The Love & Marriage Issue 2012
Vermont’s Most Eligible Sassy Singles; Tips From a Local Dating Expert; Custom Cakes and Cocktails
Vermont Joins Lawsuit Against EPA Over Soot Standards
Reuters is reporting that Vermont is among 11 states that are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over soot pollution. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan on Friday, aims to force the EPA to review its clean air standards. If the phrase “soot pollution” brings to mind images of 19th-century street urchins and old-school…
City Market to Open Second Greater-Burlington Location
If you were part of a November exit study at City Market, you may recall staff members asking where you live. You might have wondered if the co-op was planning to follow you home. The answer is yes, sort of. General manager Clem Nilan has announced that the co-op board plans to open a second…
7 Questions for … Andrew Forsthoefel, Walking to Listen
A few months after recent Middlebury College grad Andrew Forsthoefel left Vermont, the 23-year-old came up with a plan: He’d start walking. Along the way, he’d listen to whoever he happened to meet on the journey. Simple as that. And, sure enough, Forsthoefel stepped out the door of his family’s home in Chadds Ford, Penn.,…
A Signature Issue: Did Wright Help Hines Get on the Ballot?
A story written by VTDigger’s Greg Guma about Burlington Republican mayoral candidate Kurt Wright’s “unusual political alliance” had the chattering classes, well, chattering over the weekend. Better that than the Grammys and “Downton Abbey,” I suppose. The most provocative portion of the piece is a suggestion that the Wright campaign — via campaign manager David…
Rutland Basketball Uproar Makes National Headlines
A few weeks after I chronicled Rutland’s tentative renaissance in our Feb. 1 cover story, RutVegas is making headlines again — this time in a decidedly less flattering light. The New York Times on Saturday covered the story of talented high school basketball players who left the Bronx behind to attend Mount St. Joseph, Rutland’s…
Movies You Missed 25: Project Nim
This week in movies you missed: Once upon a time, a scientist decided to raise a chimpanzee just like a human child. Bad idea. What You Missed Call it the real-life version of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, except without the “rising” part. James Marsh’s documentary retells the story of a radical experiment…
VELCO Question Leads to Showdown in Vermont Senate
A routine budget bill led to some drama on the Senate floor yesterday in Montpelier. The Senate went into session to take up the budget adjustment bill, normally not the most controversial piece of legislation. But sparks flew over a proposal to have the state purchase a majority stake in VELCO, Vermont’s electricity transmission system. Three…
Healthy Living to Open Across the Lake
The local food scene in the Adirondacks has been on the rise for several years, but chefs there have told me they’re frustrated that the area still hasn’t caught up to Vermont. That may begin to change next year with the opening of a second Healthy Living Market in Saratoga Springs. Healthy Living founder and CEO…
Wright Calls Republican Presidential Primary “an Embarrassment”
When Burlington residents head to the polls on March 6 to pick their next mayor, they’ll also be voting in another election: the presidential primary. At a public forum Thursday night in the city’s Old North End, one resident asked the three mayoral candidates whom they would support for president — but two of them…
Celebrating Energy Independence Day? Join a “Crowd-Sourced” Documentary on March 21
Working on making Vermont energy independent? Want to be in a movie? Bright Blue EcoMedia, the local company behind the lake pollution documentary Bloom, is planning a new “crowd-sourced” documentary to consist of footage gathered all over the state on March 21, which activists have dubbed “Vermont Energy Independence Day.” That’s the day Vermont Yankee’s…
Performance Artist Unsettles Burlington Commuters
Have you seen this person? A Seven Days reader nearly drove off the road the first time she did. The white-clad figure was walking down the sidewalk on Shelburne Road near Liberty Inn & Suites around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. “It’s the strangest thing, they wear this ankle length white puffy coat with large red…
Vermonters Are Saying “Save Our Swine!”
Time was when calling a cop a “pig” was enough to get a nightstick to your noggin — or worse — in some jurisdictions. But after the recent revelation by the Burlington Free Press that as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers have been unwittingly sporting a porcine portrait deftly concealed in the most…
Need a Job? Run for Mayor
Out of work? Looking for a job in Burlington City Hall? If a recent promise made by Republican mayoral candidate Kurt Wright holds any water, your best bet might be to run against him. During a forum on multiculturalism and equity on Saturday, Wright said that if he is elected mayor, fellow candidate Wanda Hines,…
Chemistry Lesson
A professional matchmaker weighs in on dating, exes and unrealistic expectations
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Americana at Merrill’s Auction Gallery [256]
2/4/12: Duane Merrill and his son Ethan are antique dealers who have a deep appreciation for all things old. Last Saturday, Eva headed to Merrill’s Auction Gallery in Williston to see them in action. Music: Kevin MacLeod, “Fig Leaf Rag – distressed”Rick & The Ramblers Western Swing Band, What Goes Around, “You Got What I…
Momzilla and Me
A bride-to-be discovers the wedding is about more than her and the groom
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again After three men stole a coin collection worth several thousand dollars from a home in Corbett, Ore., they redeemed the coins in a Coinstar coin-counting machine for about $450, according to Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies. The machine rejected about 500 silver quarters, which the suspects cashed in at a bank for face…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or conquest,” said author George Eliot. I believe the same is true even about intimate bonds that have not been legally consecrated. Each tends to either be a collaboration of equals who are striving for common goals or else a power struggle in…
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
A Burlington artist crafts hand-lettered wedding stationery
Fracking Aside, Vermont Eyes Natural Gas Expansion
As reported in today’s issue of Seven Days, a possible moratorium on hydraulic fracturing is wending its way through the Statehouse. In a preemptive strike, lawmakers are considering putting the brakes on the controversial method of drilling for natural gas more commonly known as fracking. But despite the state’s apparent squeamishness over fracking, Vermont is…
Letters to the Editor
Maroney Is the Man This guy James Maroney “gets it” [“Dairy Don’t: A Dogged Ag Activist Takes Aim at Vermont’s ‘Sacred Cow,’” January 25]. I am in full agreement with what he has to say and I’ve felt this way for years. How wonderful to hear a Vermont farmer with such love and respect of…
EatingWell Media Group to Move to Shelburne
= The 6000 block of Shelburne’s Route 7 is on its way to becoming an epicenter of food culture. On the west side side of the road is Shelburne Vineyard; across the street is the brand-new Fiddlehead Brewing Company, as well as Folino’s, a flatbread eatery due to open this spring. On the hill behind…
Do Endorsements Really Matter in Burlington’s Mayoral Race?
The press advisory landed in reporters’ inboxes at 9:33 p.m. Sunday: “Shumlin to Join Weinberger for Special Announcement.” What could it be? Would Gov. Peter Shumlin announce that he and mayoral candidate Miro Weinberger would be teaming up to compete on “The Amazing Race?” The suspense was almost too much to bear. Alas, when the…
