The Real Estate Issue 2011
Second Homes Shelter Flood Victims; Selling Sites of Death; Confessions of a Serial Buyer
Love It or Not, Panera Bread Has Arrived
In a city where eating local is close to a religion, the opening of Vermont’s first Panera bakery-café this morning — smack in the midst of Church Street — probably evoked something close to a collective groan. At least, you might like to think so. By 11 a.m., though, dozens of people had already made…
At Montpelier Rally, Shumlin Voices Support For Climate Change Protesters Jailed at White House
The 1000-plus people who biked, hiked and bused to Montpelier for a climate change rally on Saturday may have been asking one another afterward, “So, did the planet move?” It might well have, but Vermont’s mainstream media wasn’t on hand to report on it. By ignoring this spirited gathering on the Statehouse lawn — one…
Tech Jam for Students
Can’t take your students on a field trip to Silicon Valley? Get them out of the classroom and into the real world at the 6th annual Vermont Tech Jam. At this exciting, FREE career fair and tech expo, your students can: Meet representatives from some of the state’s most innovative companies Learn how to prepare…
2012 Exhibitors
Click here to download a .pdf map of the venue… 3D Printer Technology Blu-Bin 3D Print ShopFilabot Personal Filament Maker Bioscience BioTek InstrumentsChroma Technology Education Burlington CollegeChamplain CollegeCommunity College of VermontReading PlusUniversity of Vermont Continuing EducationVermont Technical College Finance TD Bank Gaming Birnam Wood GamesChamplain College Emergent Media CenterDevSupport.comNew Breed Marketing Government / Nonprofit e-Vermont…
Movies You Missed 5: The Kennedys
This week in new DVDs: Katie Holmes impersonates Jackie Kennedy. A nation doesn’t bother to weep. Each week I review a brand-new DVD release picked for me by Seth Jarvis, buyer for Burlington’s Waterfront Video, where you can obtain these fine films. (In central Vermont, try Downstairs Video.) And this week, with Netflix apparently poised…
VPIRG Backs Off Criticism of Gov. Shumlin’s Energy Plan
The Vermont Public Interest Research Group today had some harsh words for Gov. Peter Shumlin’s new comprehensive energy plan, but then quickly took them back. Earlier today, VPIRG clean energy advocate Ben Walsh fired off an email titled “Really? This is what we waited for?” The email criticized Shumlin’s plan for being less aggressive in…
Expat Vermonters Launch Online Art Auction to Benefit Flood Victims
On the night Tropical Storm Irene pummeled her home state, Charity Clark was relaxing on her couch in Brooklyn, relieved that the much-hyped hurricane had passed without incident in New York. She took a break from reading The Count of Monte Cristo to noodle around on Facebook. That’s when she saw the video of floodwaters…
Sluts on Parade in Burlington
No, really. The title is true. Sluts in fact will be on parade in Burlington. At noon on Saturday, self-professed sluts, slut-lovers and friends of sluts will be taking a stand on Church Street against rape-victim-blaming and other crimes against women. The first annual SlutWalk is part of a global movement to draw attention to…
Rep. Welch Joins GOP, Approves Disaster Aid Spending Bill (VIDEO)
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) bucked his caucus early Friday morning and joined the GOP majority to approve additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and partially pay for it by making cuts in government loan programs designed to support fuel efficiency and investments in renewable energy. Welch, a chief deputy whip in the…
Colchester Town Manager Demands Officials Resign Over Camp Holy Cross Position
In this week’s Seven Days, I wrote about Colchester’s upcoming special election on Oct. 4 to decide whether the town should buy the 27-acre Camp Holy Cross property from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington for $4.5 million. The diocese is selling off the lakefront real estate on Malletts Bay to help pay settlements to…
Hen of the Wood and WhistlePigs at the New Hotel Vermont
The Harbor Terrace at the Marriott Courtyard Burlington Harbor was the place to be this evening. Gov. Peter Shumlin was there to cut the ribbon at the ground-breaking ceremony for Hotel Vermont. Mortimer and Mauve, the mascots of WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey, were there, too, in no less official a capacity. Dressed in a miniature…
Eat, Drink & Help a Farmer
One in 10 Vermont farms lost their summer and fall crops in the deluge of Tropical Storm Irene, but the watertight farm-to-fork connections here mean that plenty of chefs are rallying to their side — with dinners, auctions and other creative endeavors. Next time you go out, why not make it count? Here’s an assortment…
Farm Workers File Racial Profiling Complaint With VT Human Rights Commission (Updated With Police Video)
The two undocumented farm workers turned over to the federal immigration authorities by the Vermont State Police last week have filed a racial profiling complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission, asserting that the state trooper’s suspicion was based solely on the color of their skin. Danilo Lopez (pictured in hat) and Antonio Meza-Sandoval,…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When Chicago police investigating reports of shots fired stopped a car that Shandra Kidd, 22, was riding in, she bolted. After an officer caught her, she stuck a gun in the officer’s chest and pulled the trigger. The gun didn’t fire. She tried again, but again the gun didn’t go off. The…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I have a simple philosophy,” said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a self-described hedonist who lived until the age of 96. “Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” That’s not an approach I recommend you pursue all the time, Aries, but I think it could be both wise and fun…
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The Lois McClure Visits Vergennes [240]
8/27/11: One day before Tropical Storm Irene touched down in VT, the Lois McClure docked at Vergennes Falls Park to celebrate the 30th Annual Vergennes Day. Exploring this historic boat takes visitors back in time to a day when wooden canal schooners like the Lois McClure traversed the Vermont waterways. You can meet up with…
All Aboard?
Side Dishes: New owner says former Doughboy’s space will serve food, not bus tickets
Something’s Brewing
Side Dishes: Brewster River Pub and Grill, 4087 Route 108, Jeffersonville
Letters to the Editor
Times-Argus Troubles You might be tempted to feel sorry for the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus [“Earlier Deadlines and a Wrecked Press Imperil the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus,” August 31.] However, in this particular observer’s opinion, many of the TA’s injuries have been self-inflicted. I recall a telemarketer hell-bent on setting me up with a “limited time offer”…
