Red Frog Coffee in Longmont is conducting a fundraising campaign, “Unite the Frogs,” to send its baristas to Japan to meet the owner’s brother, Jason Kelly, who helped her start the shop ...

As soon as it’s safe, he said, staff will trek into the craggy hills and assess what happened to the frogs. Depending on what they find, “We might need to do a rescue of said frogs,” Sin said.

The labor shortage at The Bearded Frog and other restaurants is perhaps one of the more extreme examples of Vermont’s general lack of workers. The state’s unemployment rate fell to 2.1% in July.