Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. The diner of my childhood was Arlington’s now-shuttered State Line, a white-sided single-wide, surrounded by a cornfield, that straddled the Vermont-New York border. The more I recall about the place, the more I think I made it up: pancakes as big…
Kind and gentle soul loved rides on country roads with his father, family holiday celebrations and his mom’s goulash
Updated on July 11, 2024. U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) has called for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, saying the stakes are too high and Biden has been damaged by his “disastrous” debate with Donald Trump. Welch made his case in an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Wednesday…
Deborah Henken and Bryan Fantie of Gaithersburg, Md., announce the marriage of their daughter, Samara Rose Fantie, to Carl Elliott “Ott” Lindstrom, son of Jessica and Timothy Lindstrom of Williamsburg, Va. Samara received degrees from Amherst College and American University and is a 2D/3D digital artist and the CCO of a video game development startup.…
Nurse loved caring for others and was firmly planted in the beautiful countryside of Vermont for 56 years
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Family meant everything to the woman who was the driving force behind Charlotte’s Thibault Farm
Former Burlington native set out for California in her VW Beetle after completing her nursing studies
Renaissance man was as comfortable in the woods with a chain saw as he was sitting at a Tanglewood Boston Pops concert
Alicia Dana, a three-time medalist in Paralympic cycling from Putney, has been barred from competing in the 2024 Paralympic trials next week after testing positive for a banned substance. Dana maintains the positive test was the result of using a topical cream she was unaware contained clostebol, an anabolic steroid. Now, Dana is taking responsibility…
Former veteran received the 2017 Spirit Award for his volunteer work at the Ronald McDonald House
Vultures have a bad rap. In movies and literature, the birds of prey are often harbingers of death and other bad things to come. “Vulture” can also describe a predatory or exploitative person. But these stereotyped creatures play an essential role in our ecosystems: As scavengers who eat dead animals, vultures help prevent the spread…
Editor’s note: This event has been postponed to Wednesday, July 17. Last July, when Montpelier residents and business owners began the long and laborious process of cleaning up and rebuilding after the Great Flood of 2023, one thing was obvious: From the start, the arts community was chest-deep in recovery efforts to get the city…
Dear Reverend, For the 15 years we’ve been married, my wife has always left the butter dish out on the kitchen counter. I firmly believe it belongs in the refrigerator. I always put it back in, and then she takes it out again. It’s like a never-ending butter back-and-forth. Can you settle this debate once…
An afternoon downpour on Saturday forced the Town of Waterbury to postpone its annual Not Quite Independence Day fireworks show. But the rain didn’t stop all the other festivities. Volunteers from the Waterbury Rotary Club donned raincoats to host the celebration, which included kids’ activities, food vendors and live music in Rusty Parker Memorial Park…
Despite its setting on the shores of Lake Memphremagog, Newport is not known as a tourist destination. Vermont’s northernmost city is often overshadowed by the nearby Jay Peak Resort, which attracts skiers from both sides of the border. People usually have a good reason (such as a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse) to visit the state’s…
Leaders of the Vermont solar firm iSun misled shareholders and engaged in “extensive” wrongdoing, including fraud and misappropriation of funds, according to a former executive who was recruited to fix the publicly traded company in the months before its June bankruptcy. Top executives listed their spouses as employees to obtain more government aid during the…
State health officials are urging Vermont dairy farmers to stay vigilant as a highly contagious avian flu tears through herds of cattle in the Midwest. A new strain of the virus, H5N1, was detected in cows for the first time in late March, and outbreaks have since been confirmed in 136 dairy herds across a…
(Self-released, digital) It’s impossible not to respect What Doth Life. The folks behind the Windsor-based collective do it all: They run a record label, book shows and festivals, and direct their own music videos. They’re a group of Upper Valley friends making some of the most distinctive music in Vermont through a massive roster of…
Vermont’s best butter gets a shout-out in the new season of the critically acclaimed TV show “The Bear.” (Spoiler alert! Rich details ahead.) In the third episode of the series’ third season, Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto — a young, talented chef running a high-end restaurant in Chicago — has an argument about food costs with Uncle…
True story: I was terrified of the library when I was a kid. There was no bibliophobia involved; I loved reading. Nor was it the idea of quiet studying — even for a 10-year-old motormouth with attention deficit disorder, I was able to be a respectable library-goer. My fear was specific to a strange program…
In “Wanda Koop: WHO OWNS THE MOON” at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the celestial orb is an ominous presence. This is the first major exhibition in Québec for the Winnipeg artist, who has shown across Canada and internationally, including a survey at the National Gallery of Canada in 2011. Koop’s family, like many…
It all started with a broken arm. When filmmaker Jay Craven first moved to Vermont, in spring 1974, the only way he could heat his farmhouse was with wood. He borrowed a truck to lug the logs back to his house, but one drive downhill and a pair of failed brakes later, he had a…
A once-popular electronic music series is gearing up to return to Burlington. The Revolver series started in the early 2000s at Higher Ground, back when the nightclub was still located in Winooski. It spent time at the late, great 135 Pearl before moving to the Half Lounge on Church Street in 2008, where it remained…
More Data, Please Since 2000, Vermont has experienced official drought conditions 13 times. Eleven of these were in the last half of that period, not the previous. During this time, we’ve experienced severe drought five times, four of which were between 2017 and 2023. Precipitation totals for Burlington between 2000 and 2023 range from a…
Metal sculptor Kat Clear has been enriching the local landscape with public art for almost two decades. Well known around Burlington, her works include the four-story sewing machine and cascading quilt at the University of Vermont Medical Center called “Fabric of Life” and giant combination-lock bike racks outside Radio Bean and Burlington Telecom. Since 2015,…
Massachusetts native Annie Baker made her cinematic directorial debut with Janet Planet, which premiered last year at the Telluride Film Festival. Also a playwright, Baker won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2014, and among her works are three plays that take place in the fictional town of Shirley, Vt. Though Janet Planet is set…
new in theaters DESPICABLE ME 4: Gru Jr. joins the lovable villain’s family — plus the Minions, of course — in the fourth installment of the animated family franchise, with the voice talents of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Joey King. Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage directed. (95 min, PG. Bethel, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic,…
CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): The Fates have authorized me to authorize you to be bold and spunky. You have permission to initiate gutsy experiments and to dare challenging feats. Luck and grace will be on your side as you consider adventures you’ve long wished you had the nerve to entertain. Don’t do anything risky or…
Browsing the shelves of City Market, Onion River Co-op’s South End location, I found an object in the freezer section that gave me pause. It was an amorphous brown blob of seitan with a label that boasted, “Vermont Owned Family Business Since 1979.” Thinking it would be an economical choice for quick lunches, I threw…
Many people passed the time by baking during the pandemic, but few took it to the level of Bill Hoag. He opened his first bakery in Jeffersonville in June 2020. To be fair, Hoag had plans to open Two Sons Bakehouse (named for sons Jackson, 16, and Cashel, 9) before COVID-19 put his — and…
Neil and Perry Farr have announced the permanent closure of Onsen Ramen in Essex Junction and told Seven Days that they plan to open a new ice cream shop, Judi’s, in the same building as their original restaurant, the Scale in Williston. The old-fashioned scoop shop is named for Neil’s grandmother. It will open in…
Riko’s Pizza will bring its tavern-style pizzas to Burlington by the end of fall. Cousins Rico Imbrogno and Luigi Cardillo — CEO and COO, respectively, of the East Coast restaurant group — are excited to bring their “bar pies” to the city, according to a press release. The restaurant will open at 83 Church Street,…
Stephen Goldberg, a countercultural playwright and jazz musician who shaped Burlington’s indie theater scene, died of natural causes on Saturday while receiving hospice care at McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester. He was 85. A prolific artist, Goldberg wrote more than 26 plays and a book of poetry, performed with the jazz ensemble No Walls,…
Marching Orders Thursday 4 The town of Warren steps lively at its singular 4th of July Parade and Festivities. The procession of quirky floats and merry musicians is followed by hot dogs, a street dance and a unique get-to-know-your-neighbors scheme: Pay $1 for a numbered “Buddy Badge,” then find the other person in the crowd…
On Wednesday morning, the City of Burlington unveiled its newest piece of public art in a ceremony at Dewey Park: “Embrace and Belonging,” a monumental sculpture by West Virginia artists Ai Qiu Hopen and her son, Chen Hopen, who work as Humanity Memorial. The project has been years in the making and was a collaboration…
