Peggy Ann Craker, age 65 years, a resident of the Swanton community since 1986, died Monday afternoon June 30, 2014, at the St. Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center with her daughter Victoria at her side. Born in Denison, TX on December 3, 1948, she was the daughter of the late William and Ida Pauline (Wilson)…
Anthony Pfohler peacefully passed away June 22, 2014. He was born April 1, 1943 to Anton and Emma (Garrow) Pfohler in Keeseville, NY. Tony was an executive in the grocery business. He enjoyed golf, fishing, woodworking and was a proud member of the Catholic Faith. He is survived by his children; Toni (Lesley) Pfohler, Robert…
Here in Vermont, we like to know where our food is coming from. As locavore lingo found its way onto labels and restaurant menus alike, foodie entrepreneurs salivated for a slice of the hyperlocal pie, and small businesses sprang up throughout the state. Gradually, the trend began to wag the dog, too. According to Travis…
Right now, Brian Stone and Liam O’Farrell are busy building a new craft-beer hub for thirsty Vermonters. “We’re looking to be the premier place to go for craft beers,” Stone says. “It’s really that straightforward.” The project is called the Growler Garage and it’s located near the I-89 interchange on Dorset Street in South Burlington.…
We depend on 1,000-pound cows for milk and meat, and snuggle up with our 40-pound dogs and eight-pound cats. But an inversely proportional relationship governs the ways in which our lives are shaped by the creatures around us: The smallest animals can have the greatest impact. Just ask your friendly neighborhood pathologist. The bacteria and…
Dear Athena, I’ve been dating three women at once. Three amazing women that I really, really like and I want them all, but I sort of feel like I should just pick one. Should I try to just keep dating them all until one turns out to be the best? How do I pick without…
The first thing to know about thrips is that the word is never singularized. “Thrips” can refer to a single insect or to many of them. This has a certain logic: You’ll never see just one of these bugs. The little guys are absolutely everywhere. The second thing about thrips is that, though they’re teeny-tiny…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry.tumblr.com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil and the adventurer. That’s all true; I agree with her. But here’s an important caveat. As you get older, it’s your duty to harness all that hot energy on behalf of the…
Tony and Mysty Olson never intended to open an exotic-bird shelter. They had no business plan, no late-night talks about turning their passion into a job, and they didn’t research applicable regulations. They simply received a steady flow of inquiries once word got around that the Olsons had seven pet birds. “Could you take one…
Queen City foodies sat up and took notice when Burlington’s code enforcement team busted Will Bennington and his roommates for having too many chickens back in 2010. Was it really so egregious to keep a flock of 10 laying hens in their Old North End backyard? It turned out that there weren’t any rules on…
Dumpling Delight Kudos to Alice Levitt for that brilliant article featuring Luiza, the Dumpling Diva [“Dumpling Diva,” May 27]. Luiza’s Homemade With Love is real good food by a gifted chef, indeed. I know this because Luiza fixed an incredibly delicious meal for me. Thank you Seven Days, Alice and Luiza for lighting up our…
Occasionally, a dinner guest at my apartment will stop mid-sentence, fork poised in the air, wearing a baffled expression. The reason? A tinkle — made by one of my two cats, Jonathan and Mama — coming from the bathroom. The pause in conversation is usually followed by a remark such as, “Wait? Cats can do…
The call came in late Friday night, my generic ringtone mixing with the song on the radio and echoing over the voices of the customers in the backseat. I simultaneously muted the radio and grabbed for my cellphone, which I keep perched on the dashboard. I don’t know what I’m going to do when the…
Should pets be considered property — like a house — or a co-creation to be shared like minor children? The case of an 11-year-old German wirehaired pointer has been challenging Vermont’s courts — including its highest — to decide whether “ownership” or “custody” laws apply to divorcing partners fighting over a mutually beloved animal. Court records indicate that Daniel…
Curses, Foiled Again Police reported that a gunman forced a 60-year-old man in New Orleans to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, but before the ATM dispensed the cash, the robber fell asleep. The victim alerted police, who arrested Meyagi Baker, 17. (New Orleans’s WDSU-TV) While shooting scenes for a Fox television show in…
Every day, when she gets home from work, Deborah Osgood crosses a covered bridge and heads up to the barn to let her livestock out to graze. A pair of white ducks huddle by the pond; two dogs mill around nearby. Two bunnies and six cats are missing in action. Up at the barn, Osgood…
So you’ve written a book — now what? How will you pitch your complicated plot in the standard 250 words? Does your labor of love need revisions before you expose it to the harsh light of day? What are literary agents really looking for? The League of Vermont Writers aims to help writers answer those…
Last Saturday, more than 100 people — nearly all of them wearing black — sat in the shade of a tent on a sun-drenched estate in South Woodstock watching video footage of de-finned shark carcasses. Parked in front of a nearby barn was an RV emblazoned with a giant Jolly Roger. Landlocked Vermont played host…
When the Johannes String Quartet plays Beethoven’s last quartet in the small burg of Rochester, Vt., on Saturday night, second violinist Jessica Lee will be performing the piece for the first time. Not only can anything happen during a performance, she remarks, but the work itself is “really out-there Beethoven. There’s a lot in there…
(Recorded and Freed, CD, digital download, LP) There’s a Blue Bird in My Heart is Anders Parker’s first recording in four years with his Cloud Badge compatriots Creston Lea and Steve Hadeka — the latter of whom is a Seven Days employee. Borrowing its title from a line in a Charles Bukowski poem, the album…
Red is a meditation on looking and listening. In John Logan’s play, the painter Mark Rothko has a lot to say about looking, and he has someone to listen in the form of his studio assistant, Ken. The Dorset Theatre Festival production begins with the act of looking and, for Tim Daly’s Rothko, it’s no…
(What Doth Life, CD, digital download) Carlton, by Carton, is the latest album out of an unlikely locale for great rock and roll: Windsor, Vt. The small town is home to the music collective What Doth Life. This grassroots society for the well-being of independent rock is effectively a co-op for music — “a brand…
Conversations about solving climate change and ecological destruction are batted around frequently in Vermont, but rarely do they involve the word “play.” Yet when three dozen “makers” — individuals who use new technology to create innovative artistic or practical projects — gathered at an “Eco Logic All” forum last week at Burlington’s Generator, creative play…
A daycare center for dogs might not seem like an obvious location for artwork, but the Crate Escape, Too in South Burlington is upending expectations. Soon “Champlain Valley Pawnorama,” by local muralist Tara Goreau, will greet canines and their humans along a 140-foot wall in the facility’s playroom. It will open for public viewing this…
If it weren’t for Mary Cassatt, the Shelburne Museum’s current exhibit “In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America” might very well not exist. The painter (1844-1926) was born in Pittsburgh but found what she called her “spiritual home” in Paris. There, she fell in with Edgar Degas and a group of outlier painters…
Remember last Wednesday when we were basking in the glow of a rare quiet week on the local music front, and recharging our batteries for the summer rocking to come? Yeah, that’s over now. This weekend, festival season kicks into high gear with the first major summerly to-do of a string of outdoor fests and…
Good movies make you think. Bad movies make you wonder. Clint Eastwood’s turgid, tone-deaf and — at two and a quarter hours — sadistically interminable adaptation of the musical Jersey Boys left me wondering a lot of things. Foremost among them: Who did he think would want to see this thing? Nobody under AARP age…
If any of Vermont’s top political and economic development officials know what lies ahead for IBM’s roughly 4,000 Vermont workers, they’re not saying. But they’re clearly bracing for the possibility that Emirate of Abu Dhabi-owned GlobalFoundries “is nearing a deal” to buy Big Blue’s chip-making business, as Bloomberg reported two weeks ago. And they’re hoping…
About a year ago, I received a tip that a Vermont-raised actor named Brad Coolidge had launched a career producing indie films, including the star-studded What Maisie Knew. While the intel regarding Coolidge’s Green Mountain origin remains unconfirmed, it inspired me to check out his latest collaboration with director David Gordon Green: Joe. I’m glad…
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With a growing number of new food festivals on the horizon, why should you choose Eat By Northeast (EXNE)? “It’s a big, giant fundraiser and it’s totally free,” says co-organizer and Skinny Pancake owner Benjy Adler. Despite there being no entry fee, he hopes that, with donations, the event will raise more than $20,000. Those…
Everybody thinks their dog/cat/bird/snake etc. is the cutest. And of course they’re all absolutely right. But when Seven Days readers judge their photos, someone just has to emerge at the head of the pack. In this year’s pet-photo contest, we received hundreds of entries, and voters weighed in via Facebook and online balloting platform Second…
2013 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Lucinda Williams’ breakthrough eponymous album. For the decade prior to that 1988 record, her music had largely been ignored, aside from some occasional nibbles from mostly minor record labels. But Lucinda Williams, originally released on now-defunct London punk and indie label Rough Trade Records, put the…
This Saturday, don’t bother packing a picnic if you’re headed to Oakledge Park. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Burlington High School’s brand-new Fork in the Road food truck will be parked by the bocce court selling slow-fast food that’ll blow your ham sandwich out of the water. “We’re calling it ‘classic concessions with a…
Mark Powell can talk wood turtles for as long as you let him: what they eat, when they breed, where they nest, the social tendencies of males versus females, their preferred habitat based on the season and time of day. Powell has an especially keen eye for spotting the elusive Glyptemys insculpta, aka North American…
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6/19/14: Vermonter Robynn Beams has been chasing stories across the state as a news photographer at WCAX for the past 8 years. And by night, this video journalist has been crushing it on the roller derby track as “Annie Cockledoux,” Captain of Grade A Fancy in the Green Mountain Derby Dames’ league. Eva caught up…
Betty Foster Bessette passed away peacefully June 21, 2014. She was born Betty Ruth Spear December 12, 1921 to Robert and Dorothy (Moorby) Spear in Burlington,Vermont. She married Elwin H Foster who passed away May 1968, with whom she had five children; Norman, Elwin Jr., Robert “Bob”, Steve, and Kenneth. She was also married to…
Matt Sargent was a construction worker for a quarter century, but about four years ago he “hit the burnout stage” and began setting a career change in motion. The Warren resident knew he wanted to enter the food world — but in a market like the Mad River Valley, which fluctuates dramatically depending on tourist…
