Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. It had taken 569 days, but Ashley Richards’ trial was finally set to begin. A dozen jurors waited to take their seats in Courtroom 3A at the Judge Edward J. Costello Courthouse. The court officer and judge’s assistant were in their…
Burlington man’s lifelong passion was boating, and he sailed all around eastern U.S., Canada and the Caribbean with his wife
Thinking of you on your 22nd birthday. Seven years without you feels like a lifetime. We love you and miss you so much. Love, Dad, Mom, Presley, Amber, Jared, Steffie & Memphis
Environmentalist, active citizen and lifelong gardener had a passionate love of learning
Married for 76 years, Orville and Millie Keeler died within months of each other. They were truly the “perfect unit.” Mildred “Millie” Keeler died on March 7, 2024, at the age of 96. Born in St. Albans, Vt. on September 7, 1927, to John and Edith Clark, she enjoyed sports and was an integral player…
Lifelong tinkerer and skilled mechanic was an avid bicycle rider
The Diana and John Colgate Gallery, the downstairs room of the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education at Shelburne Museum, has been darkened to evoke the unsettling feel of the exhibition it houses for the summer: “New England Now: Strange States.” Dark gray walls enclose the work of 12 artists who explore resonances of New…
Vermont’s first Pride celebration took place in Burlington in June 1983. Participants faced public vitriol and marched, risking their jobs and personal safety. Now, four decades later, more than a dozen Vermont towns, from Brattleboro to Newport, hold events for Pride Month each June. This year, Woodstock will join the ranks. Pride of Woodstock, running…
Politics and religion, it’s said, are not subjects for polite conversation. That makes them perfect subjects for Susan Calza, whose work few critics would ever call “polite.” The Vermont artist is known for her brash, bold, wrenching takes on the issues of the moment: mass shootings, the climate crisis, homelessness, COVID-19. She employs a lot…
See Suffs! Shortly after reading [“Born for Broadway: Waitsfield’s Shaina Taub Arrives in a Big Way, Starring in Her Own Musical, Suffs,” April 17], I was invited to New York for a birthday weekend to see Wicked. Always willing to support one of our own, I also got tickets to Suffs. I was not prepared…
In September 2022, when she was wanted for robbing and assaulting a man in a wheelchair who had just withdrawn cash from a Burlington ATM, Ashley Richards got plenty of media attention. Local TV stations WCAX and NBC5 both covered the violent crime. Nineteen months later, a jury showed up for her trial, but Richards,…
In their fifth game of the 2014 women’s rugby season, the Norwich University Cadets were playing the top-10-ranked Quinnipiac University Bobcats in Connecticut. The home team was eating away at Norwich’s big lead until a first-year Norwich player wearing a pink scrum hat began rampaging across the field, scattering defenders like duckpins. On the sidelines,…
Everybody’s talking about the new Mad Max movie, but not for the right reasons. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller, who originated the dystopian action series 45 years ago. Headlines trumpet that the movie won the Memorial Day weekend box office with a…
In April, when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stepped up to the microphone on the Senate floor to denounce Israel’s war in Gaza, he brought along visual aids. On his right was a large photograph of an infant swaddled in a white blanket, with a face gaunt from hunger. On his left, an image of…
(Self-released, digital) According to a blurb on Bandcamp, When Gravity Fails is intended to conjure a “cloud-like feeling.” The album is the latest collaboration between New Hampshire MC Raw Deff and Vermont producer Rico James, both fixtures in the local hip-hop scene. Its eight songs are all about letting oneself be carried up, up and…
People used to line the block in front of 457 St. Paul Street in Burlington to buy a treat at the corner gelato stand. But when the business moved out two years ago, the building started drawing a different crowd: taggers armed with spray paint. Recently, a group of residents covered up the graffiti with…
The University of Vermont Medical Center may soon be able to perform thousands more surgeries each year — welcome news in a state where people with failing joints and other painful ailments often wait months for relief. All it will take is $130 million and a green light from state regulators. The Burlington hospital is…
(Self-released, digital) On the all-too-brief EP Baby Gear, Montréal rapper Kaya Hoax quickly IDs herself as a “rookie on the scene” and a “newbie on the scheme.” A nascent artist whose official introduction is a scant 17 minutes long, Hoax speeds in and out of her listeners’ heads, leaving a rainbow-colored dust cloud behind her.…
You want to know something weird? I’ve lived in Vermont for just about 30 years. And in all that time, up until earlier this month, I only passed through St. Albans once — on the way back from Montréal with my girlfriend at the time. Taco Bell was her guilty pleasure, and the closest one…
GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): All of us periodically enjoy phases I call “Freedom From Cosmic Compulsion.” During these times, the Fates have a reduced power to shape our destinies. Our willpower has more spaciousness to work with. Our intentions get less resistance from karmic pressures that at other times might narrow our options. As I…
Burlington musician Tyler Mast dropped a new single last Friday. The piano and Hammond organ maestro’s latest is titled “I Could Get Used to Your Love,” a breezy roots rocker that will slot in nicely on summer playlists. “It’s a groovy little tune about embracing new love and driving through the mountains on a perfect…
Dear Reverend, I married my first husband a second time. He believes we are soulmates. I love him but feel we are just two sad sacks who have things in common. How can I better support his beliefs without bursting his bubble? Sadie Sachs (woman, 58) Dear Sadie Sachs, People tend to think that finding…
In 1969, at age 19, Rob Mermin literally ran off and joined the circus. While his friends were wallowing in the mud at Woodstock, attending college and protesting the Vietnam War, Mermin was getting bonked on the head by an ornery camel named Achmed at a traveling circus in Wales. For years he toured Europe…
Doug Anderson, the Opera Company of Middlebury’s artistic director and founder, is at it again. With producer and stage manager Mary Longey and music director Filippo Ciabatti leading a 25-piece orchestra, Anderson will launch the company’s 21st season with Gaetano Donizetti’s comical romp La Fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment). That’s the one…
Adeline Druart knows what diacetyl tastes like. The naturally occurring compound is what gives cultured butter its characteristic nuttiness, and over her 20 years in the butter business at Vermont Creamery — rising from cheesemaking intern to president — she worked to produce as much of it as possible. In beer, detecting diacetyl is an…
When I first interviewed Judith Jones in 1984 for a newspaper story about a book on New England cooking she and her husband, Evan, were working on, she let him do the talking. Fit and petite, Jones smiled encouragingly at him as she fried milkweed pods and squash blossoms stuffed with chorizo in their cozy…
Just six months after opening Casa Real in Colchester, the owners of the Mexican restaurant have embarked on a complete renovation of the former Vermont Tap House in Williston for a second Chittenden County restaurant. Eduardo Fuentes said he and his business partners, brothers Ricardo and Francisco Guzman, hope to open Casa Grande in July.…
Lake Free Saturday 1 Burlington’s Community Sailing Center kicks off the summer season on Lake Champlain with a 30th Anniversary Celebration and Waterfront Grand Opening. Yoga on the dock, painting by the lake, sunset cocktails and $10 boat journeys mark two massive milestones for the Queen City’s sailing hub. Rainbow on My Parade Saturday 1…
Morrisville sculptor Thea Alvin, who works in stone and stained glass, has been awarded $100,000 in unrestricted funding through the Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft. According to program manager Rebekah Frank, the California-based Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation aims to “support people first and foremost — rather than ideas or outcomes — to invest in creative people who explore the world…
