Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Age 65 isn’t what it used to be. Seventy-five isn’t too old, either, at least for some. Instead of retiring, many seniors are staying on the job or finding new outlets for their talents and passions. Advancements in health care, technology…
Explore Barre, Vermont, the onetime “Granite Capital of the World.” Visit for rich history, outdoor art and storied cultural attractions.
February 20, 1963-July 3, 2020 Dancing, laughing, twirling, camper streaking at night. Thought we were hidden, oh what a sight. Hummingbird your wings a flight never leave, you make it right. Forever.
The University of Vermont abruptly fired about 10 people in its Center for Health and Wellbeing on Monday. UVM officials said the move, which targeted positions in education and outreach, is part of a reorganization aimed at integrating counseling and psychiatric treatment with substance abuse support services. The change will remove barriers to access, vice…
Lifelong accordion player loved line dancing and carousing with the Red Hat Ladies
Artist, teacher and culinary wiz lived his art every day
Longtime educator and pioneer in online learning left an indelible mark on the people she served
Dear Connie, It has been five years since you passed, and I think of you every day. I miss our calls, our rides and our lunches. In fact, I miss just knowing you are here! Just doesn’t seem fair that you are no longer with us. We all have so many memories of time spent…
Two friends originally from Bosnia have opened a small shop at 35 Elm Street in Montpelier. Neda Bikic and Tanja Vukoja launched Taste of Europe just more than a month ago to fill a need they saw in Vermont’s Capital City for Eastern European fare. Among their inventory are smoked meats, cheeses, candies, snacks, coffee,…
Business owner and accomplished drummer loved making custom tie-dyed tapestries and T-shirts for music festivals
Former Vermont secretary of transportation lived a life of public service and had a lifelong love of music
Vermont builder and copy editor’s later years were filled with hiking and letter writing
Colchester native found joy in lasting friendships and always remembered details about the important people in his life
A haiku is succinct and seasonal, giving an impression of a moment or thought. It makes sense, then, that Alexis Serio’s painting “Haiku,” currently on view in “Borders & Boundaries” at Edgewater Gallery at the Falls in Middlebury, restricts its visual language to do the same. Using a few shades of green, pale yellow and…
A yurt that was carried off by floodwaters last summer from a campground in Marshfield has a new home in Montpelier, where it will be dedicated on Juneteenth as a BIPOC gathering place. The tarp-covered structure is now set up at the North Branch Nature Center, a 28-acre preserve of forest and fields that draws…
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a pandemonium of parrots. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book…
GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): Though 2024 isn’t even half over, you have already earned the title “Least Boring Zodiac Sign of the Year.” Or maybe a more positive way to frame it would be to award you the title “Most Scintillating, Interesting and Stimulating Zodiac Sign of the Year.” Please keep doing what you have…
new in theaters INSIDE OUT 2: Drama alert! The anthropomorphized emotions from Pixar’s animated hit are back, and now their human host (voice of Kensington Tallman) is a moody teenager. With Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black. Kelsey Mann directed. (96 min, PG. Bethel, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Playhouse, Star, Sunset) TUESDAY:…
The merger of SunCommon with iSun reflected an ambitious vision to become a publicly traded, socially conscious, Vermont-based leader in the U.S. solar industry. Instead, three years on, the combined company has melted down, leading to abrupt layoffs, lawsuits, near-worthless stock and, now, bankruptcy. iSun claims it was hemorrhaging $250,000 per week by the time…
It sounded almost too far-fetched to be true: Burlington cops terrifying high schoolers by staging a fake shooting. But that’s exactly what happened last week at the city police station, where a “masked gunman” pretended to open fire in a classroom full of unsuspecting teens. The June 5 demonstration made national news and left the…
When Ben Miller submitted an application to become the 2023 artist-in-residence at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, he never expected to get the gig. After all, the National Parks Arts Foundation, which funds the monthlong residencies, had previously selected painters, sculptors, poets and Grammy Award-winning musicians. “Actual artists,” Miller pointed out, “not some guy making silly…
Lesson Learned? [Re “Burlington Police Terrified High School Students With Mock Shooting,” June 6, online]: I am writing to express my support for Burlington High School teachers and their collaboration with the Burlington Police Department in creating an innovative and memorable curriculum regarding the ultra-serious, horrific and literally triggering topic of gun violence. In a…
A truly funny movie can be hard to come by. But if anyone could pick a film guaranteed to elicit laughter, it would be a comedian. Enter “Comedians and Comedies,” a five-movie series hosted by Vermont International Film Foundation in which five local comedians present the films that shaped their formative years. The summer series…
The first entry in Bianca Stone’s journal describes a dream she had last fall. In the dream, she was going to a restaurant called O of the Flesh. To make a reservation, she needed to log in to a website with the password “fastoftheinnocents.” “Implied is a hidden word within this, something with two Ds?”…
I’ve often remarked that Seven Days makes Burlington — and northern Vermont — look bigger and more bustling than it actually is. That’s a result of our collective weekly effort to acknowledge everything going on, from poetry readings to pig races, within the physical territory we cover. Compiling the weekly calendar of events is a…
Filmmaker Christopher Wells is a Long Island native and current Brooklyn resident, but he has “deep roots” in Vermont, he said. His late father was St. Johnsbury artist Roderick A. Wells, to whose life and work Christopher devoted a 2016 documentary. Now the elder Wells’ “romantic realist” paintings can be seen in The Luring, a…
Dear Reverend, I’m starting to think the guy I’ve been dating has a bit of a foot fetish. I’ve never liked my feet, but he always compliments them and loves to give me foot rubs. He’s even kissed them a few times. I’d like to surprise him with a foot job, but I’ve never done…
They tell me my city is dead. I see it in online comments sections, strewn about the gutter of social media like wet rubbish. Sometimes I even hear it when I walk the streets: muttered derision and sneering talk that always boils down to some version of Burlington used to be cooler when I was…
At Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield, the group exhibition “ALOFT” throws convention to the wind. The show takes on not only the concept of flight but also any idea associated with the air — from the atmospheric to the ethereal. Collecting works by local and a few out-of-state artists, as well as historical objects,…
For all the clichés comparing being in a band to marriage, making collaborative art with other humans over time is its own kind of balancing act. And in bands, as in marriages, it’s important to mark big anniversaries. To celebrate a decade of making progressive indie-folk music, Cricket Blue have gifted themselves a present. To…
(Screaming Crow Records, CD, digital, vinyl) Rutland, a city with a legacy of hard-nosed punk and hardcore music, has produced a new torchbearer to carry forth the tradition that bands such as Get a Grip, Midnight Saints and Mask have established in recent years. Dead Street Dreamers formed in 2021 when longtime friends and members…
(Equal Eyes Records, digital) In the past decade, Vermont’s hip-hop scene has witnessed an explosive proliferation of spooky-talented producers. Consider D👁️Y, a recent album from Equal Eyes Records head honcho ILLu, which features a dozen outstanding artists. Presented as an instrumental “Do It Yourself Rap Album,” this is an unexpected and quirky triumph. It’s also…
Rep. Jim Carroll thought he was losing his mind. The Democrat from Bennington would hang his canvas tote bag on a hook outside his committee room in the Statehouse every morning and, by the end of the day, it would often be soaking wet. He racked his brain for possible explanations. Was his bag under…
I’m way behind in the garden this year. Weeds are high, spring cleanup barely happened, and the only things I’ve planted are three leftover mystery tomatoes my neighbor handed over the fence. But that hasn’t kept me away from Red Wagon Plants in Hinesburg. In fact, I made my first visit of the year earlier…
We rarely host out-of-state visitors during the summer and fall without taking them to Shelburne Farms. The 1,400-acre historic country estate turned environmental education nonprofit is a National Historic Landmark and a local treasure. Even the most seasoned traveler’s eyes widen when the magnificent, turreted farm barn comes into sight. Sometimes we simply stroll along…
The Spot restaurant group is making another addition to its lineup this summer — the Sweet Spot, a creemee and coffee window at the bottom of King Street in Burlington, near the ferry ticket booth. By June 17, manager Tessa Fancher said, the staff hopes to offer all-day sweet treats to those wandering along the…
South Burlington-based Sherpa Foods will add a second location of its Himalayan D’Lite café beside the fountain in Burlington’s City Hall Park. Co-owner Nurbu Sherpa said he hopes to open the year-round kiosk serving Nepalese fare, drinks and seasonal ice cream around July 4. Sherpa Foods, which sells packaged Nepalese-style momo dumplings and sauces to…
In Montpelier, Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft at 64 Main Street appears to have closed permanently. Brown paper covered the windows of the 4,400-square-foot café, chocolate production facility and retail shop, which opened in 2019 as an evolution of Nutty Steph’s, founded by Jaquelyn Fernandez Rieke. No one could be reached at Rabble-Rouser. Katie Trautz, executive…
Suddenly You’ll See Wednesday 19 Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, who used to busk on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace as a teen, returns to Vermont to light up Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. The Grammy-nominated Scottish musician brings passionate vocals and anthemic-rock grit to such iconic hits as “Suddenly I See” and “Black Horse and…
