On February 17, 2020, at Porter Medical Center, Ashley and Brian Clark welcomed a boy, Decker Rawlins Clark.
Higher Ground got a little bit shinier last Saturday during the “Silver Jubilee”-themed 25th annual Winter Is a Drag Ball. Party hostesses from the House of LeMay were back to raise lots of dough for Vermont Positive Living. Related Photographer James Buck was there to capture the magic and mascara. For more about the history…
Nature lover helped grow businesses such as Shelburne Farms and Ben & Jerry’s
“Momma Jill” is remembered as an active congregant and caregiver
Despite narcolepsy diagnosis, Vermont man traveled the world
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Derek Walcott had a perspective on love that I suspect might come in handy for you during this Valentine’s season. “Break a vase,” he wrote, “and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.” I urge…
The first piece of jewelry Jeffrey Berger ever sold was a Timex watch. He was 10 years old, and it was Christmastime at his family’s jewelry store. How does a 10-year-old sell a watch? “With a smile,” Berger said, flashing one. Now 71, he has a grin that seems to take up his whole face.…
Dear Reverend, My boyfriend and I have been living together for six years. I think we should get married, but anytime I bring it up, he changes the subject. How can I get him to commit? Should I give him a deadline to propose, or else we’re through? Chomping at the Bridal (woman, 28) Dear…
Lucky me, I said to myself as I motored south in my taxi, en route to an early morning Middlebury pickup. Dawn was breaking in a clear sky over the Green Mountains, and I had a front-row seat. “Lucky me” is a phrase typically employed ironically, but I meant it straight up. This aspect of…
PK Coffee of Stowe launched its Waterbury branch on February 10. The café at 40 Foundry Street serves baked goods, sandwiches “and some fun, creative savory bowls,” co-owner Katrina Veerman told Seven Days in an email. In Waterbury, PK Coffee opens at 7 a.m. Friday through Tuesday, with plans to add Wednesday service and eventually…
On the farthest of 14 rinks etched into a snowy Malletts Bay in Colchester, the men in red were going goal for goal with their Boston foes. Only a few people walked far enough onto frozen Lake Champlain to watch, but even from a distance, the Cyrillic-lettered jerseys were unmistakable. “It’s the Russians! It’s the…
Everything is spotless in Deb Lyons’ three-bedroom Airbnb on Burlington’s Archibald Street, where guests arrive to find homemade peanut butter chocolate cookies in the fridge. Her own landscape paintings grace the walls, and on a tour, she pointed to a handsome bureau. “That was my nana’s dresser,” she said. Lyons wants her guests to feel…
Equality Rules Seven Days has given reasonable and balanced coverage of the arguments around the recent debut of Gender Critical Vermont and the negative reaction of some trans activists [Off Message: “Amid Backlash, Group Cancels Burlington Talk on Transgender ‘Agenda,'” January 27]. The response in other places has not been so fair. Burlington City Councilor…
Ramsay Mellish knew he would need to adapt if he wanted to survive in Vermont’s hard-pressed dairy industry. So, like many others in recent years, the first-generation farmer set out to diversify his crops and started growing hemp. Mellish and his wife, Caroline, did fine growing the plant last summer, he said, netting a few…
My copy of Les Misérables had collected dust in a stack of “for your consideration” DVDs since before the holidays. I’d meant to watch it. But every time I saw that title, all I could think of was the 2012 musical of the same name, with Anne Hathaway looking like she just escaped from a…
Since Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, in 2012, it seems there are few aspects of American life that cannot, somehow, be infused with it. Americans are wrapping themselves in CBD spa treatments, dosing their anxious pets, attending cannabis art classes, buying pot-related cookbooks, scrolling the pages of cannabis Instagram…
Birds of Prey is to most superhero movies as last year’s Hustlers is to The Irishman. This uncaped-crusader flick from DC Comics and director Cathy Yan distinguishes itself from its more touted brethren with an all-female ensemble, a grubby B-movie aesthetic and a refusal to take itself seriously. Birds of Prey isn’t going to win…
Some students at the University of Vermont might know Jenna Emerson as “the condom lady.” True, one of the 30-year-old health and sexuality educator’s responsibilities is to distribute prophylactics to dormitory resident advisers like a sex-positive Santa Claus. But her duties extend far beyond passing out protection. Along with peer-to-peer training, event planning and cultivating…
A Vermont State Trooper last week swooped in to save an owl from attackers along Interstate 91, where the raptor was losing a no-holds-barred brawl with some agitated crows. Trooper Chad Weikel was patrolling Newbury on February 5 when he saw the barred owl, which had fallen from a tree with an injured wing, under…
Calling the Corners Big news out of Calais: The Maple Corner Community Store & Whammy Bar is under new ownership. Former owners Artie and Nancy Toulis sold the general store and music venue in late December to 200 individual stakeholders who now collectively own the business. “A community group, including myself, got together and said,…
Katie Hodges barely batted an eye when she found four men in white tuxedos standing expectantly by her desk. As Seven Days’ sales and marketing coordinator and de facto front desk receptionist for about a year, she’s accustomed to, shall we say, unusual foot traffic coming through the front door. Hodges probably assumed the men…
(Self-released, CD, digital) It’s no secret that late folk music legend Pete Seeger loved the water, and the Hudson River in particular. He sailed and sang of it for the entirety of his career, writing tributes in songs such as “My Dirty Stream.” In 1966, he and his wife, Toshi, founded Hudson River Sloop Clearwater,…
Last year, museums around the world mounted special exhibitions marking the centennial of the Bauhaus — an experimental and profoundly influential school of art, design and architecture founded in Germany in 1919. In fall 2019, Middlebury College assistant professor Erin Sassin offered a class in the history of art and architecture department called “Exhibiting the…
(Self-released, digital) Kevin Lewis is a budding singer-songwriter from Burlington by way of Plattsburgh, N.Y. He specializes in lo-fi, bedroom-pop-style rock, and he’s recently released his second album, Songs for the Fireplace. The title is a bit misleading, to say the least: This is a loud, urgent piece of work, cut straight from the heart.…
I hate to break it to you, babe, but as stoked as I was to indulge in our Valentine’s Day tradition of spending a modest fortune on legume-forward small plates, I don’t have it in me this year to pretend that we’re not irrevocably screwed. The Senate acquitted Trump, the temperature reached 65 degrees in…
Here’s a hot take: Valentine’s Day gets a bad rap. Oh, sure, February 14 is easy to complain about. It’s nothing but a Hallmark holiday. It conflates love with consumerism and creates unrealistic expectations. It’s a lousy day to be single. It places outsize importance on one day of the year when we should really…
Jon Meyer released Love Poems From Vermont: Reflections on an Inner and Outer State late last year, well before Valentine’s Day. But gifting his book could serve as a romantic gesture toward, well, anyone you care about. Especially if that person happens to adore the state of Vermont. Meyer himself is even more expansive, dedicating…
When Nathan and Henry Wu say they can meet for an hour at Barnes & Noble in South Burlington, it’s something of a miracle. The twin brothers, who are seniors at Essex High School, will be featured as soloists in the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association’s last concerts of the season. But that’s far from all…
When Anthony “A.J.” Browne was thinking about proposing to Kelly Clements during their romantic weekend getaway last month in Stowe, he was unsure about the perfect time and place: while out hiking in the woods that afternoon? Over dinner and drinks that evening? Later that night under the stars? Ultimately, Browne popped the question while…
If you had told Bob Bolyard in 1995 that he’d still be planning and pulling off the wildest party of the winter in 2020, he would have had some choice words for you. For example, “‘You lie!'” Bolyard says, laughing. “Or maybe ‘Wasn’t there anything better to do?'” Yet here’s the dirty truth: When the…
Winter slows things down. It muffles sound with a quilt of snow and mutes the landscape into a soft palette of white, gray and brown. On farms and orchards, winter offers the chance to take a breath and take stock. There is a little more space to think, though daily tasks still call. The pace…
It’s no news flash for longtime couples that Valentine’s Day expectations shift over the years. Early in a budding romance, you take care to secure the perfect restaurant reservation, or you painstakingly prepare a multicourse, candlelit home-cooked meal, channeling your best Julia Child or “Chopped” champion. A few years down the relationship road, it’s more…
The Champlain Islands were one of the last regions of Vermont without a brewery to call their own, but the new Kraemer & Kin Brewery in Grand Isle is putting them on the state’s beer map. When the family-owned business — operated by Heather, Levi and Christie Kraemer — makes its debut at the Great…
Jake’s ONE Market opened on February 5 in a former auto parts store at 242 North Winooski Avenue in Burlington. The grocery store is stocked with produce, dairy products, and (coming later this week) beer and wine. A deli counter serves breakfast sandwiches, burgers and a daily sandwich special. Jake’s, which has a sister business…
