Before Newport police took Michael Cornell to prison, they brought him to the hospital. The 33-year-old was suspected of stealing $1,184 from a computer repair store and robbing a hotel clerk of $168. Cornell was unemployed at the time, on probation for a domestic assault and, he told police, in need of mental help. Cornell…
Thoughtful, inquisitive Vermont man was “a friend to so many”
Swanton woman taught English at Bellows Free Academy for 33 years
Shivers reverberated through my body as I stepped out of my shower onto a cold tile floor. I was three years sober, and I was getting ready for an important first date. I grabbed a towel off a nearby rack, walked up to a foggy mirror and began examining my reflection. After scanning my face…
Longtime operating room nurse at UVM Medical Center found great joy in simple pleasures
Longtime Shelburne resident was among Harvard’s first female architecture students and retained her love of design until death
What gets you first is the gaze. Direct, personal and full of meaning, yet unreadable. The polar bears are rooted in a place and a time: Kaktovik, a flyspeck of an Inupiat Eskimo village on Barter Island in the Beaufort Sea, within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where they were photographed by Norwich’s Stephen Gorman…
Earlier this month, when Vermont officials announced that masking guidance for K-12 schools would end on March 14, they cited new federal guidance and low COVID-19 hospitalization rates as reasons that the move made sense. “I think it’s time that we get back to some sort of normal, for kids in particular,” Gov. Phil Scott…
At night, looking south from the house he built on his farm in East Montpelier, Burr Morse can see the blinking lights of the airport in Berlin. Sometimes he imagines the places to which he could fly away. His son Tom (August 7, 1980-November 23, 2021) liked to look in another direction. When he was…
Vermont’s three largest hospitals are projecting tens of millions of dollars in losses this year amid rising labor costs and the highest rate of inflation in decades. But despite more than $1 billion in combined reserves — enough to cover the losses twentyfold — the hospitals say they need more money. They are lobbying state regulators for…
This weekend’s Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert is a must-go for two reasons — aside, of course, from hearing the excellent VSO musicians perform. One is that guest artist Stephen Hough, a UK-born pianist, will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3: a famously difficult piece played by one of the most acclaimed and enduring soloists…
“You’re not from around here, are ya?” My interrogator, sporting a sterling silver grill and a cluster of stick-and-poke face tattoos, wasn’t entirely wrong. I mean, technically, my house was only four miles away, which should qualify as “here.” But perhaps spiritually he was onto something? This was my third solo dive bar mission in…
More than 23 million Americans adopted pets during the pandemic, seeking unconditional love, companionship and animal entertainment. My partner, Tim, and I already had all of that in our beloved cat, Frankie, a neutered male gray tiger. We happily let his rituals rule our lives, from 4 a.m. feedings to indoor mouse torture. Most of…
A couple of weeks into lockdown back in 2020, Bob Bolyard decided to take his longtime character, Amber LeMay, to the wide world of livestreaming. A founding member of the House of LeMay, a long-standing Vermont drag troupe, Bolyard said to himself, “What the hell. I’ve seen other people do stuff online. I’ve got a…
Obscene Gesture? The Fidium ad on page 29 of your March 9 issue was incredibly offensive and insulting. The gesture the woman is giving is the sign of the cuckold. It means your spouse is sleeping with another person. It also implies that you are supporting children who are unknowingly not your own. There are…
I admit it. When I heard there was a social media storm brewing around the new Pixar animation Turning Red, I was instantly interested. While Facebook diatribes declared the film’s mentions of menstruation unfit for children, one pastor went so far as to suggest that Turning Red might be “demonic” for depicting the Chinese cultural…
Ceramic sculptor Tara Thacker loves multiplication and repetition; many of her works consist of fastidiously hand-cut, nearly identical components that number in the hundreds. On her website, she describes her process as labor-intensive and “borderline meditative.” Those qualities are amply evident in Thacker’s current exhibition at the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery at Northern Vermont University-Johnson.…
Earlier this winter, the brother of a Seven Days editor asked her why she had never mentioned Vermont’s “ice highway,” an alleged shortcut running between Burlington and Plattsburgh, N.Y. Because the brother’s source for this fabled freeway lives in Georgia — the Peach State, not the Franklin County town — the editor assumed that he…
new in theaters INFINITE STORM: Two climbers meet on a mountain and must work together to survive a blizzard in this fact-based drama from director Malgorzata Szumowska (The Other Lamb). Naomi Watts, Billy Howle and Denis O’Hare star. (95 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Savoy, Star) THE LOST CITY: A best-selling romance novelist (Sandra Bullock)…
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): The Carib people from Surinam quote their mysterious Snake Spirit as follows: “I am the force of the spirit of the lightning eel, the thunder ax, the stone. I am the force of the firefly; thunder and lightning have I created.” I realize that what I’m about to say may sound…
A few weeks ago, on the cusp of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I heard a familiar name introduced on NPR and then a voice I hadn’t heard in years. The voice belonged to the daughter of old friends from our years in Moscow, now working for a nongovernmental organization in Kyiv. In slight but resolute…
One of my least favorite questions is, “Is guitar music dead?” Whenever the topic rears its head, I have to force myself not to roll my eyes. Older metalheads who believe that only shredding counts as guitar music might bring it up, or Gen Z producers who think declaring guitar a spent force makes them…
In December, Burlington razed what was left of the Sears Lane homeless encampment in the South End. Mayor Miro Weinberger had abruptly ordered campers to clear out earlier in the fall, angering activists and Progressive city councilors who had tried to get him to reconsider. Five months after the controversial decision, Weinberger has made ending…
(Elbop Music, digital) Every Seven Days review of a Bow Thayer album has noted a particular quality: This is not an artist who stays on the trail. To walk with Thayer, even over the course of a single record, is to take a meandering path through an open meadow, dip down into craggy canyons and…
(Self-released, CD, digital) The German poet Berthold Auerbach once wrote that music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. I was reminded of him when listening to the Maine- and Vermont-based folk singer-songwriter Ethan Stokes Tischler’s first full album: the breezily sincere, tenderly smooth Across the Waking Skies. After two long pandemic…
Dear Reverend, I went to my first swinger hotel takeover last weekend, where a group of 75 or so swingers and singles rented out a floor of a hotel. The floor was “private,” so doors were open if people wanted to be watched, and play was also happening in the hallway. I’m a single woman…
March signals two annual occasions in Vermont: mud season and CSA sign-ups. As the snow melts and the ground thaws, farmers start their first seeds and their customers purchase community-supported agriculture shares, promissory notes for the weekly boxes and bags of abundance to come. The arrangement gives farmers the jump-start cash they need and a…
On April 2, Kianalee Hill will finally get to pull out the knives and show her stuff as a member of the Winooski Middle School Jr Iron Chef VT team. Hill, a 13-year-old eighth grader, was in sixth grade when she signed up for the Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) culinary competition, in which…
When Ferene Paris Meyer mixes her Haitian Barbancourt Rhum cakes, she adds her signature heartfelt, storytelling touch to the recipe. “I’m saying intentions over all these cakes,” Paris Meyer said. “For those who get to enjoy this cake, may you find abundance, love, peace of mind.” Paris Meyer is the founder of All Heart Inspirations,…
What is social media good for? Confirming the rumor that a favorite cozy wine bar has reawakened like Sleeping Beauty after almost two years. On February 24, tiny, subterranean Sotto Enoteca at 150 St. Paul Street in Burlington announced via Facebook that it was reopening and shedding its pandemic persona, Sotto Provisions, a market selling…
Don’t Look Back Friday 25-Sunday 27 Foul Contending Rebels Theatre presents its first production of a contemporary play: Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a feminist retelling of the Orpheus myth that gives his lost love a voice of her own. Reuniting with her father in the underworld, Eurydice faces a seemingly impossible choice that dredges up questions…
One sweet business will make way for another at 217 College Street in Burlington this spring. My Little Cupcake, which has occupied the corner of College Street and South Winooski Avenue since October 2011, will close at the end of April. Belleville Bakery will open in its place in August. Belleville owner Shelley MacDonald has…
