Jul 20-26, 2011
Community-Supported Ag Is a Bumper Crop in Vermont — But Farmers Have to Get Creative to Make It Work; UVM President Fogel Departs Early; Christian Radio Grows in VT;
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Sharing the Bounty
Community-supported ag is a bumper crop in Vermont – but farmers have to get creative to make it work
University of Vermont Names Interim President
* Updated * The University of Vermont’s Board of Trustees has named John Bramley (pictured) as interim president of the university. He’ll assume the job on August 1. The move came less than one week after UVM President Fogel announced he was resigning from his post July 31, one year earlier than anticipated. Trustees met…
Pigging Out at the Cheesemakers Festival
I had to pinch myself every hour this Sunday to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. The Vermont Cheesemakers festival at Shelburne Farms is my idea of heaven: a sunny barn filled with cheese, chocolate, wine, beer, strawberries and sausage. This event was a farmers’ market on steroids, where you were encouraged to stuff your face…
“Fill ’er Up,” Says Entergy As It Approves VT Yankee Refueling
Entergy’s board of directors has essentially made a $50 million* bet that Vermont Yankee will remain open beyond March 2012, voting to refuel the plant in October. The board made the announcement to Vermont Yankee employees and the media in a brief statement earlier today. The $35 million $50 million* (see correction below) cost of…
An Estranged Son of Westboro’s Fred Phelps Wants to Help Drive ‘The Bus’ to Topeka
What do cult filmmaker Kevin Smith and Burlington playwright James Lantz (pictured) have in common? They’re both taking on the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., with their latest projects — and drawing support from estranged members of preacher Fred Phelps’ family. Smith screened his movie Red State — which features a fictional antigay preacher…
New England’s Buttoned-Up Answer to Bacchanalian Southern Decadence
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about the lesbian couple from New York suing a Lyndonville inn for allegedly saying “thanks, but no thanks” to their inquiry about holding their big gay wedding reception there. According to the ACLU, which has taken up Ming Linsley and Kate Baker’s discrimination case, the Wildflower Inn turned the…
Taxidermy and Artisan Doughnuts
Glover is a town full of contradictions. Downtown Glover has one church, a handful of stores, a few roadside houses, and the familiarities of small-town life in the Northeast Kingdom: geraniums in window boxes, faded American flags, peeling paint, tractor parts and sagging porches. Just up the road, though, lies the Bread and Puppet theater,…
DUI-Gate: Did the State Fail to Approve the Breath-Testers Before Putting Them Into Use?
Here’s the latest on the saga of Vermont’s malfunctioning DUI breath-testers: After months of saying next to nothing about the embarrassing episode, state prosecutors have finally filed their official response to claims that the breath-testing instruments Vermont uses to convict drunk drivers cannot be relied upon. The response comes in a court filing in a…
UVM President Dan Fogel Resigns
* Updated below with action from the UVM Board of Trustees meeting * University of Vermont President Dan Fogel made his abrupt resignation official this morning in a campus-wide email that said the decision came after “much soul-searching.” “I am doing so for the good of this wonderful university and for deeply personal reasons,” wrote…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again While a sheriff’s deputy was giving Louis Cruz, 55, a sobriety test after stopping him for driving erratically in Okaloosa County, Fla., Cruz suggested that a “bad foot” might be affecting his response to the test. When he leaned down to show the deputy the foot, he accidentally revealed an ankle holster.…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I dreamed you were in a cake store. Every delicious kind of cake you could imagine was there: carrot cake, strawberry cheesecake, gooey butter cake, rich chocolate cake with four layers of cherries and whipped cream, birthday cakes that must have been baked in paradise. Sadly, there was a problem: You…
WTF: What’s the story behind the Bulletins From Neptune pickup truck?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
What Would Jesus Broadcast?
A Christian radio network spreads its message in Vermont, one frequency at a time
Letters to the Editor
Lincoln Lore Correction [Re: “Going to the Mountain,” July 6]: Frederich “Dutch” Wehage was the ’60s practitioner of crazy wisdom and psychedelic psychotherapy and student of Kalu Rinpoche — not Dutch Leahy. Thanks for the article otherwise. Alan Atwood Colchester Mayor Walks the Walk I enjoyed the photo and breakdown of Mayor Kiss’ bumper stickers…
Dining With Judith and Julia
Publisher and sometime Vermonter Judith Jones celebrates 50 years of Mastering the Art of French Cooking
UVM President Dan Fogel to Resign July 31
University of Vermont President Dan Fogel is leaving UVM at month’s end — a full year before his planned departure — seemingly prompted by the scheduled release of an internal investigation into the relationship between his wife, Rachel Kahn-Fogel, and another university official. Fogel will make the announcement official in a campus-wide email tomorrow morning.…
Judge Denies Entergy’s Request for Injunction
The first round in the legal battle between the state of Vermont and Vermont Yankee goes to … the state. A federal judge on Monday denied Entergy Vermont Yankee’s request for a temporary injunction against the state of Vermont. The company is suing the state to keep it from shutting down the Vernon nuclear reactor…
