Stop the presses!

Veteran Vermont journalist Shay Totten will be taking over as our new political columnist. We sent out a press release earlier today.

SEVEN DAYS HIRES SHAY TOTTEN AS
NEW POLITICAL COLUMNIST

Vermont’s only alternative weekly, Seven Days has a new political columnist: Shay Totten of Burlington will take over the beat previously covered by Peter Freyne, who retired his popular “Inside Track” column two weeks ago.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...