Mar 23-29, 2011
The Animal Issue: VT’s Pre-puppy Legislation; Pet Photo Contest Winners; Dwarf Goats, Giant Milkers
“Amnesty” Period Turns Up 52 Unregistered Apartments in Burlington
In the course of their travels, Burlington code-enforcement inspectors see a lot of apartments like this one (at right), with broken fixtures, missing smoke detectors and dangerously exposed electrical wires. But it’s the problem apartments the city doesn’t know about that worries Code Enforcement director Bill Ward. That’s why, in February, Ward’s office launched a…
Annual Survey Finds Support for VY’s Relicensure in 2012
It’s official: By a slim margin, Vermonters believe that Vermont Yankee should be relicensed in 2012. That’s the key finding from this year’s annual Doyle Survey, an unscientific snapshot of opinions collected on Town Meeting Day. State Sen. Bill Doyle (R-Washington) — for whom the survey is named — collected roughly 15,000 surveys from 142…
Super Hottt VT Birding Spots
In our recent Animal issue of Seven Days, we profiled Bridget Butler, Bird Diva. If you’ve heard her dish about finches on VPR or seen her miraculously take flight with migratory snow geese on WPTZ (OK, that didn’t happen), you know Butler is like one-stop shopping for all things bird. Her knowledge is so deep,…
UVM President Dan Fogel to Resign in 2012
University of Vermont President Dan Fogel is stepping down from his post next year, exactly 10 years after he took office. Fogel, the university’s 25th president, plans to teach English at UVM in 2013. He will officially step down from his presidential post on July 1, 2012. Prior to Fogel’s arrival, UVM was churning through…
Paws for the Camera
Your favorite furry friends from the Seven Days pet photo contest
Vermont Law School Trains Animal-Rights Attorneys
On Thursday, March 24, Vermont Law School is hosting its first-ever Animal Law Society Symposium, an event that recognizes a growing field of legal studies: the rights of nonhuman species. Assistant professor Pamela Vesilind teaches the animal law seminar at VLS. She explains that, two years ago, her students circulated a petition calling on the…
Neko Case Joins Mavis Staples in Concert at the Flynn
Subscribers to the Flynn Center and/or Lane Series know by now that UK singer-songwriter Billy Bragg bagged his U.S. tour with the awesome Mavis Staples — but not because of visa problems, which have plagued performing arts presenters this season. Nope, it’s because his mother is seriously ill. A good son, Billy is staying home,…
Jessie the Beagle Goes Missing
UPDATE: MARCH 23 Jessie the beagle was found in a wooded area, dead of natural causes, a few hours after she went missing. Apparently she wandered off to pass along by herself. Aumann emailed her thanks for everyone who volunteered their time to look for her. R.I.P., Jessie. Given that this week is our annual…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man buying a box of bullets at a gun store in Kansas City, Mo., handed $40 to the owner, who was ringing up the sale when the man pointed a gun at him and demanded money. The owner said he noticed the gun wasn’t loaded and pulled his own gun, chasing…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Were you under the impression that the sky is completely mapped? It’s not. Advances in technology are unveiling a nonstop flow of new mysteries. In a recent lecture, astronomer Joshua Bloom of the University of California described the explosion of wonder. One particular telescope, for example, detects 1.5 million transient phenomena…
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Green Mountain 48-Hour Film Slam [216]
3/19/11: “Action!” The Green Mountain 48-Hour Film Slam took over the streets of Montpelier this weekend. 8 teams spent a sleepless weekend racing the clock to complete films for a sold-out Sunday screening at the 14th Annual Green Mountain Film Festival. Prizes were awarded Sunday but you can see the films again March 27 at…
Letters to the Editor
Fix Your French Boy, was I embarrassed to see “Merci Beaucoup” misspelled with an “s” on Magic Hat’s Mardi Gras ad on page 20 of the [March 9] paper! I’m glad it’s the slow season, so I don’t think many French Canadians saw the blooper. We are just 30 minutes from the Québec border, so…
James Beard Foundation Is Sweet on VT
Yesterday afternoon, when the James Beard Foundation tweets started rolling — announcing the 2011 award nominees — the list twinkled with green. In the Best Chef: Northeast category, Eric Warnstedt of Hen of the Wood at the Grist Mill scored his third nomination in a row. And though Nathaniel Wade (of Burlington’s ¡duino! (duende)) and Jason Gulisano (of…
Operation Snow Removal: Montréal Edition
On a recent trip to Montréal, I was reminded of some of the many reasons our neighbors to the north are far supérieur to our sorry selves here in Canada Minor. For one, they know their way around a pastry like nobody’s biz. I could eat my way through the city’s many boulangeries and die happy,…
VT Supreme Court to Hear Several Big Cases Tomorrow
The Vermont Supreme Court is taking the show on the road — to Vermont Law School. The court will hear seven cases tomorrow (including a few big ones). For full details, click here. On the docket: an appeal of the approval of the Act 250 permit for the proposed St. Albans Walmart; two public records…
Video: Middlebury Chili Festival
The only thing better than a pot of piquant chili on a late-winter day is 55 pots of piquant chili. That’s exactly the point of the Middlebury Chili Festival, where every March, restaurants and businesses from Brandon to Burlington share their fare. The day we shot this video, I was struggling with a bad cold.…
