Nest — Fall 2023
Affordable Housing Agency Eyes a Former School in Greensboro; A Net-Zero Neighborhood in South Burlington; Sienna Martz’s Sustainable Wall Sculptures; Teachers Tree Service Has Arboreal Answers
Obituary: John Paul Lavigne, 1945-2023
Lifelong Vermonter made a career out of his love for driving and enjoyed meeting new people throughout his travels
Obituary: Cynthia Lyons, 1958-2023
Enthusiastic ambassador of her Waterbury community continuously championed local small businesses
Last Quarter: Fall 2023 Vermont Housing News
Greensboro residents are proud of their town, home to Willey’s Store, Circus Smirkus, Highland Center for the Arts, Jasper Hill Farm and Hill Farmstead Brewery. And they know they need more affordable housing, a priority identified in the town plan. Enrollment at the local Lakeview Elementary School has fallen so low that the school almost…
Nest — Fall 2023
After the summer’s devastating flood, it’s no wonder that Vermonters are entering autumn thinking about more resilient living spaces. That theme takes many shapes in this issue of Nest, Seven Days’ quarterly magazine on homes, design and real estate. In South Burlington, the new Hillside at O’Brien Farm development includes net-zero homes designed to stay…
Readsboro Artist Sienna Martz Gains a Following for Her Ethical Wall Sculptures
It’s hard to miss a Sienna Martz sculpture. Each one seems to grow right out of the wall, evocative of something you’d find in the natural world — or maybe Hayao Miyazaki’s version of the natural world, if the Japanese filmmaker abandoned animation for plant-based fibers. Martz’s blossom series features fingerlike appendages erupting from the…
A New Net-Zero Neighborhood Rises in South Burlington
Hot on the heels of a stormy summer and historic flooding, the O’Brien Brothers development firm is creating a South Burlington community designed to stay powered up through the wild weather that’s expected as a result of climate change. The development is fossil fuel-free and features amenities that lower the carbon output of appliances and…
Teachers Tree Service Schools Homeowners on Healthy Arboreal Landscapes
Greg Ranallo rarely gets to climb trees anymore. At age 62, after running his tree care business for two decades, he mostly works behind a desk doing payroll and paperwork, not in the field with his crew. On a recent day, though, he hoisted himself about 45 feet into the canopy of a giant pin…
