Sep 19-25, 2012

Sep 19-25, 2012 / Vol. 18 / No. 3
Scrutinizing the Scrutinizers: Who Will Be Vermont’s Next Auditor?; BHA’s Housing Boom; A Read on the Burlington Book Fest; Rueben Jackson Takes the Mic

Cover Story

Remembering the Harbor Hide-A-Way [283]

9/12/12: The Harbor Hide-A-Way has been a fixture on Shelburne Road since 1941 when Wallace and Eleanor White first opened their doors. In the decades to follow, the Hide-A-Way became a popular restaurant known for its eccentric decor and tasty vittles, serving regulars and out of towners alike.  Even Katharine Hepburn and Bob Dylan are…

News Quirks

Curses, Foiled Again Less than an hour after Richard Owens, 18, was released from jail in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., a sheriff’s deputy saw him trying to break into a car in the jail parking lot. “He knows Richard because he released him from jail earlier in the evening,” the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office reported,…

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): For every trillion dollars the U.S. government spends on the military, it creates about 11,000 jobs. That same expenditure, if directed toward education, creates 27,000 jobs. Personally, I’d rather have the taxes I pay go to teachers than soldiers — especially in light of the fact that the U.S. spends almost…

Letters to the Editor

Bien Fait Kudos to Ken Picard for his fair and accurate depiction of the new government north of the border [“Seven Things Vermonters Should Know About the New Québec Government,” September 12]. Claude Boucher Québec City Québec College Costs [Re “Seven Things Vermonters Should Know About the New Québec Government,” September 12]: The increase in…


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