Writer Colin Flanders began to reconsider his own relationship to alcohol while reporting about Vermont’s booze problem.
Colin Flanders
Colin Flanders is a staff writer at Seven Days, covering health care, cops and courts. He has won three first-place awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, including Best News Story for “Vermont’s Relapse,” a portrait of the state’s worsening drug crisis. He has also written or cowritten a dozen stories that have earned top honors from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He graduated from Saint Michael’s College with a degree in journalism and started his career at small Chittenden County weekly newspapers. He can often be found playing pickup basketball, watching his beloved Washington Commanders or visiting thrift stores in search of yet more wool sweaters — the scratchier the better.
