucy Tompkins uses the Spanish she learned as a child in central Mexico to build trust.

From a clever Weybridge farmer to a beloved rock-and-roll roadie in Burlington to a pioneering trans-rights advocate, they reflect what it is to be a Vermonter.

The James Beard Awards are a big deal in the food world. But sometimes, the journalists covering them are paying more attention than the chefs being honored.

Writer Colin Flanders began to reconsider his own relationship to alcohol while reporting about Vermont’s booze problem.

From her seat in Burlington City Hall, writer Courtney Lamdin spied city councilors texting during meetings. The practice skirts the boundaries of state law.

The Vermont author, poet and “warrior scholar” penned the definitive book on LSD. He traveled far and wide but was always drawn back to life on the family farm.

It was difficult for writer Alison Novak to finagle an interview with Education Secretary Zoie Saunders, who eventually relented but still resisted opening up.

Writer Alison Novak’s deep-dive research into an assault at the Vermont School for Girls led to a bigger story about state-level decision making.

While reporting on Vermont’s newest representatives, Statehouse writer Hannah Bassett discovered one using ChatGPT to make sense of a high-profile bill.

While writer Alison Novak was on a family trip in Bangkok, she received an email that became national news and changed the trajectory of her cover story.