Jan 22-28, 2014
Vermont’s Prisons Struggle to Accommodate an Aging Population; New Details Emerge in Brunette Shooting; A ‘New Yorker’ Humorist Heads to VT; A Norwegian Workout; Seeking Gluten-Free Bagels;
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Obituary: Gilles Joseph Bourbeau
Gilles Joseph Bourbeau, age 81 years, passed away Sunday, January 26, 2014 with his loving family at his side. He was born in Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Quebec, Canada on April 22, 1932, the oldest child of the late Omer & Yvette Bourbeau. He attended school in Quebec until the age of 16 when he and his family…
Obituary: Sister Miriam Ward, RSM,
1926-2014, Burlington Sister Miriam Ward, RSM (Dorothea Irene Ward), 88, of the Sisters of Mercy Northeast Community, Vermont, died in Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington on January 17, 2014, in her 70th year of religious life. Sr. Miriam was born in Salem, N.Y., on January 14, 1926, the daughter of Raymond and Dora (Douglas)…
Obituary: Everett Henry Champagne
Everett Henry Champagne, age 64 years, a lifelong resident of Highgate and Swanton and more recently of School St. in Isle La Motte, died Friday January 24, 2014, with loving family at his side. He celebrated his last day of life, by giving away in marriage his daughter Chelsea in the hospital at the Northwestern…
Obituary: Andrew Claude Choiniere
Andrew Claude Choiniere, age 87 years, a lifelong resident of Highgate Center and more recently of Franklin died early Saturday morning January 25, 2014, at his Main St. residence with his wife Claire and loving family at his side. Born in Ste. Jean, Quebec Canada on October 25, 1926, he was the son of the…
Obituary: Mike LaTulippe,
1949-2014, South Burlington Michael Carl LaTulippe, 64, of South Burlington, Vt., passed away on January 17, 2014, at home after losing his battle with cancer. Mike was born in Colchester, Vt. to Freida and Bernard on August 22, 1949. He went to school in South Burlington. He loved and lived with Lynda Boileau for nearly…
Atticus Jack Harple
January 17, 2014 Atticus Jack Harple, son of Jeremy and Leanne Harple, was born on 1/17/14 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He weighed in at 8 lbs, .5 oz, and was 18 and 3/4 inches long. He is the new little brother to Sage and Rowan Harple, and the grandson of Rosemeryl and Glenn Harple of…
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Latte Art Throwdown [SIV339]
1/13/14: Last Monday night, Maglianero Café held a barista jam. Baristas from coffee shops all over Burlington gathered to hang out and compete in a latte art throwdown. Music: Barbacoa, “Delerium Tremelo,” “Western Medicine” This episode of Stuck in Vermont was made possible by Hotel Vermont and Vermont Tourism.
Bagel Makers Learn to Live Gluten Free
Leah Goldberg was not a healthy 13-year-old. When her parents first took her to a doctor for chronic gastric symptoms such as cramping and bloating, her blood contained no iron — a discovery that provided no answers. After spending her teens and early twenties visiting doctors, Goldberg finally encountered physicians at the Mayo Clinic who…
Chester’s Misty Valley Books Celebrates Two Decades of New Voices
Tucked on Chester’s town green, Misty Valley Books is quintessential Vermont. Cozy as it is, with its Oriental rugs and IndieBound best sellers, it may not be a store you’d expect to get visits from literary heavy hitters such as Dennis Lehane, Jennifer Egan, Steve Almond or Gregory Maguire. In fact, all those authors have…
In Bellows Falls, Popolo Triumphs
I first noticed the Popolo sign as I drove through Bellows Falls two summers ago. Then I craned my neck so much that I almost crashed my car. The sign was innocuous enough: a white board covered in pastel orbs and sans-serif lettering. The appearance of a new restaurant in Bellows Falls was sufficiently startling,…
Norwegian Fitness Phenom Redcord Has Users in Suspension
Ropes haven’t always been used on humans for the happiest purposes. Hanging, kidnapping and trussing to railroad tracks come to mind. So when I enter the recently opened Peak Physical Therapy Sports & Performance Center in Williston, it occurs to me that the so-called “health center” might be a euphemism for something kinkier. Sure, the…
Four More Local Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out.…
News Quirks
Property Rites The Broward (Fla.) Property Appraiser’s Office denied agricultural tax exemptions to 127 properties that it said used a common practice called “rent-a-cow” to qualify. In one case, Corrections Corporation of America, the private company that runs state prisons, paid a land seller $10 a year to keep a few cows on the property…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Actor Casey Affleck appreciates the nurturing power of his loved ones. “My family would be supportive,” he says, “if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays and eat tree bark.” I’d like to see you cultivate allies like that in the coming…
Book Review: If Only You People Could Follow Directions by Jessica Hendry Nelson
Back when memoirs dominated the best-seller lists, it was tempting to believe that any writer with a gritty, harrowing past could generate an instant sensation (and sometimes, as in James Frey’s case, a subsequent scandal). These days, however, reality TV satisfies the public’s appetite for human train wrecks. Unless you’re a celebrity, it matters more…
Art Review: Emiko Sawaragi and Midori Harima
The East Asian cosmological concept of yin-yang, or complementary opposites, receives vivid — and sometimes humorous — visual expression in a show by a pair of Japanese artists at the Flynndog gallery in Burlington. Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert and Midori Harima both take fallen leaves as their subject. One set of works is autumnally colorful and…
Letters to the Editor
Self-Aggrandizing Review With Rick Kisonak’s dour review of American Hustle [Movie Review, December 18] somehow I sense a familiar theme: another debunking of a film that has received wide acclaim. We’ve come to expect such counter-establishment trailblazing against the weight of popular opinion; history is punctuated by such. But more often than not today, artists,…
