Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2022
Vermont Gas Says It’s Reinventing Itself to Help the Climate. Critics Call Its Strategy ‘Greenwashing’; Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Provide Misleading Information, Critics Charge; Brookfield Celebrates Cartoonist Ed Koren
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Hot Air? Vermont Gas Says It’s Reinventing Itself to Help the Climate. Critics Call Its Strategy ‘Greenwashing.’
To heat her drafty old Vergennes home, Constance Swinton switched from oil to natural gas last year for two main reasons: to save money and help the environment. Swinton grew up in the two-story house, which her parents bought in the 1940s. A retired real estate agent, she moved back into it in 2020 to…
Obituary: Leo Lalancette, 1925-2022
Essex man met future president John F. Kennedy while serving in navy
Obituary: Virginia “Ginnie” Gude, 2022
South Burlington woman’s home was always open to others, loved entertaining and traveling
In Memoriam: Paul A. (Joe) Dye Jr., 1936-2022
An informal gathering will be held in memory of Paul (Joe) Dye at All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 OLD, Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne, on Friday, August 19, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Please join us with reminiscences of Joe as we celebrate his life. Related Stories
Clean: ‘“Overwhelmed With Gratitude’ (7/29/22)
My shoulders were stiff and tense as I hunched over a pile of bills and papers on my work desk. I was four years sober, and I was completely overwhelmed with professional projects, social commitments and family obligations. As I scrolled through a series of urgent text messages in my phone, my heart began to…
Glory Flower Farm in Charlotte Offers Natural Stem-Sell Therapy
Christy Feiker sat under an open-sided tent in a field bursting with colors. Snapdragons, cosmos, bachelor buttons, marigolds, sunflowers and zinnias dotted the Charlotte meadow, with a view of the Green Mountains peeking through the trees behind her house. With a pair of fine-tipped scissors, Feiker delicately trimmed excess leaves from the stems and, within…
Notice of Foreclosure: 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren
STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 142-3-20 WNCV HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2005-12, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-12 v. JOHN E. ALEX AND VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES OCCUPANTS OF: 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL…
Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers in Vermont Provide Misleading Information, Critics Charge
Google “abortion in Vermont,” and a list of locations pops up. You’ll find Planned Parenthood branches in eight towns, from Burlington to Brattleboro. But you’ll also notice listings that may be less familiar. Among them: Aspire Now in Williston, Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central Vermont in Barre and the Women’s Center in Middlebury. Their…
Will Public Safety Worries End Progressive Prosecutor Sarah George’s Sweeping Reforms?
Katie Anderson and JP Coseno were sure they’d caught the moped thief red-handed. The couple spotted Anderson’s commuter bike in Burlington in the bed of a shiny Chevy Silverado and tailed the driver to a market in the city’s Old North End. They blocked him in the parking lot until Burlington police arrived. Officers allowed…
Soundbites: Burlington’s Beat-Making Exchange Program; the Ramble Returns; New Singles Roundup
You know, whenever I take a break from Soundbites for a few weeks and run some features or interviews, I always get this feeling like I’m skipping class or something. Inevitably, when I return to the column and start sorting out the music news, I see the amount of emails, submissions and notifications of cool…
Tim Brick, ‘Homegrown Remedy’
(Self-released, CD, digital) Is there a genre as riddled with tropes as modern country music? Every type of music has its calling cards, but today’s country has a way of leaning into its clichés, whether it’s tractors and girls, amorphous “down-home” values, or flag-waving patriotism. Maybe it’s a proud-to-be-who-I-am sort of thing, or maybe it’s…
The Brother Brothers, ‘Cover to Cover’
(Compass Records, CD, digital, vinyl) “What do you think about cover songs?” I asked friends after listening to the Brother Brothers’ third album, Cover to Cover. Responses varied from “I don’t really like them” to “I like them, sometimes more than the original” and “Can be great, usually meh” to “Songwriting and playing music are…
From the Publisher: Recipe for Success
The research for Melissa Pasanen’s first food story in Seven Days, about Vermont church suppers, started on Saint Patrick’s Day at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Richmond. There she found salty gray meat, boiled potatoes and a couple who had been attending such community meals statewide for decades. “One week later, I was in…
Photo Essay: Brookfield Celebrates Cartoonist Ed Koren
Ed Koren, Vermont’s second cartoonist laureate, a longtime contributor to the New Yorker (60 freaking years, to be exact), a world-renowned illustrator and author, and — more importantly to me — our dear friend, is battling cancer. I haven’t known Ed for forever, maybe only a decade or so, but long enough to know that…
Sweetwaters to Close and Become New Location of Pascolo Ristorante
Longtime Church Street dining fixture Sweetwaters will close on September 5, and the Farmhouse Group’s Pascolo Ristorante will take over the historic building with a planned reopening in November, according to a joint press release issued by the two businesses. “It was time for me to move on,” said Sweetwaters owner David Melincoff in a…
Book Review: ‘The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened,’ Bill McKibben
As a boy, Bill McKibben was exuberantly fascinated by the American Revolution. His family moved to the iconic town of Lexington, Mass., when he was 10. As a teenager, he served as a docent on the town’s green, telling tourists about how colonial villagers confronted British soldiers in the first clash of the American War…
I’m Afraid My Penis Is Small
Dear Reverend, My penis isn’t big at all. I’m about 6.5 inches erect. I can only last about four to five minutes, and it’s been like this for years. What can I do? It’s getting embarrassing. John Doe (male, 50) Dear John Doe, First off, the average erect penis is 5.1 to 5.5 inches, so…
Theater Review: ‘Hair,’ Weston Theater Company
With jubilant sincerity, the characters in the big cast of Hair sing of a world that’s new and dazzling to them. Sexual freedom and the courage to resist cultural norms exhilarate this tribe of hippies, draft dodgers, drug takers, interracial lovers, protesters and free-love advocates. In the Weston Theater Company production, so much joy pulses…
A Quest for an Illegal Abortion Drives the Timely French Drama ‘Happening’
Audrey Diwan’s film Happening (L’Événement), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021, hit U.S. theaters in May, about the same time newsrooms got wind of the leaked document revealing the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Yet this timely French movie about a young woman…
Now Playing in Theaters: July 27-August 2
new in theaters DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS: Krypto the Super-Dog assembles a band of crime-fighting critters to rescue his person — yup, Superman — in this animated adventure. With the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Vanessa Bayer. Jared Stern and Sam Levine directed. (106 min, PG. Bethel, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount,…
‘More Than an Object’ at the BCA Center Explores New Takes on the Still Life
The words “still life” might call to mind opulent displays of food, flowers, glassware and linens arranged on a table and painted with exacting realism by, say, a 17th-century Dutch master. A current exhibition at Burlington’s BCA Center challenges that trope. Or perhaps it’s better to say that “More Than an Object: The Contemporary Still…
Letters to the Editor (7/27/22)
Keep Up the Comic Content Just wanted to reach out to thank you for putting someone on the Vermont comic book beat. We’ve got a shockingly rich history with the art form and an even broader future, so it’s really cool seeing a paper take an interest in the full scope of it. Chris Farnsworth’s…
Free Will Astrology (7/27/22)
LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): It’s always advisable for you Leos to carry on a close personal relationship with mirrors. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically. For the sake of your mental health, you need to be knowledgeable about your image and monitor its ever-shifting nuances. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you…
A Former Chef Finds Peace and a New Career in Fly-Fishing
The front room of Jamie and Paula Eisenberg’s Underhill home used to be full of flour and fruit for Poorhouse Pies, the baking business they sold last November. Now, where shelves once held rolling pins, pliers hang from a pegboard. Instead of instructions for chocolate cream pie, the recipe box contains cards detailing how to…
Three New Restaurants Open in Milton
Milton is having a moment. New options for breakfast, lunch and dinner opened in quick succession this spring and summer, bringing fresh energy to town — and lots to eat. Coffee-and-bagel spot Huddy’s kicked off the trend in late April at 40 River Street. When co-owners Stacey Rousseau and Dan Rexford held their grand opening…
Burlington Entrepreneur’s French Roots Inform WoodFyred Outdoor Ovens
The star of a recent Burlington al fresco dinner was the wood-fired pizza oven built by cohost Richard Gliech from a recycled steel drum. But this was not your standard pizza party. Guests sipped refreshing glasses of pilsner mixed with Picon, a bitter orange spirit. The aperitif, like the oven and its crisp-crusted product, traces…
Field Guide to Fancy-Pants Ice Cream, Gelato and Creemees in Burlington
Learn more about the shops in the illustrated ice cream guide at scoutvt.com, shyguygelato.com, cafemamajuana.com, thecafehot.com, lakechamplainchocolates.com and tacogordovt.com. Related Stories
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, July 25- August 2
The Hills Are Alive Saturday 30 The Chad Hollister Band, Reggie Harris, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem (pictured), Mikahely, and Modern Times Theater are among the featured acts at this weekend’s Cabot Arts and Music Festival. Between sets, visitors explore Cabot Village Common’s plethora of artisan vendors, food trucks and visual art exhibits. Says Shoot…
New Chef-Owners to Reopen Richmond’s Kitchen Table Bistro as Vermont Fine
Local chefs Chelsea Morgan and Tom D’Angelo will open a new restaurant in the former Kitchen Table Bistro in Richmond with the financial support of silent partners, who purchased the historic brick building and the restaurant assets for an undisclosed amount. The property was listed with Pomerleau Real Estate at $750,000 for the building and…
Stowe Covered Bridge — With Amenities — Hits the Market
James and Mary Connacher have a bridge to sell you — seriously. The Stowe span extends over a stream and a waterfall, has 12-foot trusses and sides made of glass. Like some bridges in Vermont, it’s covered. But you can actually live in this one — it doubles as a house. The Connachers, who live…
