Joe Carroll
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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.
This Vermont Super Senior finds comfort in his kitchen baking goodies for community members. He honed his skills watching his wife of 65 years before he lost her. Meet Sonny Giroux.
A Channel 3 Super Senior who is now Vermont’s oldest veteran got his COVID shot Friday.
Joe Carroll introduces us to Fred Stone, a retired farmer who continues to help out on the farm, and has a passion for bluebirds.
We are remembering WCAX Super Seniors Mary Ojala and Joe Maiola who died in the last week.
He's a man who's had a world of experiences. Joe Carroll shows us how no matter where this week's Super Senior went, the Green Mountains were always home.
Organist Kevin Parizo is part of the rituals at the United Methodist Church and Saint Mary’s Church of the Assumption in Middlebury.
Reporter Joe Carroll has a senior moment of his own and pays a return visit to longtime Westfield selectman and recycling center coordinator Yves Daigle.
James Messier helped set up an ag program in the Franklin County schools back in the 60s, and the 81-year-old has been teaching ever since.
Sometimes you have to travel a bit to find treasures. The Bills brothers from the southern Vermont town of Wardsboro are pure gold.
It's a tradition for many folks-- picking out a Christmas tree to help get into the holiday spirit. Andy Moffatt has been helping folks do that for half a century at his stand in South Burlington. Our Joe Carroll stopped by for some Christmas cheer.
Alice Baker celebrated a big birthday this week. So how did she celebrate? By working. Her motto: "If I got a job, I'm going to do it!" She's a strong woman with a warm heart. Our Joe Carroll went "on the road" with this Super Senior.
In a small barn in Williston, Super Senior Edwards Smith is a master woodworker and a dedicated teacher whose lessons go beyond the mere craft.
Joe Carroll introduces us to 98-year-old Klara Calitri. The Super Senior fled from Nazi-occupied Europe as a teen and has embraced the U.S. as her adopted home.
There is no doubt that 2020 will go down in history as being a low point for most of us. A Burlington artist has made this a year of transformation not only for her artwork, but herself.
Super Senior Dr. Bill O'Rourke has been volunteering his time at the Rutland County Free Clinic for close to 10 years.
Super Senior Marie Boisvert has long knit hats to give away for area youth groups, but when the pandemic hit, the 80-year-old stepped up with a new project to help her community.
David Putter grew up in a typical middle-class family just outside of Syracuse, but the adopted Super Senior recently discovered his birth mother's more colorful past.
For well over a half-century, Brian Anderson has made his living working with his hands. Joe Carroll introduces us to the South Starksboro blacksmith.
Tucked behind the Chelsea Station Restaurant in South Royalton, there’s a store bursting at the seams. Joe Carroll introduces us to Raelene Lemery, who has run the Sunshine Thrift Shop for 30-plus years.
Joe Carroll introduces us to Super Senior Maggie Rutledge, who says she found her calling late in life as a foster grandparent in local schools.
This is a story about a 70-year friendship in rural Middlebury. Joe Carroll introduces us to Harley Grice and Ernie Malzac.
The Green Mountain Racetrack in Pownal is considered a total loss after a suspicious fire.
At his house in South Londonderry, Super Senior Hubert Schriebl has a wall full of memories captured in photographs from a life of adventure.
Super Senior Dick Smith is a regular volunteer at the Trinity United Methodist Church's soup kitchen.
After 132 years at its location on East Main Street, the Christian Science Society in Newport is on the move. The society’s church Is being dismantled into 14 pieces and hauled up to a new location six miles away.
With summer quickly fading away, it's the start of apple season in Vermont. Our Joe Carroll went up to the hills of Cabot to see if the picking is easy in a pandemic year.
It's arguably one of the strangest sights in Burlington, and now the World's Tallest Filing Cabinet will be a little easier for people to see because it's moving.
Friday was the fourth consecutive day of protests outside the Burlington Police Station.
As people in Burlington commemorated the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, speakers noted that it was mainly white women who benefited.
Diversification is a word you hear a lot in farming nowadays. Morgan Gold doesn’t have all his eggs in one basket on his small duck farm. He’s got another commodity that he sells -- a Vermont rural way of life.
The pandemic has caused many people to work at home, and Michelle Osgood is no different. But from her picture window she has a front seat view to nature and the wonders of flight.
It's been a sacred part of marriage vows for centuries: for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health. That last part has been tested-- like few others-- for these Super Seniors. Our Joe Carroll shares their story.
Work continues to the WCAX antenna on top of Mount Mansfield after a fire there last fall. A big piece of the process was completed over the weekend with help from a helicopter. Our Joe Carroll shows you.
Grab your bike because the Colchester Causeway is back open after an extensive reconstruction project. But it will still be a little longer until the bike ferry reopens.
The Burlington City Arts Summer Concert Series is in full swing in Burlington. Friday, guests were treated to longtime Vermont musician Rick Norcross.
The coronavirus has altered everyone’s world, and It’s no different for Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. Joe Carroll caught up with Leahy for a one-on-one one interview to find out how he’s adjusting to the new normal in this most unusual year.
Vermont cemeteries are time capsules from the past. But in Addison County one graveyard is slipping away. Our Joe Carroll shows you.