ONEKAMA — Common signs of spring are birds singing, grass poking through the snow and — at Onekama Consolidated Schools — second graders hauling buckets of sap. Teacher Ben Mauntler's class wrapped up ...

Farmer Harold Eastman pours hot maple syrup from his orchard onto cold snow for the Vermont treat of sugar-on-snow. Photograph by John Titchen, Three Lions/Getty Images In fact, the state hosts an ...

VERMONT — Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' annual spring maple open house drew families to sugarhouses across Vermont this past ...