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It's the latest installment in our monthly series, Town by Town. Each month, we spend a whole hour learning about one of the state’s 252 towns and cities. At the end of the hour, we spin a big wheel to decide what town is next.
This hour: Lemington, in Essex County. If you look at a map of Vermont, let your eyes wander to the far eastern border of the state, and then travel up, nearly to Canada. Lemington sits right there on the border with New Hampshire, along the Connecticut River. It’s population is under a hundred people. In the town’s whole history, its population never really topped 200. There’s a lot of forest there, a lot of logging, and people who love the land.
We're joined by Sharon Ellingwood, an Administrative Services Coordinator with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation who grew up in Lemington and has since moved back. We also hear from Joe Daley Jr., a lifelong resident of Lemington who is a selectman there and the towns road manager, Murray Duke, the town moderator, and Ray Gorman, a county commissioner for Coös County just over the New Hampshire border who grew up in Lemington and owns a camp there.
And, student reporter from the University of Vermont Community News Service Emily Rodin and Myla van Lynde bring us a story about the first ever Columbia Bridge Barn Dance, a recent event held on the covered bridge that connects Lemington, Vermont with Columbia, New Hampshire that celebrated the deep connection between the two towns.
Broadcast live on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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