Brandon News

The Vermont Health Department is holding the second of 3 clinics to test people for the mosquito-borne disease eastern equine encephalitis that killed two Vermonters last year.

Vermont-based filmmaker Eugene Jarecki recently delivered a TEDxHollywood talk on "storytelling in the digital age." The decade since the start of the Iraq War has seen an incredible democratization of filmmaking, said the director of progressive documentaries Why We Fight and The House I Live In.

Late last year, the owners of Vermont Tubbs and Brown Street Furniture held out hope their case goods plant would be sold and reopened for business.

"If it can help other people, that is really why I am here," said Jan Ripley of Brandon.

The Vermont Health Department is planning to hold the first of 3 clinics to test people to see if they have been exposed to a mosquito-borne disease eastern equine encephalitis that killed two people last year.