In Vermont’s juvenile lockup, a girl endured violence and isolation. She wasn’t the only one. And it was no secret.
Updated at 9 p.m. Firefighters battled a huge blaze in Montpelier on Wednesday evening — the second fire to strike downtown after the devastating July flood. No injuries were reported, but a city fire truck was lost in the fast-moving blaze. “Once again, we’re just getting clobbered,” Montpelier Mayor Jack McCullough said, standing in front…
Longtime medical technologist embraced the outdoors and leaned into life with quiet strength and positivity
A memorial service for William L. Harwood of South Burlington, Vt., will be held at the College Street Congregational Church, 265 College St., Burlington, VT, on Saturday, November 11, 1 p.m. The service will also be on Zoom at the following link: https://bit.ly/CSCC_Worship
Newbury saffron farmer Jette Mandl-Abramson of Calabash Gardens believes that saffron is underappreciated as an ingredient in sweets. Although the precious spice is traditionally featured in Persian rice pudding and in raisin-studded, yeasted holiday buns in Sweden, more cooks think of using it in savory dishes. Related Mandl-Abramson suggests substituting a little freshly ground saffron…
Creator of “Bobventures” and world record holder designed and built the fastest land yacht in the world
“Bobcat” was kind and grateful, loved salt water and sailing, and made the best Caesar salad
Adventurer always found meaningful work and ways to express her strong belief in social and racial justice
Happy BIRTH Day! On October 18, 2023, Cassidy Hooker and Adam Mimran welcomed Harlow Alden Hooker into this world. They are beyond grateful to the talented midwives, nurses and doctors at the University of Vermont Medical Center who supported them in the birth of their son.
The financially troubled Vermont State University announced on Friday it will eliminate 33 faculty, administrative and staff positions and reduce benefits for the remaining workers for an annual savings of $12 million. Workers received layoff notices on Thursday, and VTSU’s outgoing interim president, Mike Smith, made the details public on Friday in a report that outlines…
South Burlington resident and philanthropic sorority member loved golf, music and travel
The Wood Brothers have always been about fusion. When Chris and Oliver Wood formed the band in 2004, both were established musicians — Oliver with the blues-rock act King Johnson, and Chris as a jazz bassist and one-third of the group Medeski Martin & Wood. With a molecular biologist for a father and a poet…
Lifelong Yankees fan was an active member of the Rutland Community
Shelburne woman shared her artistic talents with her children and grandchildren
(Self-released, digital) Lillian Leadbetter’s State of Romance is an anthology of distances. Essentially a concept album, the indie-inflected folk record tours through perspectives of anticipation, presence and reflection in pursuit of considering and maintaining the heady enchantment evoked by the cycles of romance. Let’s start at the end. “I once had been dreaming / that…
(Self-released, digital) Rock and roll music has been subdivided and gentrified into 10,000 subgenres, but the beating heart of it all has ever been a raw, joyful blast of noise. For that very reason, rock depends on constant infusions of young blood to sustain itself. If this reads like I’m saying Mick Jagger and Paul…
Several years ago, the Vergennes Recreation Committee surveyed residents about ways to get outside and active. “It came out that people really want to see some more trails in town,” said Ben Hatch, the committee chair. The city has a few, but one of the more popular private trails was gated off a few years…
Multidisciplinary artist Trystan Bates, 46, started out making figurative work. Originally from New York City, he trained in illustration at Parsons School of Design at the New School and studied traditional printmaking and graphics at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His first exhibition in Vermont, in the Phoenix gallery in Waterbury, contains something very…
You’ll notice something different about the print edition of this week’s issue of Seven Days. Sixteen ad-free pages have been devoted to an important and disturbing story we think you should read. It explains how young Vermonters were physically restrained, stripped and held in isolation for days in the North Unit of Essex’s Woodside Juvenile…
For her 700th episode of “Stuck in Vermont,” Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger sits down with her mother, Sophie Quest, to talk about aging. Sollberger just turned 50; Quest will turn 90 in the spring. The two have lived together for the past seven years and are navigating this experience together. Quest used…
The World Series begins this weekend, but the Astros, the Phillies, the Rangers — who cares? There’s another baseball team that’s been capturing imaginations on the diamond, a team of players so dedicated and quirky that fans can’t help but cheer them on. Meet the Fernwood Valley Fuzzies, the animal-athlete characters in Fuzzy Baseball, a…
Spend some time poking around old Vermont churchyards and cemeteries — such as those in Arlington, Bennington, Chester, Dorset, Rockingham and Westminster — and you might spot some odd, eerie or downright bizarre imagery etched into the centuries-old gravestones. Amid the names of the deceased and their dates of birth and death, sometimes you’ll also…
They can’t set you up with Halloween candy, but if you’re after a cauldron, a hex, a spell or a few voodoo dolls, Heather and Shiloh Sefcik have you covered. The married couple own the Inkwell Emporium, a Burlington witchcraft retailer and tattoo parlor. Heather runs the retail shop. Shiloh tattoos in back. He specializes…
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Ófeigur Sigurðsson writes, “You should never do what’s expected of you; there’s always another path through life than the one before you.” I wouldn’t recommend his approach to any other zodiac sign but Scorpio. And I would only advocate it for maybe 40 percent of Scorpios 10 percent of…
Opening Credits I love the wit and wordplay in so many of your headlines. Kudos and thanks to whoever writes them! Janet Rutkowski Williston New Chestnut I would like to point out a common mistake expressed in the subhead of [“Branching Out: Tree Farmer Buzz Ferver Aims to Restore the American Chestnut in Vermont —…
Dear Reverend, I don’t currently own a vehicle, so I am often a passenger in other people’s cars. One of my friends constantly texts, looks at posts and does who knows what else on her phone while she’s driving. It’s like she can’t keep her hands off the thing, and it makes me really uncomfortable.…
The new epic from Martin Scorsese, currently in theaters, is certain to be an awards front-runner. Based on David Grann’s book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the movie dramatizes a shameful and all-too-obscure chapter in U.S. history. In the 1890s, an oil strike in rural Oklahoma…
new in theaters AFTER DEATH: This faith-based documentary from Stephen Gray and Chris Radtke combs near-death experiences for information about a possible afterlife. (103 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace) FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S: In this horror flick based on the video game, a guy gets more than he bargained for when he takes a night…
The Champlain Valley School District has become the first in Vermont to clearly spell out the rights of transgender and nonbinary students in a wide-ranging policy its school board unanimously approved last week. The three-page policy hews closely to guidance the state Agency of Education released in 2017, which outlines best practices for students whose…
When the Winooski River rampaged through Montpelier in July, a dam originally built to control its floodwaters was nowhere in sight. The Bailey Dam, a prominent structure spanning the river just west of the Main Street bridge, was submerged beneath the roiling, muddy waters. But the 10-foot-high, 142-foot-long slab of concrete on the riverbed nevertheless…
Chin Ho! are one of the great what-ifs of Vermont music history. Singer Andrew X Smith and guitarist Dave Morency formed the band in 1989 after meeting at Johnson State College when Smith bought weed from Morency’s roommate. They became perhaps the closest Vermont ever came to making a splash in the alternative-rock boom of…
The term “science fiction” might conjure up thoughts of alien invasions, superheroes or stranger things, but an exhibition called “Interface,” at Hexum Gallery in Montpelier, is way more subtle. According to a written introduction, the artwork on view has a “sci-fi aesthetic,” yet without this prompt, viewers might not pick up on the ostensible theme.…
Sarita Devi’s new restaurant, Aromas of India, draws inspiration from North Indian dhabas — roadside stands that offer affordable comfort food to travelers. Time will tell if the Williston spot, which opened in July, becomes a stopping point for cars zipping by on Interstate 89, but it’s already making locals happy as a one-of-a-kind restaurant…
With the arrival of fall’s cooler temperatures, I’ve found myself yearning for bowls of hot soup. Just in time, Onsen Ramen has reopened. The Essex Junction ramen spot opened last December but closed for the summer due to staffing shortages. It reopened on October 18. Married co-owners Perry and Neil Farr, who also own the…
Emma Rose of Rosie’s Confections has sold her Winooski café to Sam Nelis, a longtime Vermont beverage professional. The café and chocolate shop at 7 West Canal Street will close on October 31 and reopen as Specs after a short break. Current café manager Kyle Palmer will stay on under the new ownership. Rose said…
A new Mexican restaurant called Casa Real will open by the end of November at 85 South Park Drive in Colchester, according to co-owner Eduardo Fuentes. The 150-seat restaurant space was most recently the Hideaway Steakhouse & Grill, which closed in July 2022 after one and a half years in business. Prior to that, it…
We Run This Mother Friday 27 & Sunday 29 Scrag Mountain Music presents Sacred Songs of the Mary’s, an utterly unconventional early-music concert at St. Augustine Church in Montpelier and Warren United Church. Girls run the world in this program of medieval and Renaissance tunes about Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene, which includes the world…
Local indie filmmaker Jay Craven is known for creating movies set in New England, founding Catamount Arts and artistic directing the annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Now Craven’s contributions to Vermont arts have won him the 10th annual Herb Lockwood Prize, with a cash award of $10,000. The prize rewards “the pinnacle of arts leadership…
MJ will be missed by family and friends
Founding member of the N-Zones and Sambatucada! believed that music was for everyone
Effective leader served as Deputy Undersecretary for the Department of Education in the 1980s before serving as president of Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce
Former Burlington musician was committed to the protection of rare plants and old-growth forests
