Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2009
Waiting for Retailers in Winooski; The Roundabout Ain’t the Only Place to Get the Spins in Winooski; Secretive Religious Sect Settles Lawsuit With Williston Couple
Burlington to Host Public Meeting on Moran Plant Plans
The public is invited to hear a status update from city officials on the Moran Center Project tomorrow night. The 7 p.m. meeting will be held at the Burlington Electric Department on Pine Street, Mayor Bob Kiss announced today. The meeting is roughly one month after the Green Mountain Children’s Museum pulled out of the…
Sen. Randy Brock to Stay Put: No Run for Lite Guv
UPDATED BELOW (5:55 P.M.) — Sen. Phil Scott (R-Washington) to make “important announcement” Tuesday at 5 p.m. in South Burlington. The GOP contest to succeed Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie narrowed today, with the news that State Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin) will seek reelection in 2010. Brock was one of several current and former senators contemplating…
Vermont Couple Attends State Dinner
While high society gatecrashers nabbed the headlines from last week’s state dinner at the White House, one Vermont couple was among the event’s 400 legitimate guests. The event was held under a tent on the South Lawn in honor of a visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (see second photo). Michaele and Tareq Salahi,…
The End of the World in Our Ordinary Multiplex on a Night Full of Rain
To reward myself for working on Black Friday, I finally saw 2012 this evening. Having watched the trailer, I knew it was going to be stupid, but I was up for that. So was our intrepid video journalist, Eva Sollberger. We both have a high tolerance for stupid disaster movies and enjoy watching the world…
Miss Manners
The youngest of Emily Post’s heirs talks about civility and the family biz
Leahy Blasts Pres. Obama on Refusal to Sign Landmine Ban Treaty
UPDATED AT 4:45 PM — Obama administration backs away from statement that it won’t sign international landmine treaty (see below). U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy is blasting Pres. Barack Obama’s decision to refuse to sign a 10-year-old international treaty banning land mines. The decision, which supports the position of the previous administration, comes as representatives of…
Letters to the Editor
Attitude is Everything This is not an easy letter to write. I am responding to the question posed in the article “Minority Rule” [November 11] regarding the percentage of African American men in the Department of Corrections and whether or not racial profiling has anything to do with it. I was born in Vermont and…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man approached a clerk at a restaurant in Haverhill, Mass., declared he had a gun and demanded money from the register. When the clerk insisted on seeing the gun, the man fled. North Andover’s Eagle-Tribune reported police found suspect Adam Alsarabi, 22, hiding in the woods, gunless. Road Worries Bad driving…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for November 25 – December 2, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): One of the greatest superpowers a human being can have is the ability to change herself in accordance with her intentions. Let’s say you’re tired of feeling shame about something there’s no…
Waiting for Winooski
Four years after the city’s latest downtown development opened for business, where are the retailers?
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“New Moon” at the Majestic [SIV153]
11/19/09: Six theaters were sold out for Thursday’s midnight premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the Majestic 10 in Williston. A line that stretched around the building began earlier that day at 5pm.Twi-hards waited in the cold for hours to be the first to see New Moon. New Moon sold a record number…
Seeing the Smaller Picture — Arthouse Cinema at the Catamount Arts Center
When you go to the movies today, you feel less like a guest of the house and more like a sheep in transit. In the barnyard maze of a mega-cinema multiplex, you’re lucky if you get a seat — really lucky if you’re a row’s distance from the rest of the pack, especially the chatty…
Judge Puts Down Milton’s “Junkyard Dog”
More bad news for Gil Rhoades, owner of ABC Metals of Milton (pictured). On Friday, Vermont Superior Court Judge Helen Toor ruled that the junkyard operator has been operating illegally without state or local permits and must immediately stop accepting waste and scrap automobiles. Toor’s decision comes on the heels of a ruling late last month…
Secretive Religious Sect Settles Lawsuit with Williston Couple
After a full day of negotiations in Brattleboro, the religious sect Exclusive Brethren agreed yesterday to drop its federal lawsuit against Tim and Sallie Twinam (pictured), the Williston couple who run a website that exposes and criticizes the religious sect and reconnects former followers. Tim Twinam emailed Seven Days this morning to say he reached…
