Melinda Moulton looked as giddy as a schoolgirl while strolling past the shiny silver Amtrak train. It was about to depart Burlington’s Union Station on its July 29 inaugural run to New York City. Hearing a funk band entertaining the crowd of several hundred who’d gathered for the event, Moulton grabbed the hand of her…
“Free-spirited soul” was passionate about nature and outdoor adventures
Active member of the LGBTQ+ community touched lives in every walk of life
South Hero woman’s smile, style and artistic flair remembered by all who knew her
Thetford Center resident left this world feeling grateful for his family and friends
Loving mother served her community as a first responder medic for over 10 years
Grounds for Clarification I’d like to clarify misleading information in your article on Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape designs in Vermont [“Room to Roam,” August 17]. Henry Hobson Richardson, one of the nation’s leading 19th-century architects, designed Billings Library; Olmsted designed the grounds. Similarly, Cram and Ferguson Architects designed the National Life headquarters; the Olmsted firm…
This fall, South Burlington students will be shrinking their carbon footprints just by riding to school, thanks to the addition of four new electric buses to the school district’s fleet. Two of the buses will pick up children when school starts, and two more are expected to start rolling shortly afterward. The fancy new rides…
Back in the day, a movie like Thirteen Lives would almost certainly have had a fall theatrical run to prepare it for the upcoming awards race. Directed by multiple Oscar winner Ron Howard and starring Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell, the movie dramatizes a riveting story from the recent past: the 2018 rescue of 12…
Dear Reverend, I’m a 62-year-old single woman, and I’m lonely. I never thought I would be alone in my later life, but here I am. I’ve never had any trouble attracting men, so I know that if I hit the dating circuit, I could find a match. The problem is, I have no sex drive…
new in theaters GIGI & NATE: A young man who is quadriplegic bonds with his service animal — a capuchin monkey — in this family drama from Nick Hamm. Charlie Rowe and Marcia Gay Harden star. (114 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Star) A LOVE SONG: Two former lovers (Dale Dickey and Wes Studi) reunite in…
In the 35 years since the heartwarming Steel Magnolias premiered, more has changed than the hairstyles we see in a little beauty shop in the play’s fictional Louisiana town. Today, an upbeat story is a commodity, designed to press the tear-jerk lever in a consumer, but Robert Harling’s 1987 play is a well-crafted comedy that…
To anyone concerned about the state of the Earth, an exhibition at the Current gallery in Stowe will provoke sadness, anger, outrage, fear. “When the Well Is Dry” features photographs by 11 international visual storytellers whose work shows what humans have inflicted on nature, and nature’s response. Some of the artists, such as Edward Burtynsky…
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): “Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?” Virgo-born Mary Oliver asks that question to start one of her poems. She spends the rest of the poem speculating on possible answers. At the end, she concludes she mostly longs to be an “empty, waiting, pure, speechless receptacle.” Such a…
Owen Tillery was just 5 years old and living in Brooklyn when his mother put him on a bus and sent him up to stay with strangers in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom through the Fresh Air Fund. That year, 1981, Tillery spent two weeks getting his first taste of country life. The couple he stayed with,…
A vintage book that Anne Cummings found in her father’s collection inspired her to make a series of collages she titled “Sketches in Crude Oil: The Genesis and Legacy of Fossil Fuels.” In successive compositions, faces of “all these wealthy white guys,” which she cut from the book, are stacked against a background that seems…
An anecdote in this week’s cover story about local developer Melinda Moulton speaks to every woman entrepreneur who has doubted herself. In my experience, that’s all of them. Before Moulton and Lisa Steele teamed up to rebuild the Burlington waterfront, both worked for the men who had tried it before them. In the early 1980s,…
Liam Madden, the 38-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran and somewhat reluctant Republican nominee for Vermont’s lone seat in the U.S. House, thinks that the American political system has been captured by elites with prefabricated ideologies. What the first-time candidate lacks in governing experience, he insists, he makes up for in his vision, which is a…
Fred Wilber has to navigate several narrow dirt roads in East Montpelier when he starts his Meals on Wheels route. In winter, they’re slick with ice; during mud season, they’re muddy and bumpy. He makes the trip each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, rain or shine. Wilber took a reporter along last week, stopping first at…
It was just another school day in November 1944 when 12-year-old Wilma Hathaway rode home on the bus with a dozen or so schoolmates along Route 116 in Hinesburg. Just another day, until the bus driver chose to announce to the children that Pvt. Alwin A. Hathaway — Wilma’s older brother — was missing and…
The rhythm of Heather Moore’s year has been timed to an academic calendar for more than three decades, from prekindergarten in Rutland through graduate work at the University of Vermont. This fall, she will defend her doctoral thesis in education. Though Moore’s graduate studies are all but done, her schedule is still aligned with the…
Devin Dannat pushed open a sturdy metal door at his new Clean Cannabis Company building in Hardwick last week and stepped from a dim hallway into a luminous new world. Bright light burst forth from rows of overhead LED fixtures, bathing the 35-year-old budding entrepreneur and his hundreds of young hemp plants in a warm…
Back in 2015, Dr. Teghan Lucas, then a PhD student at the University of Adelaide in Australia, conducted a study on identifying people’s faces. It was intended to highlight the dangers of our increasingly surveilled society and, in particular, the risk that a person could be wrongly accused of a crime due to “morphological characters,”…
(Self-released, digital) Listening to Will Keeper’s new EP, Glass Doll, I get the impression that the 25-year-old Burlington singer-songwriter is visually fixated. His past two EPs and string of singles prove that he’s a whiz with sound, too. But the lyrics on his new release are strikingly optically focused. On these six feathery pop tunes,…
(Oak Honest Records, cassette, CD, digital) Brattleboro has launched some of the best local bands in recent years — including Barishi, Witch and Thus Love — and the town continues to produce a diverse array of musical talent. The latest to emerge from Vermont’s southern realms is singer-songwriter Derek O’Kanos with his sophomore effort, Spoken…
At 156 North Winooski Avenue in Burlington, two signs hang above a restaurant door. One advertises Maudite Poutine, an expanded brick-and-mortar version of the well-loved fries-and-gravy food cart. The other, for Tiny Community Kitchen, is colorfully illustrated with storefronts and kitchen equipment but offers no further explanation. Curious passersby who look in the window will…
Wanna Phasuk Filan met Carole Lavigne in 2011 in an exercise class at the Vermont Sun Fitness Centers’ Middlebury location. Eleven years later, the two women are still meeting at the gym. But now they hang out in the parking lot, where Filan operates her food truck, Thai@Home. Lavigne and three other friends Filan met…
It’s been months since Darrell and Katey McLaughlin have brought home a loaf of bread. That might not be particularly strange except that the couple owns St. Johnsbury’s Boule Bakery, which specializes in sourdough loaves and pastries and serves sandwiches, gooey cupcakes with perfectly piped frosting and decadent tiered cakes for special occasions. “I don’t…
Chef-owner Dhanbahadur Chhetri has opened Mountain Valley Restaurant at 212 Main Street in Winooski. It’s the latest in a series of Indian/Nepali/Indo-Chinese restaurants that the small yellow-clapboard building has hosted — most recently, Friend’s Nepali Restaurant, which closed in early 2022, Chhetri said. Chhetri, 43, bought the business in late June and spent five weeks…
Play It Coolidge Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 The Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival, a rootsy shindig 17 years strong, once again visits the Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site with a lineup that includes Craig Bickhardt (pictured), Sarah King, the Speckers and Reggie Harris. Early birds on Saturday get a pre-show: Shakespeare Alive! A Bard-Based…
Sen. Patrick Leahy chronicles his long and extraordinary political career in a memoir that hit the shelves of bookstores on August 23. The Road Taken covers the rise that began when 26-year-old Leahy became Chittenden County state’s attorney, appointed by governor Phil Hoff. At the age of 34, in 1974, Leahy was elected to the…
