The Green Issue 2009
The Green Issue: A Downsized House Takes to the Road; Blueprint for a Green Home on a Budget; Judith Levine Takes on Health Care Reform; Revisiting the Queen City’s “Sisters”
Monday Evening Missile Launch Protest
Gotta hand it to the dedicated souls in Vermont’s peace movement. On Monday evening, from 5 to 6 p.m., members of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are going ahead with a scheduled demonstration to protest the U.S. government’s test launch of a Minuteman III missile, Vermont rain be damned. Beginning at the…
Rainbow Redesign
I stumbled across the radio program, Studio 360 while driving yesterday. The show’s topic for the week — 40 years after Stonewall, where is gay culture today? Though I managed to miss most of the other segments dedicated to this particular topic, one really caught my eye. Er, ears. It asked what the rainbow flag,…
Chew-Chew Drain
I love arcades. Whenever my weekend is clogged with butchering animals and visiting snack bars in the Northeast Kingdom, it’s a given that I will be in Montreal, playing Street Fighter IV against far more adept Asian teenagers. Once a year, I look forward to the day that I can go to the food arcade…
Comcast Completes Audit of RETN Finances
A long-awaited review of Regional Educational Technology Network’s finances by telecom giant Comcast is complete, with no major findings of irregularity or a need to probe further. That’s good news for RETN officials, who have feared that Comcast would try to exert undue and unprecedented oversight on its day-to-day operations. Comcast disagrees with what RETN…
Ready for a Roundup on the Winooski River?
On June 24, Brian Tokar wrote this interesting post for the Green Mountain Daily about the expanding practice of planting “Roundup Ready” (i.e., genetically engineered) corn along the Winooski River between Plainfield and East Montpelier. Brian noted a recent study showing that the chemicals in the Monsanto herbicide Roundup are lethal to amphibians at low…
The King of Pop, Charlie’s Angel and the Big Bad Media Complex
By now, no doubt everyone has heard of today’s dual celebrity deaths. Michael Jackson died of suspected cardiac arrest at 50 years old and Farrah Fawcett succumbed to cancer at age 62. You’d have to be living in a cave or the Arctic Circle not to have heard the news. The national media had been…
Judge to Release Records of Fired City Manager
Roughly one year after Burlington officials put the city’s waterfront manager on paid leave during a wide-ranging investigation, a Superior Court judge is scheduled to release documents detailing the probe that led to his suspension and eventual termination. In two weeks, Superior Court Judge Dennis Pearson will release most of the documents related to the…
Vermont Yankee Forum — Hot
About 150 people crammed into a steamy film house Wednesday night to hear a panel of experts talk largely about the cons of relicensing the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The Vermont legislature is likely to take up the issue next session, noted Rep. Adam Greshin (I-Warren), who was one of the panelists. Greshin explained…
Naked Guy Blurt Alert
Did anyone else see the naked man jogging down Shelburne Road at around 4:15 p.m.? I did. I guess he wasn’t completely naked — he was wearing a pair of sandals, a watch and some spectacles, as he seemingly was out for an afternoon run. When I told my colleagues of the sighting they quickly…
East Hardwick Gallerist Offers Art and Autos
If you weren’t looking for White Water Gallery, you probably wouldn’t notice it. The place is in a low-slung, asphalt-shingled building known as the “old meat lockers” in the sleepy hamlet of East Hardwick. In the 1950s and ’60s, locals stored their sides of beef in the freezers or lockers in the walkout basement. These…
Can Vermont Kick the Nuclear Habit?
A group of energy experts will gather tonight in the Mad River Valley at the Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield to discuss what the future holds for Vermont’s power supply, and if the state should allow its lone nuke plant to operate for another 20 years. I’ll be live-Tweeting the panel discussion and Q&A. You…
The Green Standard
As more Vermonters seek sustainable homes, who makes the rules, and certifies the results?
If They Can’t Stay It’s A Shame
For 103 years Centennial Field has been home to Vermont Baseball and it’s finally showing signs of age. The mound, like a bum hip, needs replaced, the outfield seems to need a cane to stay level, and like any 103 year-old, it’s getting harder to see in the dark. But to quote Satchel Page —…
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Pete’s Greens [SIV134]
6/23/09: Pete’s Greens is a four season organic vegetable farm in Craftsbury. Eva talks to Pete and Meg about the current farming trend, local food as the new growth industry in rural areas and the idea that VT could one day feed itself. Music: The Jazz Guys, A Blessing in Disguise, “The $6,000 Million Dollar…
Letters to the Editor
SUSPENDER DISBELIEF As a former menswear retailer, I applaud your article “Dress Code” [June 10] in general and Clarence Davis in particular. Would that I could have had him for a customer! I must question, however, his #1 “fashion don’t.” A man should, in fact, use both a belt and suspenders when wearing a suit.…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for June 24 – July 1, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Reality TV personality Spencer Pratt used to be skeptical about the power of prayer. But his wife Heidi, herself a devout believer, urged him to keep his mind open. Then, as an…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man who snatched a wallet from a woman shopping with three friends at a market in Santa Rosa, Calif., tried to make his getaway on a bicycle, but the victim heaved a 12-pack of Miller Lite beer bottles at him when he was maybe 12 feet away. She hit him, knocking…
Downtown Scene
Art’s Alive Festival of Fine Art, a juried group show at Union Station, as well as artworks in storefront windows on the Church Street Marketplace, Burlington. Through June 30.
A Fool & His Money …
If a fool and his money are soon parted, what does it mean that the state is holding onto tens of millions of dollars worth of unclaimed assets? That’s what Barre resident Wallace Nolen aims find out. Nolen has raised the hackles of state and local officials for the past few years thanks to voluminous…
Governor on the Go
Unlike his Republican counterpart in South Carolina, Gov. Jim Douglas is always easy to find. And it’s already been a busy week for the state-trotting chief executive. Tomorrow he meets, once again, with Pres. Barack Obama. This time he won’t be alone, however, as he joins five other governors to talk about health-care reform. “I…
Best Bites: One Federal, St. Albans
I don’t care about American food the way I care about Korean or Bosnian or Uyghur cuisine. It takes a lot for me to get excited about dishes most Americans consider standards. That’s why One Federal has been such a revelation. Never before did I think I could get so excited about an unadorned rack…
