Apr 20-26, 2011
Why Don’t Vermont’s Top Cooks Stay in One Place; RIP Sculptor Steve Larrabee, 1950-2011; Consultants’ Recipes for Kitchen Confidence; Fishing Around for Local Seafood
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Due West of Burlington, New York Wants a Nuke
Ed note: Kevin J. Kelley contributed this post. Ridicule might seem the right response to the undeterred effort to build a nuclear power plant in Massena, N.Y. Despite the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima complex in Japan, Massena Mayor Jim Hidy says an atomic energy plant is just what his village needs. “In light of…
VT Labor Dept. Shutters Montpelier’s Samosaman Café
Talk about some bad Restaurant Week timing for the Montpelier-based Samosaman Café: As the blog Montpelier Matters first observed on Saturday, the Vermont Department of Labor has issued the downtown café a “stop work order” until the business comes into full compliance with the state’s workers’ compensation law. As Seven Days first reported in this February 2…
Nifty Map Showing VT Yankee’s Potential Risk
Last week, Nature published a hefty piece about populations that would be at risk in the event of a nuclear accident. In the article, the authors outline nuclear plants around the world that are close to large population centers. According to their analysis, two-thirds of the world’s 211 nuclear power plants have more people living within…
Vermonter Named to Kennedy Center Board
Bill Stetson, a Vermont filmmaker, has been named by Pres. Barack Obama to a key committee that advises the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Steton’s official title is Member, Advisory Committee on the Arts for the Kennedy Center. As part of his role, however, he will serve as the key liaison…
Two Vermont Abenaki Tribes Earn State Recognition
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed two bills today that grant official state recognition to two Native American tribes: The Nulhegan and the Elnu. For decades, Vermont’s Abenaki tribes have sought state recognition. It’s been a bitter fight with lawmakers and various administrations, as well as internally between tribes and family bands within the Abenaki as well…
Burlington City Planners Object to Restaurant’s Wind Turbine
*Updated below with comment from Burlington Planning and Zoning Director David White and photos* File this one under “alternative energy vs. historic preservation.” Russ Scully (pictured, at left) installed the small wind turbine on his surf-themed restaurant, The Spot, to power his kitchen appliances and make a statement about renewable energy. But Burlington city planners…
Date Night, Hate Night
Dear Mistress Maeve, My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly five years. When we met, we were just out of grad school, still went out on week nights and ate ramen noodles and drank Miller Lite to save cash. Back then, the only entertainment we could afford was getting it on. Now we’re…
BTV Ups Its Enviro Cred With Bicycle Compost Pick-up
Thanks to a new bicycle compost collection business, Burlington is now one step closer to standing side-by-side with Portland, Ore., and other progressive bike-centric cities. Revolution Compost, a new service of One Revolution, a relatively new bicycle hauling operation in Burlington, picks up residential compost by bike and deposits it at the Chittenden Solid Waste…
A 4/20 Nomination for the Green Mountain State’s Budmaster General
Last Friday, when the Vermont Senate passed S.17, a bill to establish nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries around the state, the legislation addressed a broad spectrum of public concerns ranging from where the dispensaries can be located, to what security measures must be in place on the premises, to how many total plants, dried herb and…
Invisible Web
Provisions International brings the world to the Green Mountains, and vice versa
Menu Mavens
Vermont’s food and restaurant scene is breeding a cottage industry: consultants
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now comes one of the supreme tests that most every Aries must periodically face: Will you live up to your promises? Will you follow through on your rousing start? Will you continue to stay passionately committed once the fiery infatuation stage evolves into the earthy foundation-building stage? Here’s a secret to…
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Vermont Foodbank [220]
4/14/11: Did you know that Vermont is among the top 10 hungriest states in the nation? And that 1 in 7 Vermont households don’t have enough to eat? The Vermont Foodbank plans to distribute 8 millions pounds of food to 280 agencies who will feed 86,000 Vermonters this year. Eva visited their distribution center in…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A taxi driver in Springfield, Ill., picked up a fare who hadn’t even closed the door before he pulled a handgun and demanded money. The driver told police he noticed the car was still in gear, so he stepped on the gas and jerked the steering wheel back and forth, causing the…
Letters to the Editor
Bye-Bye, Books In Margot Harrison’s story, “Print Versus Pixels” [April 13], Robin Ingenthron states that “hard-rock metal mining is by far the most horrible polluting activity by man on the planet.” Is Robin high? That’s an outright lie. The “academic scrutiny” he’s missing here is the devastating pollutants generated by the meat industry! Christ, that…
Master of His Domain
Side Dishes: New food and beverage director makes big changes at the Essex
Burlington Bike Path Under Water
This just in from the good folks at Local Motion: “Lake Champlain’s current high water combined with southerly and westerly winds has damaged two sections of Vermont’s most popular multi-use trail. In Burlington, the Burlington Bike Path by Perkins Pier is underwater and being eroded. In South Hero, the northern section of the causeway (the…
Prison Legal News Slams Prison-Phone “Kickbacks” to States
Last month, when Seven Days published this “Sunshine Week” charticle highlighting Vermont organizations and individuals who are working to keep government officials honest and taxpayers informed, we neglected to include a Brattleboro-based magazine that has unquestionably filed more First Amendment lawsuits and Freedom of Information requests than any other news organization in the state: Prison Legal News. PLN,…
