Apr 3-9, 2024
Seven Days Guide to the Eclipse; Bernie Talks Seniors; Vermont Vendors Load Up on Eclipse Merch; Jacob Holzberg-Pill Helps Cultivate Vermont’s Growing Appetite for Edible Landscaping
Obituary: Abby Greene, 1960-2024
Educator enjoyed swimming, reading, gardening, jigsaw puzzles and crosswords
Obituary: Stephanie Juaire, 1966-2024
Burlington woman loved living in the city and taking advantage of the many activities it had to offer
Goddard College to Close After Spring Term
Goddard College, the progressive school founded in Plainfield in 1938, is closing at the end of the spring term and will sell its campus, trustees announced on Tuesday. The move was prompted by low spring enrollment numbers at the struggling school, which announced earlier this year that it was going fully virtual. President Dan Hocoy…
‘Stuck in Vermont’ During the Eclipse
.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Eva Sollberger watched the total solar eclipse along the Winooski River Walk. She crowdsourced photos and videos from Vermonters and made a short video…
Obituary: Janet VanWoert Cole, 1936-2024
Longtime educator was a strong advocate for children, no matter what their background was
Obituary: Karen Marie Paquette 1955-2024
As a coordinator in UVM’s payroll office for nearly 40 years, she earned the nickname “payroll Karen”
Obituary: Alan Boissy, 1966-2024
Former Winooski man’s many interests included collecting classic cars and traveling with friends and family
Obituary: Allen Manley Martin, 1934-2024
Founder of Almartin Motors and longtime owner of Point Bay Marina loved to give boat rides to senior citizens
From the Hollywood Bowl to a Local Residency, the String Queens Push Boundaries
The Washington, D.C.-based Black female trio the String Queens formed in 2017 and soon began playing for national audiences. Violinist Kendall Isadore, violist Dawn Johnson and cellist Élise Sharp performed at the 2021 Biden-Harris inaugural festivities and arranged and recorded the theme music for ESPN’s broadcasts of Wimbledon that year. They’ve played Carnegie Hall in…
Theater Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ Northern Stage
Not everyone loves being onstage, but those who do often love it so much that they make ideal subjects for comedy. Dressing up and pretending to be someone else while a houseful of people watch your every move is tricky enough, but in The Play That Goes Wrong, the performers must sustain theatrical artifice while…
Soundbites: The Rise of Bloodmoon
Picture the scene: Ireland, 3340 BC. Early humans are hanging around, hunting and, I don’t know … cultivating grain? Modeling loincloths? Gathering with small furry animals in a cave, grooving with a Pict? (I was a film major, guys.) Anyway, these proto-Irish people (dare I say cave leprechauns?) are just doing their thing, building some…
Middlebury Folk-Rock Musical ‘Hundred Days’ Explores the True Meaning of ‘’Til Death Do Us Part’
Middlebury native Abigail Nessen Bengson and her husband, Shaun Bengson, typically play themselves in Hundred Days, a musical memoir that tells the true story of how the couple fell in love and embraced life as if they had only 100 days left to live. The Bengsons have toured the U.S. performing their concert-style show since…
Northstar Self Storage will be having a public and online sale/auction
for the following storage units on April 11, 2024, at 9:00 am Northstar Self Storage will be having a public and online sale/auction on April 11, 2024 at 9am EST at 681 Rockingham Road, Rockingham, VT 05151 (Units R70) and online at www.storagetreasures.com at 9:00 am in accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade…
‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Is One Seriously Pumped-Up Sapphic Noir Thriller
How many violent lesbian noir thrillers can you name? Probably not many. But Love Lies Bleeding, the second feature from UK director Rose Glass (Saint Maud) could blaze a path in that regard. Since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, fueled by Kristen Stewart’s star power, the luridly titled movie has…
Vermont Vendors and Artists Load Up on Eclipse Merch and Memorabilia
As Vermont prepares to host a potentially unprecedented influx of tourists for the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, some locals are looking to cash in on the celestial event of a lifetime. Vendors from Burlington to St. Johnsbury are stocking their shelves with eclipse-themed merchandise, from punny T-shirts (“I Got Mooned”) to space-inspired…
On the Beat: New Music from Mavstar and Tommy Crawford
At 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 7, Brattleboro radio station 96.7 FM WTSA will launch its new program “Listen Local.” The one-hour show will air weekly and be available as a podcast at wtsaradio.com. Bands and artists from Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire will be its focus, though the show will also spotlight touring acts…
Free Will Astrology (4/3/24)
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries author Eric G. Wilson claims, “Darker emotional states — doubt, confusion, alienation, despair — inspire a deeper and more durable experience of the sacred than contentment does.” I disagree. I know for a fact that an exquisite embrace of life’s holiness is equally possible through luminous joy and boisterous triumph…
Now Playing in Theaters: April 3-9
new in theaters EPIC TAILS: An ancient Greek mouse is determined to save her city from Poseidon in this animated family adventure. With the voices of Kaycie Chase and Christophe Lemoine. (95 min, PG. Essex) THE FIRST OMEN: In this prequel to The Omen horror series, an American woman (Nell Tiger Free) in Rome discovers…
‘Never Spoken Again’ at the Fleming Museum Examines Colonialist Roots
Museums of the so-called Western world are currently engaged in a moment of reckoning. Instead of simply focusing on how rare, unique or masterfully made the objects in their collections are, curators are questioning how those objects arrived at the museums in the first place. Often, their acquisition was made possible by colonialism. Contemporary artists…
Outgoing Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Holds Court — for the Last Time — at ‘the Bagel’
Two dozen people were already crammed into the front entrance of the Bagel Café & Deli in Burlington by the time outgoing mayor Miro Weinberger arrived one morning last week. He was 10 minutes late, as he was for most meetings, but those waiting didn’t mind. They greeted the mayor with applause when he opened…
Six Quick-Hit Reviews of Local Albums
Listening to and reviewing all the new releases by Vermont artists can be a daunting task. Try as he might, music editor Chris Farnsworth always misses a few. Every few months he dives back into the queue to make sure no record is left behind and finds some gems that deserve their time in the…
Should I Worry About My Pets During the Eclipse?
Dear Reverend, I need to be at work during the upcoming solar eclipse. I have two cats and a dog that will be at home, and I’m wondering how they are going to react, especially when it gets dark during the day. Is there anything I should do to prepare them for it, or am…
Cosmic Creativity: Artists Show Up for the Eclipse
Surely everyone knows about the total solar eclipse occurring on Monday, April 8, and that northern Vermont lies in the “path of totality” — where the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks the light? And that a gazillion visitors are headed our way to experience the spectacle? If you’ve somehow been in…
In Vermont, the Total Solar Eclipse Will Turn Work Life Briefly Upside Down
On the afternoon of Monday, April 8, thousands of Vermont workers will get up from their computers or step away from their factory jobs, and head outside to see the moon eclipse the sun. Lake Champlain Chocolates is shutting down its Williston plant at noon that day because so many people have asked for time…
Bernie Sanders Sits Down With ‘Seven Days’ to Talk About Aging Vermont
The Waterbury Area Senior Center buzzed with anticipation last Thursday as a standing-room-only crowd gathered to speak with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Surveying the roughly 30 attendees, most of whom appeared to be younger than him, the 82-year-old senator said he was working hard to increase funding for vital senior programs and wanted to…
From the Publisher: Earth to Dad
When the moon blocks the light of the sun on Monday, April 8, and Earthlings look skyward to behold the cosmic convergence, I’ll be thinking of my late father, Paul Routly — an astrophysicist who ran the exploratory division of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. I remember when I was little, stretching out…
Don’t Trash Those Solar Eclipse Glasses! Groups Collect Them to Be Reused
After the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, don’t toss your safety glasses. A group called Astronomers Without Borders is collecting them for reuse during other solar events. The California nonprofit collects gently used glasses in the U.S. and Canada, cleans and inspects them, then provides them to schools and communities around the world…
Letters to the Editor (4/3/24)
In Defense of the Young [Re “Crossing the Aisle: Progressive Burlington Mayor-Elect Mulvaney-Stanak Won by Picking Up Democratic Votes,” March 13]: As I understand the reporting on the Democrats’ whining about Joan Shannon’s defeat, they were taking comfort in the idea that so-called “young people” were responsible and that measures should be taken, such as…
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A Kinder Way: A Vermont Animal Sanctuary Is Making a Difference, One Little Piggy at a Time
Cute, fuzzy baby animals are an adorable sign of spring. The ugly truth? At some point, many of these animals are likely headed to the slaughterhouse. That is, unless a place like Kinder Way Farm Sanctuary in West Pawlet will take them. The 125-acre nonprofit farm-animal sanctuary helps animals who are elderly and have special…
Jacob Holzberg-Pill Helps Cultivate Vermont’s Growing Appetite for Edible Landscaping
Once upon a time, there were yards and there was food production, and never the twain should meet. Yards were for shade trees, grass, and maybe a flower bed or two; vegetable gardens were penned and tidy; and berry patches were relegated to fence posts. But imagine replacing that expanse of grass with plants that…
Thingz From Yaad Brings Jamaican Cuisine to a Former Dining Hall in Colchester
Dining hall food is notoriously terrible. But in Colchester, food in a former dining hall couldn’t get much better. Since early March, the cafeteria of the now-closed Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has become a destination for oxtails, jerk chicken and curried goat. The building is under construction, but all you have to…
Brattleboro’s Hermit Thrush Brewery to Close
After nearly a decade, Hermit Thrush Brewery in Brattleboro will close its tasting room on Sunday, April 7, and sell through the remaining inventory by the end of the month, co-owner Christophe Gagné confirmed. Gagné and Avery Schwenk cofounded Hermit Thrush in November 2014. Their wood pellet-fueled brewery at 29 High Street focused exclusively on Belgian-style…
The Buttery Market, Espresso and Wine Bar Planned for St. Johnsbury
Maggie Gray and Gavin Wynkoop-Fischer are in the process of opening a neighborhood market and espresso and wine bar in the former Cosmic Cup Café space in downtown St. Johnsbury. The Buttery is inspired by Fox Market and Bar in East Montpelier and the Genny in Craftsbury, Gray, 33, told Seven Days. She’d hoped one…
After 33 Years, Cheese & Wine Traders in South Burlington Shutters Abruptly
Cheese & Wine Traders at 1186 Williston Road in South Burlington closed permanently on March 30 without advance notice to employees or customers. On its final day of operation, the store offered 15 percent off on all products. Its social media that day hinted at the forthcoming closure, promoting the discount with #LastDaySale. But, according to…
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, April 3-9
Solar Flair Sunday 7 & Monday 8 Burlington’s Hula hosts former National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineer Jack Bacon for Shadows of the Sun, a stellar presentation the day before the eclipse. On the day itself, the lakeside Totality viewing party features food, drinks, music and all-ages activities. Check out the “Celestial 7” in this…
ArtsRiot in Burlington Reopens With Pizza and a Bar
The restaurant and bar at 400 Pine Street in Burlington is up and running again under the name ArtsRiot, with local chef-manager Matthew Wagner at the helm. Wagner and one other employee are currently offering a limited menu Wednesdays through Sundays, from 4 to 9 p.m. It includes New York-style pizza by the slice, Moroccan…
