After almost 33 years, chefs and co-owners Alison Lane and Andrew Silva have put Mirabelles Bakery on the market for an asking price of $1.3 million. The bakery team of 15 will continue to produce its signature crème brûlée cakes, buttery croissants and fresh fruit tarts while Lane, 58, and Silva, 61, seek a buyer.…
A new undergraduate engineering program will occupy five buildings in Montpelier vacated by the Vermont College of Fine Arts, which has moved its residencies to schools in Colorado and Pennsylvania. The nonprofit Greenway Center for Equity and Sustainability has agreed to purchase the VCFA buildings and will start using them this fall as a campus…
Robin Williams Milne, of Shelburne, Vt., died peacefully on December 20, 2022, at the age of 91. You are welcome to join us in honoring her life. A memorial service will be held Sunday, July 23, 2023, at 2 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington (head of Church Street). Robin’s full obituary…
Athlete and skilled craftsman was a pillar of every community where he lived
West Burke painter Terry Ekasala has won the 2023 Vermont Prize, an annual award that celebrates and supports the best visual art being made in the state. Her selection, by a five-member jury, was announced on Friday. The Vermont Prize is a collaboration between Brattleboro Museum & Art Center; Burlington City Arts; the Current, a…
Nearly every school district in Vermont has signed on to a lawsuit against agrochemical manufacturer Monsanto, alleging that the company was responsible for contaminating hundreds of school buildings. The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Burlington, alleges that PCBs the company made were used in myriad school building materials including caulking, sealants and…
Essex resident’s happy place was sitting in the shade under his favorite tree at his farm
Former class comedian who lit up a room loved dogs, her gardens and being on the water
Longtime teacher put others first and provided quiet strength to family and friends
Friends of John Baldwin, Please join us on Saturday, July 15, for a celebration of life for our uncle, John Baldwin, who recently passed away. You are invited to attend one or both of the celebrations listed below. Military Funeral Honors for John Baldwin Saturday, July 15, 2023, 10 a.m. Location: The Baldwin Cemetery Daniel…
A vibrant, metallic mural by artist Jessica Wilson adorns the outside of a two-story brick building at 5 Stowe Street in Waterbury. “Phoenix Rising” was dedicated in 2021 as a tribute to that community’s resilience following Tropical Storm Irene. But after three years of COVID-19, the phoenix symbolism applies equally well to the new art…
A long, arduous debate over how to regulate short-term rentals in Burlington appeared to be settled last summer when city councilors approved new regulations meant to prevent the industry from cannibalizing the Queen City’s housing market. But a year later, not everyone has fallen in line. A Seven Days review of listings on Airbnb and…
A sign posted outside CrowBar Hardware Store in Claremont, N.H., advises that the establishment is closed due to violations of the National Prohibition Act. Indeed, the door is locked. But ringing a hidden bell grants patrons entrance into the speakeasy-style bar and restaurant, where vintage furniture and old-timey jazz hark back to the days of…
HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for GsSAA Home Equity Trust 2005-12, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-12 v. Andrew Montroll, Esq., as Administrator of the Estate of John E. Alex and Vermont Department of Taxes Occupants Of: 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren VT Mortgagee’s Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property Under 12 v.s.a. Sec…
In a photograph titled “El hijo de Yemayá,” a man clad only in swim trunks stands on a stone jetty and thrusts his arms overhead as ocean waves churn around him. At the horizon, a city skyline punctures the cloud-puffed sky. Even in black and white, the image evokes the sound, smell and color of…
A little-known fact is that Burlington’s famous file-cabinet tower is actually the Seven Days album submission queue. Every week music editor Chris Farnsworth hauls out the company ladder and scales the cabinet for new albums from Vermont musicians. Sometimes, because he’s terrified he’ll fall to his death, he pulls too many albums from the drawers…
Karen Hanron was walking through her neighborhood in Montpelier a few years ago when someone set off firecrackers, prompting a flock of birds to erupt from a tree. “They were frenzied; there was nowhere to go,” she said. “I couldn’t shake the image of those terrified birds.” Hanron, who has training in trauma therapy, had…
Dear Reverend, My daughter just got engaged, and we could not be happier for her! My wife and I are retired, as are the future groom’s parents. They, however, have far deeper pockets. The couple, both in their thirties, are being practical in their wedding wishes. They may even elope and have a big party…
This season, Shelburne Museum is displaying 23 handmade, hand-painted clay vessels by Native Americans in a way that could make the typical museumgoer gulp. “Built From the Earth: Pueblo Pottery From the Anthony and Teressa Perry Collection,” at the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, has no glass display cases. Instead, these masterworks — some…
It’s safe to say that theater has a special place in Wes Anderson’s heart. In the director’s breakthrough film, Rushmore, Jason Schwartzman plays a teen who produces elaborate spectacles on the stage of his high school. More than two decades later, Schwartzman stars in Anderson’s latest, Asteroid City, as the lead of an acclaimed stage…
A horror story gives the audience a thrill of fear but stops before the world becomes too hostile to bear; it’s a way of enjoying being scared. A play is a contraption held up by the willing suspension of disbelief. In a thoroughly entertaining production of Misery, Dorset Theatre Festival lets us enjoy the mechanisms…
The number of kids being homeschooled in Vermont doubled during the pandemic, when lockdowns and remote learning rocked school systems. Now Vermont is relaxing the oversight intended to make sure homeschoolers get a quality education. Starting July 1, families who homeschool will no longer have to submit to the state their annual plans for teaching…
Something was missing in Hardwick. Churches were struggling. The Hardwick Gazette had stopped printing. People weren’t showing up to town events. In an increasingly polarized world, locals Erica Heilman, Rose Friedman and Tara Reese kept noticing that neighbors seemed alienated from one another. “There’s so much division. Not just in this town but in most…
Shortly after Lisa Carlson (February 18, 1938-June 4, 2023 ) died on June 4 at her home in Hinesburg, her longtime work colleague, mentee and family friend Joshua Slocum phoned the University of Vermont’s Anatomical Gift Program to confirm that the 86-year-old’s body would soon be donated for study to the Larner College of Medicine.…
CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Hexes nullified! Jinxes abolished! Demons banished! Adversaries outwitted! Liabilities diminished! Bad habits replaced with good habits! These are some of the glorious developments possible for you in the coming months, Cancerian. Am I exaggerating? Maybe a little. But if so, not much. In my vision of your future, you will be…
The concept of the supergroup has always fascinated me. For every Traveling Wilburys and BoyGenius record, there are atrocious experiments such as the Damn Yankees or (shudder) Velvet Revolver. I still recall watching an Audioslave performance, feeling like I had slipped into a strange shadow dimension where two bands I liked in my youth combined…
It would be inaccurate to say Denis Versweyveld’s sculptures have no color; through some trickery of wavelengths, white actually comprises all the colors, and his work is a symphony in white. The Vergennes artist coats his objects — as well as their pedestals and bases — with plaster, milk paint or limewash. Deprived of what…
Do you love Talking Heads? What about high-fidelity sound systems? Well, have I got some good news for you. On Saturday, July 15, musician, producer and DJ extraordinaire Neil Cleary is hosting a very special night at Burlington’s Paradiso Hi-Fi lounge titled “Houses in Motion: the Forces that Created Talking Heads’ Remain in Light.” Cleary,…
Qu’est-ce que c’est? When the first sentence of a lead story contains a gross error easily corrected these days by googling before going to print, should a reader continue or move on to the next story, hoping for actual facts? Last week’s Québec Issue begins with this sentence on page 13 [Magnificent 7, “Heaven’s Light,”…
Studying ballet as an adolescent turned out to be good preparation for a career in newspaper publishing. My Soviet-trained teachers taught me that “correction” is a good thing, evidence that the person proposing a change sees the possibility of improvement. Nothing bodes worse in dance class than to be ignored by the lady with the…
On the second morning of the inaugural RISE Summit held last week at the University of Vermont, a pair of speakers signaled that it was time for a snack break. In the fourth-floor atrium of the Davis Center, trays of oatmeal energy bites awaited about 200 conference attendees who had come to hear talks about…
A new restaurant on Johnson’s Lower Main Street bears an old sign. Those who remember Marsala Salsa might recognize it. The restaurant served up its multicultural menu of Mexican and Caribbean cuisine for more than two decades in Waterbury before closing in 2012. Its handcrafted wooden sign, adorned with a palm tree, now hangs above…
Something delightfully fishy is going on in the Northeast Kingdom. In the picturesque town of Walden, Për’s Smoked of Vermont has perfected a technique that produces top-notch hot-smoked fish and seafood and creamy spreads. A recent New York transplant to Vermont, I discovered Për’s on my quest for a quality smoked fish to top my…
After a successful nine-month run of weekly takeout meals cooked at Richmond Community Kitchen, Sarita Devi has signed a restaurant lease for 202 Cornerstone Drive in Williston. She will open Aromas of India there in July or early August with a vegetarian menu of northern Indian dishes. The Williston restaurant space was formerly occupied by…
Friendly Fireworks Monday 3 Montpelier’s beloved July 3rd Independence Day Celebration returns with a bang this year on the Vermont Statehouse lawn and throughout the Capital City. A family fest, a parade, the Montpelier Mile race, live music, a killer food truck lineup and, of course, a stunning fireworks show all make this a blowout…
