On May 19, 2020, Debbie and Al Wood were sitting around a campfire in the front yard of their Barnard home, enjoying a belated Mother’s Day celebration with four of their grown children, when Debbie’s phone rang. The call was from Lakeland Girls Academy, a boarding school in Florida that their 17-year-old daughter, Naomi, had…
Mark Lynwood Emmons, 61, of Morrisville, Vt., passed away from a medical event at his work site on September 7, 2022. He was born on September 21, 1960, in Burlington, Vt., the son of Leon and the late Kay (Benway) Emmons. He graduated from South Burlington High School in 1978. He was an avid skier…
Shelburne woman found happiness looking at a beautiful view, enjoying the red trees in Vermont’s fall, and appreciating beautiful flowers
EMT and martial artist embraced the strength of helping others
The SUV came ripping down the Burlington bike path, snapping overhanging branches as cyclists screamed and swerved to avoid getting hit. Laurie Keve, who was biking home to Colchester that August afternoon, said the sight of the silver car and its driver barreling past her near Leddy Park was “one of the most frightening experiences…
It’s been a while since the Plainfield area had a spot where retirees could gather for breakfast. Maple Valley, the quirky restaurant and gift shop overlooking the Winooski River, was once a popular spot for people to meet up for a morning meal. After it closed four years ago, some of them migrated to the…
It’s been a quiet hurricane season so far. But in Louisiana, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, people are bracing for the possibility of devastation, as they do every year. Seventeen years ago, Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans and left chaos in its wake. Since then, with extreme weather events increasingly common worldwide,…
The South End Art Hop is a sensory feast, with hundreds of artworks, live music, food and drink, and revelers on the streets. So, who would want to hang out in a jewelry shop trying on pendants and rings? Loads of people, it turns out. Alchemy Jewelry Arts Gallery, on the corner of Howard and…
Burlington looked like a real city on the walk home from dinner at Taco Gordo on a recent Friday night. Young hipsters strolled the sidewalks. People of all ethnicities were out on their stoops, taking in the evening air. A cluster of barflies congregated on the front “porch” of the Olde Northender Pub to smoke.…
When you’re readying yourself for a large cultural event like a music festival or block party, the conventional wisdom is to formulate a plan, right? You map out the area to get the venues straight, take note of the food options, maybe look at the schedule and make your own list of must-sees — you…
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): “To love oneself is hard work,” declares Virgo author Hanif Abdurraqib. He adds, “But I think it becomes harder when you realize that you’re actually required to love multiple versions of yourself that show up without warning throughout a day, throughout a week, throughout a month, throughout a life.” Let’s make…
(Self-released, digital, vinyl) The word “soma” has many meanings, but they often overlap. In popular culture, it’s the mind-altering drug allowing the government to control the population in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World. In ancient times, it was an alternate name for the Hindu deity Chandra, god of the moon, as well as…
Bob Schumacher was aboard his boat Vagabond on Shelburne Bay last week and racing as fast as he could go. The boat itself wasn’t going anywhere; it was lashed to the dock at the Lake Champlain Yacht Club. The 74-year-old retired canoe and kayak restorer and dealer from Hinesburg was rushing to get his craft…
(Fika Recordings, digital, vinyl) The cover of Let’s Whisper’s new album, The In-Between Times, depicts a spiral made up of colored half circles. It looks as if the once-whole circles were cut down the middle and one half were shifted up so that a purple circle flows into a red one, a red circle into…
‘Breathtaking’ Photo I greatly appreciate the depth and breadth of Seven Days’ Vermont coverage [“On the Road,” August 24]. I did want to comment on Paula Routly’s picture of asbestos tailings on Belvidere Mountain. Would it be wrong to say “breathtaking”? Richard Guttman Kirkland, Québec Asbestos Mountain [Re “On the Road,” August 24]: Belvidere Mountain…
In a departure from typical hands-off rules, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center invites visitors to touch the art — that is, one installation in a group exhibit titled “Felt Experience.” And, yes, it refers to sculptures made of felt. Artist Stephanie Metz made the six organic-looking “pods,” as she calls them, that hang like…
Dear Reverend, I live in an apartment with a roommate. We get along great and have no problems — except for one thing. She has sex with her boyfriend in the shower. It creeps me out because I like baths and I feel like I have to clean the tub every time before I take…
new in theaters BARBARIAN: An accidental double booking turns out to be the least of an Airbnb guest’s problems in this horror thriller from Zach Cregger. Georgina Campbell and Bill Skårsgard star. (102 min, R. Essex) BREAKING: A struggling Marine Corps veteran (John Boyega) turns to bank robbery in this Sundance Film Festival honoree from…
A pop-up, street-side gallery in Waterbury is a tribute to live music and inspires an impromptu rock and roll guessing game. Both are sweet and dandy. The art hangs at 14 South Main Street: 19 photographs of rockers fill the storefront’s windows. Shot by two Vermont photographers, the performers are singing, playing guitar, vamping it…
While walking among the Bookstock festival exhibitors lining the Woodstock green in June, I had an epiphany: The most vibrant literary magazine published in Vermont today is a bilingual, international art zine about the Cantonese diaspora. It’s called Canto Cutie. Founded in 2020 by Katherine Leung of Milton, the glossy, full-color, full-bleed publication boasts an…
The national demand for monkeypox vaccines has been so great this summer that some states have been turning people away. Vermont, however, has faced a different problem. In the six weeks shots have been available, the state has doled out only about 50 doses — a fraction of what the federal government has sent its way.…
At six feet, seven inches, Abdoulaye Niane towers over almost every crop he tends at his half-acre urban farm, located behind his family home in a quiet Berlin neighborhood just off Route 302. The sunflowers along the back fence of Khelcom Farm are a notable exception. “This is the first time I grew sunflowers,” Niane,…
As September cools the air and youngsters head back to school, creemee sales normally dip. But the recently launched Vermont Maple Creemee truck will keep serving its frosty treats through Halloween at parks and events around northern Vermont, co-owner John Paré said, including at this weekend’s South End Art Hop. The Burlington-based, family-run venture will,…
Burlington’s vegan dining scene lost a staple this week when Knead Bakery closed its doors after service on Monday, September 5. Rob Blum and Isabelle Clark opened the plant-based bakery and café at 294 North Winooski Avenue in January 2018. They announced the business’ permanent closure in an online statement on September 1. “As we…
Kathleen and Aaron Stine, founder-owners of Colchester-based bevo catering company, have purchased the 32-acre Monkton apple orchard and farm market that was Boyer’s Orchard & Cider Mill for almost 40 years. They will continue to run their 14-year-old catering operation while launching Stine Orchard at 1823 Monkton Road with the start of pick-your-own season, which…
Season of the Witch Wednesday 14 In Vermont author GennaRose Nethercott’s debut novel, Thistlefoot, two siblings discover they are descended from Baba Yaga, the famed forest witch of Slavic folklore — and are now in possession of her walking, chicken-legged house. At the Norwich Bookstore, the author reads from her work, signs books and brings…
Sarah King said she cried last Friday when she got an email from the Vermont Arts Council informing her that she’s a recipient of a 2023 Creation Grant. The $4,000 award will help King cover the cost of the solo album she’s recording. A Ripton-based singer, King said she refreshed her email inbox repeatedly after…
