Joe Carroll
Joe is expanding his duties, including reporting on the unique people and places of Vermont.
The Rutland native is a Lyndon State College graduate. He started his career at Channel 22, and then as the videotape editor at Channel 3.
His favorite stories are the kind that combine a strong character with great visuals, making the viewer feel they are there. From covering Howard Dean's campaign in Iowa to the pope in Toronto, Joe feels privileged to witness history wherever it happens.
Have a story idea? Please let him know, he might show up with his camera to document a little bit of Vermont history.
An 88-year-old Pliates student in Vermont is a huge inspiration to others in her class.
Very little was known about Private Edward James Irwin until a funeral director-turned sleuth set out to solve the mystery.
Up a long dirt road, George Peak and Colleen Willette live on a little slice of heaven, operating perhaps the most remote bakery in Vermont.
Meet a 91-year-old world record holder in track and field proving that staying active has no age limit.
Pat Ullom is an 83-year-old marina keeper preserving centuries of living history in Vermont.
Gordon Thresher spends winters in his basement restoring bikes to sell or give away.
A licensed bird rehabilitator in Vermont has spent more than four decades healing injured birds, driven by a childhood memory that shaped his life’s work.
Barb Amsden, a nursing assistant at the hospital for nearly half a century, shows that sometimes the best medicine is a dose of compassion.
Nathan Longo is one of only a handful of accordion repairers in New England. He turned a retirement hobby into a 30-hour-a-week job.
Meet a 78-year-old logger, polo umpire and state lawmaker proving it is never too late to reinvent yourself.
Meet a 95-year-old Vermont volunteer whose decades of preserving plants earned her the ultimate living legacy.
A Vermont horseshoe club has been drawing players for decades, and some of the players are world-renowned.
Kent Blackmer, a Vietnam veteran in his 70s, picked up the drums for the first time at age 7 and continues to keep the beat with a band.
A group of older adults in Vermont has taken up rock climbing. Some members have climbed for years while others have overcome a fear of heights to join. They call themselves the “Flailing Fossils.”
Bob and Martha Pollack enlist four generations of the family to keep their candy business running.
A Vermont woman in her 80s says her mission to help children in crisis is far from over. She has spent decades bringing teddy bears to children in trauma zones around the world.
MaryAnn Jakubowski is in her 80s and runs the train station in her Vermont town, where she works seven days a week and hands out brownies.
Up a long dirt road, George Peak and Colleen Willette live on a little slice of heaven, operating perhaps the most remote bakery in Vermont.
A 76-year-old Vermont man is sharing what he has learned over five decades of beekeeping with enthusiasts from around the country.
Elliot Greenblott spends hours a day as a volunteer cyber sleuth. Here's how he does it
Roger Kennison started chopping down trees as part of the process of making maple syrup. While Kennison is no longer in the maple syrup business, he is still splitting wood at 88.
A Vermont librarian and sandwich shop worker started a soup kitchen and organizes card-making for children with cancer.
From the canvas to the dance floor, this 87-year-old doesn’t shy away from a creative or personal challenge
Flo Meiler started competing in track and field at 60 after a friend convinced her to try the long jump at the Vermont Senior Games. Now 91, she holds two world records.
A retired Vermont professor turns pots, pans and a rubber chicken into instruments in his home music studio.
