The Home and Garden Issue 2009
House-Swapping Vacations, Budget Decorating, and the Compost King; South Village Waits for Residence; Barbara Richardson on Gardening Small
Burlington Parks & Rec Director: No to Disc Golf at Leddy Park
Burlington’s Parks & Recreation Director Wayne Gross is recommending city parks commissioners reject a proposal to build a disc golf course at Leddy Park. The commission will meet at the Robert Miller Community Center tomorrow night at 5 p.m. to discuss the issue. It’s not a guarantee the members will support Gross’ decision. At the…
Summer Vacation Guide: Burlington
Vermont’s largest city is inseparable from the state’s crown jewel: Lake Champlain. In fact, the best way to approach the Queen City is by water. Arriving by ferry lets you imagine how the bustling burg looked centuries ago to incoming Indians, soldiers, merchants – and tourists? The Burlington Waterfront used to be a busy shipping center…
Racine Seeks Progressive Support in Gubernatorial Bid
With the legislative session now behind him, Chittenden County Democratic Senator Doug Racine is hitting the road to raise money and garner support in his run for governor. On Saturday, Racine will break bread with the Progressive Party’s State Committee at its quarterly meeting. That confab will be at the Old Labor Hall in Barre…
S. de Champlain Rides Again
Everyone in the Lake Champlain basin is getting on the quadricentennial bandwagon as the summer festivities approach. But at Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library, Samuel de C. is getting on the bus. The library’s Outreach Van, that is. The French explorer, looking slightly lumpy but still mustachioed after 400 years, was resurrected, so to speak, by…
Move Out Madness
[image-x] This is a picture of the area in front of Canterbury Hall at St. Mike’s on Friday. Friday was the last day of finals week, and the day most people picked to move out on. Normally our Public Safety officers are rather strict when it comes to enforcing parking regulations and keeping the different…
The Home and Garden Issue
Container Yourself: A master gardener gives cooped-up cultivators a clue
VT Democrats Name New Director
The Vermont Democratic Party finally has a new executive director. After months of interviewing candidates from within Vermont and around the country, the party settled on Robert Dempsey. Who? Dempsey comes to Vermont from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee where he last served as the Midwest Candidate Services Director. In that capacity, he worked with…
![Garden Restoration at Shelburne Farms’ Inn [SIV128]](https://i0.wp.com/www.sevendaysvt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/episode128.webp?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1)
Garden Restoration at Shelburne Farms’ Inn [SIV128]
5/5/09: Lila Vanderbilt Webb constructed the gardens at Shelburne House in the early 1900s. Almost 100 years later, the gardens have fallen into disrepair which led to the Shelburne Farms’ Formal Gardens Restoration Project. Music: Swale, Verdigris, “Good Medicine” Amber deLaurentis, Hey Sadie, “Take Me On”
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for May 13 – 20, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon,” wrote Alexander Pope. Most of us have been guilty of that sin: jumping to conclusions so quickly that we don’t bother…
Land, Water, Sky
Dan Gottsegen, recent oil paintings. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne. Through June 9.
Letters to the Editor
HOMEO PHOBIC? Even though Alice Levitt had written the article, I decided to read “Flower Power” [April 29] because I know Laura [Brown] and like her, her store and philosophies. I do want to comment on one thing mentioned, however. Levitt wrote, “In the U.K organic healers [like Brown] are certified homeopathic physicians.” I don’t…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When John Comparetto exited a bathroom stall at a Holiday Inn outside Harrisburg, Pa., he said a man pointed “a very large handgun” in his face. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the robber fled with Comparetto’s money and cellphone, but Comparetto, a retired New York police chief, pulled his ankle gun and gave…
Colston on Oprah Party
I Blurted a while back that Hal Colston, founder of Good News Garage and Neighborkeepers, was going to be interviewed by Ms. O. His pretaped appearance is next Tuesday, May 19. Champlain College, where Colston teaches community service courses, is going all out with a free “viewing party.” Seating begins at 3:30. This Oprah show,…
WCAX-TV’s Longtime News Director Retires
Vermont’s revolving door between the media and the administration of Gov. Jim Douglas took another turn today, this time with a top official leaving the public service ranks to join a news organization. Go figure. Gov. Douglas is usually one to hire members of the media away from their jobs. It doesn’t usually work the…
Educate Yourself with a Tuesday Vermont Blog Link Dump
Spring fever has hit, and summer is on the way, but don’t let your brain atrophy completely. Check out these links about education, libraries, books, writing, and the like. Here’s a video from the University of Texas about using Twitter in the classroom: (H/T Snelling Center) Hope’s Centre-Table found another Twitter experiment in scholarship. Maybe…
Kill Your Facebook: Haik Bedrosian’s Two-Week Challenge
Believe it or not, there are still some people in the world who don’t like Facebook. I know, right? What are they thinking? How will they find out which “my so called life” character they are? How will they assemble their dream teams to fight off a zombie invasion? How will they reconnect with their…
