Sep 9-15, 2009
The South End Art Hop This Weekend; Brad Kessler’s Goat Literature; Family of a Mentally Ill Victim Challenges Police Shooting
Will Prog Rep. Dave Zuckerman Become … a Democrat?
State Rep. Dave Zuckerman (P-Burlington) is officially mulling a run for higher office … as a Democrat. Another politician making the leap à la Tom Salmon? Not exactly. Zuckerman tells Seven Days he’s considering the run for either state senator or lieutenant governor with the hope of winning the primary as a Democrat and then…
Leahy: Congress Close to Enacting Media Shield Law
News reporters may soon be granted federal protection from being held in contempt of court, fined or even jailed for refusing to divulge confidential sources. That’s the goal of a so-called “media shield law” being shepherded through the Senate Judiciary Committee by its chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). In April, Leahy made the first attempts…
Vermont Lawmaker Seeks Greater FairPoint Oversight
Yesterday, Fairpoint execs were grilled by regulators from Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. The telecommunications company continues to be plagued with problems since taking over the land-line phone system from Verizon. In the event FairPoint Communications files for bankruptcy as a way to restructure its debt and protect its assets, one state lawmaker is urging…
Vermont Delegation Applauds Obama Health Care Speech
You would have thought Pres. Barack Obama was addressing schoolchildren last night, as opposed to the day, before given the outburst by one Republican lawmaker. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) all but yelled “liar, liar pants on fire!” as the president debunked common myths about the proposed health care reform effort. In short, the president said,…
Remember This Guy?
This is Ben Kaufman. You may remember him as the kid who came to Vermont to attend Champlain College, while running his own iPhone accessory business, Mophie. He quickly dropped out of Champlain to focus on Mophie before selling the company in 2007. He took the money he made on Mophie and started working on…
Slideshow: South End Industrial Buildings
Click here for Lauren Ober’s story about the industrial roots of Burlington’s South End.
Local Late Night Show Exits Stage Right
All good things must come to an end. That’s the case with WCAX-TV’s locally-run and produced “Late Night Saturday,” hosted by Tim Kavanagh, a WCAX salesman, actor and standup comic. Kavanagh emailed friends and supporters over the weekend to dispense the bad news. There will be no season four. At least not this fall. Kavanagh…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police arrested Christopher Lee Anson, 23, for robbing a bank in Cannon Falls, Minn., after an officer stopped him for speeding during his getaway. According to the Rochester Post-Bulletin, the officer started writing a ticket but heard the call about the robbery and asked Anson for his address to mail him the…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for September 9 – 16, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): I don’t think I’m being unduly optimistic when I speculate that you’re on the verge of achieving a ringing victory over your bad self. What makes me so confident that this development is…
Seven Days Staff Photo 2009
Fourteen years ago, Pamela Polston and Paula Routly founded Seven Days with a staff of six. And now look at us! Stop by our annual open house on Friday, September 11, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. to help us celebrate our anniversary and the South End Art Hop. We’ll be serving refreshments and showing artwork…
Woman’s Work?
Art Review: Works by Nelda S. Haley, Studio Place Arts, Barre. Through September 19.
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Great VT Corn Maze [SIV143]
9/5/09: Get lost in the “a-maizing” Great Vermont Corn Maze in North Danville. Pet a baby coat, adopt a kitten and get some mental and physical exercise in the 8 acres of twisting paths through the corn. Music: darkpark, “Husk”
Letters to the Editor
HARD NEWS Thanks for the article on local distilleries [“Beyond Bathtub Gin,” August 26], but unfortunately the writer has mixed up some technical details about making ciders and liquors from cider. Cider, whether still or sparkling, is fermented, then bottled — never distilled. The suggestion that Flag Hill Farm distills their still and sparkling cider…
Audio Dioramas
Part two of Seven Days’ conversation with new(ish) B-town resident Anders Parker
Salmon Defection Spawns Reaction
As Seven Days reported this morning, State Auditor Thomas M. Salmon has renounced his Democratic Party roots and will become a Republican. “I did not leave the Democratic Party,” said Salmon. “The party left me and tens of thousands of others in a reunion with the Progressive Party.” Damn. Not that said reunion has won…
Salmon Jumps Midstream: Leaves Democrats for GOP
At a Statehouse press conference Tuesday morning Democratic State Auditor Thomas M. Salmon — the son of a former Democratic governor — will announce he is leaving his party to become a Republican. That’s according to a confidential letter sent by Salmon to key supporters, and obtained by Seven Days. Salmon issued the letter on…
