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The first shout went up from a group of friends who were standing in a dark field and gesturing wildly upward. “Look! Do you see it? My God!” someone yelled. “No way that’s a plane!” I followed my friends’ gazes up to the summer sky. With minimal light pollution this far north in the Champlain…
Update, October 12, 2022: On Wednesday morning, about 20 hours after this story was published, the state amended its process and allowed for childcare providers to apply for and receive the payments in advance, without waiting for reimbursement. When Dawn Irwin, director of the Essex Junction childcare center Growing With Wonder, learned last month that…
Shelburne woman remembered for her elegant style, dance moves — and shooting an alligator
Advertising company’s co-founder earned numerous excellence awards, loved blackjack, and was the go-to guy for friends and family
Literacy champion was devoted to her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews
Talented artist and self-taught musician worked his way into the hearts and mind of his friends and family
North Ferrisburgh woman cooked and baked with the same heart and gusto with which she lived
A free concert scheduled for Friday, October 7, has been canceled by the City of Burlington after concerns arose due to higher-than-expected projected attendance. Local promotion outfit Love, Kelly put together the concert, a showcase of rising Vermont hip-hop artists featuring 99 Neighbors and North Ave Jax. Growing concern from multiple sources — including a…
We’ve got a simple mission here at Seven Days: to keep you informed about all things Vermont. But it’s a two-way street. A knowledgeable citizenry reads and votes and holds government and institutions accountable. Without media scrutiny, and public interest and engagement, democracy goes to hell. No pressure. On a lighter note, there’s another reason…
The week before school started this fall, Caledonia Central Supervisory Union superintendent Mark Tucker got a call from the Department of Environmental Conservation. As part of a statewide mandate, the department had tested Cabot School for airborne PCBs, a class of chemicals considered a probable carcinogen. The test found high levels of PCBs around the…
The term “inflection point” is used so often in the media lately that listeners might think it connotes a political event. In fact, it comes from mathematics and refers to the place where a curved line changes direction. But never mind punditry; inflection is also a useful concept for a recent retiree — as is…
LIBRA(Sep. 23-Oct.22) The Libran approach to fighting for what’s right shouldn’t involve getting into loud arguments or trying to manipulate people into seeing things your way. If you’re doing what you were born to do, you rely on gentler styles of persuasion. Are you doing what you were born to do? Have you become skilled…
What, No Rutland? You had three writers on [“Vermonters Celebrate the First Day of Legal Cannabis Sales,” October 1, online], and still no one could make it to Rutland? Pity. Rutland is often, if not always, shortchanged. Sharon Nimtz Wallingford Editor’s note: We didn’t deploy any reporters to Rutland for Saturday’s opening day story because…
Dear Reverend, I’m an older, single woman and, like many people, have a small collection of sex toys in the drawer of my bedside table. I’m not ashamed of it in the least, but I can’t help but worry about what would happen if I died and one of my kids found my stash. They’re…
To mark Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, more than two dozen Vermont residents got together in Burlington on Sunday to remove trash from the Pine Street Barge Canal, a Superfund site on the shore of Lake Champlain. Burlington resident Lynda Siegel helped organize the cleanup after learning of a new tradition called Reverse Tashlich. …
I was stuck in my own personal Waterbury roundabout — endlessly circling the town offices inside and out — when a public servant extraordinaire came to my rescue. William Shepeluk, Waterbury’s municipal manager, led me to the second clue of the Waterbury Adventure Challenge. The game, which costs $50 to play, is organized by Discover…
Nicole Eustace is a historian who is “always interested in human beings in their messy multi-dimensionality,” she told Seven Days by email. “I think the greatest respect I can pay to my historical subjects is to engage with them as full people, and that means neither vilifying nor canonizing them but rather recognizing their humanity…
The truth doesn’t want to stay buried. Try as we might to keep them hidden, long-held secrets have a knack for bubbling up through the muck. Ann Dávila Cardinal’s novel The Storyteller’s Death explores what happens to a large Puerto Rican family as pieces of its forgotten past begin to surface. A story steeped in…
Inspired by the stratospheric success stories of 99 Neighbors and North Ave Jax, the 802 has a record crop of young rappers with big dreams. So this installment of Seven Days’ occasional “Quick Hits” feature focuses entirely on Vermont’s new wave of hip-hop artists. Read on for six exciting efforts. Hakim XOXO, BABYNEO (Self-released, digital)…
Art “infects any man whatever his plane of development,” wrote Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in his 1897 philosophical treatise What Is Art? This bold claim challenged status-quo beliefs among European high-culture elites in the twilight of the 19th century. Just a few decades later, some groundbreaking modern art movements — cubism, Dadaism, expressionism, surrealism —…
New Hampshire native Julian Higgins is a filmmaker who’s going places. The shooting of his first feature, God’s Country, was interrupted by the pandemic, but after he finished it in 2021, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. God’s Country is loosely based on James Lee Burke’s 1992 story “Winter Light,” which Higgins had already…
The schoolboy knickers and doll-like dresses are from 1891. The vigorous indie rock music is from 2006. The story is timeless, repeated again and again whenever teenagers confront their first sexual urges. The musical Spring Awakening shoves modern norms against 19th-century repression to sharpen the portrayal of adolescent longing and anxiety. In the Northern Stage…
(Self-released, digital) Musicians establish relationships with their fans in various ways: live performances, a social media presence, newsletters and, most importantly, music itself. An artist’s first record is not just a collection of songs but an introduction. Frankie White sets a tone of vulnerability and openness with her debut EP, Short Fuse. And that’s a…
The village of White River Junction shows what smart growth can look like. Close to 250 units of multifamily housing have been added to the downtown district in the past decade, said Lori Hirshfield, director of the Department of Planning and Development for the Town of Hartford, which includes the Junction. The additions were created…
new in theaters AMSTERDAM: Director David O. Russell returns with a fact-inspired mystery about three friends (Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington) caught up in a politically motivated murder plot in the 1930s. (134 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star) GOD’S CREATURES: A mother’s lie to protect her son divides the residents…
For the past four years, Richmond’s only dentist, Howard Novak, believed his patients were drinking water with the recommended levels of fluoride in it. Novak knew that Richmond had been adding fluoride to its water supply for decades — since 1983, in fact — as a way to strengthen the enamel on teeth and make it harder…
(Self-released, digital) I love the origin story of Burlington’s Lake Waves. Like many bands in the area, the group’s members met on the University of Vermont campus. The quartet of Amaal Abdelrahman, Elise Albertini, Allie Krasner and Max Mashrick came together at the Living/Learning Center, which has a more residential vibe than some of UVM’s…
Before my first visit to Hugo’s Bar & Grill in Montpelier, I experienced culinary déjà vu. Perusing the menu online, I noticed an appetizer of gazpacho with a side of shrimp, a salad using greens from Small Axe Farm in Barnet, and an intriguing take on nachos constructed of wonton chips with tuna tartare, spicy…
Last week’s autumn chill triggered my annual rewatch of When Harry Met Sally… As usual, Nora Ephron’s 1989 film had me itching to don a chunky turtleneck sweater and cause a scene at Katz’s Delicatessen. But I didn’t have time for a New York City road trip, nor did I feel like spending $26, the…
A large Asian grocery store opened on September 18 in the Blue Mall at 150 Dorset Street in South Burlington. Lee’s Asian Mart occupies the renovated, 7,000-square-foot space that was most recently Vermont’s sole Outback Steakhouse, which closed in May 2020. Open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., the market offers produce such as…
After almost a quarter of a century, the buckets-o-spuds, tofu scrams, biscuits and gravy, and chiles rellenos will cease flowing at downtown Burlington breakfast-and-lunch landmark Penny Cluse Café. Husband-and-wife co-owners Charles Reeves and Holly Cluse told their staff on Monday and then sent an email to about 100 friends and family members announcing that they…
Theater is where I go for a transcendent communal experience akin to what some people find in religious services. In other words, I anonymously seek joy. Anonymity was not an option at Marrowbone in Lincoln last weekend. Marrowbone, whose title comes from William Butler Yeats’ poem “A Prayer for Old Age,” is pageant-style theater. Guides…
Collective Action Thursday 6 The daringly experimental British ensemble Manchester Collective brings its electrifying show Sirocco to Spaulding Auditorium at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hanover, N.H. Rising South African cello star Abel Selaocoe (pictured) and his Chesaba trio join the program, which features works by Igor Stravinsky and Franz Joseph Haydn,…
Remember those early days of the pandemic when the world seemed to screech to a standstill? The world was … quiet. You could hear yourself think. If you had the privilege, what did you do with that quiet time? Make bread? Go for long walks? Take up a new hobby or craft? Meditate? Question your…
The Flynn announced on Thursday that it has filled a pair of high-level leadership positions. Matt Rogers, formerly of Higher Ground Presents, will become the programming director of the nonprofit performing arts center. The Flynn also announced the hiring of a new marketing director, Kevin Sweeney, formerly of Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, N.Y. As…
Kuya’s Sandwiches + Kitchen made a splash with its stellar sandwiches and Filipino flavors when it opened in Randolph in late February 2021. Now, owners Patty and Travis Burns have moved their growing business down the block into the former corner home of One Main Tap & Grill. Kuya’s at One Main opened today at…
