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In the years leading up to the pandemic, a suburban Pittsburgh nursing home allegedly kept phony records to trick regulators into thinking it met state and federal staffing requirements. Pennsylvania officials indicted the home’s administrator, Susan Gilbert, in February and suggested more indictments would follow. The home, Mt. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, shared ownership with another…
After 14 years, Paul Seyler of North Ferrisburgh-based Vermont Cookie Love has handed the baton — or should we say, the cookie — on to a new owner. On July 15, Seyler, 52, sold his cookie business and popular seasonal creemee and ice cream stand on Route 7 for an undisclosed amount to Matt Bonoma,…
Lover of animals, self-taught pianist and avid soccer player brought kindness and wit into people’s lives
A memorial gathering will be held to celebrate and honor the life of Ethan Townsend on Sunday, September 26, at 2 p.m. It will be held at the St. Johns Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, Vt. All are welcome to attend. Related Stories
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There will be a memorial service of celebration for Ann Livingston on Saturday, August 28, 2 p.m., at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington at 152 Pearl Street. For more information about attendance or livestreaming, contact Gary Golden at gary.golden5@gmail.com.
A pair of thirtysomething brothers from New York City will open a Burlington breakfast spot at 198 Main Street, the former location of Mirabelles Bakery. Allan Walker-Hodkin and Travis Walker-Hodkin hope to launch the Café HOT. with takeout service by early September. (The restaurant’s name concludes with a period. “We’re very precious about our name,” Travis acknowledged…
It was a rainy night in Nairobi, Kenya, back in March 2003, when Irene Kerubo met up with Michael Webster, a Vermont guitarist looking to start a new project. Kerubo was a talented backup singer who had worked with artists such as Kenyan Afro-jazz star Achieng Abura. She knew Webster was looking for a lead…
It’s not often you thumb your nose at $4.5 billion. But that’s exactly how Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan and several other state attorneys general have reacted to the amount the family that profited from Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, has agreed to cough up. The settlement under consideration would resolve some 3,000 lawsuits…
Burlington sits atop a vast network of tunnels. From a fabled bootlegging network to long-buried rail shafts to forgotten sewer systems, the labyrinth crisscrossing the Queen City’s underground has garnered plenty of media attention over the years. But a few tunnels above the ground get less notice. Though they don’t have a storied history or…
(Self-released, digital) As I recently told Vermont Public Radio’s Mary Engisch on an episode of her local music program “Safe and Sound,” Ethan Wells’ music is like a love letter from a robot. I referred to a track from his 2017 LP, Pax Romana, a symphony of new-age electronica he released under the name Ebn…
Last July, a group of Winooski High School students and recent alumni came to the school board with a clear message. Calling themselves the Winooski Students for Anti-Racism, they shared painful experiences of unjust treatment from teachers, administrators and white peers, and of being called racist names by opposing sports teams. The group presented eight…
Bakery Booster [Re From the Publisher: “Working Nine-to-Nine,” July 14]: I’m sure it was unintentional, but your reference to the Barton Baking Company being closed “with no explanation on the front door” sounded judgmental — as if the married couple that owns it were rude to do so. They have no employees. Small businesses like…
(Self-released, digital) After the psyche-strapping wear of the coronavirus pandemic and the nerve-twisting tension of a presidential election and its rocky transition, we’re all a little bludgeoned and bruised. But summer’s here. And Modern Nature’s new album, Everything’s Alright, offers both a soothing title track and moments of musical succor. The YouTube bio for the…
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) achieved the impossible: She became a supremely skilled and renowned painter in an era when women had virtually no opportunities to become artists. Many aspects of her work distinguished her from other painters. For example, she depicted women as having strong, agile hands and arms. In…
The summer exhibition at the Bundy Modern in Waitsfield combines work by two very different deceased artists: Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) and Virginia Dehn (1922-2005). The two were married but far apart in age, and their careers cover different eras; Virginia’s earliest painting on display here was made the year Adolf died. Each artist developed alongside…
Sixteen-year-old Holly Dunlop had never handled livestock before last November, when her family moved to a farm in Marshfield. The Dunlops’ previous experience with animals, in suburban Washington, D.C., was limited to caring for the family dog. Yet Holly was the family’s go-to person when it came to castrating piglets born this spring. “We don’t…
It’s the kind of whiplash every parent fears. “He just had a weird rash,” Shane McFalls said in a phone interview, speaking about his then-2-year-old son, Soren. Shane, 35, thought it probably was nothing. Kids get rashes. Shane’s wife, Allie, also 35, decided to take Soren to the pediatrician just to be sure. “They were…
Back around Valentine’s Day, all of film Twitter was atwitter about a new streaming comedy written by and starring Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, the team behind Bridesmaids. Now that it’s on Hulu as well as VOD, I watched Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, the narrative feature debut of sitcom director Josh…
Dear Reverend, Two months ago, I got a Brazilian wax to surprise my husband on our anniversary. He loved it. Me, not so much. I thought it looked and felt weird. Now that the hair is growing back, he’s been hinting that he wants me to get another one. Should I just do it to…
The Ishtar Collective, which bills itself as Vermont’s only organization for sex workers, has started a farming operation that’s feeding people in need. Henri Bynx and J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly created the Ishtar Collective just before the pandemic started, in January 2020. Sex workers themselves, they wanted to organize and push for policy change in the…
Even at the best of times, the spouse of a U.S. diplomat has to know how to handle sticky situations with delicacy. And when your president recently described places including your host nation as “shithole countries,” you are not living in the best of times. Persephone Wilder, the Embassy Wife who gives Katie Crouch’s fourth…
“I’m not dying! I’m waiting for a neurology appointment.” That’s what I should have said to the friend who stopped me en route to the lap pool to say, “You look great,” in that reassuring way reserved for people who don’t. His charity was in reference to the personal medical drama I shared two weeks…
Weather conditions were ideal for a round of disc golf on a recent July afternoon as Ian MacKenzie of Winooski teed off at the first hole of the Center Chains disc golf course in Waterbury Center. As MacKenzie sailed his disc down the 285-foot fairway, it banked gently left, then landed in tall grass not…
On foot and in full armor, one great warrior pursues another around the city’s walls. The chase takes place in the viewer’s imagination while a storyteller describes the pursuer as never quite closing the distance to the tireless fleeing man. The story is from Homer’s Iliad, but it becomes modern and vivid in the Weston…
Former Community College of Vermont educator was passionate about teaching, skiing and family
Malletts Bay man was a gentle soul who enjoyed fishing on Lake Champlain
Vermont restaurant owners love to name-drop the origins of the food on their menus — Trillium Hill Farm lettuce, Pomykala Farm squash, Half Pint Farm carrots, Misty Knoll Farms chicken wings, Pigasus Meats bacon bits, Adam’s Berry Farm raspberries. But why settle for farm-to-table when farm-with-table is an option? As farmers look to diversify their…
When Lucy Nersesian and her partner traveled through Europe in 2019, they stayed at a vineyard in Spain during harvest season, helping farmers pick grapes by hand. She was excited to bring back firm plans for the vineyard she wanted to build someday in Vermont. The trip “really got our juices flowing,” Nersesian said. “I…
Stowe’s newest eatery infuses international flair into classic American fare. Wildflower Restaurant & Bar opened this month in the former Jeff’s at Stowe space at the Grey Fox Inn at 990 Mountain Road. Its menu combines Puerto Rican, Dominican and Korean flavors, inspired by the cultural backgrounds of partners David Cid, Darnell Holguin and chef…
Land Back Saturday 24 Folk-rock trio Lula Wiles roll up to Knoll Farm in Fayston, fiddles and upright basses in hand. The group’s twilight concert benefits First Light and their Wabanaki- and Abenaki-led land return efforts in New England. Whether watching in person or via Facebook Live, audience members enjoy the radical rhythms of the…
