Jun 9-15, 2010
The Parenting Issue: Special-Needs Adoptions Overseas; One Dad’s Take on Raising Twins; A Debate on Dining With Children
Help New Hampshire Get Sexy
In Sunday’s Boston Globe, there was a funny little article lamenting the fact that New Hampshire can’t figure out how to market itself. Pitiful. Or pitiable. One of those two. Poor New Hampshire has neither Maine’s iconic lobsters, nor does it have Vermont’s maple syrup. Granted, New Hampshire has syrup. A lot of it. But…
Weekend Politics: Dems Tiptoe at Debate, Dubie & Douglas Come Out Swinging (VIDEO)
Yesterday’s Democratic debate at a high school auditorium in Duxbury had a curious twist: Along with questions from the moderators and audience members, the five Democratic candidates (from left: Sen. Susan Bartlett, Google exec Matt Dunne, Secretary of State Deb Markowitz and Sens. Doug Racine and Peter Shumlin) got to pose questions to each other.…
What Obama Giveth, Douglas Taketh Away?
** Updated Below ** Vermont’s two U.S. senators and a top aide to Pres. Barack Obama are urging Gov. Jim Douglas to back off plans to have Vermont seniors turn over nearly $600,000 in federal prescription drug rebates. As I noted on Twitter, a story on Politico called attention to the Douglas administration’s attempt to…
Petition Calls on Mayor to Fire Embattled Aide
A petition being circulated in Burlington asks that a simple question be put to a vote this November: “Shall the City of Burlington advise Mayor Kiss to remove CAO Jonathan Leopold?” Spearheading the petition is Ward 4 resident Loyal Ploof, a former school board member who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2006. He’s been active…
Low-Income Residents Rally to Keep Their Homes
Residents at Wharf Lane apartments in Burlington could be kicked out of their homes by next year, and now their plight is getting some additional attention. Those residents have now started an online petition to gain public support and sympathy for their situation. The petition “urges the owners of Wharf Lane Apartments to work cooperatively with Vermont Housing Finance Agency, Burlington…
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals [SIV179]
6/8/10: On Sunday Grace Potter and the Nocturnals decided to return to their home state to launch their new album. On Tuesday the band held a massive, free concert in downtown Burlington as part of the Discover Jazz Festival. Hundreds (maybe even thousands?) of fans took over Church St to cheer on their hometown favorites…
Newlyweds Accuse Border Patrol of Ruining Their Wedding in St. Albans
Talk about wedding crashers. Newlyweds Danielle and Thierno Diallo of Essex claim that last Saturday night their wedding in St. Albans was “ruined” by Border Patrol agents, who showed up at their reception and began questioning the wedding party and guests about their immigration status. The couple claims that the federal response occurred for no…
Vermont Yankee Has Seven Days to Fix Leaky Valve or Shut Down
* Update below: Leaky valve has been replaced * The drip, drip, drip of bad news keeps coming for Entergy Vermont Yankee. Plant officials notified federal and state regulators yesterday that it found, and fixed, a leaky relief valve inside the reactor’s containment vessel. The new leak comes on the heels of leak in one…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again FBI investigators said Lois J. Harvey, 40, handed a hold-up note to a bank teller in Columbus, Ohio, who informed Harvey she couldn’t read it. While trying to explain the note, Harvey noticed an off-duty police officer in full uniform waiting in line behind her. She grabbed the note and hastily left.…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for June 9 – 16, 2010. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “secret” is in plain sight. The “hidden resource” is freely available for anyone who intends to use it with integrity. The “lost key” is very close to where you left it when…
Layer by Layer
Art Review: Galen Cheney, recent abstract works on paper and canvas, Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Through June 20.
Jazz, the Other White Meat
Soundbites: Jazz, the Other White Meat, Discover … Other Music, Part 2, BiteTorrent
Splice
The week that brings us Seven Days’ Parenting Issue also brings us Splice, and that could be viewed as a fortuitous coincidence or an instance of cosmic irony. You see, writer-director Vincenzo Natali’s film, which appears from its trailers to be an Alien-like scare flick, is actually about parenthood. Well, sort of. Be warned that…
Love Connection
A growing number of Vermonters who adopt abroad choose kids with special needs
Mommy Not-So-Dearest
A Burlington writer explores how women can avoid passing on the legacy of a mean mom
Letters to the Editor
Halfway Gone After hearing about the city’s proposed halfway house on Elmwood Avenue, I feel I may be in a unique position to comment on it [“Ex-Prisoners Can Make Good Neighbors,” June 2]. Ten years ago, I purchased a home on North Winooski Avenue near Pearl Street, restored the home as a labor of love…
Heavy Hitters
Vermont experts share how parents can stop the growing pains of childhood obesity
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Runaway Pond Bicentennial [SIV178]
200 years ago the Long Pond ran away from Glover, never to be seen again. 2 billion gallons of water fled all the way to Lake Memphremagog, reshaping the Vermont landscape along the way. Amazingly, no one was killed in this impressive natural disaster and the town gathered to celebrate this weekend. The event was…
