Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2013
What Parents Don’t Know Vermont Childcare Could Hurt Their Kids; Homeless Motel Stays Cost Big Bucks; Megan James on the Tweet Seats; Loving Winooski’s ‘Mis’
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What Parents Don’t Know About Vermont Childcare Could Hurt Their Kids
In June 2012, a 3-year-old boy attending the Ed-U-Care Children’s Center, a licensed daycare provider in Essex Junction, walked off the premises and wandered across four lanes of traffic on Susie Wilson Road. Luckily, an approaching motorist spotted him in the middle of the road and pulled him out of harm’s way. According to a…
Tech Jam Success Stories
It’s hard to believe, but the Vermont Tech Jam turned six years old in January! We held the first Tech Jam on the Burlington Waterfront, in the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, on January 28, 2008. Since then, the Tech Jam has connected thousands of job seekers, career changers, students, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts.…
Inside the 2012 Tech Jam
The Vermont Tech Jam job fair and expo is an annual event organized by Seven Days, the state’s independent newsweekly, and the Vermont Technology Alliance, a tech-industry trade organization. Representatives from dozens of Vermont’s most innovative companies come to recruit staff and demonstrate their products and services. It’s a great opportunity to learn more…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Wageni ni baraka is a Swahili proverb that means “guests are a blessing.” That’s not always true, of course. Sometimes guests can be a boring inconvenience or a messy burden. But for you in the coming weeks, Aries, I’m guessing the proverb will be 98 percent correct. The souls who come…
At Mainly Vintage in the Upper Valley, Accessories Rule
I visited Heirloom Antique Center & Furniture Hospital on Route 5 in White River Junction a few times before I noticed a pair of French doors almost hidden behind hutches and bric-a-brac. At the time, one door was closed and the other half open, partially blocked by chest-high bolts of fabric on the other side.…
Seven Days Staffers Recommend Their Go-to Hot Chocolates
Whether you call it cocoa or hot chocolate, a steaming beverage that’s creamy, sweet and chocolaty hits the spot on a winter’s day. At a recent Seven Days editorial meeting, some staffers were practically drooling thinking about it. A few of us rushed out to get a cup directly afterward. If you’re the rare person…
Taste Test: Misery Loves Co. Supper Review
The Dunnsky. Anti-Hero. The Saltie. Since catering company Misery Loves Co. went mobile with its food truck in May 2012, the names of its massive, handmade sandwiches have become Burlington-area icons. With the late-November opening of its restaurant on Main Street in Winooski, the lunches — heart stopping both in their huge flavors and in…
Putney’s Gleanery Restaurant Turns Surplus Food Into First-Rate Meals
It’s just after 3:00 on a Thursday afternoon, and inside the Gleanery’s sunny kitchen, Ismail Samad scoops out the warm insides of roasted potatoes and tosses them in a silver bowl. As he does so, what look like tiny pebbles fall from the skins. “One of our farmers is from Brittany, and she brought back…
An Interview With Tift Merritt
On her latest record, Traveling Alone, Tift Merritt examines the emotional implications, both internal and external, of life’s various journeys. Simultaneously bold and vulnerable, the writing on the album has been hailed as the Grammy-nominated tunesmith’s finest to date, a work of unflinching honesty. The ideas of traveling and discovering a sense of place have…
WTF: When It Comes to Vermont Town Names, What the “H”?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Book Review: A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry
Small-town newspaper writing can be fun, if only for its front-row seat on local life — the chance to ride shotgun in a cop car, or to interview and photograph local workers as they set up a Fourth of July parade or a Christmas wonderland. In her latest novel, A Cold and Lonely Place, Sara…
Letters to the Editor
Open “Arms” This letter is not intended to be pro- or anti-firearm. Instead, it represents my discomfort with Century International Arms’ anonymous presence in Vermont [“In Franklin County, a Global Arms Dealer Quietly Makes a Killing,” January 23]. I find the business’ unwillingness to reply to the media disconcerting. My concern is, of course, heightened…
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Get Out and Backcountry Ski Festival [298]
1/27/13: The 5th Annual Get Out and Backcountry Ski Festival was held at Bolton Valley on Sunday. Almost 100 skiers participated in this fundraiser for the Catamount Trail Association which included instruction as well as some backcountry adventure. Eva strapped on some skis and explored a portion of the Catamount Trail, a 300 mile winter-use…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Wayne Harvey Martell, 68, left without paying for gas after filling his vehicle at the same station 11 times in three months, according to police in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who arrested him when he showed up a 12th time and was promptly recognized. (Halifax’s the Chronicle Herald) High-Fi Boeing engineers used sacks…
