May 4-10, 2011
St. Albans Pediatrician Helps Young Addicts Get Clean; Burlington Principle Resigns; Reports From VT Restaurant Week
Cover Story
Bitter Pills
A St. Albans pediatrician helps young addicts do the “hard homework” of getting clean
Can Michael Jacques Get a Fair Trial in Vermont? Judge Says Yes
Can murder suspect Michael Jacques get a fair trial in Vermont — or anywhere? That was the question we posed in March while a federal judge considered whether saturation media coverage of the 2008 murder of Jacques’ niece, 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, had made picking an unbiased jury all but impossible. Jacques (pictured) stands accused of…
Burlington Attorney Asks to Defend bin Laden Associate
POST FROM SEVEN DAYS FREELANCE REPORTER KEVIN J. KELLEY: A Burlington attorney is seeking to represent a Saudi man accused of having worked as a PR flak for Osama bin Laden. David Kirby, formerly the top federal prosecutor in Vermont and now a partner in the Battery Street law firm of O’Connor & Kirby, recently…
Peace Activists Rally to Protest bin Laden Killing
POSTED BY SEVEN DAYS FREELANCE REPORTER KEVIN J. KELLEY Add this one to the “Only in Burlington” file: Two veteran peace activists called a news conference on Friday to condemn the killing of Osama bin Laden as an act of “murder” on the part of the Obama administration. The shooting of the unarmed Al Qaeda…
Judge Denies Burlington Telecom’s Request to Delay Court Case
Vermont Superior Court Judge Helen Toor has denied Burlington Telecom’s motion to delay a hearing on whether the utility is in violation of a court order issued last year barring it from using city general funds for BT expenses. The ruling means that a contempt of court hearing will be held on May 23 in…
Web Extra: More On This Week’s Cover Story, “Bitter Pills”
Space constraints of the printed version of Seven Days often require that some interesting or funny material gathered in the reporting process ends up on the cutting-room floor. This week’s cover story, “Bitter Pills: A St. Albans pediatrician helps young addicts do the ‘hard homework’ of getting clean,” was no exception. Thankfully, space isn’t a concern on the…
Citizens’ Group Petitions to Intervene in Entergy Lawsuit
The antinuclear group New England Coalition announced Wednesday it has filed a motion in the U.S. District Court seeking to intervene in Entergy’s attempt to keep Vermont Yankee running beyond 2012. Entergy is suing Vermont in federal court in an attempt to keep Vermont Yankee running beyond 2012, when its state certificate of public good…
Restaurant Week Diaries: Arcadia Diner
1696 Williston Road, South Burlington 802-651-9080 If this post sounds a little logy, it’s because I am. I’m not someone who can have a three-course lunch without a nap, but here I am at the office after my orgiastic meal at Arcadia Diner in South Burlington. The Greek diner offers a $10 lunch special of Greek…
Restaurant Week Adventures: The Bearded Frog & Salt Café
A few nights later at Montpelier’s Salt Café, my friend and I were so hungry, and so stressed from our days and our drives, that we committed a culinary faux pas: We ordered the same dishes for two courses. One server, Peter Colman, rightly tut-tutted us, but both of us had our hearts set on a…
Restaurant Week Adventures: The Bearded Frog & Salt Café
A few nights later at Montpelier’s Salt Café, my friend and I were so hungry, and so stressed from our days and our drives, that we committed a culinary faux pas: We ordered the same dishes for two courses. One server, Peter Colman, rightly tut-tutted us, but both of us had our hearts set on a…
VT Law School to Military Recruiters: “C’mon Back!”
It took more than 25 years, but Vermont Law School stuck to its guns: This afternoon, VLS announced that with the recent repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces, VLS will notify the Pentagon that military recruiters from the Judge…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Harold Luken, 45, walked into a New York City bank and reportedly yelled, “I am going to rob the bank. I have a gun, but I’m going to wait on line.” When his turn came, he repeated his intentions to the teller, adding, “First, I’m going to pass you a note.” Teller…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine this scene, as described by Seattle-based video artist Michael Douglas. “Sometimes a tree falls down in a field of cows, and the cows walk over to it and stare at it. It used to be standing and now it’s on the ground. There’s something different in the field, and the…
Letters to the Editor
Spot Off Looks like you folks missed the spot again [“Burlington City Planners Object to Restaurant’s Wind Turbine,” Blurt, April 21]. Now that you have had a couple of weeks to get it right, you opted to perpetuate the rage and anger many people feel on this issue. It’s not a clash of preservationists and…
Video: Making Sausage with Vermont Salumi
Ever since I started Bite Club TV, I’ve dreamed of producing a sausage-making video. Elizabeth and I finally made it happen, and I couldn’t be hungrier watching it all again. Many thanks to Vermont Salumi’s Pete Colman for showing me the (meaty) ropes at his home/production kitchen and to Richard Wiswall and Sally Colman of…
Restaurant Week Diaries: The Reservoir
1 South Main Street, Waterbury, 244-7827 The Reservoir in Waterbury is one of my favorite secrets. While you’re all waiting for a brew at the Alchemist, I’m eating a giant burger at the Reservoir (right), where the beers aren’t homemade but the drink list is as deep and serious as any aficionado could ask for.…
Restaurant Week Diaries: North Hero House Inn & Restaurant
3643 West Route 2, North Hero, 372-4732 Vermont Restaurant Week kicked off Friday evening. Since I can never make things too easy for myself, my destination took me over partially flooded Route 2, which at times felt like driving under water. The calm, refined dining room at the North Hero House Inn & Restaurant was…
N.Y. Times Bureau Chief to Talk in S. Burlington About bin Laden
Ed. Note: Writer Kevin J. Kelley contributed this post. Few American journalists are as steeped in the Middle East as Neil MacFarquhar (pictured), currently The New York Times’ United Nations bureau chief. A fluent Arab speaker who has spent 25 years in the region, MacFarquhar will talk to a local audience next Monday about the…
