At Cabot School, the gymnasium was closed for the first few months of the school year. In Brattleboro, Oak Grove School faces an unforeseen window replacement project that’s likely to cost more than $300,000. In Chittenden County, the food service workers at Charlotte Central School can’t make full use of the kitchen, so they prepare…
Shadow Cross Farm in Colchester has announced that the family-owned egg distribution business that has operated for 83 years will close as of April 1. In a phone interview with Seven Days, Rich Paquette, owner-partner of Shadow Cross with his wife, Linda, cited overall increases in the costs of running a business, uncertainty in egg supply due to…
Ray & Nancy Richardson celebrated their anniversary with a special rejoining ceremony at Bethany Church in Randolph, Vt.
(New West, CD, digital, vinyl) There’s nothing so disquieting as the doom of an impending breakup. You feel it coming like a thunderstorm and brace for the new reality: They don’t want me anymore. When will they tell me? Please direct me to the nearest cliff. Defeatism and depression are unavoidable pit stops on Highway…
new in theaters THE BLUE CAFTAN: In this Moroccan nominee for the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, the arrival of a new apprentice alters the relationship between a shopkeeping couple. Maryam Touzani directed. (122 min, NR. Savoy) JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4: Keanu Reeves once again plays a hit man battling a global organization…
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19) If we were to choose one person to illustrate the symbolic power of astrology, it might be Aries financier and investment banker J.P. Morgan (1837-1913). His astrological chart strongly suggested he would be one of the richest people of his era. The sun, Mercury, Pluto and Venus were in Aries in…
“With animation, you can literally do anything,” said Kate Renner, assistant professor of visual art at Northern Vermont University in Lyndon. “You can make animals fly. It’s pretty magical that way.” This weekend, Vermonters will experience some of that magic at the eighth annual Vermont Animation Festival. The two-day event — Friday and Saturday, March…
No Easy Save [Re “On Life Support,” March 1]: Your excellent article on the plight of rescue squads and EMTs highlights another crisis point in our crumbling health care system, and any solution will, necessarily, be complex. We must be realistic about what we need and how much we’re willing to pay in both dollars…
Urgent care for the mind — that’s the idea behind a new proposal to improve mental health care in the Northeast Kingdom. A nonprofit mental health agency in the region wants to launch a treatment center for people suffering from panic attacks, suicidal thoughts and other psychiatric crises. They would be able to walk in…
Dear Reverend, I really hate using condoms, but the woman I’m dating insists that I do. She also doesn’t want to go on birth control. How can I make her understand that sex isn’t as good for me when I wear one? Wild Willie (man, 24) Dear Wild Willie, Dude. What year is it where…
After a winter storm pummeled Vermont with a few feet of snow last week, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power, Rick Holloway’s first thought was: How can we help? A facilities manager at Chroma Technology, Holloway knew his employer was better prepared than most to weather the storm. The Bellows Falls manufacturing company…
Putumayo is preparing to celebrate its 30th year. The New York City-based record label, which now partially operates out of Charlotte, took its name from a Latin American handicraft shop that Dan Storper opened in 1975, after the then-23-year-old returned from a trip to Colombia’s Putumayo River valley. Seeing Afrobeat outfit Kotoja at a 1991…
When Brenda Ouellette moved into Room 107 at the Brattleboro Quality Inn last fall, the paint was peeling, the bathroom was rife with black mold, and the sink was separating from the wall. These weren’t the worst conditions Ouellette had seen at the Quality Inn, where she’d been living since January 2022 through a state…
Despite all the years of music lessons I took and all the wonderful instruction I received from a host of school music teachers, it was David Bowie, the Thin White Duke himself, who gave me the best advice on making music. OK, he didn’t give it directly to me, per se, but in the excellent…
From half a world away, Africa has come to Vermont. That is, in the form of a touring exhibition of photographs and videos from Lagos, Nigeria, and Johannesburg, South Africa, to the Middlebury College Museum of Art. The continent’s cities are the fastest-growing in the world, according to exhibition text, with Lagos a metropolis surpassing…
The University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art’s primary exhibition right now is a collection of modestly sized, stringently abstract screen prints, titled “Formulation: Articulation.” Upon first glance, viewers might be forgiven for missing the wow factor in these iterative prints of nested squares, rectilinear line compositions and other hard-edged forms in a variety of…
Henry Woodard grew up in front of his father’s camera. As a kid on his family’s Waterbury Center dairy farm, Henry was a “guinea pig,” he said, for short movies made by his dad, farmer-filmmaker George Woodard. In one little movie, Henry played a boy who goes into the woods to get a Christmas tree.…
Get in a boxing ring with Cora Thomas. Stand three feet away from her, dead center in the ring, well away from the refuge of the red, white and blue ropes. Hold up your hands, ensconced in thickly cushioned target mitts, and invite the teenager to whale away. Feel what seems like an electric shock…
When Emily Morton and Karyn Jacobs decided last year to buy the 126, the small Burlington nightclub where they worked, they had a carefully thought-out financial plan. The first-time business owners meticulously researched staffing, music booking and other operational costs. “There were so many things to take in consideration and budget for,” Morton said recently,…
I didn’t expect this “From the Publisher” column to last for so long. Three years ago, when the pandemic dealt a near-death blow to Seven Days, I felt I had some explaining to do: In my first letter, published on March 25, 2020, I listed some steps we’d taken in the previous week to keep…
The economy that worked just fine for their parents and grandparents is breaking down for factory workers Tracey and Cynthia. Their kids, in their twenties and just starting out, will have it worse. In 2000, management can win any battle with labor by moving jobs offshore. Lynn Nottage’s harrowing play Sweat focuses on nine residents…
After a three-year search; seven finalists’ concerts; and extensive surveys of musicians, audiences and board members, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra finally has a new music director. Andrew Crust, 35, a native of Kansas City, Kan., will take the podium in September for the first concert of the 2023-24 season. He follows Jaime Laredo, whose tenure…
What if you told a story about American culture as seen through the lens of a seriously unwell person, like Joker or Taxi Driver, only you made your protagonist a young Black woman who is very, very committed to her favorite musical artist? That’s what cocreators Donald Glover (“Atlanta”) and playwright Janine Nabers have done…
Not long after April’s Maple started producing syrup in Canaan in 2013, owner April Lemay got a call from her mother. “She and my dad were running the sugaring while I still had my corporate job,” Lemay recalled. “She said, ‘Jeez, there are some snowmobilers that keep finding their way down to the sugarhouse. What…
I have been entranced by the green papaya salad called som tam ever since my first visit to Tiny Thai Restaurant, in fall 2004, shortly after it opened in what is now the Essex Experience. The classic Thai street food hits all my culinary buttons; each bite delivers crunch, sourness, salt and funk in kaleidoscopic…
Over the past 18 months, Stephen Coggio has run two pop-up dinner series — Qué Rico Taquería and Mimi’s Italian Eats — while also working as executive chef of Cloud 9 Caterers. Now Coggio plans to fold his pop-up concepts under the Cloud 9 umbrella to give customers more casual catering options — while adding…
In 1968, Theodora Contis left the Greek island of Chios to move to New Jersey, where her older sister had previously settled. Among the treasured possessions the then-21-year-old carried was a cookbook that still sits on a shelf in her Williston kitchen. The book’s title translates to The New Cooking and Baking Book of the…
It’s Lit Sunday 26 Lovers of literature and independent media flock to Zig Zag Lit Mag’s Issue.14 Release Party at Tourterelle in New Haven. The newest issue of the Addison County publication features works from more than 30 local writers, most of whom are in attendance for readings and meet and greets. A cash bar…
Shelburne physical therapist was dedicated to strengthening cultural equity, respect and understanding in his work and personal life
Burlington woman chose not to let adversity define her
Jericho woman was a lifelong athlete
Burlington woman was engaged in social causes and volunteered at Steps to End Domestic Violence
Caring, compassionate man did everything in his power to help others
Burlington physician was especially knowledgeable about history, football and French wine
