Vermont gained new attention — and new residents — when it started offering people $10,000 in 2018 to move in and bolster the state’s declining population. Now the Town of Woodstock is hoping to do something similar, but with businesses. Its Economic Development Commission has created a $30,000 grant fund program called Startup Woodstock for entrepreneurs…
Beloved mother, sister, daughter and friend sought and embodied community
Acupuncturist remembered for his passion and commitment to Chinese healing arts, break dancing and weightlifting
Willsboro native loved boating on Lake Champlain with his family
Former Vermont representative and businessman remembered for his innumerable contributions to his community
Longtime educator and music lover was most at home in the woods with his golden retrievers
Father and grandfather spent many wonderful summers with his grandchildren at his camp in the Northeast Kingdom
Shelburne woman was a lifelong nurse, world-traveler, pilot, artist and adventuress
Virtual reality has been touted as the next big thing since the 1990s. About a year ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company Meta and announced his plan to invite users of his social media platforms into a “metaverse” based on VR technology. But since then, the metaverse has “had a rocky start,” in…
new in theaters BLACK ADAM: Endowed with all the powers of the Egyptian gods, the villain (Dwayne Johnson) of the D.C. Comics film Shazam! gets center stage in this showcase for his anti-heroism. With Sarah Shahi and Viola Davis. Jaume Collet-Serra directed. (124 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Star, Sunset, Welden) MY…
The web has become an incubator for extremism. What can tech companies do about it? To answer that, some have sought advice from Middlebury College’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism. The outfit, which operates from the college’s satellite campus in Monterey, Calif., blends data analysis with social science expertise to research political violence. CTEC…
Vegetarians and skeptics of the cloven-hoofed, beware: Ellyn Gaydos’ stellar debut memoir, Pig Years, might have you salivating. Lovers of sumptuous prose, rejoice. Pig Years delivers an intimate look inside the world of young, semi-itinerant farmers in Vermont and upstate New York. Or rather, worlds — because that group, composed of neither children of hardscrabble…
There are a lot of clichés about living in Vermont. I’m sure you’ve heard them. Every out-of-town comedian who swings through seems to have a bit where they touch on all the hits: We have hippy ice cream everyone loves. Bernie. It’s cold. There’s no one here. Bernie. Phish. Hippies. Bernie. Phish… C’mon, people. We’ve…
(Self-released, digital) It’s pure synergy that singer-songwriter Maryse Smith has released her new EP at the peak of foliage season. Soft, unhurried and contemplative, the album embodies the physiological slowdown the world experiences as it gradually tilts away from the life-giving center of our solar system. Silence Is Golden is quintessential autumn listening. Smith is…
I’ve had my share of health problems, as readers of this column well know. But so far I have managed to avoid the most common affliction among my group of friends: atrial fibrillation. Four have experienced A-fib, also known as AF, which manifests as an irregular heartbeat in between 2.7 and 6.1 million American adults,…
(Self-released, digital) Father Figuer are one of the most interesting Burlington bands of recent years. Since their 2020 debut, Transitions, they’ve stabilized as a power trio of unusual range. Their second LP, Jack of All Fruits, was an ocean of unpredictable sounds, full of complex arrangements and atmospheres that tested the boundaries of guitar rock.…
The Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn has been largely empty since the start of the pandemic. Now, the space is so full that it draws gaping passersby to its large windows facing Burlington’s Main Street. What’s there? “Riddleville,” a solo show by local artist Clark Russell. The installation resembles a crowded city of…
Dear Reverend, My 16-year-old son is very mature for his age — most of the time. The other day, he told me that he plans on trick-or-treating this Halloween, but I think he’s too old for that. Should I tell him he needs to grow up? Candi Curmudgeon (female, 42) Dear Candi Curmudgeon When I…
A glass case in the lobby of Westford School displays shiny statuettes that celebrate its students’ wins in basketball and soccer competitions. On the top shelf, though, stands a row of more unusual-looking trophies, fashioned from bright yellow LEGO pieces. Elementary and middle schoolers earned these blocky honors in FIRST LEGO League robotics tournaments, which require…
The inaugural Pancakes for the People might not have been whipped up in 2019 if founder/organizer Poa Mutino hadn’t climbed a Montpelier lamppost. Mutino had permission to operate the free Sunday morning breakfast pop-up outside city hall, but the griddle required electricity, and the building was closed for the weekend. “So I scaled the pole…
Andrew Campanella’s eyes narrowed in concentration as he stared at the computer monitor where the competition was growing fierce. His fingers flew across the keyboard, the keys clacking rhythmically as he engaged in a tense round of Rocket League, a multiplayer video game made for anyone who’s ever wondered what it would be like to…
LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): Libra poet Wallace Stevens said that the great poems of heaven and hell have already been written, and now it is time to generate the great poems of earth. I’d love to invite all Libras, including nonwriters, to apply that perspective in their own sphere. Just forget about heaven and hell…
Right Up There I just wanted to reach out and say how much I enjoyed Chris Farnsworth’s article [“UFOMG: From Flying Saucers to Starlink, Vermont Has a Long History of Strange Things in the Sky,” October 5]. I thought it was really interesting and well written. I think it’s important to provide positive feedback when…
I’m not a paranoid kind of person, not by modern standards, anyway. But I feel like I’m being watched a lot. Not by master manipulators from the CIA or the New World Order (which seems pretty chaotic, TBH); this is more like a well-meaning grandma who reads the computer screen over my shoulder and keeps…
There are landscape paintings — oh, so many of them — and then there are paintings of the land as home. Bonnie Baird’s work falls in the latter camp. A current exhibition at Northern Daughters in Vergennes puts her familiarity with place on display. The title, “Tethered,” is apt: Baird was raised on a 730-acre…
The first time Beta Technologies’ all-electric aircraft landed at Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport this May, airport manager Chris Beitzel said he felt he was witnessing history. The fixed-wing airplane — with rotors allowing it to take off and land vertically — this time touched down on the runway like a regular airplane. It pulled up…
The Vermont International Film Festival aims to bring the world to Vermont through film. Produced by the Vermont International Film Foundation, this year’s festival promises movies not only from across the globe but also from across time. There will be lost films, forgotten gems and new releases that have waited patiently on the shelf for…
About six months ago, I briefly went viral. A 25-second humor video in which I impersonated my mother, encapsulating her unique brand of feminism, reached 2.1 million views on TikTok. It was exciting, and then it was overwhelming. Hundreds of comments flooded in — some calling my mom an icon, others calling her a hypocrite.…
Vermont earned a pushpin on the global health technology industry map decades ago when homegrown entrepreneurs founded BioTek Instruments, the Winooski life science instruments company now known as Agilent, and IDX Systems, the South Burlington health information technology firm. While those businesses have since been sold to bigger, out-of-state companies, Vermont has been incubating a…
Sarah Kalil likes to start each day by climbing a mountain. One of her preferred summer and fall routes is a two-mile sweatfest that begins in a glade near Stowe Mountain Resort’s Midway Lodge and ends, 2,000 unrelenting vertical feet later, at the top of the gondola lift below the Mount Mansfield ridgeline. On a…
Sorting tomatoes, teaching social studies and coaching soccer: John Antonucci has done those jobs and many more on his way to becoming the managing partner at the Dudley Fund, one of Vermont’s newest equity investment firm. Antonucci, 40, manages the day-to-day operations at the fund, which he, private equity investor Jim Crook and three others…
When Kevin Martins takes customers’ electronic payments for their drink orders at Onyx Tonics in Burlington, he makes quick mention of the final step in the digital transaction but doesn’t emphasize it. “There’s a prompt here if you need it,” Martins, a barista at the College Street coffee shop, says in a dismissive tone before…
Since early 2021, chef-owner Ahmed Omar of Burlington’s Kismayo Kitchen has made more than two dozen short cooking videos and posted them on his YouTube channel, Chef Kismayo. In the well-paced tutorials created with local photographer Oliver Parini, the camera focuses mostly on Omar’s torso and hands as he chops, blends, air-fries and sautés. Like…
For Kirbie Nichols, co-owner of Speedwell Farms in Lyndonville, the average workday starts in the barn at 3:30 in the morning, Pop-Tart in hand. It takes her an hour to get the milking units affixed to the first eight of 107 milking cows on the dairy operation she runs with her father, Brian Nichols, and…
The team at Mark BBQ slung its final heaping plates of Texas-style barbecue at the Essex Junction restaurant on Friday, almost four years to the day after it opened. Chef and co-owner Darrell Langworthy said Mark BBQ will reopen in Colchester in December, next door to the Guilty Plate Diner, which he and his wife,…
Folino’s is heading to the Champlain Islands next summer — and it won’t just be serving pizza. The popular Chittenden County wood-fired pizza biz will operate a yet-to-be-named seasonal food truck and bar at South Hero’s Keeler Bay Marina in 2023, Folino’s chief operating officer Seth Desrochers told Seven Days. The truck will host pizza…
Flamenco Famous Tuesday 25 Legendary flamenco superstar Farruquito dances his way through the history of the form at Hopkins Center for the Arts’ Spaulding Auditorium at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. The show, Intimo Farruquito, features an array of world-class dancers and musicians and celebrates centuries of the Spanish style. Across the Universe Ongoing Art…
“I’m literally going to Vermont because of a picture i [sic] saw on social media!” So said “lissette” in a 2019 comment on a Yankee magazine story about Pomfret’s Sleepy Hollow Farm, one of the most photographed places in the state. Judging by the dozens of people who were streaming up Cloudland Road at 9…
