Aug 17-23, 2011
Amateur Triathletes Race for the National Championships This Weekend in Burlington; Still No Signs of Vermont’s Dispensaries; Rock Point Head Looks Back; Montpelier’s Cream of the Crop
Cover Story
Triple Threat
Amateur triathletes race for the national championships this weekend in Burlington
Vermont Law School Professor and Middlebury Scholar Arrested at White House Protest
A Vermont Law School professor and a Middlebury College scholar were arrested in front of the White House on Saturday at the start of the environmental movement’s biggest series of civil-disobedience protests in decades. Some 65 demonstrators were handcuffed and taken away in police vans as they sought to dramatize opposition to a pipeline that…
Fletcher Allen Admits “Errors Were Made” in Case of Pedestrian Who Died After Being Released
Fletcher Allen Health Care admitted today that it made “errors in the care” of 20-year-old Zachary Stamatis, the accident victim who died in July after being treated and released from the hospital. Stamatis (pictured) had been hit by a car while in his wheelchair crossing Pine Street at the intersection of Flynn Avenue — near…
Which Video (Porridge) Is Just Right?
I may not have much in common with Goldilocks but I am always experimenting with video lengths and editing. This week I published 3 versions of the same video so YOU be the judge. Which video is not too long or too short? Which video is just right? LONG VERSION MEDIUM VERSION SHORT…
Howard Dean: Human Rights Activist or Terrorist Coddler?
Former Gov. Howard Dean is under increasing scrutiny for lobbying the Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to de-list the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as a terrorist group. Howard Dean — a human rights activist? I wonder how Vermont’s native people feel about Dean’s new focus on human rights, after he…
Old and New Eateries to Take Over Green Room and Via Loma Spaces
The rumors are true — less than a week after the Green Room closed, Sue Bette, owner of the Bluebird Tavern has signed a lease to move her gastropub to that building. “We are trying to be part of the downtown scene,” she says. “What we do at the tavern will be a great fit…
Migrant Farmworkers to Shumlin: Denounce Immigration Enforcement Program
Two migrant farm workers took a day off Thursday to deliver a petition to Gov. Peter Shumlin asking him to oppose a controversial federal immigration enforcement program. But the governor was tied up in meetings, so Danilo Lopez and Over Lopez (pictured) pleaded their case with the Agency of Agriculture’s second-in-command instead. For the last…
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LUHS Reunion, Class of 1991 [235]
8/12-13/11: Lamoille Union High School’s Class of 1991 celebrated their 20 year reunion this weekend at the Rusty Nail in Stowe and Lamoille County Field Days in Johnson. Eva never graduated from LUHS but she showed up for a nostalgic walk down memory lane with her former classmates.
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies responding to a report of someone breaking into a home in Effingham County, Ga., at 4 a.m. found no intruders but then realized the two men at the home who reported the break-in were hallucinating. “They were so high,” sheriff’s official David Ehsanipoor said, “they called 911 on themselves.” Authorities…
WTF: What’s up with the mask-wearing Church Street didgeridoo player?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time magazine asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough why he started writing a biography of Pablo Picasso but never finished it. McCullough said it was because the famous artist turned out to be boring. He attracted a steady flow of new lovers, and he made hundreds of paintings, but he didn’t…
Getting the Point
Rock Point School’s outgoing headmaster reflects on 40 years of outside-the-box learning
Letters to the Editor
Falling Together Rachel Phillips’ impending surgery, while not a cure-all, offers tremendous hope to others with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome [“Fletcher Allen Has a Candidate for Groundbreaking Windpipe Transplant,” August 3]. Her struggle with EDS and the myriad procedures necessary to simply function are all too familiar to those of us with this debilitating disorder. EDS can…
Someone’s in the Kitchens
In Winooski, a couple opens a New World of opportunities to specialty-food producers
USGS: Fall Foliage Is Major Source of Mercury in New England Environment
Last week, the U.S. Geological Survey released the findings of two multiyear studies which concluded that — hang onto your sugaring buckets — fallen autumn leaves release mercury into the environment. As if Vermont’s tourism industry didn’t have enough to worry about, what with Vermont Yankee’s radioactive incontinence and Green Mountain dairy cows belching and…
Fair Trade Coffee Means Happy Farmers, Right?
Fair Trade isn’t always fair. The PC goodness we feel when we shell out more than $10 a pound for Fair Trade coffee beans is challenged in a new film made by none other than… Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Staff there also used to think that fair prices alone went a long way toward keeping…
VT Fisherman Caught With Radio-Tracked Atlantic Salmon in Freezer
A Bethel angler was busted for reportedly taking home a 31-inch Atlantic salmon he caught in the White River, and reporting it as a brown trout. Ryan McCullough faces a $1500 fine and loss of his fishing license for three years for not accurately identifying his catch, according to Vermont Fish & Wildlife. A press…
