Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2013
Are Precious-Metal Dealers Cashing in on Vermont’s Drug Epidemic?; Deciphering Bitcoin in BTV; Looking Forward After a Fire; Picking Vermont’s Best Burgers
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Are Precious Metal Dealers Cashing in on Vermont’s Drug Epidemic?
Linda Samter seems like an unlikely target for burglars. The 47-year-old architectural designer works from an office in her Charlotte home, where she spends much of her day. She routinely locks her doors and windows whenever she’s away. But recently, Samter let her guard down and paid a hefty price. While she and her husband…
Obituary: Mary Elizabeth Liegey
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Liegey, age 90 years, died early Tuesday morning December 3, 2013, in the Franklin County Rehab Center. Born in Flushing, NY on August 24, 1923, she was the daughter of the late John L. and Mary E. (Smith) Howrigan. She graduated from Jamaica High School and later received her degree as a…
Obituary: Sophia Lorraine Nitya Glaser,
1991-2013, Williston Sophia Lorraine Nitya Glaser, 22, beloved daughter of Caitlin and Jacob (Jack) Glaser, died peacefully in her sleep of natural causes on Friday, November 8. A film student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, she was studying abroad at the prestigious FAMU film school in Prague for the semester. Born…
Obituary: Glenn Wayne “Buddy” Hale
Glenn was born April 26, 1961. He was the son of Richard and Georgette, the practical joker brother to Scott and Tina. He loved to spoil his wife Debbie. Buddy was the proudest daddy to Erynn, Tyler, Carrie and Shane. He fell head over heels for his grandsons Emmett and Finley. He was best friends…
Seven Days Searches for Vermont’s Best Burger
In 2009, Vermonters were abuzz about the newly crowned “Best Burger in Vermont.” According to Food Network Magazine, the state’s supreme patty was the Scibek Sizzler, the Montréal-spiced, cheese-buried behemoth at Burlington’s Shopping Bag. But who chose it? Probably a staffer who had never been to Vermont. Freelance food writer Melissa Pasanen says she believes…
Seven Days Holiday Gift Guide Part 1: Body
Attention, shoppers: That conglomerate of events we inclusively call “the holidays” is upon us — not to mention the birthdays of any friends or family members who share December with the baby Jesus. That means it’s time to get crackin’ with the cash, credit cards and charitable donations. Choosing gifts can be hard, but not…
A Vermont Inventor’s Self-Controlled Generators Put You in Charge
As an inventor, entrepreneur and engineer, Ken Torino has based his life’s work on math and science. But when he describes K-Tor, the business he started in 2008, Torino refers to some cinematic science fiction: The Matrix trilogy. In the universe of those films, robot overlords draw their energy from billions of humans enslaved and…
Three New Lunch Options in Burlington
For Burlington’s working peeps, the stroke of noon can bring a conundrum. While we sometimes tuck into home-prepared salads or leftovers to save money (and calories), downtown Burlington is so dense with lunch options, you could return to your desk with a different culinary treasure every day. The arrival of three new lunch-centric venues in…
Four More Local Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out.…
News Quirks
Wearable Food or Edible Footwear Police who arrested Rachel Gossett and Frank Lucas for having sex in a Waffle House parking lot in Loganville, Ga., said the woman was so drunk that when she “finally got dressed she attempted to put a cheeseburger on her foot as if it were a sandal.” (Huffington Post) Wrong…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Thinking inside the box will be a crime against your nature in the coming weeks. The last place you want to be is in a pigeonhole. I advise you to stay far away from tight squeezes, claustrophobic “sanctuaries” and “convenient” confinements. If you’re in a one-size-fits-all situation, you simply won’t be…
Art Review: Mallory Bratton Rich at Left Bank Home & Garden
Mallory Bratton Rich sticks mainly to one medium but manages to produce a variety of visual effects in her small show at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Ten of the dozen works on display were executed with pastels on sanded paper. That surface has a grabby quality well suited to the sticks of…
In Vermont, Users of “Cryptocurrency” Bitcoin Are Few But Committed
Last week, in a small, subterranean workspace near downtown Burlington, a group of tech-savvy Vermonters held an open forum on a topic that’s attracted a great deal of attention lately: Bitcoin. Early adopters of the “cryptocurrency” believe it has the potential to upend the entire global economy. Economic policy and the future of currency may…
In the Wake of Arson, the Congregational Church Reaches Back for Its Future
When the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington was going up between 1863 and 1866, its dramatic height didn’t impress everyone. “The roof is almost finished,” the grocer Albert Peirce wrote in an 1864 letter, cited in a recent church history written by members, “but the walls are so low and the roof so large…
Book Review: Headwaters: Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt
At the outset of this review you notice something a little strange the words are plain and familiar yes ordinary but there are no capitals no commas no poetic curbs or grammatical stop signs to impose a pause do you like it I like it I am both rushing into the current of words and…
Letters to the Editor
Haunted, Indeed I wanted to write to let you know how much I enjoyed reading [“Ghosts With the Most,” October 30]. I worked at the Shanty on the Shore back in the early 1990s and knew then it was haunted. Along with another server at the time, we researched the building at the Fletcher Free…
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Vermont Hand Crafters’ Craft VT Show [SIV331]
11/23/13: The Vermont Hand Crafters held their 61st Annual Craft Vermont Show last weekend at the Sheraton Conference Center in South Burlington. Thousands of shoppers got a jump on their holiday buying at this well-loved artisan fair. Music: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg, “Jingle Bells” by James Lord Pierpont and…
