Longtime high school educator leaves a list of activities to do in his memory
Recent Montpelier resident had just begun to chart his future with his fiancée
Waterbury community leader was affectionately nicknamed “the Mayor of Stowe Street”
40-year banker loved skiing, golf and being a grandfather
Known as a true gentleman who had the gift of music and gave of it freely
A memorial gathering will be held on July 14 at 2 p.m. at Maquam Barn & Winery, 125 Duffy Rd., Milton. There will be an opportunity to tell a story or recount a memory if you’d like to. We are following Vermont COVID-19 guidelines regarding masks for unvaccinated guests. Related Stories
In remembrance of Bob Cochran, the family is holding a memorial service on Friday, July 2, at 1 p.m., on what would have been his 95th birthday, at the Jericho Center Congregational Church, 3 Jericho Center Circle in Jericho Center. A reception will follow in the church’s lower level Fellowship Hall. A private family funeral…
Here at Seven Days, we pride ourselves on going straight to the source, whether it’s a musician, a poet or the governor. Back in the ’90s, when an invasion of zebra mussels was threatening to choke Lake Champlain, we were the only publication to interview one of the arrogant little mollusks. Recently, we tried something…
On November 3, Sam Kaas and Emma Nichols were visiting Vermont for the very first time. They were following up on an independent bookstore recently listed for sale. While the couple was meeting with Penny McConnel and Liza Bernard, the founders and owners of Norwich Bookstore, the presidential election was called in favor of Joe…
The phrase “We are all interconnected” is not New Age woo-woo. Skeptics need only ask a physicist. Or, if the very word “quantum” makes your eyes glaze over, ask a beekeeper instead. That’s what we did. Chas Mraz, 55, is a third-generation beekeeper at Champlain Valley Apiaries in Middlebury — the namesake of Charles Mraz,…
One of Richard Roy’s backyard beehives produced about 70 pounds of sweet, golden honey last year. Two feet away, bees in a nearly identical stack of purple wooden boxes haven’t produced a drop to spare for their handler in three years. Roy, a retired high school English teacher who has kept bees at his Colchester…
‘I Expected Better’ I was very disappointed in your cover story, “Kicked to the Curb,” about the situation of homeless individuals and families throughout the pandemic. Reporter Chelsea Edgar happens to encounter a disgruntled Committee on Temporary Shelter employee and overhears an unpleasant exchange between a Champlain Housing Trust employee and one of the individuals…
Rob Swanson is “enamored of anything that flies.” In a recent chat with Seven Days, the former hang-glider pilot said he’s in awe of the “mind-boggling biological perfection of birds and insects.” He also finds them “an incredible challenge to photograph in flight.” But capture their speed and agility he does, drawing on years of…
In an unpublished report, the Vermont Human Rights Commission has found reasonable grounds to believe the Vermont State Police discriminated against Lydia Clemmons, a Black woman who is a member of the prominent Charlotte family that owns and runs the historic Clemmons Family Farm. In bluntly worded findings, the commission’s investigation concluded that the state…
Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This Friday, Vermont International Film Foundation’s Virtual Cinema opens three new films, including the 2020 Québécois drama Les Nôtres (“our own”). The province has a thriving film industry, and director-cowriter Jeanne Leblanc has worked as an assistant director on productions ranging…
For the last two years of the 1980s, I lived in the West Nile region of Uganda, where its famous former dictator, Idi Amin, was born. My ex-husband was helping to repatriate people who were forced to leave the country after Amin’s ouster; they’d been refugees for a decade. There was no organized law enforcement…
The life of a bee is similar to that of a Vermonter, according to quiltmaker Hope Johnson. A worker bee will undertake several tasks in succession: cleaning, gathering food, guarding the hive. Vermonters, too, are keen on multitasking. To underscore her point, she repeated a Green Mountain State mantra: “Moonlight in Vermont or starve.” Johnson,…
Board of Assessors Term Expires 3/31/24 One Opening Chittenden County Regional Planning Comm.-alt Term Expires 6/30/23 One Opening Development Review Board – alternate Term Expires 6/30/24 One Opening Fence Viewers Term Expires 6/30/22 Two Openings Vehicle for Hire Licensing Board Term Expires 6/30/24 Three Openings Applications may be submitted to the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, 149 Church…
To the uninitiated, a honeybee swarm can resemble a scene from a horror movie: Hundreds, sometimes thousands of insects swirl through the air like an angry tornado or clump together like a buzzing beach ball on a tree limb or fence post. Swarms appear seemingly out of nowhere, then disappear within hours or linger for…
For the first time ever, I’ve been watering the milkweed in my yard. Who waters native perennials, right? But rainfall was unseasonably low for the fourth spring in a row, and I wanted to be sure the plants could support thirsty pollinators. Sure enough, in a five-minute count last week, more than 10 species of…
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, a Democrat, raised eyebrows last month when he named Progressive Brian Pine as the next director of the city’s Community and Economic Development Office, a powerful post. Not only are the mayor and the Progressives frequently at odds over city policies, but Pine was a candidate to unseat Weinberger in the most…
Most everyone in the Zoom room for the Vermont Board of Libraries meeting agreed it was a good idea to change the name of Negro Brook in Townshend. Days earlier, Texas — Texas — had successfully replaced more than a dozen place names containing “Negro” with ones that honor notable Black figures. Yet an hours-long…
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I was so flooded with yearning I thought it would drown me,” wrote Cancerian author Denis Johnson. I don’t expect that will be a problem for you anytime soon. You’re not in danger of getting swept away by a tsunami of insatiable desire. However, you may get caught in a current…
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a grist of bees. So, this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book…
Dear Reverend, I was wondering how I can go about telling my wife that I have been taking female hormones for the past four months. I was thinking of just letting her see my breasts under a low-cut sweater. I have told her for years that I wanted to be a woman and I dress…
As Vermonters emerge from the pandemic and begin to take stock, many may be inspired to purge the clutter. We’ll cull our mask collections to a handful of favorites. We’ll cancel subscriptions to niche streaming services such as Crunchyroll and Pluto TV. That trusty (and crusty) pair of work sweatpants will hit the dumpster, and…
(Self-released, digital) It may have been written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, but don’t call Patrick J Crowley’s new release a quarantine album. By his estimation, few of us truly lived through quarantine but, rather, a period of isolation. And that, Crowley says, is what All Was Set Fair is — an isolation album.…
(Self-released, digital) Three rabbis walked into a recording studio… No joke. Rabbis David Fainsilber of the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg of Minneapolis and Micah Shapiro of Philadelphia have been collaborating since their days at rabbinical school. And it shows. Just before the pandemic, the trio’s enduring partnership in music, friendship and shared…
Hey! It’s me, Farnsworth — aka Chris, aka the guy whose parents gave him a Winnie-the-Pooh middle name that we’ll worry about later. I’m the music editor now. I know, it’s wild, right? We don’t need to get crazy with this intro, because you know me. If you’ve read Seven Days music coverage over the…
Spencer Hardy has a well-practiced bee-catching swing. He lunges forward with a net attached to a long handle, sometimes crashing into the brush or tall grass, and swipes the bee into his net. Just as quickly, he flips the net so that the mesh is draped over the top of the frame, barring the efforts…
A young woman carries a loaded gun on her person nonstop for a week — not as open-carry propaganda, but as an art project. Viewers of the short film in which she documents her experience, “Packing,” watch in dread and fascination as she uses the gun barrel to eat her cornflakes. “Milk dribbled down her…
A bee hovered near Mike Kiernan as he sat outside an 11-acre solar field in Hinesburg. “That’s a carpenter bee,” he said. “It’s checking me out.” Kiernan, 62, was beside a honeybee hive that he had expected to find empty after the colony died this winter. Instead, he arrived to see honeybees flying in and…
You can’t make beer without sugar. The yeast needs something to eat in order to work its fermentation magic and transform a mixture of grain, hops and water into a double IPA, pilsner, stout or sour. That sugar is usually hidden in malted grains. The first step of the brewing process is to mash those…
This fall, V Smiley will move her eponymous honey-sweetened fruit-preserves company from Bristol to the Kennedy Brothers complex in Vergennes. Her new V Smiley Preserves production space, Minifactory, will also have a restaurant. Diners will walk past the open kitchen to reach the seating area, Smiley said. “They will smell the strawberries and apricots, see…
The Winooski circle will have a new spot for burgers, fries, shakes and cocktails when Grazers opens its third brick-and-mortar branch at 24 Main Street this coming fall. The newest Grazers takes over the longtime home of Tiny Thai Restaurant, which moved up to 293 Main Street in April. It joins the original Grazers location…
Happy Anniversary Thursday 24-Sunday 27 Contemporary dance troupe Pilobolus have a long history with Dartmouth College: A group of Dartmouth students formed the company in 1971, despite their lack of dance training. To mark its 50th anniversary, Pilobolus present four favorite works from their expansive repertoire. See the program Four@Play at the college’s Bema Outdoor…
