A row of uniformed police officers formed a supportive rank along a back wall of Burlington City Hall Auditorium as Mayor Miro Weinberger introduced acting Chief Jon Murad as his pick for the city’s permanent top cop in January 2022. The show of strength — a literal thin blue line — marked a shift for members…
Burlington police have arrested a teenager suspected of shooting a man who was found wounded on a downtown sidewalk last month. Tyrin Smith, 19, had “significant quantities of drugs” when cops pulled him over on Monday, the department said in a press release. Smith is charged with first-degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting Aquill Nickson…
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 11a.m. at the St. Lawrence Church in Essex Junction, with Reverend Charles Ranges, S .S.E. officiating. Committal prayers with inurnment will be held immediately following at the family lot in Williston East Cemetery, Williston. Reception following services at Holy Family Hall,…
A celebration of life in loving memory of Priscilla Jackson will be held on Friday, May 26, at 3 p.m., at All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Rd., Shelburne. All are welcome at the service, and we hope to hear remembrances about Priscilla from those assembled and share our favorite memories. The service will be…
May 9, 1985-October 2, 2022
Gov. Phil Scott followed through on Thursday on his promise to veto the bill meant to clean up how Vermonters heat their homes and businesses, but he probably can’t block the clean heat standard from becoming law through an override. The bill, S.5, has become one of the most contentious pieces of legislation this session,…
Updated at 5:04 p.m. Vermont lawmakers took the first step on Thursday toward impeaching two Franklin County officials over behavior they said undermines public trust in law enforcement. The House voted to explore forming a special seven-member committee to begin investigating State’s Attorney John Lavoie and Sheriff John Grismore. Lavoie, a longtime prosecutor in the office who…
Lantman’s Market, Hinesburg, Vt.
Nearly 20 feet in the air at the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, Colleen Agozzino stood on a trapeze and began to swing. She vigorously bent and straightened her legs, over and over, gathering speed and momentum like a pendulum. Suddenly she dropped, hanging upside down on the trapeze bar, and then…
This July, central Vermont will lose two pillars of its musical community when Steven and Kathy Light of Marshfield move to Minneapolis. For the past 50 years, the Lights have enriched the region with performances of a unique range of music: medieval and Renaissance melodies with their ensemble the Fyre and Lightning Consort, Jewish klezmer…
Dear Reverend, I’m a mother of three adult children, and I love them dearly, but I miss having a baby around. I’ve always dreamed of being a grandmother, but my kids have made it clear that they aren’t going to have any children of their own. I know that’s their decision, but how can I…
Last October, an older man with a straight nose, tan cap and bushy gray hair walked into Brattleboro’s Brooks Memorial Library and penned a ghost story by hand. His tale was stirring enough to be judged the winner of the eccentric “T.P. James’ Write Like the Dickens” contest, which challenged locals to write a supernatural…
For his 2010 play Venus in Fur, David Ives wraps a central theme of psychosexual power dynamics in a crazy quilt of theatrical genres to produce a head-spinning comedy. If Ives is almost recklessly playful, the two actors in the Vermont Stage production bring such vitality to their roles that the play pulses with tension…
Sally Pollak was in the middle of reporting two stories for the Burlington Free Press in fall 2016 when she received — and ignored — an email warning that she was about to lose her job. Two days before her 58th birthday, Gannett made it official. “An HR flunky in from out of town told…
TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): I’ve selected a passage to serve as one of your prime themes during the rest of 2023. It comes from poet Jane Shore. She writes, “Now I feel I am learning how to grow into the space I was always meant to occupy, into a self I can know.” Dear Taurus,…
(Self-released, cassette, digital) From their inception, Burlington country outfit Eastern Mountain Time have featured a rotating cast of collaborators who revolve around singer and songwriter Sean Hood. Since the band’s fine 2016 debut, Back Home, its catalog has continuously improved, as has Hood’s singing. On the project’s latest LP, More Buses & Trains, Hood has…
Montpelier artist Kate Burnim titled her current exhibit of paintings “Liminal Arc” for good reason: She’s fascinated with in-between spaces. And by that she means not just physical space but temporal, psychological and emotional, and even shifts in direction during her artistic process. Physical evidence abounds on each of her canvases, if one knows how…
(self-released, digital) For a brief period in 2017 and 2018, current music teacher and Middlebury College graduate Tevan Goldberg penned a political column for the Middlebury Campus called “Sharp Left.” Equal parts passionate and idealistic, the five-part series presents Goldberg as well read, snarky and eager to dismantle dominant structures. It was no passing fancy.…
It was still light out on Saturday when Chris and Sonny, veterans of wars a generation apart, sat down together at the honey-hued bar top and ordered their first round. Behind them, a DJ hooked up equipment for karaoke — the bar’s main draw on Saturday nights. Chris and Sonny, who wouldn’t give their last…
The Burlington home of Emmy McDonnell is distinctly her own. Adorning the living room floor is a royal blue carpet with the image of a snow leopard down the middle. Pendulous pothos plants frame the substantial front window, and young adult fantasy novels fill the bookshelves. An antique bust that doubles as a lamp is…
Vicki Mindle stood in the rain outside the Hilltop Inn in Berlin last week waiting for a bus that never came. She was headed to the grocery store but, protected only by a maroon hoodie, was getting wetter and more miserable by the minute. Mindle, 66, has been staying at the motel under a state…
Eye on the Scene This week’s live music highlight from photographer Luke Awtry Waking Windows, various locations in Winooski, Friday to Sunday, May 5 to 7: It’s the beginning of May, which means it’s Waking Windows time. Though the festival is significantly smaller than in past years, the lineup is stacked, and there will be…
Would-be entrepreneurs at the University of Vermont received a bracing shot of good news last Thursday: A new business competition has been founded that will yield annual awards worth more than $200,000. The Joy and Jerry Meyers Cup contest, which starts in the fall semester, establishes a cash award for the undergraduate or team that…
The books of Judy Blume are radical. Countless kids learned about menstruation and bra fittings from Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret., her 1970 novel about a sixth grader sitting uneasily on the cusp of puberty. (For boys, Blume covered the equivalent taboo topics in Then Again, Maybe I Won’t.) It’s tempting to put…
Jacques-Paul Marton joined the staff of the University of Vermont in 2007 as a custodian — a word the dictionary defines as “one that guards and protects or maintains.” Marton, 66, has lived up to that definition on many levels: As the founder and steward of UVM’s Book Nook since 2010, he cares for, protects…
new in theaters GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3: The intergalactic crew regroups after a crushing loss in yet another Marvel Cinematic Universe extravaganza. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista star. James Gunn wrote and directed. (150 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Sunset, Welden) LOVE AGAIN:…
Peter Shea of Burlington has been fishing since grammar school, but on August 21, 2017, he caught something he’d never seen before. “Holy mackerel!” the trout fisherman exclaimed as he caught sight of the sun, obscured by moon shadow and reflected in the pond in which he stood. That glimpse of a partial solar eclipse…
Every now and then, we are called to leave the familiar behind and venture into the unknown. We might hike a new mountain, head off to college, make a career change or immigrate to a distant country. With each adventure, we face challenges and rediscover ourselves and our world. Paula Higa’s personal journey from Brazil…
Twitter Replacement [Re From the Deputy Publisher: “RIP, Twitter?” April 26]: I empathize with Cathy Resmer’s search for a new Twitter since the ownership change, and I’m happy to report that I think I just found it. Substack has a ton of writers, researchers, thinkers, former tweeters and otherwise interesting people who produce on its…
Jordan Douglas and Jennifer Koch pack a lot into a brief exhibition — just a week long at the new new art studio in Burlington. In a play on the word “extraordinary,” the title speaks to the overwhelming abundance of everyday stuff in a person’s life. An accumulation might result from intentional collections or from…
Outdoor dining in mud season is risky business. Warm days tempt us with sunshine and premature picnic tables, which are all the more glorious because the bugs aren’t yet out for blood. But 70-degree streaks can quickly revert to drizzly 40-degree ones, as I experienced on a recent trip to Jeffersonville’s Burger Barn. This month…
In June 2021, my husband and I sandwiched a hike up Paine Mountain in Northfield between morning and afternoon stops on the same downtown block in the town below. Heading to the mountain, we picked up thick, chewy chocolate chip cookies and coffee made with freshly roasted beans from Carrier Roasting at 17 East Street.…
A late April nature walk in Burlington’s Intervale started out unexpectedly high-tech. As the 18 participants gathered, Duncan Murdoch, the Intervale Center’s natural areas stewardship coordinator, asked them to scan a QR code with their phones. Everyone stared at their screens for a few minutes reading the Intervale Center’s ethical foragers pledge. The pledge states…
In January, Gina Buchanan and her partner, Shane Rivera-Buchanan, officially launched Encanto Kitchen, offering Puerto Rican catering and thrice-monthly Saturday takeout meals. Served from the kitchen at the Mill Market at 1580 Dorset Street in South Burlington, the meals for two might consist of pinchos of pork or chicken marinated and grilled with guava barbecue…
Freeze-dried foods are wildly popular on social media and among backpackers, astronauts and doomsday preppers. Now, Essex Junction has a new storefront dedicated to the crunchy novelties: Dried N’ True Sweets & Treats. The small shop, which opened in early April in the front of Studio Fisk Aveda salon at 14 Park Street, sells a…
Revered Abenaki elder authored historical novel highlighting Abenaki language and culture
Please Don’t Stop the Music Friday 5-Sunday 7 Waking Windows isn’t gone, and it’s definitely not forgotten. It just looks a little different this year: Festivalgoers can find a pared-down, but no less eye-popping, slate of performers at the Monkey House and Rotary Park in Winooski. Featured acts include Pile, Underground System and Rough Francis,…
South Burlington High School grad traveled west before settling on the East Coast
South Burlington woman was an avid athlete, musician, gardener, world traveler and retired guidance counselor
