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On her acclaimed podcast “Rumble Strip,” Erica Heilman sometimes sounds as if she’s calling from a closet in which she has barricaded herself against an intruder. She wants to tell you that she loves you, and that she left the check for the plow guy on the counter, in case she doesn’t make it out…
A new federal law that expands workplace protections for nursing mothers is good news for Burlington-based Mamava, which makes lactation suites for breastfeeding women. Orders picked up sharply when the law was passed on December 29 and are expected to grow by 30 percent this year, according to the company. Nursing mothers need private space.…
Sterling College, the small work and farming institution in Craftsbury Common, has appointed Wyoming academic Scott L. Thomas as its next president. Thomas, 61, has spent his career in education, most recently as dean of the University of Wyoming College of Education. He worked as a professor at the University of Vermont’s College of Education and…
As Vermont lawmakers debate the fate of an ambitious, first-in-the-nation program to test hundreds of schools for PCBs, another community is dealing with the fallout from finding elevated levels of the chemicals in parts of its school. Administrators at Twin Valley Elementary School in Wilmington were told in late March that the pre-K-5 school’s gymnasium…
I’m a lover of all things garlic: bread, knots, pickled and powdered. So my mouth watered as a server set a plate of steaming naan covered in finely minced garlic on the table during a recent lunch at the Taste of India in Middlebury. The toastiness of the golden brown, bubbled flatbread balanced the generous…
Celebration of Life for Robert and Paul Verrastro (1973-2023 and 1970-2020) It feels like yesterday and yet an eternity that you left. Friends and family will get together to celebrate your life as it was, on Saturday, April 15, 2023. We will gather at the St. John’s Club on the lake, at 9 Central Avenue…
Milton woman was instrumental in founding Milton Historical Society
Swanton woman was among first 100 women to practice law in Vermont
Pandemic Not Over [Re From the Publisher, “Write of Passage,” March 22]: Paula Routly stated “…the pandemic is officially over.” Wow, that sounds so definite. I hadn’t heard. I knew President Joe Biden decided to end the federal emergency on May 11, but who said the COVID-19 pandemic is over? I started searching online. Apparently,…
(Self-released, digital) St. Albans likely isn’t the first place music listeners expect to yield a talented rapper and hip-hop artist. But Dominic French, who records as D.FRENCH, could change that perception. With his third digitally released album, West End North Side, French wisely reminds us that conflict, hardship and loss exist in the most unsuspecting…
In 2020, the face mask became a thin but mighty shield against a highly contagious virus. Then it became a politicized object, subject to derision and outlandish anger from science deniers. Long before all this, obscuring one’s face was a lot more fun. Think Halloween, Mardi Gras, costume balls. Think comic book superheroes and their…
Notice of Corporate Dissolution to All Creditors of and Claimants Against Invatection Insurance Company Pursuant to 11A V.S.A § 14.07 Invatection Insurance Company, a Vermont corporation having a principal office located at c/o Willis Towers Watson Management (Vermont), Ltd., 100 Bank Street, Suite 500, Burlington, Vermont 05401, has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Vermont…
Driving along North Main Street in Rutland, you may have noticed a collection of fanciful metal sculptures — a massive dinosaur, a huge Minion and a complete jazz band, all made of steel. This is the Route 7 entrance to Mac Equipment and Steel, a family-owned Rutland institution that closed its doors last Friday after…
Streaming TV offers so many options. When you lack the energy to sort through all the content, it can be relaxing just to check out the current No. 1 movie on Netflix. If millions of other people are streaming it, it can’t be that bad, right? Right? Full disclosure: I suspected I wasn’t going to…
The very title “Ghosts: Civil War Portraits” sounds haunting. And in a visual sense, William Betcher’s photographs, on display at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, are just that. They resuscitate the images of 19th-century men and women using 21st-century technology. As Betcher explained in a phone interview, he has a long-standing interest in both the…
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries-born René Descartes (1596-1650) was instrumental in developing modern science and philosophy. His famous motto, “I think, therefore I am” is an assertion that the analytical component of intelligence is primary and foremost. And yet few history books mention the supernatural intervention that was pivotal in his evolution as a supreme…
Panic set in when Anna Prescott absorbed a March 1 email from Loveworks, her 2-year-old son’s Essex childcare center, announcing a steep tuition hike. Starting at the end of August, tuition for toddlers at Loveworks’ Essex and South Burlington centers would jump from $352 for five days per week of care to $445 — a…
It was, in the words of Felicia Kornbluh, a “cosmic joke” that struck her one fateful Saturday morning in January 2017. The night before, Kornbluh’s mother, Beatrice Kornbluh Braun, had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that would claim her life two days later. As her family sat together in synagogue that morning, Kornbluh’s older sister casually…
Class was about to start at Bethel University, and no one seemed to know where to sit or how to pass around a syllabus. “What if we divide up the stacks and circle them around?” a student suggested. No one objected, and around the papers went. A young woman sneaked into the back of the…
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is angry. Not quite Bruce Banner angry (“Hulk smash capitalism!”). More like Dee Snider angry (“We’re not gonna take it!”). And Sanders wants you to know it’s OK if you’re angry, too, especially if it’s about his archenemy: capitalism. After reading his new book, It’s OK to Be Angry About…
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Three years after going dark, Off Center for the Dramatic Arts finally opened last week in its new space, a black box theater in Burlington’s New North End. Nearly 50 people streamed through the doors and settled into red-cushioned seats to hear snippets of four new plays at the 13-year-old, volunteer-run incubator designed to support…
Proctor High School students Aidan Page, Riley Cannucci and Aaron Brock have all been featured in the Rutland Herald for their athletic endeavors, but until recently, none of the teens had ever written a letter to the editor. That changed in February, when they got an assignment for a class called “Writing for the Workforce.”…
Composers have written for some unusual duos — Elliott Carter for bassoon and viola, for instance, or Camille Saint-Saëns for piano and harmonium. But the pairing that will appear at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne for two concerts on Tuesday, April 11, is downright intriguing: saxophone and classical guitar. Saxophonist Timothy McAllister and guitarist…
Skateboarding and filmmaking have always been linked for Williston-based Nick Stefani. Growing up in Richmond during the early 2000s, he got interested in climbing on the board after stumbling across tapes of skaters and snowboarders at video stores and flea markets. Most of that footage was filmed across the country in Colorado, but Stefani responded…
I recently had a first in my Seven Days career: Working on a feature for our annual Money & Retirement Issue, I came to the conclusion that, unfortunately, I just didn’t have the story I wanted. My editors agreed, and we were lucky enough to have other content to cover me, so we pulled my…
Congrats are in order for one of Vermont’s truest troubadours, Rik Palieri. The 67-year-old banjo-slinging folk singer will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey Folk Festival for his decades-long contribution to folk music. Based in Hinesburg, Palieri is currently celebrating his 50th year as a folk musician. The New Jersey…
new in theaters AIR: Matt Damon plays the salesman who made history by convincing then-rookie Michael Jordan to wear Nikes in this drama directed by Ben Affleck, also starring Jason Bateman and Viola Davis. (112 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Star) BHOLAA: An ex-con struggles to meet his daughter in this Hindi action…
(True Panther Sounds, digital, vinyl) “There’s a pleasure … to make gay sex transgressive again,” writer-director Mike White told Variety in 2022. He referred to some eyebrow-raising moments from his HBO series “The White Lotus,” both seasons of which contain unexpectedly graphic and unsettling sex scenes between men. He continued, “It’s dirty … men are…
Developer Jonah Richard is putting the finishing touches on an eight-unit apartment project in Fairlee, and he’s starting another one in Bradford this spring. He hopes to take what he’s learned to help other builders fill in a missing piece of the real estate puzzle: small developments in rural Vermont. Richard is general contractor on…
Application 4C0238-4G from Tesla, Inc., 3500 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 and Southland Enterprises, Inc., 69 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 was received on March 21, 2023 and deemed complete on March 24, 2023. The project is generally described as the conversion and adaptive reuse of an existing and vacant Hannaford’s supermarket building…
Dear Reverend, My partner wants to fist me, but I’ve never done it before. I’m not super into the idea, but I’m willing to try almost anything at least once. I’m mostly afraid that it will hurt and I might get injured. Got any tips? Handball Hannah (woman, 24) Dear Handball Hannah, The term “fisting”…
Chittenden Solid Waste District Board – alternate Term Expires 5/31/24 One Opening Development Review Board – alternate Term Expires 6/30/24 One Opening Fence Viewers Term Expires 6/30/23 Two Openings Parks and Recreation Commission Term Expires 6/30/24 One Opening Police Commission Term Expires 6/30/23 One Opening Vehicle for Hire Licensing Board Term Expires 6/30/24 One Opening…
Before you even open the impressive marble-framed door of the recently relocated Pascolo Ristorante at 120 Church Street in Burlington, it’s clear that the restaurant’s new home will feel radically different from its original subterranean quarters. Part of the Farmhouse Group, along with the Farmhouse Tap & Grill and El Cortijo Taqueria in Burlington and…
Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and generations of mathematicians have spent their careers trying to approximate its value. For bakers and brothers Frank and Kevin Peters, pie necessitates plenty of calculations, too. No matter how much they increase their output each year, their customers still can’t seem to get…
Greg Lang built a career managing resort kitchens. Now, the 1989 New England Culinary Institute grad is coming full circle as the new director of culinary and executive chef at the Essex Resort & Spa, which operated as a teaching campus for the now-closed culinary school until 2009. “When I went through NECI in Montpelier,…
Burlington’s Little Morocco Café will have to relocate or close because a prominent local landlord is more than doubling the rent on its Old North End space. Ali Amani, manager of the restaurant since it opened at 294 North Winooski Avenue in 2018, has appealed to the public on social media in a bid to…
Burlington woman was active in her church and volunteered for many community organizations
Winds of Change Friday 7 Innovative brass quartet the Westerlies and in-demand jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann team up for This Land at Robison Concert Hall at Middlebury College’s Mahaney Arts Center. This powerful program celebrates social justice music and protest songs and features beloved works by the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Joni Mitchell and Woody…
Former Vermonter instilled a passion for music in his children
Winooski woman showed courage, strength and grace throughout her life
