Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. A grim battle is being waged inside Decker Towers, the 11-story apartment building in Burlington for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. No one is winning. But in the drug-sieged corridors of Vermont’s tallest housing complex, it’s clear the 160 tenants are…
Jericho pediatrician had a long career in pediatrics in Vermont and Haiti
Former Burlington resident was a chef, restaurant manager and member of the band the Vistas, with a lifelong love of music
Woman who helped run the Auer Family Boathouse for decades was loved by everyone who knew her
Former teacher maintained deep and lasting friendships wherever she went
Entrepreneur and true gentleman was dedicated to health care reform, sports and family
Burlington man’s knowledge and love of sports, especially baseball, was a lifelong interest
Reuben Jackson, the longtime Vermont poet, jazz historian, music reviewer and educator whose smooth and authoritative voice distinguished him as a host of Vermont Public’s “Friday Night Jazz,” died on Friday morning, February 16. Jackson suffered a stroke on February 2, just hours after finishing a radio show in Washington, D.C. He was 67. A Georgia native,…
The mood was tense at a public gathering in the Peoples Academy auditorium in Morristown. An older man clutched the microphone while addressing nearly 100 fellow community members. “I look back to when I grew up. There was rule of law. There was respect for each other,” he said. “Where did it go?” He paused…
#storyBody p.BreakHead { font-weight: bold; margin: 40px 0 0 0 !important; font-size: 1.2em; border-top: 2px solid #eff0e8; padding-top: 20px; display: inline-block; color: red; } Thanks to all the readers who surprised their partners, pals, parents and pets with a special Valentine’s message in the newspaper this week. Read them all and feel the love this…
new in theaters BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE: Kingsley Ben-Adir plays the reggae icon in this biopic directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard). With James Norton and Lashana Lynch. (104 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star) MADAME WEB: Sony’s Spider-Man Universe continues with this action flick in which Dakota Johnson plays a woman…
By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a…
(Damaged Halo Records, digital) Montréal-based singer-songwriter Joshua Marc Seguin started his indie-rock project Booster Fawn in 2016, following a career as a professional snowskater. With a dreamy, ’90s-leaning indie sound somewhere between the Stone Roses and Built to Spill, Booster Fawn also possesses tantalizing hints of psychedelic and folk. It’s a heady sonic brew, best…
(Self-released, digital) Look, I swear I’m not trying to convince anyone to elongate their Dry January, but yes, this is another album about getting sober and personal growth, among other topics. There’s a lot of recovery going on in the reviews this week. Plainfield native Django Koenig, formerly of the Americana group TallGrass GetDown, wrote…
Dear Reverend, My cousin is getting married, and she wants a destination wedding with only immediate family and a few friends. I’m psyched for my cousin, but her mother, uncles and aunts (including my mom!) are really angry with the bride-to-be for not inviting extended family. I want to help smooth things over, but I…
(Self-released, digital) Burlington rockers Wolfhand kick off their latest EP, Fool’s Gold, with a slow, churning slice of doom. On “Stagecoach,” guitarist Dave Mahan and keyboardist Mike Fried settle into a seriously heavy riff, riding drummer Adam Wolinsky and bassist Nick Wood’s steady, almost ominous groove. Not your typical doom-metal act, Wolfhand represent a strange…
The folks at Spruce Peak Arts in Stowe have booked one hell of a show for Thursday, February 15: Sons of Mystro, a unique violin duo featuring two Black brothers, Malcolm and Umoja McNeish, who reinterpret reggae and dancehall songs for strings. The McNeish brothers were motivated to create their sound as young men after…
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) lived until age 76, but her destiny was a rough ride. Her native country, the authoritarian Soviet Union, censored her work and imprisoned her friends and family. In one of her poems, she wrote, “If I can’t have love, if I can’t find peace, give me a…
A front loader lifted a hefty wooden crate off the back of an 18-wheeler that was parked in front of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury. The crate, one of three that arrived last week from a contractor in Spokane Valley, Wash., resembled a prop from an Indiana Jones movie, right down to…
I come from a place that is, and has been for centuries, plagued by racism. Being an American, I can hear some people saying, “You’re going to have to narrow it down, Chris.” Fair enough. American racism contains multitudes: We’ve got people and organizations that hate just about every ethnic group you can think of.…
A lot of people wrote poetry during the pandemic. No, I don’t have numbers to back up that statement, but Seven Days has received ever-increasing volumes of local verse in the years since the lockdown. This roundup is our way of giving you a taste of the many submissions, quoting a few lines from each.…
Of the five Oscar nominees for Best International Feature Film, one is in local theaters (The Zone of Interest), one is on Netflix (Society of the Snow), and three aren’t available to watch here at press time — unless you catch Perfect Days at the White River Indie Film Festival in White River Junction on…
In 2003, when Bob Bolyard became the producer of Vermont’s Winter Is a Drag Ball, the job had an unofficial term limit of two years. But the staff of the event’s beneficiary, the Vermont People With AIDS Coalition, recognized the skills Bolyard drew from his theater background. “I knew how to put together a show,”…
Good Debate Last Wednesday’s mayoral debate was well moderated, and rebuttals and candidates asking each other a question added depth and interest. The “changed your mind” question was new, and I liked that it was not expected and answers were not from their talking points. Congrats! And thanks for making it happen, Seven Days! Helen…
Lydia Littwin’s 5-year-old son, Ari, received a potholder loom as a gift last year, and he quickly started crafting the colorful kitchen items — a lot of them. “He’s very detail-oriented and dexterous, and so it fit his attention span,” Littwin said. “He just started making more and more to the point where we kind…
Michael Mahnke grew up in Nebraska surrounded by fields, then traded rural life for the taller pastures of New York City. A quarter century later, he relocated to Johnson with his wife, Kyle Nuse, and two young daughters. Now, a single road in the northern Vermont town marks something of a through line for the…
Members of the Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools board gathered last week to figure out how to handle the latest twist in the most challenging budget season in recent memory. “We’ve got some urgent decisions to make as a school board tonight,” superintendent Libby Bonesteel told virtual attendees and the smattering of residents sitting in the…
It may be Valentine’s Day, but Waterbury couple Sarah and Jay Vogelsang-Card will not be celebrating with anything pink. Preferring a darker — and bloodier — aesthetic, the pair were married in 2009 at a gothic-themed “Hallowedding.” They continue to show their love in ways most people would consider more horrible than adorable. Halloween is…
Like bears, woodchucks and chipmunks, many human residents tend to hibernate this time of year. But Sue Higby, executive director of Studio Place Arts in Barre, hopes to lure people from their woodstove-heated nests to visit “Head for the Hills.” The exhibition’s theme takes inspiration from the local landscape and its wildlife, real and imagined.…
News tips come to Seven Days in the form of emails, phone calls and old-fashioned letters, often posted from prison. Some are full of off-the-wall conspiracy theories; others point us in the direction of Vermont’s most important stories. There’s only one reliable way to tell the difference between the two: Check it out. That’s how…
Promptly at 9 a.m. last Thursday, Esther Lotz assembled a very official, slightly intimidating crew in a Winooski parking lot. Two fire marshals, an electrical inspector, and a plumbing and heating inspector followed her into a warehouse — not to deduce the cause of a blaze but to assure Lotz that the building wasn’t a…
Gallus Handcrafted Pasta will open before summer in the historic Waterbury mill that housed the original Hen of the Wood before it relocated last spring to South Main Street after 17-plus years, said Eric Warnstedt, chef and owner of Heirloom Hospitality. Warnstedt’s group owns both of those restaurants, along with Hen of the Wood in…
After 17 and a half years in business, co-owner Heather Belcher of Sweet Clover Market has announced that she will close the small independent grocery store, located at 21 Essex Way in the Essex Experience, by the end of February. Belcher, 51, co-owns Sweet Clover with her partner, Shane Desautels, but she was the hands-on…
Champ Chompupong, founding chef-owner of Burlington’s Bangkok Bistro, opened Bangkok Thai to Go in January in the University Mall food court at 155 Dorset Street in South Burlington. The succinct menu of freshly cooked items includes pad kee mao (drunken noodles) and tom ka chicken soup. Lunch special boxes come with a choice of prepared…
Puppet Masters Wednesday 21 The Farmers Night performance series at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier continues with “60 Years of Bread and Puppet,” marking a diamond anniversary for the Green Mountain State’s iconic leftist puppet show. The theater crew’s instantly recognizable papier-mâché beasts fill the chamber with color and a spirit of joyful resistance. Be…
