The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Seleste Weeks hard, as they did many Vermont families. She quit her gas station cashier job, fearful of catching the virus from customers. Her income dropped to nothing, and her unemployment checks were swallowed by utilities, car insurance and other necessities. She and her teenage son still…
Inspired by the Vermont tradition of seasonal backyard ice rinks, Brian Eckert saw an opportunity to create one on the outdoor patio at Four Quarters Brewing in Winooski. Many rolls of heavy-duty plastic, gallons of water and several subzero nights later, the brewery taproom now offers skating — with a signed waiver and no brews…
Franklin resident was married for 65 years and had six great-grandchildren
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Gregory Fitzgerald appeared before a Superior Court judge on January 12 and calmly confessed to what overwhelming evidence had already convinced a jury of long ago: that in May 1993, he traveled from Texas to his wife’s condo in Shelburne and strangled her. The 64-year-old convicted murderer’s voice was barely audible as he testified remotely…
AQUARIUS(Jan. 20-Feb.18) Since the iconoclastic planet Uranus is a chief symbol for the Aquarian tribe, you people are more likely to be dissenters and mavericks and questioners than all the other signs. That doesn’t mean that your departures from orthodoxy are always successful or popular. Sometimes you meet resistance from the status quo. Having offered…
When Vermont’s online registration form for home delivery of free rapid COVID-19 tests went live on January 12, then crashed due to overwhelming demand, Jess Horner was too busy to log on and compulsively hit refresh. Horner is the program director at John Graham Housing & Services in Vergennes, and with nearly a third of…
new in theaters LA LISTE: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING: Free-skier friends Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten descend the world’s highest mountains in this 2021 documentary from director Eric Crosland. (70 min, NR. Savoy) PARALLEL MOTHERS: Two women (Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit) of different generations who are both single and giving birth meet and bond in…
Fernando Botero Angulo is so renowned for the exaggerated contours of his figures that his signature style earned its own noun: Boterismo. In his paintings and sculptures, humans and animals are, to be blunt, fat. The 89-year-old Colombian’s work comes to mind while viewing 30-year-old Jackson Tupper’s exhibition, “Mayo,” at the Safe and Sound Gallery…
Private equity investor Jim Crook and four associates have launched an investment fund aimed at injecting $12.5 million into promising startup businesses in Vermont. Announced this week, the Dudley Fund will focus on early and mid-stage Vermont companies that need an initial infusion of about $50,000 to $150,000 in order to grow. The goal is…
Some couples are known to finish each other’s sentences. Leanne Ponder (October 28, 1937-December 24, 2021) and Tim Jennings took that practice to another level. They learned to talk simultaneously while saying different words — and to make each of their voices distinctly heard and understood by the listener. Intertwined or solo, Ponder and Jennings’…
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a banditry of chickadees. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book…
Whenever people gather for a workshop, they engage in a kind of temporary culture, a shared set of norms, a certain purpose. At a community dance workshop in June, about 25 people locomoted with delight on sun-drenched grass to explore concepts of grace and proprioception. In July, 30 or so people lounged outside Dartmouth College’s…
Dear Reverend, I was reading your reply to “Why Do I Pee During Masturbation?” online [January 15, 2020], and there were some things that weren’t answered for me. I have never had a sexual partner. I do masturbate, and even though I make sure to use the restroom beforehand, I always end up peeing. I…
Bianca Stone is not screwing around. “Human Nature,” the poem that serves as prologue to her new collection, opens by asking why people derive pleasure from “gazing / into enormous paintings of lost battles / the naked raped townspeople piled on the dying horses / and the indifferent pastures and frescos of gods.” While you…
Last week, Montpelier artist Tim Newcomb penned his first editorial cartoon about Vermont’s U.S. House race. In it, former governor Madeleine Kunin is driving a car. Her passengers are the three Democratic women running for the state’s lone Congressional seat. Asked what recommends each of them for the job, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray proclaims, “A…
In this crazy, confounding coronavirus economy, every CEO has felt the strain of keeping operations running, and Sophie Snowden Hiland is no different. Overeasy, the company she runs, makes a wearable called a HoodE — a puffy, faux-fur scarf that can stretch cobra-like over your hat or ski helmet to provide added warmth. Sales have…
Llu Mulvaney-Stanak Burlington Pollution Solution Great article about the Vorsteveld farm [“A Dairy Farm Is Defending a Pollution Lawsuit. Some Say Vermont’s Regs Are on Trial,” January 19]! This is where some of those funds to clean up the lake should be used — to make a real and timely difference. David Whitney designed living machines…
There’s something so exciting about an unexpected collaboration. At their best, those combinations, where two seemingly unrelated entities collide, feel like exercises in joyous chaos. Like Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart joking about getting high. Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s verse on Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” still might be the coolest thing to have happened in the entire…
(Self-released, CD, digital) Vibrant, whimsical and at times a bit silly, Luminous Crush’s most recent album, Incandescent, is an upbeat romp. Its 13 tracks zigzag through nearly as many genres: “bluegrass, outlaw country, post-punk, psychedelic fusion, indie, dream pop, searing rock, metal and whatnot,” according to the Jamaica, Vt., duo’s Bandcamp page. Band members Ben…
(Big Blue Zoo Records, vinyl, CD, digital) It has never been easy to define exactly what kind of band Greensky Bluegrass is. The five-piece from Kalamazoo, Mich., hit the scene in 2000, playing altered forms of bluegrass and folk music — not entirely surprising, considering that its members met playing open mic nights around the…
Everybody’s talking about Don’t Look Up (2021, Netflix). Whether you love or hate it, you can’t deny that the new satire from director-cowriter Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) takes on a major target: our species’ preparedness — or lack thereof — to face the prospect of its own extinction. McKay asks us to contemplate…
Each January, the public works team in the village of Essex Junction picks up discarded Christmas trees and takes them to a lumberyard where they’re ground into wood chips. But a few years ago, an employee found an ornament still attached to a tree. It was clay and clearly made by a child, with their…
Nothing is better suited to the takeout era than pocket food. A dish that comes in its own edible, usually doughy wrapper and can be eaten sans utensils — such as a hand pie, knish, dumpling, samosa or Pop-Tart — is both charming and efficient. You can chomp while you walk or eat it in…
When Darrell Langworthy decided to open his second restaurant, Heart n Soul by Mark BBQ, he envisioned comfort food: fresh-ground burgers, hand-cut French fries, pot roast and meatballs like someone’s Italian grandmother would make. Those hearty meals would come “with a chef’s touch,” said Langworthy, 42, a military veteran and culinary school graduate who also…
On January 2, Hannah Arias and Ericka Grygowski opened wit & grit., a daytime eatery in downtown Randolph. They added indoor dining and brunch cocktails on January 22. The restaurant serves up healthy sides of humor with menu items such as Parfait for the Course (yogurt layered with fruit and housemade granola), What the Fructoast…
Jolly Good Cello Friday 28 Think you’ve seen everything a cello can do? No, you haven’t. Renowned Vermont-based cellist Zoë Keating, using only her instrument and a loop pedal, creates intensely intricate music layer by layer. Her upcoming virtual concert is part of Middlebury College Performing Arts Series’ “Year of the Cello,” an ongoing celebration…
