Mar 14-20, 2012
Fifteen Years After Searsburg, Why Are Vermonters Still Fighting About Wind Power?; A Solar Power Play; On Set With Anna Nicole Smith; A Flight Nurse Saves Lives; Will Vermont ID GMOs?
Montpelier Playwright Tackles Ridgeline Wind Debate
Feuding neighbors. Life-altering decisions. High tempers and even higher stakes. If Vermont’s pitched debate about ridgeline wind power doesn’t have the makings of a drama, I don’t know what does. Lesley Becker thought so, too. The Montpelier playwright turned to the conversation about wind power in the Northeast Kingdom for inspiration for her latest play,…
T.J. Donovan To Run for Attorney General — Will Challenge Sorrell In Democratic Primary
It’s official: Chittenden County States Attorney T.J. Donovan will challenge seven-term incumbent Attorney General Bill Sorrell, setting up a potentially divisive primary for the state’s highest law enforcement position. “I believe it’s time for a change,” Donovan tells Seven Days. “Vermont today faces new challenges. With these challenges comes the need for new leadership. I…
In Race’s Final Days, Burlington Mayoral Candidates Poured on the Cash
In the closing days of the most expensive mayor’s race in Burlington’s history, two of the candidates — and one political party — continued to pour cash into their campaigns. According to filings due Friday, Democrat Miro Weinberger, who won by 20 percent, raised $16,469 and spent $25,050 in the last week and a half…
“Death With Dignity” Bill on Life Support
A right-to-die bill was near death in Montpelier on Friday after failing to make it out of committee by the mid-session “crossover” deadline. The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to vote on the contentious “death with dignity” bill Friday morning following an emotional three-hour hearing on Wednesday. But the vote was cancelled because one of…
Movies You Missed 30: Miss Bala
This week in movies you missed: A young woman must endure sparkly dresses, televised interviews and senseless carnage to keep her loved ones from harm. No, The Hunger Games is next week. This movie takes place in present-day Mexico. What You Missed Laura (Stephanie Sigman) is 23, lives in Tijuana and wants to be crowned…
Menu Posted: Café Provence
That should probably say menus posted. Café Provence has a few of them this Restaurant Week — in fact, there’s one in each price point. Last year, Alice Levitt visited the Brandon restaurant for a Vermont Restaurant Week lunch to remember. Click here to read about her experience, complete with steak frites and caramel-bathed crêpes.…
SXSW Day 3: No Rest for the Weary
Editor’s note: Seven Days music editor Dan Bolles is in Austin, Texas, this week attending the annual South By Southwest Music Festival. It’s a good thing I’m coming home Saturday morning. I’m not sure my wallet or my body would be able to take much more of SXSW. I’m having a lot of fun and seeing some…
Mayor-Elect Weinberger Taps Transition Team
With just two and a half weeks until he takes office, Mayor-elect Miro Weinberger rolled out his transition team Thursday morning at a city hall press conference. Weinberger said the group — a mix of elected officials, campaign staffers and behind-the-scenes political types — would be “tasked with the important job of converting this optimism…
State Won’t Pony Up to Buy the .vermont or .vt Domains — at Least for Now
FOR SALE: Cozy, two- and seven-letter top-level domains in quaint, left-leaning New England state. Great opportunities for global business promotion and marketing using well-respected brand. $185K OBO. Applications being accepted here by ICANN. The state of Vermont says it has no plans to shell out tens of thousands in cash to own the Vermont name —…
Debating How to Die: Senate Judiciary Committee Hears Testimony on “Death With Dignity” Bill
Following an emotional three hours of testimony on a right-to-die bill Wednesday, state Sen. Alice Nitka (D-Windsor) shared a personal story about her mother to explain why she opposes the legislation. At age 92, Nitka says her mother was “able bodied and still working” until one night when she fell and broke her hip. Nitka…
SXSW Day 2: Randomonium
Editor’s note: Seven Days music editor Dan Bolles is in Austin, Texas, this week attending the annual South By Southwest Music Festival. Some scattered thoughts from the last 24 hours of SXSW: Austin might be the most hyped “cool” city this side of Portlandia. But it is deserved. Granted, a booze-fueled shitshow like SXSW is…
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3/10/12: Rusty DeWees, AKA The Logger, helped kick off the Hyde Park Opera House’s yearlong Centennial Celebration last weekend with two packed shows. Rusty got his start in the theater back when he was 13 in “Fiddler on the Roof.” Eva tags along with Rusty as he visits a class at Lamoille Union High School…
Right-to-Die Legislation Gets New Life
More background on Sanders’ GOP opponent, John MacGovern.
A Night at the Opera, a Day in the Kitchen
Waitsfield’s Green Mountain Opera Festival whets palates for music
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police were pursuing hit-and-run suspect Keith W. Brown, 54, in Waynesboro, Va., when Brown’s SUV got stuck in a large pile of mulch and soft clay. Brown exited the vehicle and tried to flee on foot — using a walker. He was quickly arrested. (Staunton’s News Leader) Big-Bang Theory Intending to quit…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This week you may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare, why two of the three blind mice weren’t really blind and the shocking truth about the relationship between Cinderella’s fairy godmother and the handsome prince. Myths will be mutating, Aries. Nursery rhymes will scramble and fairy tales will…
A Rescuer From Above
Work: Chuch Pandolph, chief flight nurse, North Country Life Flight
Crumbs
Leftover food news: Montpelier café opens, ice wine at Jay Peak, Magic Hat to resurrect old brew
Toasting Your Neighbor
Liquid: To the east, New Hampshire is having its own liquid renaissance
Letters to the Editor
No Tolerance for Intolerance Kudos to Dan Balón for suggesting a serious evaluation of the climate in the Burlington School District [“Did Race Play a Role in the Recent Departure of a Burlington Principal?” February 22]. I hope the action steps and follow-through listed are pursued with fidelity and assessed for efficacy annually. It is…
Hangin’ With James O’Keefe — Or One Of His Henchmen — In Winooski
As Sam Hemingway is reporting over at the Free Press, notorious conservative provocateur James O’Keefe has released a video documenting how trusting — I mean porous — Vermont’s voter identification laws are. Using hidden cameras, the video shows a series of exchanges between individuals successfully obtaining ballots at Chittenden County voting places without showing…
SXSW Day 1: March Madness
Editor’s note: Seven Days music editor Dan Bolles is in Austin, Texas, this week attending the annual South By Southwest Music Festival. I’m sitting on a second-floor patio at the Austin Convention Center, overlooking throngs of lanyard-clad hipsters milling about on the street below. Most look confused. I can identify. But there’s a palpable excitement…
7 Questions For … Move to Amend Founder David Cobb
The “corporations are not people” train makes another stop in Vermont this week. Last Tuesday, on Town Meeting Day, 60 Vermont towns passed resolutions calling on Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to repeal Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that spawned super PACs and gave corporations the same First…
