Nov 10-16, 2010
Will Burlington Ever Truly Be Bike Friendly?; Talking Taxidermy; Beer Buzz at Hill Farmstead; Homeless Numbers Up in Burlington
Dubie Puts House Up for Sale, Heads Off to the Woods
Lt. Governor Brian Dubie is leaving his hometown and headed for the woods — literally. Dubie tells Seven Days he put his Essex Junction home up for sale and is moving onto the family property he owns up in Fairfield. The Dubies own several pieces of land: a nearly 100-acre piece of land where they…
St. Mike’s Student Activists Score DC Meeting With State Department Staffer
Editor’s note: Seven Days contributing writer Kevin J. Kelley, who teaches in the St. Michael’s journalism department, wrote this post. St. Michael’s College activists campaigning against rape in Congo will be making their case in Washington next month at a scheduled meeting with a top State Department official. Melanne Verveer, ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues,…
Stock Analysts: Vermont Yankee is a “Tough Sell”
Two separate stock analysts today offered little hope that Entergy would find a new owner for Vermont Yankee — citing an unfavorable regulatory and political environment as well as a recent shutdown caused by a leak in a key system pipe. Vermont Yankee reconnected to the regional power grid early this morning after a three-day…
Conservation Law Foundation Hires Journalist as Lakekeeper
A quick update to a brief item in “Fair Game” this week: Louis Porter, the bureau chief of the Vermont Press Bureau, has been named the Lake Champlain Lakekeeper at the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). His job change is effective December 1. The bureau covers the Vermont State House and state government for the Rutland…
The Great Turkey Chase, pt. 3
If you ride bikes, or you’re rad, you should be at the Great Turkey Chase Food Drive & Alley Cat this Sunday. It’s a fun way to show off your sick two-wheeled skills while collecting food for the underserved and hungry in the area. Here’s how it works: you get a checklist of items you…
WTF: What’s up with that blighted stretch of pavement in Burlington’s South End?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Accounting for History
Art Review: “Native American Ledger Drawings From the Hood Museum of Art”
Barber Shop Not Exactly Comb One, Comb All
Poor Mike Aldrich. After turning away a black patron from his barber shop, saying he wouldn’t be able to help the guy because he wasn’t good at doing black hair, the Bellows Falls barber has become the target of some substantial community ire. The Associated Press reported that Aldrich’s refusal to barber the patron —…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A police sergeant was in the process of arresting Xavier Ross, 19, for creating a disturbance by repeatedly playing “Chopsticks” on a piano in front of police headquarters in Grand Rapids, Mich., when another officer recognized Ross as a suspect wanted for felony burglary. (Grand Rapids’s WZZM-TV) FBI investigators charged Ryan Homsley,…
Gimme Shelter
A federal crime-victims unit in St. Albans puts abused immigrants on a safer path
Letters to the Editor
Use Goats, Not Chemicals I was saddened to read that Burlington routinely grants exemptions to its ordinance prohibiting the use of pesticides and herbicides within 500 feet of the lake and its tributaries [“Can the City of Burlington Toughen Its ‘Lawn Care’ Regulations?” October 27]. Why anyone, anywhere, still uses or allows the use of…
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Erinn Simon [SIV199]
10/16/10: Whether she is crocheting colorful creatures as an Urban Farmgirl or serving up healthy veggies as the Burlington Children’s Space “Lunch Lady,” Erinn Simon – mother of two with a third on the way – rarely has spare time on her hands. Music: The Smittens, The Coolest Thing About Love, “Half My Heart Beats,”…
Pazos Charged with First Degree Murder in Smith Killing (Read the Police Affidavit)
Prosecutors today charged Jose Pazos with first degree murder in the October 18 killing of Burlington resident Kathleen Smith, and said a years-old grudge about a custody fight was his motive. The evidence that led police to suspect Pazos included rope used to tie Smith’s hands, DNA found on a knife used in the…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Where I live, 35 percent of all high school students confess (or brag) that they have engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as imbibing five or more alcoholic drinks in a two-hour period. According to my reading of the omens, your inner teenager may soon be longing to flirt with…
