Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2013
Can the Late Stephen Huneck’s Dog Mountain Get a New Leash on Life?; Methadone in South Burlington; Film Fest and Feats in Vermont; New Restaurant Bonanza
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Can Dog Mountain Get a New Leash on Life?
“Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Would you look at this? Oh, my God!” As Paula Pethtel enters the Dog Chapel, her reaction is a typical one. Just about everyone invokes the Lord’s name — or cries, or is stunned into silence — when they set foot in this moving memorial to pooches built by…
Obituary: Ronnie Allen Bockus
Ronnie Allen Bockus, age 50 years, passed away Tuesday morning, Oct. 1, 2013, at his Quail Drive home with his loving family by his side after a courage battle with brain cancer. He was born on February 2, 1963, the son of the late Margaret (Greenia) and Arnold Bockus. Ronnie attended Missisquoi Valley Union High…
Obituary: Anna Marie Alger
Anna Marie Alger, age 31 years, died tragically Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 25, 2013, in St. Albans. She was a resident of the St. Armand Road in Highgate Center. Born in St. Albans on, November 13, 1981, Anna was the daughter of Loyd Thompson and Rebecca Alger. She was a 2000 graduate of Missisquoi Valley Union…
Obituary: Eugene D. Sapadin,
Burlington Eugene D. Sapadin died Thursday, September 19th, at Vermont Respite House in Williston on a spectacularly lovely early autumnal day. At 6’7″ and 180 pounds, Gene was not meant to be ordinary, and his mental distinction was no less than his physical one. He accumulated vast and eclectic troves of knowledge and trivia and…
Obituary: Marjorie L. Covey,
1919-2013, Middlebury Marjorie L. Covey died, after a long battle with colon cancer, ather home in Middlebury, VT, on September 20th, 2013, just 4 days shy of her94th birthday. Born in WestBrattleboro, VT, to Justin and Myrtle (Briggs) Dix, Marge was a multi-generation Vermonter. She grew up the only girl among 8siblings in the Dix…
Snake Mountain, the Top of Addison County
Fog shrouds the road, rolling in from Lake Champlain and smelling like farm. At 7 a.m. on a cool, late-summer morning, as we roll east through the cornfields on Vermont 17, I can barely see our destination rising through a pearl-gray sky. Even the sun looks tired. I am not a morning person. Coffee helps…
A Farmers Market Staple Hands Out Free Hugs
Jean Barber is a massage therapist, but for the past year she’s been into another kind of touch. Every Saturday, “if it’s not raining,” Barber, 61, stands for a few hours at the Burlington Farmers Market holding up a sign that says “Free Hugs.” She’s neatly and conventionally dressed with a radiant smile. Barber does…
The Fleming Museum Acquires Works From Vogel Collection
In the Wolcott Gallery at the Fleming Museum, a few dozen works of contemporary art are on display in an exhibit with the intriguing name “Dorothy and Herb Vogel: Fifty Works for Fifty States.” For museumgoers who might pause at the word “contemporary,” be assured there are no mammals preserved in formaldehyde, à la Damien…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again New Zealand authorities nabbed a Vietnamese man at the Auckland airport trying to smuggle tropical fish into the country after they noticed his bulging pants pockets were leaking. Ministry of Primary Industries official Craig Hughes said the man explained that he was carrying water from the plane because he was thirsty, but…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’ve got a good feeling about your relationship with intimacy in the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I think you will have a good instinct about how to drum up interesting fun with your most important allies. You’ll just naturally know what to do to make your collaborative efforts…
A Vermont Academic Visionary Wants to Update Higher Ed — Online
The student loan crisis has caught the federal government’s attention, but it’s not the only systemic problem plaguing higher education. The list of troubles is long and complex: grossly inflated administrative salaries carried on the backs of inflated tuition, decreased educational budgets for both public and private schools, student dissatisfaction with course offerings, the exploitation…
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Archer Mayor [324]
9/14/13: Vermont author Archer Mayor releases his 24th novel featuring detective Joe Gunther on October 1st. Eva took a train trip to Brattleboro on the Vermonter to meet Mayor and get a tour of the town which appears in many of his books. She also interviews the Windham County State’s Attorney and a local police…
Gallery Profile: ARTSight
In a former doctor’s office in downtown Bristol, five local artists are making their mark: Karla Van Vliet, Lily Hinrichsen, Basha Miles, Rachel Baird and Katie Grauer. They call their new collective ARTSight. The studio, gallery and event space was born last February. Painter and poet Van Vliet, a Bristol native, had been looking for…
Alejandro Escovedo Talks About His Early Influences
If you ask the current crop of country-rock acts to name their most formative influences, before too long you’ll hear the name Alejandro Escovedo. Few folks this side of Neil Young or Gram Parsons are as cited as often as he is when it comes to artists vital to the melding of rock and twang.…
Work: Jay Southgate, Steeplejack
For many, “upward mobility,” “moving up in the world” and “career pinnacle” are mere metaphors. But for Jay Southgate, 54, owner and founder of Southgate Steeplejacks, these are matters of fact. Southgate and his crew of four work exclusively on steeples throughout Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts. A “steeplejack” handles every aspect…
First Bite Bonanza: Tasting the Crop of New Restaurants
Late summer is a busy time for the Seven Days food team. It seems like half the people who open restaurants each year choose July and August to start serving the public. That means more fun options for diners and lots more reporting for us. This year, we could barely find time to schedule reviews…
Letters to the Editor
Insensitive Headline The “Can’t Bear It” headline on Andrea Mowrer’s letter about the viciously cruel treatment of Asiatic black bears was juvenile, flip and insensitive [“Feedback,” September 18]. I can only hope that whoever wrote the caption did not carefully read the letter itself. If it was a deliberate sneer, there is a problem at…
